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Theodore von Kármán Lecture Series 2016

Space Weather Radio

NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Archive 1996 to present

António Cidadão’s Practical Advice for
Astrophotography & CCD Imaging

Phil Plait’s Bad Astronomy Website debunks astro-nonsense

How do I translate Universal Time into my time?

As of June 17 2016
according to Near-Earth asteroid monitoring groups there were
1707

KNOWN Potentially Hazardous Asteroids
in Earth-crossing orbits

Why Does This Number Go Up, Then Sometimes Go Down?

Book an Educational Visit to the UK SpaceGuard Centre

The National Near Earth Objects Information Centre

is located in Knighton, Powys, LD7 1LW, Wales, United Kingdom

It is open for Public Tours (suitable for ages 9+), and also for
School Tours (suitable for primary & secondary schools)

They are are easily accessible – See Map and directions

Impact Craters on Earth, our Moon
and the other planets in our Solar System

USAF Archive of Fireball Data Releases

NASA JPL Asteroid Watch

The 3,600 year-old Nebra Sky Disc

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NASA Living With a Star |

Heliophysics Summer School

NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center |

The Australian Space Weather Agency

Space Weather Radio |

ESA Space Environment Information System

Realtime Space Weather Photo Gallery

Realtime Comet Photo Gallery

Heliophysics is a fast-developing scientific discipline that integrates studies of the Sun’s variability,
the surrounding heliosphere, and the environment and climate of planets

Over the past few centuries, our understanding of how the Sun drives space weather and climate
on the Earth and other planets has advanced at an ever increasing rate

CURRENT MOON

about the moon

April 2016 Celestial Events & Space Research News

April 2016 SkyMaps & Sky Guides will not be available until April 1st

The Astronomy Picture of the Day feature will not be available until that date
It is updated daily using Universal Time (UT) which is the same as GMT

April 2016 –
SkyMaps & Celestial Guides
…..

Astronomy Today Sky Guide – April 2016

BBC The Sky at Night – April 2016

Meteorite Times Magazine – April 2016 – usually up online the middle of the month

Radio Jove – Solar & Planetary Radio Astronomy for Schools

Which stars were you REALLY born under? – Find your ASTRONOMICAL STAR SIGN

The Cassini Solstice Mission – Latest News & Current Location

At the start of April 2016 the Sunspot Number is 11

April 01 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Realtime Comet Photo Gallery – from SpaceWeather.com

“Competition to develop the next generation interactive Space App with ESA”

“Aussie Sky guide: What constellations, planets and stars to see in April”

“An oasis in the brown dwarf desert”

“Tour April’s Sky: Morning & Evening Planets”

“Sentinel-3: better than good”

April 02 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

April 03 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Asteroid 2016 FB13 flyby – miss distance 1.2 LD, size = 20 metres

Asteroid 2016 GY2 flyby – miss distance 4.3 LD, size = 26 metres

Aten Asteroid 2008 FX6 –

Near-Earth Flyby (0.070 AU)

April 04 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

As of today there are 1689 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids

“It’s International Dark-Sky Week!”

“A cosmic trick of the eye”

“Andromeda’s first spinning neutron star has been found”

April 04-08 2016 –
Conferences, Workshops & Star Parties
…..

“International Venus Conference 2016” – Oxford, England, UK

April 04-08 2016 –
Conferences, Workshops & Star Parties
…..

“2016 Workshop: Shielding Society from Space Weather” – Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

April 05 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

As of today there are 1690 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids

Asteroid 2016 FW13 flyby – miss distance 0.8 LD, size = 6 metres

Asteroid 2016 GH1 flyby – miss distance 2.1 LD, size = 14 metres

Asteroid 2016 GE1 flyby – miss distance 1.4 LD, size = 23 metres

“US Navy Resumes Celestial Navigation Course”

“Early Mars bombardment likely enhanced life-supporting habitat”

“Asteroid cleaner”

April 06 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Comet 73P-AY/Schwassmann-Wachmann –

At Opposition (0.438 AU)

“Sentinel-3A feels the heat”

“Up, Up, and Away with Comet 252P”

April 06-08 2016 –
Conferences, Workshops & Star Parties
…..

