Billy Boyd (born 28 August 1968) is a Scottish actor and musician most widely known for playing the character Peregrin "Pippin" Took in the film adaptations of The Lord of the Rings and Barret Bonden in Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. Read more
St. Augustine (Spanish: San Agustín) is a city in the northeastern region of the U.S. state of Florida, and the county seat of St. Johns County. Pedro Menéndez de Avilés sighted land on August 28, 1565. As this was the feast day of Augustine of Hippo, the territory was named San Agustín. Read more
The 220 - 500 metre wide asteroid 2003 BQ35 will make a close pass (61.7 lunar distances, 0.1585 AU), travelling at 4.64 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 28th August, 2012 @ 06:35 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0...
A partial lunar eclipse will take place on August 28, 2026. The moon will nearly completely, but not quite be contained within the umbral shadow at greatest eclipse. Read more
Hurricane Katrina, made landfall on Florida on Friday 26 August.
Katrina raged for hours over the Miami area before heading out early Friday to the Gulf of Mexico.
At 1300 GMT 26th, it was locate...
Media accreditation for Shuttle flight STS-128 with ESA astronaut Christer Fuglesang The media accreditation deadline for the next Space Shuttle flight to the International Space Station has been set by NASA. Discovery is tentatively slated for launch on 18 August to begin its mission, STS-128...
"I Have a Dream" is a 17-minute public speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered on August 28, 1963, in which he called for racial equality and an end to discrimination. Read more
Secondo Campini (August 28, 1904 - February 7, 1980) was an Italian engineer and one of the pioneers of the jet engine. The "Thermojet" that Campini developed to propel this aircraft is substantially different from the jet engines of today. Campini's engine used an ordinary piston engi...
Vonda Neel McIntyre (born Louisville, Kentucky, on August 28, 1948) is an American science fiction author. McIntyre's debut novel, The Exile Waiting, was published in 1975. She has also written a number of Star Trek and Star Wars novels, including Enterprise: The First Adventure and The Entropy E...
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved new names for two craters and a serpens on Mars. Aeolis Serpens for a 538.55-km-long Martian feature located at -1.38°S, 149.57°E. The feature was named in honour of the classical albedo feature. Cayon for a 27.31-km-wide Martian...
The Canon EOS 20D is an 8.2-megapixel semi-professional digital single-lens reflex camera, initially announced on 19 August 2004 at a recommended retail price of US$1,499. It is the successor of the EOS 10D, and was succeeded by the EOS 30D in August 2006. It accepts EF and EF-S lenses and uses an APS...
Orbital elements:
2012 QY17 Earth MOID = 0.0506 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 18.52974 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.52929338 Peri. 180.84471 +0.89127638 +0.42840034
a 1.5135789 Node 152.23477 -0.41414813 +0.90254031
e 0.2989306 Incl. 18.60936 -0.18468282 +0.04352177
P 1.86 H 25....
Orbital elements:
2012 QV17 Earth MOID = 0.0236 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 6.15014 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.20783753 Peri. 189.26811 +0.93748106 +0.33462964
a 2.8226264 Node 150.61580 -0.30552379 +0.92291529
e 0.6351229 Incl. 11.24330 -0.16668674 +0.19039532
P 4.74 H 25.1...
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