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The year 2006 in science and technology involved some significant events. ==Astronomy== * January 15 – NASA's Stardust mission successfully ends, the first to return dust from a comet. * January 25 – The discovery of the planet OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb through gravitational microlensing is announced by PLANET/RoboNet, OGLE and MOA * February 1 – is found to be larger than Pluto. * February 13 – The recurrent nova RS Ophiuchi erupts. The last outburst occurred in 1985. * March 9 – NASA's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft discovers geysers of a liquid substance shooting from Saturn's moon Enceladus, signaling a possible presence of water. * March 29 – Total solar eclipse (Brazil, Greece, Mid Atlantic ocean, Sahara, Turkey, Georgia, Russia, Kazakhstan, Mongolia). * June 30 – The discovery of nine additional natural satellites of Saturn published. * August 24 – Pluto is redesignated as a dwarf planet by the International Astronomical Union, joining and 1 Ceres. * September 13 – is assigned the name Eris. * September 22 – Annular solar eclipse in South America, West Africa, and Antarctica. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「2006 in science」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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