“Workshop on Atmospheric Blocking” – Reading, England, UK

April 07 2016 – 11:24 UT

New Moon

an image of a meteor flashing through the sky

April 07 2016 – 17:36 UT

Moon at Perigee

(closest to the Earth = 357,164 km)

April 07 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Comet 73P-AZ/Schwassmann-Wachmann –

At Opposition (0.429 AU)

“The Sky This Week for the Southern Hemisphere April 07 – April 14”

“Today Earth is expected to cross through a fold in the heliospheric current sheet”

“Geologists to drill into heart of dinosaur-killing impact”

April 08 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Celebrate Global Astronomy Month

Asteroid 2016 GF2 flyby – miss distance 4.6 LD, size = 21 metres

Asteroid 2016 GO134 flyby – miss distance 0.9 LD, size = 15 metres

“The colour-changing comet”

“Searching for Far Out and Wandering Worlds”

“Sentinel-1B ready for orbit”

April 09 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

As of today there are 1691 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids

“Planet X to really cause mass extinction this month?”

“Earth’s spin axis shifted by melting ice sheets and changes of water on land”

“Uranus at solar conjunction”

April 09-10 2016 –
Conferences, Workshops & Star Parties
…..

Northeast Astronomy Forum – Suffern, New York, USA

April 10 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Asteroid 2016 FG39 flyby – miss distance 4.4 LD, size = 25 metres

Apollo Asteroid 406952 (2009 KJ) –

Near-Earth Flyby (0.097 AU)

Comet 321P/SOHO –

Perihelion (0.046 AU)

April 11 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Asteroid 2016 FV13 flyby – miss distance 1.8 LD, size = 28 metres

Asteroid 2016 GU flyby – miss distance 2.7 LD, size = 31 metres

Apollo Asteroid 363599 (2004 FG11) –

Near-Earth Flyby (0.050 AU)

“Saturn’s past and present moons”

April 12 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Yuri’s Night: World Space Party – organise your own Space Party anywhere

Virginid meteor shower

“Rescued Japanese spacecraft delivers first results from Venus”

April 12-15 2016 –
Conferences, Workshops & Star Parties
…..

“Water in the Universe – From Clouds to Oceans” – Noordwijk, The Netherlands

April 13 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Aten Asteroid 2005 GR33 –

Near-Earth Flyby (0.020 AU)

Comet 9P/Tempel –

Closest Approach To Earth (0.979 AU)

“Getting the measure of a monster”

April 14 2016 – 03:59 UT

First Lunar Quarter

April 14 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

As of today there are 1692 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids

“The Sky This Week for the Southern Hemisphere April 14 – April 21”

“First light for ExoMars”

“Interstellar dust intercepted at Saturn”

April 15 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Meteorite Times Magazine April 2016 Edition now available online

“Did the Sun eat a primordial super-Earth?”

April 16 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Asteroid 2008 HU4 flyby – miss distance 4.9 LD, size = 10 metres

Apollo Asteroid 2008 HU4 –

Near-Earth Flyby (0.013 AU)

April 17 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

As of today there are 1693 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids

April 18 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

As of today there are 1694 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids

Asteroid 2016 GP221 flyby – miss distance 1.5 LD, size = 29 metres

“Pensive comet: Around Anuket”

April 19 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

“Earth from Space: Special edition” – ESA video

April 20 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

“Calling all artists: apply now for art and science residency”

“Asteroid Heinerklinkrad”

“ESA’s Asteroid Impact Mission: the reason why” – ESA video

April 21 2016 – 16:05 UT

Moon at Apogee

(furthest from the Earth = 406,352 km)

April 21 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Asteroid 2016 GB222 flyby – miss distance 4.4 LD, size = 20 metres

Lyrids Meteor Shower starts tonight

“The Sky This Week for the Southern Hemisphere April 21 – April 28”

“Hubble, bubble, some toil but no trouble”

April 22 2016 – 05:24 UT

Full Pink Moon

April 22 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Asteroid 2016 GD207 flyby – miss distance 4.4 LD, size = 29 metres

Venus
Passes 0.1 Degrees From
Uranus

Lyrids Meteor Shower peaks in the pre-dawn hours tomorrow

Lyrids history from Wikipedia

2016 Lyrids meteor shower

“The many faces of Earth” – ESA video

“Herschels Galactic panorama” – ESA video

April 23 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Realtime Meteor Photo Gallery

Aten Asteroid 2014 UR Near-Earth Flyby (0.079 AU)

Apollo Asteroid 2006 HF6 –

Near-Earth Flyby (0.098 AU)

“ESAs guide to the Moon” – Interactive Guide to lunar exploration

April 24 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

As of today there are 1696 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids

Asteroid 2016 HO flyby – miss distance 2.1 LD, size = 31 metres

“Watch Sentinel-1B launch LIVE” – Starts 21.40 UT from Kourou, French Guiana

April 25 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Aten Asteroid 2003 KO2 –

Near-Earth Flyby (0.046 AU)

“Sentinel-1B lifts off”

April 25-28 2016 –
Conferences, Workshops & Star Parties
…..

