Tropical Cyclone Evan has made landfall in Apia (13.8 S, 171.7 W) probability for CAT 1 or above is 100% currently probability for TS is 100% currently Asau (13.4 S, 172.5 W) probability for CAT 1 or above is 35% in about 30 hours probability for TS is 70% in about 3...
Fury at plan to move Cornish ancient monument in homes scheme The shifting of an ancient monument dating back thousands of years to make way for affordable housing has been condemned as a "desecration." The Tristan Stone on the road to Fowey is said to mark the grave of a Cornish King's neph...
A strong magnitude 6.1 earthquake occurred at 08:22:10 (UTC) on Sunday, July 23, 2006, in the Sulawesi region, Indonesia, 105 km South of Gorontalo, Sulawesi, at a Depth of 86.2 km.
Location 0.415°S, 123.177°E
The 81 - 180 metre wide asteroid 2004 YA5 will make a close pass (23.2 lunar distances, 0.0597 AU), travelling at 20.23 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 17th December, 2012 @ 13:10 UT ±07:33. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0....
Flight 11P of SpaceShipOne was its eighth independent flight, its first powered flight, and the first privately-funded manned flight to reach supersonic speeds. It occurred on December 17, 2003. Read more
Friedrich Otto Schott (born 17 December 1851 in Witten; died 27 August 1935 in Jena) was a German chemist, glass technologist, and the inventor of borosilicate glass. Read more Spoiler
Frederick "Fred" Talbot (born 17 December 1949) is a Scottish-born British television presenter and meteorologist Talbot was a founding member of the Altrincham and District Astronomical Society, and remains involved today. He co-discovered a meteor shower, the June Lyrids, in Ju...
Martin Arthur Pomerantz (December 17, 1916 - October 26, 2008) was an American physicist who served as Director of the Bartol Research Institute and who had been a leader in developing Antarctic astronomy. When the astronomical observatory at the United States Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station...
Sir Humphry Davy, 1st Baronet FRS MRIA FGS (17 December 1778 - 29 May 1829) was an English chemist and inventor. He is probably best remembered today for his discoveries of several alkali and alkaline earth metals, as well as contributions to the discoveries of the elemental nature of chlorine and io...
Joseph Henry (December 17, 1797 - May 13, 1878) was an American scientist who served as the first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, as well as a founding member of the National Institute for the Promotion of Science, a precursor of the Smithsonian Institution. During his lifetime, he was hi...
Dame Mary Lucy Cartwright DBE FRS (17 December 1900 - 3 April 1998) was a British mathematician. With J. E. Littlewood she was the first to analyse a dynamical system with chaos. Read more
In a 65 km/h wind on October 24, 1911, Orville Wright soared above Kill Devil Hill for 9 minutes 45 seconds, breaking the brothers' previous record of 1 minute 12 seconds set in 1903 with the 1902 glider. The new record stood for ten years, until broken in Germany. Read more
The 100 - 230 metre wide asteroid 2002 XQ40 will make a close pass (45.2 lunar distances, 0.1161 AU), travelling at 14.33 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 18th May, 2010. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the dis...
As a girl, Emilie de Breteuil lived with her family overlooking the Tuileries gardens in Paris, in an apartment with 30 rooms and 17 servants. But although her brothers and sisters turned out as might be expected, Emilie was different, as her father wrote: "My youngest flaunts her mind, and frigh...
Marius Sophus Lie (17 December 1842 - 18 February 1899) was a Norwegian mathematician. He largely created the theory of continuous symmetry, and applied it to the study of geometry and differential equations. Lie's principal tool, and one of his greatest achievements, was the discovery that cont...
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