50 years of space science at Leicester » current decade http://space50.star.le.ac.uk Fri, 15 Oct 2010 15:58:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 en hourly 1 Group timeline: current decade http://space50.star.le.ac.uk/2009/06/08/group-timeline-current-decade/ http://space50.star.le.ac.uk/2009/06/08/group-timeline-current-decade/#comments Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:50:29 +0000 Mike Watson 2000 First light for XMM-Newton EPIC cameras (January)

2004 Swift (US-Italian-UK mission) launched from KSC on Delta rocket (November 20)

2005 First localisation and redshift of a short Gamma-Ray Burst GRB050509B at z=0.225

2006 National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) held at Leicester

2007 2XMM catalogue of serendipitous X-ray sources detected in XMM-Newton observations
released (August). 2XMM becomes the largest X-ray object catalogue ever compiled.

2008 First naked-eye GRB080319B – most distant object visible to the naked-eye

2009 Swift discovers most distant object in Universe:  GRB 090423 at z=8.2

(please suggest some more highlights!)

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