Boris Valentinovich Volynov (born December 18, 1934) is a Soviet cosmonaut who flew two space missions of the Soyuz programme: Soyuz 5, and Soyuz 21. He was the first halakhic (by mother) Jewish cosmonaut. Read more Spoiler
Orbital elements:
2012 XP111 Earth MOID = 0.1226 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 314.39607 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.42866391 Peri. 184.86186 -0.34922492 -0.93413257
a 1.7420399 Node 285.59271 +0.86227695 -0.28956092
e 0.3657900 Incl. 4.39101 +0.36677024 -0.20868832
P 2.30 H 23...
The 52 - 120 metre wide asteroid 2005 RK3 will make a close pass (71.7 lunar distances, 0.1843 AU), travelling at 8.27 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 8th August, 2012 @ 16:16 UT ±00:45. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0025...
The 130 - 300 metre wide asteroid 2011 LT17 will make a close pass (4.6 lunar distances, 0.0119 AU), travelling at 13.56 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 15th June, 2011 @ 06:31 UT ±00:02. See moreThe Lunar Dista...
Cassini captured this view of Epimetheus on May 20, 2005.
The moon's lumpy, irregular topography can be seen here, along with several impact craters.
Epimetheus is 116 kilometres across.
The image was t...
The Tokyo Bay Aqua-Line, also known as the Trans-Tokyo Bay Highway, is a bridge-tunnel combination across Tokyo Bay in Japan. It connects the city of Kawasaki in Kanagawa Prefecture with the city of Kisarazu in Chiba Prefecture, and forms part of National Route 409. With an overall length of 14 km, i...
Saturnalia is an Ancient Roman festival or celebration held in honour of Saturn (Cronus), the youngest of the Titans, father of the major gods of the Greeks and Romans, and son of Uranus and Gaia. Saturnalia was introduced around 217 BC to raise citizen morale after a crushing military defeat at the h...
The Battle of the Trebia (or Trebbia) was the first major battle of the Second Punic War, fought between the Carthaginian forces of Hannibal and the Roman Republic in December of 218 BC, on or around the winter solstice. Read more
Piltdown Man exposed as a hoax, 1953 In November 1953, Time published evidence gathered variously by Kenneth Page Oakley, Sir Wilfrid Edward Le Gros Clark and Joseph Weiner proving that the Piltdown Man was a forgery and demonstrating that the fossil was a composite of three distinct species. Rea...
Sir Joseph John "J. J." Thomson, OM, FRS (18 December 1856 - 30 August 1940) was a British physicist and Nobel laureate. He is credited for the discovery of the electron and of isotopes, and the invention of the mass spectrometer. Thomson was awarded the 1906 Nobel Prize in Physics for the d...
Soyuz 13 launched. (1973) Soyuz 13 was a 1973 Soviet manned space flight, the second test flight of the redesigned Soyuz 7K-T spacecraft that first flew as Soyuz 12. Read more
Arianespace Flight 193 is scheduled to launch the French military Helios 2B optical and infrared reconnaissance satellite into a polar orbit from Kourou, French Guiana on the 9th December 2009.
Project SCORE (Signal Communications by Orbiting Relay Equipment) was the worlds first communications satellite. Launched aboard an Atlas rocket on December 18, 1958, SCORE provided a first test of a communications relay system in space, as well as the first successful use of the Atlas as a launc...
Magnetism observed in a gas for the first time For the first time, MIT scientists have observed ferromagnetic behavior in an atomic gas, addressing a decades-old question of whether it is possible for a gas to show properties similar to a magnet made of iron or nickel. The MIT team observed the behavi...
A possible magnitude 14.5 Supernova was discovered on the 15th December, 2012, in the galaxy PGC 28234 (ESO213-G002) in the constellation Vela. The supernova is located 18" west and 27" north from the center of the galaxy. As yet the type is unknown. Position (J2000): R.A. 09 49 14.7...
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