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On 1 July Hong Kong returns to China after over 150 years of British rule. In France the left wins snap elections in June and Lionel Jospin becomes prime minister. The death of Princess Diana on 31 August stuns Europe. The Kyoto Protocol is adopted in December.
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5.7 tonnes at launch, 3.267 of them fuel: Cassini was the heaviest craft ever sent to the outer planets. Launched on 15 October 1997, it entered orbit around Saturn in 2004. In 2005 the European lander Huygens touched down on the moon Titan and sent back its data.
Photo: NASA (Public domain)
Moon rocks and Martian meteorites in Toulouse: opened in June 1997 at the city council's initiative, it covers astronomy as much as spaceflight, with partners such as CNES and Météo-France. Its LuneXplorer ride is unique in Europe.
Photo: Phrood~commonswiki (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Alan Hale & Thomas Bopp
Alan Hale had spent hundreds of hours hunting comets in vain when he stumbled on this one from his driveway in New Mexico. Thomas Bopp saw it by chance in Arizona, when his turn came at a friend's eyepiece. It stayed visible to the naked eye for 18 months, a record.
Photo: E. Kolmhofer, H. Raab; Johannes-Kepler-Observatory, Linz, Austria (https://sternwarte.at) (CC BY-SA 3.0)
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