Teen astronomer leads push for Warwick's observatory As the mid-Hudson's most famous amateur astronomer, 18-year-old Caroline Moore of Warwick wants to encourage others to reach for the stars. So last year, for her senior project at Warwick Valley High School, she came up with a plan to build an ob...
Students discover main belt asteroid It is second year in a row that the students of Shri Natesan Vidyasala, Mannivakkam, are successful in making a preliminary discovery of a main belt asteroid in the All Indian Asteroid Search Campaign 2012. This programme is a joint venture of Science Popularis...
Venezuela parliament authorises new satellite program with China Venezuela's National Assembly on Thursday endorsed a new satellite contract program with China, the second such bilateral project between the two countries. The parliament published the authorisation of the new project, also...
The spacecraft will provide communications services for the Americas, Caribbean, Western Europe, Africa and selected islands of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans. Designed for a useful life of at least 15 years, the IS-23 satellite will be located in orbit at 307 degrees East Longitude following i...
The 230 - 520 metre wide asteroid 2005 ST1 will make a close pass (51.3 lunar distances, 0.1319 AU), travelling at 12.88 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 14th October, 2012 @ 09:43 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0....
Anatoly Ivanovich Larkin (October 14, 1932 -August 4, 2005) was a Russian theoretical physicist, universally recognised as a leader in theory of condensed matter, and who was also a celebrated teacher of several generations of theorists. Read more
Engin Ark (October 14, 1948 - November 30, 2007) was a renowned Turkish particle physicist. She was a professor and head of the Experimental High Energy Physics group at the Boaziçi University. She was a member of the ATLAS and CAST collaborations at CERN in Switzerland. Ark died in the Atlasjet Flig...
John Smith (baptised 14 October 1711 - 17 June 1795) was a British academic and astronomer. He was admitted to Caius College, Cambridge University in 1732 and ordained in 1739. He installed a transit telescope above his college ante-chapel. Read more
Roundhay Garden Scene is an 1888 short film directed by inventor Louis Le Prince. It was recorded at 12 frames per second, runs for 2.11 seconds and is the oldest surviving film. According to Le Prince's son, Adolphe, it was filmed at Oakwood Grange, the home of Joseph and Sarah Whitley, in Roundhay, L...
Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Kohlrausch (October 14, 1840 - January 17, 1910) was a German physicist who investigated the conductive properties of electrolytes and contributed to knowledge of their behaviour. He also investigated elasticity, thermoelasticity, and thermal conduction as well as m...
Rinderpest (also cattle plague or steppe murrain) was an infectious viral disease of cattle, domestic buffalo, and some other species of even-toed ungulates, including buffaloes, large antelopes and deer, giraffes, wildebeests and warthogs. On 14 October 2010, the United Nations Food and Ag...
On October 14, 1962, a United States Air Force U-2 plane on a photoreconnaissance mission captured photographic proof of Soviet missile bases under construction in Cuba. Read moreSpoiler
