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1997 Event - Galileo, Ganymede Observations, Orbit 9

1997 Event - Galileo, 2nd Callisto Flyby, Orbit 9

1997 Event - Galileo, 4th Ganymede Flyby (Orbit 8)

1997 Event - Galileo, 3rd Ganymede Flyby (Orbit 7)

1995 Event - U.S. space probe Galileo begins orbiting Jupiter

1992 Event - Galileo's nearest approach to Jupiter (303 km)

1992 Event - Galileo spacecraft passes North Pole of Moon (Peary Crater)

1992 Event - Roman Catholic church reinstates Galileo Galilei after 359 years

1990 Event - Galileo Earth-1 Flyby

1990 Event - Galileo flies by Venus

1897 Death - Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist (Ferrari), dies at 49

1847 Birthday - Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist, 2-fasenmotor

1737 Event - Galileo's body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy

1642 Death - Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist/astronomer, dies at 77 in Italy

1633 Event - Galileo Galilei forced to recant Earth orbits Sun by Pope (but on Oct 31, 1992, Vatican admits it was wrong)

1633 Event - Galileo Galilei is forced by Inquisition to "abjure, curse, and detest" his Copernican heliocentric views

1633 Event - Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun

1621 Event - Galileo invents telescope

1616 Event - Spanish Inquisition delivers injunction to Galileo

1613 Event - Galileo observes Neptune but fails to recognize what he sees

1613 Event - Galileo may have unknowingly viewed undiscovered planet Neptune

1610 Event - Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th satellite of Jupiter

1610 Event - Galileo discovers 1st 3 Jupiter satellites, Io, Europa and Ganymede

1610 Event - German astronomer Simon Marius 1st discovers the Jupiter moons, but does not officially report it, Galileo does on July 1 1610

1609 Event - Galileo demonstrates his 1st telescope to Venetian lawmakers

1609 Event - Venetian senate examines Galileo Galilei's telescope

1564 Birthday - Galileo Galilei, born in Pisa, Italy, astronomer and physicist













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