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Welcome to the Space Calendar!
The Space Calendar covers space-related activities and anniversaries for the
coming year. Included are over 1,600 links to related home pages. This Calendar
is compiled and maintained by Ron Baalke. Please send any updates or corrections
to ron@jpl.nasa.gov.
Note that launch dates are subject to change at any time. Also, anniversary
dates are listed in 5 year increments only.
December 2006
- Dec 08 -
Wildblue 1/
AMC-18 Ariane 5
Launch, Successful
- Dec 08 - Feng Yun
2-D
CZ-3A Launch (China), Successful
- Dec 08 -
Lecture: The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Spacecraft, Pasadena, California
- Dec 08-10 - Workshop
on Early Planetary Differentiation, Sonoma County, California
- Dec 09 -
STS-116
Launch,
Space Shuttle Discovery,
P5 Truss Segment, (International Space Station 12A.1), Successful
- Dec 09 -
Asteroid 4535 Adamcarolla Closest Approach To Earth (2.219 AU)
- Dec 10 -
Moon
Occults Saturn
- Dec 10 -
Asteroid
2645 Daphne Plane Occults HIP 15648 (5.0 Magnitude Star)
- Dec 10 -
Asteroid 2006 XX2
Near-Earth Flyby (0.018 AU)
- Dec 10 -
Asteroid 2006 WT1
Near-Earth Flyby (0.085 AU)
- Dec 10 -
Asteroid 9777 Enterprise Closest Approach To Earth (1.845 AU)
- Dec 10-16 -
IAU Symposium 241: Stellar Populations as Building Blocks of Galaxies, La
Palma, Canary Islands, Spain
- Dec 11 -
Measat 3 Proton M-Briz
M Launch, Successful
- Dec 11 -
Comet C/2006 L1 (Garradd)
Closest Approach To Earth (0.733 AU)
- Dec 11 -
Asteroid 2006 VC
Near-Earth Flyby (0.083 AU)
- Dec 11 -
Asteroid 4255 Spacewatch Closest Approach To Earth (3.613 AU)
- Dec 11 -
Lecture: The Science of Spirit and Opportunity, San Francisco, California
- Dec 11 -
Eilene M. Galloway Symposium on Critical Issues in Space Law, Washington
DC
- Dec 11-12 - 2nd GRID &
e-Collaboration Workshop for the Earth Science and the Space Community @ ESA,
Frascati, Italy
- Dec 11-14 -
Workshop: Massive Stars - Fundamental Parameters and Circumstellar
Interactions, Carilo, Argentina
- Dec 11-14 - 3rd ESA Workshop on
Satellite Navigation User Equipment Technologies, Noordwijk, The
Netherlands
- Dec 11-15 - 2006 American
Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California
- Dec 11-15 - 23rd Texas Symposium
on Relativistic Astrophyics: Texas in Australia, Melbourne, Australia
- Dec 12 - Cassini,
Titan Flyby, Successful
- Dec 12 -
Asteroid
1980 Tezcatlipoca Occults HIP 24482 (7.2 Magnitude Star)
- Dec 12 -
Asteroid
1813 Imhotep Occults HIP 65392 (7.7 Magnitude Star)
- Dec 12 -
Asteroid
5976 Kalatajean Occults HIP 26592 (6.4 Magnitude Star)
- Dec 12 -
Asteroid 2006 XV4
Near-Earth Flyby (0.013 AU)
- Dec 12 -
Asteroid 2006 WM3
Near-Earth Flyby (0.038 AU)
- Dec 12 -
Asteroid 2003 SM215 Near-Earth Flyby (0.082 AU)
- Dec 12 -
Asteroid 9253 Oberth Closest Approach To Earth (1.484 AU)
- Dec 12 -
Asteroid 2933 Amber Closest Approach To Earth (1.637 AU)
- Dec 12 -
Asteroid 1024 Hale Closest Approach To Earth (1.666 AU)
- Dec 12 -
Asteroid 10050 Rayman Closest Approach To Earth (2.363 AU)
- Dec 12 - 45th Anniversary (1961),
Oscar 1 Launch
- Dec 12-13 -
Conference: Coronae of Stars and Accretion Discs, Bonn, Germany
- Dec 12-17 -
Conference on Elementary Particles, Astrophysics, and Cosmology, Fort
Lauderdale, Florida
- Dec 13 -
Geminids Meteor Shower Peak
- Dec 13 -
Asteroid
1330 Spiridonia Occults HIP 98544 (7.1 Magnitude Star)
- Dec 13 -
Asteroid
660 Crescentia Occults HIP 100014 (7.4 Magnitude Star)
- Dec 13-14 - 1st Emirates
Astronomical Conference: Applications of Astronomical Calculations,
Abu-Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
- Dec 14 - NROL-21
Delta 2 Launch,
Successful
- Dec 14 -
Asteroid 2006 XN4
Near-Earth Flyby (0.038 AU)
- Dec 14 -
Asteroid 13667 Samthurman Closest Approach To Earth (1.115 AU)
- Dec 14 -
Tycho
Brahe's 460th Birthday
(1546)
- Dec 15 - STEREO A & B,
1st Moon Flyby, Successful
- Dec 15 - Cassini,
Orbital Trim Maneuver #83 (OTM-83), Successful
- Dec 15 -
Comet P/2000 R2 (LINEAR)
Perihelion (1.456 AU)
- Dec 15 -
Asteroid
11875 (1989 YG5) Occults HIP 33595 (6.2 Magnitude Star)
- Dec 15 -
Asteroid 2006 US216
Near-Earth Flyby (0.067 AU)
- Dec 15 - 40th Anniversary (1966), Audouin Dollfus' Discovery of Saturn
Moon Janus
- Dec 16 -
Roadrunner (TacSat 2)/
Genesat
1 Minotaur 1
Launch, Successful
- Dec 16 -
Comet P/2005 RV25 (LONEOS-Christensen)
Closest Approach To Earth (2.628 AU)
- Dec 16 -
Asteroid 2006 XR4
Near-Earth Flyby (0.004 AU)
- Dec 16 -
Asteroid 2006 YE
Near-Earth Flyby (0.013 AU)
- Dec 16 -
Asteroid 2006 XQ4
Near-Earth Flyby (0.055 AU)
- Dec 16 -
Asteroid 5790 Nagasaki Closest Approach To Earth (1.617 AU)
- Dec 16 - Asteroid
1620 Geographos
Closest Approach To Earth (1.749 AU)
- Dec 16 - Paris Nobel
Conference 2006: The Discovery of the Anisotropy of the Fossil Radiation of
the Universe, Paris, France
- Dec 16 -
Giovanni Donati's 180th Birthday (1826)
- Dec 16-17 -
16th Annual Astronomical Society of Victoria Christmas StarBeQue,
Heathcote, Australia
- Dec 17 -
Asteroid
253 Mathilde Occults TYC 0740-00562-1 (11.1 Magnitude Star)
- Dec 17 - Asteroid
253 Mathilde
Closest Approach To Earth (1.820 AU)
- Dec 18 -
ETS VIII H-2A Launch
(Japan), Successful
- Dec 18 -
Asteroid 2006 YX2
Near-Earth Flyby (0.063 AU)
- Dec 18 -
Asteroid 2006 XY
Near-Earth Flyby (0.081 AU)
- Dec 18 -
Asteroid 15845 Bambi Closest Approach To Earth (1.274 AU)
- Dec 18 -
Asteroid 4337 Arecibo Closest Approach To Earth (2.440 AU)
- Dec 19 -
SAR-Lupe 1
Cosmos M Launch, Successful
- Dec 19 - Asteroid
22 Kalliope
At
Opposition (9.9 Magnitude)
- Dec 19 - Asteroid 2006
XO4
Near-Earth Flyby (0.076 AU)
- Dec 19 -
Asteroid 10001 Palermo Closest Approach To Earth (1.184 AU)
- Dec 19 -
Asteroid 10044 Squyres Closest Approach To Earth (1.571 AU)
- Dec 19 - 10th Anniversary (1996),
Galileo,
Europa 4 Flyby
- Dec 20 - Cassini,
Orbital Trim Maneuver #84 (OTM-84), Successful
- Dec 20 -
Asteroid
2951 Perepadin Occults HIP 51158 (7.8 Magnitude Star)
- Dec 20 -
Asteroid
3082 Dzhalil Occults HIP 5504 (7.7 Magnitude Star)
- Dec 20 -
Asteroid
1904 Massevitch Occults HIP 38856 (7.1 Magnitude Star)
- Dec 20 -
Asteroid 2006 YM
Near-Earth Flyby (0.026 AU)
- Dec 20 -
Asteroid 2004 XL14
Near-Earth Flyby (0.028 AU)
- Dec 20 -
Asteroid 14967 Madrid Closest Approach To Earth (1.514 AU)
- Dec 21 - 40th Anniversary (1966),
Luna 13 Launch
(USSR Moon Lander)
- Dec 22 -
Space Shuttle Discovery Returns To Earth (STS-116), Successful
- Dec 22 -
Winter
Solstice,
00:22 UT
- Dec 22 -
Ursids
Meteor Shower Peak
- Dec 22 - Comet
West-Kohoutek-Ikemura
Closest
Approach To Earth (0.726 AU)
- Dec 22 - Asteroid
97 Klotho
At
Opposition (9.9 Magnitude)
- Dec 22 -
Asteroid
1217 Maximiliana Occults HIP 23607 (4.7 Magnitude Star)
- Dec 22 -
Asteroid 2006 XZ2
Near-Earth Flyby (0.012 AU)
- Dec 22 -
Asteroid 6154 Stevesynnott Closest Approach To Earth (1.855 AU)
- Dec 23 -
Asteroid 6318 Cronkite Closest Approach To Earth (0.816 AU)
- Dec 24 -
Meridian N1 Soyuz 2-1a Launch, Successful
- Dec 24 -
Asteroid
5292 (1991 AJ1) Occults TYC 1280-00697-1 (7.2 Magnitude Star)
- Dec 24 -
Asteroid 2006 XD2
Near-Earth Flyby (0.027 AU)
- Dec 24 -
Asteroid 2006 YJ2
Near-Earth Flyby (0.099 AU)
- Dec 24 -
Asteroid 2003 UR12 Near-Vesta Flyby (0.039 AU)
- Dec 24 -
Asteroid 3001 Michelangelo Closest Approach To Earth (1.231 AU)
- Dec 24 -
Asteroid 25930 Spielberg Closest Approach To Earth (1.627 AU)
- Dec 24 - Jean-Louis Pons'
245th Birthday (1761)
- Dec 25 -[Jan 01]
Cosmos-Glonass
2424, 2425 & 2426
Proton K-DM2
Launch, Successful
- Dec 25 -
Moon
Occults Uranus
- Dec 25 -
Asteroid
542 Susanna Occults HIP 75718 (6.9 Magnitude Star)
- Dec 25 -
Asteroid 2801 Huygens Closest Approach To Earth (1.920 AU)
- Dec 26 - Comet
178P Hug-Bell
Closest
Approach To Earth (1.449 AU)
- Dec 26 -
Comet C/2006 K3 (McNaught)
Closest Approach To Earth (2.416 AU)
- Dec 26 -[Jan 01]
Asteroid 2006
YP44
Near-Earth Flyby (0.036 AU)
- Dec 26 -
Asteroid 2006 YB
Near-Earth Flyby (0.081 AU)
- Dec 26 -
Asteroid 2004 YG1
Near-Earth Flyby (0.099 AU)
- Dec 26 -
Asteroid 6373 Stern Closest Approach To Earth (1.667 AU)
- Dec 27 - Corot
Soyuz 2-1b-Fregat
Launch, Successful
- Dec 27 -
Asteroid 2006 WH1
Near-Earth Flyby (0.036 AU)
- Dec 27 -
Asteroid 2410 Morrison Closest Approach To Earth (1.236 AU)
- Dec 27 - Asteroid
498 Tokio Closest Approach To Earth (1.877 AU)
- Dec 27 -
Asteroid 16035 Sasandford Closest Approach To Earth (2.042 AU)
- Dec 27 -
NASA Glenn Visitor Center Event: An Eye on Propulsion, Cleveland, Ohio
- Dec 27 -
Johannes Kepler's 435th Birthday (1571)
- Dec 27-Jan 05 -
24th Jerusalem
Winter School in Theoretical Physics: The Lives of Low-Mass Stars and their
Planetary Systems, Jerusalem, Israel
- Dec 28 -[Jan 06]
Cassini,
Titan Flyby, Successful
- Dec 29 - Asteroid
44 Nysa
At
Opposition (9.0 Magnitude)
- Dec 29 -
Asteroid
29769 (1999 CE28) Occults HIP 23835 (4.9 Magnitude Star)
- Dec 29 -
Asteroid 28 Bellona Occults HIP 64498 (7.7 Magnitude Star)
- Dec 29 -
Asteroid
5468 Hamatonbetsu Occults HIP 21670 (5.4 Magnitude Star)
- Dec 29 -
Asteroid 2006 YA
Near-Earth Flyby (0.050 AU)
- Dec 29 -
Asteroid 9831 Simongreen Closest Approach to Earth (1.482 AU)
- Dec 29 -
Asteroid 5811 Keck Closest Approach To Earth (2.115 AU)
- Dec 29 -
2nd Annual Winter Solstice Celebration, West Hartford Connecticut
- Dec 30 -
Comet C/2006 U5 (Christensen)
Closest Approach To Earth (1.350 AU)
- Dec 30 -
Comet C/2006 Y2 (Gibbs)
Perihelion (1.361 AU)
- Dec 30 -
Asteroid 2006 YP
Near-Earth Flyby (0.058 AU)
- Dec 30 -
Asteroid 11365 NASA Closest Approach To Earth (0.992 AU)
- Dec 31 -[Jan 06]
Cassini,
Orbital Trim Maneuver #86 (OTM-86), Successful
- Dec 31 -
Asteroid
1512 Oulu Occults HIP 25794 (7.9 Magnitude Star)
January 2007
- Jan ?? -
NSS-8 Zenit 3SL Launch
- Jan ?? -[Jan 01]
Hai Yang 1B
(No. 2)
CZ-2C Launch (China)
- Jan ?? - 5th Anniversary (2002), Discovery of
NWA 1110 Meteorite
(Mars Meteorite)
- Jan 01 -
International Lunar Decade Begins
- Jan 01 -
Dwarf Planet Ceres Occults TYC 6388-00675-1 (11.6 Magnitude Star)
- Jan 01 -
Asteroid 5143 Heracles
Closest Approach To Earth (0.380 AU)
- Jan 02 -
Comet P/2006 HR30 (Siding Spring)
Perihelion (1.226 AU)
- Jan 02 -
Asteroid 2006 UQ17
Near-Earth Flyby (0.029 AU)
- Jan 02 -
Asteroid 2006 YD12
Near-Earth Flyby (0.092 AU)
- Jan 03 -[Jan 02]
Earth
At Perihelion (0.983 AU From Sun)
- Jan 03 -
Quadrantids Meteor Shower Peak
- Jan 03-06 - Chapman
Conference on Mid-latitude Ionospheric Dynamics and Disturbances, Yosemite
National Park, California
- Jan 04 -
Comet C/2005 EL173 (LONEOS)
Closest Approach To Earth (3.310 AU)
- Jan 04 -
Asteroid 3 Juno Occults TYC 4972-00313-1 (10.6 Magnitude Star)
- Jan 04 -
Asteroid 2001 YE4 Near-Earth Flyby (0.033 AU)
- Jan 04 -
Asteroid 7853 Confucius Closest Approach To Earth (1.662 AU)
- Jan 04 - Wilhelm
Beer's 210th Birthday (1797)
- Jan 05 -[Jan 06]
Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #87
(OTM-87), Successful
- Jan 05 -
Asteroid 5641 McCleese Closest Approach To Earth (1.010 AU)
- Jan 05 -
Asteroid 6469 Armstrong Closest Approach To Earth (1.636 AU)
- Jan 05-06 -
Colloquium: Evolution and Exploration of Solar Systems, Irvine, California
- Jan 05-10 - 209th
Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), Seattle, Washington
- Jan 06 - Deep
Impact Near-Mars Flyby (0.033 AU)
- Jan 06 -
Comet C/2006 E1 (McNaught)
Perihelion (6.041 AU)
- Jan 06 -
Asteroid
5142 Okutama Occults HIP 9355 (7.4 Magnitude Star)
- Jan 06 -
Asteroid
253 Mathilde Occults 2UCAC 36428843 (12.0 Magnitude Star)
- Jan 06 -
Asteroid 4664 Hanner Closest Approach To Earth (2.012 AU)
- Jan 06 -
Asteroid 1886 Lowell Closest Approach To Earth (2.054 AU)
- Jan 07 -
Asteroid
1073 Gellivara Occults HIP 80587 (7.7 Magnitude Star)
- Jan 07 -
Asteroid 9249 Yen Closest Approach To Earth (1.485 AU)
- Jan 08 -
Comet P/1999 DN3 (Korlevic-Juric)
Closest Appraoch To Earth (3.257 AU)
- Jan 08 -
Asteroid
1457 Ankara Occults HIP 65319 (7.9 Magnitude Star)
- Jan 08 - 15th Anniversary (1992),
Sakigake, Earth
Flyby
- Jan 08 - Stephen Hawking's
65th Birthday (1942)
- Jan 08 - Johannes
