1999 in science

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The year 1999 in science and technology involved some significant events.

1 Aeronautics
2 Astronomy and space exploration
3 Biology
4 Chemistry
5 Computer science
6 Geology
7 Telecommunications
8 Awards
9 Births
10 Deaths
11 Organisations

Aeronautics

February 27 - While trying to circumnavigate the world in a hot air balloon, Colin Prescot and Andy Elson set a new endurance record after being in a hot air balloon for 233 hours and 55 minutes.
March 3 - Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones begin their attempt to circumnavigate the world in a hot air balloon without stopping. Their journey ended in success on March 20.

Astronomy and space exploration

Total solar eclipse of August 11, viewed from France

January 31 - A total penumbral lunar eclipse
February 7 - Stardust is launched on a mission to collect samples of a comet coma, and return them to Earth.
February 16 - Annular solar eclipse, visible from Australia.
July 20 - Mercury program: Liberty Bell 7 is raised from the Atlantic Ocean.
July 28 - Partial lunar eclipse, visible from Australia, eastern Asia, and western North America.
July 31 - NASA intentionally crashes the Lunar Prospector spacecraft into the Moon, thus ending its mission to detect frozen water on the moon's surface.
August 11 - Total solar eclipse, visible from Europe, across the Middle east, and ending in India.
NASA loses two Mars probes, the Mars Climate Orbiter and the Mars Polar Lander.
The Subaru 8.3-m and Gemini North 8.1-m reflecting telescopes open at the Mauna Kea Observatory in Hawaii.
The Cetus Dwarf galaxy is discovered.

Biology

The bacterium Thiomargarita namibiensis is discovered off the coast of Namibia. At 0.3mm in diameter, it is largest bacteria yet discovered.

Chemistry

Ununoctium is made for the first time.

Computer science

March 26 - The Melissa worm attacks the Internet.
First working 3-qubit NMR computer demonstrated at IBM's Almaden Research Center. First execution of Grover's algorithm.

Geology

January 25 - A 6.0 Richter scale earthquake hits western Colombia, killing at least 1,000.
August 17 - A 7.4-magnitude earthquake strikes northwestern Turkey, killing more than 17,000 and injuring 44,000.

Telecommunications

The first BlackBerry is released, using the same hardware as the Inter@ctive pager 950, and running on the Mobitex network.

Awards

Births

Deaths

February 25 - Glenn T. Seaborg (b. 1912), physical chemist, Nobel laureate in Chemistry
May 26 - Waldo Semon (b. 1898), inventor.
November 11 - Vivian Ernest Fuchs (d. 1908), geologist and explorer.

Organisations

CERN: Bulgaria becomes a member of CERN.

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