The Kamikaze was a Mitsubishi Ki-15 Karigane aircraft, (registration J-BAAI) sponsored by the newspaper Asahi Shimbun. It became famous on April 9, 1937 as the first Japanese-built aircraft to fly from Japan to Europe. Read more
Title: SDSS J184037.78+642312.3: The First Pulsating Extremely Low Mass White Dwarf Authors: J. J. Hermes, M. H. Montgomery, D. E. Winget, Warren R. Brown, Mukremin Kilic, Scott J. Kenyon We report the discovery of the first pulsating extremely low mass (ELM) white dwarf (WD), SDSS J184037.78+6...
In 1857, Edouard-Léon Scott de Martinville invented the phonautograph, the first device for making sound waves viewable. It used a membrane (which vibrated in response to sound) attached to a pen, which traced a line roughly corresponding to the sound's waveform onto a roll of paper. Read more Re...
Spoiler Isambard Kingdom Brunel, FRS (9 April 1806 - 15 September 1859), was an English civil engineer who built bridges and dockyards including the construction of the first major British railway, the Great Western Railwa...
Valerie Singleton OBE (born 9 April 1937) is an English television and radio presenter, best known as a presenter of the popular children's series, Blue Peter. Read more
The Battle of Arras was a British offensive during the First World War. From 9 April to 16 May 1917, British, Canadian, New Zealand, Newfoundland, and Australian troops attacked German defences near the French city of Arras on the Western F...
The Hatford (Stone) meteorite fell in England, UK, on the 9th April, 1628. A total mass of 29 kg was recovered. 51° 39'N, 1° 31'W According to the Catalogue of Meteorites, 'at least three stones fell': the 24 lb (11 kg) Hatford stone, the 26 lb (12 kg) Challow stone, and the 14 lb (6.4 kg) Balking stone. Th...
Intelsat, Ltd., the world's leading provider of fixed satellite services, announced today that the Australian Defence Force (ADF) has agreed to purchase a specialised UHF communications payload aboard an Intelsat satellite scheduled for launch in 2012. As part of the "hosted payload&qu...
In Celtic mythology Epona, the Great Mare was a great goddess, who in Gallo-Roman religion became simply the protector of horses, donkeys, mules. She was particularly a goddess of fertility, as shown by her attributes of a patera, cornucopia, and the presence of foals in some sculptures. Unusuall...
The 370 - 840 metre wide asteroid 2007 DK will make a close pass (67.5 lunar distances, 0.1735 AU), travelling at 12.73 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 13th April, 2012 @ 05:18 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar Distanc...
Magnetic storms spotted on Venus Planet emits bursts of energy despite having no magnetised field of its own. Scientists have discovered that magnetic reconnection happens on Venus, a planet with no intrinsic magnetic field. The finding, reported today in Science1, suggests that magnetic rec...
Afghanistan's Bamiyan Buddhas
The empty niches that once held Bamiyan's colossal Buddhas now gape in the rock face - a silent cry at the terrible destruction wrought on this fabled valley and its 1,500-year-old treasures, once the largest standing Buddha statues in the world.
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The Molniya 1-89 satellite that was launched on the 14th August, 1996, from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 6th April, 2012 @ 20:21 GMT ± 24 hours.MOLNIYA 1-89
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David Rittenhouse (April 8, 1732 - June 26, 1796) was a renowned American astronomer, inventor, clockmaker, mathematician, surveyor, scientific instrument craftsman and public official. Rittenhouse was a member of the American Philosophical Society and the first director of the United Stat...
