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30 Nov 2006
total lunar eclipse |
total lunar eclipse (, discoveries ) 4 March – A total lunar eclipse occurs, visible in some parts of the Americas and Asia, and in all of Europe and Africa. |
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09 Jan 2007
Apple Inc. |
Apple Inc. (, discoveries ) Apple Inc.'s first iPhone smartphone is announced by Steve Jobs at Macworld in San Francisco; it is released on 29 June. |
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12 Jan 2007
Comet |
Comet (, discoveries ) Comet McNaught reaches perihelion and becomes visible from Earth during daylight. |
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14 Jan 2007
Scientists |
Scientists (, discoveries ) Scientists at the Roslin Institute announce they have genetically engineered chickens to lay eggs containing cancer-fighting proteins. |
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28 Feb 2007
Alexander King |
death Alexander King Died 28 Feb 2007 at age 98 (born 26 Jan 1909). Scottish chemist who pioneered in environmental awareness, warning of the dangers to the environment from extensive industrial development. He co-commissioned the 1972 Limits to Growth report, which initiated international attention to environmental concerns. It is still one of the world's best-selling books on the environment. After directing scientific research as part of the war effort in WW II, he turned to the application of science for the improvement of life. In particular, he was chief scientist at the department of scientific and industrial research (1950-56), working to help British factories become more productive. After the publication of Limits to Growth, he cofounded the Club of Rome, an think tank focussed on how to establish sustainable development. He was that group's president 1984-90. |
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28 Feb 2007
space probe |
space probe (, discoveries ) The New Horizons space probe makes a gravitational slingshot around Jupiter to change its trajectory towards Pluto. |
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19 Mar 2007
partial solar eclipse |
partial solar eclipse (, discoveries ) A partial solar eclipse occurs, visible in Asia. |
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10 Apr 2007
HD 209458 b |
HD 209458 b (, discoveries ) Spectroscopic analysis of HD 209458 b, an extrasolar planet, provides the first evidence of atmospheric water vapor beyond the Solar System. |
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24 Apr 2007
Gliese 581 c |
Gliese 581 c (, discoveries ) The potentially habitable exoplanet Gliese 581 c is discovered in the constellation Libra. |
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05 Jun 2007
NASA |
NASA (, discoveries ) NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes its second flyby of Venus en route to Mercury, which it reaches in 2011. |
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02 Jul 2007
Saturn |
Saturn (, discoveries ) Venus and Saturn are in conjunction, with a separation of 46 arcseconds. |
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28 Aug 2007
lunar eclipse |
lunar eclipse (, discoveries ) A total lunar eclipse occurs, visible in some parts of the Americas and Asia, and all of Australasia and the Pacific Ocean. |
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27 Sep 2007
asteroid belt |
asteroid belt (, discoveries ) NASA's Dawn spacecraft is launched, beginning its journey to the asteroid belt objects Vesta and Ceres. It reached Vesta in 2011, and will reach Ceres in 2015. |
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30 Nov 2007
Seymour Benzer |
death Seymour Benzer Died 30 Nov 2007 at age 86 (born 15 Oct 1921). American molecular biologist who developed (1955) a method for determining the detailed structure of viral genes. He coined the term cistron (1957) to denote functional subunits of genes. He also did much to elucidate the nature of genetic anomalies, called nonsense mutations, in terms of the nucleotide sequence of DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid. In the 1 Nov 1997 issue of Current Biology, Benzer and Kyung-Tai Min described two mutant types of fruitfly with signs of brain degeneration that might be useful for studying Creutzfeld-Jacob (CJ) disease or other human brain degenerative disorders. The “spongecake” mutant has holes that appear in the brain as degeneration sets in, holes similar to spongiform encephalopathies, like CJ or mad cow disease. |
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