The 1481 Rhodes earthquake occurred at 3:00 in the morning on 3 May. It triggered a small tsunami, which caused local flooding. There were an estimated 30,000 casualties. It was the largest of a series of earthquakes that affected Rhodes, starting on 15 March 1481, continuing until January 1482. Re...
AT SMALLEST SCALE, LIQUID CRYSTAL BEHAVIOUR PORTENDS NEW MATERIALS Liquid crystals, the state of matter that makes possible the flat screen technology now commonly used in televisions and computers, may have some new technological tricks in store. Writing today (May 3, 2012) in the journal Nat...
Cosmic Dance Helps Galaxies Lose Weight A study published this week in the journal Nature offers an explanation for the origin of dwarf spheroidal galaxies. The research may settle an outstanding puzzle in understanding galaxy formation. Dwarf spheroidal galaxies are small and very faint, cont...
The 1999 Bridge Creek - Moore tornado was an extremely powerful F5 tornado which devastated towns just outside of Oklahoma City on May 3, 1999. As the tornado moved into Oklahoma City, a mobile Doppler weather Radar recorded a gust within the tornado between 452 and 517 km/h, the highest winds ever re...
The Old Man of the Mountain, also known as the Great Stone Face or the Profile, was a series of five granite cliff ledges on Cannon Mountain in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, USA that, when viewed from the north, appeared to be the jagged profile of a face. The first recorded mention of the Old Man...
Vito Volterra (3 May 1860 - 11 October 1940) was an Italian mathematician and physicist, known for his contributions to mathematical biology and integral equations. Read more
Alfred Kastler (May 3, 1902 - January 7, 1984) was a French physicist, and Nobel Prize laureate. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1966 "for the discovery and development of optical methods for studying Hertzian resonances in atoms". Read more
Sir George Paget Thomson, FRS (3 May 1892 - 10 September 1975) was an English physicist and Nobel laureate in physics recognised for his discovery with Clinton Davisson of the wave properties of the electron by electron diffraction. Read more
In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie, ...
Steven Weinberg (born May 3, 1933) is an American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics for his contributions with Abdus Salam and Sheldon Glashow to the unification of the weak force and electromagnetic interaction between elementary particles. Read more[video=http://www.y...
Orbital elements:
2012 JA Earth MOID = 0.0095 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 330.07193 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.32405197 Peri. 234.83584 +0.12595950 +0.99168608
a 2.0992280 Node 42.42459 -0.89701539 +0.12518693
e 0.5600387 Incl. 2.23623 -0.42367157 +0.02978175
P 3.04 H 24.7 G 0....
The 360 - 810 metre wide asteroid 2001 SZ269 made a close pass (31.4 lunar distances, 0.0807 AU), travelling at 18.37 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 2nd May, 2012 @ 07:22 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distance (...
Orbital elements:
2012 HY33 Earth MOID = 0.1624 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 293.49492 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.34827626 Peri. 270.34265 +0.87061555 +0.43658790
a 2.0007222 Node 63.78207 -0.28669856 +0.82482093
e 0.5438493 Incl. 14.64108 -0.39979056 +0.35925121
P 2.83 H 19.5...