Fabricius' 420th Birthday (1587)
- Jan 08-09 -
ESA/BNSC European Exploration Workshop, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
- Jan 08-11 -
45th
AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, Nevada
- Jan 09 -
Asteroid 2006 XP4
Near-Earth Flyby (0.074 AU)
- Jan 09 -
Asteroid 1940 Whipple Closest Approach To Earth (1.878 AU)
- Jan 09 -
Asteroid 9250 Chamberlin Closest Approach To Earth (2.577 AU)
- Jan 10 -[Jan 04]
Cartosat 2/
SRE-1/
Lapan-Tubsat/Pehuen
PSLV Launch
- Jan 10 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #88 (OTM-88)
- Jan 10 -
Asteroid 2006 QQ56
Near-Earth Flyby (0.052 AU)
- Jan 10 -
Asteroid 2865 Laurel Closest Approach To Earth (1.746 AU)
- Jan 10 -
Asteroid 12104 Chesley Closest Approach To Earth (2.084 AU)
- Jan 10-12 - Meeting: Neutrino
Mass Measurements and their Implications (NUMMI '07), Durham, United
Kingdom
- Jan 11 -
Asteroid 5703 Hevelius Closest Approach To Earth (1.407 AU)
- Jan 11 - 220th Anniversary (1787),
William Herschell's Discovery of Uranus Moons
Titania and
Oberon
- Jan 11-12 -
3rd Meeting of the Venus Exploration and Analysis Group (VEXAG),
Arlington, Virginia
- Jan 12 -[Jan 06]
Comet
C/2006 P1 (McNaught)
Perihelion
(0.171 AU)
- Jan 12 -
Asteroid
684 Hildburg Occults HIP 70078 (7.8 Magnitude Star)
- Jan 12 -
Asteroid 2874 Jim Young Closest Approach To Earth (1.145 AU)
- Jan 12 -
Sergel
Pavlovich Korolev's 100th Birthday (1907)
- Jan 13 -[Jan 06]
Cassini,
Titan
Flyby
- Jan 13 -
Asteroid 2006 YH14
Near-Earth Flyby (0.099 AU)
- Jan 14 - Comet
Kowal 1
Perihelion (4.719 AU)
- Jan 14 -
Asteroid
840 Zenobia Occults HIP 29196 (5.9 Magnitude Star)
- Jan 14 -
Asteroid 6377 Cagney Closest Approach To Earth (1.886 AU)
- Jan 14 -
Asteroid 6456 Golombek Closest Approach To Earth (2.097 AU)
- Jan 15 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #89 (OTM-89)
- Jan 15 -[Jan 06]
Comet
C/2006 P1 (McNaught)
Closest Approach
To Earth (0.818 AU)
- Jan 15 -
Lecture: Saturn's Rings: Ongoing Studies by Cassini, San Francisco,
California
- Jan 15-17 - 2007 Gravitational
Microlensing Workshop, Daejeon, Republic of Korea
- Jan 15-19 -
Workshop: Computational Cosmology, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Jan 15-26 -
CCSDS
Winter Meetings, Colorado Springs, Colorado
- Jan 16 -[Jan 08]
Egyptsat 1/
Saudisat 3/Saudicomsat 3-7/ AKS
1 & 2/CP 3-4/CAPE 1/Libertad 1/Mast 1-3/CSTB-1/Aerocube2
Dnepr 1 Launch
- Jan 16 -
Asteroid 5050 Doctorwatson Closest Approach To Earth (1.316 AU)
- Jan 16 -
Asteroid 719 Albert
Closest Approach To
Earth (2.430 AU)
- Jan 16-17 - Workshop on SMART-1
Technology Demonstrations and Lesson Learned, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
- Jan 17 -
Asteroid
3242 Bakhchisaraj Occults HIP 41043 (7.9 Magnitude Star)
- Jan 17 - NASA
Education Partnership Summit, Adelphi, Maryland
- Jan 17 - 5th Anniversary (2002),
Galileo, Io 33 Flyby
- Jan 17 -
Harvey Nininger's 120th Birthday (1887)
- Jan 17-21 -
Deep South
Texas Stargaze 2007, Escondido Ranch, Texas
- Jan 18 - Progress
M-59 Launch (International Space Station 24P)
- Jan 18 -
Comet P/2006 U5 (Christensen)
Perihelion (2.326 AU)
- Jan 18 -
Asteroid
5288 Nankichi Occults HIP 34540 (7.8 Magnitude Star)
- Jan 18 -
Asteroid
4523 MIT Occults HIP 41688 (7.0 Magnitude Star)
- Jan 19 -
Asteroid 118401 LINEAR Closest Approach To Earth (2.218 AU)
- Jan 19 - 5th Anniversary (2002), Discovery of
SAU 090 Meteorite (Mars
Meteorite)
- Jan 19 - Johann
Bode's 260th Birthday (1747)
- Jan 20 - Comet
176P/LINEAR
Closest
Approach To Earth (2.218 AU)
- Jan 20 -
Asteroid
433 Eros Occults TYC 6791-02310-2 (10.2 Magnitude Star)
- Jan 20 -[Jan 06]
NASA Glenn
Visitor Center Event: Searching for Life Beyond, Cleveland, Ohio
- Jan 21 - STEREO B, 2nd Moon Flyby
- Jan 21 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #90 (OTM-90)
- Jan 21 -
Comet P/2005 S3 (Read)
Closest Approach To Earth (2.719 AU)
- Jan 21 -
Asteroid
1796 Riga Occults HIP 22701 (4.4 Magnitude Star)
- Jan 21 -
Asteroid 7341 (1991 VK)
Near-Earth Flyby (0.068 AU)
- Jan 21 -
John Couch Adams' 215th Birthday (1792)
- Jan 22 -
Comet P/2006 HR30 (Siding Spring)
Closest Approach To Earth (0.749 AU)
- Jan 22 -
Comet C/2005 G1 (LINEAR)
Closest Approach To Earth (4.708 AU)
- Jan 22 -
CCSDS
'Wireless for Space' Workshop, Coloraod Springs, Colorado
- Jan 22-26 -
Workshop: Metallicity Calibrations for Gaseous Nebulae (Metals 2007),
Manoa, Hawaii
- Jan 22-26 - Asian Radio
Astronomy Winter School 2007, Tokyo, Japan
- Jan 22-26 - 3rd
International Workshop on Science and Applications of SAR Polarimetry and
Polarimetric Interferometry (POLinSAR 2007), Frascati, Italy
- Jan 23 -
Comet C/2006 Y2 (Gibbs)
Closest Approach To Earth (0.987 AU)
- Jan 23 -
Comet C/2006 GZ2 (Spacewatch)
Closest Approach To Earth (2.649 AU)
- Jan 23 -
Asteroid 2000 WP19 Near-Venus Flyby (0.046 AU)
- Jan 23 -
Asteroid 9618 Johncleese Closest Approach To Earth (1.623 AU)
- Jan 23 -
Asteroid 1198 Atlantis Closest Approach To Earth (1.771 AU)
- Jan 23-25 -
Astronet Symposium: A Science Vision for European Astronomy in the Next 20
Years, Poitiers, France
- Jan 23-26 - 2007 ESO
Instrument Calibration Workshop, Garching, Germany
- Jan 24 -
Asteroid 4957 Brucemurray
Closest Approach To Earth (1.139 AU)
- Jan 24 -
Asteroid 7861 Messenger Closest Approach To Earth (1.872 AU)
- Jan 24 -
Harold
Babcock's 125th Birthday (1882)
- Jan 25 -[Jan 03] Astro/NextSat-CSC/STS-Sat
1/NP-Sat 1/
CFE-Sat/Midsar1/
Falconsat 3/
MEPSI 4A & 4B Atlas
5 Launch
- Jan 25 -
Asteroid
313 Chaldaea Occults HIP 72596 (7.2 Magnitude Star)
- Jan 25 - Asteroid
25143 Itokawa
Closest Approach To Earth (0.447 AU)
- Jan 25 -[Jan 02]
Space Expo: Satellite Multimedia for
Cars, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
- Jan 26 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #91 (OTM-91)
- Jan 26 -
Asteroid 6 Hebe Occults TYC 5834-00186-1 (11.7 Magnitude Star)
- Jan 26 -[Jan 01]
Asteroid
372 Palma Occults HIP 41975 (6.3 Magnitude Star)
- Jan 26 -
Asteroid 3623 Chaplin Closest Approach To Earth (2.024 AU)
- Jan 26 -
Lecture: A Look Back - Celebrating the Third Anniversary of the Mars
Exploration Rovers, Pasadena, California
- Jan 26 - 45th Anniversary (1962),
Ranger 3 Launch
- Jan 27 -
Asteroid 1996 AW1 Near-Venus Flyby (0.023 AU)
- Jan 27 -
Asteroid 3255 Tholen Closest Approach To Earth (0.977 AU)
- Jan 27 -
Lecture: A Look Back - Celebrating the Third Anniversary of the Mars
Exploration Rovers, Pasadena, California
- Jan 27 -
15th Annual Regional Meeting of Amateur Astronomers "Bobfest", Boiling
Springs, North Carolina
- Jan 27 - 4th Annual Galway
Astronomy Festival, Galway, Ireland
- Jan 27 - 15th
Annual Regional Meeting of Amateur Astronomers 'Bobfest', Boiling Springs,
North Carolina
- Jan 27 - 40th Anniversary (1967),
Apollo 1 Fire
(Gus Grissom, Edward White & Roger Chaffee)
- Jan 28 -[Jan 01]
Asteroid
433 Eros Occults HIP 80683 (8.7 Magnitude Star)
- Jan 28 -
Asteroid 9134 Encke Closest Approach To Earth (2.013 AU)
- Jan 28-Feb 01 -
2007 AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Sedona, Arizona
- Jan 29 - Cassini,
Titan
Flyby
- Jan 29 -
Asteroid 8734 Warner Closest Approach To Earth (1.908 AU)
- Jan 30 -
Genesis 2 Dnepr 1 Launch
- Jan 30 -
Asteroid 7359 Messier Closest Approach To Earth (2.063 AU)
- Jan 31 -
Deadline To Submit Name to Selene
- Jan 31 -
Asteroid 2006 CJ
Near-Earth Flyby (0.026 AU)
February 2007
- Feb ?? -[Jan 06]
New Horizons,
Trajectory Correction Maneuver (TCM)
- Feb ?? - NROL-25 Delta 4M Launch
- Feb ?? -
Bluesat Dnepr 1 Launch
- Feb ?? -
Orbcomm-CDS
3 Cosmos 3M Launch
- Feb ?? -
Vietnam DMC/Thai-Paht 2 Cosmos 3M Launch
- Feb ?? - Agile
PSLV Launch
- Feb ?? - Beidou
2A CZ-3A Launch
- Feb ?? -
Anusat PSLV Launch
- Feb ?? - Cosmos 2424 (Parus
N97) Cosmos 3M Launch
- Feb ?? - Cosmos
(Tselina-2 N23) Zenit 2 Launch
- Feb ?? -[Jan 01]
Demosat (DARPA/Air
Force) Falcon 1 Launch
- Feb ?? -[Jan 08]
Cosmos-Oko N88 Molniya
M Launch
- Feb 01 -
Deadline to Submit Names to Phoenix Mission
- Feb 01 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #92 (OTM-92)
- Feb 01 -
Comet C/2005 W2 (Christensen)
Closest Approach To Earth (3.273 AU)
- Feb 01 -[Jan 07]
Asteorid
243 Ida Occults TYC 1394-00924-1 (11.0 Magnitude Star)
- Feb 01 -
Asteroid 2006 AM4
Near-Earth Flyby (0.014 AU)
- Feb 01 - Asteroid 243
Ida Closest
Approach To Earth (1.805 AU)
- Feb 01 -
Asteroid 11911 Angel Closest Approach To Earth (2.388 AU)
- Feb 02 - GeoEye
1 (Orbview 5)
Delta 2 Launch
- Feb 02 -[Jan 07]
Asteroid
20635 (1999 TV96) Occults HIP 39863 (4.4 Magnitude Star)
- Feb 02 -
Asteroid 5102 Benfranklin Closest Approach To Earth (2.074 AU)
- Feb 02 -
Asteroid 9950 ESA Closest Approach To Earth (2.232 AU)
- Feb 02 - 30th Anniverary (1977), Burnup of the
Salyut 4 Space Station
(USSR)
- Feb 03 -
Asteroid 2362 Mark Twain Closest Approach To Earth (1.488 AU)
- Feb 03-07 -
30th Annual
AAS Guidance and Control Conference, Breckenridge, Colorado
- Feb 04 -
Asteroid 2004 RN251 Near-Earth Flyby (0.061 AU)
- Feb 04 -
Asteroid 2041 Lancelot Closest Approach To Earth (2.046 AU)
- Feb 04 -
Sally Ride Science Festival, Irvine, California
- Feb 04 - 40th Anniverary (1967),
Lunar
Orbiter 3 Launch
- Feb 05 - Asteroid
327 Columbia Closest Approach To Earth (1.967 AU)
- Feb 05-07 - 1st
Workshop on Titan - Observations, Experiments, Computations, and Modeling,
Honolulu, Hawaii
- Feb 05-08 -
1st GLAST Symposium, Stanford, California
- Feb 06 -
Comet 182P/LONEOS
Perihelion (0.980 AU)
- Feb 06 - Comet
Wiseman-Skiff
Closest
Approach To Earth (1.294 AU)
- Feb 06 -
Asteroid 9349 Lucas Closest Approach To Earth (1.731 AU)
- Feb 06 -
Asteroid 19148 Alaska Closest Approach To Earth (1.799 AU)
- Feb 06-08 - 6th KEK Topical Conference:
Frontiers in Particle Physics and Cosmology (KEKTC6), Tsukuba, Japan
- Feb 07 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #93 (OTM-93)
- Feb 07 -
Mercury At Its Greatest Eastern
Elongation
- Feb 07 -[Jan 08]
Asteroid
433 Eros Occults TYC 7363-01010-1 (7.5 Magnitude Star)
- Feb 07 -
Asteroid 2003 YX1 Near-Venus Flyby (0.040 AU)
- Feb 07-09 - 3rd International
Workshop on Remote Sensing of Vegetation Fluorescence, Florence, Italy
- Feb 08 - Asteroid
67 Asia Closest Approach To Earth (1.882 AU)
- Feb 08 - Astroparticle
Physics Symposium, Dwingeloo, The Netherlands
- Feb 08 - 15th Anniversary (1992),
Ulysses, Jupiter Flyby
- Feb 09 -
Asteroid 2200 Pasadena Closest Approach To Earth (1.209 AU)
- Feb 09 -
Asteroid 2266 Tchaikovsky Closest Approach To Earth (2.115 AU)
- Feb 09 -
Kuiper
Belt Object 55565 (2002 AW197) Closest Approach To Earth (45.817 AU)
- Feb 10 -[Jan 04]
Saturn
At Opposition
- Feb 11 -
Comet 182P/LONEOS
Closest
Approach To Earth (0.297 AU)
- Feb 11-15 - Space
Technology and Applications International Forum 2007 (STAIF 2007),
Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Feb 12 - 60th Anniversary (1947),
Sikhote Alin
Meteorite Fall in Russia
- Feb 12-16 - 2007 Aspen
Winter Conference: Clusters of Galaxies as Cosmological Probes, Aspen,
Colorado
- Feb 12-18 - 23rd Annual Winter Star
Party, West Summerland Key, Florida
- Feb 13 -
Comet C/2006 M1 (LINEAR)
Perihelion (3.556 AU)
- Feb 13 -
Asteroid 2006 XB
Near-Earth Flyby (0.100 AU)
- Feb 13 - John Dreyer's
155th Birthday (1852)
- Feb 14 - 35th Anniversary (1972),
Luna
20 Launch (Soviet Moon Sample Return)
- Feb 15 -[Jan 06]
THEMIS
Delta 2 Launch
- Feb 15 - IGS-3B
H-2A Launch (Japan)
- Feb 15 -
Asteroid 32096 Puckett Closest Approach To Earth (1.943 AU)
- Feb 15 - 15th Anniversary (1992),
Hiten,
Moon Flyby
- Feb 15-19 -[Jan 05]
American Association
for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting, San Francisco,
California
- Feb 17 - Kuiper Belt
Object 90482 Orcus
Closest
Approach To Earth (46.825 AU)
- Feb 18 -
Chinese
New Year
- Feb 18 -
Comet C/2006 YC (Catalina-Christensen)
Closest Approach To Earth (4.117 AU)
- Feb 18 -
Asteroid 9000 Hal Closest Approach To Earth (1.674 AU)
- Feb 19 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #94 (OTM-94)
- Feb 19-23 -
Conference: Supernova 1987A - 20 Years After, Aspen, Colorado
- Feb 19-24 - 11th Vienna Conference
on Instrumentation, Vienna, Austria
