1994 in science

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The year 1994 in science and technology involved many significant events, listed below.

[edit] Astronomy and space exploration

July 16 – July 22 – The fragments of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 impact the planet Jupiter
July 21 R. Ibata, M. Irwin, and G. Gilmore discover the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. It was considered the closest galaxy to the Milky Way from its discovery until 2003. [1]
October 12 – NASA lost contact with the Magellan spacecraft after a successful mission. The probe crashed into Venus shortly after.
Asteroid 7484 Dogo Onsesn is discovered by Masahiro Koishikawa.
14032 Mego is discovered.

March 31 – The journal Nature reports the finding in Ethiopia of the first complete Australopithecus afarensis skull (see Human evolution).

Green fluorescent protein was successfully expressed in [[C. elegans]], starting its career as a fluorescent marker.

May 6 – The Channel Tunnel, which took 15,000 workers over seven years to complete, opens between England and France. Travelers can now travel between the two countries in 35 minutes.