Orbital elements:
2012 DW30 Earth MOID = 0.1185 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 357.33441 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.28754741 Peri. 241.71270 -0.99801256 +0.04562306
a 2.2733331 Node 300.87228 -0.02310828 -0.90671566
e 0.5136491 Incl. 2.90291 -0.05862545 -0.41926751
P 3.43 H 22.7...
Nicolas Camille Flammarion (26 February 1842-3 June 1925) was a French astronomer and author. He was a prolific author of more than fifty titles, including popular science works about astronomy, several notable early science fiction novels, and several works about Spiritism and related topics...
Efforts to build a sparkling new science centre on the grounds of the nearly 125-year-old Blue Hill Weather Observatory are ready to take flight, provided the state gives the project the go-ahead. The Blue Hill Weather Observatory and Science Centre, the non-profit organisation that operates th...
Normally, we think of building blocks as static objects. For instance, the brick and mortar used to build the local bank remain pretty much the same from the day it's built to the day it's torn down. But the building blocks of ordinary matter are different.
These bricks are particles called quarks,...
Orbital elements: 2010 DF1 PHA, Earth MOID = 0.0434 AU Epoch 2010 Jan. 4.0 TT = JDT 2455200.5 MPC M 298.98528 (2000.0) P Q n 0.44628410 Peri. 101.32159 -0.20841468 +0.96621174 a 1.6958799 Node 155.02538 -0.97722980 -0.19941114 e 0.5419787 Incl. 21.04980 -0.03981518 -0.16330972 P 2.21 H 21.8 G 0.1...
Orbital elements:
2012 DC28 Earth MOID = 0.1609 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 14.73854 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.55891051 Peri. 171.78757 -0.86171692 -0.44411630
a 1.4596247 Node 336.39380 +0.42372701 -0.36387929
e 0.2130837 Incl. 37.78713 +0.27910457 -0.81875062
P 1.76 H 23.3...
John Evershed (26 February 1864 - 17 November 1956) was an English astronomer. He was the first to observe radial motions in sunspots, a phenomenon known as the Evershed effect. The crater Evershed on the Moon is named in his honour. Read more
Anatoly Vasilyevich Filipchenko (born February 26, 1928 in Davydovka, Voronezh Oblast, RSFSR) was a Soviet cosmonaut of Ukrainian descent. He flew on the Soyuz 7 and Soyuz 16 missions. Read more
AS-201 (or SA-201), flown February 26, 1966, was the first unmanned test flight of an entire production Block I Apollo Command/Service Module and the Saturn IB launch vehicle. Read more
Ida Noddack (25 February 1896 - 29 October 1978), née Ida Tacke, was a German chemist and physicist. She was the first to mention the idea of nuclear fission in 1934. With her husband Walter Noddack she discovered element 75 rhenium. She was nominated three times for Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Read mor...
Lev Andreevich Artsimovich (February 25, 1909 (NS) - March 1, 1973) was a Soviet physicist, academician of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (1953), member of the Presidium of the Soviet Academy of Sciences (since 1957), and Hero of Socialist Labor (1969). Artsimovich worked on the field of nuclear f...
Kitano Tenman-g is a Shinto shrine in Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan. It was built in 947, to appease the 'angry spirit' of bureaucrat, scholar and poet Sugawara no Michizane, who had been exiled as a result of political manoeuvres of his enemies in the Fujiwara clan. The Plum Blossom Festival is held on Fe...