- Feb 20 -
Asteroid 9951 Tyrannosaurus Closest Approach To Earth (1.644 AU)
- Feb 20 - 10th Anniverary (1997),
Galileo,
Europa 6 Flyby
- Feb 20 - 45th Anniversary (1962),
Friendship 7 Launch (John Glenn)
- Feb 20-21 - Herschel Open Time Key
Program Workshop, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
- Feb 21 -
Asteroid 1677 Tycho Brahe Closest Approach To Earth (1.766 AU)
- Feb 21-23 - 11th Annual ISU
Symposium: Why The Moon?, Strasbourg, France
- Feb 22 - Cassini,
Titan
Flyby
- Feb 22 -
Lecture: The Dawn Mission to the Asteroid Belt, Pasadena, California
- Feb 23 -
Asteroid 1000 Piazzia Closest Approach To Earth (2.095 AU)
- Feb 23 -
Lecture: The Dawn Mission to the Asteroid Belt, Pasadena, California
- Feb 23 - 20th Anniverary (1987),
Supernova 1987A Explosion
- Feb 23-25 - Conference:
Twenty Years After SN1987A, Waikoloa, Hawaii
- Feb 24 -
Comet P/2001 Q2 (Petriew)
Perihelion (0.938 AU)
- Feb 24 -
Asteroid 4055 Magellan Closest Approach To Earth (1.413 AU)
- Feb 25 - Rosetta,
Mars Flyby
- Feb 25 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #95 (OTM-95)
- Feb 25 -
Sally Ride Science Festival, Tempe, Arizona
- Feb 25-Mar 01 -[Jan 04]
Conference:
Colliders to Cosmic Rays 2007, Tahoe, California
- Feb 26 -
Asteroid 16761 Hertz Closest Approach To Earth (2.089 AU)
- Feb 27 -
TerraSAR-X
Dnepr
1 Launch
- Feb 27 -
Asteroid 9342 Carygrant Closest Approach To Earth (1.651 AU)
- Feb 27 -
Bernard Lyot's 110th Birthday (1897)
- Feb 27-Mar 01 - 2nd Space and
Society Conference: Space Options for the 21st Century, Noordwijk, The
Netherlands
- Feb 27-Mar 02 -
Workshop on Science Associated with the Lunar Exploration Architecture,
Tempe, Arizona
- Feb 28 -[Jan 06]
New Horizons,
Jupiter Flyby
- Feb 28 -[Jan 01]
Insat 4-B/
Skynet 5-A
Ariane 5 Launch
- Feb 28 -
Asteroid 9963 Sandage Closest Approach To Earth (2.037 AU)
March 2007
- Mar ?? - Lunar
TrailBlazer
Dnepr 1
Launch (Commerical Moon Orbiter)
- Mar ?? -
Team
Encounter F-1/ Space Technology 6
Ariane 5 Launch
- Mar ?? -
Echostar 11 Zenit 3SL Launch
- Mar ?? -
Radarsat 2
Soyuz 2-1a
Launch
- Mar ?? - Meteor-M-N1 Soyuz 2-1b-Fregat Launch
- Mar ?? - TWINS-A
Atlas 5 Launch
- Mar ?? -
Yamal 203/204 Proton K Launch
- Mar ?? -
Nigcomsat 1
CZ-3B
Launch
- Mar ?? -
Thuraya 3
Zenit
3SL Launch
- Mar ?? -
Astra 1-L/
Galaxy 17 Ariane 5 Launch
- Mar ?? -
Dialog 1 Rokot-Briz Launch
- Mar ?? - 5th Anniversary (2002), Discovery of
NWA 1195 Meteorite
(Mars Meteorite)
- Mar 01 -
Asteroid 51829 Williemccool Closest Approach To Earth (1.224 AU)
- Mar 01 -
Asteroid 3693 Barringer Closest Approach To Earth (2.728 AU)
- Mar 01 - 25th Anniversary (1982),
Venera 13,
Venus Landing/Flyby (USSR)
- Mar 02 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #96 (OTM-96)
- Mar 02 - 35th Anniversary (1972),
Pioneer 10 Launch (Jupiter Flyby Mission)
- Mar 03 -[Jan 05]
Total Lunar Eclipse
- Mar 03-04 -
International Year of Astronomy Meeting at ESO, Garching, Germany
- Mar 03-10 - 2007 IEEE Aerospace
Conference, Big Sky, Montana
- Mar 04 -
Asteroid 3350 Scobee Closest Approach To Earth (1.764 AU)
- Mar 05 -
Comet C/2005 EL173 (LONEOS)
Perihelion (3.886 AU)
- Mar 05 -
Asteroid 5554 Keesey Closest Approach To Earth (1.572 AU)
- Mar 05 - 25th Anniversary (1982),
Venera 14,
Venus Landing/Flyby (USSR)
- Mar 05 -
Gerard Mercator's 495th Birthday (1512)
- Mar 05-07 - Conference:
Probing Gravity at All Scales, Tucson, Arizona
- Mar 05-08 -
2007
Planetary Defense Conference, Washington DC
- Mar 05-08 -
ESO Workshop: Observing Planetary Systems, Santiago, Chile
- Mar 06 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #97 (OTM-97)
- Mar 06 -
Asteroid 9965 GNU Closest Approach To Earth (1.294 AU)
- Mar 06 -
Asteroid 3252 Johnny Closest Approach To Earth (1.448 AU)
- Mar 06 -
Asteroid 7328 Casanova Closest Approach To Earth (2.059 AU)
- Mar 06 -
Gordon Cooper's 80th Birthday (1927)
- Mar 06 - Joseph
Fraunhofer's 220th Birthday (1787)
- Mar 07 -
Asteroid 5471 Tunguska Closest Approach To Earth (2.123 AU)
- Mar 07 -
Henry
Draper's 170th Birthday (1837)
- Mar 07 -
John Herschel's 215th Birthday (1792)
- Mar 08 -
Asteroid 1578 Kirkwood Closest Approach To Earth (2.804 AU)
- Mar 08 - 30th Annversary (1977),
Discovery of
Uranus' Rings
- Mar 09 -
Comet P/1999 J5 (LINEAR)
Closest Approach To Earth (3.224 AU)
- Mar 09 -[Jan 06]
Comet C/2006 X1
(LINEAR)
Perihelion (6.136 AU)
- Mar 09 -
Asteroid 1999 VF22 Near-Mercury Flyby (0.042 AU)
- Mar 09 -
Asteroid 9548 Fortran Closest Approach To Earth (1.228 AU)
- Mar 10 - Cassini,
Titan
Flyby
- Mar 10 -
Asteroid 5451 Plato Closest Approach To Earth (1.566 AU)
- Mar 11 -
Daylight Saving - Set Clock Ahead 1 Hour (United States)
- Mar 11 -
Comet P/2001 Q2 (Petriew)
Closest Approach To Earth (1.643 AU)
- Mar 11 -
Asteroid 2005 ES70 Near-Earth Flyby (0.072 AU)
- Mar 11 -
Asteroid 3581 Alvarez Closest Approach To Earth (2.928 AU)
- Mar 11-18 - Rencontres de Moriond:
Gravitational Waves and Experimental Gravity, La Thuile, Val d'Aosta,
Italy
- Mar 12 -
Asteroid 2004 RE84 Near-Earth Flyby (0.082 AU)
- Mar 12-16 - 38th
Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC), League City, Texas
- Mar 12-16 - IAU
Symposium 242: Astrophysical Masers and their Environments, Alice Springs,
Australia
- Mar 13 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #98 (OTM-98)
- Mar 13 -
Comet C/2006 K3 (McNaught)
Perihelion (2.501 AU)
- Mar 13 -
Asteroid 35352 Texas Closest Approach To Earth (1.704 AU)
- Mar 13 -
Kuiper
Belt Object 136472 (2005 FY9)
Closest Approach To Earth (51.120 AU)
- Mar 14 -
Comet C/2003 WT42 (LINEAR)
Closest Approach To Earth (4.893 AU)
- Mar 14 -
Asteroid 7610 Sudbury Closest Approach To Earth (1.896 AU)
- Mar 14 -
Asteroid 7536 Fahrenheit Closest Approach To Earth (2.100 AU)
- Mar 14-16 - DGLR International
Symposium: To Moon and Beyond, Bremen, Germany
- Mar 14-18 - 7th
Annual Kisatchie Star Party, Kisatchie National Forest, Louisiana
- Mar 15 -
Asteroid 99942 Apophis
Closest Approach To Earth (0.865 AU)
- Mar 16 -[Jan 06]
STS-117 Launch,
Space Shuttle Atlantis,
S3/S4 Truss PV Arrays, (International
Space Station 13A)
- Mar 16 - Comet
Bus
Closest Approach To Earth (1.336 AU)
- Mar 16 - 45th Anniversary (1962),
1st Titan 2 Rocket
Launch
- Mar 17 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #99 (OTM-99)
- Mar 17 -
Teachers' Conference: Forging the Elements and Probing the Universe with Stars,
Santa Barbara, California
- Mar 18 - Comet
Kowal-LINEAR
Closest
Approach To Earth (3.861 AU)
- Mar 18 -
Asteroid 2004 AM Near-Mars Flyby (0.028 AU)
- Mar 18 -
Asteroid 2004 FA5 Near-Earth Flyby (0.082 AU)
- Mar 18 -
Asteroid 6524 Baalke Closest Approach To Earth (1.582 AU)
- Mar 18 -
Asteroid 7000 Curie Closest Approach To Earth (2.119 AU)
- Mar 19-23 -
Conference: The Next Decade of Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands
- Mar 19-23 -
Conference: Paths to Exploding Stars: Accretion and Eruption, Santa
Barbara, California
- Mar 20 -
Asteroid 7672 Hawking Closest Approach To Earth (1.357 AU)
- Mar 20 -
Asteroid 1941 Wild Closest Approach To Earth (4.093 AU)
- Mar 21 -
Vernal Equinox,
00:07 UT
- Mar 21 - Florida
Space Day 2007, Cape Canaveral, Florida
- Mar 21-23 - Asian Space
Conference 2007, Singapore
- Mar 21-23 -
Workshop: Astronomical Spectroscopy and the Virtual Observatory, Madrid,
Spain
- Mar 22 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #100 (OTM-100)
- Mar 22 -
Lecture: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter - New Details of Young and Old Mars,
Pasadena, California
- Mar 22-24 -
Conference: Space Access '07, Phoenix, Arizona
- Mar 22-24 -
Workshop: Astrophysical Probes of the Nature of Dark Matter, Irvine,
California
- Mar 23 -
Asteroid 2006 GB
Near-Earth Flyby (0.039 AU)
- Mar 23 -
Asteroid 2006 JY26
Near-Earth Flyby (0.090 AU)
- Mar 23 -
Asteroid 2224 Tucson Closest Approach To Earth (1.950 AU)
- Mar 23 -
Lecture: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter - New Details of Young and Old Mars,
Pasadena, California
- Mar 23 -
Wernher
von Braun's 95th Birthday (1912)
- Mar 24 -
Asteroid 2001 FE7 Near-Earth Flyby (0.078 AU)
- Mar 24 -
Asteroid 6602 Gilclark Closest Approach To Earth (0.948 AU)
- Mar 24 -
Asteroid 1991 Darwin Closest Approach To Earth (1.538 AU)
- Mar 24 -
Asteroid 9252 Goddard Closest Approach To Earth (2.612 AU)
- Mar 24-29 -
Conference: The Origin of Galaxies - Exploring Galaxy Evolution with the New
Generation of Infrared-Millimetre Facilities, Obergurgl, Austria
- Mar 25 - Daylight
Saving - Set Clock Ahead 1 Hour (Europe)
- Mar 25 -[Jan 06]
Comet C/2006 V1
(Catalina)
Closest Approach To Earth (2.741 AU)
- Mar 25 -
Asteroid 1537 Transylvania Closest Approach To Earth (2.929 AU)
- Mar 25-28 - 2nd International
Conference and Exposition on Science, Engineering, and Habitation in Space,
and the 2nd Biennial Space Elevator Workshop, Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Mar 25-30 - Conference: A
New Zeal for Old Galaxies, Rotorua, New Zealand
- Mar 26 - Cassini,
Titan
Flyby
- Mar 26 -
Globalstar-9
Soyuz-Fregat
Launch
- Mar 26-28 - Space Exploration 2007:
2nd International Conference and Exposition on Science, Engineering, and
Habitation in Space, Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Mar 26-28 - Workshop: Telescope
and Instrumentation Robotization at Dome C, Tenerife, Spain
- Mar 26-29 -
Conference: Outstanding Questions for the Standard Cosmological Model,
London, United Kingdom
- Mar 26-29 -[Jan 08]
Arena Workshop: Telescope and
Instrumentation Robotization at Dome C, Puerto Santiago, Tenerife, Spain
- Mar 27 -
Asteroid 2099 Opik Closest Approach To Earth (2.140 AU)
- Mar 27 - 35th Anniversary (1972),
Venera 8
Launch (USSR Venus Lander/Orbiter Mission)
- Mar 27-29 - Ground System
Architectures Workshop 2007 (GSAW2007), Manhattan Beach, California
- Mar 27-30 - Meeting: Living With a Star 1 -
A New Era in Understanding our Space Environment, Boulder, Colorado
- Mar 28 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #101 (OTM-101)
- Mar 28 - Comet
Harrington-Abell
Closest
Approach To Earth (1.721 AU)
- Mar 28 -
Asteroid 4151 Alanhale Closest Approach To Earth (1.855 AU)
- Mar 28 -
Asteroid 1134 Kepler Closest Approach To Earth (2.703 AU)
- Mar 28 - 205th Anniversary (1802),
Heinrich Olbers'
Discovery of Asteroid 2
Pallas
- Mar 29 -
Comet C/2002 VQ94 (LINEAR)
Closest Approach To Earth (6.646 AU)
- Mar 29 - 200th Anniversary (1807),
Heinrich Olbers'
Discovery of Asteroid 4
Vesta
- Mar 31 -
Asteroid 2006 VV2
Near-Earth Flyby (0.023 AU)
- Mar 31 -
Asteroid 2004 FU162 Near-Earth Flyby (0.036 AU)
- Mar 31 -
Asteroid 17058 Rocknroll Closest Approach To Earth (1.592 AU)
April 2007
- Apr ?? -[Jan 03]
Chang'e 1
CZ-3A Launch
(Chinese Lunar Orbiter)
- Apr ?? - Rosetta,
Deep Space Maneuver #3 (DSM-3)
- Apr ?? -
Horizons 2 Zenit 3SLB Launch
- Apr ?? -
Microscope Ariane 5 Launch
- Apr ?? - Amsat Phase 3E Express
Ariane 5 Launch
- Apr ?? -
SAR-Lupe 2 Cosmos 3M Launch
- Apr ?? - Sumbandila/Vulcan/Compass
3 (2N)
Shtil-2.1 Launch
- Apr ?? -[Jan 01]
Anik F-3
Proton M Launch
- Apr ?? -[Jan 08]
Star One C-1 Ariane 5 Launch
- Apr 01 -[Jan 06]
DSP-23
Delta 4
Heavy Launch
- Apr 01 -
Asteroid 7392 Kowalski Closest Approach To Earth (1.414 AU)
- Apr 01 -
Asteroid 88292 Bora-Bora Closest Approach To Earth (1.602 AU)
- Apr 01 -
Sally Ride Science Festival, Santa Clara, California
- Apr 01-04 - American Association
of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) Meeting, Long Beach, California
- Apr 02 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #102 (OTM-102)
- Apr 02 -
Comet C/2006 T1 (Levy)
Closest Approach To Earth (1.495 AU)
- Apr 02 - Comet
Schuster
Perihelion (1.556 AU)
- Apr 02 -
Comet C/2006 U7 (Gibbs)
Perihelion (4.433 AU)
- Apr 02 -
Asteroid 64070 NEAT Closest Approach To Earth (1.938 AU)
- Apr 03 - NROL-28 Atlas 5 Launch
- Apr 03 -
Asteroid 2074 Shoemaker Closest Approach To Earth (0.927 AU)
- Apr 03 -
Asteroid 30785 Greeley Closest Approach To Earth (1.618 AU)
- Apr 04 - Comet
Machholz 1 Perihelion (0.125 AU)
- Apr 04 - Comet
Comas Sola Near-Jupiter Flyby (0.311 AU)
- Apr 04 -
