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On this day in 2003 – September 21st – NASA's Galileo mission was ended by having the spacecraft plunge into Jupiter.
Galileo was the first spacecraft to orbit Jupiter, the first to achieve an asteroid flyby (951 Gaspra), and it discovered the first asteroid moon - Dactyl, orbiting asteroid 243 Ida.
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. On this day in 1556 – September 22nd – a Danish noblewoman and horticulturalist, Sophia Brahe was born in Knudstrop, Denmark (now part of Sweden).She was also knowledgable in astronomy, chemistry and medicine. The younger sister of Tycho Brahe, she often assisted him with his astronomical observations..
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On this day in 2006 – September 22nd – the solar mission Hinode was launched.
Hinode [Sunrise] is a Japanese solar mission with USA and UK collaboration. It was planned as a three-year mission to explore the magnetic fields of the Sun, but is still collecting data.
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On this day in 2014 – September 22nd –NASA's MAVEN mission went into orbit around Mars.
MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) is studying the Martian atmosphere.
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. On this day in 1783 – September 23rd – Caroline Herschel discovered NGC 253, the Sculptor Galaxy.Also known as the Silver Coin or Silver Dollar Galaxy, NGC 253 is a starburst spiral galaxy in the constellation Sculptor..
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. On this day in 1846 – September 23rd –Neptune was discovered by Johann Galle and his colleague Heinrich Louis d’Arrest at the Berlin Observatory.Galle had received calculations from Urbain LeVerrier which showed where there might be a new planet, and they found the planet that very night. Eventually, it was named Neptune after the Roman sea god..
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. On this day in 1930 – September 24th – John Young was born in San Francisco, California.Young had a varied and distinguished career, which in 1972, included being the Commander of Apollo 16 and the ninth person to walk on the Moon..
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On this day in 2014 – September 24th – the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)'s Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) entered Mars orbit.
MOM was India's first interplanetary mission. On October 4, 2022, it was declared that the Mars Orbiter Mission "had attained its end-of-life"..
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. On this day in 1634 – September 25th – Danish astronomer Ole Christensen Rømer was born in Aarhus.He is best known for making the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light by precisely measuring the length of time between eclipses of Jupiter by one of its moons....
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On this day in 1814 – September 27th – American astronomer Daniel Kirkwood was born in Harford County, Maryland.
Kirkwood is best known for his study of asteroid orbits. When arranging the then-growing number of discovered asteroids by their distance from the Sun, he noted several gaps, now named Kirkwood gaps. He associated these gaps with orbital resonances with the orbit of Jupiter..
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