Amesbury rock came from Soviet spacecraft Phil Green knew he'd found something unusual when he pulled the strange green rock out of the Merrimack River six years ago, but it wasn't until recently that he found out his discovery was truly out of this world. [url=http://www.eagletribune.com/lates...
Robert Grant (17 June 1814 - 24 October 1892) was a Scottish astronomer. The results of his work, extending over 21 years, are contained in the Glasgow Catalogue of 6415 Stars, published in 1883. Read more
Daniel Charles Brandenstein (born January 17, 1943, Watertown, Wisconsin, United States), is the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of United Space Alliance. He is a former Naval Aviator and NASA astronaut who flew four Space Shuttle missions. [url=http://en.wikipedia.or...
Orbital elements:
2013 LY28 Earth MOID = 0.0160 AU
Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC
M 322.39781 (2000.0) P Q
n 0.34430631 Peri. 82.83181 +0.93285988 +0.24576830
a 2.0160721 Node 262.67815 -0.33020297 +0.87564120
e 0.6583892 Incl. 15.39951 +0.14400849 +0.41575285
P 2.86 H 24.5...
SIGNE 3 was launched on 17 June 1977. It weighed just 103 kg. It was put into an orbit with apogee 519 km, perogee 459 km, and inclination 50.66 degrees. The orbital period was 94.4 minutes. The spin stabilized satellite was a cylinder 0.7 m in diameter and 0.8 m high, with 4 attached solar panels. Attitu...
Test No. 6 is the codename for China's first test of a three-staged thermonuclear device and, also its sixth nuclear weapons test. The device was detonated at Lop Nur Test Base, or often dubbed as Lop Nur Nuclear Weapon Test Base, in Malan, Xinjiang, on 17 June 1967. Read more
The Mtola (Stone-uncl) meteorite fell in Mzimba district, Malawi, on the 17th June, 1944, around 10:00 local time. Recovered weight: 1079g A single stone weighing about 1079g was recovered. The specimen was in the Geological Survey Museum but is now lost. Latitude: 11'30' S, Longitude: 33'30' E...
The Jodzie (stone; howardite achondrite) meteorite fell in Kovno, Lithuania, on the 17th June, 1877. Recovered weight: 30 g Latitude: 55° 42' N, Longitude: 24° 24' E
The Ibbenbüren (Stone; diogenite achondrite) meteorite fell in Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, on the 17th June, 1870. Recovered weight: 2 kg Latitude: 52° 17' N, Longitude: 7° 42' E
Aleksandr Evgenievich Chudakov (16 June 1921 - 25 January 2001, Moscow) was a Soviet Russian physicist in the field of cosmic-ray physics, known for Chudakov Effect, the effect of decreasing ionization losses for narrow electron-positron pairs and for experimentally confirming existence of t...
A strong magnitude 6.3 earthquake occurred at 11:03:15 (UTC) on Wednesday, August 3, 2005, located in Nicaragua.
The quake occurred about 40 km ESE of Rivas[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v328/blobrana/news/NIC8611globe.gif[/im...
A Russian orbital research laboratory, will be launched tomorrow from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan. The craft will have snails and tritons on board. The animals are to spend sixteen days in the harsh conditions of weightlessness and high irradiation before coming back to Earth, June 16...
The Dunhuang manuscripts were discovered in a sealed cave in the Mogao Caves by the Daoist monk Wang Yuanlu on June 25, 1900. The Dunhuang map or Dunhuang Star map is one of the first known graphical representations of stars from ancient Chinese astronomy, dated to the Tang Dynasty (618-907). Before...
