The record for low atmospheric pressure in Moscow, held since 1948, was broken today, a leading employee of the Phobos meteorological center told RIA Novosti. Evgeniy Tishkovets.
According to the meteorologist, by 2 p.m. the drop in atmospheric pressure had reached bottom. — 717.3 mmHg.
Earlier at noon, a value of 719.7 mmHg was recorded at the capital's VDNKh weather station. Thus, the 1948 record was broken, when the barometer reading fell to 720.6 mmHg.
In the next few days, Muscovites are waiting for a baric saw, Tishkovets said. He specified that the low pressure level will last until 8 p.m., after which the next day's barometers will increase “by more than 10 units, forming a baric saw”.
The day before, he said been reported that up to 25% of monthly precipitation, and atmospheric pressure will fall below the baric limit — up to 716 mmHg.
Asteroid 7482 (1994 PC1), about 1.1 km in diameter, will fly past Earth on January 18. This is reported by NASA on its Twitter page.
The asteroid is considered potentially dangerous, but its approach to Earth will not lead to negative consequences. “Near-Earth asteroid 1994 PC1 is very well known, our planetary defense experts have been studying it for decades. Rest assured that 1994 PC1 will pass safely over our planet at a distance of 1.2 million miles (more than 1.9 million km? – editor's note) next Tuesday, January 18 — NASA said.
The asteroid will pass at a speed of over 70,000 km/h.
What is known about asteroid 7482 (1994 PC1)?
Rocky asteroid 7482 (1994 PC1) was discovered by Scottish astronomer Robert McNaught at the Australian Observatory of Siding Spring in 1994. It belongs to the Apollo class, that is, it is potentially dangerous.
The asteroid orbits the Sun at a distance of 0.9-1.8 astronomical units, making one revolution in one year and 7 months (572 days).
On January 17, 1933, 7482 (1994 PC1) made its closest approach to Earth at a distance of 1,125,400 km (699,300 miles).
In the United States, at the age of 99, one of the descendants of the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy died: his great-grandson Sergei Tolstoy. He died in a hospice in Bethesda, Maryland, writes the Washington Post. According to the publication, in recent years Sergei Tolstoy may have suffered a stroke. He also had hearing and vision problems.
The exact cause of death is not yet known.
Sergei Tolstoy was the grandson< strong> by Ilya Lvovich Tolstoy— the writer's third son, who was also a writer and memoirist and moved to the United States in 1933, — and the only son of Ilya's daughter, Vera Tolstoy.
The 99-year-old great-grandson of writer Leo Tolstoy died in loneliness and poverty. Sergei Tolstoy spent the last years of his life in a hospice.
He moved to the United States in the 1960s. Tolstoy loved gambling and soon replaced expensive apartments with public housing.
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Vera Ilyinichna was born in 1903; /strong>. Their son Sergei was born on October 20, 1922. The marriage was unhappy. Bakovsky soon went bankrupt, then was fully investigated for bigamy: he married Vera Tolstaya according to the Muslim rite. A quick divorce was accompanied by scandals: Bakovsky even stole the child and hid from his wife, but then the boy was returned to his mother, who gave him his name. family. She believed that “being an illegitimate Tolstoy is better than a legitimate Bakovsky”.
Sergei Tolstoy studied in private pensions in France. According to him, during World War II he collaborated with the US military, performing various missions for it, but served under a pseudonym and could not prove his right to a military pension.
After the war, he befriends various heirs of wealthy families and leads a very wild life, gambling in casinos and losing all the money he has. In the 1960s, his mother managed to convince him to move to the United States, where gambling laws were stricter, but Sergei took to betting on horse races.
< p>He almost never worked: he only briefly taught Russian and taught a little It's an import-export business. But by the 1990s he had become very poor, and in a 2010 interview he said his entire income was just $213 in social benefits, a third of which went to the renting accommodation in a shelter for the poor. < /p>
Vera Ilyinichna died in 1999. Sergei Tolstoy married only once, but this marriage did not #39;not even lasted two months. He had no children.
Major General Andrey Koban, head of the radio engineering troops of the Aerospace Forces of the Russian Federation, was arrested for accepting a bribe of 5 million rubles, reports TASS.
< p>According to investigators, he received a bribe of at least 5 million rubles from the general director of the Institute for Research in radio engineering of Nizhny Novgorod.
235 the garrison military court chose him a measure of restraint in the form of detention.
It is specified that Andrey Koban was dismissed from his position as the head of the radio engineering troops of the Russian Aerospace Forces after being accused of accepting a bribe.
Earlier it became known that Vladimir Gromov , acting deputy head of the administration of the Tambov region, had been arrested in connection with a criminal case of fraud.
The wife of the French president, Brigitte Macron, said that she had never been a man and had never changed sex, and the attackers published the corresponding false information on the Internet, reports RIA Novosti.
