Sir Owen Willans Richardson, FRS (26 April 1879 - 15 February 1959) was a British physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1928 for his work on thermionic emission, which led to Richardson's Law. Read more
David Hume (7 May [O.S. 26 April] 1711 - 25 August 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, known especially for his philosophical empiricism and skepticism. He was one of the most important figures in the history of Western philosophy and the Scottish Enlightenment...
The Daulatpur-Saturia, Bangladesh Tornado was an extremely destructive tornado that occurred in the Manikganj District, Bangladesh on April 26, 1989. It was the costliest and deadliest tornado in Bangladesh's history. There is great uncertainty about the death toll, but estimates indicate...
Kosmos 4, also known as Zenit-2 #2 and occasionally in the West as Sputnik 14 was the first Soviet reconnaissance satellite to successfully reach orbit. It was the fourth satellite to be designated under the Kosmos system, and the second Soviet attempt to launch a reconnaissance satellite, the pre...
A possible magnitude 12.7 supernova was discovered on the 9th December, 2011, in the lenticular galaxy NGC 4984, in the Virgo constellation, by K. Itagaki. The supernova is located 17" east and 6" south from the center of the galaxy. As yet the type is unknown. Position (2000): RA 13 0...
Orbital elements: 2010 FH92 Epoch 2010 Mar. 25.0 TT = JDT 2455280.5 MPC M 359.14391 (2000.0) P Q n 0.00871098 Peri. 323.48159 -0.13861176 +0.46793077 a 23.3932974 Node 279.61688 -0.55985543 -0.76401682 e 0.7546217 Incl. 62.28454 -0.81691412 +0.44420613 P 113 H 11.8 G 0.15 From 13 observations 2...
The 90 - 200 metre wide asteroid 2004 RQ252 will make a close pass (49.4 lunar distances, 0.1270 AU), travelling at 15.48 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 30th September, 2010. See more The Lunar Distance (LD)...
Orbital elements: 2010 NR1 Earth MOID = 0.1242 AU Epoch 2010 July 23.0 TT = JDT 2455400.5 MPC M 349.46763 (2000.0) P Q n 0.47191330 Peri. 242.81338 +0.78368980 +0.61334861 a 1.6339092 Node 79.19147 -0.52867468 +0.74158731 e 0.3255612 Incl. 5.73482 -0.32608798 +0.27175677 P 2.09 H 21.9 G 0.15 U 7 [u...
We in the HerMES team are very pleased to announce our first major data release, DR1. This release includes Herschel SPIRE sky maps and object catalogues. The maps were made using 250, 350 and 500 µm filters. These sub-milimeter wavelengths had not been significantly exploited before the Herschel...
Six scientists of Indian origin elected Fellows of Royal Society Bangalore-based biologist Krishnaswamy VijayRaghavan and Professor Tejinder Singh Virdee of Imperial College, London, who was associated with the design and construction of the Large Hadron Collider, are among six internati...
Orbital elements:
2012 HO15 Earth MOID = 0.0995 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 324.37200 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.25875442 Peri. 111.70204 +0.48383543 +0.87296726
a 2.4389947 Node 188.10823 -0.87266039 +0.48658658
e 0.6446514 Incl. 26.03131 +0.06608419 +0.03408305
P 3.81 H 19....
Orbital elements:
2012 HP15 Earth MOID = 0.1649 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 252.25714 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.79260036 Peri. 129.72733 +0.83535288 +0.51877440
a 1.1563781 Node 201.11015 -0.51148057 +0.85470256
e 0.3634956 Incl. 30.32004 +0.20142788 +0.01888547
P 1.24 H 21....
Pakistan tests new ballistic missile Pakistan successfully test fired a nuclear-capable intermediate range ballistic missile on Wednesday, the military said, less than a week after India test launched a long range missile. The exact range of the missile was not revealed, but retired General Ta...
Mysterious 'Monster' Discovered By Amateur Palaeontologist Around 450 million years ago, shallow seas covered the Cincinnati region and harboured one very large and now very mysterious organism. Despite its size, no one has ever found a fossil of this "monster" until its discovery...
Title: Discovery of a protocluster at z~6 Authors: Jun Toshikawa, Nobunari Kashikawa, Kazuaki Ota, Tomoki Morokuma, Takatoshi Shibuya, Masao Hayashi, Tohru Nagao, Linhua Jiang, Matthew A. Malkan, Eiichi Egami, Kazuhiro Shimasaku, Kentaro Motohara, Yoshifumi Ishizaki We report the discove...