Asteroid 9937 Triceratops Closest Approach To Earth (1.916 AU)
- Apr 05 -
Asteroid 3061 Cook Closest Approach To Earth (2.589 AU)
- Apr 05 - Kuiper
Belt Object 136108 (2003 EL61)
Closest
Approach To Earth (50.279 AU)
- Apr 05 - 10th Anniversary (1997),
Galileo,
Ganymede 7 Flyby
- Apr 06 -
Asteroid 5281 Lindstrom Closest Approach To Earth (2.401 AU)
- Apr 07 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #103 (OTM-103)
- Apr 07 -
Asteroid 2002 OY21 Near-Mars Flyby (0.045 AU)
- Apr 07 -
Asteroid 1776 Kuiper Closest Approach To Earth (2.116 AU)
- Apr 07 -
Asteroid 4370 Dickens Closest Approach To Earth (1.635 AU)
- Apr 08 -
Easter Sunday
- Apr 08 - Asteroid 951
Gaspra Closest
Approach To Earth (1.594 AU)
- Apr 08 -
Asteroid 2620 Santana Closest Approach To Earth (2.068 AU)
- Apr 08-13 - 28th Annual International
Gravitational Physiology Meeting, San Antonio, Texas
- Apr 09 -[Jan 08]
Soyuz TMA-10
Soyuz FG Launch (International
Space Station 14S)
- Apr 09 -
Asteroid 8120 Kobe Closest Approach To Earth (1.802 AU)
- Apr 09 -
Asteroid 5663 McKeegan Closest Approach To Earth (1.832 AU)
- Apr 10 - Cassini,
Titan
Flyby
- Apr 10-13 - Meeting: Bilbao Encounter
on New Standard Cosmology (BICOS 2007), Bilbao, Spain
- Apr 11-14 -
Conference: From Stars to Planets - Connecting our Understanding of Star and
Planet Formation, Gainesville, Florida
- Apr 11-14 -
Mid-South
Star Gaze 2007, Rainwater Observatory, Mississippi
- Apr 12 -
Asteroid 31664 Randiiwessen Closest Approach To Earth (1.516 AU)
- Apr 12 -
Asteroid 12760 Maxwell Closest Approach To Earth (2.266 AU)
- Apr 12 -
Lecture: Hot Topic, Cool Science - The Greenhouse Effect and the Orbiting
Carbon Observatory, Pasadena, California
- Apr 12-13 -
International Congress: Experiments in Space and Beyond, Brussels, Belgium
- Apr 12-14 -
Symposium: The Future of Space Exploration - Solutions to Earthly Problems?,
Boston, Massachusetts
- Apr 13 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #104 (OTM-104)
- Apr 13 -
Asteroid 1994 GL Near-Earth Flyby (0.020 AU)
- Apr 13 -
Lecture: Hot Topic, Cool Science - The Greenhouse Effect and the Orbiting
Carbon Observatory, Pasadena, California
- Apr 14 -
Asteroid 9885 Linux Closest Approach To Earth (1.410 AU)
- Apr 15-20 -[Jan 04]
European Geosciences Union
General Assembly 2007, Vienna, Austria
- Apr 15-22 - 6th
International Workshop on Data Analysis in Astronomy, Erice, Italy
- Apr 16 -
Comet C/2005 YW (LINEAR)
Closest Approach To Earth (1.978 AU)
- Apr 16 - 35th Anniversary (1972),
Apollo 16 Launch (Manned Moon Landing)
- Apr 16 -
Wilbur
Wright's 140th Birthday (1867)
- Apr 16 - Leonardo
DaVinci's 555th Birthday (1452)
- Apr 16-20 - Conference: New
Quests in Stellar Astrophysics II - The Ultraviolet Properties of Evolved
Stellar Populations, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
- Apr 16-22 -[Jan 04]
Astronomy Week
- Apr 17 - 40th Anniversary (1967),
Surveyor 3
Launch (Moon Lander)
- Apr 17-20 - IEEE Radar Conference 2007,
Boston, Massachusetts
- Apr 18 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #105 (OTM-105)
- Apr 18-20 -
Symposium: The Nuclear Region, Host Galaxy and Environment of Active Galaxies,
Huatulco, Mexico
- Apr 18-20 - 29th ESA Antenna
Workshop on Multiple Beam and Reconfigurable Antennas, Noordwijk, The
Netherlands
- Apr 19 - Comet 2P
Encke
Perihelion (0.339 AU)
- Apr 19 - 25th Anniversary (1982),
Salyut 7 Space Station
Launch
- Apr 19-21 -
2007 CubeSat Developer's Workshop: Recognizing the Potential, Huntington
Beach, California
- Apr 20-21 - 14th
Annual Great Moonbuggy Race, Huntsville, Alabama
- Apr 21 -[Jan 04]
Astronomy Day
- Apr 21 -
Asteroid 18106 Blume Closest Approach To Earth (2.110 AU)
- Apr 22 -
Lyrids
Meteor Shower Peak
- Apr 22 - Comet
Kowal 1
Closest
Approach To Earth (3.727 AU)
- Apr 22-24 - Meeting:
Microstructures in the Interstellar Medium, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin
- Apr 22-27 - 5th Potsdam Thinkshop:
Differential Rotation, Meridional Flows, and Dynamo Activity, Potsdam,
Germany
- Apr 23 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #106 (OTM-106)
- Apr 23-26 -
AIAA
Dynamics Specialists Conference, Waikiki, Hawaii
- Apr 23-27 - 2007 ESA ENVISAT Symposium,
Montreux, Switzerland
- Apr 23-27 - Conference:
Pathways Through an Eclectic Universe, Tenerife, Spain
- Apr 23-27 - Workshop:
Astrophysics in the LOFAR Era, Emmen, The Netherlands
- Apr 23-28 - 14th Young Scientists'
Conference on Astronomy and Space Physics, Kyiv, Ukraine
- Apr 24 - Cassini,
Distant Flyby of Dione and Telesto
- Apr 24-25 - 2nd Workshop on GNSS
Signals & Signal Processing, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
- Apr 25 - AIM Pegasus XL Launch
- Apr 26 - Cassini,
Titan
Flyby
- Apr 27 -
Asteroid 9949 Brontosaurus Closest Approach To Earth (1.206 AU)
- Apr 28 -
Asteroid 2003 WW26 Near-Earth Flyby (0.096 AU)
- Apr 29 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #107 (OTM-107)
- Apr 29 - Comet
Helin-Roman-Crockett
Closest
Approach To Earth (3.239 AU)
- Apr 29 -
Asteroid 10221 Kubrick Closest Approach To Earth (1.416 AU)
- Apr 29 -
Asteroid 3905 Doppler Closest Approach To Earth (2.100 AU)
- Apr 29 - 13th
Annual Meeting of the SETI League, Little Ferry, New Jersey
- Apr 30 - NFIRE
Minotaur Launch
- Apr 30 -
Asteroid 2002 FB3 Near-Mercury Flyby (0.016 AU)
- Apr 30 -
Asteroid 2003 FU3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.082 AU)
- Apr 30 -
Asteroid 3355 Onizuka Closest Approach To Earth (1.290 AU)
- Apr 30 -
Asteroid 4969 Lawrence Closest Approach To Earth (2.682 AU)
May 2007
- May ?? -[Jan 06]
New Horizons,
Trajectory Correction Maneuver (TCM)
- May ?? -[Jan 08] Katysat 1/
KiwiSat/Atmocube/Cubesat-RAFT/Funsat/UCISA
Dnepr 1 Launch
- May ?? - Cosmos Geizer N21 Proton K Launch
- May ?? -
Cbers 2B CZ-4B Launch
- May ?? -
TacSat 1/ Celestis
5
Falcon 1 Launch
- May ?? -
Sinosat 3 CZ-3A Launch (China)
- May ?? - MDA-DST Minotaur 1 Launch
- May ?? -[Jan 08]
Direct-TV 10
Proton M Launch
- May 02 -
Asteroid 9770 Discovery Closest Approach To Earth (0.958 AU)
- May 03 - NROL-30 Atlas 5 Launch
- May 03 -
Asteroid 2991 Bilbo Closest Approach To Earth (1.155 AU)
- May 03 -
Asteroid 5553 Chodas Closest Approach To Earth (1.435 AU)
- May 03-05 - International
Workshop on Flows, Boundaries, Interactions, Sinaia, Romania
- May 03-05 - Young Scientists
International School: Heliosphere and Galaxy, Sinaia, Romania
- May 04 -
Space Day
- May 04 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #108 (OTM-108)
- May 04 - Comet
Holmes
Perihelion (2.053 AU)
- May 04 -
Asteroid 1999 HF1 Near-Venus Flyby (0.048 AU)
- May 04 -
Asteroid 3352 McAuliffe
Closest Approach To Earth (0.907 AU)
- May 04 -
Asteroid 3356 Resnik Closest Approach To Earth (1.007 AU)
- May 04 -
Asteroid 18725 Atacama Closest Approach To Earth (2.036 AU)
- May 04 - 40th Anniversary (1967),
Lunar Orbiter 4
Launch
- May 05 -
Eta
Aquarids Meteor Shower Peak
- May 06 -
Willem de Sitter's 135th Birthday (1872)
- May 06-10 - AAS Division on Dynamical
Astronomy Annual Meeting, Ann Arbor, Michigan
- May 07 -
Comet C/2006 S2 (LINEAR)
Perihelion (3.161 AU)
- May 07 -
Asteroid 1998 VO Near-Earth Flyby (0.063 AU)
- May 07 -
Asteroid 4116 Elachi Closest Approach To Earth (0.958 AU)
- May 07 -
Asteroid 12002 Sues Closest Approach To Earth (1.993 AU)
- May 07 -
Asteroid 2161 Grissom Closest Approach To Earth (2.125 AU)
- May 07 -
Asteroid 4446 Carolyn Closest Approach To Earth (2.643 AU)
- May 07 - 10th Anniversary (1997),
Galileo,
Ganymede 8 Flyby
- May 07-09 - EarthCARE Workshop,
Noordwijk, The Netherlands
- May 08 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #109 (OTM-109)
- May 08 -
Asteroid 1862 Apollo Near-Earth Flyby (0.071 AU)
- May 09 -
Asteroid 2000 LG6 Near-Earth Flyby (0.079 AU)
- May 09 -
Asteroid 2906 Caltech Closest Approach To Earth (2.577 AU)
- May 09-11 -[Jan 06]
Canada-France-Hawaii
Telescope (CFHT) 2007 Users' Meeting, Marseille, France
- May 10 -
Comet C/2006 F2 (Christensen)
Closest Approach To Earth (4.110 AU)
- May 10 -
Asteroid 9941 Iguanodo Closest Approach To Earth (1.358 AU)
- May 10 -
Lecture: The Search for Earth-like Planets - Looking for Signs of Life,
Pasadena, California
- May 10-12 -[Jan 05]
Workshop: Dynamics and Thermodynamics
of Blackholes and Naked Singularities II, Milan, Italy
- May 11 -
Lecture: The Search for Earth-like P lanets - Looking for Signs of Life,
Pasadena, California
- May 11-18 -
18th
International Symposium on Space Terahertz Technology, Pasadena,
California
- May 12 - Progress
M-60 Soyuz U Launch (International Space Station 25P)
- May 12 - Cassini,
Titan
Flyby
- May 12 - 2007
Regolith Excavation NASA Centennial Challenge
- May 12 -
Comet P/1998 QP54 (LONEOS-Tucker)
Perihelion (1.880 AU)
- May 13 - Comet
Shoemaker-Levy 8
Closest
Approach To Earth (1.704 AU)
- May 13 -
Asteroid 11714 Mikebrown Closest Approach To Earth (1.496 AU)
- May 13-20 - Texas Star Party,
near Fort Davis, Texas
- May 14 -
Globalstar-10 (No. 69-72)
Soyuz
FG-Fregat Launch
- May 14 - Comet
Hergenrother
Closest
Approach To Earth (1.521 AU)
- May 14 -
Asteroid 3656 Hemingway Closest Approach To Earth (0.909 AU)
- May 14-16 - International Symposium:
Developing Trends in Public Procurement and Auditing, Noordwijk, The
Netherlands
- May 14-16 - 2nd International
Association for the Advancement of Space Safety (IAASS) Conference,
Chicago, Illinois
- May 14-17 -
Conference:
Origins of Dark Energy, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
- May 14-18 - Meeting:
Molecules in Space and Laboratory, Val d'Oise, France
- May 15 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #110 (OTM-110)
- May 15 -
Asteroid 7495 Feynman Closest Approach To Earth (1.816 AU)
- May 15 -
Asteroid 2198 Ceplecha Closest Approach To Earth (2.088 AU)
- May 15 -
Asteroid 3728 IRAS Closest Approach To Earth (2.198 AU)
- May 15 -
Asteroid 5661 Hildebrand Closest Approach To Earth (2.822 AU)
- May 17 - Comet 2P
Encke
Closest
Approach To Earth (0.507 AU)
- May 17-20 - 3rd
Annual Central Nevada Star Party, Monte Cristo's Castle, Nevada
- May 18 -
Asteroid 3767 DiMaggio Closest Approach To Earth (1.342 AU)
- May 18-20 -
Workshop:
Excurisions in the Dark, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
- May 19 -
Asteroid 2006 WN3
Near-Earth Flyby (0.087 AU)
- May 19 -
Asteroid 9880 Stegosaurus Closest Approach To Earth (1.519 AU)
- May 19 -
Asteroid 2829 Bobhope Closest Approach To Earth (1.846 AU)
- May 19-20 - Jet Propulsion
Laboratory Open House, Pasadena, California
- May 20 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #111 (OTM-111)
- May 20 -
Asteroid 1225 Ariane Closest Approach To Earth (1.315 AU)
- May 20 -
Asteroid
5145 Pholus Closest Approach To Earth (20.254 AU)
- May 20-26 -
Conference: Nucleosynthesis: What Next?, Blois, France
- May 21 -
Asteroid 3949 Mach Closest Approach To Earth (1.145 AU)
- May 21-24 - Meeting:
Extragalactic Jets - Theory and Observation from Radio to Gamma Ray,
Girdwood, Alaska
- May 21-25 - IAU Symposium 243: Star-Disk
Interaction in Young Stars, Grenoble, France
- May 22 -
Asteroid 2003 YN107 Near-Earth Flyby (0.062 AU)
- May 22-24 - 26th
Annual Symposium on Telescope Science, Big Bear, California
- May 23 -
Asteroid 2003 HB Near-Earth Flyby (0.089 AU)
- May 23 -
Asteroid 6371 Heinlein Closest Approach To Earth (2.029 AU)
- May 23 -
Asteroid 9860 Archaeopteryx Closest Approach To Earth (2.069 AU)
- May 24 -
Asteroid 3267 Glo Closest Approach To Earth (2.087 AU)
- May 24 -
Asteroid 3568 ASCII Closest Approach To Earth (2.124 AU)
- May 24 - 45th Anniversary (1962),
Aurora 7 Launch (Scott Carpenter)
- May 25 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #112 (OTM-112)
- May 25-28 - 39th Annual
Riverside Telescope Makers Conference (RTMC), near Big Bear City,
California
- May 26 - Cassini,
Tethys & Epimetheus Distant Flyby
- May 27 - Asteroid
4179 Toutatis
Closest Approach To Earth (2.878 AU)
- May 27-31 - 210th
Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), Honolulu, Hawaii
- May 27-Jun 01 - Conference:
Structure Formation in the Universe - Galaxies, Stars, Planets, Chamonix,
France
