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12 Victoria

12 Victoria is a large main-belt asteroid, also called (12) Victoria, discovered by J. R. Hind on 13 September 1850 and named for the Roman goddess of victory. Arecibo radar shows a nonconvex shape with a prominent concavity; diameter about 113-115 km.

12 Years a Slave (film)

12 Years a Slave is Steve McQueen's 2013 historical drama adapted from Solomon Northup's 1853 memoir, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor. It won three Oscars including Best Picture, a Golden Globe, and BAFTAs, and is praised for historical accuracy.

12-Crown-4

12-Crown-4, systematically 1,4,7,10-tetraoxacyclododecane, is a crown ether with four oxygen atoms in a twelve-membered ring, formula C₈H₁₆O₄, used as a lithium ionophore and electrolyte additive in lithium batteries.

12-hour clock

The 12-hour clock, used with the AM and PM designators, divides the day into two 12-hour periods and dominates everyday timekeeping in the United States and several other English-speaking countries.

12-Hydroxy-5,8,10,14-eicosatetraenoic acid

12-Hydroxy-5,8,10,14-eicosatetraenoic acid (12-HETE) is a bioactive lipid mediator produced from arachidonic acid by 12-lipoxygenase, most abundantly in blood platelets, acting in inflammation, thrombosis, and cancer.

12-Ring

12-Ring is a reconstructed race board game from Bronze Age Crete, based on repeated graffiti of twelve depressions in a circle, studied by Niklas Hillbom and cataloged in the Ludii database.

12:00 P.M. (The Pitt season 2)

"12:00 P.M." is the sixth episode of The Pitt season 2, also called "12:00 P.M. (The Pitt season 2 episode 6)", written by Valerie Chu and directed by Noah Wyle, aired February 12, 2026 on HBO Max, centering on the death of frequent-flyer patient Louie Cloverfield and the ER nursing staff.

12:01

12:01 is a 1993 American made-for-television science fiction thriller directed by Jack Sholder, starring Jonathan Silverman, Helen Slater, and Martin Landau, in which a man relives the same day.

12:08 East of Bucharest

12:08 East of Bucharest (A fost sau n-a fost?) is Corneliu Porumboiu's 2006 Romanian satirical debut about a small-town TV debate on whether the 1989 revolution reached Vaslui; Caméra d'Or winner at Cannes 2006.

12.12: The Day (서울의 봄)

12.12: The Day (서울의 봄, Spring of Seoul) is Kim Sung-su's 2023 Korean drama dramatizing Chun Doo-hwan's December 12, 1979 coup, starring Hwang Jung-min and Jung Woo-sung; it drew over 13.1 million admissions and won the Baeksang Grand Prize.

12.7×55mm STs-130

The 12.7×55mm STs-130 (12,7×55 мм СЦ-130) is a Russian subsonic rifle cartridge developed at TsKIB SOO in Tula for the FSB's suppressed VKS sniper rifle, adopted in 2004.

12.8 cm Pak 44

The 12.8 cm Pak 44, later redesignated Pak 80, was a German 128 mm anti-tank gun developed by Krupp during the Second World War, the largest caliber Germany produced.

120 Bahadur (120 बहादुर)

120 Bahadur (120 बहादुर) is a 2025 Hindi war drama by Razneesh Ghai starring Farhan Akhtar as Major Shaitan Singh Bhati, depicting the 1962 Battle of Rezang La; released 21 November 2025, ₹15.52 crore India net.

120 film

120 film is a still-photography roll film format introduced by Eastman Kodak in 1901 for the Brownie No. 2 camera, wound on an open spool with opaque backing paper.

120-cell

The 120-cell, also called the hecatonicosachoron or hyperdodecahedron, is a convex regular four-dimensional polytope of 120 dodecahedral cells, discovered by Ludwig Schläfli and dual to the 600-cell.

1200

The year 1200 CE: Peace of Goulet, founding charter of the University of Paris, death of Zhu Xi, traditional founding of Cusco, and processes dated to around 1200 such as the Thule migration and Great Zimbabwe.

1200 Micrograms

1200 Micrograms, also known as 1200 Mics, is an Ibiza-based psychedelic trance group formed in 1999 by Raja Ram, DJ Chicago, Riktam, and Bansi, named for the LSD needed to dose all four members.

1202 Syria earthquake

The 1202 Syria earthquake struck the eastern Mediterranean in May 1202 with an estimated magnitude of 7.5 to 7.8, severely damaging the Crusader cities of Acre and Tyre and causing tens of thousands of deaths.

120347 Salacia

120347 Salacia is a large trans-Neptunian object about 900 km across, discovered at Palomar in 2004, that orbits the Sun at 42 au with a moon, Actaea.

12052 Aretaon

12052 Aretaon, provisionally designated 1997 JB16, is a Jupiter Trojan asteroid about 39 km across that orbits the Sun every 11.94 years at Jupiter's trailing L5 point.

1206 study

The 1206 study (NCT06282237) is an Italian prospective observational study of soft tissue sarcoma surgery patients, assessing rehabilitation effects on motor performance and quality of life using TESS, gait analysis, and pain and QoL questionnaires.

1208 Troilus

1208 Troilus (1931 YA) is a large, highly inclined Jupiter trojan asteroid at the L5 Trojan camp, about 103 km across, discovered 31 December 1931 by Karl Reinmuth, the only F-type Trojan, with a 56.17-hour rotation period.

120P/Mueller 1

120P/Mueller 1 is a Jupiter-family periodic comet discovered by Jean Mueller at Palomar in October 1987, with a 2.744 AU perihelion, 8.4-year period, and a nucleus radius near 0.8 km.

121 Hermione

121 Hermione is a large dark C-type main-belt binary asteroid in the Cybele region, discovered in 1872, with a small satellite S/2002 (121) 1 (LaFayette) found in 2002; diameter about 187-193 km, density about 1.4 g/cm3.

1211 Avenue of the Americas

1211 Avenue of the Americas, also known as the News Corp. Building, is a 45-story office skyscraper on Sixth Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, completed in 1973.

12126 Chersidamas

12126 Chersidamas is a large Jupiter Trojan asteroid, about 53.2 kilometers wide, that shares Jupiter's orbit from the L5 Trojan camp; it was discovered in 1999 by the LINEAR survey.

121725 Aphidas

121725 Aphidas (1999 XX143), a Centaur-class asteroid discovered 13 December 1999 by Carl W. Hergenrother at Whipple Observatory, Arizona; ~76-year orbit between Jupiter and Neptune, named for a sleeping centaur of Greek myth.

121P/Shoemaker-Holt 2

121P/Shoemaker-Holt 2 (1989 E2) is a Jupiter-family comet discovered in March 1989 at Palomar by the Shoemakers and Holt, with an 8.02-year orbit, perihelion 2.65 au, and a nucleus radius near 1.6 km.

122 Gerda

122 Gerda (A872 OA, 彩女星) is a ~70 km outer main-belt asteroid discovered by C. H. F. Peters on 31 July 1872, named after the Norse figure Gerðr, orbiting the Sun every 5.79 years near the Hecuba gap.

122 Leadenhall Street

122 Leadenhall Street, officially the Leadenhall Building and known as the Cheesegrater, is a 225-meter wedge-shaped office skyscraper in the City of London, completed in 2014.