“Workshop: What Shapes Galaxies?” – Baltimore, Maryland, USA

April 26 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

“Earth getting greener due to rising carbon dioxide levels, global snapshot shows”

“Profile of a methane sea on Titan”

April 27 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

“Monster black hole 3 billion times the mass of the sun formed by 3 colliding galaxies”

“Sentinel-1B spreads its wings”

April 28 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Aten Asteroid 2013 KJ6 –

Near-Earth Flyby (0.095 AU)

“The Sky This Week for the Southern Hemisphere April 28 – May 05”

April 29 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Apollo Asteroid 2002 CX58 –

Near-Earth Flyby (0.043 AU)

April 30 2016 – 03:29 UT

Third Lunar Quarter

April 30 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Aten Asteroid 2008 PR9 –

Near-Earth Flyby (0.077 AU)

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Heliophysics is a fast-developing scientific discipline that integrates studies of the Sun’s variability,
the surrounding heliosphere, and the environment and climate of planets

Over the past few centuries, our understanding of how the Sun drives space weather and climate
on the Earth and other planets has advanced at an ever increasing rate

CURRENT MOON

about the moon

May 2016 Celestial Events & Space Research News

May 2016 SkyMaps & Sky Guides NOT AVAILABLE UNTIL May 1st

The Astronomy Picture of the Day feature will not be available until that date
It is updated daily using Universal Time (UT) which is the same as GMT

May 2016 –
SkyMaps & Celestial Guides
…..

Astronomy Today Sky Guide – May 2016

BBC The Sky at Night – May 2016

Meteorite Times Magazine – May 2016 – usually up online the middle of the month

Radio Jove – Solar & Planetary Radio Astronomy for Schools

The Cassini Solstice Mission – Latest News & Current Location

At the start of May 2016 the Sunspot Number is 82

“Long-runout landslides and the long-lasting effects of early water activity on Mars”

“Long-runout landslides and the long-lasting effects of early water… “ – Reply

“Tour May’s Sky: Jupiter Leads the Way”

May 01 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Asteroid 2016 HK flyby – miss distance 4.6 LD, size = 47 metres

Apollo Asteroid 2014 US115 Near-Earth Flyby (0.024 AU)

“Scientists Assemble Fresh Global Map of Pluto Comprising Sharpest Flyby Images”

May 01-08 2016 –
Conferences, Workshops & Star Parties
…..

“38th Annual Texas Star Party” – near Fort Davis, Texas, USA

May 02 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

As of today there are 1697 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids

Asteroid 2016 HD3 flyby – miss distance 2.2 LD, size = 11 metres

Asteroid 2016 JZ5 flyby – miss distance 3 LD, size = 17 metres

“Three potentially habitable worlds found around nearby ultracool dwarf star”

“Ancient Mayan observatory was used to track sun and Venus, researchers find”

“Temperate Earth-sized planets transiting a nearby ultracool dwarf star”

May 03 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Apollo Asteroid 444584 (2006 UK) –

Near-Earth Flyby (0.077 AU)

“A Summer Comet: Our Guide to Observing X1 PanSTARRS”

“Three planets discovered orbiting nearby cool small star ‘best places to look for life'”

“Magic Eye Mercury”

May 04 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Asteroid 2016 JB flyby – miss distance 4.1 LD, size = 15 metres

“US and China eye up European gravitational-wave mission”

“King Tut’s dagger was actually ‘made from a meteorite’”

“Celestial mechanics: Fresh solutions to the four-body problem”

May 05 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

eta-Aquariids Meteor Shower from Halley’s Comet starts tonight

eta-Aquariids Meteor Shower History

Asteroid 2016 JS5 flyby – miss distance 0.5 LD, size = 4 metres

Apollo Asteroid 388945 (2008 TZ3) –

Near-Earth Flyby (0.034 AU)

“The Sky This Week for the Southern Hemisphere May 05 – May 12”

May 06 2016 – 04:14 UT

Moon at Perigee

(closest to the Earth = 357,828 km)

an image of a meteor flashing through the sky

May 06 2016 – 19:29 UT

New Moon

May 06 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Eta–Aquarid meteor shower

As of today there are 1698 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids

May 07 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

“Australian space industry lies dormant”

May 08 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Apollo Asteroid 2014 JG55 Near-Earth Flyby (0.020 AU)

Apollo Asteroid 2010 KP10 –

Near-Earth Flyby (0.076 AU)

May 09 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Mercury Transits The Sun – as seen from Earth

SpaceWeather.com Mercury Transit Photo Gallery

As of today there are 1701 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids

Asteroid 2016 JQ5 flyby – miss distance 1.6 LD, size = 10 metres

“Opening session – Living Planet 2016”

“Regulation of black-hole accretion by a disk wind during violent V404 Cygni outburst”

“The eye of Saturn’s storm”

May 09-13 2016 –
Conferences, Workshops & Star Parties
…..