- May 28 - Cassini,
Titan
Flyby
- May 28 - Comet
Machholz 1 Closest Approach To Earth (0.618 AU)
- May 28 -
Asteroid 17023 Abbott Closest Approach To Earth (1.591 AU)
- May 28-30 -
XMM-Newton Legacy Projects Workshop, Madrid, Spain
- May 28-Jun 01 - Space Astronomy
Conference: The UV window to the Universe, Madrid, Spain
- May 29 -
Asteroid 3130 Hillary Closest Approach To Earth (1.566 AU)
- May 29 -
Asteroid 7818 Muirhead Closest Approach To Earth (2.222 AU)
- May 29 -
John F. Kennedy's 90th Birthday (1917)
- May 29-Jun 01 - 41st
ESLAB Symposium: The Impact of HST on European Astronomy, Noordwijk,
Netherlands
- May 29-Jun 02 -
Conference: The Milky Way Halo - Stars and Gas: Locations, Motions, Origins,
Bonn, Germany
- May 30 - Comet
Shoemaker-Levy 8
Perihelion (2.711 AU)
- May 30 -
Asteroid 3808 Tempel Closest Approach To Earth (1.251 AU)
- May 30 -
Asteroid 10051 Albee Closest Approach To Earth (2.066 AU)
- May 31 - ICO-G
Atlas 5 Launch
- May 31 - Block 2010 Spacecraft Risk Reduction Delta 2 Launch
- May 31 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #113 (OTM-113)
- May 31 -
Martin Schwarzschild's 95th Birthday (1912)
June 2007
- Jun ?? - Sirius
4 Proton M Launch
- Jun ?? - GPS
2RM F-6 Delta 2 Launch
- Jun ?? -
PAS-11
Zenit 3SLB Launch
- Jun ?? - XSS-12 Delta 2 Launch
- Jun ?? -
SAR-Lupe 3 Cosmos 3M Launch
- Jun ?? - GOMS-Elektra 2 Zenit 2-Fregat Launch
- Jun ?? - NROL-26 Delta 4H Launch
- Jun ?? -
RapidEye 1-5 Dnepr 1 Launch
- Jun ?? -
HJ-1A/HJ-1B CZ-2C Launch (China)
- Jun ?? - RazakSAT
Falcon Launch
- Jun ?? - Cosmos-Kobalt-M N3 Soyuz U Launch
- Jun ?? - Molniya
1T N94 Molniya M Launch
- Jun ?? -
Cosmos-Glonass (N89/M9/M10) Proton K-DM2 Launch
- Jun ?? - Beidou 2B CZ-3A Launch
- Jun ?? -
B-Sat 3A Ariane 5 Launch
- Jun 01 - Asteroid 4
Vesta Closest
Approach To Earth (1.144 AU)
- Jun 01 -
Asteroid 3420 Standish Closest Approach To Earth (2.090 AU)
- Jun 02 -
Asteroid 6000 United Nations Closest Approach To Earth (1.773 AU)
- Jun 02 -
Asteroid 12397 Peterbrown Closest Approach To Earth (2.086 AU)
- Jun 03 -
Asteroid 3000 Leonardo Closest Approach To Earth (1.545 AU)
- Jun 04 -
Asteroid 5682 Beresford Closest Approach To Earth (1.308 AU)
- Jun 04-05 - Workshop:
The Science Opportunities for the Warm Spitzer Mission, Pasadena,
California
- Jun 04-06 -
XMM-Newton Legacy Projects Workshop, Madrid, Spain
- Jun 04-08 - 7th International
Symposium: Reducing the Costs of Spacecraft Ground Systems and Operations (RCSGSO),
Moscow, Russia
- Jun 04-08 - Conference: In the Spirit
of Bernard Lyot - The Direct Detection of Planets and Circumstellar Disks in
the 21st Century, Berkeley, California
- Jun 05 - MESSENGER,
2nd Venus Flyby
- Jun 05 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #114 (OTM-114)
- Jun 05 - Asteroid
216 Kleopatra Closest Approach To Earth (2.288 AU)
- Jun 05 -
Kuiper
Belt Object 28978 Ixion
Closest Approach To Earth (41.027 AU)
- Jun 05-07 -
Conference: Obscured AGN across Cosmic Time, Bavaria, Germany
- Jun 06 -[Jan 07]
Jupiter At Opposition
- Jun 06 -
Asteroid 2004 KH17 Near-Earth Flyby (0.077 AU)
- Jun 07 -
Asteroid 4150 Starr Closest Approach To Earth (1.046 AU)
- Jun 07 -
Asteroid 17024 Costello Closest Approach To Earth (1.278 AU)
- Jun 07 -
Asteroid 4305 Clapton Closest Approach To Earth (1.947 AU)
- Jun 09 -
Kuiper
Belt Object 50000 Quaoar
Closest Approach To Earth (42.300 AU)
- Jun 09-13 - 10th
European Meeting: From the Planck Scale to the Electroweak Scale, Warsaw,
Poland
- Jun 10 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #115 (OTM-115)
- Jun 10 -
Asteroid 10799 Yucatan Closest Approach TO Earth (1.522 AU)
- Jun 10 -
Asteroid 19367 Pink Floyd Closest Approach To Earth (1.719 AU)
- Jun 10 -
Asteroid 99905 Jeffgrossman Closest Approach To Earth (2.748 AU)
- Jun 10-13 -
Conference: Future Professional Communication in Astronomy (and Its Impact on
Evaluation), Brussels, Belgium
- Jun 10-16 -
4th Advanced Research Workshop Gravity, Astrophysics, And Strings At The Black
Sea, Bourgas, Bulgaria
- Jun 11-15 - Meteoroids
2007 Conference, Barcelona, Spain
- Jun 11-15 - 2nd Conference on Gemini
Science Results, Foz do Iguacu, Brazil
- Jun 11-15 - 6th Serbian
Conference on Spectral Line Shapes in Astrophysics, Sremski Karlovci,
Serbia
- Jun 11-15 - Conference: HI
Survival Through Cosmic Times, Sarteano (Siena), Italy
- Jun 11-15 - International
Symposium on Exotic States of Nuclear Matter (EXOCT 2007), Catania, Italy
- Jun 11-16 -
2nd
International Conference on Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows
(ASTRONUM-2007), Paris, France
- Jun 12 - Cassini,
Atlas, Prometheus, Epimetheus & Methone Distant Flyby
- Jun 12 - 40th Anniversary (1967),
Venera 4
Launch (Soviet Venus Lander)
- Jun 12-14 - 6th International
Symposium on Environmental Testing for Space Programmes, Noordwijk, The
Netherlands
- Jun 12-14 - Meeting: RS
Ophiuchi (2006) and the Recurrent Nova Phenomenon, Keele, Staffordshire,
United Kingdom
- Jun 12-15 - Workshop:
Bursts, Pulses and Flickering: Wide-Field Monitoring of the Dynamic Radio Sky,
Kerastari, Greece
- Jun 13 - Cassini,
Titan
Flyby
- Jun 13 - Comet
Shoemaker-Holt 1
Perihelion (3.069 AU)
- Jun 13 -
Asteroid 17744 Jodiefoster Closest Approach To Earth (1.189 AU)
- Jun 14 -
Asteroid 5203 Pavarotti Closest Approach To Earth (0.910 AU)
- Jun 14 -
Asteroid 4701 Milani Closest Approach To Earth (1.916 AU)
- Jun 14 -
Asteroid 8721 AMOS Closest Approach To Earth (2.872 AU)
- Jun 14 - 40th Anniversary (1967),
Mariner 5
Launch (Venus Flyby Mission)
- Jun 14-16 - 3rd International Conference
on Recent Advances in Space Technologies: Space for a More Secure World,
Istanbul, Turkey
- Jun 14-17 - Rocky Mountain Star Stare,
Pike National Forest, Colorado
- Jun 15 -
Asteroid 4769 Castalia
Closest Approach To Earth (1.343 AU)
- Jun 16 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #116 (OTM-116)
- Jun 16 -
Asteroid 11246 Orvillewright Closest Approach To Earth (1.555 AU)
- Jun 17 - Comet
Russell-LINEAR
Perihelion (1.593 AU)
- Jun 17-21 -
Conference: Frontiers of Astrophysics - A Celebration of NRAO's 50th
Anniversary, Charlottesville, Virginia
- Jun 18 -
Dwarf
Planet 134340 Pluto
Closest Approach To Earth (30.294 AU)
- Jun 18 -
Asteroid 2005 NW44 Near-Earth Flyby (0.059 AU)
- Jun 18 -
Asteroid 2005 AD13 Near-Earth Flyby (0.085 AU)
- Jun 18 -
Asteroid 16857 Goodall Closest Approach To Earth (1.772 AU)
- Jun 18 -
Asteroid 2000 Herschel Closest Approach To Earth (2.041 AU)
- Jun 18-20 -
Meeting: Adaptive Optics - Analysis and Methods, Vancouver, Canada
- Jun 18-22 - Meeting:
Asymmetrical Planetary Nebulae IV, La Palma, Canary Islands, Spain
- Jun 18-22 -
International Workshop on Clumping in Hot-Star Winds, Potsdam, Germany
- Jun 18-22 - Workshop on
Gravitational Aspects of Strings and Branes, Granda, Spain
- Jun 19 -
Comet C/2006 E1 (McNaught)
Closest Approach To Earth (5.862 AU)
- Jun 19 -
Asteroid 12382 Niagara Falls Closest Approach To Earth (1.654 AU)
- Jun 19-23 - 2nd
International Workshop - Exploring Mars and Its Earth Analogues, Trento,
Italy
- Jun 20 -
Asteroid 12574 LONEOS Closest Approach To Earth (1.909 AU)
- Jun 21 -[Jan 05]
Dawn
Delta 2 Launch
(Asteroid Orbiter)
- Jun 21 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #117 (OTM-117)
- Jun 21 -
Summer
Solstice,
18:06 UT
- Jun 21 -
Lecture: Phoenix - A Science and Weather Station on Mars, Pasadena,
California
- Jun 21-24 - International
Workshop on Historic Scientific Instrument Collections in the University,
Oxford, Mississippi
- Jun 22 -
Asteroid 1566 Icarus
Closest Approach To Earth (1.203 AU)
- Jun 22 -
Lecture: Phoenix - A Science and Weather Station on Mars, Pasadena,
California
- Jun 22-24 -
Conference: Transformational Science with ALMA - Through Disks to Stars and
Planets, Charlottesville, Virginia
- Jun 23 -
Asteroid 2309 Mr. Spock Closest Approach To Earth (2.258 AU)
- Jun 24 -[Jan 03]
Comet C/2005 L3 (McNaught)
Closest Approach To Earth (4.825 AU)
- Jun 24 -
Asteroid 2069 Hubble Closest Approach To Earth (2.666 AU)
- Jun 24-28 - Space
Nuclear Conference 2007 (SNC '07) , Boston, Massachusetts
- Jun 24-29 -
Conference: Extreme Solar Systems, Santorini, Greece
- Jun 25 -
Asteroid 2005 AU3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.057 AU)
- Jun 25 - 10th Anniversary (1997),
Galileo,
Callisto 9 Flyby
- Jun 25-28 - 6th Marseille
International Cosmology Conference: Energetic Events in the Universe - From
Physics to Cosmology, Marseille, France
- Jun 25-29 - Magnetospheres of the
Outer Planets Meeting, San Antonio, Texas
- Jun 25-29 - IAU Symposium 244:
Dark Galaxies and Lost Baryons, Cardiff, United Kingdom
- Jun 25-29 - 32nd International
Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment, San Jose, Costa Rica
- Jun 25-29 - Conference: Tracing
Cosmic Evolution with Clusters of Galaxies - Six Years Later, Sesto Alto
Adige, Italy
- Jun 26 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #118 (OTM-118)
- Jun 26 -
Asteroid 2003 WE Near-Earth Flyby (0.061 AU)
- Jun 26 -
Asteroid 1034 Mozartia Closest Approach To Earth (0.865 AU)
- Jun 26-29 -
7th
Workshop on Catastrophic Disruption in the Solar System, Alicante, Spain
- Jun 27 - Cassini,
Tethys, Methone & Mimas Distant Flyby
- Jun 27 - 10th Anniversary (1997), NEAR,
Asteroid Mathilde Flyby
- Jun 28 -[Jan 06]
STS-118 Launch, Space Shuttle Endeavour,
S5 Truss Segment (International Space Station 13A.1)
- Jun 28 - Cassini,
Enceladus, Prometheus, Epimetheus & Rhea Distant Flyby
- Jun 28-Jul 01 -
Astronomy Roundup 2007, Calgary, Canada
- Jun 29 - Cassini,
Titan
Flyby
- Jun 29 - SOAREX
VI ATV X-1 Test Launch
- Jun 29 -
Asteroid 4433 Goldstone Closest Approach To Earth (1.203 AU)
- Jun 29 -
Asteroid 17059 Elvis Closest Approach To Earth (1.444 AU)
- Jun 30 -
Oceansat 2/Can X-2/AAU-Cubsat 2/Cute 1.7/APD-2/Compass 1/Delfi C3/Seeds 2
PSLV Launch
- Jun 30 -
Asteroid 9769 Nautilus Closest Approach To Earth (1.261 AU)
July 2007
- Jul ?? - Winds
H-2A Launch (Japan)
- Jul ?? - TWINS-B
Pegasus Launch
- Jul ?? -
Chinasat 6B CZ-3B Launch
- Jul ?? - Insat
4C-R GSLV Launch (India)
- Jul ?? - Uragan-Dummy
K1/K2 Soyuz 2-1a-Fregat Launch
- Jul ?? - Galaxy 18 Zenit 3SL Launch
- Jul ?? - Cosmos-Prognoz
N11 Proton K-DM2 Launch
- Jul ?? -
Resurs F2 Soyuz U Launch
- Jul ?? - FSW-23 CZ-2D Launch (China)
- Jul ?? - TechSAR
PSLV Launch (Israel)
- Jul ?? - PS-2 KT-2 Launch (China)
- Jul ?? - Feng Yun 3A/Small Multimission Spacecraft CZ-4B Launch (China)
- Jul ?? -
Spaceway 3 Zenit 3SL Launch
- Jul ?? -[Jan 06]
New Horizons Goes Into Hibernation
- Jul 01 -
Kennedy Space Center's 45th Birthday (1962)
- Jul 01 - 160th Anniversary (1847),
Karl Hencke's
Discovery of the
Asteroid 6 Hebe
- Jul 01-03 - 2007
Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers (SARA) Annual Meeting and Technical
Conference, Green Bank, West Virginia
- Jul 02 - Comet
Kowal 2 Near-Jupiter Flyby (0.297 AU)
- Jul 02-06 - Conference: X-Ray
Surveys: Evolution of Accretion, Star-formation and Large Scale Structure,
Rodos Island, Greece
- Jul 02-06 -
Conference: Unsolved Problems in Stellar Physics, Cambridge, United
Kingdom
- Jul 02-07 -
13th
International Symposium on Particles, Strings and Cosmology (PASCOS 07),
London, United Kingdom
- Jul 02-13 - 24th
General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG),
Perugia, Italy
- Jul 03 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #119 (OTM-119)
- Jul 03 -
Asteroid 1815 Beethoven Closest Approach To Earth (2.714 AU)
- Jul 03 - 15th Anniversary (1992),
SAMPEX Launch
- Jul 03-06 -
Workshop: 12 Questions on Star and Massive Star Cluster Formation,
Garching, Germany
- Jul 03-11 - 30th International
Cosmic Ray Conference, Merida, Yucatan, Mexico
- Jul 04 - 10th Anniversary (1997),
Mars
Pathfinder, Mars Landing
- Jul 05 -
Asteroid 5261 Eureka Closest Approach To Earth (0.534 AU)
- Jul 05 -
Asteroid 433 Eros
Closest Approach To Earth (0.748 AU)
- Jul 06 -
Asteroid 3169 Ostro Closest Approach To Earth (0.996 AU)
- Jul 06 -
Asteroid 1224 Fantasia Closest Approach To Earth (1.361 AU)
- Jul 06 - 320th Anniversary (1687),
Isaac Newton's
Principia Published
- Jul 06-08 - Robert A.
