Observations of Comets

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Available from the Minor Planet Center.
Available from the Minor Planet Center.

Meteo

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ELISA – Previsioni Meteo ogni 3 ore Italia EPSON – Previsioni a Frasso per 5 giorni METEOSAT – Immagini dal satellite ALICE – Previsioni a Frasso per 5 giorni

The Megalithic Complex of the ``Preta 'ru Mulacchio'' on the Monte della Stella

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The Monte della Stella is a 1131~m high mountain, belonging to the range separating the Alento Valley from the Tyrrhenian Sea, south of the city of Agropoli in Italy. At 1030~m over the sea-level, a large, isolated outcrop of the bedrock is present. This rock is well known to local people and called the ``Preta ‘ru Mulacchio’‘, expression meaning in the local dialect ``The Bastard Child Rock’‘. The ``Preta’’ is basically composed by three rocks that were originated along of natural reasons from a single block of arenite in its upper part and of a rough conglomerate in the lower...

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A New Meteorite in Italy: the Fermo Chondrite

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A stony meteorite fell in central Italy on September 25, 1996, at a site
(lambda=13deg 45min 12sec E, phi=43deg 10min 52sec N) close to a field,
3-4 km north-east of the town of Fermo and a few kilometers from the
Adriatic coast. The meteorite is one piece of 10.2 kg of stone and
exhibits the characteristic fusion crust. The body is classified as a
H3-5 chondrite breccia. Production in stony meteorites as Fermo, of
cosmogenic isotopes (22Na and 44Ti) by means of galactic cosmic rays,
offers a direct assessment of the solar activity at different time
scales (11-year solar cycle and century-scale variations).