“Living Planet Symposium 2016” – Prague, Czech Republic

May 10 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

“Mercury makes rare transit across Sun’s face”

“Transit of Mercury seen by Proba-2”

“Ancient bubbles in Pilbara rock show Earth had thin atmosphere 2.7b years ago”

“Earths magnetic heartbeat”

May 11 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

“Ancient micrometeorites suggestive of an oxygen-rich Archaean upper atmosphere”

“Was this ’emerald’ brought to Earth 108 years ago by the Tunguska meteor?”

“Forgotten Mayan city ‘discovered’ by 15-yr-old using Mayan constellations”

“A resonant chain of four transiting, sub-Neptune planets”

May 12 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

The May 2016 issue of Meteorite Times is now up online

“The Sky This Week for the Southern Hemisphere May 12 – May 19”

“Impact chip”

May 13 2016 – 17:02 UT

First Lunar Quarter

May 13 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Mercury
Passes 0.4 Degrees From
Venus – as seen from Earth

As of today there are 1702 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids

“Living Planet Symposium 2016” – video highlights

May 13 2016 –
Conferences, Workshops & Star Parties
…..

“Solar Flares – New Insights from the Lower Atmosphere” – London, England, UK

May 14 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

“Micrometeorites reveal composition of ancient upper atmosphere”

May 15 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Meteorite Times Magazine May 2016 Edition now available online

“Conjunction between the Moon and Jupiter”

May 16 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Asteroid 2016 JD18 flyby – miss distance 1.6 LD, size = 51 metres

“Hunting for hidden life on worlds orbiting old red stars”

“Stargazing from the ISS”

May 16-20 2016 –
Conferences, Workshops & Star Parties
…..

“2016 SPARC Gravity Wave Symposium” – State College, Pennsylvinia, USA

May 17 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

As of today there are 1703 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids

“Cut crater in Memnonia Fossae”

“Clues to ancient giant asteroid found in western Australia”

“Mars at Opposition: Best Showing in a Decade”

May 18 2016 – 22:06 UT

Moon at Apogee

(furthest from the Earth = 405,934 km)

May 18 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Asteroid 2016 GS2 flyby – miss distance 3.4 LD, size = 108 metres

“Haumean Moons Deepen The Dwarf Planet Mystery”

May 19 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Comet P/2010 N1 (WISE) –

At Opposition (0.772 AU)

“Ancient tsunamis pummeled the surface of Mars”

“The Sky This Week for the Southern Hemisphere May 19 – May 26”

“Curiosity Sees Seasonal Trends on Mars”

“First evidence of icy comets orbiting a sun-like star”

May 20 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

“European astronomers may have found a new way to find alien planets”

May 21 2016 – 21:14 UT

Full Flower Moon

May 21 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

May 22 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Mars –

At Opposition

May 23 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

As of today there are 1701 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids

Why Does This Number Go Up, Then Sometimes Go Down?

“The Little Fox and the Giant Stars”

“Are mystery Mars plumes caused by space weather?”

May 24 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Apollo Asteroid 2009 DL46 –

Near-Earth Flyby (0.015 AU)

“And yet it moves: 14 Galileo satellites now in orbit”

May 25 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Asteroid 2016 KO flyby – miss distance 2.2 LD, size = 20 metres

Towel Day – Annual Tribute to Douglas Adams

“Asteroid lander on show: Mascot-2 lander model”

“Mars Webcam goes pro”

“Physics: Invest in neutrino astronomy”

May 26 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Richard Carrington’s 190th Birthday (1826)

“The Sky This Week for the Southern Hemisphere May 26 – June 02”

“Mars Triptych”

“Mars Is Emerging From an Ice Age”

May 27 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

“Rosetta’s comet contains ingredients for life”

May 27-30 2016 –
Conferences, Workshops & Star Parties
…..

