Associazione Romana Astrofili

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Meteo

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

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 one:…

A New Meteorite in Italy: the Fermo Chondrite

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).

NEO (Near Earth Objects)

Comet C/2009 p2 (boattini)

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