The southern pole of inaccessibility is far more remote and difficult to reach than the geographic South Pole. On 14 December 1958, the 3rd Soviet Antarctic Expedition for International Geophysical Year research work, led by Yevgeny Tolstikov, established the temporary Pole of Inaccessibilit...
A Boeing Delta 2 rocket in a 7920 vehicle configuration will launch a classified payload for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office, from SLC-2W, Vandenberg Air Force Base, California between 20:00-01:00 GMT on December 14th.
St. Lucia's flood (Sint-Luciavloed) was a storm tide that affected the Netherlands and Northern Germany on December 14, 1287 (the day after St. Lucia Day) when a dike broke during a storm, killing approximately 50,000 to 80,000 people in the fifth largest flood in recorded history. Read more
Orbital elements:
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Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
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Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen (16 July 1872 - c. 18 June 1928) was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He led the first Antarctic expedition to reach the South Pole between 1910 and 1912. He was the first person to reach both the North and South Poles. He is also known as the first to traverse the...
Orbital elements:
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Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 348.41724 (2000.0) P Q
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William James (Jim) Peacóck AC (born 14 December 1937) was Chief Scientist of Australia (2006-2008), President of the Australian Academy of Science (2002-2006) and Chief of CSIRO Plant Industry (1978-2003). Read more (Broken link)
An experiment suggests that a fundamental constant of nature, called mu, the mass ratio of two fundamental subatomic particles has decreased over the last 12 billion years.
The startling finding comes from a team of scientists from the Free University in Amsterdam in the Netherlands and the E...
NASA Progressing Toward First Launch of Orion Spacecraft Recent engineering advances by NASA and its industry partners across the country show important progress toward Exploration Flight Test-1 (EFT-1), the next step to launching humans to deep space. The uncrewed EFT-1 mission, launching f...
Meteorite has fallen on the territory of Turkish city Ordu. Spoiler According to Turkish media, the fall of the meteorite last night caused panic among the city's population. [url=http://www.news.az/articles/turkey/7...
Millions of camera-trap images reveal Serengeti life Scientists are using millions of images of Africa's elusive animals to find out how they co-exist in the Serengeti. Hundreds of camera traps were set up across Serengeti National Park in one of the world's largest camera surveys. The project, c...
An ancient Welsh stone that has stood as a warning to against bad behaviour for centuries is in need of repair to ensure its survival. The large prehistoric standing stone at Bedd Morris, on the Newport to Cwm Gwaun mountain road, has become unstable after years of been shaken by the elements and passi...
Orbital elements:
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Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
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