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2009
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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 baalke@zagami.jpl.nasa.gov.

This Month's Contributors to the Space Calendar
Space Calendar Archives (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009)

Note that launch dates are subject to change at any time. Also, anniversary dates are listed in 5 year increments only.

April 2009

Apr 14 - Beidou 2-2 (Compass M-2) CZ-3A Launch, Successful
Apr 14 - Asteroid 13926 Berners-Lee Closest Approach To Earth (2.303 AU)
Apr 14 - Christiaan Huygens' 380th Birthday (1629)
Apr 15 - Comet 209P/LINEAR Perihelion (0.914 AU)
Apr 15 - Comet C/2009 F5 (McNaught) Closest Approach To Earth (1.914 AU)
Apr 15 - Asteroid 13070 Seanconnery Closest Approach To Earth (1.834 AU)
Apr 16 - Comet C/2009 G1 (STEREO) Perihelion (1.129 AU)
Apr 16 - Asteroid 2009 HB21 Near-Earth Flyby (0.086 AU)
Apr 16 - Asteroid 2009 FT32 Near-Earth Flyby (0.092 AU)
Apr 16 - Asteroid 2007 HR Near-Mercury Flyby (0.044 AU)
Apr 16 - Lecture: Rainbows, Red Sunsets and Rocket Science Revisited, Pasadena, California
Apr 16 - Lecture: Gemini Northern Telescope, Waimea, Hawaii
Apr 17 - Asteroid 4147 Lennon Closest Approach To Earth (1.197 AU)
Apr 17 - 52nd Annual Goddard Memorial Dinner, Washington DC
Apr 17 - Workshop on Exploring and Using Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer Data, Seattle, Washington
Apr 17 - Lecture: Rainbows, Red Sunsets and Rocket Science Revisited, Pasadena, California
Apr 18 - Asteroid 4266 Waltari Occults HIP 23015 (2.7 Magnitude Star)
Apr 18 - Sally Ride Science Festival, Fairfax, Virginia
Apr 19 - Asteroid 2009 HT2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.051 AU)
Apr 19 - Asteroid 2009 HU44 Near-Earth Flyby (0.052 AU)
Apr 19-23 - Joint European National Astronomy Meeting (JENAM 2009), Hatfield, United Kingdom
Apr 19-24 - European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2009, Vienna, Austria
Apr 20 - Cassini, Titan Flyby
Apr 20 - RISAT/ Anusat PSLV Launch (India), Successful
Apr 20 - Sicral 1-B Zenit 3SL Launch, Successful
Apr 20-23 - Conference: Microanalysis of Particles (Particles 2009), Westmont, Illinois
Apr 20-23 - International Conference: The Sun, the Stars, the Universe and General Relativity, Minsk, Belarus
Apr 21 - Comet C/2008 O2 (McNaught) Perihelion (3.804 AU)
Apr 21 - Asteroid 14 Irene At Opposition (8.9 Magnitude)
Apr 21 - Asteroid 2009 HF21 Near-Earth Flyby (0.019 AU)
Apr 21-23 - European Week of Astrononmy and Space Science, Hatfield, United Kingdom
Apr 21-23 - Meeting: Missions for Exoplanets - 2010-2020, Pasadena, California
Apr 22 - Earth Day
Apr 22 - Yaogan 6 (Weixing 6) CZ-2C Launch (China), Successful
Apr 22 - Moon Occults Venus
Apr 22 - Lyrids Meteor Shower Peak
Apr 22 - Asteroid 8 Flora At Opposition (9.8 Magnitude)
Apr 22 - Lecture: Planetary Protection and Hitchhikers in the Solar System - The Danger of Mingling Microbes, Los Altos Hills, California
Apr 22-25 - Mid-South Star Gaze, French Camp, Mississippi
Apr 23 - Comet 214P/LINEAR Closest Approach To Earth (1.150 AU)
Apr 23 - Asteroid 2009 HJ21 Near-Earth Flyby (0.003 AU)
Apr 23 - Asteroid 2009 FJ30 Near-Earth Flyby (0.025 AU)
Apr 23 - Asteroid 2006 DM63 Near-Venus Flyby (0.042 AU)
Apr 23 - Asteroid 3895 Earhart Closest Approach To Earth (1.253 AU)
Apr 23-26 - Georgia Sky View 2009, near Jackson, Georgia
Apr 23-26 - Two Rivers Spring Star Party, Barry, Illionis
