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||2001 – NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
||2001 – NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touches down in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros, becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
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||2017 – Ren Xinmin, Chinese rocket scientist (b. 1915)
||2017 – Ren Xinmin, Chinese rocket scientist (b. 1915)
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  • 1916: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic Richard Dedekind dies. He made important contributions to abstract algebra (particularly ring theory), algebraic number theory and the definition of the real numbers.

    1916: Mathematician, philosopher, and academic Richard Dedekind dies. He made important contributions to abstract algebra (particularly ring theory), algebraic number theory and the definition of the real numbers.

  • 1946: Tunguska Event Preservation Society pledge drive meet goal, raises enough computational power to re-create the original event.

    1946: Tunguska Event Preservation Society pledge drive meet goal, raises enough computational power to re-create the original event.

  • 1947: Chemist Moses Gomberg dies. He identified the triphenylmethyl radical, the first persistent radical to be discovered, and is thus known as the founder of radical chemistry.

    1947: Chemist Moses Gomberg dies. He identified the triphenylmethyl radical, the first persistent radical to be discovered, and is thus known as the founder of radical chemistry.

  • 1960: Mathematician and statistician Oskar Anderson dies. He made important contributions to mathematical statistics and econometrics.

    1960: Mathematician and statistician Oskar Anderson dies. He made important contributions to mathematical statistics and econometrics.

  • 1961: Spacecraft Venera 1 launched. It will become the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (although it will lose contact with Earth and not send back any data).

    1961: Spacecraft Venera 1 launched. It will become the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus (although it will lose contact with Earth and not send back any data).

  • 1983: High-energy literature research project accidentally releases new class of crimes against mathematical constants.

    1983: High-energy literature research project accidentally releases new class of crimes against mathematical constants.

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    1994: Mathematical physicist Charles Critchfield dies. He worked on the Manhattan Project, designing and testing the "Urchin" neutron initiator which provided the burst of neutrons that kick-started the nuclear detonation of the Fat Man weapon.

  • 2016: Steganographic analysis of Skip Digits illustration unexpectedly reveals two terabytes of encrypted data.

    2016: Steganographic analysis of Skip Digits illustration unexpectedly reveals two terabytes of encrypted data.

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