Seth Barnes Nicholson (November 12, 1891 - July 2, 1963) was an American astronomer. He spent his entire career at Mount Wilson Observatory, where he discovered three more Jovian moons: Lysithea and Carme in 1938 and Ananke in 1951, as well as a Trojan asteroid 1647 Menelaus, and computed orbits of s...
John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, OM (12 November 1842 - 30 June 1919) was an English physicist who, with William Ramsay, discovered the element argon, an achievement for which he earned the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1904. He also discovered the phenomenon now called Rayleigh scattering, e...
Nadia Elena Comaneci (born November 12, 1961) is a Romanian gymnast, winner of three Olympic gold medals at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal and the first female gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10 in an Olympic gymnastic event. Read more [spoiler][video=http://www.youtube.com/watc...
The 1970 Bhola cyclone was a devastating tropical cyclone that struck East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) and India's West Bengal on November 12, 1970. It was the deadliest tropical cyclone ever recorded, and one of the deadliest natural disasters in modern times. Read more
Orbital elements:
2012 VZ36 Earth MOID = 0.2175 AU
Epoch 2012 Oct. 20.0 TT = JDT 2456220.5 MPC
M 355.37229 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.21855101 Peri. 170.98893 +0.99055832 +0.13687799
a 2.7296114 Node 181.22487 -0.13708122 +0.98963529
e 0.5535864 Incl. 20.99133 +0.00172164 +0.04343280
P 4.51 H 18....
Telescope Dome For Mt. SAC Observatory Mounted The science building at Mount San Antonio College -- which serves Baldwin Park residents -- got a new piece of architecture this week: a huge dome meant to house a large telescope for the Astronomy Department. [url=http://baldwinpark.patch.com/ar...
John L. Stull, 82, of Almond died Friday (Nov. 9, 2012) with Paula, his wife of 60 years, by his side. During his career he resurrected the Alfred University's observatory by building or rebuilding almost all of the telescopes in use there. In 1989, against his mild objection, the Observatory was nam...
The star is LHS 2520, a red dwarf in the southern constellation of Corvus (at the center of the picture here). It's an M3.5 dwarf, meaning it has about a quarter of the Sun's mass, a third its diameter, roughly half the Sun's temperature, and a luminosity of a mere 1% of our Sun's. It's only 27 light years a...
Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter Now Open to the Public Click to Play | View Details The Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter is working in collaboration with the University of Arizona to bring the universe to the general public via hands on demonstrations and exploration.
A strong magnitude 6.8 earthquake occurred at 13:55:12 (UTC) on Thursday, March 24, 2011, in the Myanmar region, 89 km North of Chiang Rai, Thailand, at a depth of 10 km. Location 20.705°N, 99.949°E
The Einstein-Szilard or Einstein refrigerator is an absorption refrigerator which has no moving parts, operates at constant pressure, and requires only a heat source to operate. It was jointly invented in 1926 by Albert Einstein and his former student Leó Szilárd and patented in the US on Novembe...
James Gilbert Baker (November 11, 1914 - June 29, 2005) was an American astronomer and designer of optics systems. He and Edwin Land were instrumental in persuading President Dwight Eisenhower to have the U-2 spy plane built. Baker also designed the lenses and most of the cameras used on the U-2 spy p...
Hugh Everett III (November 11, 1930 - July 19, 1982) was an American physicist who first proposed the many-worlds interpretation (MWI) of quantum physics, which he termed his "relative state" formulation. Read more
