The Explorer 8 satellite that was launched on the 3rd November, 1960, from Cape Canaveral, Florida, is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 16th March, 2012 @ --:-- GMT ± -- hours.EXPLORER 8
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2 00060 049.9016 241.846...
Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr. (born March 29, 1941) is an American astrophysicist and Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for his discovery with Russell Alan Hulse of a "new type of pulsar, a discovery that has opened up new possibilities for the study of gravitation." Read more
Aleksei Aleksandrovich Gubarev (29 March 1931 - 21 February 2015) was a Soviet cosmonaut who flew on two space flights: Soyuz 17 and Soyuz 28. Read more
1941 Hanna Reitsch Tests the Me-163 in Peenemunde Hanna Reitsch (29 March 1912 - 24 August 1979) was a German aviator and the only woman awarded the Iron Cross First Class and the Luftwaffe Combined Pilots-Observation Badge in Gold with Dia...
Title: Multiple episodes of star formation in the CN15/16/17 molecular complex Authors: M. Gennaro (1), A. Bik (1), W. Brandner (1), A. Stolte (2), B. Rochau (1), H. Beuther (1), D. Gouliermis (1,3), J. Tackenberg (1), N. Kudryavtseva (1), B. Hussmann (2), F. Schuller (4), Th. Henning (1) ((1) MPIA...
(Old news) Germany launches the first V-1 rocket attacks against London. It is the first guided-missile strike against an enemy city in the history of warfare. The V-1, one of Nazi Germany's so-called "wonder weapons," had been in development during the '30s but research slowed when a G...
The 1999 Chamoli earthquake occurred on 29 March 1999 in the Chamoli district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh (now in Uttarakhand). The earthquake was the strongest to hit the foothills of the Himalayas in more than ninety years Read more
Lucy Lawless, MNZM (born Lucille Frances Ryan; 29 March 1968) is a New Zealander actress and singer. She is best known for playing the title character of the internationally successful television series Xena: Warrior Princess which ran from 1995 to 2001. [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lu...
Astrophysicist Michael Turner speaks April 16 on what came 'Before the Big Bang' Eminent cosmologist Michael Turner will discuss the origins of the universe in a free public lecture on Monday, April 16, at 7 p.m. Turner's talk, "Before the Big Bang," will take place at the Rio Theatre, 12...
Orbital elements:
2012 FS52 Earth MOID = 0.0133 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 314.58048 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.61327471 Peri. 264.58215 +0.10694742 +0.99260860
a 1.3720376 Node 12.01960 -0.76775904 +0.11910373
e 0.4685186 Incl. 15.98901 -0.63175019 +0.02329079
P 1.61 H 24.8...
Title: Detached Red Giant Eclipsing Binary Twins: Rosetta Stones to the Galactic Bulge Authors: David M. Nataf, Andrew Gould, Marc H. Pinsonneault We identify 34 highly-probable detached, red giant eclipsing binary pairs among 315 candidates in Devor's catalogue of ~10,000 OGLE-II eclipsing...
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved a new name for a crater on Mars. Keren for a 28.63-km-wide Martian crater located at 20.98°N, 337.5°E. The feature was named in honour of a town in Eritrea.
A Burns Lake man thinks he has possibly found three meteorite craters and is pushing for a geologist to come to Burns Lake to solve the mystery. Joseph Driscol said to Lakes District News that he has been trying to get the word out to any level of government for well over a year, expecting that if the meteo...
Title: Modelling the Spectrum of IGR J17177-3656 Authors: Renyi Ma The correlation between radio and X-ray luminosity in the hard state of black hole X-ray binaries is important for unveiling the relation between the accretion flow and the jets. In this paper, we have modelled the quasi-simultan...