Masatoshi Koshiba (born on September 19, 1926 in Toyohashi, Aichi) is a Japanese physicist. He jointly won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002. Koshiba's award-winning work centred on neutrinos, subatomic particles that had long perplexed scientists. Since the 1920s it had been suspected that t...
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved a new name for a feature on Mars. Candor Colles for a 37.38-km-wide Martian feature located at -6.63°S, 284.43°E. The feature was named in honour of the classical albedo feature.
The 320 - 710 metre wide asteroid 2005 FD will make a close pass (74.5 lunar distances, 0.1914 AU), travelling at 15.92 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 19th September, 2012 @ 08:14 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0...
The 210 - 480 metre wide asteroid 1998 FF14 will make a close pass (36.1 lunar distances, 0.0928 AU), travelling at 21.40 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 19th September, 2012 @ 07:12 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (o...
The 1985 Mexico City earthquake, a magnitude 8.0 earthquake that struck Mexico City on the early morning of 19 September 1985 at around 7:19 am (CST), caused the deaths of at least 10,000 people and serious damage to the Greater Mexico City Area. Read more
David Keith McCallum, Jr. (born 19 September 1933) is a Scottish actor and musician. He is best known for his roles as Illya Kuryakin, a Russian-born secret agent, in the 1960s television series The Man from U.N.C.L.E., as interdimensional operative Steel in Sapphire & Steel, and for his curre...
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Young stargazers' appeal Stargazing pupils are putting their eyes to the skies as part of a new astronomy GCSE course offered at Robert Smyth Academy - but they need your help. The academy needs binoculars and telescopes to help students complete some of the practical elements of the course, which i...
Orbital elements:
2012 SA3 Earth MOID = 0.0267 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 30.21541 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.35670609 Peri. 86.69559 -0.25039664 +0.96762379
a 1.9690755 Node 168.65139 -0.93990217 -0.23510791
e 0.6483640 Incl. 9.27437 -0.23213234 -0.09180672
P 2.76 H 22.2 G 0...
Orbital elements:
2012 SY2 Earth MOID = 0.2269 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 358.36027 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.23992398 Peri. 12.45666 +0.98390384 -0.17855848
a 2.5649975 Node 357.79186 +0.14410673 +0.81624457
e 0.5221340 Incl. 10.58675 +0.10567162 +0.54941940
P 4.11 H 22.1...
Orbital elements:
2012 SW2 Earth MOID = 0.0047 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 351.66825 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.26841755 Peri. 240.00784 +0.47603183 -0.87942668
a 2.3801013 Node 181.56809 +0.82513901 +0.44725510
e 0.6756662 Incl. 3.25130 +0.30420274 +0.16300794
P 3.67 H 27.5...
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved a new name for a feature on Mars. Ceti Labes for a 11.05-km-diameter Martian feature located at -6.78°S, 284.27°E. The feature was named in honour of the classical albedo feature.
A new Sunspot has emerged over the Suns eastern limb + 11571 and 11569 (top) captured with a 100mm refractor + Vesta pro webcam + Solar and IR-cut filters. Music via an Amiga 1200
