* Astronomy

The Morávka (Czech Republic) meteorite fall occurred on May 6, 2000, 11:52 UT, during the daytime. Six H56 ordinary chondrites with a total mass of 1.4 kg were recovered. The corresponding fireball was witnessed by thousands of people and also videotaped by 3 casual witnesses. Sonic booms were rec...

The Frigate Bird test of a fully-armed Polaris missile took place in the east-central Pacific on 6 May 1962. The launching ship, USS Ethan Allen, was stationed 1,300 miles southeast of the Hawaiian islands and established an aim point some 1,100 miles away - 525 miles east-northeast of Christmas Is...

A total solar eclipse occurred on May 6, 1883. The path of totality fell across the southern Pacific Ocean with no major landfall. Partiality was visible from far eastern Australia at sunrise, and New Zealand, as well as western South America and southern Mexico near sunset. An expedition of Americ...

Charles Messier (26 June 1730 - 12 April 1817) was a French astronomer most notable for publishing an astronomical catalogue consisting of deep sky objects such as nebulae and star clusters that came to be known as the 103 "Messier objects". Read more

On 6 May, 2000, the Aldershot Observatory was opened to the public for the first time, the event stimulated considerable public interest in its future. Read more

The Polaris missile was a two-stage solid-fuel nuclear-armed submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) built during the Cold War by Lockheed Corporation of California for the United States Navy. The Polaris program started development in 1956. The USS George Washington, the first US mis...

Samuel Pierpont Langley (August 22, 1834, Roxbury, Massachusetts - February 27, 1906, Aiken, South Carolina) was an American astronomer, physicist, inventor of the bolometer and pioneer of aviation. Read more

Knut Jørgen Røed Odegaard (born 6 May 1966) is a Norwegian astronomer formerly employed as a media contact at the University of Oslo's Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics. Read more

Orbital elements: 2013 JD4 Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 2.79157 (2000.0) P Q n 0.02600384 Peri. 295.02240 -0.48763498 -0.53142581 a 11.2835150 Node 226.54350 +0.23325757 -0.84386148 e 0.8580974 Incl. 72.59871 -0.84131031 +0.07405679 P 37.90 H 16.5 G 0.15 U 7 MPEC 2013 - J1...

Orbital elements: 2013 JY2 Earth MOID = 0.0479 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 347.86337 (2000.0) P Q n 0.30221079 Peri. 206.26520 -0.33614405 +0.87348492 a 2.1991899 Node 46.52963 -0.75590976 -0.02716583 e 0.5354774 Incl. 29.03067 -0.56178965 -0.48609270 P 3.26 H 22.3 G...

Orbital elements: 2013 JX2 Earth MOID = 0.1123 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 343.43110 (2000.0) P Q n 0.46586738 Peri. 151.68481 -0.58579798 +0.78042768 a 1.6480151 Node 81.63177 -0.77902085 -0.46782922 e 0.3297694 Incl. 12.76327 -0.22353354 -0.41481135 P 2.12 H 20.5 G...

Sunspots 11739, 11738, 11737, 11740, 11734, 11732, 11730, 11731 and 11728, captured with a 100mm refractor and Vesta pro webcam + Solar filter.

Arianespace to launch VNREDSat-1A built by Astrium for Vietnam Arianespace and Astrium today signed the launch contract for the VNREDSat-1A Earth observation satellite, on behalf of the Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology. This ceremony was attended by ESA's Director General and by r...

Chicago-area physicists among front-runners in race to observe dark-matter particle Northwestern University physicist Eric Dahl is part of a group of physicists that has just launched an unusual new experiment in an attempt to be the first to directly confirm the existence of dark matter. Scien...

Title: KOI-200b and KOI-889b: two transiting exoplanets detected and characterised with Kepler, SOPHIE and HARPS-N Authors: G. Hebrard, J.-M. Almenara, A. Santerne, M. Deleuil, C. Damiani, A.S. Bonomo, F. Bouchy, G. Bruno, R.F. Diaz, G. Montagnier, C. Moutou We present the detection and chara...