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Heliophysics is a fast-developing scientific discipline that integrates studies of the Sun’s variability,
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April 2019 Celestial Events & Space Research News
April 2019 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 2019 –
SkyMaps & Celestial Guides
…..
BBC The Sky at Night – April 2019
Meteorite Times Magazine – April 2019 – 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
At the start of April 2019 the Sunspot Number is 14
April 01 2019 – 00:14 UT
Moon at Apogee
(furthest from the Earth = 405,577 km)
April 01 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2019 FR2 encounter – miss distance 2.1 LD, size = 11 metres
Aten Asteroid 2014 FK38 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.059 AU)
“Uncovering the secrets of ancient rock art using ‘X-ray vision'”
“Astronomers Confirm the Existence of Galaxies With No Dark Matter”
“April 2019: Critters on the March”
“New Study Confirms Methane on Mars � But It�s Not Definitive”
April 02 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Mercury
Passes 0.4° From
Neptune – as seen from Earth with a suitable telescope
Asteroid 2019 FT2 encounter – miss distance 2.4 LD, size = 19 metres
Aten Asteroid 2018 PK21 Near-Earth Flyby (0.088 AU)
“NASA’s New Planet Hunter Has Detected an ‘Exocomet’ Orbiting an Alien Star”
“Rogue planets: part two”
“Rivers on Mars Flowed for More Than a Billion Years”
April 03 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Aten Asteroid 2011 FK1 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.076 AU)
“TESS spots its first exocomet around one of the sky’s brightest stars”
April 04 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Parker Solar Probe, 2nd Perihelion
Apollo Asteroid 2016 GE1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.010 AU)
“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia April 04 – April 11”
“Hayabusa2 is going to create a crater in an asteroid tonight”
“Mars Express Saw Same Methane Spike as Curiosity Detected from Surface of Mars”
“Curiosity Sees Phobos Transit . . . After Sunset”
April 05 2019 – 08:50 UT
New Moon
April 05 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2016 GE1 encounter – miss distance 2.9 LD, size = 17 metres
“Snowball Earth: The times our planet was covered in ice”
“Japanese space probe drops explosive on asteroid Ryugu”
“What India�s Anti-Satellite Test Means for Space Debris”
April 06 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
April 07 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2019 GS encounter – miss distance 1.1 LD, size = 17 metres
Asteroid 2019 GT encounter – miss distance 3.5 LD, size = 18 metres
“The first-ever photograph of a black hole might be unveiled this week”
April 08 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2019 FS2 encounter – miss distance 3.2 LD, size = 12 metres
April 09 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Aten Asteroid 2016 GW221 Near-Earth Flyby (0.026 AU)
Aten Asteroid 2014 UR Near-Earth Flyby (0.033 AU)
April 10 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Venus
Passes 0.4° From
Neptune – as seen from Earth with a suitable telescope
“�Virtual� telescope captures first direct image of black hole”
“Mars methane hunt comes up empty, flummoxing scientists”
“Experts Predict a Long, Deep Solar Minimum”
April 11 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Mercury –
At Its Greatest Western Elongation (28°) – as seen from Earth
Asteroid 2019 GV5 encounter – miss distance 1.7 LD, size = 5 metres
Asteroid 2019 GT19 encounter – miss distance 2.1 LD, size = 12 metres
Asteroid 2019 GE1 encounter – miss distance 3.9 LD, size = 13 metres
“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia April 11 – April 18”
“Israeli spacecraft Beresheet crashes into Moon”
April 12 2019 – 19:06 UT
First Lunar Quarter
April 12 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2019 GN20 encounter – miss distance 1 LD, size = 18 metres
Yuri’s Night: The World Space Party
April 13 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2019 GN encounter – miss distance 1.7 LD, size = 14 metres
April 14 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Apollo Asteroid 2016 FW13 Near-Earth Flyby (0.073 AU)
April 15 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
“Meteors slamming into the Moon reveal underground water”
April 16 2019 – 22:02 UT
Moon at Perigee
(closest to the Earth = 364,209 km)
April 16 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2019 GW20 encounter – miss distance 3.4 LD, size = 11 metres
“Deep lakes and phantom ponds found on Saturn’s moon Titan”
“Third planet found hiding in �Tatooine� star system”
April 17 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
“New details emerge about Titan�s methane lakes”