Heinlein Centennial, Kansas City, Missouri
- Jul 07 -
Earth
At Aphelion
(1.017 AU From Sun)
- Jul 07 -
Comet P/1998 U2 (Mueller) Perihelion (2.032 AU)
- Jul 07 - Comet
Bus
Perihelion (2.173 AU)
- Jul 07 -
Asteroid 2006 JY26 Near-Earth Flyby (0.081 AU)
- Jul 08 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #120 (OTM-120)
- Jul 08 - 15th Anniversary (1992),
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Near-Jupiter Flyby (0.0008 AU), Comet Breakup
- Jul 08-13 -
International Conference: Galaxies in the Local Volume, Sydney, Australia
- Jul 08-14 - 18th International Conference
on General Relativity and Gravitation, Sydney, Australia
- Jul 08-15 - 4th NAIC-NRAO School
on Single-Dish Radio Astronomy, Green Bank, West Virginia
- Jul 09 -
Asteroid 8952 ODAS Closest Approach To Earth (1.438 AU)
- Jul 09-11 -
Conference: From IRAS to Herschel/Planck- Cosmology with Infrared and
Submillimetre Surveys, London, United Kingdom
- Jul 09-12 - 37th International
Conference on Environmental Systems, Chicago, Illinois
- Jul 09-13 -
7th
International Conference on Mars, Pasadena, California
- Jul 09-13 - SOHO 19/GONG 2007 Workshop:
Seismology of Magnetic Activity, Melbourne, Australia
- Jul 10 -
Comet 2002 X2 (NEAT) Near-Jupiter Flyby (0.252 AU)
- Jul 10 -
Asteroid 2006 BZ147 Near-Earth Flyby (0.071 AU)
- Jul 10 -
Asteroid 4169 Celsius Closest Approach To Earth (2.428 AU)
- Jul 10 - 15th Anniversary (1992),
Giotto,
Comet Grigg-Skjellerup
Flyby
- Jul 10 - 45th Anniversary (1962),
Telstar 1 Launch
- Jul 10 -
Alvan Clark's 175th Birthday (1832)
- Jul 11 -
Comet C/2006 S2 (LINEAR)
Closest Approach To Earth (2.212 AU)
- Jul 11 -
Asteroid 6775 Giorgini Closest Approach To Earth (1.197 AU)
- Jul 11-13 - Workshop: X-Ray
Grating Spectroscopy, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Jul 11-16 - Shingletown
Star Party, Shingletown, California
- Jul 12 -
Asteroid 6735 Madhatter Closest Approach To Earth (1.276 AU)
- Jul 12-14 - Table Mountain Star Party,
Table Mountain, Washington
- Jul 13 -
Langley Research Center's 90th Birthday (1917)
- Jul 14 -
Comet P/2002 O5 (NEAT) Near-Earth Flyby (0.194 AU)
- Jul 14 -
Comet C/2006 VZ13 (LINEAR)
Closest Approach To Earth (0.575 AU)
- Jul 14 -
Asteroid 18932 Robinhood Closest Approach To Earth (0.812 AU)
- Jul 15 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #121 (OTM-121)
- Jul 15 -
Asteroid 5891 Gehrig Closest Approach To Earth (1.558 AU)
- Jul 16 -
Comet C/2006 K4 (NEAT)
Closest Approach To Earth (2.521 AU)
- Jul 16 -
Asteroid 8000 Isaac Newton Closest Approach To Earth (1.814 AU)
- Jul 16-20 - IAU
Symposium 245: Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Bulges, Oxford, United
Kingdom
- Jul 16-20 -
Bioastronomy 2007 Meeting: Molecules, Microbes, and Extraterrestrial Life,
San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Jul 16-20 -
Conference: First Stars III, Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Jul 16-20 -
Conference:
Galaxy Growth in a Dark Universe, Heidelberg, Germany
- Jul 18 - Comet
Ciffreo
Perihelion (1.719 AU)
- Jul 18 -
Comet C/2005 S4 (McNaught)
Perihelion (5.851 AU)
- Jul 19 - Cassini,
Titan
Flyby
- Jul 19 -
Lecture: The International Geophysical Year - Igniting a Revolution in
American Science, Launching Science into Space, Pasadena, California
- Jul 19 - 40th Anniversary (1967),
Explorer 35 Launch (Moon Orbiter)
- Jul 20 - Cassini,
Helene & Tethys Distant Flyby
- Jul 20 -
Comet C/2006 K1 (McNaught)
Perihelion (4.426 AU)
- Jul 20 -
Lecture: The International Geophysical Year - Igniting a Revolution in
American Science, Launching Science into Space, Pasadena, California
- Jul 21 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #122 (OTM-122)
- Jul 21-25 -
15th
Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun, St.
Andrews, Scotland
- Jul 22 -[Jan 03]
Selene 1
H-2A Launch
(Japan Lunar Orbiter)
- Jul 22 -
Asteroid 11881 Mirstation Closest Approach To Earth (1.294 AU)
- Jul 22 - 35th Anniversary (1972),
Venera 8,
Venus Landing
- Jul 22 - 35th Anniversary (1972),
Landsat 1 Launch
- Jul 22-31 - 8th Oxford
International Conference on Archaeoastronomy and Astronomy in Culture,
Klaipeda, Lithuania
- Jul 23 - Asteroid
25143 Itokawa
Closest Approach To Earth (0.281 AU)
- Jul 23 -
Asteroid 5020 Asimov Closest Approach To Earth (0.730 AU)
- Jul 23-27 -[Jan 07]
2007 Michelson Summer
Workshop: Planetary Transits - From Detection to Characterization,
Pasadena, California
- Jul 23-27 - 2007 IEEE Nuclear and Space
Radiation Effects Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii
- Jul 23-27 - Conference:
Hot Subdwarf Stars and Related Objects, Bamberg, Germany
- Jul 23-27 -
Conference: Stellar Pulsation & Cycles of Discovery - New Tools, New
Variables, New Astrophysics, Vancouver, Canada
- Jul 24 -[Jan 06]
Venus Express,
End of Primary Mission
- Jul 24 -
Asteroid 2006 FH36 Near-Earth Flyby (0.081 AU)
- Jul 24 - 15th Anniversary (1992),
Geotail Launch
- Jul 25 -[Jan 01]
Automated Transfer
Vehicle (ATV-1) Jules Verne
Ariane 5ESV
Launch (International Space Station ATV-01)
- Jul 25-29 - 8th Biennial History of
Astronomy Workshop, Notre Dame, Indiana
- Jul 26 -
Comet P/2002 O5 (NEAT) Perihelion (1.173 AU)
- Jul 26 -
Asteroid 7032 Hitchcock Closest Approach To Earth (1.454 AU)
- Jul 26 -
Asteroid 4238 Audrey Closest Approach To Earth (1.468 AU)
- Jul 26-Aug 01 -
5th International Conference on Supersymmetry and the Unification of
Fundamental Interactions, Karlsruhe, Germany
- Jul 27 -
Asteroid 2006 KZ39 Near-Mercury Flyby (0.048 AU)
- Jul 29 -
South Delta-Aquarids Meteor Shower Peak
- Jul 29 -
Asteroid 12820 Robinwilliams Closest Approach To Earth (1.854 AU)
- Jul 29 - 25th Anniversary (1982), Burnup of
Salyut 6 Space
Station (USSR)
- Jul 30 -
Asteroid 2001 WM15 Near-Vesta Flyby (0.010 AU)
- Jul 30 -
Asteroid 8088 Australia Closest Approach To Earth (1.156 AU)
- Jul 30 -
Asteroid 5254 Ulysses Closest Approach To Earth (4.455 AU)
- Jul 31 -
Comet Chiron
Closest
Approach To Earth (13.834 AU)
August 2007
- Aug ?? - NROL-29 Atlas 5 Launch
- Aug ?? -
Afristar 2 (Worldstar 3) Ariane 5 Launch
- Aug ?? -
HK-Sat 2 CZ-3C Launch
- Aug ?? -
JC-Sat 11 Proton M Launch
- Aug ?? -
Theos Dnepr 1 Launch
- Aug ?? -
GOES-O Delta 4 Launch
- Aug ?? -
Skynet 5B Ariane 5 Launch
- Aug ?? - Zohreh 1
Soyuz FG-Fregat Launch
- Aug ?? -
Meteor 3M N2
Soyuz 2-1B Launch
- Aug ?? -
Molniya 3K N3 Molniya M Launch (Russia)
- Aug ?? - Ofeq 7
Shavit 1 Launch (Israel)
- Aug ?? - Tansuo 2 KT-1 Launch
- Aug ?? -
Rascom QAF-1 CZ-3B Launch
- Aug ?? - AirTV-1
Ariane 5 Launch
- Aug ?? -[Jan 01]
Bissat Cosmos 3M Launch
- Aug ?? -[Jan 01]
Worldview 1
Delta 2 Launch
- Aug 01 -
Alpha Capricornids Meteor Shower Peak
- Aug 02 - 40th Anniversary (1967),
Lunar
Orbiter 5 Launch
- Aug 03 - Phoenix Delta 2
Launch (Mars Lander)
- Aug 03-05 -
Symposium: Cosmos in the Classroom 2007 - Teaching Introductory Astronomy to
Non-science Majors, Claremont, California
- Aug 03-07 -
Conference On Teaching Introductory Astronomy to Non-science Majors,
Claremont, California
- Aug 04 -
Asteroid 3784 Chopin Closest Approach To Earth (1.645 AU)
- Aug 05 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #123 (OTM-123)
- Aug 05 -
Asteroid 10389 Robmanning Closest Approach To Earth (0.923 AU)
- Aug 05 -
Asteroid 6336 Dodo Closest Approach To Earth (1.394 AU)
- Aug 05 -
Asteroid 5143 Heracles Closest Approach To Earth (1.455 AU)
- Aug 05 -
Asteroid 13681 Monty Python Closest Approach To Earth (1.830 AU)
- Aug 05 -
Asteroid 5035 Swift Closest Approach To Earth (1.986 AU)
- Aug 06 -
Southern Iota Aquarids Meteor Shower Peak
- Aug 06 -
Asteroid 6433 Enya Closest Approach To Earth (1.341 AU)
- Aug 06 -
Asteroid 8084 Dallas Closest Approach To Earth (2.682 AU)
- Aug 07-10 -
9th
International Colloquium on Atomic Spectra and Oscillator Strengths for
Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasmas, Lund, Sweden
- Aug 08 -
Asteroid 2002 CB19 Near-Earth Flyby (0.044 AU)
- Aug 08 -
Asteroid 24101 Cassini Closest Approach To Earth (1.959 AU)
- Aug 08 -
Asteroid 2421 Nininger Closest Approach To Earth (2.113 AU)
- Aug 08 - 30th Anniversary (1977),
Salyut 5 Space Station
Burnup
- Aug 09 - Phoenix, Trajectory
Correction Maneuver #1 (TCM-1)
- Aug 09 -
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 1
Closest Approach To Earth (1.363 AU)
- Aug 09 -
Asteroid 14702 Benclark Closest Approach To Earth (1.682 AU)
- Aug 10 -
Comet C/2006 VZ13 (LINEAR)
Perihelion (1.015 AU)
- Aug 10 - Comet
Spacewatch Perihelion (1.524 AU)
- Aug 10 -
Asteroid 2000 PN8 Near-Earth Flyby (0.092 AU)
- Aug 10 -
Asteroid 6471 Collins Closest Approach To Earth (1.721 AU)
- Aug 10 - 15th Anniversary (1992),
TOPEX/Poseidon
Launch
- Aug 10 - 35th Anniversary (1972),
Daylight
Fireball (Utah, Canada)
- Aug 11 -
Asteroid 7958 Leakey Closest Approach To Earth (0.878 AU)
- Aug 11 - 45th Anniversary (1962),
Vostok 3 Launch
- Aug 11 - 130th Anniversary (1877),
Asaph Hall's Discovery
of Mars Moon Deimos
- Aug 12 -
Perseids
Meteor Shower Peak
- Aug 12 - 45th Anniversary (1962),
Vostok 4 Launch
- Aug 12-17 - Conference: 40 Years of
Pulsars, Montreal, Canada
- Aug 12-18 - International
Conference on Modern Problems of Astronomy, Odessa, Ukraine
- Aug 13 -
Asteroid 17196 Mastrodemos Closest Approach To Earth (1.888 AU)
- Aug 13 -
Asteroid 7231 Porco Closest Approach To Earth (1.945 AU)
- Aug 13 - 365th Anniversary (1642),
Christiaan Huygens' Discovery of Mars' South Polar Cap
- Aug 13-17 -
70th Annual
Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Tucson, Arizona
- Aug 13-17 -
Conference: Star Formation Through Cosmic Time, Santa Barbara, California
- Aug 14 -
Asteroid 1069 Planckia Closest Approach To Earth (2.391 AU)
- Aug 14 - Asteroid
588 Achilles Closest Approach To Earth (4.603 AU)
- Aug 15 -
Asteroid 6223 Dahl Closest Approach To Earth (1.499 AU)
- Aug 15-22 -
14th International Symposium on Very High Energy Cosmic Ray Interactions (ISVHECRI
2006), Weihai, China
- Aug 16 -
Asteroid 2005 CN61 Near-Earth Flyby (0.048 AU)
- Aug 16 -[Jan 01]
Lecture: Saturn's
Moon Enceladus - A Small, Cold Moon with a Warm Spot, Pasadena, California
- Aug 16-19 - Oregon Star Party
2007, Indian Trail Spring, Oregon
- Aug 17 -
Asteroid 2004 KE1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.073 AU)
- Aug 17 -
Asteroid 1814 Bach Closest Approach To Earth (1.360 AU)
- Aug 17 -
Asteroid 2404 Antarctica Closest Approach To Earth (1.914 AU)
- Aug 17 -[Jan 01]
Lecture: Saturn's
Moon Enceladus - A Small, Cold Moon with a Warm Spot, Pasadena, California
- Aug 17 - 130th Anniversary (1877),
Asaph Hall's Discovery
of Mars Moon Phobos
- Aug 17-19 -[Jan 08]
Spacefest 2007, Phoenix, Arizona
- Aug 19 -
Asteroid 2246 Bowell Closest Approach To Earth (3.242 AU)
- Aug 19-23 -
2007 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Mackinac Island,
Michigan
- Aug 20 -
Asteroid 5000 IAU Closest Approach To Earth (1.107 AU)
- Aug 20 -
Asteroid 2742 Gibson Closest Approach To Earth (1.875 AU)
- Aug 20 - 30th Anniversary (1977),
Voyager 2 Launch
- Aug 20-24 - Conference: Interacting
Binary Stars, Odessa, Ukraine
- Aug 20-24 - HELAS
II International Conference: Helioseismology, Asteroseismology and MHD
Connections, Goettingen, Germany
- Aug 20-25 - Joint
European and National Astronomy Meeting (JENAM-2007): Our Non-stable Universe,
Yerevan, Armenia
- Aug 21 - 35th Anniversary (1972),
Copernicus Launch
- Aug 23 -
Asteroid 7367 Giotto Closest Approach To Earth (2.459 AU)
- Aug 24 - Asteroid
334 Chicago Closest Approach To Earth (2.816 AU)
- Aug 24-27 -
Solar Eclipse Conference (SEC2007), Los Angeles, California
- Aug 25 -
Northern Iota Aquarids Meteor Shower Peak
- Aug 25 -
Asteroid 2005 QQ87 Near-Earth Flyby (0.079 AU)
- Aug 26-30 -[Jan 05]
SPIE
Conference: Optical Engineering and Applications, San Diego, California
- Aug 27 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #124 (OTM-124)
- Aug 27 - 45th Anniversary (1962),
Mariner 2
Launch
- Aug 27-31 - Conference: A
Century of Cosmology - Past, Present and Future, Venice, Italy
- Aug 28 -
Asteroid 2004 TD10 Near-Mercury Flyby (0.021 AU)
- Aug 28 -
Asteroid 9016 Henrymoore Closest Approach To Earth (1.170 AU)
- Aug 29 -
Asteroid 78577 JPL Closest Approach To Earth (1.974 AU)
- Aug 29 -
Asteroid 48300 Kronk Closest Approach To Earth (1.987 AU)
- Aug 30 - Cassini,
Rhea
Flyby
- Aug 30 - 15th Anniversary (1992),
David Jewitt's &
Jane Luu's Discovery of
the 1st Kuiper Belt Object (1992
QB1)
- Aug 31 - Cassini,
Titan
Flyby
- Aug 31 -
