La bataille de Trafalgar oppose le 21 octobre 1805 la flotte franco-espagnole sous les ordres du vice-amiral Villeneuve, à la flotte britannique commandée par le vice-amiral Nelson. Nelson y trouve la mort, mais la tactique qu'il a mise en uvre vaut aux Britanniques une victoire totale malgré le...
The 11th General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) on the 14th October, 1960, defines the metre to be equal to 1,650,763.73 wavelengths in vacuum of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the 2p10 and 5d5 quantum levels of the krypton-86 atom. Read more
Ancient Egypt City Aligned With Sun on King's Birthday The Egyptian city of Alexandria, home to one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, may have been built to align with the rising sun on the day of Alexander the Great's birth, a new study finds. [url=http://www.livescience.com/23994-ancie...
A possible magnitude 12.6 nova was discovered on the 20th October, 2012, in the constellation Aquila by K. Nishiyama and F. Kabashima (Japan). Position (J2000): R.A. 18 52 34.96 | Dec. -00° 18' 42.3''
Orbital elements:
2012 UX27 Earth MOID = 0.0769 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 4.47876 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.22419410 Peri. 255.20565 +0.97099786 +0.22639996
a 2.6836133 Node 91.66469 -0.17891839 +0.90128690
e 0.6153613 Incl. 4.40950 -0.15859180 +0.36935752
P 4.40 H 21.1 G 0...
Orbital elements:
2012 UU27
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 352.89135 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.10600042 Peri. 41.39307 +0.54591936 -0.77684154
a 4.4217853 Node 22.60035 +0.37297712 -0.11007692
e 0.6390911 Incl. 54.74841 +0.75024004 +0.62000024
P 9.30 H 18.1 G 0.15 U 8 MPEC 2012 - U5...
Time's Up for Time Team Time Team, the most popular archaeology television programme in Britain, has died aged 20 after an acute illness. Read more http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FfKy-nzzlk
The First Battle of El Alamein (1-27 July 1942) was a battle of the Western Desert Campaign of the Second World War, fought between Axis forces (Germany and Italy) commanded by Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, and Allied (specifically, British Imperial) forces (Britain, British India, Australia, Sou...
Ales stenar (Stones) is Sweden's largest preserved "ship setting" - stones set in the layout of a ship. We do not know for certain what function the stones have had through the ages, or what the ship setting symbolised for the people who created it.
67 metres long and 19 metres wide, Ales stenar is o...
Derbyshire pupils get hands on meteorites in lunar lesson Schoolchildren in Derbyshire were treated to a rare glimpse of genuine moon rocks and meteorites this week. The samples touched down at Milford Primary School and stayed there for a week. [url=http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/Space...
Man Claims To Have Found First North American Lunar Rocks Steven Curry, a meteorite researcher who lives southeast of Montrose, claims to have found the first lunar meteorites in North America. But it's what's inside these meteorites that he says will change life as we know it. Curry has research si...
Glatton Meteorite: race to buy rare meteorite It came from outer space and crashed into the ground at more than 100mph narrowly missing a pensioner who was planting onions in his back garden in Glatton. Now, 18 years after the 4.5 billion-year-old meteorite crashed through conifers and a hedge and l...
MacMillan's first solo show Young Wolfville native Anne MacMillan is bringing the heavens to a Halifax art gallery in her upcoming solo show at Mount St. Vincent University. Entitled Prospect 15, MacMillan's work appears in a series the Mount has been holding to present Nova Scotia artists during...
Title: Planet Hunters: A Transiting Circumbinary Planet in a Quadruple Star System Authors: Megan E. Schwamb, Jerome A. Orosz, Joshua A. Carter, William F. Welsh, Debra A. Fischer, Guillermo Torres, Andrew W. Howard, Justin R. Crepp, William C. Keel, Chris J. Lintott, Nathan A. Kaib, Dirk Terrel...
Much has been made of the robotic space rover Curiosity heading towards a Martian rock formation, now christened Glenelg. Several reasons have been advanced for Nasa giving it the same name as that of a West Highland community. None is definitive, although it has been observed that Glenelg spells t...
