* Astronomy

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RE: September 9th

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Chrysanthemum Day is one of the five ancient sacred festivals of Japan.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t44887925/chrysanthemum-day/

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The first ascent of Ismoil Somoni Peak was made 9 September 1933
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ismoil_Somoni_Peak

On September 9, 1972, a passage was discovered linking the Flint Ridge and Mammoth Cave systems
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammoth_Cave_National_Park#Flint.E2.80.93Mammoth_Connection_.281972.29

The 9th September, 1349, earthquake was one of the most catastrophic events experienced along the Apennines.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t53334767/9th-september-1349-earthquake/

The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest took place in 9 CE
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t41754460/battle-of-the-teutoburg-forest/

The Battle of Svolder (Svold, Swold) was a naval battle fought in September 999 or 1000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Svolder

The weather ship USCGC Muskeget (WAG-48) was sunk by the U-755 submarine on 9 September 1942.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Muskeget_(AG-48)

On September 9, 1943, a German Fritz-X radio-guided glide bomb sank the Italian battleship Roma
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_X#Combat_service

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ARS Rocket No. 4 was launched at Marine Island, Staten Island, New York in 1934
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t44888266/ars-rocket-no-4/

Big Joe 1 (Atlas 10-D) launched an unmanned boilerplate Mercury capsule on September 9, 1959
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Joe_1

Viking 2 was launched on September 9, 1975
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t44304495/viking-2-mission/

Venera 11 was launched in 1978
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_11

GOES 4 was launched on 9 September 1980
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOES_4

The first launch of the new Conestoga I design took place on 9 Sep 1982
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conestoga_(rocket)

Progress 38 was launched on 9 September 1988, spending almost 75 days in orbit
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress_7K-TG

STS-64 was launched on 9 September 1994
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-64

The SPOT 6 satellite was launched on September 9, 2012.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t50177853/spot-6-satellite/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPOT_(satellite)

STS-115 launched from Pad 39-B at the Kennedy Space Center on 9 September 2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-115

Osiris-Rex, blasted away from Florida on an Atlas rocket at 19:05 local time (00:05 BST) 9th September 2016
https://www.nasa.gov/osiris-rex/

Russian army pilot Pyotr Nesterov, became the first to fly a loop on 9 September 1913
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Nesterov

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Michael E. Belt (born September 9, 1957) is a retired United States astronaut
http://www.startiger.com/celebrity_address/Michael+E._Belt_id441937.html

Sunita Lyn "Suni" Williams née Pandya (born September 19, 1965) is a former American astronaut
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunita_Williams

Anatoly Pavlovich Artsebarsky (born September 9, 1956) is a former Soviet cosmonaut.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Artsebarsky

Lee M.E. Morin (Born September 9, 1952) is a NASA astronaut
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/morin.html

Feng Kang (September 9, 1920 - August 17, 1993) was a Chinese mathematician and scientist.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feng_Kang

Luigi Alyisio Galvani (September 9, 1737 - December 4, 1798) was an Italian physician
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Galvani

Hans Georg Dehmelt (9 September 1922) is a German-born American physicist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Georg_Dehmelt

John Henry Poynting (9 September 1852 - 30 March 1914) was an English physicist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_Poynting

William Cranch Bond (September 9, 1789 - January 29, 1859) was an American astronomer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cranch_Bond

Joseph Mason Baldwin (9 September 1878 - 6 July 1945) was Victorian government astronomer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_M._Baldwin

Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy (September 9, 1828 - November 20, 1910) was a Russian writer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy

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John Koenig assumed command of Moonbase Alpha on 9 September 1999
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonbase_Alpha_(Space:_1999)

Moonbase 3 is a British science fiction television programme that ran for six episodes in 1973.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonbase_3

The Time Tunnel is a 19661967 U.S. colour science fiction TV series, written around a theme of time travel adventure.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Time_Tunnel

Happy birthday St. Petersburg paradox
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Petersburg_paradox

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NGC 33 is a pair of stars discovered by Albert Marth on the 9th September 1864.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58506624/ngc-33/

NGC 216 is a spiral galaxy discovered by William Herschel on the 9th September 1784.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58507737/ngc-216/

NGC 4121 is a dwarf elliptical galaxy discovered by Heinrich Louis d'Arrest on the 9th September 1866.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58507724/ngc-4121/

NGC 4510 is an elliptical galaxy discovered by Heinrich Louis d'Arrest on the 9th September 1866.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58507702/ngc-4510/

The Planetary Nebula NGC 6879 was rediscovered by Ralph Copeland using a 15-inch refractor at the Dun Echt obsrvatory, Scotland on the 9th September 1884.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t57507226/ngc-6879/

NGC 6939 was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on the 9th September 1798.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58506652/ngc-6939/

NGC 6946 is a spiral galaxy discovered by William Herschel on the 9th September 1798.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58506689/ngc-6946/

NGC 7387 is a spiral galaxy discovered by R. J. Mitchell on the 9th September 1856.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58507680/ngc-7387/

NGC 7439 is a barred spiral galaxy discovered by Albert Marth on the 9th September 1863.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58507659/ngc-7439/

NGC 7477 is a double star and background spiral galaxy discovered by Heinrich Louis d'Arrest on the 9th September 1866.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58507642/ngc-7477/

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On September 9 and 16, 1999, researchers measured a 1.7% drop in HD 209458's brightness
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_209458_b#Detection_and_discovery

Amalthea the third moon of Jupiter was discovered on September 9, 1892
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t3065579/amalthea/

Asteroid (56) Melete was discovered from a balcony in Paris, on September 9, 1857.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t21000912/asteroid-56-melete/

Asteroid (61) Danaë was discovered on September 9, 1860 from a balcony in Paris.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/61_Dana%C3%AB

Asteroid (189) Phthia was discovered by German-American astronomer Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters on September 9, 1878 in Clinton, New York
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/189_Phthia

Asteroid (297) Caecilia was discovered by Auguste Charlois on September 9, 1890 in Nice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/297_Caecilia

Asteroid (298) Baptistina was discovered on September 9, 1890, by Auguste Charlois of Nice.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t13363897/298-baptistina/

The Great Comet of 1807 was discovered by Parisi, an Augustinian monk, on 9 September
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t54901221/great-comet-of-1807/

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Meteorites

The Krasnoi-Ugol (L6) meteorite fell in Ryazanskaya oblast', Russia, on the 9th September, 1829.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t44888100/krasnoi-ugol-meteorite/

The Wessely (H5) meteorite fell in Jihomoravsky, Czech Republic, on the 9th September, 1831.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t44888108/wessely-meteorite/

The Bells (C2-ungrouped) meteorite fell in Texas, USA, on the 9th September, 1961.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t44888117/bells-meteorite/