11 August
1999: Up to 350 million people in Europe and Asia witnessed the last total solar eclipse of the 20th century.The phenomenon began over the Atlantic, a few hundred miles east ...
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On 12 August, the peak of the Perseid meteor shower occurs, when skywatchers can expect to see possibly 80-100 meteors per hour if skies are clear.
The Perseids are visible between 23 July and 22 August as Earth enters and moves through a cloud of debris from Comet Swift-Tuttle. Dust-sized particles hit our atmosphere and appear to streak across the night sky. At first there are usually just a few meteors each night, but then the rate builds until 12 August.
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10 August
1960: On 10 August 1960, a capsule ejected from the US Discoverer 13 satellite was recovered when it returned from orbit; it was the first human-made object recovered from space.
9 August
1975:On 9 August 1975, ESA launched COS-B. COS-B was the first ESA mission to study gamma-ray sources. Its results created a catalogue of these sources, known as the 2CG catalogue, ...
8 August
1989:On 8 August 1989, ESA launched its Hipparcos mission. Hipparcos pinpointed the positions of one hundred thousand stars. It turned slowly on its axis and repeatedly scanned right around the ...
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