Baron Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim (Swedish pronunciation: [kɑːɭ ˈɡɵ̂sːtav ˈěːmɪl ˈmânːɛrˌhɛjm], Finland Swedish: [kɑːrl ˈɡʉstɑv ˈeːmil ˈmɑnːærˌhejm] (); 4 June 1867 – 27 January 1951) was a Finnish military leader and statesman. He served as the military leader of the Whites in the Finnish Civil War of 1918, as Regent of Finland (1918–1919), as commander-in ...

The following is a list of astronomers, astrophysicists and other notable people who have made contributions to the field of astronomy.They may have won major prizes or awards, developed or invented widely used techniques or technologies within astronomy, or are directors of major observatories or heads of space-based telescope projects.

The 2006 NHL Entry Draft was the 44th NHL Entry Draft.It was held at General Motors Place in Vancouver, British Columbia, on June 24, 2006.. The draft order for the first 14 picks was decided during a lottery held on April 20, 2006. The draft was televised in Canada on TSN and RDS, with the first three hours simulcasted in the United States on OLN.. As of 2019, eleven players from …

Comet Encke / ˈ ɛ ŋ k i /, or Encke's Comet (official designation: 2P/Encke), is a periodic comet that completes an orbit of the Sun once every 3.3 years. (This is the shortest period of a reasonably bright comet; the faint main-belt comet 311P/PanSTARRS has a period of 3.2 years.) Encke was first recorded by Pierre Méchain on 17 January 1786, but it was not recognized as a …

Leevi and the Leavings oli suomalainen, vuonna 1978 perustettu poprock-yhtye.Yhtyeen merkittävin jäsen oli Gösta Sundqvist, joka teki melkein yksin kappaleiden sävellykset, sanoitukset ja sovitukset.Sundqvist oli myös yhtyeen laulaja. Muut jäsenet olivat Risto Paananen, Juha Karastie ja Niklas Nylund.He päättivät lopettaa yhtyeen Gösta Sundqvistin kuoltua vuonna 2003.

This is a list of minor-planet discoverers credited by the Minor Planet Center with the discovery of one or several minor planets (such as near-Earth and main-belt asteroids, Jupiter trojans and distant objects). As of January 2022, the discovery of 612,011 numbered minor planets are credited to 1141 astronomers and 253 observatories, telescopes or surveys (see § Discovering …

Moominvalley (Finnish: Muumilaakso, Swedish: Mumindalen, also known as just Moomin) is a 2019 animated family drama series. An adaptation of the classic Moomin books and comics by writer-illustrator Tove Jansson and her brother Lars Jansson, it is created using new techniques in 3D CGI.. Finnish production company Gutsy Animations ran a crowdfunding campaign on …

Rosetta was a space probe built by the European Space Agency launched on 2 March 2004. Along with Philae, its lander module, Rosetta performed a detailed study of comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko (67P). During its journey to the comet, the spacecraft performed flybys of Earth, Mars, and the asteroids 21 Lutetia and 2867 Šteins. It was launched as the …

März: Carl Alvar Wirtanen, US-amerikanischer Astronom (* 1910) 0 9. März: Carlos Alberto Peronace, argentinischer Schachproblemkomponist (* 1933) 0 9. März: Martial Singher, französischer Opernsänger und Musikpädagoge (* 1904) 10. März: Bruno Bělčík, tschechischer Geiger (* 1924) 10.

101955 Bennu (provisional designation 1999 RQ 36) is a carbonaceous asteroid in the Apollo group discovered by the LINEAR Project on 11 September 1999. It is a potentially hazardous object that is listed on the Sentry Risk Table and has the highest cumulative rating on the Palermo Technical Impact Hazard Scale. It has a cumulative 1-in-1,800 chance of impacting Earth …