The 1500 - 3300 metre wide asteroid 2001 CV26 will make a close pass (68.0 lunar distances, 0.1746 au), travelling at 10.72 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 30th October, 2012 @ 00:57 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (o...
Robert Lee "Hoot" Gibson (born October 30, 1946) is a retired Captain and Naval Aviator in the United States Navy and a retired NASA astronaut. Read more
Homi Jehangir Bhabha, FRS (30 October 1909 - 24 January 1966) was an Indian nuclear physicist, founding director, and professor of physics at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research. Colloquially known as "father of Indian nuclear programme", Bhabha was the founding director of t...
Multics (Multiplexed Information and Computing Service) was an influential early time-sharing operating system. The project was started in 1964 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The last known running Multics installation was shut down on October 30, 2000, at the Canadian Department of National...
German submarine U-559 was a Type VIIC U-boat built for the Nazi German Kriegsmarine for service during World War II. She sank five ships but is perhaps best remembered for an incident during her sinking in the Mediterranean Sea in 1942, in which British sailors seized cryptographic material from...
Worlds highest power pylon stands tall in China A giant power supply pylon, believed to be the world's tallest, has recently been completed in China's Anhui Province, standing at an impressive 277.5 metres high. Read more
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Possible new Be/X-ray (HMXB) binary system, with a 187 s X-ray period and 21.6 day optical period, in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Position(2000): RA = 04:51:06.8, Dec -69:48:03.2 Uncertainty 3.5 arcseconds
Title: BD-22 3467, a DAO-type star exciting the nebula Abell 35 Authors: M. Ziegler (1), T. Rauch (1), K. Werner (1), J. Koeppen (2), J. W. Kruk (3) ((1) Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Kepler Center for Astro and Particle Physics, Eberhard Karls University, Tuebingen, Germany, (2) Obse...
Title: Chandra Observations of Black-Widow Pulsars Authors: Peter Gentile, Maura McLaughlin, Mallory Roberts, Fernando Camilo, Jason Hessels, Matthew Kerr, Scott Ransom, Paul Ray, Ingrid Stairs We describe the first X-ray observations of binary millisecond pulsars PSRs J0023+0923, J1810...
William Paul Thurston (born October 30, 1946) is an American mathematician. He is a pioneer in the field of low-dimensional topology. In 1982, he was awarded the Fields Medal for his contributions to the study of 3-manifolds.Read more
Houdini 3 - the world's strongest chess engine in the Fritz interface In 2009 Robert Houdart, a Belgian structural engineer working on nuclear power plants and astronomy, wiled away his time waiting for a telescope mirror by writing a chess program. To everyone's surprise it turned out to be the str...
Telescope helps Bath pupils enjoy night with the stars Budding young astronomers at a Bath school have been given a helping hand with their GCSE studies thanks to the loan of a telescope. The William Herschel Society - set up to remember the 18th-century astronomer from Bath - is lending it to Ralph Al...
Title: Pulse intensity modulation and the timing stability of millisecond pulsars: A case study of PSR J1713+0747 Authors: Ryan M. Shannon, James M. Cordes Most millisecond pulsars, like essentially all other radio pulsars, show timing errors well in excess of what is expected from additive rad...
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