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Today's featured article for October 18, 2024

Artist's impression of Galileo's arrival at Jupiter

The Galileo project was an American robotic space program that studied Jupiter and its moons (including Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto), as well as several other Solar System bodies. Named after the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei, the Galileo spacecraft consisted of an orbiter and an atmospheric entry probe. It was launched in 1989 by the Space Shuttle Atlantis on the STS-34 mission. Despite suffering major antenna problems, Galileo achieved the first asteroid flyby (of 951 Gaspra), discovered the first asteroid moon (Dactyl, around 243 Ida), and observed Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9's collision with Jupiter. After gravity-assisted flybys of Venus and Earth, Galileo became the first spacecraft to orbit Jupiter. It then launched the first probe to directly measure Jupiter's atmosphere. In 2003, the mission was terminated by sending the orbiter into Jupiter's atmosphere to eliminate the possibility of contaminating the Jovian moons with terrestrial bacteria. (Full article...)

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Picture of the day for October 18, 2024

Krishna's Butterball is a large granite balancing rock that rests on a short incline in the coastal resort town of Mamallapuram in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. It is approximately six metres (20 ft) high and five metres (16 ft) wide, with a mass of around 250 tonnes. It is balanced on a slope on top of a 1.2-metre-high (4 ft) plinth that is a naturally eroded hill. Krishna's Butterball is part of the Group of Monuments at Mahabalipuram, a UNESCO World Heritage Site built during the 7th and 8th centuries as Hindu religious monuments by the Pallava dynasty. It is now a popular tourist attraction.

Photograph credit: Timothy A. Gonsalves

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Does anyone actually believe they commited suicide? For being NPOV, a word like officially or allegedly should be added to the sentence about the RAF. Gerrit ^CUTEDH 12:38, 18 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

After checking wikipedia entries on en and de, I guess you're right. There is some controversy over the official version, so mentioning it as such shouldn't be a problem. Kim Bruning 12:59, 18 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I've removed the 1977 item on the RAF. Instead, another item on German Autumn (Lufthansa Flight 181 landing in Somalia) is now on the October 17 SA template. This should be less controversial. --PFHLai 16:01, 16 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

2012 notes

Moved to Ineligible: Moby-Dick (maintenance)
Omitted: Burning of Falmouth; Venera 4; Bob Beamon; Azerbaijan
Included: Pappus of Alexandria (first appearance); Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081) (4th appearance, last in 2010); Regency TR-1 (first appearance); 2007 Karachi bombing (3rd appearance, last in 2010; rescued from Ineligible)
Repeats: Heidelberg University (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total)

—howcheng {chat} 16:36, 17 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

2013 notes

Omitted: Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081); Heidelberg University; Regency TR-1; 2007 Karachi bombing
Included: Church of the Holy Sepulchre (7th appearance, last in 2009; rescued from Ineligible); Moby-Dick (9th appearance, last in 2010; rescued from Ineligible); Venera 4 (2nd appearance, last in 2011); Khin Nyunt (first appearance)
Repeats: Pappus of Alexandria (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total)

—howcheng {chat} 05:52, 17 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

2014 notes

Moved to Ineligible: Regency TR-1 (maintenance)
Omitted: Pappus of Alexandria; Moby-Dick; Venera 4
Included: Heidelberg University (3rd appearance, last in 2012); Tuskaloosa (first appearance); Bob Beamon (4th appearance, last in 2011)
Repeats: Church of the Holy Sepulchre (2nd consecutive appearance, 8 total); Khin Nyunt (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total; 10th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 09:48, 17 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

2015 notes

Omitted: Church of the Holy Sepulchre; Heidelberg University; Tuskaloosa; Bob Beamon; Khin Nyunt
Included: Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081) (5th appearance, last in 2012); 1356 Basel earthquake (4th appearance, last in 2010; rescued from Ineligible); Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748) (first appearance; rescued from Ineligible); Eva Perón (3rd appearance, last in 2005; previously featured on October 21); 2007 Karachi bombing (4th appearance, last in 2012)

—howcheng {chat} 10:26, 16 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

2016 notes

Moved to Ineligible: Pappus of Alexandria (maintenance); Moby-Dick (maintenance); Khin Nyunt (maintenance)
Omitted: Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081); Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748); Eva Perón; 2007 Karsaz bombing
Included: Church of the Holy Sepulchre (9th appearance, last in 2014); Burning of Falmouth (2nd appearance, last in 2011); Transistor radio (6th appearance, last in 2010; blurb previously featured Regency TR-1, which is currently ineligible)
Repeats: 1356 Basel earthquake (2nd consecutive appearance, 5 total)

