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1997 Galileo, Ganymede Observations, Orbit 9

1997 Galileo, 2nd Callisto Flyby, Orbit 9

1997 Galileo, 4th Ganymede Flyby (Orbit 8)

1997 Galileo, 3rd Ganymede Flyby (Orbit 7)

1995 U.S. space probe Galileo begins orbiting Jupiter

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

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

1992 Roman Catholic church reinstates Galileo Galilei after 359 years

1990 Galileo Earth-1 Flyby

1990 Galileo flies by Venus

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

1847 Galileo Ferraris, Italian physicist, 2-fasenmotor

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

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

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

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

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

1621 Galileo invents telescope

1616 Spanish Inquisition delivers injunction to Galileo

1613 Galileo observes Neptune but fails to recognize what he sees

1613 Galileo may have unknowingly viewed undiscovered planet Neptune

1610 Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th satellite of Jupiter

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

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

1609 Galileo demonstrates his 1st telescope to Venetian lawmakers

1609 Venetian senate examines Galileo Galilei's telescope

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


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