JPL Invites Public to Open House NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory invites the public to its annual Open House on Saturday, May 14, and Sunday, May 15, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The event, themed "The Excitement of Explorations," invites visitors to share in the wonders of space through high-d...
Orbital elements:
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P 3.54 H 25.5 G 0....
VidCon is the world's first and largest Online Video Conference/Convention. Organised by Hank and John Green of the Vlogbrothers YouTube channel, VidCon is the largest gathering of the online video community worldwide, drawing thousands of attendees representing billions of online video vie...
The New Zealand International Starlight conference will take place at Lake Tekapo, New Zealand in June 2012. The Starlight Conference will be opened on Sunday June 10 by Sir Tumu Te Heuheu, Paramount Chief of Ngati Tuwharetoa in the North Island. Sir Tumu is a former chair of the World Heritage Commi...
Henry Philibert Gaspard Darcy (June 10, 1803 - January 3, 1858) was a French engineer who made several important contributions to hydraulics. Read more
Frederick Cook (June 10, 1865 - August 5, 1940) was an American explorer and physician, noted for his claim of having reached the North Pole on April 21, 1908. This would have been a year before April 6, 1909, the date claimed by Robert Peary. Read more
Long Running High School Space Science Contest Will NOT Hold 2012 Competition The University of Toronto Space Design Contest (UTSDC), will not be holding a competition in 2012 and seems unlikely to be revived anytime soon. The contest was an independent, student run organization operating out of...
KML files that will allow you to view the location of any satellite on Google Earth with latitude, longitude and altitude positions updated every 30 seconds. Read more
New Stars and Planets in the Milky Way Event type: Lectures & talks Dates: 14 June Times: 18.30-20.30 Fee: £5 Location: Royal Observatory Greenwich; Planetarium Audience: Family (over-5s); Adults; Young people A new generation of infrared telescopes are giving unprecedented views of the i...
James Short (10 June O.S. (21 June N.S.) 1710 - 15 June 1768) was a Scottish mathematician, optician and telescope maker. In Short's first telescopes the specula were made of glass, as suggested by James Gregory, but later he used metallic specula only, and thus succeeded in giving them true parabol...
Bridget Bishop (ca. 1632, England - 10 June 1692 Salem, Massachusetts) was the first person executed for witchcraft during the Salem witch trials of 1692. Read more
The Kangding Louding earthquake of 1786 caused a landslide dam in the Dadu River. Ten days later, 10 June 1786, the dam broke and the resulting flood extended 1,400 kilometres downstream, and killed 100,000 people. It is the second-deadliest landslide disaster on record. Read more[video=http:/...
King Meneptah's stelae in Silsila is safe after theft attempt Archaeologists and guards at Gabal Al-Silsila archaeological site, 20 kilometres north of Kom Ombo city in Aswan, succeeded in catching a group of thieves who in full view had tried to remove King Meneptah's stelae from its original po...
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