The positron was discovered by Carl D. Anderson on August 2, 1932, for which he won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1936. Read more This is a video showing positrons (and gamma rays) from a Fluorine-18 source made visible via a cloud chamber. Th...
The 1968 Casiguran earthquake occurred on August 2, 1968 at a magnitude of 7.3 on the Richter scale. The earthquake's epicenter was located in Casiguran, Quezon (now part of Aurora province). This was deemed the most destructive earthquake in the Philippines prior to the 1990 Luzon earthquake, an...
A giant clock being built in the holy city Mecca could bring competition to GMT Watches around the world could soon be set by another reference point instead of Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). The challenge to the observatory in south-east London comes as a giant clock, costing ~£500 million, is nearing c...
Orbital elements:
2012 DS30 Earth MOID = 0.0299 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 336.71205 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.86226610 Peri. 228.80550 -0.92640214 +0.36867064
a 1.0932224 Node 332.56835 -0.27611714 -0.80338613
e 0.0922538 Incl. 9.56577 -0.25600468 -0.46760313
P 1.14 H 25.9...
Fulvio Melia (born 2 August 1956) is an Italian-American astrophysicist and author. He is Professor of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Arizona and Associate Editor of the Astrophysical Journal Letters. Read more
John Tyndall FRS (2 August 1820 - 4 December 1893) was a prominent 19th century physicist. His initial scientific fame arose in the 1850s from his study of diamagnetism. Later he studied thermal radiation, and produced a number of discoveries about processes in the atmosphere. Read more
Valery Fyodorovich Bykovsky (born 2 August 1934, Pavlovsky Posad) is a retired Soviet cosmonaut who flew three manned space mission space flights: Vostok 5, Soyuz 22, and Soyuz 31. Read more
Bertalan Farkas (born August 2, 1949) was the first Hungarian cosmonaut and the first Esperantist in space. He is currently the president of Airlines Service and Trade. With Charles Simonyi's travel, Farkas is no longer the only Hungarian who has been to space (he is still the only astronaut, as Sim...
The Battle of Chaeronea was fought in 338 BC, near the city of Chaeronea in Boeotia, between the forces of Philip II of Macedon and an alliance of Greek city-states (the principal members of which were Athens and Thebes). The battle was the culmination of Philip's campaign in Greece (339-338 BC) and r...
The Battle of Cannae The Battle of Cannae was a major battle of the Second Punic War, taking place on August 2, 216 BC near the town of Cannae in Apulia in southeast Italy. The army of Carthage under Hannibal decisively defeated a numerically s...
Despina, also known as Neptune V, is the third closest inner satellite of Neptune. It is named after Despoina, a nymph who was a daughter of Poseidon and Demeter. Despina was discovered in late July 1989 from the images taken by the Voyager 2 probe. It was given the temporary designation S/1989 N 3. The...
Commercial Crew Announcement this Week? Charles Lurio of The Lurio Report has emailed me saying that he has heard from a very reliable source that NASA will announce the next round of commercial crew funding on Thursday or Friday. This is no independent verification of this report. [url=http://ww...
Tropical Storm Saola (10W) is forecast to make landfall in Taiwan probability for CAT 1 or above is 40% in about 48 hours probability for TS is 65% in about 48 hours Taipei (25.0 N, 121.5 E) probability for CAT 1 or above is 35% in about 72 hours probability for TS...
Spodumene is a pyroxene mineral consisting of lithium aluminium inosilicate, LiAl(SiO3)2, and is a source of lithium. It occurs as colourless to yellowish, purplish, or lilac kunzite, yellowish-green or emerald-green hiddenite, prismatic crystals, often of great size. Single crystals of 14...
A Blue Whirlpool in The River A new image taken with ESO's Very Large Telescope shows the galaxy NGC 1187. This impressive spiral lies about 60 million light-years away in the constellation of Eridanus (The River). NGC 1187 has hosted two supernova explosions during the last thirty years, the lates...
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