Aliens is a 1986 science fiction action film directed by James Cameron and starring Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Lance Henriksen, William Hope, and Bill Paxton. A sequel to the 1979 film Alien, Aliens is set 57 years after the first film with Weaver's character Ellen Ripley return...
Today is the 45th Anniversary of the Zond 3 spacecraft launch. Zond 3, a member of the Soviet Zond program, was the first Zond spacecraft to successfully complete its mission (a Lunar flyby) and took a number of amazing photographs for its time. It is believed that Zond 3 was initially designed as a co...
The Battle of the Allia was a battle of the first Gallic invasion of Rome. The battle was fought near the Allia river: the defeat of the Roman army opened the route for the Gauls to sack Rome. It was fought in 390/387 BC. Read more
The Great Fire of Rome (Latin: Magnum Incendium Romae) was an urban fire that occurred in AD 64. According to Tacitus, it spread quickly and burned for five and a half days. Only four of the fourteen districts of Rome escaped the fire; three districts were completely destroyed and the other seven su...
The Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe ("Swallow") was the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft. The V3 third prototype airframe, with the code PC+UC, became a true "jet" when it flew on 18 July 1942 in Leipheim near Günzburg, Germany, piloted by Fritz Wendel...
The Lesser Stick-nest Rat or White-tipped Stick-nest Rat (Leporillus apicalis) lived in Southern inland Australia. It accumulated large mounds of sticks to construct its nests, which were up to three metres long and a metre high. It was easily tamed, sometimes climbing onto tables to get sugar. I...
Hendrik Antoon Lorentz (Arnhem, 18 July 1853 - Haarlem, 4 February 1928) was a Dutch physicist who shared the 1902 Nobel Prize in Physics with Pieter Zeeman for the discovery and theoretical explanation of the Zeeman effect. He also derived the transformation equations subsequently used by Alber...
The Pioneer 10 and 11 spacecraft exhibited an `error` in their trajectories that `drag` them 8.74e-8 cm/sec/sec back towards the sun, after they had ventured passed a distance of 20 AU. This anomalous acceleration has come to be referred to as the Pioneer Effect.
If this represen...
The 630 - 1400 metre wide asteroid 2000 ET70 will make a close pass (17.7 lunar distances, 0.0454 AU), travelling at 11.54 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 19th February, 2012 @ 20:37 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Dist...
Five telescopes for educational purposes A new educational collaboration agreement for space science and astronomy will bring the use of five telescopes to secondary school and university students in Europe. Students will be able to use one of ESA's radio telescopes in Spain, together with a fur...
Orbital elements:
2012 EC Earth MOID = 0.0013 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 265.31436 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.79616684 Peri. 332.90002 +0.17983076 +0.98361328
a 1.1529222 Node 307.45711 -0.89956005 +0.15913847
e 0.1357196 Incl. 0.92944 -0.39806108 +0.08473401
P 1.24 H 23.6 G 0...
A SL-4 rocket body that was launched on the 15th July, 2012, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, for the Soyuz TMA-05M mission, is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 17th July, 2012 @ 11:15 GMT ± 15 hours.SL-4 RB
1 38672U 12037B 12198.45547646 .03797078 12159-4 70466-...
Orbital elements:
2012 HS15 Earth MOID = 0.0711 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 317.62055 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.31402274 Peri. 155.63201 +0.37976759 +0.91937716
a 2.1436900 Node 136.49104 -0.87132310 +0.39274199
e 0.5007167 Incl. 8.56865 -0.31076139 +0.02234667
P 3.14 H 20.4...
Title: Luminosity distance in Swiss cheese cosmology with randomised voids and galaxy halos Authors: Eanna E. Flanagan, Naresh Kumar, Ira Wasserman We study the fluctuations in luminosity distance due to gravitational lensing produced both by galaxy halos and large scale voids. Voids are repr...
Title: Comparison of cosmological parameter inference methods applied to supernovae lightcurves fitted with SALT2 Authors: M. C. March, N. V. Karpenka, F. Feroz, M. P. Hobson We present a comparison of two methods for cosmological parameter inference from supernovae Ia lightcurves fitted wit...
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