“4th Beijing Earth and Planetary Interiors Symposium (BEPIS)” – Beijing, China

May 28 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

May 29 2016 – 12:12 UT

Third Lunar Quarter

May 29 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

May 29 – June 24 2016 –
Conferences, Workshops & Star Parties
…..

“Water in the Solar System ad Beyond” – Castel Gandolfo, Vatican City State

May 30 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

As of today there are 1703 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids

May 31 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

You Can Help To Support This Free Service
If You Buy Your Books About:
Comets & Cometary Debris,

Asteroids,

Meteors & Meteor Showers

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General Astronomy

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Heliophysics is a fast-developing scientific discipline that integrates studies of the Sun’s variability,
the surrounding heliosphere, and the environment and climate of planets

Over the past few centuries, our understanding of how the Sun drives space weather and climate
on the Earth and other planets has advanced at an ever increasing rate

CURRENT MOON

about the moon

June 2016 Celestial Events & Space Research News

June 2016 –
SkyMaps & Celestial Guides
…..

Astronomy Today Sky Guide – June 2016

BBC The Sky at Night – June 2016

Meteorite Times Magazine – June 2016 – usually up online the middle of the month

Radio Jove – Solar & Planetary Radio Astronomy for Schools

The Cassini Solstice Mission – Latest News & Current Location

At the start of June 2016 the Sunspot Number is 40

“Forum: Carbon sequestration on Mars” – Comment – Full .pdf+html

“Forum: Carbon sequestration on Mars” – Reply – Full .pdf+html

“What to see in the S. Hemisphere sky in June”

June 01 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Asteroid 2016 LV flyby – miss distance 3.6 LD, size = 108 metres

“Mars at tail-end of ice age that would have seen red planet covered in ice”

“Asteroids delivered bulk of the Moon’s water, study finds”

June 02 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

“The Sky This Week for the Southern Hemisphere June 02 – June 09”

June 02-05 2016 –
Conferences, Workshops & Star Parties
…..

“Cherry Springs Star Party” – Coudersport, Pennsylvania, USA

June 03 2016 – 10:55 UT

Moon at Perigee

(closest to the Earth = 361,142 km)

June 03 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Saturn –

At Opposition

“Dark radiation may be causing universe to expand faster than expected”

June 04 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

“Jupiter: Radio map shows planet’s stormy weather has deep roots”

June 05 2016 – 03:00 UT

New Moon

June 05 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

June 06 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Asteroid 2016 LG flyby – miss distance 2.9 LD, size = 36 metres

Aten Asteroid 2006 JF42 –

Near-Earth Flyby (0.092 AU)

“Cosmic Rays Continue to Intensify” – cosmic rays increase as sunspots decrease

“A mysterious ring of microwaves”

June 06-24 2016 –
Conferences, Workshops & Star Parties
…..

“Summer School on Cosmology” – Trieste, Italy

June 07 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Asteroid 2016 LT1 flyby – miss distance 0.4 LD, size = 7 metres

Comet 73P-AY/Schwassmann-Wachmann –

Near-Earth Flyby (0.036 AU)

Comet 73P-AZ/Schwassmann-Wachmann –

Near-Earth Flyby (0.036 AU)

Comet P/2010 N1 (WISE) –

Closest Approach To Earth (0.741 AU)

“LISA Pathfinder results briefing” – ESA video starts 09:30 UT

“Universe’s first life might have been born on carbon planets”

“LISA Pathfinder exceeds expectations”

June 08 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Arietid Daytime Meteor Shower Peak – SkyMap for N. Hemisphere

Arietid Daytime Meteor Shower Peak – SkyMap for S. Hemisphere

June 09 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Asteroid 2016 LE10 flyby – miss distance 1.2 LD, size = 17 metres

Asteroid 2016 LP10 flyby – miss distance 0.2 LD, size = 6 metres

Aten Asteroid 2009 KR4 –

Near-Earth Flyby (0.094 AU

“The Sky This Week for the Southern Hemisphere June 09 – June 16”

“Water may be hiding in the most unlikely of places”

June 10 2016 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day

Asteroid 2016 LY10 flyby – miss distance 1.8 LD, size = 9 metres

Comet 252P/LINEAR –

At Opposition (0.548 AU)

“Scientists decipher purpose of mysterious astronomy tool made by ancient Greeks”

“Astronomers have discovered a potential new planet locked in a death spiral”

“France launches massive meteor-spotting network”

June 11 2016 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day

“Seasonal dust storms sighted on the Red Planet”

