North Wales astronomer to recreate Captain Cooks maiden voyage Rob Wix is part of a team of scientists about to embark on the epic adventure to the Western Pacific. There, the group will take measurements to calculate the orbital radius of the planet as it crosses the face of the sun. [url=http://ww...
NASA shuts down its last mainframe There was a time when IBM's mainframes were cutting-edge machines for scientific and engineering calculations. Those days began in the 1960s, when IBM's System 360 rewrote the rules of computing and before humans walked on the moon. Big Blue long since has moved...
Orbital elements:
2012 CD18 Earth MOID = 0.0436 AU
Epoch 2012 Mar. 14.0 TT = JDT 2456000.5 MPC
M 8.98113 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.34832373 Peri. 8.33714 -0.84917356 -0.49337144
a 2.0005405 Node 140.23387 +0.46596200 -0.86783925
e 0.4865841 Incl. 17.12816 +0.24856323 -0.05864855
P 2.83 H 24.3 G 0....
Thermionic emission is the heat-induced flow of charge carriers from a surface or over a potential-energy barrier. The phenomenon was initially reported in 1873 by Frederick Guthrie in Britain. While doing work on charged objects, Guthrie discovered that a red-hot iron sphere with a positive ch...
Gerboise Bleue ("blue jerboa") was the name of the first French nuclear test. It was an atomic bomb detonated in the middle of the Algerian Sahara desert on 13 February 1960, during the Algerian War (1954-62). Read more
The Coso Artifact is a spark plug found encased in a lump of hard clay or rock on February 13, 1961 by Wallace Lane, Virginia Maxey, and Mike Mikesell while they were prospecting for geodes near the town of Olancha, California, and long claimed as an example of an out-of-place artifact. Read more Ed ~ I...
In ancient Roman religion and myth, Faunus was the horned god of the forest, plains and fields; when he made cattle fertile he was called Inuus. He came to be equated in literature with the Greek god Pan. Two festivals, called Faunalia, were celebrated in his honour - one on the 13th of February, in the t...
Lawrencium was first synthesised by the nuclear-physics team of Albert Ghiorso, Torbjørn Sikkeland, Almon Larsh, Robert M. Latimer, and their co-workers on February 14, 1961, at the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory (now called the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) at the University of Cal...
In ancient Rome, the Parentalia or dies parentales ("ancestral days") was a nine-day festival held in honor of family ancestors, beginning February 13. Although the Parentalia was a holiday on the Roman religious calendar, its observances were mainly domestic and familial. Read mor...
Stone row at new wind farm "missed by archaeologists" ? Word has reached us of a newly discovered stone row on the site of a proposed wind farm in Wales. Unconfirmed reports say the row at the Mynydd y Betws wind farm development had been "missed" by archaeologists researching t...
BBC documentary brings the world's oldest underwater city back to life Just a few metres under the sea, off the southern coast of Greece, lies Pavlopetri - the oldest submerged city in the world. A team of archaeologists from The University of Nottingham, working with the Ephorate of Underwater An...
The AMNH Darwin Manuscripts Project is a historical and textual edition of Charles Darwin's scientific manuscripts, designed from its inception as an online project. The database at its core - DARBASE - catalogues some 45,000 Darwin scientific manuscripts. These are currently represented by 1...
Asiasat to launch 2 satellites, expand fleet to 6 in 2014Space launch company Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) and AsiaSat has inked an agreement to launch in 2014 two communications satellites using SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket. AsiaSat 6 and AsiaSat 8 are scheduled to launch in the first hal...
Strange Object Lights up Dallas Sky Something strange and unusual shot across the Metroplex Wednesday night, leaving many people scratching their heads. FOX 4 viewers began calling and emailing the station just after 8 p.m. to report an extremely bright light that zipped from wes...
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