Saint Drostan (d. early 7th century), also Drustan, Dustan, and Throstan, was the founder and abbot of the monastery of Old Deer in Aberdeenshire. The Breviary of Aberdeen celebrates his feast on 15 December. Read more
Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins CBE FRS (15 December 1916 - 5 October 2004) was a New Zealand-born English physicist and molecular biologist, and Nobel Laureate whose research contributed to the scientific understanding of phosphorescence, isotope separation, optical microscopy and X-ray di...
HEAT telescope heads to Antarctica's high country to observe star-making clouds It is a place that scientists have dubbed "Ridge A." Its not far from the highest point on the polar plateau, a region called Dome A, which reaches a lung-laboring 4,100 meters in altitude. Ridge A is where Ku...
A SL-12 Rocket body auxiliary motor that was launched on the 30th March, 2012, from the Baikonur cosmodrome, for the Kosmos-2479 satellite mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 14th December, 2012 @ 14:35 GMT ± 24 hours.SL-12 RB (AUX MOTOR)
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Hubble's "Smoky" Shells Located in a relatively vacant region of space about 4,200 light-years away and difficult to see using an amateur telescope, the lonesome planetary nebula NGC 7354 is often overlooked. However, thanks to this image captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telesc...
Antoine Henri Becquerel (15 December 1852 - 25 August 1908) was a French physicist, Nobel laureate, and the discoverer of radioactivity along with Marie Curie and Pierre Curie, for which all three won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics. The SI unit for radioactivity, the becquerel (Bq), is named after...
Freeman John Dyson FRS (born December 15, 1923) is a British-born American theoretical physicist and mathematician, famous for his work in quantum field theory, solid-state physics, astronomy and nuclear engineering. Read more
Gemini 6A (officially Gemini VI-A) was a 1965 manned United States spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program. The mission achieved the first manned rendezvous with another spacecraft, its sister Gemini 7. The first launch attempt of Gemini 6A was on December 12, 1965 at 9:54AM EST. All went well right u...
The Venera 7 (manufacturer's designation: 3V (V-70)) was a Soviet spacecraft, part of the Venera series of probes to Venus. When it landed on the Venusian surface, it became the first man-made spacecraft to successfully land on another planet and to transmit data from there back to Earth. [url=htt...
The curved sabres used by Muslims against Christian knights in the crusades may have been deadly because Muslim blade-makers used a form of nanotechnology, the steel coming from India, say German experts.
The Damascus blades wielded by Muslim fighters, renowned for their exceptional strengt...
Archaeologists discover possible Mesolithic site on North York Moors Archaeologists are investigating a possible Mesolithic site in the North York Moors National Park. Field work has been carried out at a number of sites across the north east fringes of the moors and attention is now focused on a s...
Orbital elements:
2012 XP134 Earth MOID = 0.0030 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 265.93843 (2000.0) P Q
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a 1.2184619 Node 262.56656 +0.47376368 -0.79276312
e 0.3097347 Incl. 5.88762 +0.10099437 -0.38369360
P 1.34 H 27...
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