“Interstellar Meteor Likely Struck Earth In 2014, Say Astronomers”
“Cassini�s last look at Titan reveals more surprises”
“Astronomers Find a Chunk of a Comet Inside a Meteorite”
“Nearby asteroids reveal sizes of distant stars”
April 18 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2019 GC6 encounter – miss distance 0.6 LD, size = 18 metres
Aten Asteroid 2012 XO134 Near-Earth Flyby (0.038 AU)
“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia April 18 – April 25”
“SOFIA detects long-sought primeval molecule”
“Methane-Filled Lakes on Titan are ‘Surprisingly Deep'”
April 19 2019 – 11:12 UT
Full Pink Moon
April 19 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Aten Asteroid 522684 (2016 JP) Near-Earth Flyby (0.049 AU)
“A third planet found in binary star system”
“April�s Lyrid Meteor Shower”
April 20 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2019 HE encounter – miss distance 0.6 LD, size = 17 metres
“New telescope to probe the formation and evolution of the universe”
“Jupiter-size star generates titanic white-light �superflare�”
April 21 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Apollo Asteroid 2016 WQ3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.073 AU)
April 22 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Lyrids Meteor Shower History of Parent Comet
Lyrids Meteor Shower SkyMap
“NASA astronauts will ride Russian rockets for another year”
“Ep. 527: Ancient Astronomy of the American Southwest”
April 23 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
2019 Lyrids Meteor Shower Peak
Apollo Asteroid 478784 (2012 UV136) –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.074 AU)
“How Astronomers Used Asteroids to Measure Stars”
April 24 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
“Mars probe InSight detects possible ‘marsquake’, NASA says, in interplanetary first”
April 25 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia April 25 – May 02”
April 26 2019 – 22:18 UT
Third Lunar Quarter
April 26 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
April 27 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
“Comet Halley begins showering Earth with Eta Aquariid meteors”
April 28 2019 – 18:20 UT
Moon at Apogee
(furthest from the Earth = 404,577 km)
April 28 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
April 29 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Aten Asteroid 2008 GL20 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.084 AU)
April 30 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
“Surprise 4,000-mile �ice corridor� found on Saturn�s moon Titan”
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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
May 2019 Celestial Events & Space Research News
May 2019 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 2019 –
SkyMaps & Celestial Guides
…..
BBC The Sky at Night – May 2019
Meteorite Times Magazine – May 2019 – usually up online the middle of the month
Radio Jove – Solar & Planetary Radio Astronomy for Schools
At the start of May 2019 the Sunspot Number is 0
May 01 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2019 JY1 encounter – miss distance 2.9 LD, size = 8 metres
“Asteroids delivered half of Earth’s water, new sample suggests”
“The World�s Space Agencies are Responding to a Hypothetical Asteroid Impact”
“An Excellent Year for the Eta Aquariid Meteor Shower”
May 02 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2019 JX1 encounter – miss distance 0.5 LD, size = 5 metres
“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia May 02 – May 09”
“When the Impact that Created the Moon occurred the Earth was still a ball of magma”
“Gaia spacecraft maps 14,000 asteroids”
May 03 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
As of today there are 1983 known Potentially Hazardous Asteroids (PHA)
“Gravitational-wave Detectors … Find Possible Black Hole-Neutron Star Crash”
“Venus reimagined: A new image of an active world”
“Global Dust Storm that Ended Opportunity Helped Teach us how Mars Lost its Water”
May 04 2019 – 22:45 UT
New Moon
May 04 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
May 05 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2019 JE encounter – miss distance 2.5 LD, size = 23 metres
Eta Aquarids Meteor Shower Peak
Eta Aquarids Meteor Shower SkyMap
Eta Aquarid Meteor Shower in 2019
Amor Asteroid 2016 GF216 Near-Earth Flyby (0.092 AU)
May 06 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
n�Aquarid meteor shower
Amor Asteroid 2009 MN8) –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.076 AU)
“Hayabusa1�s Samples of Itokawa Turned up Water Very Similar to Earth�s Oceans”
May 07 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
“NASA�s DART mission will try to deflect a near-Earth asteroid”
“Habitability of Planets Will Depend on Their Interiors”
“A Link Between Fast Radio Bursts, Magnetars, and Supernovae?”
