Image courtesy Steve Kent, posted here 12 Apr 99. Mike Turner is the featured essayist this week for the Reflections 2000 site elsewhere in the University. Added here 8 April 1999. Observational Tests of Big Bang Cosmology. All Lectures are Free of Charge.
Spring comes to Uranus .
The first commercial satellite launch from a marine platform in the middle of the Pacific took place March 27, 1999. Neptune was the 9th planet since 1974. Pluto will remain the 9th planet for the next 228 years. Image courtesy Steve Kent, posted here 2 Feb 99. Needless to say, ground-based astronomers aren't thrilled about this.