* Astronomy

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RE: January 15th

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On 15 January 1711, the Königlich Preubische Sozietät der Wissenschaften held their first meeting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Observatory#The_Old_Berlin_Observatory

Chagan was a Soviet underground nuclear test conducted at the Semipalatinsk Test Site on January 15, 1965.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chagan_%28nuclear_test%29

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Soyuz 5 was a Soyuz spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union on January 15, 1969
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t40526352/soyuz-5/

The Helios-B probe was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Jan. 15, 1976
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helios_(spacecraft)

Italy's first national communications satellite, was launched on 15 January 1991
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1991-003A

Stardust Performed an Earth Gravity Assist on January 15, 2001, at 11:14.28 UTC
http://stardust.jpl.nasa.gov/news/ega/

Stardust returned to Earth on 15 January 2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stardust_(spacecraft)

Yinghuo-1 and Fobos-Grunt underwent destructive re-entry on 15 January 2012
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yinghuo-1

Lunokhod 2 lunar landing on the 15th January, 1973
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t34693794/lunokhod-2/

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Peter Dmitrievich Grushin (January 15, 1906 - November 29, 1993) was a Soviet rocket scientist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Grushin

Anatoli Alekseyevich Ivanishin (15 January 1969) is a Russian cosmonaut.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoli_Ivanishin

Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (1850-1891) was the first major Russian female mathematician.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sofia_Kovalevskaya

Edward Teller (January 15, 1908 - September 9, 2003) was a Hungarian-born American theoretical physicist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Teller

Jerry Earl Nelson (January 15, 1944 - June 10, 2017) was an American astronomer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Nelson_(astronomer)

Warren De la Rue (18 January 1815 - 19 April 1889) was a British astronomer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_De_la_Rue

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IC 668 was discovered by French astronomer Stephane Javelle on the 15th January 1894.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58889900/ic-668/

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On January 15, 2000, astronomers announced the the coolest brown dwarf, Gliese 570 D
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_570#Star_system

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Meteorites

The Bjelaja Zerkov (H6) meteorite fell in Kiev, Ukraine, on the 15th January, 1796.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t47302104/bjelaja-zerkov-meteorite/

The Renazzo (CR2) meteorite fell in Emilia-Romagna, Italy, on the 15th January, 1824.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t47302108/renazzo-meteorite/

The Aguila Blanca (L2) meteorite fell in Cordoba, Argentina, on the 15th January, 1920.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t47302113/aguila-blanca-meteorite/

The Planeta Rica (ordinary chondrite?) meteorite fell in Las Chiquita, Colombia, on the 15th January, 2013.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56264735/planeta-rica-meteorite/