* Astronomy

The Troup (L6) meteorite fell in Texas, USA, on the 26th April, 1917. A total mass of 1020 g was recovered. 32° 10'N, 95° 6'W

The Milena (L6) meteorite fell in Croatia, on the 26th April, 1842. A total mass of 10 kg was recovered. 46° 11'N, 16° 6'E

Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 - August 2, 1922) was an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone. Read more

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Supernova Dust Fell to Earth in Antarctic Meteorites Two primitive meteorites collected in Antarctica appear to contain grains of silica - the stuff of quartz and sand - forged in an ancient supernova that predates the birth of the solar system. In fact, some researchers believe that it was just suc...

The 300 - 680 metre wide asteroid 2006 NL will make a close pass (53.6 lunar distances, 0.1379 AU), travelling at 15.51 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 11th July, 2013 @ 00:31 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Distanc...

Orbital elements: 2010 MJ1 Earth MOID = 0.0956 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 230.41557 (2000.0) P Q n 0.99514546 Peri. 340.20655 +0.18186677 -0.93373148 a 0.9936002 Node 98.34121 +0.93894760 +0.07176728 e 0.1310703 Incl. 18.15753 +0.29206487 +0.35070640 P 0.99 H 23.5 G 0.15 U 9 [...

Stroud deer carcass tested for 'big cat activity' DNA tests for "big cat activity" are being carried out on a roe deer carcass found near Stroud in Gloucestershire. Read more

Sunspots 11728, 11727, 11726 and 11729 captured with a small 100mm refractor + Vesta pro webcam + Solar filter. Images processed with AviStack2 and Paint Shop Pro. Video compiled via Moviemaker. Music via an Amiga 1200

Title: UM 625 Revisited: Multiwavelength Study of A Seyfert 1 Galaxy with a Low-mass Black Hole Authors: Ning Jiang, Luis C. Ho, Xiao-bo Dong, Huan Yang, Junxian Wang UM 625, previously identified as a narrow-line active galactic nucleus (AGN), actually exhibits broad Ha and Hb lines whose width a...

Nikolai Semenovich Kardashev (born April 25, 1932 in Moscow) is a Russian (formerly Soviet) astrophysicist, and is the deputy director of the Russian Space Research Institute (sometimes translated as The Institute for Cosmic Research) of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. [url=http:...

The Kabo (H4) meteorite fell in Kano, Nigeria, on the 25th April, 1971. A total mass of 13.4 kg was recovered. 11° 51'N, 8° 13'E

The Novy-Projekt (OC) meteorite fell in Lithuania, on the 25th April, 1908. A total mass of 1001 g was recovered. 56°N, 22°E

Title: Black hole candidate XTE J1752-223: Swift observations of canonical states during outburst Authors: P.A. Curran (1), T. J. Maccarone (2), P. Casella (2), P.A. Evans (3), W. Landsman (4), H.A. Krimm (4), C. Brocksopp (1), M. Still (5) ((1) MSSL-UCL, (2) U Southampton, (3) U Leicester, (4) NA...

Title: Characterisation of potentially habitable planets: Retrieval of atmospheric and planetary properties from emission spectra Authors: P. von Paris, P. Hedelt, F. Selsis, F. Schreier, T. Trautmann An increasing number of potentially habitable terrestrial planets and planet candidate...