The Vanguard I satellite , the world's oldest orbiting man-made satellite, launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in 1958, will mark its 50th year in space on March 17. Read more Period 132.85 Incl. 34.26 Apogee 3840 ...
The Daffodil Weekend is on Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th March 2011 11am - 5pm (42nd event) Daffodil weekend is a traditional village fête-come flower festival, with open gardens, craft and home-produce stalls, music and rural entertainments and much, much more! Read more
The Liberalia (17 March) is the festival of Liber Pater and his consort Libera. The Romans celebrated Liberalia with sacrifices, processions, ribald and gauche songs, and masks which were hung on trees. This feast celebrates the maturation of young boys to manhood. Read more
The Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God was a breakaway religious movement from the Roman Catholic Church founded by Credonia Mwerinde, Joseph Kibweteere and Bee Tait in Uganda. It was formed in the late 1980s after Mwerinde, a brewer of banana beer, and Kibweteere, a politi...
Thomas Kenneth "Ken" Mattingly II, (born March 17, 1936) is a retired American astronaut and rear admiral in the United States Navy who flew on the Apollo 16, STS-4 and STS-51-C missions. He had been scheduled to fly on Apollo 13, but was held back due to concerns about a potential illness (...
David Beaumont Peakall (17 March 1931 - 18 August 2001) was an internationally recognised toxicologist. His research into the effects of DDE and DDT on eggshells contributed to the ban on DDT in the United States. Read more
Title: Cold and warm molecular gas in the outflow of 4C12.50 Authors: K. M. Dasyra, F. Combes We present deep observations of the 12CO(1-0) and (3-2) lines in 4C12.50, carried out with the 30m telescope of the Institut de Radioastronomie Millimetrique. Our observations revealed the cold molecula...
Title: QSO 0347-383 and the invariance of m_p/m_e in the course of cosmic time Authors: Martin Wendt, Paolo Molaro The variation of the dimensionless fundamental physical constant mu = m_p/m_e (the proton to electron mass ratio) can be constrained via observation of Lyman and Werner lines of mole...
Title: Morpho-kinematic analysis of the point-symmetric, bipolar planetary nebulae Hb 5 and K 3-17, a pathway to poly-polarity Authors: J. A. López, Ma. T. García-Díaz, W. Steffen, H. Riesgo, M. G. Richer The kinematics of the bipolar planetary nebulae Hb~5 and K 3-17 are investigated in detail b...
Title: Detection of the Circumstellar Disk Associated with 2MASS J0820-8003 in the eta Cha Cluster Authors: M. Simon, Joshua E. Schlieder, Ana-Maria Constantin, Michele Silverstein The Nearby Young Moving Groups (NYMGs) of stars are ideal for the study of evolution circumstellar disks in whic...
Much food for thought at major physics conference The first week of the biggest winter conference, the Rencontres de Moriond held in La Thuile in Italy closed on March 10, leaving all attendants both impressed and puzzled by all the new results presented. The situation is the following: Theorists k...
Orbital elements:
2012 EO10 Earth MOID = 0.0698 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 349.37333 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.29227336 Peri. 250.23989 -0.84614553 +0.53241601
a 2.2487606 Node 321.91835 -0.47332582 -0.77133003
e 0.5267479 Incl. 2.22019 -0.24494980 -0.34868779
P 3.37 H 24.4...
More than 1,000 rock carvings abound on Kanozero Island in Northern Russia. Featured objects are usually displayed in museums. But sometimes there are relics that can't be put on exhibition - as is the case with one that is hidden deep in the Russian forests. Knowing that there were rock carvings on s...
