India test-fires ballistic missile from underwater platform Moving a step closer to completing its nuclear triad, India today successfully test-fired a ballistic missile, with a strike range of around 1500 kilometres, from an underwater platform in Bay of Bengal. [url=http://timesofindia....
Samuel Chao Chung Ting (born January 27, 1936) is an American physicist who received the Nobel Prize in 1976, with Burton Richter, for discovering the subatomic psion particle. Read more
Francis Melvin Rogallo (January 27, 1912 - September 1, 2009) was an American aeronautical engineer inventor born in Sanger, California, U.S.A.; he is credited with the invention of the Rogallo wing, or "flexible wing", a precursor to the modern hang glider and paraglider. Read more
Balthasar van der Pol (27 January 1889 - 6 October 1959) was a Dutch physicist. His main interests were in radio wave propagation, theory of electrical circuits, and mathematical physics. The van der Pol oscillator was named after him. Read more
The 10 - 22 metre wide asteroid 2008 OT7 will make a close pass (50.5 lunar distances, 0.1298 AU), travelling at 13.41 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 27th January, 2013 @ 18:29 UT ±07:22. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00...
Orbital elements:
2013 BR18 Earth MOID = 0.0536 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 294.84975 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.47958819 Peri. 27.00472 -0.83947417 -0.53197961
a 1.6164306 Node 120.42386 +0.47246448 -0.81529537
e 0.3684139 Incl. 7.38379 +0.26844075 -0.22867260
P 2.06 H 26.1...
Orbital elements: 2010 YO Earth MOID = 0.0038 AU Epoch 2011 Feb. 8.0 TT = JDT 2455600.5 MPC M 196.31729 (2000.0) P Q n 1.57058235 Peri. 203.87971 +0.43371788 +0.80421641 a 0.7329858 Node 94.07311 -0.74713134 +0.57307205 e 0.4391872 Incl. 24.04063 -0.50367009 -0.15755760 P 0.63 H 24.6 G 0.15 U 8 MPE...
The International Ultraviolet Explorer (IUE) was an astronomical observatory satellite primarily designed to take ultraviolet spectra. The satellite was a collaborative project between NASA, the UK Science Research Council and the European Space Agency (ESA). The mission was first propose...
Paul the Octopus (26 January 2008 - 26 October 2010) was a common octopus from Weymouth, England. Paul lived in a tank at a commercial attraction, the Sea Life Centre in Oberhausen, Germany. Read more
Polykarp Kusch (January 26, 1911 - March 20, 1993) was a German-American physicist. In 1955 he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics with Willis Eugene Lamb for his accurate determination that the magnetic moment of the electron was greater than its theoretical value, thus leading to rec...
Gleb Vladimirovich Nosovsky or Nosovskiy (born 26 January 1958) is a Russian mathematician. He was born in Moscow, Russia. He is a supporter of revising chronological history. Read more
Charles Albert Murdock (1841-1928) is known to us today primarily for a memoir and for his fine printing. His death was lamented in, among other places, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, of which he had been a member. Read more
Michael Bentine CBE (26 January 1922 - 26 November 1996) was a British comedian, comic actor and founding member of the Goons. On 14 December 1977, he appeared with Arthur C. Clarke on Patrick Moore's BBC The Sky At Night programme. The broadcast was entitled "Suns, Spaceships and Bug-Eyed Mo...
Elizabeth "Bessie" Coleman (January 26, 1892 - April 30, 1926) was an American civil aviator. She was the first female pilot of African American descent and the first person of African American descent to hold an international pilot license. Read more
