Leonid Alekseyevich Kulik (August 19, 1883, Tartu - April 24, 1942) was a Russian mineralogist who is noted for his research into meteorites. Read more
Alan Baker, FRS (born on 19 August 1939) is an English mathematician. He was born in London. He is known for his work on effective methods in number theory, in particular those arising from transcendence theory. Read more
Marcus Mosiah Garvey, Jr., ONH (17 August 1887 - 10 June 1940) was a Jamaican publisher, journalist, entrepreneur, and orator who was a staunch proponent of the Black Nationalism and Pan-Africanism movements, to which end he founded the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Commu...
Saturn's moons Helene and Polydeuces are Trojan moons of Dione, orbiting about 60 degrees ahead of and behind, the much larger moon.
Trojan moons are found near gravitationally stable points ahead or behind a larger moon.
Polydeuces (S/2004 S5) was discovere...
China has successfully launched a new satellite from the Taiyuan Launch Centre to monitor the maritime environment. The orbiter 'Haiyang-2' was boosted by a Long March-4B carrier rocket from the launch centre in the city of Taiyuan in Shanxi Province. The satellite, the second in the past four day...
Title: The Extreme Overabundance of Molybdenum in Two Metal-Poor Stars Authors: Ruth C. Peterson We report determinations of the molybdenum abundances in five mildly to extremely metal-poor turnoff stars using five Mo II lines near 2000A. In two of the stars, the abundance of molybdenum is found...
After 31 years of tracking the light-output of a 400 million-year-old white dwarf called G117-B15A, (RY LMi) located in Leo Minor, from telescopes at McDonald Observatory, astronomer S.O. Kepler of Brazil’s Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul and a slew of University of Texas colle...
Marcopolo 2 was launched on 18 August 1990. It had 5 Ku band transponders. It was sold in July 1992 to Telenor of Norway and renamed Thor 1. It was located at 0.8°W. It was switched off in January 2002, and in November of that year it was moved to 7.4°W and reactivated with digital test signals broadcastin...
An ATLAS 5 rocket body that was launched on the 7th May, 2011, from the Cape Canaveral, for the SBIRS GEO 1 satellite mission is predicted to re-enter the Earths atmosphere on the --th June, 2011 @ --:-- GMT ± -- hours. ATLAS 5 RB 1 37482U 11019B 11139.21269991 +.00200108 -16290-4 +18815-3 00249 2 374...
Dark Sky event to feature meteors Saturday The next in a series of monthly programs at Emmet County's Dark Sky Park at the Headlands will take place Saturday, Aug. 20, beginning at dusk. "The 7th Night of the 7th Moon" program will inaugurate the season of intense meteor activity. Sunset i...
What would you do if you found a piece of a meteorite in your yard? Jim Griffey just thought it was a rock after hitting it with his post hole diggers. Griffey says after really inspecting it he knew this wasn't any normal rock. He grabbed a magnet to see if it might be some kind of metal. [url=http://www.t...
As the first TEDxNASA event on the West Coast, this independently organised TEDxNASA event will bring together thought leaders from a variety of disciplines to provide a unique opportunity for the exchange of game-changing ideas under the theme "Extreme Green." Wednesday, August 17...
Asteroid (1362) Griqua (1935 QG1) is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on July 31, 1935 by Cyril V. Jackson at Union Observatory. It is one of very few asteroids located in the 2 : 1 mean motion resonance with Jupiter. Read more Epheme...
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