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1968: On 11 October 1968, the NASA mission Apollo 7 was launched.After the January 1967 Apollo launch pad fire, the command module had been extensively redesigned. Apollo 7 was the ...
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1912: On 12 October 1912, Lewis Boss died.
Boss was an American astronomer best known for his compilation of two catalogues of stars. In 1895 Boss began to plan a general catalogue of stars, giving their positions and motions. After 1906, the project had support from the Carnegie Institution, Washington D.C. With an enlarged staff he observed the northern stars from the United States and the southern stars from Argentina. With the new data, he corrected catalogue that had been compiled in the past, and in 1910 he published the Preliminary General Catalogue of 6188 Stars for the Epoch 1900. The work unfinished upon his death was completed by his son Benjamin in 1937.
In 1882 he led an expedition to Chile to observe a transit of Venus.
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10 October
1986: On 10 October 1986, another object, apart from the Moon and manmade satellites, was discovered in orbit around Earth.Asteroid 3753 was found by J.D. Waldron and named 'Cruithne' after ...
9 October
1873: On 9 October 1873, Karl Schwarzschild was born.Schwarzschild was a German theoretical astrophysicist who made both practical and theoretical contributions to 20th century astronomy.He developed the use of photography ...
8 October
1873: On 8 October 1873, Ejnar Hertzsprung was born.Hertzsprung was a Danish astronomer who classified types of stars by relating their surface temperature (or colour) to their absolute brightness.A few ...
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