—howcheng {chat} 07:09, 17 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

2017 notes

Moved to Ineligible: Eva Perón (maintenance); 2007 Karsaz bombing (maintenance)
New articles (unused): Battle of Fukuda Bay
Omitted: Church of the Holy Sepulchre (ineligible—maintenance); 1356 Basel earthquake; Burning of Falmouth; Transistor radio
Included: Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081) (6th appearance, last in 2015); Battles of Kawanakajima (2nd appearance, last in 2016; moved from September 10); Moby-Dick (10th appearance, last in 2013; rescued from Ineligible); Edwards v Canada (AG) (first appearance); Venera 4 (3rd appearance, last in 2013; 50th anniversary); Lady Mary Wroth (first appearance); Jacob Jordaens (first appearance); Maria Antonescu (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 20:40, 16 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

2018 notes

Moved to Ineligible: Heidelberg University (maintenance); Tuskaloosa (maintenance)
Omitted: Battle of Dyrrhachium (1081); Battles of Kawanakajima; Moby-Dick; Venera 4; Lady Mary Wroth; Jacob Jordaens; Maria Antonescu
Included: Battle of Fukuda Bay (first appearance); Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748) (2nd appearance, last in 2015); Bob Beamon (5th appearance, last in 2014; 50th anniversary); Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (first appearance); Lucy Stone (first appearance); Freida Pinto (first appearance)
Repeats: Edwards v Canada (AG) (2nd consecutive appearance, 2 total)

—howcheng {chat} 16:36, 18 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Please add a blurb regarding the Landing of the first Filipinos in the eligible section. It was on the main page, via DYK, in 2018.--RightCowLeftCoast (Moo) 15:49, 19 October 2018 (UTC) RightCowLeftCoast (Moo) 15:49, 19 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

You can do this yourself after the protection expires. —howcheng {chat} 16:50, 19 October 2018 (UTC)[reply]

2019 notes

Moved to Ineligible: 1356 Basel earthquake (maintenance)
Omitted: Battle of Fukuda Bay; Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748); Bob Beamon; Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough; Lucy Stone; Freida Pinto
Included: Landing of the first Filipinos (first appearance); Moby-Dick (11th appearance, last in 2017); Félicette (first appearance); Anna Jagiellon (3rd appearance, last in 2016; normally appears on May 1 together with Stephen Báthory, but Báthory is currently ineligible, allowing us to use Jagiellon here); Isaac Jogues (first appearance); Christine Murrell (first appearance)
Repeats: Edwards v Canada (AG) (3rd consecutive appearance, 3 total; 90th anniversary)

—howcheng {chat} 16:38, 21 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

2020 notes

New articles (ineligible): John FitzWalter, 2nd Baron FitzWalter (TFA for 2020-06-23)
Omitted: Azerbaijan (ineligible—maintenance); Landing of the first Filipinos; Moby-Dick (ineligible—maintenance); Edwards v Canada (AG); Félicette; Anna Jagiellon (deleted—moved back to original date); Isaac Jogues; Christine Murrell
Included: Pappus of Alexandria (3rd appearance, last in 2013; 1700th anniversary; rescued from Ineligible); 1356 Basel earthquake (6th appearance, last in 2016; rescued from Ineligible); Transistor radio (7th appearance, last in 2016); Venera 4 (4th appearance, last in 2017); Baldassare Galuppi (first appearance); Mehmet Esat Bülkat (first appearance); Bess Truman (first appearance)

—howcheng {chat} 17:05, 19 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

2021 notes

Omitted: Pappus of Alexandria; 1356 Basel earthquake; Transistor radio; Venera 4; Baldassare Galuppi; Mehmet Esat Bülkat; Bess Truman
Included: Battles of Kawanakajima (3rd appearance, last in 2017); Treaty of Aix-la-Chapelle (1748) (3rd appearance, last in 2018); Edwards v Canada (AG) (4th appearance, last in 2019); 2019–2021 Chilean protests (first appearance); John FitzWalter, 2nd Baron FitzWalter (first appearance; rescued from Ineligible); Isaac Jogues (2nd appearance, last in 2019; 375th birthday); Jesse Helms (first appearance; 100th birthday)

—howcheng {chat} 07:29, 19 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]