Ivan Bella (born 25 May 1964 in Brezno, Czechoslovakia (present Slovakia)) is a Slovak Air Force officer who became the first Slovak citizen to fly in space. He participated in an eight-day joint Russian-French-Slovak mission to the Mir space station in 1999. Read more
Alien is a 1979 science fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm and Yaphet Kotto. Read more Aliens "Hadley's Hope&quo...
Orbital elements:
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Epoch 2012 Apr. 3.0 TT = JDT 2456020.5 MPC
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The first Nuclear artillery test was on May 25, 1953 at the Nevada Test Site. Fired as part of Operation Upshot-Knothole and codenamed Shot GRABLE, a 280 mm (11 inch) shell with a gun-type fission warhead was fired 10,000 m and detonated 160 m above the ground with an estimated yield of 15 kilotons. Rea...
The Scopes Trial - formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and informally known as the Scopes Monkey Trial - was a landmark American legal case in 1925 in which high school science teacher, John Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which made it unlawful to t...
NASA Funded Research Shows Existence Of Reduced Carbon On Mars NASA-funded research on Mars meteorites that landed on Earth shows strong evidence that very large molecules containing carbon, which is a key ingredient for the building blocks of life, can originate on the Red Planet. These macromo...
Plans to build a new international airport on the site of the Tswaing crater outside Tshwane have hit a hitch.
The airport, which is to be named in honour of the late Brenda Fassie, was proposed ten months ago.
It has been enthusiastically promoted as an alternative to the air traffic congestion a...
The Sun captured with a 80mm refractor and Vesta Pro webcam + DIY Focal reducer + Solar filter + IR cut filter. The Sunspots 11486 (left), and 11484 (right)captured with a 80mm refra...
William Whewell ( 24 May 1794 - 6 March 1866) was an English polymath, scientist, Anglican priest, philosopher, theologian, and historian of science. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. Read more
Mercury-Atlas 7 was a Mercury program American manned space mission launched May 24, 1962. The Mercury spacecraft was named Aurora 7 and made three earth orbits, piloted by astronaut Scott Carpenter. Read more
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (24 May 1686 - 16 September 1736) was a physicist, engineer, and glass blower who is best known for inventing the alcohol thermometer (1709) and the mercury thermometer (1714), and for developing a temperature scale now named after him. Read more
Orbital elements:
2012 KK11 Earth MOID = 0.0586 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 331.39690 (2000.0) P Q
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Title: Discovery of a young and massive stellar cluster: Spectrophotometric near-infrared study of Masgomas-1 Authors: S. Ramírez Alegría, A. Marín-Franch, A. Herrero Context: Recent near-infrared data have contributed to the discovery of new (obscured) massive stellar clusters and massi...
