The 60th birthday of the late writer Douglas Adams, creator of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, is to be marked with a special show. Comedians, writers and scientists are coming together for the event at London's Hammersmith Apollo in March. [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment...
A ULA Delta IV rocket is scheduled to launch the classified NROL-27 geostationary communications satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office, from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, at 22:00 UT, 11th March, 2011.
How to see five planets in one night over the UK For the first time in over a decade, people can catch a glimpse of five of the planets in the solar system, over the course of one night. Read more Expand (707kb, 1024 x 768)Expan...
Silent Running is a 1972 environmentally themed science fiction film starring Bruce Dern and directed by Douglas Trumbull, who had previously worked as a special effects supervisor on such science fiction films as 2001: A Space Odyssey a...
Orbital elements:
2012 DS85
Epoch 2012 Feb. 23.0 TT = JDT 2455980.5 MPC
M 346.55721 (2000.0) P Q
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e 0.2027656 Incl. 15.32763 +0.28930072 -0.10926412
P 96.4 H 9.8 G 0.15
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Mission to Mars is a 2000 science fiction film directed by Brian De Palma from an original screenplay written by Jim Thomas, John Thomas, and Graham Yost. The film's story details a fictional portrayal of a manned Mars exploration mission gone awry in the year 2020. Read more Mission to Mars (2000) H...
Sculpture honouring work of world renowned Durham maths professor to be unveiled The work of a former Durham University mathematician whose ideas are studied across the world will be commemorated with the unveiling of a new sculpture on Wednesday (March 14). Professor Tom Willmore, a former Hea...
The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst mining accident, caused the death of 1,099 miners (including many children) in Northern France on 10 March 1906. Read more
ABC News is reporting that someone stole Astronaut Laurel Clark's wedding ring after her body was recovered. The ring, which Clark wore on a chain around her neck while in orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia, was still on her when she was found. According to a report ABC News received during their...
The 1959 Tibetan uprising, or 1959 Tibetan Rebellion began on 10 March 1959, when a revolt erupted in Lhasa, the capital of Tibet, which had been under the effective control of the Communist Party of China since the Seventeen Point Agreement in 1951. The anniversary of the uprising is observed by som...
The Battle of the Aegates Islands or Aegusa (Aegadian Islands, off the western coast of the island of Sicily, 10 March 241 BC) was the final naval battle fought between the fleets of Carthage and the Roman Republic during the First Punic War. The result was a decisive Roman victory which forced an end t...
Orbital elements:
2012 DN14 Earth MOID = 0.0726 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 2.71417 (2000.0) P Q
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We are moving to a new factory at the end of this month. Not too far away, Newcastle under Lyme, just down the road in North Staffs. The production areas of the factory are on one level and are over 200% larger than current floor space in our units in Crewe. The units here in Crewe are rented, the new factory...
Saving the observatory If the Cobb Astro Park at Barnstable High School is perhaps its crowning glory, then one of its finest gems is the Cole Observatory. Unfortunately, in even the most beautiful gems one can find a flaw. Barnstable astronomy teacher Mike Gyra said that recently a flaw in the Cole...
Carl Zeiss Introduces the Brightest Super-Premium Binocular in the World Carl Zeiss Sports Optics introduces the all new VICTORY HT the brightest super-premium binocular in the world, with near 95% light transmission. This is the first binocular ever specifically created by hunters to meet the...
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