* Astronomy

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RE: January 2nd

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The Blizzard of 1999 was a strong winter snowstorm which struck the Midwest United States
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blizzard_of_1999

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Luna 1, the first man-made object to reach the Moon, was launched on 2 January 1959
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t40230310/luna-1-mission/

TopHat was a scientific experiment launched from McMurdo Station in January 2001
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TopHat_(telescope)

The Stardust, Comet Wild 2, flyby in 2004
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stardust_(spacecraft)#Encounter_with_Wild_2

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Dumitru Popescu (January 2, 1977) is an experimental designer of aircraft for private spaceflight
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumitru_Popescu_(engineer)

Sir William Ian Axford (2 January 1933 - 13 March 2010) was a New Zealand space scientist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Axford

James Fraser Kasting (born January 2, 1953) is an American geoscientist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Kasting

Farouk El-Baz (born January 2, 1938) is an Egyptian American scientist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farouk_El-Baz

George Howard Herbig (January 2, 1920 - October 12, 2013) was an astronomer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Herbig

Johann Daniel Titius (January 2, 1729 - December 11, 1796) was a German astronomer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Daniel_Titius

Antonie (Anton) Pannekoek (2 January 1873 - 28 April 1960) was a Dutch astronomer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonie_Pannekoek

Rudolf Julius Emanuel Clausius (2 January 1822 - 24 August 1888), was a German physicist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Clausius

Dr. Donald B. Keck (b. January 2, 1941) is an American research physicist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Keck

James Croll (2 January 1821 - 15 December 1890) was a 19th-century Scottish scientist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Croll

Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 - April 6, 1992) was an American author
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t47043237/isaac-asimov-1920-1992/

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Blake's 7 science fiction series was first broadcast on 2 January 1978
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t47043267/blakes-7/

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NGC 1816 was discovered by John Herschel on the 2nd January 1837
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56115810/ngc-1816/

NGC 1820 was discovered by John Herschel on the 2nd January 1837
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56115815/ngc-1820/

NGC 1968 was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel on the 2nd January 1837
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56115818/ngc-1968/

NGC 2053 was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel on the 2nd January 1837
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56115824/ngc-2053/

NGC 2105 was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel on the 2nd January 1837
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56115828/ngc-2105/

NGC 2310 was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel on the 2nd January 1835
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56115831/ngc-2310/

NGC 2330 was discovered by Bindon Blood Stoney on the 2nd January 1851
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56115836/ngc-2330/

NGC 2334 was discovered by Bindon Blood Stoney on the 2nd January 1851
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56115845/ngc-2334/

On January 2, 2006, a supernova (SN 2006A) was observed in NGC 7753.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_7752_and_NGC_7753

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The discovery of Vulcan was announced on 2 January 1860
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t20007230/the-planet-vulcan/

Elara is a prograde irregular satellite of Jupiter. It was discovered by Charles Dillon Perrine at Lick Observatory in 1905.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elara_(moon)

Comet Pojmaski is a non-periodic comet discovered by Grzegorz Pojmaski on January 2, 2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_Pojma%C5%84ski

Comet Negra reached perihelion around January 2, 1348
http://www.ditrianum.org/English/Articles/History/0029.htm

Title: The meteor of January 2, 1927
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56115926/meteor-of-january-2-1927/

A second newspaper report on a strange airship was included in the Denison Daily News of Denison, Texas on January 25, 1878. A Texas farmer, John Martin, was credited with one of the first uses of the term "flying saucer." Martin had actually seen a "balloon-shaped" UFO, but used the saucer term to describe the size of the object from his perspective. Martin's sighting was on January 2. What he saw was a dark object high in the sky. The object was moving closer to him all the while. Because the object maintained a dark color, there was speculation that the object was solid and backlit.
http://web.archive.org/web/20120819213938/http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/17732

In 1960 John Reynolds discovered that the Richardton meteorite had an excess of 129Xe
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t43662102/richardton-meteorite/

Near-Earth asteroid 2014 AA entered the Earth's atmosphere on 2014 January 2
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56123561/asteroid-2014-aa/

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Meteorites

No historical meteorite falls today, AFAIK