Apr 24 - Comet C/2008 Q1 (Maticic) Closest Approach To Earth (2.469 AU)
Apr 24 - Asteroid 2009 HW67 Near-Earth Flyby (0.003 AU)
Apr 24 - Asteroid 2009 HG60 Near-Earth Flyby (0.025 AU)
Apr 24 - Asteroid 2009 HD Near-Earth Flyby (0.075 AU)
Apr 24 - Alpine Star Party, Alpine, Texas
Apr 24-26 - Jules Verne Festival, Paris, France
Apr 24-26 - Stokes Star Party, Highlands, New Jersey
Apr 24-26 - Southern Star 2009, Little Switzerland, North Carolina
Apr 24-26 - 5th Annual Tennessee Spring Star Party 2009, Pikeville, Tennessee
Apr 25 - Kepler Workshop: A Search for Habitable Planets, Washington DC
Apr 25 - Sally Ride Science Festival, Dallas, Texas
Apr 25-30 - 14th Brazilian Remote Sensing Symposium (SBSR), Natal, Brazil
Apr 26 - Asteroid 2 Pallas Occults TYC 4798-01581-1 (13.1 Magnitude Star)
Apr 26 - Asteroid 2009 HS44 Near-Earth Flyby (0.012 AU)
Apr 26 - Asteroid 2009 HH21 Near-Earth Flyby (0.032 AU)
Apr 26 - Asteroid 2009 HT58 Near-Earth Flyby (0.058 AU)
Apr 26 - Asteroid 2009 FP28 Near-Earth Flyby (0.100 AU)
Apr 26 - Asteroid 17078 Sellers Closest Approach To Earth (2.272 AU)
Apr 26-30 - Workshop: Hotwiring the Transient Universe II - Real-Time Astronomy, Santa Cruz, California
Apr 27 - Asteroid 5138 Gyoda Occults HIP 72194 (6.4 Magnitude Star)
Apr 27 - Asteroid 2009 HK73 Near-Earth Flyby (0.003 AU)
Apr 27 - Asteroid 2009 JR Near-Earth Flyby (0.047 AU)
Apr 27-30 - 1st IAA Planetary Defense Conference: Protecting Earth from Asteroids, Granada, Spain
Apr 27-30 - Workshop: The Coming of Age of X-ray Polarimetry, Rome, Italy
Apr 27-30 - Responsive Space Conference 2009, Los Angeles, California
Apr 27-May 01 - IAU Symposium 261: Relativity in Fundamental Astronomy - Dynamics, Reference Frames, and Data Analysis, Virginia Beach, Virginia
Apr 27-May 02 - 16th Young Scientists' Conference on Astronomy and Space Physics, Kyiv, Ukraine
Apr 28 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #192 (OTM-192), Successful
Apr 28 - Asteroid 2 Pallas Occults TYC 4799-01996-1 (12.2 Magnitude Star)
Apr 28 - Asteroid 646 Kastalia Occults HIP 64577 (5.3 Magnitude Star)
Apr 28 - Asteroid 2009 HJ36 Near-Earth Flyby (0.025 AU)
Apr 28 - Asteroid 2007 WA Near-Earth Flyby (0.087 AU)
Apr 28 - Asteroid 8256 Shenzhou Closest Approach To Earth (1.664 AU)
Apr 28 - Asteroid 17640 Mount Stromlo Closest Approach To Earth (2.221 AU)
Apr 28-30 - International Vacuum Electronics Conference (IVEC 2009), Rome, Italy
Apr 29 - Cosmos 2450 Soyuz Launch (Russia), Successful
Apr 29 -[May 12] Asteroid 2009 JM1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.041 AU)
Apr 29 - Asteroid 2007 EB26 Near-Mercury Flyby (0.020 AU)
Apr 29 - Asteroid 719 Albert Closest Approach To Earth (2.031 AU)
Apr 29-May 01 - NASA Centennial Challenges 2009: Power Beaming and Tether Challenges
Apr 29-May 01 - 1th NASA-ESA Workshop on Product Data Exchange, Kent, Washington
Apr 29-May 03 - Astronomy Week
Apr 30 - Comet P/2009 F7 (LINEAR) Closest Approach To Earth (0.806 AU)
Apr 30 - Asteroid 2009 JS Near-Earth Flyby (0.008 AU)
Apr 30 - Asteroid 2009 HE21 Near-Earth Flyby (0.054 AU)
Apr 30-May 01 - Palomar Science Meeting, Pasadena, California
Apr 30-May 02 - Crossroads: The Future of Human Life in the Universe Conference, Cambridge, Massachusetts

May 2009

May ?? - Oceansat 2 PSLV Launch
May 01 - 5th Anniversary (2004), Genesis, Earth Flyby
May 01 - 60th Anniversary (1949), Gerard Kuiper's Discovery of Neptune Moon Nereid
