The Roswell UFO Incident was the alleged capture of an extra-terrestrial spacecraft, from an object that crashed in the general vicinity of Roswell, New Mexico, in June or July 1947. Read more
NASA'S Shuttle Atlantis At Launch Pad, Liftoff Practice Set After safely reaching its launch pad at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, space shuttle Atlantis awaits the next major milestone for its upcoming STS-135 mission to the International Space Station, the final flight of the Space S...
Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm (8 July 1895 - 12 April 1971) was a Soviet physicist who received the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Ilya Frank, for their 1934 discovery of Cherenkov radiation. Read more
Vitaly Ivanovich Sevastyanov (8 July 1935, Krasnouralsk, USSR - 5 April 2010) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on the Soyuz 9 and Soyuz 18 missions. Read more
Christian Kramp (July 8, 1760 - May 13, 1826) was a French mathematician, who worked primarily with factorials. He was the first to use the notation n! (Elements d'arithmétique universelle, 1808). Read more
The 1730 Valparaíso earthquake occurred at 03:45 local time (08:45 UTC) on July 8. It had an estimated magnitude of 8.7 and triggered a major tsunami with an estimated magnitude of Mt=8.75, that inundated the lower parts of Valparaíso. The earthquake caused severe damage from La Serena to Chillan,...
On 8 July 1497 Vasco da Gama led a fleet of four ships with a crew of 170 men from Lisbon. The distance travelled in the journey around Africa to India and back was greater than around the equator. The navigators included Portugal's most experienced, Pero de Alenquer, Pedro Escobar, João de Coimbra, an...
The 180 - 410 metre wide asteroid 2003 MK4 will make a close pass (65.1 lunar distances, 0.1673 AU), travelling at 14.35 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 8th July, 2012 @ 21:29 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (LD), the distance between Earth and the Moon, equals 384,401 km, (or 0.0025...
The Hunt for Higgs: A Horizon Special Horizon goes behind the scenes at CERN to follow one of the most epic and expensive scientific quests of all time: the search for the Higgs particle, believed to give mass to everything in our universe. [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b019h7t0]Read mo...
The Falkirk Wheel is to mark its tenth birthday The Falkirk Wheel will celebrate its 10th birthday today. The boat lift was opened by the Queen in 2002 and is the only one of its kind in the world. Read more
The 1300 - 2900 metre wide asteroid 2004 EW9 will make a close pass (46.8 lunar distances, 0.1202 AU), travelling at 10.90 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 16th July, 2012 @ 21:37 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distanc...
The 25 - 56 metre wide asteroid 2006 BC8 will make a close pass (61.6 lunar distances, 0.1584 AU), travelling at 17.71 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 16th July, 2012 @ 17:27 UT ±1 day 02:50. See moreThe Lunar Dis...
Orbital elements:
2012 MQ3 Earth MOID = 0.1186 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 281.56569 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.61836521 Peri. 31.20924 +0.52479474 +0.83956986
a 1.3644973 Node 270.79135 -0.80707075 +0.43832087
e 0.1777049 Incl. 8.07193 -0.27060540 +0.32093187
P 1.59 H 22.2 G 0...
Sounding Rocket Mission to Observe Magnetic Fields on the Sun On July 5, NASA will launch a mission called the Solar Ultraviolet Magnetograph Investigation or SUMI, to study the intricate, constantly changing magnetic fields on the sun in a hard-to-observe area of the sun's low atmosphere called...
The Siding Spring Survey (SSS) is a Near-Earth Object search program that utilises the 0.5-m Uppsala Schmidt Telescope at Siding Spring Observatory, N.S.W., Australia. It is the southern hemisphere counterpart of the Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) located in the Santa Catalina Mountains on Mt Bigel...
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