Orbital elements: 2010 JD87 Earth MOID = 0.2854 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 80.48109 (2000.0) P Q n 0.57092307 Peri. 148.58004 -0.61976768 -0.76959412 a 1.4390780 Node 338.44814 +0.60492704 -0.34374234 e 0.6437962 Incl. 24.72821 +0.49995130 -0.53811345 P 1.73 H 19.2 G 0.15 U 9...
The First Rocket Launch from Cape Canaveral A new chapter in space flight began on 1950 July with the launch of the first rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida: the Bumper V-2. Read more
Call for new examination of the Battle of Harlaw as 600th anniversary approaches The Battle of Harlaw was one of the most significant in Scotlands history but little is known about the event which changed forever the cultural and linguistic face of the nation. As the 600th anniversary approaches, a...
The speaking clock turns 75 years old Now part of Britain's heritage, the speaking clock was the first of the pre-recorded information services in the UK provided through telephones. Read more In the United Kingdom, the speaking clock can be reached by dialling 123 on a BT phone line; the number may v...
Francis Edwin Close OBE (born 24 July 1945) is a noted particle physicist who is currently Professor of Physics at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxford. Read more Frank Close talks about nothing
Charles Emile Picard FRS (24 July 1856 - 11 December 1941) was a French mathematician. He was elected the fifteenth member to occupy seat 1 of the Académie Française in 1924 Read more
Title: IDCS J1433.2+3306: An IR-Selected Galaxy Cluster at z = 1.89 Authors: Gregory R. Zeimann, S. A. Stanford, Mark Brodwin, Anthony H. Gonzalez, Gregory F. Snyder, Daniel Stern, Peter Eisenhardt, Conor Mancone, Arjun Dey We report the discovery of an IR-selected galaxy cluster in the IRAC Dis...
Free Landsat Scenes Go Public by the Million On August 17, someone who wanted to see how the Earth looks from 440 miles away in space downloaded the one-millionth Landsat satellite image scene from a U.S. Geological Survey web site at its Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Centre in Siou...
Meteorite: Amateurs Vs Scientists The amateur scientists who stole the attention of the media after identifying a rock at Jogipura in Channarayapatna taluk as a meteorite could not answer questions from scientists in Hassan on Monday. Participating in an interaction held at the press club the am...
What may be the oldest known remains of a polar bear have been uncovered on the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic. The jawbone was pulled from sediments that suggest the specimen is perhaps 110,000 or 130,000 years old. Professor Olafur Ingolfsson from the University of Iceland says tests show it w...
Ancient astronomical observatory unearthed in Georgia About three hours west of Savannah, archaeologists unearthed an ancient Indian mound which had a secret hidden chamber inside. Inside this secret chamber was a circle of fifty seats and an altar in the shape of a hawk or eagle. Known as the Ocmu...
New NASA Supercomputer Facility Set to Advance Earth Research NASA soon will open a new chapter of discovery using enhanced Landsat Earth-observing data in a state-of-the-art, high-performance computing and data access facility called NASA Earth Exchange (NEX). This new facility is a virtual...
The Croscat is a volcano in the comarca of Garrotxa, Catalonia, Spain. It is both the youngest and highest volcano in the Iberian Peninsula, with the last eruption dated back to about 11,500 years ago. The volcanic cone has a horseshoe shape and its northeastern flank was quarried for volcanic grave...
Watch IGARSS live from Munich Watch the opening of one of the biggest conferences on geoscience and remote sensing via live web stream on 23 July at 09:00-12:30 CEST. The 2012 International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) is being held in Munich, Germany, on 22-27 July. [url=http...
