Orbital elements:
2012 SC22 Earth MOID = 0.1749 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 263.11317 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.66806969 Peri. 167.95729 -0.87868587 -0.47402464
a 1.2959499 Node 343.38523 +0.41991081 -0.71093023
e 0.5965851 Incl. 11.43177 +0.22712564 -0.51949865
P 1.48 H 20...
Johann Franz Encke (23 September 1791 - 26 August 1865) was a German astronomer. Among his activities, he worked on the calculation of the periods of comets and asteroids, measured the distance from the earth to the sun, and made observations on the planet Saturn. Read more
Monday, Sept. 23, 1929 News of a new and valuable alloy was despatched to the Congress by Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. Erwin Foster Lowry, 38, Michigan-born Ohio State graduate, had compounded nickel, cobalt and ferrotitanium. Result was a metal which grew stronger the hotter i...
Mary Mallon (September 23, 1869 - November 11, 1938), better known as Typhoid Mary, was the first person in the United States identified as an asymptomatic carrier of the pathogen associated with typhoid fever. Read more
Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep, also known as Deadly Water, is a 2006 made-for-television natural horror B-movie produced by Nu Image Films and Brightlight Pictures as a Sci Fi Channel original film. It premiered on the Sci Fi channel on September 23, 2006. Read more[spoiler][video=http://www....
Sunday, Sep 23 3:00pm to 4:00pm University of California at Berkeley: The Lawrence Hall of Science, Berkeley, CA There are hundreds of Native American cultures, each with distinctive views of the heavens. Observe moon cycles and changes in the sunrise and sunset positions on the horizon to see how...
Rampur planetarium to be named after Aryabhatta After changing the names of several districts and some of the projects of Mayawati government, the state government changed the name of a proposed planetarium in Rampur. Proposed to be named after Bhimrao Ambedkar during Mayawati regime, the plane...
Early Cannibalism Tied to Territorial Defence? The earliest known instance of cannibalism among hominids occurred roughly 800,000 years ago. The victims, mainly children, may have been eaten as part of a strategy to defend territories against neighbours, researchers report online in the Jour...
Space Shuttle Endeavour Arrives at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Centre NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA) with space shuttle Endeavour mounted atop arrived Sept. 20, 2012, at the agency's Dryden Flight Research Centre on Edwards A...
Excalibur Almaz is a private spaceflight company which plans to provide orbital space tourism, and provide test beds for experiments in a microgravity environment. Read more
Sunspots 11575 (bottom left), 11576 and 11571 (top) captured with a 100mm refractor + Vesta pro webcam + Solar and IR-cut filters. Music via an Amiga 1200
William Cameron "Willie" McCool (September 23, 1961 - February 1, 2003) was a United States Navy Commander, NASA astronaut and the pilot of Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-107. He was killed, along with all others, when their spacecraft disintegrated during re-entry into the Ear...
The Merchant Royal also known as Royal Merchant, was a 17th century English merchant ship lost at sea off Land's End, Cornwall in rough weather on 23 September 1641. On board were at least 100,000 pounds of gold (nearly one billion USD in today's money), 400 bars of Mexican silver (another 1 million) a...
