The Battle of the Milvian Bridge took place between the Roman Emperors Constantine I and Maxentius on 28 October 312. It is commonly stated that on the evening of 27 October with the armies preparing for battle, Constantine had a vision which led him to fight under the protection of the Christian God...
Professor Carlos Silvestre Frenk (born October 27, 1951) is a Mexican-British cosmologist. His main interests lie in the field of cosmology, galaxy formation and computer simulations of cosmic structure formation. Read more
Mary Moser RA (27 October 1744 - 2 May 1819) was an English painter and one of the most celebrated women artists of 18th-century Britain. One of only two female founding members of the Royal Academy (1768), Moser is particularly noted for her depictions of flowers. Read more
Charles David Bailyn (born October 27, 1959) is the A. Bartlett Giamatti Professor of Astronomy and Physics at Yale University and inaugural dean of faculty at Yale-NUS. Bailyn was awarded the 2009 Bruno Rossi Prize for his research on the masses of black holes. Read more
William Maclure (27 October 1763 - 23 March 1840) was an Americanised Scottish geologist, cartographer and philanthropist. He is known as the 'father of American geology' and as a social experimenter on new types of community life, collaborating with British social reformer Robert Owen, (1771-...
Chester Burleigh Watts (October 27, 1889 - July 17, 1971) was an American astronomer. He was born in Winchester, Indiana and he attended the Indiana University where he studied astronomy. In 1911 he joined the United States Naval Observatory, but returned to Indiana to complete his B.A. and gradu...
Heinrich Ferdinand Scherk (27 October 1798 - 4 October 1885) was a German mathematician notable for his work on minimal surfaces and the distribution of prime numbers. He is also notable as the doctoral advisor of Ernst Kummer. Read more
Nikolay Antonovich Dollezhal (October 27, 1899 - November 20, 2000) was a Soviet mechanical engineer, a key figure in Soviet atomic bomb project and chief designer of nuclear reactors from the first plutonium production reactor to the RBMK. Read more
Thomas Gwyn Empy Elger (27 October 1836 - 9 January 1897) was an English lunar mapper and the first director of the Lunar Section of the British Astronomical Association (BAA). Elger was a member of several astronomical associations, such as the Royal Astronomical Society, the short-lived Seleno...
Orbital elements:
2012 UT158
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 356.69903 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.18530662 Peri. 8.10235 +0.79983274 -0.58459937
a 3.0470209 Node 29.04446 +0.53378861 +0.58913350
e 0.5238833 Incl. 16.27484 +0.27447643 +0.55782192
P 5.32 H 19.7 G 0.15 U 7 MPEC 2012 - U1...
Orbital elements:
2012 UW158 Earth MOID = 0.0269 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 6.75485 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.29314461 Peri. 282.07902 +0.59016256 +0.74906059
a 2.2443027 Node 31.13249 -0.29862741 +0.54900130
e 0.6880195 Incl. 35.60778 -0.75001988 +0.37081775
P 3.36 H 23.8...
Hubble Sees Violent Star Formation Episodes in Dwarf Galaxies The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has imaged the faint irregular galaxy NGC 3738, a starburst galaxy. The galaxy is in the midst of a violent episode of star formation, during which it is converting reservoirs of hydrogen gas located...
Africa Fashion Week dazzles Johannesburg This week in Johannesburg African fashion designers are showcasing their latest designs with the inaugural Africa Fashion Week. Read more
Gliese 229 (also written as Gl 229 or GJ 229) is a red dwarf star about 19 light years away in the constellation Lepus. It has 58% of the mass of the Sun, 69% of the Sun's radius, and a very low projected rotation velocity of 1 km/s at the stellar equator. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_229B...
