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Madge Adam (1912–2001), English solar astronomer; Maggie Aderin-Pocock (born 1968), English space scientist; Conny Aerts (born 1966), Belgian astrophysicist specializing in asteroseismology
[10] [4] Later Inuit people referred to the known meteorite fragments under the general name Saviksue (Great Irons). The three most important fragments, according to the legend told to Robert Peary, were Inuit sewing woman (the Woman) with her tent (the Tent) and curled up dog (the Dog) who had been all hurled from heaven by the evil spirit ...
List of Solar System objects most distant from the Sun; List of Solar System objects by size; Lists of geological features of the Solar System; List of natural satellites (moons) Lists of small Solar System bodies; Lists of comets; List of meteor showers; Minor planets. List of minor planets. List of exceptional asteroids; List of minor planet ...
The 60-tonne, 2.7 m-long (8.9 ft) Hoba meteorite in Namibia is the largest known intact meteorite.[1]A meteorite is a rock that originated in outer space and has fallen to the surface of a planet or moon.
The German physicist Ernst Chladni, sometimes considered as the father of meteoritics, [9] was the first to publish in modern Western thought (in 1794) the then audacious idea that meteorites are rocks from space. [10]
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The following is a list of women who have traveled into space, sorted by date of first flight. This list includes Russian cosmonauts , who were the first women in outer space. Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to go to space in 1963, very early in crewed space exploration , and it would be almost twenty years before another flew ...
The following is a list of astronomers, astrophysicists and other notable people who have made contributions to the field of astronomy.They may have won major prizes or awards, developed or invented widely used techniques or technologies within astronomy, or are directors of major observatories or heads of space-based telescope projects.