IBEX Scientists Isolate Mysterious "Ribbon" of Energy and Particles that Wraps Around Solar System Boundary In a paper to be published in the April 10, 2011, issue of The Astrophysical Journal, scientists on NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) mission, including lead auth...
Title: Zeta Pup: the merger of at least two massive stars Authors: Dany Vanbeveren We first discuss the stellar and wind parameters of zeta Pup resulting from detailed UV diagnostics. These parameters together with the runaway nature of the star can most easily be explained by dynamical binary-bi...
Edwards flew on STS-89 (January 22-31, 1998), the eighth Shuttle-Mir docking mission, during which the crew transferred more than 4,100 kg of scientific equipment, logistical hardware and water from Space Shuttle Endeavour to Mir. Read more
Hugo Junkers (3 February 1859 - 3 February 1935) was a German engineer who designed the Junkers J 1 in 1915. It was the first aircraft to use an all-metal skin, had a single cantilever wing and had minimal external bracing. Read more
"Billy" Eduard Albert Meier (February 3, 1937) is a citizen of Switzerland who claims to be in contact with extraterrestrials. He is the source of many controversial UFO photographs, which he has presented as evidence of his encounters. Read more
Air Commodore Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton and 11th Duke of Brandon, KT, GCVO, AFC, PC, DL, FRCSE, FRGS (3 February 1903 - 30 March 1973) was a Scottish nobleman and pioneering aviator. He was involved in one of the more ambitious aeronautical flights of the early twentieth cent...
The Iran Blizzard of February 1972 resulted in the deaths of approximately 4,000 people. A week-long period of low temperatures and winter storms, lasting from 3 to 9 February 1972, dumped more than 3.0 m of snow across rural areas in northwestern, central and southern Iran. Read more
On February 3, 1947, the record-low temperature for continental North America was recorded in Snag: -63 °C . That same winter, two previous records had already been set: one on December 13 in Mayo, Yukon and another at Snag the day before. Staff at the station made note of various phenomena, particul...
Looking Glass (or Operation Looking Glass) is the code name for an airborne command centre operated by the United States. The Strategic Air Command began the Looking Glass mission on February 3, 1961. Read more
Fundamentals of Environment-Materials Interactions, Models and Design Approaches to Meet Emerging Space Needs February 3-8, 2013 Four Points Sheraton / Holiday Inn Express Ventura, CA Read more
STS-60 was the first mission of the US/Russian Shuttle-Mir Program, which carried Sergei K. Krikalev, the first Russian cosmonaut to fly aboard a Space Shuttle. The mission used Space Shuttle Discovery, which lifted off from Launch Pad 39A on 3 February 1994 from Kennedy Space Centre, Florida. R...
The "Maltese cross" of Robert E. Curtiss is an X-shaped illumination effect (similar to the first quarter lunar X) located between the craters Parry and Gambart in the Fra Mauro Zeta region, and NE of the small crater Fra Mauro HA. The X-shaped feature becomes visible ~15 hours after the L...
Orbital elements:
2013 BS15 Earth MOID = 0.0061 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 194.27759 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.84145896 Peri. 103.11049 -0.78255343 +0.60264707
a 1.1111706 Node 114.16919 -0.61668222 -0.71583277
e 0.2214338 Incl. 9.86382 -0.08551707 -0.35270378
P 1.17 H 25....
Tiniest exoplanet found A European satellite has spied the smallest and fastest-orbiting extrasolar planet to date, bringing astronomers closer to finding a habitable planet outside our Solar System. The Convection, Rotation and Planetary Transits (CoRoT) mission, a European Space Agency s...
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