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Title: The recorded date of the Chinese eclipse of -719
http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1930MNRAS..90..797F/0000797.000.html

Perpendicular Sun in Luxor
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t34261004/abu-simbel/



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World Thinking Day, formerly Thinking Day, is celebrated annually on February 22 by all Girl Guides and Girl Scouts.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t47933467/world-thinking-day/

St. Peter's Flood was the first of two storm tides that struck the coast of Netherlands in 1651.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Peter%27s_Flood



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Kosmos 57 was launched on 22 February 1965
http://www.svengrahn.pp.se/histind/Cosmos57/Cosmos57.htm

Kosmos 110 was a Soviet spacecraft launched in 1966
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t41298171/kosmos-110-mission/

Navstar 1, was launched February 22, 1978
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS_(satellite)

Viking, Sweden's first satellite, was launched on February 22, 1986. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_(satellite)

The Corona program was declassified in 1992
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t47933479/corona-satellites/

STS-75 was launched on 22 February 1996
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-75



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James Philip Bagian (born 22 February 1952), is an engineer and former NASA astronaut. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_P._Bagian

Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (February 22, 1857 - January 1, 1894) was a German physicist 
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t47933473/heinrich-hertz-1857-1894/

Stephen Robert "Steve" Irwin (22 February 1962 - 4 September 2006) was an Australian wildlife expert 
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t8266015/stephen-robert-steve-irwin-1962-2006/

Harald Trap Friis (February 22, 1893 - June 15, 1976) was a noted Danish-American radio engineer 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_T._Friis

Lambert Adolphe Jacques Quetelet (22 February 1796 - 17 February 1874) was a Belgian astronomer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphe_Quetelet

Pierre Jules César Janssen (22 February 1824 - 23 December 1907) was a French astronomer 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Janssen



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Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo was a 1632 Italian language book by Galileo Galilei
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t47933465/dialogo-sopra-i-due-massimi-sistemi-del-mondo/

Babylon 5 is an American space opera television series
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56804890/babylon-5/



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NGC 2288 was discovered by George Johnstone Stoney on the 22nd February 1849.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56805138/ngc-2288/

NGC 2294 was discovered by George Johnstone Stoney on the 22nd February 1849.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56805169/ngc-2294/

NGC 2339 was discovered by William Herschel on the 22nd February 1789.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56805189/ngc-2339/

NGC 2530 was discovered by William Herschel on the 22nd February 1789.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56805209/ngc-2530/

NGC 2582 was discovered by William Herschel on the 22nd February 1789.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56805241/ngc-2582/

NGC 2873 was discovered by R. J. Mitchell on the 22nd February 1857.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56805264/ngc-2873/

NGC 3115 was discovered by William Herschel on the 22nd February 1787.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t44123105/ngc-3115/

NGC 3521 was discovered by William Herschel on the 22nd February 1784.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t44362966/ngc-3521/

NGC 3660 was discovered by William Herschel on the 22nd February 1787.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56805278/ngc-3660/

NGC 3662 was discovered by William Herschel on the 22nd February 1784.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56805290/ngc-3662/

NGC 3687 was discovered by William Herschel on the 22nd February 1789.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56805309/ngc-3687/

NGC 3791 was discovered by William Herschel on the 22nd February 1787.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56805330/ngc-3791/

NGC 4517 was discovered by William Herschel on the 22nd February 1784.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56805358/ngc-4517/

NGC 4597 was discovered by William Herschel on the 22nd February 1787.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56805378/ngc-4597/

NGC 4599 was discovered by William Herschel on the 22nd February 1786.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56805392/ngc-4599/

NGC 4632 was discovered by William Herschel on the 22nd February 1784.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56805420/ngc-4632/

NGC 4666 was discovered by William Herschel on the 22nd February 1784.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56805100/ngc-4666/



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TRAPPIST-1: NASA revealed the first known system of seven Earth-size planets around a single star on the 22nd February 2017
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-telescope-reveals-largest-batch-of-earth-size-habitable-zone-planets-around

Nova Persei 1901 was discovered by Dr. Thomas David Anderson at 02.40 UT, 22nd February 1901.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t9581268/nova-gk-persei/

Asteroid (588) Achilles was discovered on February 22, 1906
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t52720622/asteroid-588-achilles/

Asteroid (661) Cloelia was discovered by American astronomer Joel Hastings Metcalf on February 22, 1908.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/661_Cloelia



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Title: The remarkable meteor (fireball) of 1909 February 22
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t52734786/1909-february-22-meteor/

The Grande Prairie fireball of 1984 February 22
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t56806037/grande-prairie-fireball-of-1984/



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Meteorites

No historical meteorite falls today



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