May 01-07 - 8th Annual International Astrophysics Conference: Shock Waves in Space and Astrophysical Environments, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
May 02 - Astronomy Day
May 02 - Comet 88P/Howell Closest Approach To Earth (1.230 AU)
May 02 - Asteroid 2009 HG21 Near-Earth Flyby (0.044 AU)
May 02 - Asteroid 9500 Camelot Closest Approach To Earth (1.839 AU)
May 02 - Asteroid 5231 Verne Closest Approach To Earth (2.031 AU)
May 02 - U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony 2009, Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, Florida
May 02 - Space Day: Family Day, Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Washington DC
May 02 - Explorers Club Space Stories 2009 Event, New York, New York
May 02-03 - Jet Propulsion Laboratory Open House, Pasadena, California
May 02-05 - American Astronomical Society Division on Dynamical Astronomy Meeting, Virginia Beach, Virginia
May 02-10 - School on Particle Physics and Cosmology, Oran, Algeria
May 03 - Asteroid 9007 James Bond Closest Approach To Earth (1.823 AU)
May 04 - Asteroid 2009 JA Near-Earth Flyby (0.019 AU)
May 04 - Asteroid 2009 HM82 Near-Earth Flyby (0.070 AU)
May 04 - Asteroid 4342 Freud Closest Approach To Earth (1.771 AU)
May 04 - Asteroid 3297 Hong Kong Closest Approach To Earth (2.671 AU)
May 04 - 20th Anniversary (1989), Magellan Launch (Venus Orbiter)
May 04-07 - 20th AIAA Aerodynamic Decelerator Systems Technology Conference/ 18th AIAA Lighter-Than-Air Systems Technology Conference/ AIAA Balloon Systems Conference, Seattle, Washington
May 04-08 - 2009 IEEE Radar Conference, Pasadena, California
May 04-08 - 53rd Meeting of the Italian Astronomical Society (SAIt2009), Pisa, Italy
May 04-09 - Symposium: The Search for Life in the Universe, Baltimore, Maryland
May 05 - Cassini, Titan Flyby, Successful
May 05 -[May 07] Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) Demo Delta 2 Launch, Successful
May 05 - Eta Aquarids Meteor Shower Peak
May 05 -[May 07] Asteroid 2009 JF1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.002 AU)
May 05 - Lecture: Transneptunian Binaries and Collision Families - Probes of our Local Dust Disk, Baltmore, Maryland
May 05 - 10th Anniversary (1999), Galileo, Callisto 20 Flyby
May 05-06 - European Ground System Architecture Workshop (ESAW), Darmstadt, Germany
May 07 - Space Day
May 07 -[May 08] Progress M-02M Soyuz U Launch, Successful (International Space Station 33P)
May 07 - Comet C/2009 F6 (Yi-SWAN) Perihelion (1.275 AU)
May 07 - Comet 211P/Hill Perihelion (2.362 AU)
May 07 - Asteroid 25924 Douglasadams Closest Approach To Earth (1.077 AU)
May 07 - Asteroid 3673 Levy Closest Approach To Earth (1.764 AU)
May 07 - Asteroid 697 Galilea Closest Approach To Earth (2.105 AU)
May 08 -[May 09] TacSat 3/ Genesat 2/PharmaSat 1/HawkSat 1/CP-6 Minotaur 1 Launch
May 08 - Asteroid 6 Hebe At Opposition (9.9 Magnitude)
May 08 - Asteroid 2 Pallas Occults TYC 0149-01152-1 (11.7 Magnitude Star)
May 08 -[May 07] Asteroid 2009 JE1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.013 AU)
May 09 - Asteroid 2 Pallas Occults UCAC2 32172562 (12.0 Magnitude Star)
May 09 - Asteroid 2009 CR4 Near-Earth Flyby (0.094 AU)
May 09-16 - Conference: Black Holes VII - Theory and Mathematical Aspects, Banff, Canada
May 10 - Asteroid 2009 HG Near-Earth Flyby (0.052 AU)
May 10 - Asteroid 1024 Hale Closest Approach To Earth (2.315 AU)
May 10-15 - Conference: Bolides and Meteorite Falls, Prague, Czech Republic
May 11 -[May 12] STS-125 Launch, Space Shuttle Atlantis, Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission #4, Successful
