archive: SETI [ASTRO] Astro History
SETI [ASTRO] Astro History
Larry Klaes ( lklaes@bbn.com )
Fri, 05 Feb 1999 10:39:47 -0500
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>Hi all ...
>
>I'm working on a "This Day in Astro History" project and I'm hoping
>some of you can help me with some historical dates for the
>following. Actual dates would be great, but even if I can narrow
>events to a particular month would be helpful.
>
>Although this is a personal project, my friends are encouraging me
>to post this work to the web. Well, maybe.
>
>1930 - U.S. astronomer Annie Jump Cannon, 66, completes
>cataloging and classifying some 400,000 astronomical
> objects. The "Census Taker of the Sky" started her work in
>1897.
> 1970 - Uhuru, the first Small Astronomy Satellite, launched.
> 1901 - The first bright nova of the 20th century and the first to
>be subjected to detailed spectroscopy and photometry,
> Nova Persei
> 1543 - Copernicus publishes "On the Revolution"
> 1576 - Thomas Digges publishes a defense of the Copernican
>cosmology in which he portrays the stars as distributed
> throughout infinite space.
> 1609 - Kepler demonstrates that the orbits of planets are
>elliptical.
> 1616 - Roman Catholic church bans all books that claim the
>Earth moves.
> 1685 - Olaus Romer determines, from studying the satellites of
>Jupiter, that light has a finite velocity.
> 1686 - Bernard de Fontenelle's Entretiens sur la Pluralite des
>Mondes popularizes the idea that the universe contains
> many inhabited worlds.
> 1781 - William Herschel discovers the planet Uranus.
> 1800 - William Herschel detects infrared light.
>