Planetary Society to celebrate Mars rover landing with two-day event in Pasadena The Planetary Society is inviting the public to join in celebrating the landing of NASA's next Mars rover at Planetfest 2012 in the Pasadena Convention Centre in August. NASA's Curiosity rover, its biggest rover yet...
Alexander George McAdie (August 4, 1863-November 1, 1943) was an American meteorologist. From 1903 until 1913 he ran the U.S. Weather Bureau in San Francisco. He was also the vice president of the Sierra Club, starting in 1904, and continuing until 1913. In 1913 he became Professor of meteorology a...
Orbital elements:
2010 XT45 Earth MOID = 0.2867 AU
Epoch 2012 Sept. 30.0 TT = JDT 2456200.5 MPC
M 90.94733 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.48455844 Peri. 88.84398 +0.35371658 +0.93098408
a 1.6053582 Node 202.53309 -0.92421231 +0.33301649
e 0.2774288 Incl. 13.62842 -0.14393118 +0.14956157
P 2.03 H 17.5...
Sunspots 11539, 11538, 11537, 11535, 11532 and 11530, and some solar faculae captured with a 80mm refractor + solar filter + green filter. Music generated via an Amiga 1200.
John Venn FRS (4 August 1834 - 4 April 1923), was a British logician and philosopher. He is famous for introducing the Venn diagram, which is used in many fields, including set theory, probability, logic, statistics, and computer science. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Venn]Read mo...
A SL-4 rocket body that was launched on the 1st August, 2012, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, for the Progress M-16M/48P mission, is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 3rd August, 2012 @ 23:00 GMT ± 5 hours.SL-4 RB
1 38739U 12042B 12216.58506315 .07204500 12405...
The Most Cruel Death of Cupid and Belinda A pair of star-cross'd lovers orbits Uranus, and when they rush to meet their fate, the duo could leave the cosmic stage littered with more bodies than the final scene of Hamlet. But the deaths of the moons Cupid and Belinda might not bring down the curtain on U...
Johann Gottlieb Lehmann (4 August 1719, Langenhennersdorf, Saxony, - 22 January 1767, Saint Petersburg, Russia) was a German mineralogist and geologist noted for his work and research contributions to the geologic record leading to the development of stratigraphy. Read more
Orbital elements:
2012 AE1 Earth MOID = 0.1429 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 77.75600 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.53464584 Peri. 356.03491 +0.97181694 -0.22989934
a 1.5034601 Node 17.52350 +0.22076783 +0.81001804
e 0.4698095 Incl. 9.97117 +0.08266443 +0.53945998
P 1.84 H 18.8 G 0....
The 1946 Dominican Republic earthquake refers to the earthquake of magnitude 8.0 that hit Samaná, Dominican Republic on August 4, 1946 at 17:51 UTC. An aftershock occurred four days later on August 8 at 13.28 UTC with a magnitude of 7.6. Read more
The 380 - 840 metre wide asteroid 2004 SB56 will make a close pass (54.2 lunar distances, 0.1393 AU), travelling at 13.72 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 4th August, 2012 @ 01:08 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0...
The 180 - 400 metre wide asteroid 2000 SD8 will make a close pass (65.2 lunar distances, 0.1675 AU), travelling at 5.82 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 4th August, 2012 @ 04:18 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.002...
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