May 11-14 - First International Symposium on Reliability of Optoelectronics For Space (ISROS 2009), Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
May 11-15 - International Conference on Comparative Planetology: Venus - Earth - Mars, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
May 11-15 - 3rd ARENA Conference: An Astronomical Observatory at Dome C (Antarctica) for the Next Decade, Rome, Italy
May 11-15 - Workshop: The Giant Branches, Leiden, The Netherlands
May 11-15 - 2nd Magnetism in Massive Stars (MiMeS 2) Meeting, Paris, France
May 12-15 - Conference: Galaxies in Isolation - Exploring Nature versus Nurture, Granada, Spain
May 12-15 - Conference: Open Problems In Galaxy Formation, Potsdam, Germany
May 13 - Comet 137P/Shoemaker-Levy 2 Perihelion (1.915 AU)
May 13 - Asteroid 1761 Edmondson Occults HIP 89153 (5.0 Magnitude Star)
May 13-15 - 2nd Roma International Conference on Astroparticle Physics (RICAP09), Rome, Italy
May 14 -[May 14] Herschel/ Planck Ariane 5 Launch
May 14 -[May 13] Protostar 2 (Indostar 2) Proton M-Briz M Launch
May 14 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #195 (OTM-195)
May 14 - Asteroid 2228 Soyuz-Apollo Closest Approach To Earth (2.683 AU)
May 14 - Lecture: Kepler, a Planet-Hunting Mission, Pasadena, California
May 14 - Lecture: UH Institute for Astronomy, Waimea, Hawaii
May 15 - Meteor-M-N1/ Sterkh 2 (Cospas 12)/IRIS/Ugatusat/Sumbandila/ Tatyana 2 Soyuz 2-1b-Fregat Launch
May 15 - Meridian 2 Soyuz 2-1a-Fregat Launch
May 15 - Asteroid 1996 Adams Closest Approach To Earth (1.747 AU)
May 15 - Lecture: Kepler, a Planet-Hunting Mission, Pasadena, California
May 15-17 - 2009 Bootleg Astronomy Star Party, Harmon, Illinois
May 16 - 40th Anniversary (1969), Venera 5, Venus Impact
May 17 - 40th Anniversary (1969), Venera 6, Venus Impact
May 17-20 - 12th Workshop on the Physics of Dusty Plasmas, Boulder, Colorado
May 18 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #196 (OTM-196)
May 18 - Comet 215P/NEAT Closest Approach To Earth (2.580 AU)
May 18 - Asteroid 2001 SG286 Near-Earth Flyby (0.023 AU)
May 18 - 40th Anniversary (1969), Apollo 10 Launch
May 18-20 - International Symposium Marco Polo and Other Small Body Sample Return Missions, Paris, France
May 18-20 - 5th ESA Workshop on Millimetre Wave Technologies and Applications and 31st ESA Antenna Workshop, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
May 18-20 - 2nd Astronomy & Astrophysics School: Scientific Writing for Young Astronomers, Blankenberge, Belgium
May 18-21 - Workshop on Robotic Autonomous Observatories, Malaga, Spain
May 18-21 - Joint Subaru/Gemini Science Conference, Kyoto, Japan
May 18-22 - 3rd International Workshop on the Interconnection Between Particle Physics and Cosmology (PPC2009), Norman, Oklahoma
May 18-22 - Constellation School on X-rays from Star Forming Regions, Palermo, Italy
May 19 -[May 14] Asteroid 2009 JG2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.030 AU)
May 19 - Asteroid 118401 LINEAR Closest Approach To Earth (2.662 AU)
May 19 - 5th Anniversary (2004), Hayabusa (MUSES-C), Earth Flyby
May 19-21 - Conference: Multi-Messenger Relativistic Astrophysics 2009, Atlanta, Georgia
May 19-21 - Workshop on Tests of Gravity and Gravitational Physics, Cleveland, Ohio
May 20 - Lecture: The Dark Side of the Universe - Dark Matter and Dark Energy, Los Altos Hills, California
May 20-23 - International Workshop: Open Questions on the Origins of Life, San Sebastian, Spain.