Asteroid 33342 (1998 WT24) Near-Mercury Flyby (0.049 AU)
September 2007
- Sep ?? - TacSat
3 Minotaur 1 Launch
- Sep ?? -
AMC-14 Proton M-Briz M Launch
- Sep ?? -
Resurs O1-05 Zenit 2 Launch
- Sep ?? -
Healthsat/
Tauvex GSLV Launch
- Sep ?? - KEO Ariane 5
Launch
- Sep ?? - Insat
4-D GSLV-1 Launch
- Sep ?? -
Inmarsat 4 F-3 Atlas 5 Launch
- Sep ?? -[Jan 03]
Direct-TV 11
Zenit 3SL Launch
- Sep ?? -
Thor 2-R Proton M-Briz M Launch
- Sep ?? - SSR-1 VSL-1 Launch (Brazil)
- Sep ?? -
Express
AM-33 Proton K Launch
- Sep ?? - Cosmos-Persona N1 Soyuz 2-1b Launch
- Sep ?? - Foton
M-3/ Yes-2 Soyuz U
Launch
- Sep ?? - GPS
2RM F-4 Delta 2 Launch
- Sep 01 -
Asteroid 1221 Amor Closest Approach To Earth (1.485 AU)
- Sep 01 -
Asteroid 4149 Harrison Closest Approach To Earth (1.745 AU)
- Sep 01 - 15th Anniversary (1992),
Theodore Von
Karman Stamp
- Sep 02 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #125 (OTM-125)
- Sep 02 -
Asteroid 6984 Lewiscarroll Closest Approach To Earth (3.260 AU)
- Sep 03 - Progress
M-61 Soyuz U Launch (International
Space Station 26P)
- Sep 04 -
Asteroid 37452 Spirit
Closest Approach To
Earth (2.410 AU)
- Sep 05 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #126 (OTM-126)
- Sep 05 -
Asteroid 4628 Laplace Closest Approach To Earth (1.977 AU)
- Sep 05 - 30th Anniversary (1977),
Voyager 1 Launch
- Sep 05-07 -
Conference: X-Rays fron Nearby Galaxies, Madrid, Spain
- Sep 05-09 - IAU
Symposium 246: Dynamical Evolution of Dense Stellar Systems, Oxford,
United Kingdom
- Sep 06 -
Asteroid 5649 Donnashirley Closest Approach To Earth (1.180 AU)
- Sep 06 -
Asteroid 91287 Simon-Garfunkel Closest Approach To Earth (1.508)
- Sep 06-11 -
26th Symposium of the Scientific Instrument Commission, Cambridge,
Massachusetts
- Sep 07 -
STS-120 Launch, Space Shuttle Atlantis,
Node2 (International Space Station 10A)
- Sep 08 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #127 (OTM-127)
- Sep 08 - 15th Anniversary (1992),
Geotail, Moon Flyby
- Sep 08 - 40th Anniversary (1967),
Surveyor 5
Launch (Moon Lander)
- Sep 09 -
Asteroid 2006 BZ147 Near-Earth Flyby (0.081 AU)
- Sep 09 -
Asteroid 6758 Jesseowens Closest Approach To Earth (1.766 AU)
- Sep 09 - 25th Anniversary (1982),
Conestoga I Launch
(1st Private Rocket)
- Sep 09 - 115th Anniversary (1892),
Edward Barnard's Discovery of Jupiter Moon
Amalthea
- Sep 10 - Cassini,
Iapetus Flyby
- Sep 10 -[Jan 06]
Uranus
At Opposition
- Sep 10 -
Asteroid 2002 SV Near-Earth Flyby (0.097 AU)
- Sep 10 -
James Keeler's 150th Birthday (1857)
- Sep 10-13 - Living With A Star
Science Workshop, Boulder, Colorado
- Sep 10-14 - The MPA/ESO/MPE/USM
2007 Joint Astronomy Conference: Gas Accretion and Star Formation in Galaxies,
Garching, Germany
- Sep 10-14 - Meeting: Massive
Star Formation - Observations Confront Theory, Heidelberg, Germany
- Sep 10-14 - CP#AP
Workshop, Vienna, Austria
- Sep 10-14 -
European Radio Interferometry School (ERIS 2007), Bonn, Germany
- Sep 11 - 10th Anniversary (1997),
Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Orbit Insertion
- Sep 11-14 -
Workshop:
Young Massive Star Clusters - Initial Conditions and Environments,
Granada, Spain
- Sep 11-14 - 4th ESA International
Workshop on Tracking, Telemetry and Command Systems for Space Applications,
Darmstadt, Germany
- Sep 12 -
Asteroid 7291 Hyakutake Closest Approach To Earth (1.560 AU)
- Sep 13 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #128 (OTM-128)
- Sep 13 -
Asteroid 69230 Hermes Closest Approach To Earth (1.231 AU)
- Sep 14 - Asteroid
447 Valentine Closest Approach To Earth (1.899 AU)
- Sep 14-16 - Black Forest
Star Party, Cherry Springs State Park, Pennsylvania
- Sep 16 -
Asteroid 1991 VE Near-Venus Flyby (0.049 AU)
- Sep 17 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #129 (OTM-129)
- Sep 17 - Comet
Mueller 3
Closest
Approach To Earth (1.969 AU)
- Sep 17 - 10th Anniversary (1997),
Galileo,
Callisto 10
Flyby
- Sep 17 - Konstantin
Tsiolkovsky's 150th Birthday (1857)
- Sep 17-21 - 5th Solar Polarization
Workshop 5 (SPW5), Ascona, Switzerland
- Sep 17-21 -
Conference: Hydrogen-Deficient Stars, Tuebingen, Germany
- Sep 17-22 - IAU Symposium 247: Waves and
Oscillation in the Solar Atmosphere - Heating and Magneto-Seismology,
Porlamar, Isla de Margarita, Venezuela
- Sep 18 -
Asteroid 51823 Rickhusband Closest Approach To Earth (1.716 AU)
- Sep 19 -
Asteroid 5049 Sherlock Closest Approach To Earth (0.847 AU)
- Sep 19-21 - 2th European Space
Mechanisms and Tribology Symposium 2007, Liverpool, England
- Sep 22 -
Asteroid 5450 Sokrates Closest Approach To Earth (1.889 AU)
- Sep 22-26 - Workshop:
Bridging the Gap II - Effect of Target Properties on the Impact Cratering
Process, Saint-Hubert, Quebec, Canada
- Sep 23 -
Autumnal
Equinox,
09:51 UT
- Sep 23 -
Asteroid 2001 RY47 Near-Earth Flyby (0.092 AU)
- Sep 24-27 -
Conference: Astrophysics in the Next Decade - JWST and Concurrent Facilities,
Tucson, Arizona
- Sep 24-28 - 6th
International Heidelberg Conference on Dark Matter in Astro & Particle Physics
(DARK 2007), Sydney, Australia
- Sep 24-29 - 80th Annual Scientific
Meeting of the Astronomische Gesellschaft jointly with the 5th bi-annual
Workshop Astroparticle Physics in Germany, Wuerzburg, Germany
- Sep 25 -
Asteroid 1998 YM4 Near-Mercury Flyby (0.027 AU)
- Sep 25 - 15th Anniversary (1992),
Mars
Observer Launch
- Sep 25-28 - 5th International
Symposium on Retrieval of Bio- and Geophysical Parameters from SAR Data for
Land Applications, Bari, Italy
- Sep 26 -
Asteroid 1691 Oort Closest Approach To Earth (1.765 AU)
- Sep 26 - Asteroid
232 Russia Closest Approach To Earth (1.972 AU)
- Sep 28 -
Asteroid 51826 Kalpanachawla Closest Approach To Earth (1.946 AU)
- Sep 28 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #130 (OTM-130)
- Sep 28 - 45th Anniversary (1962),
Alouette Launch (Canada's 1st Satellite)
- Sep 29 -
Asteroid 2000 TH1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.081 AU)
- Sep 29 - 30th Anniversary (1977),
Salyut 6 Launch
(USSR Space Station)
- Sep 30 - Cassini,
Distant Flyby of Dione, Enceladus & Telesto
- Sep 30 -
Comet P/1998 S1 (LINEAR-Mueller)
Closest Approach To Earth (1.608 AU)
- Sep 30 -
Asteroid 2002 TA67 Near-Earth Flyby (0.093 AU)
October 2007
- Oct ?? - GPS
2F F-1 Delta 4M Launch
- Oct ?? -
Cosmos
Glonass K1+K2 Soyuz 2 Fregat Launch
- Oct ?? - Canopus
1 Strela Launch
- Oct ?? -
Amos 3
Zenit 3SLB Launch
- Oct ?? - Lutch 5A Soyuz 2-Fregat Launch
- Oct ?? - GPS
2RM F-7 Delta 2 Launch
- Oct ?? -
Wideband Gapfiller Satellite (WGS) F-1
Atlas 5
Launch
- Oct ?? -
Express
AM-44/Express MD-1 Proton M-Briz M Launch
- Oct ?? - Monitor
IR1 Rokot KM Launch
- Oct ?? -
Star One C-2 Ariane 5 Launch
- Oct ?? -
SAR-Lupe 4 Cosmos 3M Launch
- Oct ?? -
Sicral 2 Ariane 5 Launch
- Oct ?? - Sudansat 1 Dnepr 1 Launch
- Oct ?? -
Dong Fang Hong (DFH) 4 F-1 CZ-3B Launch (China)
- Oct 01 -
Asteroid 73491 Robmatson Closest Approach To Earth (1.881 AU)
- Oct 01-05 - Meeting: From
Planets to Dark Energy - The Modern Radio Universe, Manchester, United
Kingdom
- Oct 01-05 - Conference:
Formation and Evolution of Galaxy Disks, Rome, Italy
- Oct 02 - Cassini,
Titan
Flyby
- Oct 02 - Phoenix, Trajectory
Correction Maneuver #2 (TCM-2)
- Oct 02 -
Asteroid 4148 McCartney Closest Approach To Earth (1.464 AU)
- Oct 02 -
Asteroid 8103 Fermi Closest Approach To Earth (2.044 AU)
- Oct 03 - Comet
46P/Wirtanen
Closest
Approach To Earth (1.050 AU)
- Oct 03 - 45th Anniversary (1962),
Sigma 7 Launch (Walter
Schirra)
- Oct 03 - 45th Anniversary (1962),
Zagami Meteorite Fall
(Mars Meteorite)
- Oct 04 - 50th Anniversary (1957),
Sputnik 1 Launch
- Oct 04-10 - World Space Week
- Oct 05 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #131 (OTM-131)
- Oct 05 - Comet
Kojima
Perihelion (2.012 AU)
- Oct 05 -
Asteroid 19578 Kirkdouglas Closest Approach To Earth (1.528 AU)
- Oct 05 -
Asteroid 7862 Keikonakamura Closest Approach To Earth (1.636 AU)
- Oct 05 -
Asteroid 5036 Tuttle Closest Approach To Earth (2.635 AU)
- Oct 05 - European Southern Observatory's (ESO)
45th Birthday (1962)
- Oct 05 -
Robert Goddard's 125th Birthday (1882)
- Oct 06 -
Soyuz TMA-11 Soyuz FG Launch (International Space Station 15S)
- Oct 06 - DMSP
F-18 Atlas 5 Launch
- Oct 06 -
Asteroid 37582 Faraday Closest Approach To Earth (0.946 AU)
- Oct 06-14 - 24th Annual Okie-Tex Star
Party, Kenton, Oklahoma
- Oct 07 -
Asteroid 51827 Laurelclark Closest Approach To Earth (2.002 AU)
- Oct 08 -
Asteroid 3162 Nostalgia Closest Approach To Earth (2.016 AU)
- Oct 08 - 15th Anniversary (1992),
Pioneer Venus'
Burnup in Venus' Atmosphere
- Oct 08-11 -
Conference: Communicating Astronomy with the Public 2007 (CAP 2007),
Athens, Greece
- Oct 08-12 - ESO
Workshop: Science with the VLT in the ELT Era, Garching, Germany
- Oct 08-12 -
10th ICATPP Conference on Astroparticle, Particle, Space Physics, Detectors
and Medical Physics Applications, Como, Italy
- Oct 09 -
Draconids Meteor Shower Peak
- Oct 09 -
Asteroid 2004 TJ10 Near-Earth Flyby (0.080 AU)
- Oct 09 -
Asteroid 24102 Jacquecassini Closest Approach To Earth (1.215 AU)
- Oct 09 - Asteroid 9969
Braille Closest
Approach To Earth (2.005 AU)
- Oct 09 - 15th Anniversary (1992),
Peekskill Meteorite
Fall (Hit Car)
- Oct 10 -
Asteroid 5430 Luu Closest Approach To Earth (1.841 AU)
- Oct 11 -
Asteroid 2006 QQ56 Near-Earth Flyby (0.080 AU)
- Oct 11 -
Asteroid 51824 Mikeanderson Closest Approach To Earth (1.804 AU)
- Oct 12 -
Asteroid 2001 CA21 Near-Earth Flyby (0.062 AU)
- Oct 14 -
Asteroid 11055 Honduras Closest Approach To Earth (1.493 AU)
- Oct 14 -
Asteroid 39382 Opportunity
Closest Approach To
Earth (2.371 AU)
- Oct 14 -
Kuiper
Belt Object 15760 (1992 QB1)
Closest Approach To Earth (40.026 AU)
- Oct 14 -
Dwarf
Planet 136199 Eris (2003 UB313)
Closest
Approach To Earth (95.831 AU)
- Oct 14 - 60th Anniversary (1947),
Chuck Yeager Breaks Sound
Barrier
- Oct 15 -
Asteroid 117329 Spencer Closest Approach To Earth (1.754 AU)
- Oct 15 - 10th Anniversary (1997),
Cassini Launch
- Oct 15-19 - IAU Symposium 248: A
Giant Step - From Milli- to Micro-arcsecond Astrometry, Shanghai, China
- Oct 16 -
Asteroid 2985 Shakespeare Closest Approach To Earth (1.822 AU)
- Oct 16 -
Asteroid 2830 Greenwich Closest Appraoch To Earth (1.903 AU)
- Oct 17 -
STS-122
Launch, Space Shuttle Discovery,
ESA's Columbus Laboratory (International Space Station 1E)
- Oct 17 -
Asteroid 38237 Roche Closest Approach To Earth (1.738 AU)
- Oct 18 - MESSENGER, Deep Space
Maneuver 2 (DSM-2)
- Oct 18 -
Asteroid 1999 TM12 Near-Earth Flyby (0.080 AU)
- Oct 18 -
Asteroid 11548 Jerrylewis Closest Approach To Earth (1.722 AU)
- Oct 18 - 30th Anniversary (1977),
Charles Kowal's
Discovery of
Chiron
- Oct 18 - 40th Anniversary (1967),
Venera 4,
Venus Landing
- Oct 18 - 160th Anniversary (1847),
John Hind's
Discovery of Asteroid 8
Flora
- Oct 18 -
Asteroid 48575 Hawaii Closest Approach To Earth (2.001 AU)
- Oct 19 -
Asteroid 8256 Shenzhou Closest Approach To Earth (0.761 AU)
- Oct 19 - 40th Anniversary (1967),
Mariner 5,
Venus Flyby
- Oct 20 -
Asteroid 4923 Clarke Closest Approach To Earth (1.128 AU)
- Oct 20 -
Christopher Wren's 375th Birthday (1632)
- Oct 21 - Cassini,
Distant Flyby of Titan & Hyperion
- Oct 21 -
Orionids
Meteor Shower Peak
- Oct 21 -
Asteroid 6676 Monet Closest Approach To Earth (2.355 AU)
- Oct 21 - Yerkes Observatory's
110th Birthday (1897)
- Oct 22 - Comet
Mueller 3
Perihelion (2.961 AU)
- Oct 22 -
Asteroid 2340 Hathor Near-Earth Flyby (0.060 AU)
- Oct 22 -
Asteroid 43844 Rowling Closest Approach To Earth (1.359 AU)
- Oct 22 -
Asteroid 10204 Turing Closest Approach To Earth (1.664 AU)
- Oct 22-26 - IAU Symposium 249:
Exoplanets: Detection, Formation and Dynamics, Suzhou, China
- Oct 22-26 - 12th Latin-American
Regional IAU Meeting (LARIM-2007), Isla de Margarita, Venezuela
- Oct 23 - Cassini,
Distant Flyby of Helene
- Oct 24 - Cassini,
Distant Flyby of Pallene & Prometheus
- Oct 25 -
Henry Russell's 130th Birthday (1877)
- Oct 27 - Comet
Lovas 1
Closest
Approach To Earth (0.833 AU)
- Oct 28 -[Jan 08]
Venus
At Its Greatest Western http://www.treasure-troves.com/astro/Elongation.html>Elongation
(46 Degrees)
- Oct 28 -
Asteroid 1288 Santa Closest Approach To Earth (1.772 AU)
- Oct 28-31 -[Jan 04]
2007 Geological Society of
America (GSA) Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado
- Oct 28-Nov 02 -
Conference: A Population Explosion - New Results on the Nature and Evolution
of X-ray Binaries, St. Petersburg Beach, Florida
- Oct 29 - Asteroid
886 Washingtonia Closest Approach To Earth (1.476 AU)
