Portal talk:Physics/Anniversaries

Here's some anniversaries in our FAs that we could celebrate by featuring here:

• January 1996, Comet Hyakutake discovered
• February 15, 1786, Cat's Eye Nebula discovered
• February 15, 1564, Galileo Galilei's birthday
• February 28, 1901, Linus Pauling's birthday
• March 1, 1966, first spacecraft crash-lands on Venus
• March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein's birthday
• March 24, 1993, Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 discovered
• April 1, 1997, Comet Hale-Bopp at perihelion
• April 12, 1633, Galileo Galilei's trial starts
• April 22, 1904, Robert Oppenheimer's birthday
• April 24, 1990, Hubble Space Telescope launched
• April 30, 1777, Carl Friedrich Gauss's birthday
• May 11, 1918, Richard Feynman's birthday
• July 1994, Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collides with Jupiter
• July 16, 1945, Trinity test, named by Robert Oppenheimer
• July 23, 1995, Comet Hale-Bopp discovered
• November 1915, Albert Einstein formulates GR
• November 9, 1934, Carl Sagan's birthday
• November 9, 1676, using his first quantitative measurment of the speed of light, Ole Rømer accurately predicts the delay of eclipse of Io
• December 1610, Galileo Galilei observes phases of Venus
• December 1995, Hubble Deep Field images taken
• December 22, 1968, Apollo 8 launched

The current physics FAs that haven't been recently featured and aren't on the above list are:

• Astrophysics Data System
• ATLAS experiment
• Big Bang
• Comet
• Fermi paradox
• H II region
• Herbig-Haro object
• Open cluster
• Planetary nebula
• Rainbow
• Soap bubble
• Transit of Venus
• Weather lore

Hopefully this'll get the ball rolling on picking new ones. — Laura Scudder | Talk 07:05, 27 October 2005 (UTC)