* Astronomy

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January 12th

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A STAR-48B PAM-D (Payload Assist Module - Delta) upper stage reentered on 12 January 2001
http://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/newsletter/pdfs/ODQNv6i2.pdf

Deep Impact was a NASA space probe launched on January 12, 2005.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Impact_(spacecraft)

CHIPSat (Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer satellite) was launched on January 12, 2003
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIPSat

The STS-61-C mission launched on from Florida's Kennedy Space Centre on 12 January 1986
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t40451237/sts-61c-mission/

STS-81 was a January 1997 Space Shuttle Atlantis mission to the Mir space station.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-81

The GIOVE-A satellite started transmitting signals on 12 January 2006
http://m.esa.int/Our_Activities/Navigation/The_future

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Sergei Pavlovich Korolev (12 January 1907 - 14 January 1966) was the lead Soviet rocket engineer
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t9893200/sergei-korolyov/

Sergei Nikolayevich Revin (born January 12, 1966 in Moscow) is a Russian cosmonaut
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Revin

Igor Vasilyevich Kurchatov (12 January 1903 - 7 February 1960), was a Soviet nuclear physicist
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t47245104/igor-vasilyevich-kurchatov-1903-1960/

Michel G. E. Mayor (born January 12, 1942, Lausanne) is a Swiss astrophysicist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Mayor

Ercole Dembowski (January 12, 1812 - January 19, 1881) was an Italian astronomer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ercole_Dembowski

Paul Guthnick (January 12, 1879 - September 6, 1947) was a German astronomer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Guthnick

Antonio de Ulloa y de la Torre-Girault (12 January 1716 - 3 July 1795) was a Spanish general
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t47245118/antonio-de-ulloa-y-de-la-torre-girault-1716-1795/

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The HAL 9000 series computer became operational on January 12, 1992 at the HAL lab in Urbana, Illinois
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_9000

Star Trek: "A Piece of the Action" was first broadcast on January 12, 1968
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Piece_of_the_Action_(Star_Trek:_The_Original_Series)

Star Trek: "The Squire of Gothos" was first broadcast by NBC on January 12, 1967
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXV5ciE8ucE

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NGC 1723 was discovered by Wilhelm Temple on the 12th January 1882.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56232462/ngc-1723/

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The Great January Comet of 1910 was first spotted by diamond miners in the Transvaal before dawn on January 12, 1910
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_January_comet_of_1910#Discovery

The Great Comet of 2007 (C/2006 P1) reached perihelion on January 12, 2007
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2006_P1

Sungrazing Comet ISON was to dust the Earth with meteoroids in early 2014.

Start of the Daytime Capricorn-Sagittarid meteor shower on the 12-13th January, 2012.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t47244998/capricorn-sagittarid-meteor-shower/

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Meteorites

The Leighton (H5) meteorite fell in Alabama, USA, on the 12th January, 1907.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t47245290/leighton-meteorite/

The Banswal (L5) meteorite fell in Uttar Pradesh, India, on the 12th January, 1913.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t47245305/banswal-meteorite/

The Galkiv (H4) meteorite fell in Chernigov, Ukraine, on the 12th January, 1995.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t47245315/galkiv-meteorite/