A magnitude 12.1 nova in Ophiuchus was discovered by H. Nishimura, Shizuoka-ken, (Japan) on the 25th March, 2012. Google earth file: Nova Ophiuchus 2012.kmz (1kb, kmz) Position (J2000): R.A. 17 26 07.02 | Dec. -25° 51' 42.1''[url=http://space.geocities.jp/yusastar77/supernova/PNin...
The Meteor 1-1 satellite that was launched on the 26th March, 1969, from the Plesetsk northern cosmodrome is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the 26th March, 2012 @ 14:55 GMT ± 48 hours.METEOR 1-1
1 03835U 69029A 12083.20360818 .01304846 -93606-6 56310-3 1231
2 03835 081.1298 235...
Title: Thermal emission from WASP-24b at 3.6 and 4.5 µm Authors: A. M. S. Smith, D. R. Anderson, N. Madhusudhan, J. Southworth, A. Collier Cameron, J. Harrington, C. Hellier, P. F. L. Maxted, D. Pollacco, D. Queloz, B. Smalley, A. H. M . J. Triaud, P. J. Wheatley Aims. We observe occultations of WASP...
India and Russia have so far invested 300 million dollars in BrahMos Aerospace, which was established to design, develop, produce and market the missile by using the technological skills and capabilities of both countries.
India and Russia intend to make 1,000 BrahMos supersonic cruise missi...
The 2005 Sumatra earthquake, referred to as the Nias Earthquake by the scientific community, was a major earthquake on 28 March 2005, located off the west coast of northern Sumatra, Indonesia. Seismic recordings give the earthquake a mom...
Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station (TMI) is a civilian nuclear power plant (NPP) located on Three Mile Island in the Susquehanna River, south of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. It has two separate units, known as TMI-1 and TMI-2. The plant is widely known for having been the site of the most sig...
Orbital elements:
2012 FH38 Earth MOID = 0.0500 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 29.35913 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.51140593 Peri. 292.90882 +0.21412900 -0.97293605
a 1.5486700 Node 144.37465 +0.94193344 +0.18211958
e 0.5866455 Incl. 8.57570 +0.25867001 +0.14222484
P 1.93 H 21.5 G...
Flaming UFOs in Lawrence Lawrence resident Rex Brasington spotted two bright orange/red balls of light over Lawrence on Saturday night Shortly after analysing photos of one the mystery balls, respected Australian astronomer David Reneke identified it as a fireball. [url=http://www.dailye...
The Microsoft Xbox Live Vision webcam for the Xbox 360 is interesting for having a CCD chip (not CMOS), a fixed IR-cut filter, easily attachable to any telescope, and costs very little money. The first thing you notice is how small the actual camera is - it weights no more than a decent eyepiece - and con...
ISEE-3 was originally launched on August 12, 1978, as the International Sun-Earth Explorer to a halo orbit about one of the Earth-Moon libration points to study Earth's magnetosphere and its interaction with the solar wind. Then, in 1983, it employed several lunar gravity assist flybys to send it...
The 1970 Gediz earthquake, aka 1970 Kütahya-Gediz earthquake, was an approximately 7.2 magnitude earthquake that struck western Turkey on March 28, 1970 at about 23:05 local time. Read more
Alexander Grothendieck (born 28 March 1928) is a mathematician and the central figure behind the creation of the modern theory of algebraic geometry. His research program vastly extended the scope of the field, incorporating major elements of commutative algebra, homological algebra, sheaf t...
Jerome Isaac Friedman (born March 28, 1930) is an American physicist. In 1968-1969, commuting between MIT and California, he conducted experiments with Henry W. Kendall and Richard E. Taylor at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center which gave the first experimental evidence that protons had a...
