The 440 - 990 metre wide asteroid 1998 XE12 will make a close pass (43.8 lunar distances, 0.1127 AU), travelling at 23.50 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 28th January, 2010. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the dist...
The Poouli or Black-faced Honeycreeper (Melamprosops phaeosoma) is a critically endangered and possibly extinct bird species that is endemic to Hawaii. On September 9, 2004, one of the remaining birds, a male, was captured and taken to the Maui Bird Conservation Centre in Olinda, in an attempt to...
The Rance Tidal Power Station is the world's first tidal power station and also the world's second biggest tidal power station. The facility is located on the estuary of the Rance River, in Brittany, France. Opened on the 26th November 1966, it is currently operated by Électricité de France, and is t...
On Wednesday, Nov. 26, 1919, at 7:45 p.m., while Ottawa County families were settling in with thoughts of Thanksgiving Day, a pair of meteors momentarily lit up the dark sky before violently crashing into Lake Michigan. The impact of the heavenly missiles striking the water caused tremors sending...
Alien Resurrection was released on November 26, 1997 and received mixed reviews from film critics. Read more Xenomorph - Acid For BloodPPK - Resurrection [video=http://www....
On this date in 1990, the Delta II rocket made its maiden flight. Delta II is a space launch system originally designed and built by McDonnell Douglas. Delta II is part of the Delta rocket family and has been in service since 1989. Delta II vehicles include the retired Delta 6000, the active Delta 7000,...
On November 26, 2005, Vijaypat Singhania set the world altitude record for highest hot air balloon flight, reaching 21,290 m (69,850 ft). He took off from downtown Bombay, India and landed 240 km (150 mi) south in Panchale. Read more
Boris Borisovich Yegorov (November 26, 1937, Moscow - September 12, 1994, Moscow) was a Soviet physician-cosmonaut and he became the first physician to make a space flight. Read more
2010 XC15 (also written 2010 XC15) is a near-Earth asteroid and potentially hazardous object. It has a modest observation arc of 40 days and an Uncertainty Parameter of 6. It was discovered on 5 December 2010 by the Catalina Sky Survey at an apparent magnitude of 17.5 using a 0.68-metre (27 in) Schmid...
Orbital elements: 2009 YO Earth MOID = 0.5087 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 154.46190 (2000.0) P Q n 0.67763041 Peri. 5.35750 -0.00702163 +0.79867475 a 1.2837313 Node 265.32158 -0.93842343 -0.21311753 e 0.6076962 Incl. 37.13776 -0.34541592 +0.56276066 P 1.45 H 18.3 G 0.15 U 9 [url...
The SFERA microsatellite that was launched on the 20th November, 1998, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 24th November, 2012 @ 03:00 GMT ± 24 hours.SFERA
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Isle of Man space company teams up for Lunar X-Prize A Manx space company has teamed up with another in Israel in an attempt to win an international Moon explorer prize. Odyssey Moon Ltd has linked up with SpaceIL to compete in a competition with a prize of $30m (£18.5m). The Google-sponsored Lunar X-P...
Prof. Dr. Reinhard Alfred Furrer (November 25, 1940 - September 9, 1995) was a German physicist and astronaut. He was a payload specialist on STS-61-A (D1), which was launched October 30, 1985. Read more
The 14 - 32 metre wide asteroid 2007 VB188 will make a close pass (56.3 lunar distances, 0.1446 AU), travelling at 10.32 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 25th November, 2012 @ 01:48 UT ±03:00. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0...
