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The year 2002 in science and technology involved many events, some of which are included below.

1 Astronomy and space exploration

February 19 - NASA's Mars Odyssey space probe begins to map the surface of Mars using its thermal emission imaging system.
May 26 - The Mars Odyssey finds signs of huge water ice deposits on the planet Mars.
June 4 - Quaoar is discovered
June 10June 10 is the 161st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (162nd in leap years), with 204 days remaining. Events 1190 Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the Saleph River while leading an army to Jerusalem. 1692 Salem witch trials: Bridge - Annular solar eclipseFor Solar Eclipse the alien friend of the rubber doll Betty Spaghetty, see Betty Spaghetty Zambia 2001 eclipse A solar eclipse occurs when the Sun, Moon and Earth are on a single line with the Moon in the middle. Seen from the Earth, the Moon is in front
December 4December 4 is the 338th day (339th on leap years) of the Gregorian calendar. There are 27 days remaining. Events 771 Austrasian King Carloman dies, leaving his brother Charlemagne king of the now complete Frank kingdom. 1110 First Crusade: The Crusaders c - Total solar eclipseFor Solar Eclipse the alien friend of the rubber doll Betty Spaghetty, see Betty Spaghetty Zambia 2001 eclipse A solar eclipse occurs when the Sun, Moon and Earth are on a single line with the Moon in the middle. Seen from the Earth, the Moon is in front

2 Biology

April 18April 18 is the 108th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (109th in leap years). There are 257 days remaining. Events 1518 Bona Sforza is crowned as queen of Poland and married to Sigismund I of Poland. 1775 Paul Revere, William Dawes and Samuel Pre - New order of insectSubclass Apterygota Symphypleona globular springtails Subclass Archaeognatha (jumping bristletails) Subclass Dicondylia Monura extinct Thysanura (common bristletails) Subclass Pterygota Palaeodictyoptera extinct Ephemeroptera (mayflies) Odonata ( dragonfls, MantophasmatodeaMantophasma Raptophasma Mantophasmatodea is an order of carnivorous insects discovered in 2002, the first new insect order to be described since 1914. The common name for this order is Gladiators although they are also called Mantophasmids Mantos and Heel, announced.

3 Geology

January 17January 17 is the 17th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 348 days remaining (349 in leap years) Events 1562 Huguenots were recognized under the Edict of St. 1773 Captain James Cook becomes the first explorer to cross the Antarctic Circl - Eruption of Mount Nyiragongo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, displacing an estimated 400,000 people.

4 Mathematics

August 6 - Polynomial-time primality test published.

5 Medicine

December 19 - Clozapine is the first drug approved by the FDA for reducing the risk of suicidal behaviour.

6 Physics

Claims regarding bubble fusion, in which a table-top apparatus is reported as producing small-scale fusion in a liquid undergoing acoustic cavitation are published.

7 Technology

November 4, A Tactical high energy laser prototype shot down an incoming artillery shell.

8 Awards

Nobel Prizes
- Chemistry
  - John B. Fenn ( Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA) and Koichi Tanaka ( Shimadzu Corp. , Kyoto, Japan) "for their development of soft desorption ionisation methods for mass spectrometric analyses of biological macromolecules"
  - Kurt Wüthrich ( Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland and The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA) "for his development of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy for determining the three-dimensional structure of biological macromolecules in solution"
- Physics
  - Raymond Davis Jr. (Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA) and Masatoshi Koshiba ( International Center for Elementary Particle Physics, University of Tokyo, Japan) "for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, in particular for the detection of cosmic neutrinos"
  - Riccardo Giacconi (Associated Universities Inc., Washington DC, USA) "for pioneering contributions to astrophysics, which have led to the discovery of cosmic X-ray sources"
- Medicine
  - Sydney Brenner, H. Robert Horvitz and John E. Sulston "for their discoveries concerning genetic regulation of organ development and programmed cell death"
Turing Award: Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman
Wollaston Medal for Geology: Rudolf Trumpy

9 Births

10 Deaths

January 8 - Alexander Prochorow (b. 1916), physicist, Nobellaurette in physics in 1964
February 6 - Max Perutz (b. 1914), biologist.
February 10 - Harold Furth (b. 1930), expert in plasma physics and nuclear fusion.
April 18 - Thor Heyerdahl (b. 1914), explorer, led the Kon-Tiki expedition.
May 20 - Stephen Jay Gould (b. 1941), paleontologist/ evolutionist.
June 20 - Erwin Chargaff (b. 1905), biochemist.
June 29 - Ole-Johan Dahl (b. 1931), computer scientist, invented concepts in object-oriented programming.
July 4 - Laurent Schwartz (b. 1915), mathematician.
August 6 - Edsger Dijkstra (b. 1930), computer scientist.
September 21 - Robert Lull Forward (b. 1932), science fiction author and physicist.
October 18 - Nikolai Rukavishnikov (b. 1932), cosmonaut.
November 2 - Charles Sheffield (b. 1935), science fiction author and physicist.

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