June 12 2016 – 08:10 UT

First Lunar Quarter

June 12 2016 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day

Asteroid 2016 LA49 flyby – miss distance 1.5 LD, size = 15 metres

Aten Asteroid 2002 LY1 –

Near-Earth Flyby (0.051 AU)

June 13 2016 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day

As of today there are 1704 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids

“Young star offers a glimpse of the Sun’s past”

“Comets Break Up and Make Up”

“Ancient volcanos on Mars burned very, very hot”

June 14 2016 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day

Realtime Comet Photo Gallery

“Smaller stars may not be the best parents for would-be planets”

“These Experiments Are Building the Case to Terraform Mars”

June 14-17 2016 –
Conferences, Workshops & Star Parties
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“French Astronomy Week 2016” – Lyon, France

June 15 2016 – 12:00 UT

Moon at Apogee

(furthest from the Earth = 405,022 km)

June 15 2016 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day

As of today there are 1705 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids

Apollo Asteroid 382758 (2003 GY) –

Near-Earth Flyby (0.079 AU)

“Clouds Rain Down on Black Hole”

“ESA’s Mars Orbiter: A little help from friends”

“What do the stars look like from Mars?”

June 16 2016 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day

“The Sky This Week for the Southern Hemisphere June 16 – June 30”

Asteroid 2016 LK49 flyby – miss distance 3.2 LD, size = 28 metres

Aten Asteroid 2002 LT38 –

Near-Earth Flyby (0.070 AU)

Comet P/2005 W4 (SOHO) Closest Approach To Earth (0.781 AU)

“Gravitational waves: Scientists detect second ‘fantastically significant’ signal”

June 17 2016 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day

As of today there are 1707 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids

June 18 2016 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day

Mars Spring Equinox

June 19 2016 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day

Asteroid 2016 MA flyby – miss distance 2.6 LD, size = 15 metres

June 20 2016 – 11:02 UT

Full Strawberry Moon

an image of a meteor flashing through the sky

June 20 2016 – 22:34 UT

Alban Hefyn

Summer Solstice

June 20 2016 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day

Apollo Asteroid 2009 CV –

Near-Earth Flyby (0.032 AU)

“A Neptune-sized transiting planet closely orbiting a 5–10-million-year-old star”

“The spider in the loop”

“A hot Jupiter orbiting a 2-million-year-old solar-mass T Tauri star”

June 20-21 2016 –
Conferences, Workshops & Star Parties
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“Conference: Martian Gullies and their Earth Analogues” – London, England, UK

June 20-22 2016 –
Conferences, Workshops & Star Parties
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“Conference: All-Wave Astronomy – Shklovsky-100” – Moscow, Russia

June 21 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day

Aten Asteroid 2013 ND15 (Venus Trojan) –

Near-Earth Flyby (0.076 AU)

June 22 2016 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day

Comet C/2013 X1 (PANSTARRS) –

Closest Approach To Earth (0.640 AU)

“Sentinel-1 satellites combine radar vision”

“Recipe for a black-hole merger”

June 23 2016 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day

“The Sky This Week for the Southern Hemisphere June 23 – June 30”

“The antimatter mystery: Annihilation and a universe that shouldn’t exist”

“Asteroid Day 2016: One week to go… “

June 24 2016 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day

Aten Asteroid 441987 (2010 NY65) –

Near-Earth Flyby (0.027 AU)

June 25 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day

Asteroid Day Video Series

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Asteroid Day

June 26 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day

Comet C/2013 X1 (PANSTARRS) –

At Opposition (0.659 AU)

“Hundreds Of Events Worldwide Scheduled For Asteroid Day 2016”

June 27 2016 – 18:19 UT

Third Lunar Quarter

June 27 2016 –
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Astronomy Picture of the Day

June Boötids (JBO) Meteor Shower Peak 15:00 UT – IMO Details

June 28 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day

“Pluto” – video and transcript

June 29 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day

“Dawn of Asteroid Day: AIM at Didymos”

June 30 2016 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day

108th Anniversary (1908), Tunguska Explosion Event

“The Sky This Week for the Southern Hemisphere June 30 – July 07”

“Rosetta finale set for 30 September”

“Asteroid Day June 30, 2016”

“Every Day is Asteroid Day at ESA”

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“Alexander Thom:

Cracking The

Stone Age Code”

by

Robin Heath

“Professor Alexander Thom was a foremost scientist and engineer of the last century.

Once Chair of Engineering Science at Brasenose College, Oxford, following an already distinguished career in both the academic and industrial world, during the War, he had been Principal Scientific Officer for the design of the High Speed Wind Tunnel at the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, and had assisted Sir Barnes Wallace in the design of the famous ‘bouncing bomb’ of Dambuster’s fame.

