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Category:2016 in space
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Space probe launches
Hitomi
(X-ray observatory; Feb 2016)
ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter
(Mars orbiter; Mar 2016)
OSIRIS-REx
(asteroid sample-return mission; Sep 2016)
Impact events
DN160822 03
Selected
NEOs
Asteroid close approaches
(85990) 1999 JV
6
1994 WR
12
2013 TX
68
2016 EU
85
469219 Kamoʻoalewa
2016 PQ
(164121) 2003 YT
1
Exoplanets
38 Virginis b
atmospheric composition of
55 Cancri e
BD+20 594b
Gliese 536 b
HD 19467 b
HD 131399 Ab
HD 164922 c
HIP 41378
b
c
d
e
f
K2-33b
K2-72
b
c
d
e
KELT-9b
KELT-11b
Kepler-20g
Kepler-56d
Kepler-737b
Kepler-1229b
Kepler-1520b
Kepler-1625b
Kepler-1638b
Kepler-1647b
OGLE-2007-BLG-349(AB)b
Proxima Centauri b
Pr0211 c
Qatar-3b
Qatar-4b
Qatar-5b
TRAPPIST-1
b
c
d
TW Hydrae b
V830 Tauri b
2MASS J11193254–1137466 AB
2MASS J2126–8140
as planet
Discoveries
GW150914
(announced)
IDCS 1426
Planet Nine
(hypothesized)
GN-z11
SDSS J1240+6710
Crater 2
GW151226
(announced)
2015 RR
245
(announced)
BOSS Great Wall
GRB 160625B
(471325) 2011 KT
19
(announced)
2014 UZ
224
(announced)
WISE J080822.18-644357.3
Virgo I
Novae
ASASSN-15lh
SN 2016aps
ASASSN-16kt
ASASSN-16ma
Comets
252P/LINEAR
460P/PanSTARRS
53P/Van Biesbroeck
C/2016 R2 (PANSTARRS)
81P/Wild
9P/Tempel
144P/Kushida
43P/Wolf–Harrington
45P/Honda–Mrkos–Pajdušáková
Space exploration
Juno
(entered
Jupiter
orbit; Jul 2016)
Rosetta
/
Philae
(end of mission to
comet 67P
; Sep 2016)
Schiaparelli
EDM
(Mars lander; Oct 2016)
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