Orbital elements:
2012 BS23 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0313 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 347.88325 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.35268657 Peri. 259.15849 -0.79649027 +0.60120194
a 1.9840081 Node 317.75573 -0.51050210 -0.72579285
e 0.5923632 Incl. 5.50493 -0.32402293 -0.33433660
P 2.79 H...
Eratosthenes crater 15_01_2012 06_09_18. The moon captured with a 100mm refractor and Vista pro webcam. Light Yellow filter + IR-cut filter Eratosthenes is a relatively deep lunar impact crater that lies on the boundary between the Mare...
Salyut 6 was a Soviet orbital space station, the eighth flown as part of the Salyut programme. Launched on 29 September 1977 by a Proton rocket, the station was the first of the 'second-generation' type of space station. Salyut 6 was deorbited on 29 July 1982, almost five years after its launch. [url=...
Isidor Isaac Rabi (29 July 1898 - 11 January 1988) was a Galician-born American physicist and Nobel laureate recognised in 1944 for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance. Read more
The Battle of Stiklestad in 1030 is one of the most famous battles in the history of Norway. According to Snorri Sturluson, the battle coincided with a nearly full solar eclipse, as reflected in the description of an ill-fated 'blooded red sun', which was interpreted as a certain omen of bad things to...
Olavsøka is a national holiday of the Faroe Islands, celebrated on July 29. It is the day when Løgting, the Faroese Parliament, opens its session. Read more
The National Aeronautics and Space Act (Pub.L. 85-568) is the United States federal statute that created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The Act, which followed close on the heels of the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik, was drafted by the United States House Select Com...
Charles Hard Townes (born July 28, 1915) is an American Nobel Prize-winning physicist and educator. Townes is known for his work on the theory and application of the maser, on which he got the fundamental patent, and other work in quantum electronics connected with both maser and laser devices. He s...
USS Constellation constructed in 1854 is a sloop-of-war and the second United States Navy ship to carry this famous name. According to the US Naval Registry the original frigate was disassembled on 25 June 1853 in Gosport Navy Yard in Norfolk, Virginia, and the sloop-of-war was constructed in the s...
Mars Landing Sky Show On the same night Curiosity lands on Mars, a "Martian Triangle" will appear in sunset skies of Earth. The first-magnitude apparition on August 5th gives space fans something to do while they wait for news fr...
Danish Space Travel Team Launches Private Rocket Test A Danish group of amateur spaceflight enthusiasts launched a homemade rocket Friday (July 27) on a trial flight to test vital technologies for a private manned spacecraft. The team Co...
On 28 July 2012 people around the world will come together to mark World Hepatitis Day and raise awareness of viral hepatitis. Coordinated by the World Hepatitis Alliance since 2007, World Hepatitis Day was officially recognised by the World Health Organisation on May 2010 and its now one of only fo...
Title: VERITAS Observations of Mgro J1908+06/Hess J1908+063 Authors: John E Ward, for the VERITAS collaboration The unidentified TeV gamma-ray source MGRO J1908+06/HESS J1908+063 was observed with the VERITAS Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Array during October 2007 and May-June 2008. This...
Title: Precise Radial Velocities of 2046 Nearby FGKM Stars and 131 Standards Authors: C. Chubak, G. Marcy, D. A. Fischer, A. W. Howard, H. Isaacson, J. A. Johnson, J. T. Wright We present radial velocities with an accuracy of 0.1 km/s for 2046 stars of spectral type F,G,K, and M, based on 29000 spectra...
Commemorations have been held in Tangshan in China to mark 30 years since a massive earthquake devastated the city.
Over 1,000 people attended a ceremony to remember those who died when the magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck in the early morning of 28 July 1976.
About 240,000 people died, accor...
