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Jul 28, 1999
Spacecraft Target Asteroid Named in Planetary Society ContestThe target of NASA's Deep Space 1 mission now has a name: 9969 Braille, after Louis Braille, the inventor of the language system that enables sightless people to read.
Jan 19, 1999
Planetary Society Turns Eyes to the Skies for ETThe Planetary Society will turn eyes to the skies to scan for possible light signals with three new optical SETI (the search for extraterrestrial intelligence) programs.
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