The third annual Exeter UFO Festival will take place Saturday, September 3, 2011. The day's excitement fires up at 8:30am and continues until 10pm. All lectures and festival events are free of charge - no tickets needed. Read more
Air Force Space Command (AFSPC) is a major command of the United States Air Force, with headquarters at Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado. Missile warning and space operations were combined to form Air Force Space Command in 1982. During the Cold War, space operations focused on missile warning, a...
Doors Open Day Sat. 1st September 2012 14:00 - 18:00 at the Jim Savage-Lowden Observatory, Culloden Battlefield. Visit the observatory and, weather permitting, see the Sun through our Solar Telescope. Read more
Hermann Alexander Brück (15 August 1905 in Berlin, Germany - 4 March 2000 in Edinburgh, Scotland) was a German-born astronomer who spent the great portion of his career in the United Kingdom. In 1957, Brück moved to the University of Edinburgh. With his vision and drive, he transformed the Royal Obs...
Engelbert Zaschka (September 1, 1895 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany - June 26, 1955 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany) was a German chief engineer, chief designer and inventor. Zaschka became one of the first German helicopter pioneers. Read more
Sergei Nikolaievich Winogradsky FRS (14 September 1856 - 25 February 1953) was a Ukrainian-Russian microbiologist, ecologist and soil scientist who pioneered the cycle of life concept. Read more
Ibn Jubayr (1 September 1145 - 1217) was a geographer, traveller and poet from al-Andalus. His travel chronicle describes the pilgrimage he made to Mecca from 1183 to 1185, in the years preceding the Third Crusade. His chronicle describes Saladin's domains in Egypt and the Levant which he passed th...
Fountain of Time, or simply Time, is a sculpture by Lorado Taft, measuring 126 feet 10 inches (38.66 m) in length, situated at the western edge of the Midway Plaisance within Washington Park in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States Water began running in the completed sculpture on September 1, 192...
A Trip to the Moon (French: Le Voyage dans la lune) is a 1902 French black-and-white silent science fiction film. It is based loosely on two popular novels of the time: From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne and The First Men in the Moon by H. G. Wells. Read more
Timanfaya National Park or Parque Nacional de Timanfaya is a Spanish national park covering the municipalities of southern portion of Tinajo and the northern portion of Yaiza in the southwestern part of the island of Lanzarote. The greatest recorded eruptions occurred between 1730 and 1736. Rea...
The solar storm of 1859, also known as the Solar Superstorm, or the Carrington Event, was the most powerful solar storm in recorded history. From August 28 until September 2, numerous sunspots and solar flares were observed on the sun. Just before noon on September 1, the British astronomer, Richar...
The 1923 Great Kanto earthquake struck the Kanto plain on the Japanese main island of Honsh at 11:58:44 am JST on September 1, 1923. Varied accounts hold that the duration of the earthquake was between 4 and 10 minutes. The quake had a magnitude of 7.9 on the Richter scale, with its focus deep beneath Iz...
Title: New Exoplanet Surveys in the Canadian High Arctic at 80 Degrees North Authors: Nicholas M. Law, Suresh Sivanandam, Richard Murowinski, Raymond Carlberg, Wayne Ngan, Pegah Salbi, Aida Ahmadi, Eric Steinbring, Mark Halman, James Graham Observations from near the Eureka station on Ellesm...
Title: Little Things Authors: Deidre A. Hunter, Dana Ficut-Vicas, Trisha Ashley, Elias Brinks, Phil Cigan, Bruce G. Elmegreen, Volker Heesen, Kimberly A. Herrmann, Megan Johnson, Se-Heon, Michael P. Rupen, Andreas Schruba, Caroline E. Simpson, Fabian Walter, David J. Westpfahl, Lisa M. Youn...
Orbital elements:
2001 QM142 Earth MOID = 0.0341 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 326.19250 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.71791979 Peri. 292.60654 +0.10346683 -0.99342919
a 1.2352421 Node 151.32166 +0.94589712 +0.08307129
e 0.4284186 Incl. 5.85074 +0.30752765 +0.07872488
P 1.37 H 22...
