433 Eros

•  2012

  2012 will be a leap year starting on Sunday. In the Gregorian calendar, it will be the 2012th year of the Common Era, or of Anno Domini; the 12th year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century; and the 3rd of the 2010s decade. It has been designated Alan Turing Year, commemorating the mathematician, computer pioneer, and code-breaker on the centennial of Turing's birth. There are a variety of popular beliefs about the year 2012.

  

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•  Amor asteroid

  The Amor asteroids are a group of near-Earth asteroids named after the asteroid 1221 Amor. They approach the orbit of the Earth from beyond, but do not cross it. Most Amors do cross the orbit of Mars. The two moons of Mars, Deimos and Phobos, may be Amor asteroids that were captured by Mars' gravity. The most famous member of this group is 433 Eros, which was the first asteroid to be orbited and then landed upon by a human probe.

  

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•  1036 Ganymed

  1036 Ganymed is the largest Amor asteroid, at about 32 km in diameter. It was discovered by Walter Baade on October 23, 1924 and is named after Ganymede, the Trojan prince turned god whom Zeus designated the cupbearer to the Greek gods. Jupiter's moon Ganymede is also named after that individual. It is also a Mars-crosser asteroid.

  

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•  3908 Nyx

  3908 Nyx is an Amor and Mars-crosser asteroid. It was discovered by Hans-Emil Schuster on August 6, 1980 and is named after Nyx, the Greek goddess of the night, after which Pluto's moon Nix is also named. It is 1–2 km in diameter and is a V-type asteroid, meaning that it may be a fragment of the asteroid 4 Vesta.

  

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•  719 Albert

  719 Albert is a Mars-crossing, Amor asteroid; it was the second one discovered after 433 Eros.

  

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•  3552 Don Quixote

  3552 Don Quixote is a small main belt, Amor, Mars crossing, potentially hazardous asteroid. It has a highly inclined comet-like orbit, and measures about 19 km in diameter. Its rotation period is 7.7 hours. It was discovered by Paul Wild in 1983, and is named after the comic knight who is the eponymous hero of Cervantes' Spanish novel Don Quixote. Don Quixote is suspected of being an extinct comet. Don Quixote is frequently perturbed by Jupiter.

  

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•  3352 McAuliffe

  3352 McAuliffe is an Amor and Mars-crosser asteroid which was discovered by Norman G. Thomas on February 6, 1981. It is named in memory of Christa McAuliffe, the civilian astronaut who died in the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster. The asteroids 3350 Scobee, 3351 Smith, 3353 Jarvis, 3354 McNair, 3355 Onizuka and 3356 Resnik commemorate the other crew members. McAuliffe is an A-type asteroid, meaning that it is rich in olivine.

  

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•  Transit of Venus, 2012

  The next transit of Venus will occur on June 5–June 6 in 2012, succeeding the previous transit on June 8, 2004.

  

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•  Expo 2012

  Title International Exposition Yeosu Korea 2012 Location Shinhang district, Yeosu, Republic of Korea Theme The Living Ocean and Coast: Diversity of Resources and Sustainable Activities Period May 12, 2012 - Aug 12, 2012 (3 months)

  

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•  2012 Doomsday prediction

  

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•  CANDU reactor

  The CANDU ("CANada Deuterium Uranium") reactor is a Canadian-invented, pressurized heavy water reactor developed initially in the late 1950s and 1960s by a partnership between Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (AECL), the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario (renamed Ontario Hydro in 1974, and now known as Ontario Power Generation since 1999), Canadian General Electric (now known as GE Canada), as well as several private industry participants.

  

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•  Unsere Liebe Frau im Walde-St. Felix

  Unsere Liebe Frau im Walde-St. Felix is a comune (municipality) in the province of Bolzano-Bozen in the Italian region Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, located about 50 km north of the city of Trento and about 20 km west of the city of Bolzano (Bozen). As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 816 and an area of 27.5 km². According to the 2001 census, 97.78% of the population speak German and 2.22% Italian as first language. The municipality of Unsere Liebe Frau im Walde-St.

  

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•  Angus Reid Strategies

  

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•  Mass Effect: Original Soundtrack

  

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•  Battle of pine creek

  

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