May 08 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Mercury
Passes 1.4° From
Uranus – as seen from Earth with a suitable telescope
Amor Asteroid 2014 KQ84 Near-Earth Flyby (0.080 AU)
“Before We Ruin the Universe, We Should Follow Space Sustainability Guidelines”
May 09 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2019 JM encounter – miss distance 4 LD, size = 14 metres
Amor Asteroid 2008 HS3 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.037 AU)
“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia May 09 – May 16”
May 10 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Apollo Asteroid 468005 (2012 XD112) –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.098 AU)
May 11 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
May 12 2019 – 01:12 UT
First Lunar Quarter
May 12 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2019 JO2 encounter – miss distance 3.7 LD, size = 26 metres
Aten Asteroid 2009 FU23 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.071 AU)
May 13 2019 – 21:53 UT
Moon at Perigee
(closest to the Earth = 369,017 km)
May 13 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2019 JW5 encounter – miss distance 2.3 LD, size = 12 metres
Asteroid 2019 JK3 encounter – miss distance 3.2 LD, size = 16 metres
“Apollo-era Moon quakes hint that Moon is still active today”
May 14 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
“Quakes suggest the Moon may be tectonically active � and shrinking”
“Solar System ‘Twin’ Is Missing Its Baby Jupiters”
May 15 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
“China’s Yutu-2 rover finds ancient rocks in Moon’s biggest crater”
May 16 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2019 JH7 encounter – miss distance 0.2 LD, size = 4 metres
“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia May 16 – May 23”
“Small, Tough Planets can Survive the Death of Their Star”
May 17 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
“New Horizons reveals Ultima Thule’s quiet, lonesome past”
“Our Quiet Galaxy Used to Burst with Stars”
“Advanced Civilizations Could be Communicating with Neutrino Beams”
May 18 2019 – 21:11 UT
Full Flower Moon
May 18 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Blue Moon
Venus
Passes 1.1° From
Uranus – as seen from Earth with a suitable telescope
Asteroid 2012 KT12 encounter – miss distance 3.3 LD, size = 20 metres
Apollo Asteroid 2012 KT12 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.008 AU)
May 19 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
May 20 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2019 JL3 encounter – miss distance 2.5 LD, size = 37 metres
Apollo Asteroid 68950 (2002 QF15) –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.088 AU)
Apollo Asteroid 2017 QP16 Near-Earth Flyby (0.099 AU)
“Thin, insulating layer may prevent Pluto’s underground ocean from freezing”
“Most of the Solar System Should be a Protected Wilderness”
May 21 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
“Scientists gear up to look for fossils on Mars”
May 22 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
“Rare meteorites found in Costa Rica could shed light on Earth’s water”
“Jupiter�s Great Red Spot Unfurls”
May 23 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia May 23 – May 30”
“Was �Oumuamua a Fragment from a Disintegrated Comet?”
May 24 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
“Mars’ layered ice caps reveal its climate history”
“Close Encounters with the Taurid Swarm”
May 25 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2019 KL encounter – miss distance 2.1 LD, size = 18 metres
Aten Asteroid 2015 KQ18 Near-Earth Flyby (0.027 AU)
Aten Asteroid 66391 (1999 KW4) –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.035 AU)
“Theory proposes that Venus could have been habitable … “
May 26 2019 – 16:34 UT
Third Lunar Quarter
May 26 2019 – 13:27 UT
Moon at Apogee
(furthest from the Earth = 404,134 km) m
May 26 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2019 KN encounter – miss distance 4 LD, size = 23 metres
May 27 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
“New layers of water ice have been found beneath Mars� North Pole”
May 28 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2019 KT encounter – miss distance 0.8 LD, size = 17 metres
“Could a Long-Ago Collision Explain Our Two-Faced Moon?”
“Could a supernova have made humans bipedal?”
