Carl Sagan

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Birth data

• Date: 09.11.1934
• Time: 05:05
• Time Zone: UTC-05:00
• Location: New York, USA
• Latitude / longitude: 40.6782 / -73.9442

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An astronomer and populariser whose series Cosmos was watched by half a billion people; he worked on the Mariner, Viking and Voyager missions and composed the message on the golden record sent beyond the Solar System. He insisted on the photograph called Pale Blue Dot — the Earth from six billion kilometres away.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, on 9 November 1934 at 05:05 Eastern Standard Time. The hour is given consistently in references.