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2	3	4	5      104 years ago, in 1843: The Great Comet of 1843 is first observed.	6	7	8
9      34 years ago, in 1913: Several hundred meteors are seen streaming across the sky from Saskatchewan to Bermuda.	10      13 years ago, in 1934: 4179 Toutatis is first sighted as object 1934 CT, but is lost soon after.	11      147 years ago, in 1800: While testing filters for observing the Sun, William Herschel discovers infrared radiation in sunlight.	12        This year: An approximately 100-ton meteorite explodes and impacts in the Sikhote-Alin Mountains, USSR.	13	14	15      383 years ago, in 1564: Galileo Galilei is born in Pisa, Duchy of Florence, Italy.      102 years ago, in 1845: The 72-inch Rosse (Leviathan of Parsonstown) Telescope sees "first light".
16	17	18      17 years ago, in 1930: Clyde W. Tombaugh discovers Pluto.	19      474 years ago, in 1473: Nicolaus Copernicus is born in Thorn, Royal Prussia, Kingdom of Poland.      160 years ago, in 1787: William Herschel's 40-foot (Great Forty-Foot) Telescope sees "first light".	20        This year: A U.S. launched V-2 rocket sends the first animals (fruit flies) into space, which are successfully recovered.	21	22
23	24	25	26      331 years ago, in 1616: Galileo Galilei is ordered by the Inquisition to abandon the Copernican theories.      164 years ago, in 1783: NGC 2360 (Caroline's Cluster), an open cluster in the constellation Canis Major, is discovered by Caroline Herschel.	27      104 years ago, in 1843: The Great Comet of 1843 makes a very close perihelion of less than 515,000 miles (830,000 km).      5 years ago, in 1942: James Stanley Hey accidentaly discovers radio emmissions coming from the Sun.	28      391 years ago, in 1556: The German astronomer Joachim Heller discovers the Great Comet of 1556 (C/1556 D1).