Iran plans to build second spaceport Iran plans to construct its second spaceport, Communications and Information Technology Minister Reza Taqipour said on Sunday. The current launch site is located in Semnan Province, and in recent years, two spacecraft have been launched from the center. [ur...
Legio septima Claudia Pia Fidelis (Seventh Claudian Legion) was a Roman legion. Its emblem, like that of all Caesar's legions, was the bull, together with the lion. The Seventh, the Sixth, the Eighth and the Ninth were all founded by Pompey in Spain in 65 BC. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le...
Legio X Equestris (Latin: "Tenth legion 'mounted'" - Equestris), a Roman legion, was levied by Julius Caesar in 61 BC when he was the Governor of Hispania Ulterior. Read more
A possible magnitude 14.7 supernova was discovered on the 22nd August, 2012, in the galaxy NGC 5611 in the constellation Bootes by Y. Hirose. The supernova is located 14" east and 6" north from the center of the galaxy. As yet the type is unknown. Position (2000): RA 14 24 05.71 |...
Maxim Lvovich Kontsevich (born 25 August 1964) is a Russian mathematician. He is a professor at the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques and a distinguished professor at the University of Miami. Read more
Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born 25 August 1930) is a Scottish actor and producer who has won an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards (one of them being a BAFTA Academy Fellowship Award) and three Golden Globes (including the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a Henrietta Award). Read more[video=http://www.yout...
Helmut Hasse (25 August 1898 - 26 December 1979) was a German mathematician working in algebraic number theory, known for fundamental contributions to class field theory, the application of p-adic numbers to local classfield theory and diophantine geometry (Hasse principle), and to local zeta...
Sub-Lieutenant Saburo Sakai (August 25, 1916 - September 22, 2000) was a Japanese naval aviator and flying ace ("Gekitsui-O") of the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. Sakai was the Imperial Navy's fourth-ranking ace and Japan's second leading fighter pilot to survive the wa...
"The Great Moon Hoax" refers to a series of six articles that were published in the New York Sun beginning on August 25, 1835, about the supposed discovery of life and even civilization on the Moon. Read more
English language 'originated in Turkey' Modern Indo-European languages - which include English - originated in Turkey about 9,000 years ago, researchers say. Their findings differ from conventional theory that these languages originated 5,000 years ago in south-west Russia. [url=http://w...
Orbital elements:
2012 FM52 Earth MOID = 0.0556 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 320.73705 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.27482718 Peri. 155.44950 +0.54600642 +0.81170468
a 2.3429495 Node 146.50192 -0.81728898 +0.57048945
e 0.6084310 Incl. 22.07232 -0.18416218 -0.12520904
P 3.59 H 18....
The Northern Iota Aquarids meteor shower peaks on the 25th August, 2011. Range: August 11- September 10 ZHR: 5-10 meteors per hour Speed: 31 km/s Radiant: RA=21:48, Dec= -06°
Tom Bogdan doesn't strike you as the nervous type but there is one thing that does keep him awake at night. His insomnia is caused by a 14-year-old satellite sitting between the Earth and the Sun some 1.5 million km away which he fears may one day suddenly die, so leaving the world without a vital early-w...
Herbert Kroemer (born August 25, 1928), a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics in 1952 from the University of Göttingen, Germany, with a dissertation on hot electron effects in the then-new tr...
