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John William Draper (May 5, 1811 - January 4, 1882) was an American (English-born) scientist, philosopher, physician, chemist, historian and photographer. He is credited with producing the first clear photograph of a female face (1839-40) and the first detailed photograph of the Moon (1840). [...

Christopher Hugh "Chris" Chapman (born 5 May 1945) is a British seismologist. In 2013 he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society "for outstanding personal and collaborative research in geophysics." [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Chap...

DesignationMin. Dist.DateNotesC/1491 B10.00941491, Feb. 20 D/1770 L1 (Lexell)0.01511770, Jul. 1 T55P/1366 U1 (Tempel-Tuttle)0.02291366, Oct. 26 C/1983 H1 (IRAS-Araki-Alcóck)0.03111983, May 11 1P/837 F1 (Halley)0.0334837, Apr. 10 3D/1805 V1 (Biela)0.03661805, Dec. 9 C/1014 C1...

Title: Mercury, transit of, 1707 Authors:[url=http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1912MNRAS..73...34V]Read

Sylvia Olga Fedoruk, OC SOM (May 5, 1927 - September 26, 2012) was a Canadian physicist, curler and the 17th Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan. Read more

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Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod CBE, FBA (5 May 1892-18 December 1968) was a British archaeologist who was the first woman to hold an Oxbridge chair, partly through her pioneering work on the Palaeolithic period. Read more

Max Tegmark (born 5 May 1967) is a Swedish-American cosmologist. Tegmark is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is the scientific director of the Foundational Questions Institute. Read more Max Tegmark on &qu...

Johan Oskar Backlund (April 28, 1846 - August 29, 1916) was a Swedish-Russian astronomer. His name is sometimes given as Jöns Oskar Backlund, however even contemporary Swedish sources give "Johan". Read more

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Orbital elements: 2013 JF1 Earth MOID = 0.0203 AU Epoch 2013 Apr. 18.0 TT = JDT 2456400.5 MPC M 5.26126 (2000.0) P Q n 0.45800802 Peri. 108.10020 -0.97839952 +0.20516347 a 1.6668147 Node 83.74474 -0.19799663 -0.89478490 e 0.4059836 Incl. 1.46097 -0.05942819 -0.39657021 P 2.15 H 24.7 G 0.1...

Title: Effects of Plasma Drag on Low Earth Orbiting Satellites due to Heating of Earth's Atmosphere by Coronal Mass Ejections Authors: Victor U. J. Nwankwo, Sandip K. Chakrabarti Solar events, such as coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and solar flares, heat up the upper atmosphere and near-Earth spa...

Title: Suzaku observation of Galactic supernova remnant CTB 37A (G348.5+0.1) Authors: A. Sezer, F. Gök, M. Hudaverdi, E.N. Ercan We present here the results of the observation of CTB 37A obtained with the X-ray Imaging Spectrometer onboard the Suzaku satellite. The X-ray spectrum of CTB 37A is we...

Title: Swift monitoring of IGR J16418-4532 Authors: P. Esposito (1), P. Romano (2), V. Mangano (2), L. Ducci (3), S. Vercellone (2) ((1) INAF-IASF Milano, (2) INAF-IASF Palermo, (3) Uni. Tuebingen) We report on the Swift observations of the candidate supergiant fast X-ray transient (SFXT) I...

Sunspots 11739, 11738, 11737, 11734, 11732, 11730, 11731 and 11728 captured with a 100mm refractor and Vesta pro webcam + solar filter. Music via an Amiga 1200.