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Into the Unknown
Into the Unknown: A Journey through Science Fiction is curated by Barbican.
Le Petit Prince
It is fascinating how Antoine de Saint-Exupéry describes asteroids in 1942. At that time even in our best telescopes, the largest asteroids were only visible as points of light. We got our first visual confirmation only in 1971 when Mariner 9 visited Mars.
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