The Woolgorong (L6) meteorite fell in Western Australia, Australia, on the 20th December, 1960. A total mass of 36 kg was recovered. 27° 45'S, 115° 50'E
Robert Jemison Van de Graaff, (December 20, 1901 - January 16, 1967) was an American physicist, noted for his design and construction of high voltage generators, who taught at Princeton University and MIT. Read more
Yalda is the Persian Winter Solstice Celebration which has been popular since ancient times. Yalda is celebrated on the Northern Hemisphere's longest night of the year, that is, on the eve of the Winter Solstice. Depending on the shift of the calendar, Yalda is celebrated on or around December 20 or...
Orbital elements:
2012 HK31 Earth MOID = 0.0145 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 231.53170 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.88713705 Peri. 96.77831 +0.76899486 +0.63868176
a 1.0726933 Node 223.53277 -0.60093254 +0.70780784
e 0.1217631 Incl. 2.25199 -0.21800684 +0.30181727
P 1.11 H 25.7 G...
The 150 - 340 metre wide asteroid 2004 XL14 will make a close pass (48.8 lunar distances, 0.1254 AU), travelling at 16.32 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 21st December, 2010 @ 14:04 UT ±1 minute. See more The Lun...
Uri Geller became a 1970s superstar and made millions with an act that included bending spoons, seemingly through the power of his own mind. Now, the online video generation is so bent out of shape over the self-proclaimed psychic's behaviour that he's fast reaching the same Internet pariah status...
Nozomi (Japanese for "Wish" or "Hope," and known before launch as Planet-B) was planned as a Mars-orbiting aeronomy probe, but was unable to achieve Mars orbit due to electrical failures. It was constructed by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, University o...
Turkey's first home-made, high-resolution earth observation satellite Göktürk-2 will be launched today in China. Göktürk-2 satellite will be launched from the Jiuquan Space Base located in Gansu State of China on Tuesday (18.12.2012). [url=http://www.trt-world.com/trtworld/en/newsD...
Armchair Science: Bag and Tag Glowing Galactic Clouds A new galactic game launches today that lets citizen scientists identify the glowing clouds where future stars will be born. The online experience, called Clouds, is a new addition to the Milky Way Project, where everyone can help astronomers...
A group from Switzerland will attempt to cross the Atlantic in a solar-powered boat.
The ship, named SUN21, a 6 berth, 14-meter-long catamaran, will leave Seville, Spain, in December 2006 destined to ports in Florida and New York in the spring of 2007.
This boat will use photovoltaic cells to ac...
Title: H.E.S.S. observations of galaxy clusters Authors: W. Domainko, W. Benbow, J. A. Hinton, O. Martineau-Huynh, M. de Naurois, D. Nedbal, G. Pedaletti, G. Rowell, for the H.E.S.S. Collaboration Clusters of galaxies, the largest gravitationally bound objects in the universe, are expected t...
Title: Decoupling absorption and continuum variability in the Seyfert 2 NGC 4507 Authors: V. Braito, L. Ballo, J. N. Reeves, A. Ptak, G. Risaliti, T. J. Turner We present the results of the Suzaku observation of the Seyfert 2 galaxy NGC 4507. This source is one of the X-ray brightest Compton-thin Sey...
Title: The star formation history of RCW 36 Authors: Lucas E. Ellerbroek, Lex Kaper, Arjan Bik, Koen M. Maaskant, Linda Podio Recent studies of massive-star forming regions indicate that they can contain multiple generations of young stars. These observations suggest that star formation in the...
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