Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (2 October 1869 - 30 January 1948) was the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement. Read more
Gandhi Jayanti is a National Holiday celebrated in India to mark the occasion of the birthday of Mohandas Gandhi, the "Father of the Nation." Read more
Mehrgan is a Zoroastrian and Iranian festival celebrated since the pre-Islamic era to honour the Yazata of "Mehr" (Persian: Mehr or Mihr), which is responsible for friendship, affection and love. The Fasili and Bastani variants of the religious calendar adhere to Gregorian intercal...
Belle et Sébastien is a novel by Cécile Aubry about a six-year-old boy named Sébastien and his dog Belle, a Pyrenean Mountain Dog, who live in a small French Alps Mountain village on the French side of the border between France and Italy. The live action show, filmed in black-and-white, was broadcas...
The Twilight Zone is an American anthology television series created by Rod Serling, which ran for five seasons on CBS from 1959 to 1964. The series consisted of unrelated episodes depicting paranormal, futuristic, dystopian, or simply disturbing events; each show typically featured a surpris...
According to Tacitus, Calgacus (sometimes Calgacos or Galgacus) was a chieftain of the Caledonian Confederacy who fought the Roman army of Gnaeus Julius Agricola at the Battle of Mons Graupius in northern Scotland in AD 83 or 84. Read more
Orbital elements:
2012 SQ56 Earth MOID = 0.3460 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 353.41229 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.17257219 Peri. 29.50019 +0.44329516 -0.84572756
a 3.1951323 Node 36.65140 +0.69361563 +0.11373288
e 0.5950309 Incl. 29.84166 +0.56779112 +0.52135375
P 5.71 H 17.6...
Arianespace to launch GSAT 10 for India The Indian Space Research Organisation, ISRO, has once again chosen Arianespace, this time to launch its GSAT 10 communications satellite. The launch is slated for the first quarter of 2012, using an Ariane 5 from the Guiana Space Centre, Europes Spaceport,...
Carnarvon's a Buzz The second man to set foot on the moon, American astronaut Buzz Aldrin, will touch down in the Western Australian town of Carnarvon today to officially open a new Space and Technology Museum. The museum commemorates the Carnarvon Tracking Station which was involved in the NASA s...
José Enrique Moyal (also known as Jo or Joe Moyal) (born 1 October 1910 in Jerusalem, then in the Ottoman Empire and soon to devolve to the Mandate for Palestine; died 22 May 1998 in Canberra, Australia) was a mathematical physicist who contributed to aeronautical engineering, electrical engineer...
Dame Kathleen Mary Ollerenshaw, née Timpson, DBE (born 1 October 1912, Withington, Manchester) is a British mathematician and politician. She has published at least 26 mathematical papers, her best-known contribution being to most-perfect pandiagonal magic squares. An annual public lectu...
Typhoon Jelawat is forecast to make landfall in Okinawa (26.3 N, 127.8 E) probability for CAT 1 or above is 40% in about 66 hours probability for TS is 55% in about 66 hours The Typhoon is currently located at 19.1°N, 125.4°E
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, or JAXA, is Japan's national aerospace agency. Through the merger of three previously independent organisations, JAXA was formed on 1 October 2003, as an Independent Administrative Institution administered by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Spor...