John Henry Constantine Whitehead FRS (11 November 1904 - 8 May 1960), known as Henry, was a British mathematician and was one of the founders of homotopy theory. He was born in Chennai (then known as Madras), in India, and died in Princeton, New Jersey, in 1960. During the Second World War he worked on o...
Paracelsus (born Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, 11 November or 17 December 1493 - 24 September 1541) was a German-Swiss Renaissance physician, botanist, alchemist, astrologer, and general occultist. He is also credited for giving zinc its name, calling it zincum Re...
Orbital elements:
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Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
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FSCJ professor's name lives among the stars Michael Reynolds, dean of Liberal Arts & Sciences at Florida State College at Jacksonville, recently joined that exclusive club of those who will be remembered in perpetuity by having an object named after him - in his case, the asteroid catalogued a...
Orbital elements:
2012 VC26 Earth MOID = 0.0031 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
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The Launch Readiness Review (RAL) took place in Kourou on Wednesday November 7, 2012 and authorised count-down operations for the EUTELSAT 21B & STAR ONE C3 launch. Arianespace will orbit two telecommunications satellites on its sixth Ariane 5 launch of the year: Eutelsat 21B for the Europea...
It was January of 2004 when the elegant curve of the Vichada River first caught the attention of geologist Max Rocca of Buenos Aires. Rocca at the time was searching for traces of ancient asteroid impacts in South America, a task made exceptionally challenging by the jungle growth that covers much of...
Title: Understanding the white-light flare on 2012 March 9 : Evidence of a two-step magnetic reconnection Authors: Q. Hao, Y. Guo, Y. Dai, M. D. Ding, Z. Li, X. Y. Zhang, C. Fang We attempt to understand the white-light flare (WLF) that was observed on 2012 March 9 with a newly constructed multi-wavel...
Rudolf Grimm (born 10 November 1961 in Mannheim, Germany) is an experimental physicist from Austria. His work centres on ultracold atoms and quantum gases. He was the first scientist worldwide who, with his team, succeeded in realizing a Bose-Einstein condensation of molecules. Read more
Victor C. Anderson, a research oceanographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego, whose anonymous donation with his wife established the Victor Alderson Chair of Applied Ocean Science in 1982, died Nov. 3 at his San Diego home. He was 90. [url=http://scrippsnews.ucsd.edu/Rel...
Hubble Spots a Colourful Lenticular Galaxy The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a beautiful galaxy that, with its reddish and yellow central area, looks rather like an explosion from a Hollywood movie. The galaxy, called NGC 5010, is in a period of transition. The aging galaxy is movin...
Shenlong (literally "divine dragon") is the purported Chinese counterpart to the American Space Shuttle Orbiter and the Russian Buran space transport vehicle. Read more
