World's Largest Meteorite Auction Sells Moon Rock, Mars Sample in NY In the largest ever event of its kind, an auction of chunks of rocks from the Moon and Mars (as well as meteorites with extraterrestrial gemstones) have been sold for over $1m. The sale, held, at the Ukrainian Institute of America, i...
Klyuchevskoi, volcano on the Kamchatka Peninsula erupted at about 8 a.m. GMT, sending volcanic ash and Ash plumbs high into the atmosphere. The volcanic dust cloud has already spread 35 kilometres to the southwest of Klyuchevskoi. Volcanologists had predicted the volcano was due to erupt thre...
Title: Electrically charged curvaton Authors: Michela D'Onofrio, Rose N. Lerner, Arttu Rajantie We consider the possibility that the primordial curvature perturbation was generated through the curvaton mechanism from a scalar field with an electric charge, or precisely the Standard Model U...
London Fashion Week Read more London Fashion Week is an apparel trade show held in London, England twice each year, in February and September. Read more
The 170 - 370 metre wide asteroid 2000 FJ10 will make a close pass (47.2 lunar distances, 0.1213 AU), travelling at 10.96 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 9th December, 2011 @ 15:20 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distan...
Roberto Vittori (Viterbo, October 15, 1964) is an Italian air force officer and an ESA astronaut. After graduating from the Italian Accademia Aeronautica in 1989, Vittori flew in the Italian Air Force. He then trained as a test pilot in the United States. Read more
Evangelista Torricelli (15 October 1608 - 25 October 1647) was an Italian physicist and mathematician, best known for his invention of the barometer. Read more
Archibald Hoxsey (October 15, 1884 - December 31, 1910) was an aviator for the Wright brothers. On December 30, 1910 Hoxley set the flight altitude record of 11,474 feet. He died on December 31, 1910 in Los Angeles, California after crashing from 7,000 feet. He was trying to set a new flight altitude r...
Arto Oksanen is a Finnish amateur astronomer. He has been actively working in the fields of variable stars, asteroid search programs, gamma ray bursts, CCD photometry and building state-of-the-art amateur observatories in Finland. He has been mostly working in the Nyrölä Observatory that is lo...
Reta F. Beebe (born October 15, 1936) is an American astronomer, author, and populariser of astronomy. She is an expert on the planets Jupiter and Saturn, and the author of Jupiter: The Giant Planet. She is a professor emeritus in the Astronomy Department at New Mexico State University and 2010 winn...
Edwin Charles Tubb (15 October 1919 - 10 September 2010) was a British writer of science fiction, fantasy and western novels. The author of over 140 novels and 230 short stories and novellas, Tubb is best known for The Dumarest Saga (US collective title: Dumarest of Terra) an epic science-fiction sa...
Bernhard Hermann Neumann AC FRS (15 October 1909 -20 October 2002) was a German-born British mathematician who was one of the leading figures in group theory, greatly influencing the direction of the subject. Read more
Gian Carlo Wick (October 15, 1909, Turin - April 20, 1992, Turin) was an Italian theoretical physicist who made important contributions to quantum field theory. The Wick rotation, Wick contraction, Wick's theorem, and the Wick product are named after him. Read more