The Chang Zheng-2F rocket body that was launched on the 29th September, 2011, from the Jiuquan lauinch site, for the Tiangong 1 mission re-entered the Earths atmosphere on the 10th October, 2011 @ 10:27 GMT ± 1 minute.CZ2F RB
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It was just before 11 a.m. Wednesday when Bellevue police Capt. Herb Evers heard the boom. Evers was in the city's fleet maintenance facility, talking to a mechanic. "The windows in the garage doors rattled. It was like you could feel the concussion." He thought a plane had exploded and ca...
The 320 - 710 metre wide asteroid 2000 CH59 will make a close pass (45.1 lunar distances, 0.1158 AU), travelling at 9.59 km/second, to the Earth-Moon system on the 29th December, 2011 @ 21:04 UT ±00:01. See moreThe Lunar D...
Title: The Dawning of the Stream of Aquarius in RAVE Authors: Mary E. K. Williams, Matthias Steinmetz, Sanjib Sharma, Joss Bland-Hawthorn, Roelof S. de Jong, George M. Seabroke, Amina Helmi, Kenneth C. Freeman, James Binney, Ivan Minchev, Olivier Bienaymé, Rachel Campbell, Jon P. Fulbright, Br...
Title: Seven new binaries discovered in the Kepler light curves through the BEER method confirmed by radial-velocity observations Authors: S. Faigler, T. Mazeh, S. N. Quinn, D. W. Latham, L. Tal-Or We present seven newly discovered non-eclipsing short-period binary systems with low-mass comp...
Title: Observational Constraints, Stellar Models, and Kepler Data for theta Cyg, the Brightest Star Observable by Kepler Authors: J.A. Guzik, G. Houdek, W.J. Chaplin, D. Kurtz, R.L. Gilliland, F. Mullally, J.F. Rowe, M.R. Haas, S.T. Bryson, M.D. Still, T. Boyajian The V=4.48 F4 main-sequence s...
Old Michaelmas Day falls on October 11 (October 10 according to some sources). According to an old legend, blackberries should not be picked after this date. Read more
In Roman religion, Meditrinalia was an obscure festival celebrated on October 11 in honour of the new vintage, which was offered in libations to the gods for the first time each year. The festival may have been so called from medendo, because the Romans then began to drink new wine, which they mixed wi...
The Burchardi Flood, (also known as the second Grote Mandrenke) was a Storm tide that struck the North Sea coast of North Frisia and Dithmarschen on the night between the 11 and 12 October 1634. Read more
The 1138 Aleppo earthquake was an earthquake that was located near the town of Aleppo in northern Syria on 11 October 1138. The United States Geological Survey lists it as the third deadliest earthquake in history. Read more
Lewis Fry Richardson, FRS (11 October 1881 - 30 September 1953) was an English mathematician, physicist, meteorologist, psychologist and pacifist who pioneered modern mathematical techniques of weather forecasting, and the application of similar techniques to studying the causes of wars a...
Title: A Binary Orbit for the Massive, Evolved Star HDE 326823, a WR+O System Progenitor Authors: Noel D. Richardson, Douglas R. Gies, Stephen J. Williams The hot star HDE 326823 is a candidate transition-phase object that is evolving into a nitrogen-enriched Wolf-Rayet star. It is also a known lo...
Giant Kraken Lair Discovered Long before whales, the oceans of Earth were roamed by a very different kind of air-breathing leviathan. Snaggle-toothed ichthyosaurs larger than school buses swam at the top of the Triassic Period ocean food chain, or so it seemed before Mount Holyoke College paleon...
