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Near Earth Objects represent a clear and present danger to the people of Earth. The Tunguska event over Eastern Siberia in 1908 is a good example of the kind of destruction that a relatively small object can produce.
That was a lucky escape given that the
On November 28, 2013 at 18:44 UTC Comet ISON will reach its perihelion and fly by about 1.2 million km (730 000 miles) above the solar surface. Since space-based solar observatories will be recording its passage just follow the links and timetable below for
November 30, 2013
ISON is fading and exiting LASCO C3 view.
08:18 UTC
Comet ISON on November 30, 2013 @ 08:18. Image credit: ESA/NASA SOHO
05:30 UTC
Karl Battams (NRL/CIOC) wrote and update on ISON and embeded cool gifs from STEREO: In
The team at IRAM millimeter telescope, Spain, reported today that they see consistent rapid fading of ISON's molecular emission lines. The fading was recorded between November 21 and 25 by at least a factor of 20
A series of very strong and shallow earthquakes has been detected southeast of Falkland Islands, South Atlantic Ocean, early on November 25, 2013.
The first earthquake in series was M 5.1 that hit at 10:09 UTC today. USGS is currently reporting two
EMSC is reporting 40 km deep M 6.1 earthquake at Kuril Islands, Russia, on November 25, 2013, at 05:56 UTC. USGS is reporting M 5.8 for this earthquake at depth of 39.5 km (24.5 miles).
Epicenter was located 242 km (150 miles) E of Kuril'sk,
Comet ISON will pass through the Sun's atmosphere at just about 1.2 million km (730 000 miles) above the solar surface on November 28, 2013 at 18:44 UTC.
It is now entering the fields of view of space-based solar observatories and will be viewed first
7 strong earthquakes shook border region of Iran and Iraq in last 48 hours. The first in series was M 5.4 that struck 26 km W of Sarpol-E Zahab, Iran at 06:51 UTC on November 22. Recorded depths range from 9.9 to 14 km. Magnitudes range from 4.2
A new tropical cyclone formed in Bay of Bengal and is currently located approximately 1290 km (695 NM) east-southeast of Visakhapatnam, India. This new tropical cyclone was named Lehar and it comes only 2 days after TC Helen made landfall near
After 13 days of weaker activity, Sakurajima volcano began to erupt more violently on November 23 with a series of powerful explosions. Near-constant ash emissions have been taking place from the Showa crater. Ash plume was sent up to 4.5 km (15 000
