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Annie Smith Peck (19 October 1850 in Providence, Rhode Island - 18 July 1935 in New York, New York) was an American mountaineer. Read more

Sir Robert Charles Evans M.D., DSc, (19 October 1918 - 5 December 1995), was a British mountaineer, surgeon, and educator. Evans was the leader of the expedition which first climbed Kangchenjunga, the world's third highest peak, in 1955. Read more

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The Battle of Zama, fought around October 19, 202 BC, marked the final and decisive end of the Second Punic War. A Roman army led by Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus defeated a Carthaginian force led by the legendary commander Hannibal. Soon after this defeat on their home ground, the Carthaginia...

In ancient Roman religion, the Armilustrium was a festival in honour of Mars, the god of war, celebrated on October 19. On this day the weapons of the soldiers were ritually purified and stored for winter. The army would be assembled and reviewed in the Circus Maximus, garlanded with flowers. The tru...

Title: CoRoT photometry and high-resolution spectroscopy of the interacting eclipsing binary AU Mon Authors: M. Desmet, Y. Fr'emat, F. Baudin, P. Harmanec, P. Lampens, E. Janot Pacheco, M. Briquet, P. Degroote, C. Neiner, P. Mathias, E. Poretti, M. Rainer, K. Uytterhoeven, P. J. Amado, J.-C. Va...

Orbital elements: 2012 UY9 Earth MOID = 0.0071 AU Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 36.03185 (2000.0) P Q n 0.63704891 Peri. 333.83542 +0.61742558 +0.78648238 a 1.3376860 Node 334.28440 -0.71543351 +0.55340466 e 0.2822271 Incl. 2.00790 -0.32701766 +0.27420568 P 1.55 H 24.3 G...

Orbital elements: 2012 UX9 Earth MOID = 0.0273 AU Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 0.27576 (2000.0) P Q n 0.24968733 Peri. 339.90195 +0.99731745 -0.03168939 a 2.4976891 Node 22.22625 +0.06238853 +0.83946025 e 0.5964761 Incl. 10.04576 -0.03828286 +0.54249633 P 3.95 H 26.1 G 0...

Orbital elements: 2012 TP274 Earth MOID = 0.1064 AU Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 3.91660 (2000.0) P Q n 0.25977048 Peri. 330.16510 +0.91393872 +0.40351575 a 2.4326307 Node 6.50716 -0.25266038 +0.64954295 e 0.5613393 Incl. 22.56444 -0.31761415 +0.64441368 P 3.79 H 20.0 G...

Orbital elements: 2012 UT9 Earth MOID = 0.0163 AU Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 3.88429 (2000.0) P Q n 0.65229699 Peri. 158.82775 +0.98691461 +0.04817319 a 1.3167575 Node 200.33191 -0.04494823 +0.99869201 e 0.2398592 Incl. 26.28729 +0.15485222 -0.01713492 P 1.51 H 23.7 G...

Orbital elements: 2012 TB259 Earth MOID = 0.0766 AU Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 16.30889 (2000.0) P Q n 0.37613430 Peri. 203.68640 +0.52749647 +0.84047902 a 1.9006731 Node 98.36121 -0.75808026 +0.53148111 e 0.5730440 Incl. 7.19205 -0.38348637 +0.10546496 P 2.62 H 21.1...

Orbital elements: 2012 TA259 Earth MOID = 0.1653 AU Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 325.90771 (2000.0) P Q n 0.41069445 Peri. 355.65725 -0.75134342 -0.65172407 a 1.7924904 Node 142.99058 +0.61052419 -0.74609546 e 0.7230195 Incl. 9.91315 +0.25048610 -0.13637191 P 2.40 H 20...

Mariner 5 (Mariner Venus '67) was a spacecraft of the Mariner program that carried a complement of experiments to probe Venus' atmosphere by radio occultation, measure the hydrogen Lyman-alpha (hard ultraviolet) spectrum, and sample the solar particles and magnetic field fluctuations above t...

Orbital elements: C/2009 S3 (Lemmon) T 2011 Dec. 25.349 TT MPC q 6.68049 (2000.0) P Q Peri. 129.389 +0.727478 +0.346210 Node 223.179 -0.126569 +0.916260 e 1.0 Incl. 59.962 +0.674356 -0.201511 From 30 observations 2009 Sept. 24-27.[url=http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/mpec/K09/K09SC2.html]MP...

30 Days of Night is a 2007 American horror film based on the comic book miniseries of the same name. The film is directed by David Slade and stars Josh Hartnett, Melissa George, and Danny Huston. The story focuses on an Alaskan town beset by vampires as it enters into a thirty-day long polar night. Read...