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Event Date: August 13-18, 2012 Event Location: Omni Shoreham Hotel 2500 Calvert Street NW (at Connecticut Ave.) Washington, DC 20008 USA The Quark Matter series of conferences aims to reunite international specialists in the field of experimental and theoretical heavy ion physics. Read more...

The national flag of Japan is a white rectangular flag with a large red disk (representing the sun) in the center. This flag is officially called Nisshki ("sun-mark flag") in Japanese, but is more commonly known as Hinomaru ("circle of the sun"). The Nisshki flag is designate...

The 1868 Arica earthquake was an earthquake that occurred on August 13, 1868, near Arica, then part of Peru, now part of Chile, at 21:30 UTC. It had an estimated magnitude between 8.5 and 9.0. A tsunami (or multiple tsunamis) in the Pacific Ocean was produced by the earthquake, which was recorded in Ha...

Nathaniel "Nat" Turner (October 2, 1800 - November 11, 1831) was an American slave who led a slave rebellion in Virginia on August 21, 1831 that resulted in 56 white deaths and over 55 black deaths, the largest number of fatalities to occur in one uprising prior to the American Civil War in t...

Sir George Gabriel Stokes, 1st Baronet FRS (13 August 1819 - 1 February 1903), was a mathematician and physicist. Born in Ireland, Stokes spent all of his career at University of Cambridge, where he served as the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics from 1849 until his death in 1903. Stokes made semina...

Annie Oakley (August 13, 1860 - November 3, 1926), born Phoebe Ann Moses, was an American sharpshooter and exhibition shooter. Oakley's amazing talent and timely rise to fame led to a starring role in Buffalo Bill's Wild West show, which propelled her to become the first American female superstar....

Arizona geologic map online Read more

Orbital elements: 2012 PJ6 Earth MOID = 0.2262 AU Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 21.22884 (2000.0) P Q n 0.31622872 Peri. 144.21367 +0.67358241 +0.73872045 a 2.1337089 Node 168.06686 -0.70230751 +0.64984548 e 0.4243456 Incl. 6.68179 -0.23032780 +0.17886571 P 3.12 H 21.4 G...

Orbital elements: 2012 PG6 Earth MOID = 0.0533 AU Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 301.41450 (2000.0) P Q n 1.28613952 Peri. 169.71974 -0.52749797 -0.84532983 a 0.8374213 Node 312.05858 +0.77113680 -0.43461867 e 0.6161404 Incl. 6.54566 +0.35650235 -0.31068327 P 0.77 H 20.1...

Orbital elements: 2012 PH6 Earth MOID = 0.1601 AU Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC M 6.34324 (2000.0) P Q n 0.42417987 Peri. 209.24207 +0.94532041 +0.19041108 a 1.7542952 Node 137.04056 -0.16783611 +0.98013911 e 0.3490607 Incl. 22.86424 -0.27964329 +0.05541614 P 2.32 H 21.4 G...

Sunspots 11543, 11542, 11544, 11540 and 11538 captured with an 80 mm refractor + Vesta pro webcam + Solar filter + Baader contrast filter. (Cloudy conditions - best captures from today)

Cheap Astronomy podcasts2011127. Why the LHC wont kill you + transcript.126. Don Quijote + transcript.125.1 Light 2of2 Wibbly-wobbly spacey-timey stuff(the remake) + transcript.125. Carnival of space #215the podcast124.1 Light 1of2 Light and a bit of dark (the remake) + transcript.124. Ast...

The 190 - 420 metre wide asteroid 2008 QB will make a close pass (35.3 lunar distances, 0.0906 AU), travelling at 30.38 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 20th August, 2012 @ 20:55 UT ±00:01. See more The Lunar Dista...

Microsoft Surface is a planned series of tablet PCs designed and marketed by Microsoft. The Surface will be available in two versions, "Surface" and "Surface Pro". "Surface" will run the Windows RT operating system and use an ARM CPU. "Surface Pro" wi...

Tropical Storm Haikui is forecast to make landfall in China probability for CAT 1 or above is 35% in about 30 hours probability for TS is 80% in about 30 hours Wenling (28.4 N, 121.4 E) probability for CAT 1 or above is 35% in about 30 hours probability for TS is 80...