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Overview of the events of 2006 in science
The year 2006 in
science and
technology involved some significant events.
Astronomy
March 29 total eclipse from Turkey
January 15 –
NASA 's
Stardust mission successfully ends, the first to return dust from a
comet .
[1]
January 25 – The discovery of the planet
OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb through
gravitational microlensing is announced by
PLANET /RoboNet,
OGLE and
MOA
February 1 –
2003 UB313 is found to be larger than
Pluto .
February 13 – The recurrent
nova
RS Ophiuchi erupts. The last outburst occurred in 1985.
March 9 –
NASA 's
Cassini-Huygens spacecraft discovers
geysers of a liquid substance shooting from
Saturn 's moon
Enceladus , signaling a possible presence of water.
[2]
March 29 –
Total solar eclipse (Brazil, Greece, Mid Atlantic Ocean,
Sahara , Turkey,
Georgia , Russia,
Kazakhstan ,
Mongolia ).
June 30 – The discovery of nine additional
natural satellites of
Saturn published.
August 24 –
Pluto is redesignated as a
dwarf planet by the International Astronomical Union, joining
2003 UB313 and
1 Ceres .
September 13 – 2003 UB313 is assigned the name
Eris .
September 14 – The
asteroid subsequently designated
2006 RH120 is identified as it becomes a
temporary satellite of Earth.
September 22 –
Annular solar eclipse in South America,
West Africa and Antarctica.
Biology
Computer science
Environment
January 19 – Australian researchers at the CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research centre in
Hobart ,
Tasmania , publish experimental data that matches models of increasing sea level rising.
[9]
Mathematics
Philosophy
Space exploration
Other events
Awards
Deaths
January 24 – Sir
Nicholas Shackleton (b.
1937 ), English Quaternary geologist and paleoclimatologist, recipient of the
Vetlesen Prize (2004).
February 28 –
Owen Chamberlain (b.
1920 ), American
Nobel laureate in physics (1959).
May 1 –
Kikuo Takano (b.
1927 ), Japanese poet and
mathematician .
May 14 –
Bruce Merrifield (b.
1921 ), American
Nobel laureate in chemistry (1984) for developing a rapid, automated system for making
peptides .
May 31 –
Raymond Davis Jr. (b.
1914 ), American Nobel laureate in
physics (2002) for pioneering the detection of cosmic
neutrinos .
August 9 –
James Van Allen (b. 1914), American space scientist.
August 29 –
Robert J. Gorlin (b.
1923 ), American pathologist.
August 10 –
Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein (b.
1913 ), American mathematician and
cryptanalyst .
November 22 –
Asima Chatterjee (b.
1917 ),
Indian
organic chemist .
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"Stardust Container in Almost Perfect Condition" . Fox News . Associated Press. 2006-01-17. Archived from
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"Saturn Moon Has Water Geysers and, Just Maybe, Life" .
National Geographic Society . Archived from
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^ Atala, Anthony (15–21 April 2006).
"Tissue-engineered autologous bladders for patients needing cystoplasty" .
The Lancet . 367 (9518). London: 1241–1246.
doi :
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PMID
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S2CID
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^
"Populus trichocarpa" . Genome Portal . Joint Genome Institute. Retrieved 2015-11-06 .
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CiteSeerX
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doi :
10.1126/science.1130197 .
PMID
16959998 .
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"Dr. Haifan Lin" . The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine . 79 (3–4): 187–191.
ISSN
0044-0086 .
PMC
1994806 .
PMID
17940631 .
^
Arrington, Michael (2006-07-15).
"Odeo Releases Twttr" .
TechCrunch .
AOL . Retrieved 2014-05-15 .
^ Ball, Philip (2006-01-19).
"Sea-level rise is quickening pace" .
Nature . London.
doi :
10.1038/news060116-11 .
S2CID
128668212 . Retrieved 2012-04-08 .
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ISBN
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^ Reichhardt, Tony (2006-02-02).
"Has NASA's press office gone too far?" . Nature . Springer Science and Business Media LLC.
doi :
10.1038/news060130-11 .
ISSN
0028-0836 .
^ Fuyuno, Ichiko (2006-01-27).
"Scientist faces irreproducible results" . Nature .
doi :
10.1038/news060123-14 .
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New England Journal of Medicine . 355 (10): 1018–28.
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PMID
16908486 .