'Meteor' found by Saudi man near his house A Saudi man has found a solid object that he believes to be a meteor that fell near his house and broke into several pieces. Mashari Al Subai said the objects fall had created a small pit in the ground behind his house in the western Saudi town of Raniya before it fr...
Orbital elements:
2013 AF4 Earth MOID = 0.1691 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 240.43118 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.63742500 Peri. 86.17898 -0.98999391 +0.04419581
a 1.3371598 Node 96.31939 -0.09258682 -0.92012255
e 0.1840570 Incl. 7.74877 +0.10648823 -0.38912879
P 1.55 H 22.4 G 0...
221st AAS Meeting - Long Beach, CA 6-10 January 2013 Long Beach Convention and Entertainment Centre Read more The JWST team will be at the 221st American Astronomical Society (AAS) meeting in Long Beach CA, and will host both a special science sessio...
The 250 - 550 metre wide asteroid 2005 DD will make a close pass (38.8 lunar distances, 0.0996 AU), travelling at 13.34 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 7th January, 2013 @ 12:41 UT ±2 days 20:48. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (o...
The 200 - 450 metre wide asteroid 2002 AY1 will make a close pass (14.8 lunar distances, 0.0381 AU), travelling at 17.35 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 7th January, 2013 @ 23:05 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0...
Supernova Environmental Impacts, Calcutta, India Topics:Historical Supernovae and Supernova RemnantsCore collapse supernovae: surveys, light curves, and progenitorsPhysics of core collapse supernova light curves and spectraSupernovae and star formationParticle acceleration in sup...
Adrian Lewis Melott (born 7 January 1947) is an American physicist. He is one of the pioneers of using large-scale computing to investigate the formation of large-scale structure in a Universe dominated by dark matter. He later turned his attention to an area he calls astrobiophysics, examining a...
CQD, transmitted in Morse code as - · - · - - · - - · · is one of the first distress signals adopted for radio use. It was announced on January 7, 1904, by "Circular 57" of the Marconi International Marine Communication Company, and became effective, beginning February 1, 1904 for Marconi inst...
Johann Philipp Reis (January 7, 1834 - January 14, 1874) was a self-taught German scientist and inventor. In 1861, he constructed the first make-and-break telephone, today called the Reis telephone. Read more
Stephen Richard Bourne (Steve) (born 7 January 1944) is a computer scientist, originally from the United Kingdom and based in the United States for most of his career. He is most famous as the author of the Bourne shell (sh), which is the foundation for the standard command line interfaces to Unix. R...
Sir Wilmot Hudson Fysh KBE, DFC (7 January 1895 - 6 April 1974) was an Australian aviator and businessman. A founder of the Australian airline company Qantas, Fysh was born in Launceston, Tasmania. Read more
Guy Lambton Menzies (1909 - 1 November 1940) was the Australian aviator who flew the first solo trans-Tasman flight, from Sydney, Australia to the West Coast of New Zealand, on 7 January 1931. Read more
First hydrogen gas balloon flight over the English Channel, 1785 Jean-Pierre Blanchard with an American, Dr John Jeffries, was the first to fly in a hydrogen gas balloon over the English Channel, taking about 2½ hours to travel from England to France on 7 January 1785. Read more
Buck Rogers is a fictional character that first appeared in Armageddon 2419 A.D. by Philip Francis Nowlan in the August 1928 issue of the pulp magazine Amazing Stories as Anthony Rogers. On January 7, 1929, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century A.D., the first science fiction comic strip, debuted. Coinc...
Scientists at the Institute for Crystal Growth in Berlin have produced the crucial silicon crystal that could lead to a redefinition of the international mass unit kilogram. Up to now, the value of the kilogram is defined as being equal to the mass of the international prototype of the kilogram whic...