From 1934, Thom became interested in the megalithic culture that had erected the stone circles, rows and other monuments in Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain.

He began to accurately survey these sites, and in 1967 published “Megalithic Sites in Britain” (Oxford) where he claimed the builders had been skilled surveyors and astronomers, and had used an identical and accurate unit of length to mark out their constructions throughout Britain, a length he called the Megalithic yard (2.72 feet or 0.829m).

Thom also discovered that they were using a geometry based on right-angled ‘Pythagorean’ triangles, triangles whose sides were whole numbers of this same megalithic yard, or subdivisions or multiples of it.

He also proposed that they were observing both the sun and moon using precision alignments to identified sites or natural features on a distant horizon. He even showed that they could have predicted eclipses.

The book was described by archaeologist Professor Richard Atkinson as ‘a well-constructed time-bomb dropped through the letterbox of archaeology’, and it caused a huge rumpus within the profession.

In effect Thom had demonstrated that there was a huge missing component in our understanding of the Megalithic culture, one that archaeologists had totally missed, and that our model of prehistory was flawed and hopelessly inadequate.”

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“The Seven Sisters of the Pleiades: Stories from Around the World”

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Munya Andrews

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“Emu Dreaming:
An Introduction to Australian Aboriginal Astronomy”

by

Ray Norris

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Cilla Norris

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“The 2300 BC Event – Vol. 1:

Archaeology and Geophysics

& The Meteoroid Stream”

by

M. M. Mandelkehr

“The 2300 BC Event takes a new look at an old puzzle: what happened
at this date to cause the various advanced societies on the Earth to simultaneously collapse?

Civilizations in Anatolia and Greece, through Egypt and the Middle East, and eastward to India and Central Asia were at their height. The collapse of these civilizations due to earthquakes and climatic changes has been mirrored by similar interruptions on all continents, in the Arctic, and extending to the Pacific.

The discontinuities have long puzzled archaeologists and historians. New religions and accompanying mythologies appeared at this time in all cultural regions describing bombardment and flooding from the skies.

Strangely, the dominant aspect of the mythologies, however, is the observation and worship of a ring appearing to surround the Earth, oriented to the two Ursa (Bear) constellations.”

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“The 2300 BC Event Vol. 2:

Mythology

The Eyewitness Accounts”

by

M. M. Mandelkehr

“Some time around 2300 BC the Eath encountered a dense clustering of space debris, the early Southern & Northern Taurid meteoroid stream. The result was an intense fall of meteoroids, some of them sufficiently large to cause surface destruction.

Simultaneous with the meteoroid fall was a huge downpouring of water which caused flash flooding. Extensive destruction and loss of life resulted. An astonishing aspect of the event was the formation of a ring surrounding the Earth, reflecting sunlight during the day, hiding some stars at night, and moving around the sky through a 24-hour period.

Following the ‘main event’, there were crustal movements which shifted the location of water sources, and caused earthquakes which destroyed settlements. Abrupt severe climate changes occurred.”

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“The 2300 BC Event Vol. 3:

Mythology

The Eyewitness Accounts 2″

by

M. M. Mandelkehr

“The Northern/Southern Taurid meteoroid stream is identified as the specific meteoroid stream that the Earth encountered at 2300 BC.

The Earth’s encounter with a dense cluster of large objects would produce atmospheric phenomena very different from the pleasant and interesting night displays of meteor trails that are within our own experience.

The rain of objects would have generated extraordinary visual and auditory effects combined with ground vibrations; and under extreme conditions would bring about severe surface destruction and loss of life.

The overall event was associated by the people with powerful deities and formed the basis for major religions. The mythologies and traditions are, in large part, the residues of those religions.”

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Heliophysics
Text Books

“Heliophysics is a fast-developing scientific discipline that integrates studies of the Sun’s variability, the surrounding heliosphere, and the environment and climate of planets.

Over the past few centuries, our understanding of how the Sun drives space weather and climate on the Earth and other planets has advanced at an ever increasing rate.”

“Heliophysics I:
Plasma Physics of the
Local Cosmos”
Edited by

Carolus J. Schrijver
&
George L. Siscoe

“This volume, the first in a series of three heliophysics texts, integrates such diverse topics for the first time as a coherent intellectual discipline.

It emphasizes the physical processes coupling the Sun and Earth, allowing insights into the interaction of the solar wind and radiation with the Earth’s magnetic field, atmosphere and climate system.

