* Astronomy

The Oesede (H5) meteorite fell in Niedersachsen, Germany, on the 30th December, 1927. A total mass of 1400 g was recovered. 52° 17'N, 8° 3'E

Orbital elements: 2012 XQ111 Earth MOID = 0.1737 AU Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 334.62097 (2000.0) P Q n 0.25721267 Peri. 207.54214 -0.19917996 -0.97347839 a 2.4487314 Node 254.12556 +0.91924908 -0.14580629 e 0.5311828 Incl. 6.71963 +0.33957102 -0.17629621 P 3.83 H 23...

Sir John Theodore Houghton CBE FLSW FRS (born 1931) is a Welsh scientist who was the co-chair of the Nobel Peace Prize winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) scientific assessment working group. He was the lead editor of first three IPCC reports. He was professor in atmospheri...

Helge Marcus Ingstad (30 December 1899 - 29 March 2001) was a Norwegian explorer. After mapping some Norse settlements, Ingstad and his wife Anne Stine, an archaeologist, in 1960 found remnants of a Viking settlement in L'Anse aux Meadows in the Province of Newfoundland in Canada. With that they we...

North Korea to launch long-range rocket in December North Korea is to launch a long-range rocket between 10 and 22 December, its official news agency says. The KCNA agency said the aim was to launch a satellite. Read more

All-girl space exploration team ready to blast off Space Ed-Ventures, a locally based educational platform and the region's only space exploration programme, opened applications for an all-girl cohort of aspiring engineers, researchers and astronauts between the ages of 12 and 18 in November...

Orbital elements: 2012 YO6 Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 3.96998 (2000.0) P Q n 0.06490964 Peri. 146.49102 -0.02077816 +0.32547987 a 6.1319215 Node 260.65597 +0.56803589 +0.78193362 e 0.4613043 Incl. 106.65807 +0.82274145 -0.53164148 P 15.18 H 14.7 G 0.15 U 6 MPEC 2012 - Y...

The Kosmos 2261 that was launched on the 10th August, 1993, from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 30th December, 2012 @ 20:20 GMT ± 24 hours..KOSMOS 2261 1 22741U 93051A 12364.25748671 .63777935 22312-5 10519-2 2409 2 22741 061.1144 117.574...

A CZ-2D Rocket body that was launched on the 18th December, 2012, from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Centre, for the Gokturk-2 satellite mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 31st December, 2012 @ 07:00 GMT ± 24 hours.CZ-2D RB 1 39031U 12073B 12364.23449027 .04254...

First flight of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator American heavy bomber on the 29th December 1939 Read moreSpoiler

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There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom is a lecture given by physicist Richard Feynman at an American Physical Society meeting at Caltech on December 29, 1959. Feynman considered the possibility of direct manipulation of individual atoms as a more powerful form of synthetic chemistry than those u...

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Magnus Alfred Pyke (Paddington, London, 29 December 1908 - 19 October 1992) was a British scientist and media figure, who, although apparently quite eccentric and playing up to the mad scientist stereotype, succeeded in explaining science to a lay audience. He was known for his enthusiastic way o...

Johann Christian Poggendorff (29 December 1796 - 24 January 1877), was a German physicist born in Hamburg. By far the greater and more important part of his work related to electricity and magnetism. Poggendorff is known for his electrostatic motor which is analogous to Wilhelm Holtz's electrost...