“Strange Feature on Mars was Probably the Result of Ancient Volcanic Explosion”
May 29 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Aten Asteroid 2003 LH –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.040 AU)
“Found: Exoplanet in the ‘Neptunian Desert’ & Exocomets Around Beta Pictoris”
“Quantum simulation of black-hole radiation”
“Different Conditions From Earth Drive the Movement of Sand Dunes on Mars”
May 30 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2019 KG2 encounter – miss distance 2.7 LD, size = 24 metres
“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia May 30 – June 06”
“Very Rare Planet Discovered. Less Massive than Neptune, Hotter than Mercury”
May 31 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
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Space weather influences on atmospheric electricity
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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
June 2019 Celestial Events & Space Research News
June 2019 SkyMaps & Sky Guides NOT AVAILABLE UNTIL June 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
June 2019 –
SkyMaps & Celestial Guides
…..
BBC The Sky at Night – June 2019
Meteorite Times Magazine – June 2019 – usually up online the middle of the month
Radio Jove – Solar & Planetary Radio Astronomy for Schools
At the start of June 2019 the Sunspot Number is 0
June 01 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2019 LB1 encounter – miss distance 3.8 LD, size = 14 metres
“After SpaceX Launch, a Fear of Satellites That Outnumber All Visible Stars”
“NASA to shut down Spitzer Space Telescope early next year”
June 02 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2019 LA2 encounter – miss distance 1.2 LD, size = 17 metres
Asteroid 2019 KY3 encounter – miss distance 2.3 LD, size = 17 metres
“NASA funds commercial moon landers for science, exploration”
“The END of Stargazing? Astronomers Fear SpaceX Satellites Could Clutter up Sky”
June 03 2019 – 10:02 UT
New Moon
June 03 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2012 KZ41 encounter – miss distance 3.8 LD, size = 34 metres
“Does Starlink Pose a Space Debris Threat? An Expert Answers”
“Comets are teaching us how to make breathable oxygen in space”
“Subaru Telescope Sees 1800 Supernovae”
“Clay found on Mars points toward watery past”
June 04 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
“ESA crafts plan to return a sample from Mars”
“Incredible Evolution Of Jupiter GRS”
June 05 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Comet 222P/LINEAR –
Perihelion (0.828 AU)
“Earth flyby gives astronomers close-up look at binary asteroid”
“A double asteroid came uncomfortably close this weekend – what astronomers saw”
“June is the Best Month for Daytime Meteor Showers”
June 06 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Aten Asteroid 2014 MF18 Near-Earth Flyby (0.022 AU)
“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia June 06 – June 13”
“The mystery of cosmic cold spots just got even weirder”
June 07 2019 – 23:21 UT
Moon at Perigee
(closest to the Earth = 368,508 km)
June 07 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Apollo Asteroid 2017 BM93 Near-Earth Flyby (0.086 AU)
“Cosmic bridge … provides first evidence of magnetic fields between galaxy clusters”
June 08 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
June 09 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Apollo Asteroid 2017 XY2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.074 AU)
June 10 2019 – 05:59 UT
First Lunar Quarter
June 10 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
“The 2019 Taurid resonant swarm: prospects for ground detection of small NEOs”
“Perfect Example of a Barred Spiral Galaxy, Seen Face On”
June 11 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
“There’s an enormous, mysterious mass under the Moon’s largest crater”
“Astronomers Stalk the ‘Taurid Swarm'”
“Powerful superflares could pose a threat to Earth”
June 12 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Apollo Asteroid 2011 TC4 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.085 AU)
“Apollo 10�s ‘Snoopy’ Lunar Lander May Have Been Found in Space”
“The briny depths of Europa brim with table salt
June 13 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Comet 209P/LINEAR –
Perihelion (0.968 AU)
“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia June 13 – June 20”
“An Orbit Map of the Solar System”
June 14 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
“Light pollution from satellites will get worse. But how much?”