It provides a core resource for advanced undergraduates and graduates, and also constitutes a foundational reference for researchers in heliophysics, astrophysics, plasma physics, space physics, solar physics, aeronomy, space weather, planetary science and climate science.”

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Additional online resources
including lecture presentations
and other teaching materials
became available towards
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“Heliophysics II:

Space storms and radiation:

causes and effects”

Edited by

Carolus J. Schrijver

&

George L. Siscoe

“The Sun is a magnetically variable star and for planets with intrinsic magnetic fields, planets with atmospheres, or planets like Earth with both, there are profound consequences.

This 2010 volume, the second in this series of three heliophysics texts, integrates the many aspects of space storms and the energetic radiation associated with them – from causes on the Sun to effects in planetary environments.

It reviews the physical processes in solar flares and coronal mass ejections, interplanetary shocks, and particle acceleration and transport, and considers many space weather responses in geospace. In addition to its utility as a textbook, it also constitutes a foundational reference for researchers in fields from heliophysics to climate science.”

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“Heliophysics III:

Evolving Solar Activity and the

Climates of Space and Earth”

Edited by

Carolus J. Schrijver

&

George L. Siscoe

“This final book in this series of three heliophysics texts, published in 2010, focuses on long-term variability from the Sun’s sunspot cycle and considers the planetary system’s evolution from a climatological perspective.

Topics covered range from the dynamo action of stars and planets to processes in the Earth’s troposphere, ionosphere, and magnetosphere and their effects on planetary climate and habitability.

Supplemented by online teaching materials, it can be used as a textbook for courses or as a foundational reference for researchers in fields from astrophysics and plasma physics to planetary and climate science.”

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“Natural Catastrophes During Bronze Age Civilisations”
(British Archaeological
Reports)

by

Benny J. Peiser

Trevor Palmer

Mark E. Bailey

(Editors)

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Research in the field of neo-catastrophism and impact cratering has quickened its pace since the early 1980s. Scholars such as Victor Clube, Bill Napier, Mark Bailey, Sir Fred Hoyle and Duncan Steel claim that a more ‘active’ sky might have caused major cultural changes of Bronze Age civilizations, belief systems and religious rituals.”

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“The Newgrange Sirius Mystery”

by

E. A. James Swagger

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“A Little History of
Astro-Archaeology:
Stages in the Transformation
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John Michell

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“Avebury Cosmos:
The Neolithic World
of Avebury henge”
by

Nicholas R. Mann

“The ancient Britons were inspired by a profound knowledge of the heavens when they erected the monumental stones of Avebury.

Mann throws light on the motive behind the creation of its awe-inspiring mounds and megaliths by demonstrating that they were aligned to the cycles of the Sun, Moon and stars.

This book will help visitors and readers to see Avebury in a wholly new light – the light of the heavenly bodies that guided its Neolithic builders.”

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“Avebury:
Sun, Moon and Earth”
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Maria Wheatley
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“Living the Sky:
Cosmos of the American Indian”

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Ray A. Williamson

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“Chaco Astronomy:

An Ancient American Cosmology”

by

Anna Sofaer

“After rumors surfaced about the sun bisecting a petroglyph at Chaco Canyon, people never looked at the site the same again.

The discovery proposed a cosmology at Chaco, and the book looks at the people who lived in the San Juan Basin from 850 AD to 1300, developing an elaborate culture around the cycles of the sun and moon.

Anna Sofaer’s pioneering work on Chaco Canyon, a World Heritage Site, should be required reading for anyone interested in how the prehistoric people of the American Southwest conceptualized their universe and placed themselves within that universe.”

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“Stonehenge: A New Interpretation of Prehistoric Man and the Cosmos”

by

John David North

“Stonehenge has fascinated mankind for centuries, enveloping generation after generation in its haunting mystery. But while much has been learned about this ancient monument, the fundamental questions remain: Who built it? What was its purpose? How was it used?

Drawing on more than 15 years of research, John North has at last succeeded where others have failed. He comprehensively examines Stonehenge from all available angles — archeological, astronomical, and spiritual — and considers relevant research from other prehistoric remains in Britain and Northern Europe. He shows, for the first time, that the stones were not so much sighting devices as maps of the heavens and that the design of the monument evolved over thousands of years rather than conforming to a single original blueprint.

Such observations form the basis of deductions about prehistoric life and religion that will profoundly affect our understanding of who we are and where we came from.”

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“Ancient Skies and Astronomy Now”

by

Krishna K Ramadas