2003 – Nearest yet known Brown dwarf object, with a mass of 40 to 60 Jupiter masses, discovered less than 12 light years from our Sun. Known as Epsilon Indi Ba.
2000 – A new study by David Rabinowitz of Yale University with colleagues at NASA\’s Jet Propulsion Lab estimated the potential Earth-crossing asteroids, greater than one kilometer diameter, has been reduced from 2,000 to about 700. If confirmed this knowledge would bring the risk factor down to one in two thousand.
2000 – Lone Black Holes discovered adrift in the Galaxy.This discovery suggests that isolated stellar-mass black holes may be more common than previously thought, and that massive stars can form black holes directly from their collapse rather than requiring a binary system, according to HubbleSite.
1993 –Space Shuttle program: Endeavour heads for space for the third time as STS-54 launches from the Kennedy Space Center.
Birthdays
1949 – Rakesh Sharma, Birthday. Indian pilot and astronaut