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2009 Chuck Daly, basketball coach, head coach, successful 14-year NBA career included leading Detroit Pistons to two NBA Championships, led Dream Team to win gold at 1992 Summer Olympics, dies at 78 in Jupiter, Florida
2000 Conjunction of Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Moon 1997 Eugene Shoemaker, astronomer, co-discoverer of the Shoemaker-Levy comet that had a spectacular collision with Jupiter in 1994, dies at 69 1995 U.S. space probe Galileo begins orbiting Jupiter 1994 23rd and last part of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hit Jupiter, since July 16th 1994 Major parts of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hit Jupiter (July 16th-22nd) 1994 Comet Shoemaker-Levy collides with Jupiter 1994 1st parts of Comet Shoemaker-Levy hits Jupiter (until July 22nd) 1994 Comet Shoemaker-Levy collides with Jupiter 1992 Galileo's nearest approach to Jupiter (303 km) 1992 Ulysses spacecraft passes Jupiter 1983 Light flashes seen on Jupiter moon Io 1983 Vaughn Taylor, actor (Johnny Jupiter), dies at 72 1979 Voyager 2 flies past Jupiter 1979 Voyager 2 takes 1st ever photo of Jupiter's satellite Adrastea (J14) 1979 Voyager 1 passes Jupiter 1979 1st extraterrestrial volcano discovered on Io, a satellite of Jupiter 1979 Voyager I's closest approach to Jupiter (172,000 miles) 1979 U.S. Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings 1977 Voyager 2 launched for fly-by of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune 1977 Voyager 1 (U.S.) launched toward fly-by of Jupiter, Saturn 1977 NASA launches Voyager 2 towards Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune 1974 Charles Kowal discovers Leda, 13th satellite of Jupiter 1973 Pioneer 10 reaches Jupiter 1973 Pioneer 10 passes Jupiter (1st fly-by of an outer planet) 1973 Pioneer 11 launched toward Jupiter and Saturn 1973 Pioneer 11 launched to Jupiter 1972 Pioneer 10 launched for Jupiter flyby 1962 Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn within 16 degrees 1961 P J Melotte, discovered Jupiter's 8th satellite Pasiphae, dies 1959 Monkeys Able and Baker zoom 300 mi (500 km) into space on Jupiter missile, became 1st animals retrieved from a space mission 1958 USAF selects Thor over Jupiter rocket for mass production as ICBM's 1951 S. B. Nicholson discovers 12th satellite of Jupiter 1936 Donald [Anthony] Moffitt, U.S., sci-fi author, Jupiter Theft 1927 Dany Robin, actress, Follow the Boys, Topaz, Jupiter, Julietta 1923 Edward E Barnard, U.S. astronomer (5th moon Jupiter), dies at 65 1908 Pasiphae, a satellite of Jupiter, discovered by Melotte 1905 Charles Perrine announces discovery of Jupiter's 7th satellite, Elara 1905 Elara, a satellite of Jupiter, discovered by Perrine 1892 E E Barnard at Lick discovers Amalthea, 5th Jupiter moon 1857 Edward Emerson Barnard, born in Tennessee, astronomer, Jupiter's 5th satellite 1840 Constance Fenimore Woolson, born in New Hampshire, writer, Jupiter Lights 1837 Henry Draper, born in Virginia, astro-spectro-photographer, Moon, Jupiter 1711 Jupiter Hammon, 1st American black to publish poetry, Complete Works 1630 Italian Jesuit Niccolo Zucchi, 1st to see 2 belts on Jupiter surface 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 1345 Saturn/Jupiter/Mars-conjunction: thought "cause of plague epidemic" |
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