Henry Way Kendall (December 9, 1926 - February 15, 1999) was an American particle physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1990 jointly with Jerome Isaac Friedman and Richard E. Taylor "for their pioneering investigations concerning deep inelastic scattering of electrons on protons...
The Catholic University of Leuven, or of Louvain, was the largest, oldest and most prominent university in Belgium. The university was founded in 1425 as the University of Leuven by John IV, Duke of Brabant and approved by a Papal bull by Pope Martin V. Read more Leuven University from the Sky [video...
The Petrified Forest National Park is a United States national park in Navajo and Apache counties in northeastern Arizona. The park's headquarters are about 42 km east of Holbrook along Interstate 40 (I-40), which parallels a railroad line, the Puerco River, and historic U.S. Route 66, all crossi...
NASA has agreed to search its archives once again for documents on a 1965 UFO incident in Pennsylvania, a step the space agency fought in federal court. The government has refused to open its files about what, if anything, moved across the sky and crashed in the woods near Kecksburg, Pa., 40 miles sou...
Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper (December 9, 1906 - January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist and United States Navy officer. A pioneer in the field, she was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, and developed the first compiler for a computer programming language....
Adriaan Adriaanszoon, called Metius, (December 9, 1571 - September 6, 1635), was a Dutch geometer and astronomer. He was born in Alkmaar. The name Metius comes from the Dutch word meten ("measuring"), and therefore means something like "measurer" or "surveyor.&quo...
Did you see the bright meteor over Houston this morning?[url=http://blog.chron.com/sciguy/2012/12/did-you-see-the-bright-meteor-over-houston-this-mo...
Orbital elements:
2012 XK16 Earth MOID = 0.0673 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 357.12953 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.77961773 Peri. 110.21208 +0.92125123 -0.06349990
a 1.1691805 Node 255.00711 -0.04650421 +0.96152676
e 0.1889532 Incl. 23.40786 +0.38617811 +0.26727149
P 1.26 H 22...
Diffuse X-ray emission from the Local galaxy (DXL) NASA will launch an astrophysics mission to study the Diffuse X-ray emission from the Local galaxy (DXL) December 9 from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The goal of this flight is to identify how much of that diffuse x-ray emission comes...
The Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, community is mourning the loss of longtime faculty member Devendra Lal, FRS, who died on December 1st at his San Diego home. He was 83. Read more
The 160 - 350 metre wide asteroid 2008 WJ60 will make a close pass (63.5 lunar distances, 0.1631 AU), travelling at 9.11 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 8th December, 2012 @ 13:05 UT ±05:13. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0....
Georges Méliès (8 December 1861 - 21 January 1938), full name Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès, was a French illusionist and filmmaker famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. Two of his most well-known films are A Trip to the Moon (1902) and The Imp...
Stanford Earl Woosley (born December 8, 1944) is a physicist, and Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics. He is the director of the Center for Supernova Research at UCSC. He has published over 300 papers. Read more
Margaret J. Geller (born 1947) is an American astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics. Her work has included pioneering maps of the nearby universe, studies of the relationship between galaxies and their environment, and the development and application of methods f...
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Shatalov (born December 8, 1927 in Petropavlovsk) is a former Soviet cosmonaut who flew three space missions of the Soyuz programme: Soyuz 4, Soyuz 8, and Soyuz 10. Read more