“Robotic asteroid mining spacecraft wins a grant from NASA”
June 15 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
June 16 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
“Giant planets orbiting Sun-like stars may be rare”
June 17 2019 – 08:31 UT
Full Strawberry Moon
June 17 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Apollo Asteroid 2017 XZ1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.076 AU)
“Vaporizing meteors are making clouds on Mars”
June 18 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid 2019 LU4 encounter – miss distance 2 LD, size = 18 metres
“Scientists read the Sun�s history in Moon rocks”
“Martian Clouds Might Start with Meteor Trails Through the Atmosphere”
“Our solar system is weird”
June 19 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Mercury
Passes 0.2° From
Mars – as seen from Earth
Aten Asteroid 2014 MV18 Near-Earth Flyby (0.078 AU)
“Enceladus is Filled with Tasty Food for Bacteria”
June 20 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia June 20 – June 27”
“The 2019 Taurid resonant swarm: prospects for ground detection of small NEOs”
“ESA plans mission to intercept a ‘pristine’ comet”
June 21 2019 – 15:54 UT
Alban Hefyn
Summer Solstice
June 21 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Aten Asteroid 2010 RX30 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.094 AU)
“The Sun is so Blank, It Looks Like a Billiard Ball”
“What the Apollo Moon rocks told us”
“Huge Mass Found Under Moon�s Largest Basin”
June 22 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Apollo Asteroid 2016 WQ3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.079 AU)
“GLM Detects A Bolide South Of Puerto Rico”
June 23 2019 – 07:50 UT
Moon at Apogee
(furthest from the Earth = 404,549 km)
June 23 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
…..
Astronomy Picture of the Day
Mercury –
At Its Greatest Eastern Elongation (25°) – as seen from Earth
“The 2019 Taurid resonant swarm: prospects for ground detection of small NEOs”
June 24 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Aten Asteroid 441987 (2010 NY65) –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.020 AU)
Amor Asteroid 2011 HT –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.074 AU)
“Curiosity detects methane spike on Mars again, but what does it mean?”
“Exploring the Solar System: Mission Updates”
“Uranus� Rings are Surprisingly Bright in Thermal Emissions”
June 25 2019 – 09:46 UT
Third Lunar Quarter
June 25 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
“The 2019 Taurid resonant swarm: prospects for ground detection of small NEOs”
June 26 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Comet 322P/SOHO –
Closest Approach To Earth (0.913 AU)
June 27 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Aten Asteroid 2008 KV2 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.045 AU)
“NASA drone will soar over Saturn’s largest moon”
“The Sky This Week centred on Australasia June 27 – July 04”
June 28 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Amor Asteroid 2016 NN15 Near-Earth Flyby (0.025 AU)
Aten Asteroid 494999 (2010 JU39) –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.060 AU)
Apollo Asteroid 2013 WR45 –
Near-Earth Flyby (0.092 AU)
“Viewing Venus from the Space Station”
“NASA gives go-ahead for flying drone to explore Saturn�s moon Titan”
“Asteroid week is finally here!”
June 29 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
June 30 2019 –
Today’s Celestial Events & Space Exploration News
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Astronomy Picture of the Day
Asteroid Day
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“Alexander Thom:
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“Emu Dreaming:
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“The 2300 BC Event – Vol. 1:
Archaeology and Geophysics
& The Meteoroid Stream”
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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:
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“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:
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The Eyewitness Accounts 2″
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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 I:
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“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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“Heliophysics II:
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Edited by
Carolus J. Schrijver
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“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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“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
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Benny J. Peiser
Trevor Palmer
Mark E. Bailey
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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”
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“Avebury Cosmos:
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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:
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“Living the Sky:
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“Stonehenge: A New Interpretation of Prehistoric Man and the Cosmos”
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“A Guide to Prehistoric
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“Dr. J. McKim Malville has outdone himself in this guide to prehistoric astronomy.
Even a reader with little or no background in archaeoastronomy will like this book.
One reason is the tons of good photos and diagrams that can help anyone better appreciate the miraculous order of our solar system and the stars.
It would make a great gift for children between 10 and 16, potentially stimulating them to enter the field of science.”
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“Ancient Skies and Astronomy Now”
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“Chaco Astronomy:
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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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“Signs in the Heavens: A Muslim Astronomer’s Perspective on Religion and Science”
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“Patterns in the Sky:
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Stephen M. Fabian
“Since the beginning of humankind, people around the world have had a strong interest in the powers and beings perceived in the sky.
This compelling short work helps students fully understand and appreciate the ways in which non-Western indigenous and small-scale societies perceive, conceptualize, and make sure of what they astronomically observe.
With its concise explanations of prominent astronomical phenomena, discussions of relevant crosscultural examples, and instructive suggestions for active field research, Patterns in the Sky is a unique and practical guide for doing ethnoastronomy.
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“Astronomy & Measurement in Megalithic Architecture”
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Peter Harris
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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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