It's been 3969 days
since New Horizons' closest approach to Pluto on July 14, 2015.
It's been 2702 days
since New Horizons' closest approach to 2014 MU69 on January 1, 2019.
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66th day of Spring
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38 years ago, in 1915:
The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) is formed.
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278 years ago, in 1675:
John Flamsteed is appointed as the first Astronomer Royal; The King's Astronomical Observator.
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62 years ago, in 1891:
307 Nike, a minor planet in the asteroid belt, is discovered by Auguste Charlois at the Nice Observatory.
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138 years ago, in 1815:
Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers of Germany discovers a periodic comet, 13P/Olbers.
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95 years ago, in 1858:
Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke 'rediscovers' comet 7P/Pons–Winnecke.
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19 years ago, in 1934:
Yuri Gagarin is born in Klushino, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.
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172 years ago, in 1781:
William Herschel discovers the planet Uranus; first planet discovered through a telescope.
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74 years ago, in 1879:
Albert Einstein is born in Ulm, Kingdom of Württemberg, in the German Empire.
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27 years ago, in 1926:
Robert H. Goddard launches the first ever liquid fueled rocket.
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101 years ago, in 1852:
16 Psyche, one of the ten most massive objects in the asteroid belt, is discovered by the Italian astronomer Annibale de Gasparis from Naples.
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54 years ago, in 1899:
Phoebe, a moon of Saturn, is the first moon to be discovered photographically (William Pickering).
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172 years ago, in 1781:
M96 (NGC 3368), an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo, is discovered by Pierre Méchain.
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269 years ago, in 1684:
Giovanni Cassini discovers one of Saturn's moons, Tethys.
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113 years ago, in 1840:
John William Draper takes the first successful photograph (Daguerreotype process) of the Moon.
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11 years ago, in 1942:
5535 Annefrank, a minor planet in the inner asteroid belt, is discovered by German astronomer Karl Reinmuth at the Heidelberg Observatory.
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172 years ago, in 1781:
M105 (NGC 3379), an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Leo, is discovered by Pierre Méchain.
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298 years ago, in 1655:
Christiaan Huygens discovers Saturn's largest moon, Titan.
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142 years ago, in 1811:
The French astronomer Honore Flaugergues discovers the Great Comet of 1811 (C/1811 F1), visible to the naked eye for about 260 days.
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151 years ago, in 1802:
Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers of Germany discovers the third largest asteroid, Pallas.
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146 years ago, in 1807:
Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers of Germany discovers the second largest asteroid, Vesta.
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17 years ago, in 1936:
Over 10,000 people watch the 200-inch mirror blank for the Hale Telescope passing by rail through Indianapolis.
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8 years ago, in 1945:
The last day of V-1 rocket bomb attacks on England occurs, only to be soon replaced by the V-2.
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