“First I watched it from afar, I heard what they were saying, before I realized they had changed my tree genealogical… And suddenly I was my brother, —said the first lady of France on RTL France radio.She recalled that unknown attackers had modified data on several sites, claiming that his real name &mdash ; Jean-Michel.
Macron also said that this persecution has been going on for four years and recently she decided to face this situation. “It took me 5.5 days with a lawyer to suppress this information”, — she explained.
It has already been reported that Brigitte Macron intends to file a complaint against rumor mongers who claim that the country's first lady was previously a man, then changed sex.
Brigite Marie-Claude Tronier was born on April 13, 1953. She is the youngest of six children in the family of Jean Tronier and his wife Si mone. In 1974-2006, Brigitte is married to the banker André-Louis Ozier, they have three children. She divorced in 2006 and married Emmanuel Macron the following year. She was his French teacher and ran a theater studio.
The new small rocket (MRK) “Cyclone” project “Karakurt” completes sea trials at the factory, reports RIA Novosti.
Head of the service of; fleet information, captain of the second rank Alexei Rulev, explained that the “Cyclone” was launched at the Zaliv shipyard; in Kerch in July 2020. Radar and electronic weapons, artillery and anti-aircraft weapons were successfully tested on the ship. Currently an overhaul of ship systems is underway, RTOs are being prepared for the final stage of state testing. They will start next week.
Earlier it was reported that two project 955A strategic missile submarines will be installed at the Sevmash enterprise. in 2023. Strategic missile carriers of the Borey-A project will be built under the state armament program, which is valid until 2027. The new missile carriers will be the eleventh and twelfth Borey-class submarines.
North Korea has again launched an unidentified projectile towards the Sea of Japan, Yonhap reports in reference to the South Korean military.
In turn, the Japanese Coast Guard clarified that the place where the missile fell was being established. The agency also issued a warning about a possible North Korean missile launch. Ships currently at sea have been urged to exercise caution.
Note that North Korea successfully tested hypersonic missiles on January 5 and 11. The test was attended by the country's leader, Kim Jong-un. It was reported that during the second launch, the warhead of a hypersonic missile hit a target at a distance of a thousand kilometers.
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Four planes with Russian paratroopers who participated in the peacekeeping mission of the CSTO countries have returned to Russia from Kazakhstan, reports the Ministry of Defense of the RF.
Il-76MD military transport aviation flew from Alma-Ata to the Ivanovo-Severny airfield.
Earlier it became known that the defense ministers of the CSTO countries signed a decision on organizing the return of peacekeepers from Kazakhstan. All contingents except the Kyrgyz will be evacuated from the republic by Russian Aerospace Force aircraft.
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced on Thursday that the withdrawal of peacekeepers who helped the neighboring state deal with the riots should be completed on January 19.< /p>
Recall that on January 6, against a backdrop of pogroms, peacekeepers from the Russian Federation, Belarus, Armenia, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan began arriving in Kazakhstan at the call of the authorities. On January 13, Allied forces began to leave the country.
Giant satellite, 2.6 times the size of Earth, discovered near exoplanet Kepler-1708b, writes Nature Astronomy.
“Astronomers have already discovered more than 10,000 exoplanets.At the same time, the search for exo-satellites is still a difficult task due to the low sensitivity of telescopes.Therefore, it is not surprising that we have been the first to find satellites as unusual as Kepler-1625b-i and Kepler-1708b-i because they are much easier to detect due to their gigantic size, — said David Kipping, a professor at the University from Columbia.
Kipping and his colleagues hope that further observations with the Hubble and James Webb telescopes will help confirm the existence of this exo-moon, as well as help understand whether it is an unusually large rocky planet or a smaller copy of Neptune.
Earlier it was reported that, according to calculations ls preliminary, a dangerous approach of the asteroid Apophis to Earth could occur on April 5, 2095, but at present the probability of a collision is only 0.02 %.
Comet C/2021 A1 (Leonardo) would also have passed a minimum distance from the Sun and would have left the solar system on January 3rd.
The former boss of BTA Bank, Mukhtar Ablyazov, convicted in absentia in Kazakhstan, has obtained the judgment of the trial against him in France. In question, the expiration of the limitation period in cases of breach of trust and money laundering.
The verdict was rendered by the Court of Appeal from Paris. However, according to AFP, the decision is not final – the bank's lawyers have filed a cassation appeal.
Criminal proceedings have been opened against Ablyazov in Russia, in Kazakhstan and Ukraine, in particular for fraud, forgery, abuse of power. Kazakh authorities accuse the fugitive banker of embezzling $7.5 billion. He was placed on the international wanted list and detained in France.
In early January, Mukhtar Ablyazov presented himself as the leader of the protests in Kazakhstan. He said he considers himself the leader of the opposition and that protesters contact him.
