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ද්වාරය:තාරකා විද්‍යාව/ඔබ දන්නවාද...

විකිපීඩියා වෙතින්

...that Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 passed within Jupiter's Roche limit in 1992, causing it to break up into smaller pieces two years before it collided with the planet?

...that Medieval astrologers counted Vega as one of the Behenian fixed stars and related it to the symbol , the gemstone chrysolite, and the plant winter savory?

...that the Kaidun meteorite fell on March 12, 1980 on a Soviet military base in Yemen, and may be from Phobos?

...that GRB 060218 is an unusual gamma ray burst that later developed into a supernova?

...that the trans-Neptunian object 2003 UB313 is believed to be larger than Pluto and is claimed to be the solar system's tenth planet?

...that the Orbiting Astronomical Observatory satellites were precursors to the Hubble Space Telescope which made the first observations of ultraviolet light from hundreds of astronomical objects?

...that the ANSMET team have discovered more than 10,000 meteorites in Antarctica, including ALH84001, which contained evidence for life on Mars?