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[Black] "Mamba Day" —April 13th, named for the last professional game the recently deceased Kobe Bryant played in 2016. But is something else going on? Is there a message being telegraphed? Because, as per NASA, Mamba Day in 2029 will be eventful— On April 13, 2029, a speck of light will streak across the sky getting brighter and faster. At one point it will travel more than the width of the full Moon within a minute and it will get as bright as the stars in the Little Dipper. But it won’t be a satellite or an airplane—it will be a 340-meter-wide near-Earth asteroid called 99942 Apophis that will cruise harmlessly by Earth, about 19,000 miles (31,000 km) above the surface. That’s within the distance that some of our spacecraft that orbit Earth. The international asteroid research community couldn’t be more excited. This week at the 2019 Planetary Defense Conference in College Park, Maryland, scientists are gathering to discuss observation plans and science oppo...

Explore notable birth and death dates (Dr Li Wenliang, Aleister Crowley, LeBron James and Kobe Bryant), to the Roman Corona Triumphalis symbol, the unique timing of Dr Li Wenliang's whistleblowing of the Coronavirus, and re-named by the WHO as COVID ("Kobe")-19 on a significant date—February 11th.   December 30th (1) : Births: AD 39 – Titus, Roman emperor  1873 – Al Smith, American lawyer and politician, 42nd Governor of New York*  1975 – Tiger Woods, American golfer 1984 – LeBron James [or " King James "], American basketball player, producer and businessman Deaths: 274 – Pope Felix I 1591 – Pope Innocent IX  2006 – Saddam Hussein, Iraqi general and politician, 5th President of Iraq [death by execution/hanging] Events: 1916 – Russian mystic and advisor to the Tsar Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was murdered by a loyalist group led by Prince Felix Yusupov. His frozen, partially-trussed body was discovered in...