Wilhelm Eduard Weber (24 October 1804 - 23 June 1891) was a German physicist and, together with Carl Friedrich Gauss, inventor of the first electromagnetic telegraph. Read more
The Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar ("Dynamic Soarer") was a United States Air Force (USAF) program to develop a spaceplane that could be used for a variety of military missions, including reconnaissance, bombing, space rescue, satellite maintenance, and sabotage of enemy satellites. The pr...
In 1947, the United Nations General Assembly declared 24 October, the anniversary of the Charter of the United Nations, as which "shall be devoted to making known to the peoples of the world the aims and achievements of the United Nations and to gaining their support for" its work Read mo...
Gattaca is a 1997 science fiction film written and directed by Andrew Niccol. It stars Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman and Jude Law with supporting roles played by Loren Dean, Ernest Borgnine, Gore Vidal and Alan Arkin. Read more [spoiler][/spoi...
Sheffield Football Club is an English football club from Sheffield, South Yorkshire. The club, founded on 24 October, 1857, is most noted for the fact that they are the world's oldest club now playing Association football. Read more
Harry Eugene Drake (born in Kansas on 7 May 1915) was an archer and bowyer. Drake broke the world record for the longest shot with a footbow on 24 October 1971, with a shot that flew 1,854 m. Read more
Universitat de les Illes Balears (Palma de Mallorca, Spain) October 24-26, 2012 The CoCoNuT code is a general relativistic hydrodynamics code with dynamical spacetime evolution. The aim of this numerical code is the study of several astrophysical scenarios in which general relativity can play...
Title: RR-Lyrae-type pulsations from a 0.26-solar-mass star in a binary system Authors: G. Pietrzynski, I. B. Thompson, W. Gieren, D. Graczyk, K. Stepien, G. Bono, P. G. Prada Moroni, B. Pilecki, A. Udalski, I. Soszynski, G. Preston, N. Nardetto, A. McWilliam, I. Roederer, M. Gorski, P. Konorski...
Title: Suzaku Studies of Wide-Band Spectral Variability of the Bright Type I Seyfert Galaxy Markarian 509 Authors: Hirofumi Noda, Kazuo Makishima, Shin'ya Yamada, Shunsuke Torii, Soki Sakurai, Kazuhiro Nakazawa The Type I Seyfert galaxy Markarian 509 was observed with Suzaku in 2010 November...
The Diamond Planet A once-massive star that's been transformed into a small planet made of diamond: that is what University of Manchester astronomers think they've found in the Milky Way. The discovery has been made by an international research team, led by Professor Matthew Bailes of Swinburne U...
Orbital elements:
2012 UB69 Earth MOID = 0.1113 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 344.73948 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.31957433 Peri. 204.23486 +0.64604163 -0.73057290
a 2.1187910 Node 207.25335 +0.75513561 +0.65398675
e 0.4911207 Incl. 28.87301 +0.11135721 -0.19637865
P 3.08 H 22...
If you haven’t already been following the gathering strength of Hurricane Wilma the latest news is that it is the most intense Atlantic storm ever recorded.
On Wednesday it became a Category 5 monster with 282 km/h wind that forecasters warned was "extremely dangerous."
Wilma was dumping ra...
The Nedelin catastrophe or Nedelin disaster was a launch pad accident that occurred on 24 October 1960, at Baikonur Cosmodrome during the development of the Soviet R-16 ICBM. Read more The Nedelin Rocket DisasterClick to Play...
The White Sands rocket (official name V-2 No. 13) was the first man-made object to take a photograph of the Earth from outer space. Launched on October 24, 1946, at the White Sands Missile Range in White Sands, New Mexico, the rocket reached a maximum altitude of 173 km, well above the commonly accepte...
