Oscar Sala (b. March 26, 1922 in Milan, Italy, d. January 2, 2010 in São Paulo, Brazil), Italian-Brazilian nuclear physicist and important scientific leader, Emeritus Professor of the Institute of Physics, University of São Paulo. Read more
Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford (in German: Reichsgraf von Rumford), FRS (March 26, 1753 - August 21, 1814) was an American-born British physicist and inventor whose challenges to established physical theory were part of the 19th century revolution in thermodynamics. Read more
An ILS Proton Breeze M with the Express-AM4 telecom satellite was launched from Pad 39 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 21:25 GMT, 17th August 2011. After the 4th burn of the Breeze M upper stage, telemetry signals were lost. However, Roscosmos engineers managed to acquire a signal a few hours later.
Orbital elements:
2012 FO35 Earth MOID = 0.0337 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 324.04885 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.45938840 Peri. 93.22055 +0.04447752 +0.99900941
a 1.6634741 Node 179.32392 -0.95714427 +0.04301398
e 0.5320959 Incl. 6.79723 -0.28617580 +0.01140164
P 2.15 H 23.7 G...
Orbital elements:
2012 FP35 Earth MOID = 0.0010 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 318.83184 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.62834258 Peri. 79.34671 -0.09169112 +0.99566164
a 1.3500144 Node 185.46727 -0.96620484 -0.09280232
e 0.4450357 Incl. 9.56470 -0.24091688 -0.00675454
P 1.57 H 27.9 G...
The dwarf nova CN Orionis is in outburst. Date: 25th March, 2011 Magnitude range: 11 - 16.2 V Period: 15.85 days Satellite period: 0.163199 days Type: UGZ Position(2000): RA=05 52 07.79, Dec=-05°25'00.5"
Hilaria, in Roman religion, day of merriment and rejoicing in the Cybele-Attis cult and in the Isis-Osiris cult, March 25 and November 3, respectively. It was one of several days in the festival of Cybele that honoured Attis, her son and lover: March 15, his finding by Cybele among the reeds on the ba...
After construction, the Space Shuttle Columbia arrived at Kennedy Space Centre on March 25, 1979, to prepare for its first launch. Columbia was originally scheduled to lift off in late 1979, however the launch date was delayed by problems with both the SSME components, as well as the thermal protec...
Interview with JRR Tolkien in 1968 and Adam Tolkien in 2007 Tolkien Reading Day is an annual event, launched by The Tolkien Society in 2003, that takes place on March 25th. Read more
James "Jim" Arthur Lovell, Jr., (born March 25, 1928) is a former NASA astronaut and a retired captain in the United States Navy, most famous as the commander of the Apollo 13 mission, which suffered a critical failure en route to the Moon but was brought back safely to Earth by the efforts o...
Christopher Clavius (March 25, 1538 - February 6, 1612) was a German Jesuit mathematician and astronomer who was the main architect of the modern Gregorian calendar. Read more
Korabl-Sputnik 5 or Vostok-3KA No.2, also known as Sputnik 10 in the West, was a Soviet spacecraft which was launched in 1961, as part of the Vostok programme. It was the last test flight of the Vostok spacecraft desgin, prior the first manned flight, Vostok 1. It carried the mannequin Ivan Ivanovich...
Humans killed off Australia's giant beasts Humans hunted Australia's giant vertebrates to extinction about 40,000 years ago, the latest research published in Science has concluded. The cause of the widespread extinction has provoked much debate, with climate change being one theory. Howeve...
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