- Oct 29 - Asteroid
656 Beagle Closest Approach To Earth (2.353 AU)
- Oct 30 -
Asteroid 51825 Davidbrown Closest Approach To Earth (1.789 AU)
- Oct 31 -[Jan 06]
Mars Express, End
of Extended Mission
- Oct 31 -
Asteroid 9133 d'Arrest Closest Approach To Earth (1.272 AU)
- Oct 31 -
Asteroid 5555 Wimberly Closest Approach To Earth (1.727 AU)
November 2007
- Nov ?? -
Chandrayaan 1 PSLV Launch (India - Lunar Orbiter)
- Nov ?? - Mars Gravity
Biosatellite Falcon 1 Launch
- Nov ?? - Cosmo Skymed 1
Delta 2
Launch
- Nov ?? -
Wideband Gapfiller Satellite (WGS) F-2
Delta 4M
Launch
- Nov ?? -
Intelsat-Americas 9 Zenit 3SL
- Nov ?? - TerreStar 1
Ariane 5 Launch
- Nov ?? -
X-Sat
PSLV Launch
- Nov ?? - Equars VLS-1 Launch (Brazil)
- Nov ?? - GPS
2RM F-5 Delta 2 Launch
- Nov ?? - Insat 3-D
GSLV Launch (India)
- Nov ?? - GSTB-V2B
(Giove B)
Soyuz FG-Fregat Launch
- Nov ?? -[Jan 07]
Yamal 301/302
Proton K-DM-2M Launch
- Nov 01 - NROL-24 Atlas 5 Launch
- Nov 01 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #132 (OTM-132)
- Nov 01 - Comet
Arend
Perihelion (1.924 AU)
- Nov 01 -
Asteroid 2118 Flagstaff Closest Approach To Earth (1.088 AU)
- Nov 01 -
Asteroid 3351 Smith Closest Approach To Earth (1.371 AU)
- Nov 02 - Comet
Arend
Closest
Approach To Earth (0.999 AU)
- Nov 02 -
Asteroid 1604 Tombaugh Closest Approach To Earth (1.881 AU)
- Nov 02 -
Asteroid 4763 Ride Closest Approach To Earth (1.912 AU)
- Nov 02 - 5th Anniversary (2002),
Stardust,
Asteroid 5535 Annefrank Flyby
- Nov 02 - 90th Anniversary (1917), Mount
Wilson 100-inch Telescope First Light
- Nov 03 -
Taurids
Meteor Shower Peak
- Nov 03 -
Asteroid 3895 Earhart Closest Approach To Earth (1.634 AU)
- Nov 03 - 45th Anniversary (1962),
Sputnik 2 Launch (Laika
Dog)
- Nov 04 -
Daylight Saving - Set Clock Back 1 Hour (United States)
- Nov 05 - 5th Anniversary (2002),
Galileo Amalthea 34 Flyby
- Nov 05-07 - Far-Infrared
Workshop, Bad Honnef, Germany
- Nov 07 - 40th Anniversary (1967),
Surveyor 6
Launch (Moon Lander)
- Nov 08 -
Asteroid 2005 GL Near-Earth Flyby (0.020 AU)
- Nov 08 - 25th Anniversary (1982), Wethersfield Meteorite Fall (Hit House)
- Nov 09 -
Asteroid 18458 Caesar Closest Approach To Earth (1.622 AU)
- Nov 09 -
Asteroid 4457 van Gogh Closest Appoach To Earth (1.834 AU)
- Nov 09 - 40th Anniversary (1967),
1st Saturn V Launch (Apollo 4)
- Nov 10 -
Asteroid 7086 Bopp Closest Approach To Earth (0.849 AU)
- Nov 10 -
Asteroid 36800 Katarinawitt Closest Approach To Earth (1.239 AU)
- Nov 11 -
Asteroid 1999 XN141 Near-Earth Flyby (0.092 AU)
- Nov 11 -
Asteroid 3753 Cruithne
Closest Approach To Earth (0.384 AU)
- Nov 11 - 435th Anniversary (1572),
Tycho Brahe's
Discovery of SN1572
- Nov 12 - Comet
179P/Jedicke
Closest
Approach To Earth (3.163 AU)
- Nov 12 - Dwarf
Planet Ceres
Closest Approach To Earth (1.832 AU)
- Nov 13 - Rosetta,
2nd Earth Flyby
- Nov 13 -
Asteroid 17062 Bardot Closest Approach To Earth (2.231 AU)
- Nov 14 -
Comet P/2006 R2 (Christensen)
Closest Approach To Earth (2.947 AU)
- Nov 15 - Progress
M-62 Soyuz U Launch (International Space Station)
- Nov 15 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #133 (OTM-133)
- Nov 15 -
Asteroid 13801 Kohlhase Closest Approach To Earth (1.898 AU)
- Nov 15 - Kuiper Belt
Object 90377 Sedna
Closest
Approach To Earth (87.317 AU)
- Nov 16 - Cassini,
Distant Flyby of Rhea
- Nov 16 -
Asteroid 5738 Billpickering Closest Approach To Earth (1.215 AU)
- Nov 17 - Cassini,
Distant Flyby of Pandora, Pan, Epimetheus & Calypso
- Nov 17 -
Leonids
Meteor Shower Peak
- Nov 17 -
Henry Gellibrand's 410th Birthday (1597)
- Nov 18 -
Asteroid 73079 Davidbaltimore Closest Approach To Earth (1.808 AU)
- Nov 19 - Cassini,
Titan
Flyby
- Nov 21 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #134 (OTM-134)
- Nov 22 -
Asteroid 2062 Aten Closest Approach To Earth (1.310 AU)
- Nov 22 -
Asteroid 2956 Yeomans Closest Approach To Earth (2.026 AU)
- Nov 23 - Asteroid 29075 (1950
DA) Closest
Approach To Earth (1.742 AU)
- Nov 23 - 30th Anniversary (1977),
Meteosat 1 Launch (ESA's 1st Satellite)
- Nov 24 -
Asteroid 11500 (1989 UR) Near-Earth Flyby (0.071 AU)
- Nov 24 -
Asteroid 18626 Michaelcarr Closest Approach To Earth (0.852 AU)
- Nov 24 -
Asteroid 4221 Picasso Closest Approach To Earth (1.985 AU)
- Nov 25 -
Space Tracking and Surveillance System (SSTS 1 & 2) Block 2006 Delta 2
Launch
- Nov 25 -
Asteroid 4017 Disneya Closest Approach To Earth (1.536 AU)
- Nov 26 - GLAST Delta 2 Launch
- Nov 26 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #135 (OTM-135)
- Nov 26 -
Comet C/2006 V1 (Catalina)
Perihelion (2.672 AU)
- Nov 26 -
Asteroid 3259 Brownlee Closest Approach To Earth (2.438 AU)
- Nov 28 -
Asteroid 3153 Lincoln Closest Approach To Earth (1.190 AU)
- Nov 29 -
Comet C/2006 K4 (NEAT)
Perihelion (3.189 AU)
- Nov 29 - 40th Anniversary (1967),
Wresat 1 Launch (Australia's 1st Satellite)
December 2007
- Dec ?? -
SBIRS-High F-1 Atlas 5 Launch
- Dec ?? -
Cosmos-Glonass
N90/M11/M12 Proton K-DM2 Launch
- Dec ?? -
HK-Sat 1 CZ-3C Launch (China)
- Dec ?? - Apstar 6B
CZ-3B Launch
- Dec ?? - NROL-39 Atlas 5 Launch
- Dec ?? - Sitch 2 Tsyklon 3 Launch
- Dec ?? -
Cosmo-Skymed 2
Delta 2
Launch
- Dec ?? -[Jan 03]
Measat 1-R Zenit 3SLB Launch
- Dec ?? -[Jan 08] Condor E Strela
Launch
- Dec 01 -
Asteroid 2006 KK89 Near-Earth Flyby (0.090 AU)
- Dec 01 -
Asteroid 9954 Brachiosaurus Closest Approach To Earth (1.444 AU)
- Dec 01 -
Asteroid 9661 Hohmann Closest Approach To Earth (2.752 AU)
- Dec 01 -
Kuiper
Belt Object 19521 Chaos
Closest Approach To Earth (40.857 AU)
- Dec 02 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #136 (OTM-136)
- Dec 02 - Cassini, Distant Flyby
of Telesto & Mimas
- Dec 02 - Comet
179P/Jedicke
Perihelion (4.087 AU)
- Dec 02 -
Asteroid 3354 McNair Closest Approach To Earth (1.523 AU)
- Dec 02-05 -
Conference: The Evolving Insterstellar Medium in the Milky Way and Nearby
Galaxies, Pasadena, California
- Dec 03 - Cassini, Distant Flyby
of Epimetheus
- Dec 03 -
Asteroid 4147 Lennon Closest Approach To Earth (1.557 AU)
- Dec 03-07 -
Conference: Frontiers of Space VLBI - From HALCA to VSOP-2, Kanagawa,
Japan
- Dec 05 - Cassini,
Titan
Flyby
- Dec 06 -
STS-123 Launch, Space Shuttle Endeavour, Japan's ELM-PS,
Canadian Hand "Dextre" (International
Space Station 1J/A)
- Dec 06 - NOAA-N Prime (NOAA-19) Delta 2 Launch
- Dec 06 - Kuiper Belt
Object 2004 XR190
Closest Approach To Earth (57.180 AU)
- Dec 07 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #137 (OTM-137)
- Dec 07 -
Asteroid 2006 US216
Near-Earth Flyby (0.052 AU)
- Dec 07 -
Asteroid 5223 McSween Closest Approach To Earth (2.093 AU)
- Dec 07 - 35th Anniversary (1972),
Apollo 17 Launch (Last Manned Mission to the Moon)
- Dec 08 -
Asteroid 19383 Rolling Stones Closest Approach To Earth (1.407 AU)
- Dec 08 -
Asteroid 6227 Alanrubin Closest Approach To Earth (2.720 AU)
- Dec 08 - 15th Anniversary (1992),
Galileo,
2nd Earth Flyby
- Dec 09 -
Comet C/2006 S5 (Hill)
Perihelion (2.630 AU)
- Dec 09 -
Asteroid 3783 Morris Closest Approach To Earth (1.447 AU)
- Dec 10 - 15th Anniversary (1992),
Mihonoseki
Meteorite Fall (Fell Through Roof Of A House In Japan)
- Dec 10-14 - IAU Symposium 250:
Massive Stars as Cosmic Engines, Kauai, Hawaii
- Dec 11 -
Asteroid 5066 Garradd Closest Approach To Earth (1.248 AU)
- Dec 12 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #138 (OTM-138)
- Dec 12 -
Comet Shoemaker-Levy 1
Perihelion (1.464 AU)
- Dec 12 - 40th Anniversary (1967),
Pioneer 8 Launch
- Dec 13 -
Geminids
Meteor Shower Peak
- Dec 13 - 35 Years (1972) Since Man Has Been to the Moon (Apollo
17)
- Dec 14 - 45th Anniversary (1962),
Mariner 2,
Venus Flyby
- Dec 15 -
Asteroid 2005 WX Near-Earth Flyby (0.056 AU)
- Dec 16 -
Comet P/1998 S1 (LINEAR-Mueller)
Perihelion (2.552 AU)
- Dec 16 -
Asteroid 2003 FJ8 Near-Earth Flyby (0.062 AU)
- Dec 16 -
Asteroid 5720 Halweaver Closest Approach To Earth (0.791 AU)
- Dec 16 - Arthur C.
Clarke's 90th Birthday (1917)
- Dec 16 -
Edward Barnard's 150th Birthday (1857)
- Dec 17 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #139 (OTM-139)
- Dec 17 - Comet
Lovas 1
Perihelion (1.705 AU)
- Dec 17 -
Asteroid 4444 Escher Closest Approach To Earth (1.582 AU)
- Dec 18 -
Asteroid 2688 Halley Closest Approach To Earth (2.627 AU)
- Dec 19 - Mars
Closest Approach To Earth (0.589 AU)
- Dec 19 - Comet
P/2006 W4 (Hill)
Closest Approach To Earth (3.845 AU)
- Dec 19 -
Asteroid 2001 XX103 Near-Venus Flyby (0.046 AU)
- Dec 19 - Asteroid
149 Medusa Closest Approach To Earth (1.076 AU)
- Dec 19 -
Asteroid 8353 Megryan Closest Approach To Earth (2.120 AU)
- Dec 20 - Cassini,
Titan
Flyby
- Dec 20 - 5th Anniversary (2002),
Nozomi, Earth Flyby
- Dec 22 -
Winter
Solstice,
06:08 UT
- Dec 22 -
Ursids
Meteor Shower Peak
- Dec 22 -
Asteroid 1247 Wilburwright Closest Approach To Earth (2.344 AU)
- Dec 23 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #140 (OTM-140)
- Dec 23 - 335th Anniversary (1672),
Giovanni
Cassini's Discovery of Saturn Moon
Rhea
- Dec 25 -
Asteroid 9500 Camelot Closest Approach To Earth (1.220 AU)
- Dec 26 -
Asteroid 2005 HB4 Near-Mars Flyby (0.031 AU)
- Dec 27 -
Asteroid 15000 CCD Closest Approach To Earth (1.955 AU)
- Dec 28 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #141 (OTM-141)
- Dec 28 -
Asteroid 2003 YT70 Near-Earth Flyby (0.075 AU)
- Dec 28 -
Asteroid 6030 Zolensky Closest Approach To Earth (2.135 AU)
- Dec 28 -
Asteroid 6487 Tonyspear Closest Approach To Earth (2.187 AU)
- Dec 28 -
Arthur
Eddington's 125th Birthday (1882)
- Dec 29 -
Asteroid 3673 Levy Closest Approach To Earth (1.030 AU)
- Dec 29 - 30th Anniversary (1977), Discovery of
ALHA 77005 Meteorite
(Mars Meteorite)
- Dec 31 - Deep Impact,
Earth Flyby
- Dec 31 -
Asteroid 2005 YO3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.059 AU)
- Dec 31 -
Asteroid 25924 Douglasadams Closest Approach To Earth (1.807 AU)
January 2008
- Jan ?? -
SMOS/Proba
2 Rokot KM Launch
- Jan ?? -
ProtoStar 1 CZ-3B Launch (China)
- Jan ?? -[Jan 01]
Radio-Astron Zenit 2-Fregat-SB Launch
- Jan ?? -[Jan 01] Cosmos-Liana Tsyklon
2K Launch
- Jan ?? -[Jan 08]
GOCE Rokot
Launch
- Jan ?? -[Jan 08]
IGS-4A/
IGS-4B H-2A Launch
- Jan ?? -[Jan 08]
Koronas-Foton
Zenit 2 Launch
- Jan 01 - Comet
Tuttle
Near-Earth Flyby (0.251 AU)
- Jan 01 -
Asteroid 2003 FY6 Near-Mercury Flyby (0.018 AU)
- Jan 02 - Cassini, Orbital Trim
Maneuver #142 (OTM-142)
- Jan 03 - Cassini, Distant Flyby
of Dione, Pallene, Janus, Prometheus & Pandora
- Jan 03 -
Earth
At Perihelion
(0.983 AU From Sun)
- Jan 03 -
Quadrantids Meteor Shower Peak
- Jan 03 -
Asteroid 137805 (1999 YK5) Near-Mercury Flyby (0.036 AU)
- Jan 03 -
Asteroid 1913 Sekanina Closest Approach To Earth (1.798 AU)
- Jan 04 - Isaac
Newton's 365th Birthday (1643)
- Jan 05 - Cassini,
Titan
Flyby
- Jan 06 - 10th Anniversary (1998),
Lunar Prospector Launch (Moon Orbiter)
- Jan 06 - 40th Anniversary (1968),
Surveyor 7
Launch (Moon Lander)
- Jan 07 -
Asteroid 17640 Mount Stromlo Closest Approach To Earth (1.217 AU)
- Jan 08 -
Asteroid 1877 Marsden Closest Approach To Earth (3.811 AU)
- Jan 08 - 35th Anniversary (1973),
Luna 21 Launch
(USSR Moon Lander/Rover)
- Jan 08 -
Sir
Frank Dyson's 140th Birthday (1868)
- Jan 09 - Asteroid
434 Hungaria Closest Approach To Earth (1.218 AU)
- Jan 10 -
Asteroid 2005 WJ56 Near-Earth Flyby (0.028 AU)
- Jan 10 -[Jan 01]
Asteroid 7225
Huntress Closest Approach To Earth (0.884 AU)
- Jan 12 -[Jan 01]
Asteroid 2001
FZ57 Near-Mercury Flyby (0.037 AU)
- Jan 15 -[Jan 02]
MESSENGER, 1st Mercury Flyby
- Jan 15 -[Jan 02]
Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #143
(OTM-143)
- Jan 15 -[Jan 03]
Cassini, Distant Flyby of Methone &
Pandora
- Jan 15 -[Jan 03]
Comet C/2005 L3 (McNaught)
Perihelion (5.593 AU)
- Jan 15 -[Jan 04]
Comet Shoemaker-Holt 2
Near-Jupiter Flyby (0.255 AU)
- Jan 19 -[Jan 04]
Asteroid 10792
Ecuador Closest Approach To Earth (2.278 AU)
- Jan 20 -[Jan 05]
Asteroid 5231 Verne
Closest Approach To Earth (1.492 AU)
- Jan 20 -[Jan 05]
Asteroid 4255
Spacewatch Closest Approach To Earth (3.447 AU)
- Jan 21 -[Jan 06]
Asteroid 7336
Saunders Closest Approach To Earth (1.760 AU)
- Jan 22 -[Jan 06]
Cassini, Distant Flyby of Titan
- Jan 22 -[Jan 07]
Asteroid 9007 James
Bond Closest Approach To Earth (1.516 AU)
- Jan 22 -[Jan 08]
Asteroid 2866 Hardy
Closest Approach To Earth (2.335 AU)
Please direct questions and comments about this calendar to
Ron Baalke
Jet Propulsion Lab
ron@jpl.nasa.gov
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