The Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, Alliant Techsystems and the Office of Naval Research have flown a hypersonic scramjet-powered vehicle from the Wallops Flight Facility in Virgina during a pre-dawn test Saturday December 10. This was the first-ever free flight of a scramjet-powe...
Sergei Kapitsa (14 February 1928 - 14 August 2012) was a Russian physicist and demographer. He is best known as host of the popular and long-running Russian scientific TV show, Evident, but Incredible. His father is the Nobel laureate (Soviet-era) physicist Pyotr Kapitsa, and his brother is the la...
Aberdeen set for 10 hydrogen buses by 2014 A fleet of 10 hydrogen buses could be on the streets of Aberdeen by 2014, it has been announced. Funding of £3.3m from the Scottish government and Scottish Enterprise will allow Aberdeen City Council to buy the hydrogen fuel-cell buses. [url=http://www.bb...
Orbital elements:
2012 PN6 Earth MOID = 0.1489 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 25.26317 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.43199363 Peri. 162.43475 +0.66632845 +0.69485821
a 1.7330769 Node 147.66793 -0.73035893 +0.68130568
e 0.3370988 Incl. 30.38453 -0.15027388 -0.23020565
P 2.28 H 22.1...
Delhi boy discovers SOHO comet A Delhi boy has discovered a new comet using data from NASA and European Space Agency's spacecraft-based observatory SOHO that studies the Sun. Discovered by Prafull Sharma, a Class XII student of Ahlcon Public School, the new comet -- SOHO 2333 -- is a fragment believ...
"The Lost Chord" is a song composed by Arthur Sullivan in 1877 at the bedside of his brother Fred during Fred's last illness. In 1888, Thomas Edison sent his "Perfected" Phonograph to Mr. George Gouraud in London, England, and on August 14, 1888, Gouraud introduced the phono...
Cologne Cathedral (German: Kölner Dom, officially Hohe Domkirche St. Peter und Maria, English: High Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Mary) is a Roman Catholic church in Cologne, Germany. Construction of Cologne Cathedral commenced in 1248 but was halted in 1473, leaving it unfinished. Work recommen...
The Whitehead No.21 was the aircraft that aviation pioneer Gustave Whitehead claimed to have flown near Bridgeport, Connecticut on August 14, 1901. Mainstream aviation scholars dispute the flight; in 1980, C.H. Gibbs-Smith called the story a "flight of fancy". Read more
The Tillamook Burn was a series of forest fires in the Northern Oregon Coast Range of Oregon in the United States that destroyed a total area of 355,000 acres (1,400 km²) of old growth timber in what is now known as the Tillamook State Forest. There were four wildfires in this series. The first was star...
The Marine, &c., Broadcasting (Offences) Act 1967 c.41, shortened to Marine Broadcasting Offences Act, became law in the United Kingdom at midnight on Monday 14 August 1967 and was repealed by the Wireless Telegraphy Act 2006. Its purpose was to extend the powers of the British Wireless Teleg...
Charles-Jean Étienne Gustave Nicolas de la Vallée Poussin (14 August 1866 - 2 March 1962) was a Belgian mathematician. He is most well known for proving the Prime number theorem. Read more
Brannon Braga (born August 14, 1965) is an American television producer and screenwriter who most recently worked as showrunner and executive producer on Terra Nova. Braga is probably best known for his work with the Star Trek franchise, having worked on three of the four modern Star Trek televisi...
Frank Friedman Oppenheimer (August 14, 1912 - February 3, 1985) was an American particle physicist, professor of physics at the University of Colorado, and the founder of the Exploratorium in San Francisco. A younger brother of renowned physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, Frank Oppenheimer condu...
Guido Castelnuovo (14 August 1865 - 27 April 1952) was an Italian mathematician. Castelnuovo is best known for his contributions to the field of algebraic geometry, though his contributions to the study of statistics and probability are also significant. Read more
Hans Christian Orsted (14 August 1777 - 9 March 1851) was a Danish physicist and chemist who discovered that electric currents create magnetic fields, an important aspect of electromagnetism. Read more
