1990 – Hiten Launch (Japan Moon Mission)
1986 – Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus. Voyager 2 obtained clear images of each of the five large moons of Uranus Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and Oberon (known before encounter, and discovers ten new moons. Methane, which absorbs red light, was discovered in theplanet’s upper atmosphere explaining Uranus’ blue-green colour.
1978 – Cosmos 954 reentered the earth’s atmosphere and was located near Yellowknife, Northwestern Territories.
Birthdays
1882 – Harold Babcock’s birthday. He proposed that the sunspot cycle was a result of the Sun’s differential rotation and magnetic field (d. 8 April 1968).
1942 – Dr. Robert Lin was a Chinese born American astrophysist who was a professor and director of the Space Sciences Laboratory (1998–2008) at the University of California, Berkeley. (d. 17 November 2012)