Galileo Probe Integration
Engineers integrate the atmospheric probe with the Galileo orbiter before launch preparations are completed at Kennedy Space Center.
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Glory
Portrays Private Trip in Glory, a Civil War drama about the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment.
Golden Bear for Rain Man
The film Rain Man, directed by Barry Levinson, received the Golden Bear for best film at the 1989 Berlin International Film Festival.
HD 114762 Companion
Reports a low-mass companion to HD 114762, later recognized as an important early exoplanet candidate.
Heidi Chronicles Pulitzer Recognition
Wendy Wasserstein's The Heidi Chronicles won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, reflecting on feminism and personal change across decades.
High Treason
Groden co-authored High Treason, presenting photographic, medical and documentary arguments for a conspiracy and alleging that elements of intelligence and organized crime were involved.
High Treason
Livingstone co-authored High Treason, arguing that Kennedy's assassination involved multiple participants and that evidence was altered or suppressed during the subsequent investigation.
Individual Atom Manipulation with Tunnelling Electrons
Uses a scanning tunnelling microscope to position individual xenon atoms on a nickel surface.
Larissa Confirmation
The Voyager 2 encounter confirms that the object first detected in earlier occultation work is Neptune's moon Larissa.
Larissa Confirmed
Voyager 2 images confirm the existence of Larissa, validating the earlier ground-based detection.
Larissa Orbital Confirmation
Voyager images provide the observations needed to establish Larissa's orbit around Neptune.
Lesser Dark Spot
Voyager 2 images reveal a smaller dark atmospheric storm on Neptune in addition to the Great Dark Spot.
LIGO NSF Proposal
Weiss, Drever, Thorne, Fred Raab and Vogt submit a major LIGO proposal to the National Science Foundation, setting out the design for two long-baseline observatories.
Methane Ice Clouds
Voyager imaging identifies bright methane-ice clouds suspended high in Neptune's exceptionally clear atmosphere.
Neptune Atmospheric Activity
Voyager imaging shows that Neptune is unexpectedly meteorologically active despite receiving little solar energy.
Neptune Cloud Layers
Voyager imagery indicates bright methane clouds above a deeper cloud deck in Neptune's atmosphere.
Neptune Encounter Results
Miner helps summarize Voyager findings showing Neptune as a dynamic planet with storms, rings, moons and an unusual magnetic environment.
Neptune Equatorial Winds
Atmospheric tracking shows powerful westward winds near Neptune's equatorial region.
Neptune Magnetospheric Foreshock
Voyager radio observations detect the foreshock region associated with Neptune's magnetosphere.
Neptune Polar Winds
Voyager cloud tracking shows strongly eastward winds at high southern latitudes on Neptune.
Neptune Radio Bursts
Voyager's planetary radio experiment detects intense polarized radio bursts originating from Neptune.
Neptune Radio Emissions
Desch helps analyse Neptune's smooth and burst-like radio emissions recorded during the Voyager encounter.
Neptune Ring Structure
Voyager imaging shows that Neptune's rings contain both continuous material and concentrated arc structures.
Neptune Rotation Period
Periodic radio emissions indicate an internal rotation period near sixteen hours for Neptune.
Neptune Ultraviolet Observations
Voyager ultraviolet measurements probe Neptune's upper atmosphere and its interaction with the solar environment.
Neptune Zonal Winds
Voyager measurements establish a strong latitude-dependent wind pattern across Neptune's atmosphere.
Nobel Prize
Shares the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering catalytic properties of RNA.
Nobel Prize
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes.
Nobel Prize
Shares the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering catalytic properties of RNA.
Nobel Prize
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for developing the ion trap technique used in high-precision spectroscopy.
Nobel Prize
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physics for the separated oscillatory fields method and its use in atomic precision measurements.
Nobel Prize
Shares the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes.
Oedipus Wrecks Film
In 1989, Woody Allen made Oedipus Wrecks, a contribution to the New York Stories anthology portraying a man and his intrusive mother.
Physical Evidence
Writes & directs, "Physical Evidence"
Pink Cadillac
Stars in Pink Cadillac, an action comedy released near the end of the 1980s.
Pluto Atmosphere
Published analysis of the 1988 occultation finds atmospheric models consistent with surface pressures of only a few microbars.
President of USA
Appointed President of the USA, 41st President
Rain Man
Stars in Rain Man, which also starred Dustin Hoffman and was directed by Barry Levinson, the film is praised by critics and was nominated for eight Academy Awards, and won four, including Best Picture and Best Actor
Scooter Cloud
Voyager 2 images reveal a bright, rapidly moving cloud feature nicknamed the Scooter in Neptune's atmosphere.
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
Stars in "See No Evil, Hear No Evil "
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