What is 2008 in science?
The [[year]] [[2008]] in [[science]] had some important events, listed below. == Events == * [[January 15]] - [[NASA]]'s [[MESSENGER]] [[spacecraft]] makes its first flyby of [[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]] at 200 [[km]] height. * [[August 1]] - Total [[solar eclipse]] that could be seen in [[Canada]], [[Siberia]], [[Mongolia]] and [[north]]ern [[China]]. * [[October 6]] - [[NASA]]'s [[MESSENGER]] [[spacecraft]] makes the second flyby of [[Mercury (planet)|Mercury]]. == Deaths == * [[April 13]] - [[John Archibald Wheeler]], [[theoretical physicist]] * [[April 16]] - [[Edward Norton Lorenz]], [[mathematician]] and [[meteorologist]] * [[April 29]] - [[Albert Hofmann]], [[chemist]] * [[May 15]] - [[Willis Lamb]], [[physicist]], winner of the [[1955]] [[Nobel Prize in Physics]] [[Category:2008]] [[Category:Years in science]]