* Astronomy

The Jajh deh Kot Lalu (EL6) meteorite fell in Sind, Pakistan, on the 2nd May, 1926. A total mass of 973 g was recovered. 26° 45'N, 68° 25'E

The Forest City (H5) meteorite fell in Iowa, USA, on the 2nd May, 1890. A total mass of 152 kg was recovered. 43° 15'N, 93° 40'W

Orbital elements: 2013 HJ19 Earth MOID = 0.2082 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 11.69816 (2000.0) P Q n 0.33059566 Peri. 126.51094 -0.92791764 -0.17362302 a 2.0714349 Node 46.24015 -0.08656871 -0.76036781 e 0.4733417 Incl. 27.17752 +0.36259441 -0.62585609 P 2.98 H 21.5 G...

Gabriel's Revelation (also named Hazon Gabriel the Vision of Gabriel) or the Jeselsohn Stone, is a three-foot-tall (one metre) stone tablet with 87 lines of Hebrew text written in ink, containing a collection of short prophecies written in the first person and dated to the late 1st century BCE. [ur...

Tropical Cyclone Zane (23P) is forecast to make landfall in Australia probability for CAT 1 or above is 55% in about 18 hours probability for TS is 55% in about 18 hours Coen (13.9 S, 143.2 E) probability for CAT 1 or above is 40% in about 30 hours probability for...

Airliner 'had narrow miss with UFO' A passenger aircraft had a narrow miss with an unidentified object over Glasgow, a report has revealed. The Airbus A320 was making its final approach to Glasgow Airport on 2 December when an object passed about 300ft underneath it. [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/n...

Orbital elements: 2010 GB174 Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 3.22766 (2000.0) P Q n 0.00014378 Peri. 347.25238 -0.47931487 -0.83222308 a 360.8585176 Node 130.62732 +0.83401177 -0.53078623 e 0.8656727 Incl. 21.54211 +0.27327938 +0.16022089 P 6850 H 6.5 G 0.15 U 1 MPEC 2013 - H...

Sunspots 11734, 11732, 11731, 11728, 11730 and 11735 captured with a 100mm refractor and vesta pro webcam + solar filter. Music via an Amiga 1200.

Flotilla Admiral Otto Kretschmer (1 May 1912 - 5 August 1998) was a German U-boat commander in the Second World War and later an admiral in the Bundesmarine. From September 1939 until being captured in March 1941, he sank 47 ships, a total of 274,333 tons. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_...

The Mayflower was the ship that transported English and Dutch Separatists and other adventurers referred to by the Separatists as "the Strangers" to Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620. The Mayflower departed Plymouth, England on September 6/16, 1620, with 102 passengers and about 30 c...

Title: A new rare type of supernovae: hypervelocity stellar collisions at galactic centers Authors: Shmuel Balberg (1), Re'em Sari (1), Abraham Loeb (2) ((1) Hebrew University,(2) Harvard ITC) When a binary star system is tidally disrupted by a supermassive black hole at a galactic nucleus, one...

Orbital elements: 2011 HM102 Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 22.48290 (2000.0) P Q n 0.00598318 Peri. 152.05154 -0.23236251 +0.84468058 a 30.0502387 Node 100.98900 -0.95858781 -0.11494405 e 0.0785095 Incl. 29.42032 -0.16467263 -0.52278349 P 164.73 H 8.1 G 0.15 U 4 MPEC 201...

Title: A Large-Area Search for Low-Mass Objects in Upper Scorpius II: Age and Mass Distributions Authors: Catherine L. Slesnick, Lynne A. Hillenbrand, John M. Carpenter We present continued results from a wide-field, ~150 deg^2, optical photometric and spectroscopic survey of the northern pa...

Dr. Livingstone's lost 1871 'massacre' diary recovered; discovery rewrites history In Africa 140 years ago, David Livingstone, the Victorian explorer, met Henry M. Stanley of the New York Herald and gave him a harrowing account of a massacre he witnessed, in which slave traders slaughtered 400 i...

Species Plantarum ("The Species of Plants") was first published in 1753, as a two-volume work by Carl Linnaeus. Its prime importance is perhaps that it is the primary starting point of plant nomenclature as it exists today. This means that the first names to be considered validly publis...