2008 in science facts for kids
The year 2008 in science had some important events, listed below.
Events
- January 15 - NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes its first flyby of Mercury at 200 km height.
- August 1 - Total solar eclipse that could be seen in Canada, Siberia, Mongolia and northern China.
- October 6 - NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes the second flyby of Mercury.
Deaths
- April 13 - John Archibald Wheeler, theoretical physicist
- April 16 - Edward Norton Lorenz, mathematician and meteorologist
- April 29 - Albert Hofmann, chemist
- May 15 - Willis Lamb, physicist, winner of the 1955 Nobel Prize in Physics
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19 March 2008: Arthur C. Clarke, a British futurist and science fiction author, dies aged 90.
National Hispanic Heritage Month on Kiddle
Hispanic athletes in American sports
 | Alex Rodriguez |
 | Manny Ramirez |
 | Mark Aguirre |
 | Carmelo Anthony |
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