* Astronomy

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RE: June 13th

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In ancient Roman religion, the Quinquatrus Minusculae or Quinquatrus Minores was a festival sacred to Minerva
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinquatrus

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On June 13, 1672, Christiaan Huygens wrote about the Cassegrain design and critiqued it harshly
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurent_Cassegrain

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The Great Vancouver Fire was a conflagration that destroyed Vancouver on 13 June 1886.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vancouver_Fire

The Mir Mine was discovered on June 13, 1955
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t43344776/mir-mine/

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On the 13th June, 1944, the first V-1 rocket was launched at London
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V1_Flying_Bomb

Pioneer 10 became the first man-made object to depart the inner solar system on the 13th June 1983.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_10

USA-1, also known as Navstar 9, GPS I-9 and GPS SVN-9, was an American navigation satellite launched in 1984
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA-1_(satellite)

The Hayabusa spacecraft returned to Earth on 13 June 2010.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa

The NuSTAR space-based X-ray telescope was successfully launched on 13 June 2012,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NuSTAR

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Lachlan Macleay (June 13, 1931) is a retired United States Air Force colonel and a former USAF astronaut.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lachlan_Macleay

Ronald John Grabe (Colonel, USAF, Ret.) (born June 13, 1945) is a former NASA astronaut.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_J._Grabe

Reinhold Tiling (13 June 1893 - 11 October 1933) was a German engineer, pilot and a rocket pioneer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinhold_Tiling

Thomas Young (13 June 1773 - 10 May 1829) was an English polymath.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Young_(scientist)

Willard Harrison Bennett (June 13, 1903 - September 28, 1987) was an American scientist and inventor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_Harrison_Bennett

John Forbes Nash, Jr. (June 13, 1928 - May 23, 2015) was an American mathematician who made fundamental contributions to game theory, differential geometry, and the study of partial differential equations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Forbes_Nash,_Jr.

Alan Arnold Griffith (13 June 1893 - 13 October 1963) was an English engineer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Arnold_Griffith

James Clerk Maxwell (13 June 1831 - 5 November 1879) was a Scottish mathematical physicist.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t43344518/james-clerk-maxwell-1831-1879/

Luis Walter Alvarez (June 13, 1911 - September 1, 1988) was an American experimental physicist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Walter_Alvarez

Erwin Wilhelm Müller (or Mueller) (June 13, 1911 - May 17, 1977) was a German physicist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Wilhelm_M%C3%BCller

Giovanni Antonio Magini (in Latin, Maginus) (June 13, 1555 - February 11, 1617) was an Italian astronomer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Antonio_Magini

Lyudmila Ivanovna Chernykh (June 13, 1935 - July 28, 2017) was a Russian-born Soviet astronomer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyudmila_Chernykh

James Adolph Westphal (June 13, 1930 - September 8, 2004) was an American academic and astronomer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Westphal

Dennis Walsh (12 June 1933 - 1 June 2005) was an English astronomer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Walsh

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NGC 5991 was discovered by French astronomer Edouard Jean-Marie Stephan on the 13th June 1879.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t57817236/ngc-5991/

NGC 6373 was discovered by American astronomer Lewis Swift on the 13th June 1885.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t57817249/ngc-6373/

NGC 6491 was discovered by American astronomer Lewis Swift on the 13th June 1885.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t57817258/ngc-6491/

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The discovery of extrasolar planet Mu Arae e (HD 160691 e) was announced on June 13, 2002.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu_Arae_e

HD 30177 b was discovered on June 13, 2002
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_30177_b

The planet, designated Gliese 876 d, was announced on June 13, 2005
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese_876_d

Main belt asteroid (132) Aethra was discovered by James Craig Watson in 1873
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/132_Aethra

Main belt asteroid (198) Ampella was discovered by Alphonse Borrelly on June 13, 1879
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/198_Ampella

Meteor or spacejunk, reentering. approx. 6 pm june 13 2013. southbound M1 Coomera

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Meteorites

The Jonzac monomict eucrite fell in the Poitou-Charentes region of France in 1819.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t43344869/jonzac-meteorite/

The Kesen Meteorite is a meteorite that fell on June 13, 1850
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t43344803/kesen-meteorite/

The Ban Rong Du meteorite fell on June 13, 1993
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t42351469/ban-rong-du-meteorite/

The Portales Valley meteorite fell on June 13, 1998
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t43344809/portales-valley-meteorite/