Portal talk:Physics/Anniversaries


 * Here's some anniversaries in our FAs that we could celebrate by featuring here:
 * January 1996, Comet Hyakutake discovered
 * February 15, 1786, Cat's Eye Nebula discovered
 * February 15, 1564, Galileo Galilei's birthday
 * February 28, 1901, Linus Pauling's birthday
 * March 1, 1966, first spacecraft crash-lands on Venus
 * March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein's birthday
 * March 24, 1993, Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 discovered
 * April 1, 1997, Comet Hale-Bopp at perihelion
 * April 12, 1633, Galileo Galilei's trial starts
 * April 22, 1904, Robert Oppenheimer's birthday
 * April 24, 1990, Hubble Space Telescope launched
 * April 30, 1777, Carl Friedrich Gauss's birthday
 * May 11, 1918, Richard Feynman's birthday
 * July 1994, Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collides with Jupiter
 * July 16, 1945, Trinity test, named by Robert Oppenheimer
 * July 23, 1995, Comet Hale-Bopp discovered
 * November 1915, Albert Einstein formulates GR
 * November 9, 1934, Carl Sagan's birthday
 * November 9, 1676, using his first quantitative measurment of the speed of light, Ole Rømer accurately predicts the delay of eclipse of Io
 * December 1610, Galileo Galilei observes phases of Venus
 * December 1995, Hubble Deep Field images taken
 * December 22, 1968, Apollo 8 launched


 * The current physics FAs that haven't been recently featured and aren't on the above list are:
 * Astrophysics Data System
 * ATLAS experiment
 * Big Bang
 * Comet
 * Fermi paradox
 * H II region
 * Herbig-Haro object
 * Open cluster
 * Planetary nebula
 * Rainbow
 * Soap bubble
 * Transit of Venus
 * Weather lore


 * Hopefully this'll get the ball rolling on picking new ones. &mdash; Laura Scudder | Talk 07:05, 27 October 2005 (UTC)