An annular solar eclipse will occur on October 14, 2023. This will be the second annular eclipse visible from Albuquerque in 11 years, where it crosses the path of the May 2012 eclipse. Read more The eclipse starts in one location and ends in another, the times below are for visibility for any locatio...
On 14 October 1947, just under a month after the United States Air Force had been created as a separate service, the Bell X-1 tests culminated in the first manned supersonic flight, piloted by Air Force Captain Charles "Chuck" Yeager in aircraft #46-062, which he had christened Glamorou...
Meckering is a town 130 km east of Perth, Western Australia along the Great Eastern Highway. At 10:59 am on 14 October 1968, a 40-second earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter Scale destroyed the town, and had effect on a considerable area in the south western region of Western Australia. Read more
The Senghenydd Colliery Disaster, also known as the Senghenydd Explosion, occurred in Senghenydd, near Caerphilly, Glamorgan, Wales on 14 October 1913, killing 439 miners. It is the worst Mining accident in the United Kingdom, and one of the most serious in terms of loss of life globally since. Re...
The Battle of Hastings occurred on 14 October 1066 during the Norman conquest of England, between the Norman-French army of Duke William II of Normandy and the English army under King Harold II. Read more
Operation Totem was a pair of British atmospheric nuclear tests which took place in October 1953. The only ones conducted at a temporary site in Australia, Emu Field, they followed the Operation Hurricane test of the first British atomic bomb which had taken place at the Montebello Islands a year pr...
Asteroid Expert To Give Free Public Talk At Planetary Science Meeting In Reno More than 600 astronomers from all over the world will convene in Reno, Nevada, in mid-October for the annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS). They'll share their la...
Orbital elements:
2012 TR139 Earth MOID = 0.2070 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 1.61630 (2000.0) P Q
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P 2.89 H 20....
Orbital elements:
2012 TN139 Earth MOID = 0.1564 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 355.28025 (2000.0) P Q
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P 3.64 H 23....
Nearly a thousand years after his death, Bhaskaracharya II (1114-1185), who is credited with finding the properties of zero, has come alive in Patnadevi village in Jalgaon district of Maharashtra. His resurrection happened last year, courtesy the state forest department, which set up a memoria...
Orbital elements:
2012 TH79 Earth MOID = 0.0774 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 342.71348 (2000.0) P Q
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P 4.21 H 21....
Orbital elements:
2004 RX10 Earth MOID = 0.0519 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 173.17522 (2000.0) P Q
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P 0.88 H 21.3...
Orbital elements:
2011 OB57 Earth MOID = 0.0239 AU
Epoch 2011 Aug. 27.0 TT = JDT 2455800.5 MPC
M 157.55381 (2000.0) P Q
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P 0.93 H 26.0...
