Difference between revisions of "December 18"

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1958 – Project SCORE, Earth's first communications satellite, is launched.
1966 – Saturn's moon "Epimetheus" is discovered by Richard L. Walker.
1999 – NASA launches the "Terra platform" into orbit.
2018 – A meteor explodes over the Bering Sea, with a force over 10 times greater than an atomic bomb.

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-[[1966]] – Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by Richard L. Walker.<br />
+[[1958]] – [[wikipedia:SCORE (satellite)|Project SCORE]], [[Earth]]'s first communications [[satellite]], is launched.  <br>
-[[1973]] – Soyuz 13, crewed by cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Pyotr Klimuk, is launched from Baikonur in the Soviet Union.<br />
+[[1966]] – [[Saturn]]'s [[moon]] "Epimetheus" is discovered by Richard L. Walker.   <br>
-[[1999]] – NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform carrying five Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT.
+[[1999]] – [[NASA]] launches the "[[wikipedia:Terra (satellite)|Terra platform]]" into [[orbit]].   <br>
+[[2018]] – A [[meteor]] explodes over the Bering Sea, with a force over 10 times greater than an [[Nuclear Fission|atomic bomb]].
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