Rahima Banu Begum (born 1973) is the last known person to have been infected with naturally occurring Variola major smallpox. The case occurred on 16 October 1975, when the two-year old Banu was living in the village of Kuralia on Bhola Island in the Bangladesh district of Barisal. Read more
Fritz Zwicky placed explosive charges in the nose cone of a V2 rocket, to be detonated at high altitude and fire high velocity pellets of metal through the atmosphere. The first attempts appeared to be failures, and Zwicky sought to try again with the Aerobee rocket. His requests were denied, until t...
GOES 1, designated GOES-A and SMS-C prior to entering service, was a weather satellite operated by the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The launch occurred at 22:40:00 GMT on October 16, 1975, and left the satellite in a geosynchronous transfer orbit. [url=http:/...
The Cardiff Giant was one of the most famous hoaxes in United States history. It was a 3.0 m tall purported "petrified man" uncovered on October 16, 1869 by workers digging a well behind the barn of William C. "Stub" Newell in Cardiff, New York. Read more
World Food Day is celebrated every year around the world on 16 October in honour of the date of the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations in 1945. Read more
In mathematics, the quaternions are a number system that extends the complex numbers. They were first described by Irish mathematician Sir William Rowan Hamilton in 1843 and applied to mechanics in three-dimensional space. A striking feature of quaternions is that the product of two quaternion...
596 is the codename of the People's Republic of China's first nuclear weapons test, detonated on October 16, 1964 at the Lop Nur test site. It was a uranium-235 implosion fission device and had a yield of 22 kilotons. With the test, China became the fifth nuclear power. Read more[video=http://www.y...
Title: The Coriolis Effect Apparently Described in Giovanni Battista Riccioli's Arguments Against the Motion of the Earth: An English Rendition of Almagestum Novum Part II, Book 9, Section 4, Chapter 21, Pages 425, 426-7 Authors: Christopher M. Graney In his encyclopaedic work on astronomy, th...
Planetarium at Kankaria after 15 years Fifteen years back, an entire generation of kids was initiated into the fun of star gazing and identifying groups of stars and constellations through planetariums in cities such as Ahmedabad, Vadodara and Surat. Those 15-20 minutes took the wide-eyed child...
Title: Absolute Properties of the Triple Star CF Tauri Authors: Claud H. Sandberg, Guillermo Torres, Antonio Claret CF Tau is now known to be an eclipsing triple star with relatively deep total and annular eclipses. New light and radial velocity curves as well as new times of minima were obtained an...
Glenelg's Mars twinning hook-up gets its just dessert A baking enthusiast reckons her rhubarb crumble is just out of this world - and could be a fitting treat to help a Ross-shire community mark a quirky twinning arrangement with Mars! As previously reported, Glenelg is marking its namesake valley...
Title: Four temporary Neptune co-orbitals: (148975) 2001 XA255, (310071) 2010 KR59, (316179) 2010 EN65, and 2012 GX17 Authors: C. de la Fuente Marcos, R. de la Fuente Marcos Numerical simulations suggest that Neptune primordial co-orbitals may outnumber the equivalent population hosted by Ju...
Orbital elements:
2012 TT145 Earth MOID = 0.1644 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 20.50345 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.31510278 Peri. 328.21246 +0.81573072 +0.57837129
a 2.1387888 Node 356.41785 -0.49867185 +0.69584481
e 0.4573119 Incl. 7.69748 -0.29310368 +0.42577771
P 3.13 H 20....
ESA deploys first orbital debris test radar in Spain A new radar designed to test methods for finding orbital debris that can be hazardous to space navigation has been installed in Spain. The radar will be used to develop future debris warning services, helping boost safety for European satellite o...
A group of scientists are going to present their breakthrough in hydrogen storage this Wednesday.
In contrast to previous storage mechanisms, this method binds hydrogen to a pellet which is completely safe to handle at room temperature. While bound in this medium no hydrogen loss occurs, enabl...
