Tornado uproots large willow tree in Martley A large willow tree in the centre of a Worcestershire village has been uprooted by a tornado. Residents in Martley said it was already raining on Monday night when the wind suddenly picked up, lifting roof tiles, before damaging the tree. [url=http://ww...
Sequim rock shop reports theft A shoplifter walked away with an estimated $6,000 to $8,000 worth of a mineral often called "space glass," a Sequim rock shop owner said. Two trays of moldavite weighing about 1,000 grams and a piece of moldavite jewellery with a quarter-carat canary diamo...
Scientists have found a novel way to get images through "scattering" materials such as frosted glass or even skin, or even "see around corners". Much research in recent years has focused on correcting for scattering, mostly for medical applications. But the new trick, repo...
The 20 - 42 metre wide asteroid 2007 DD made a close pass (41.3 Lunar Distances, 0.1061 AU), travelling at 2.94 km/s, to the Earth-Moon system on the 2nd May, 2009. See more The Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth an...
The 20 - 45 metre wide asteroid 2007 TN74 will make a close pass (66.9 lunar distances, 0.1718 AU), travelling at 7.36 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 16th July, 2012 @ 08:40 UT ±17:39. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.00256...
The Luzon earthquake occurred on Monday, July 16, 1990, at 4:26 PM local time in the Philippines. The densely populated island of Luzon was struck by an earthquake with a 7.8 Ms (surface-wave magnitude). The earthquake produced a 125 km-long ground rupture that stretched from Dingalan, Aurora to C...
The first photograph of a star was a daguerreotype of the star Vega by astronomer William Cranch Bond and daguerreotype photographer and experimenter John Adams Whipple, on July 16 and 17, 1850 with Harvard College Observatory's 15 inch Great refractor. Read more
The Duigan pusher biplane (often simply called the Duigan biplane) was an early aircraft which made the first powered flight by an Australian-designed and built machine when it flew in Victoria in 1910. Read more
Giuseppe Piazzi (July 16, 1746 - July 22, 1826) was an Italian Catholic priest of the Theatine order, mathematician, and astronomer. He was born in Ponte in Valtellina, and died in Naples. He established an observatory at Palermo, now the Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo - Giuseppe S. Vaiana. R...
Robert Sheckley (July 16, 1928 - December 9, 2005) was a Hugo- and Nebula-nominated American author. First published in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s, his numerous quick-witted stories and novels were famously unpredictable, absurdist and broadly comical. Read more
A thin crescent Moon is close to Jupiter on the 15th July, 2012. The Moon Occults Jupiter for Asia and Europe.Occultation prediction for Bristol, England
Day Time P y m d h m s 12 Jul 15 2 51 Graze Io 12 Jul 15 2 3 22 Graze Jupiter
Occultation prediction for London, England Day Time P y m d h m s 12 Jul 15 1 57...
Leon Max Lederman (born July 15, 1922) is an American physicist who, along with Melvin Schwartz and Jack Steinberger, received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1988 for their joint research on neutrinos. He is Director Emeritus of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) in Batavia, Illin...
Bertram Neville Brockhouse, CC FRSC (July 15, 1918 - October 13, 2003) was a Canadian physicist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics (1994, shared with Clifford Shull) "for pioneering contributions to the development of neutron scattering techniques for studies of condensed matter&...
