The 490 - 1100 metre wide asteroid 2002 AU4 will make a close pass (39.8 lunar distances, 0.1023 AU), travelling at 11.92 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 21st December, 2012 @ 04:27 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or...
The 1946 Nankaido earthquake was a great earthquake in Nankaido, Japan. It occurred on December 20, 1946 , 19:19 UTC. The earthquake measured between 8.1 and 8.4 on the moment magnitude scale, and was felt from Northern Honsh to Kysh. It occurred almost two years after the 1944 Tonankai earthquake,...
Mexsat Bicentenario is based on Orbital's GEOStar-2 platform and will generate approximately 3.5 kilowatts of payload power and carry 12 active extended Ku-band and 12 active extended C-band transponders. The spacecraft will provide communications services to Mexico and its surrounding wat...
Title: Infrared observations of the candidate double neutron star system PSR J1811-1736 Authors: R. P. Mignani (MSS-UCL, Kepler Institute of Astronomy, University of Zielona Gora), A. Corongiu (INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari), C. Pallanca, F. R. Ferraro (Dipartimento di Fisica e...
Astronauts of the future will swap their heavy, cumbersome spacesuits for skin-tight "Barbarella-style" outfits. Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are developing a new generation of light, flexible spacesuits, which they hope will be ready for use in t...
The Swinburne Supercomputer: Finding Diamonds in Astrophysical Haystacks In this video Professor Matthew Bailes discusses the capabilities of Swinburne University's 'Green Machine', its newest Supercomputer. Through the power of...
Scientists were putting a new space telescope through its paces when they found something odd -- a pulsating star, or pulsar, beaming only in gamma rays. The discovery, published in this week's issue of Science, is the first finding from NASA's Fermi Gamma Ray Space Telescope, which was launched in...
Title: Constraints on stellar parameters of the SPB star HD182255 from complex asteroseismology Authors: Przemysaw Walczak, Wojciech Szewczuk, Jadwiga Daszyska-Daszkiewicz Seismic modelling of the Slowly Pulsating B-type star HD182255 yields strong constraints on the radial orders of th...
Astronomers discover "missing link" of black holes The discovery of a bingeing black hole in our nearest neighbouring galaxy, Andromeda, has shed new light on some of the brightest X-ray sources seen in other galaxies, according to new work co-authored by astronomers from the Interna...
David Joseph Bohm FRS (20 December 1917 - 27 October 1992) was an American theoretical physicist who contributed innovative and unorthodox ideas to quantum theory, philosophy of mind, and neuropsychology. Read more
Oronce Fine (or Finé; in Latin, Orontius Finnaeus or Finaeus; Italian: Oronzio Fineo) (20 December 1494 - 8 August 1555) was a French mathematician and cartographer. Read more
Experimental Breeder Reactor I (EBR-I) is a decommissioned research reactor and U.S. National Historic Landmark located in the desert about 29 km southeast of Arco, Idaho. At 1:50 pm on December 20, 1951 it became the world's first electricity-generating nuclear power plant when it produced suf...
Title: The Endocranial Anatomy of Therizinosauria and Its Implications for Sensory and Cognitive Function Authors: Stephan Lautenschlager mail, Emily J. Rayfield, Perle Altangerel, Lindsay E. Zanno, Lawrence M. Witmer Therizinosauria is one of the most enigmatic and peculiar clades among t...
The Sky at Night -Martian Adventures 50th Anniversary Sky at Night Show, with focus on the present Mars missions from both, NASA and the ESA.Also featuring and interview with Prof.Steven Squyres The Sky at Night -Martian AdventuresClick to Play | View Details
An Arianespace Ariane 5 ECA rocket is scheduled to launch the Skynet 5D and Mexsat 3 (Mexsat Bicentenario) communications satellites from Kourou, French Guiana, at 21:30 UT, 19th December, 2012.
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