May 21 - Cassini, Titan Flyby
May 21 - Asteroid 203 Pompeja Closest Approach To Earth (1.890 AU)
May 21 - Asteroid 10217 Richardcook Closest Approach To Earth (1.898 AU)
May 21 - Asteroid 4808 Ballaero Closest Approach To Earth (2.069 AU)
May 21 - Asteroid 51828 Ilanramon Closest Approach To Earth (2.089 AU)
May 22 -[May 12] Space Shuttle Atlantis Returns To Earth (STS-125)
May 22 - Asteroid 433 Eros Occults TYC 5814-00007-1 (11.0 Magnitude Star)
May 22 - Asteroid 83360 Catalina Closest Approach To Earth (1.826 AU)
May 22 - Gemini Users Meeting, Kyoto, Japan
May 22-24 - Royal Astronomical Society of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand
May 22-25 - NIAGfest/GREATCON, Beaver City, Indiana
May 23 - Asteroid 207945 (1991 JW) Near-Earth Flyby (0.081 AU)
May 24 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #197 (OTM-197)
May 24 - Asteroid 10044 Squyres Closest Approach To Earth (1.778 AU)
May 24 - Asteroid 1282 Utopia Closest Approach To Earth (2.543 AU)
May 24-27 - The Meeting of the Americas - 2009 Joint Assembly, Toronta, Canada
May 24-29 - Meeting: Tidal Dwarf Galaxies - Ghosts from Structure Formation, Bad Honnef, Germany
May 24-29 -[May 14] 30th Annual International Gravitational Physiology Meeting, Xi'an, China
May 24-29 - School of Astrophysics "Francesco Lucchin": Cosmological Backgrounds & Statistical Methods for Astrophysics, Bertinoro, Italy
May 25 -[May 13] Comet 22P/Kopff Perihelion (1.578 AU)
May 25 - Asteroid 2009 HD82 Near-Earth Flyby (0.088 AU)
May 25 - Asteroid 149 Medusa Closest Approach To Earth (1.301 AU)
May 25 - Asteroid 253 Mathilde Closest Approach To Earth (1.603 AU)
May 25 - Asteroid 3352 McAuliffe Closest Approach To Earth (2.000 AU)
May 25-29 - Planck 2009 Conference: From The Planck Scale To The Electroweak Scale, Padova, Italy
May 25-29 - Conference: Tidal Dwarf Galaxies - Ghosts from Structure Formation, Bad Honnef, Germany
May 26 - Asteroid 5145 Pholus Closest Approach To Earth (21.717 AU)
May 26-28 - Conference: The EVLA Vision - Stars On and Off the Main Sequence, Socorro, New Mexico
May 26-29 - Annual Meeting of the Canadian Astronomical Society (CASCA 2009), Toronto, Canada
May 26-29 - Sobral Meeting: The Sun, the Stars, the Universe and General Relativity, Ceara, Brazil
May 27 - Soyuz TMA-15 Soyuz FG Launch (International Space Station 19S)
May 27 - Asteroid 1540 Kevola Occults HIP 110746 (6.3 Magnitude Star)
May 27-28 - Symposium: Fifty Years of Astrophysics, Cambridge, Massachusetts
May 27-28 - ESA/EDA Workshop on Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) and Satellite Services, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
May 28 - 50th Anniversary (1959), Jupiter C Launch Of Two Monkeys (Able & Baker)
May 28-31 - International Space Development Conference (ISDC), Orlando, Florida
May 29 - Asteroid 433 Eros Occults TYC 5812-01209-1 (11.3 Magnitude Star)
May 29 - Asteroid 6032 Nobel Closest Approach To Earth (1.169 AU)
May 29 - Asteroid 4337 Arecibo Closest Approach To Earth (1.994 AU)
May 29 - 35th Anniversary (1974), Luna 22 Launch (Soviet Moon Orbiter)
May 29 - 90th Anniversary (1919), Solar Eclipse Confirms Einstein's General Theory Of Relativity
May 29-31 - 2nd Annual Michiana Star Party, Tippecanoe, Indiana
May 30 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #198 (OTM-198)
May 30 - Asteroid 2006 KY67 Near-Earth Flyby (0.081 AU)
May 30 - Asteroid 5738 Billpickering Closest Approach To Earth (2.220 AU)
May 30 - Sally Ride Science Festival, Towson, Maryland
May 31 - Comet C/2009 G1 (STEREO) Closest Approach To Earth (1.047 AU)
May 31 - Asteroid 2753 Duncan Closest Approach To Earth (1.870 AU)
May 31-Jun 05 - Conference: Stellar Pulsation - Challenges for Theory and Observation, Santa Fe, New Mexico

June 2009

Jun ?? - NSS-12 Ariane 5ECA Launch
Jun ?? - COMS 1 Ariane 5 Launch
Jun ?? - Measat 3A Zenit 3SLB Launch
Jun ?? - SBSS-1 Minotaur 4 Launch
Jun ?? - RazakSAT/Cubesats Falcon 1 Launch
Jun 01 - Asteroid 7086 Bopp Closest Approach To Earth (1.088 AU)
Jun 01 - Asteroid 916 America Closest Approach To Earth (1.632 AU)
Jun 01 - Asteroid 2801 Huygens Closest Approach To Earth (1.824 AU)
Jun 01 - Asteroid 1941 Wild Closest Approach To Earth (3.262 AU)
Jun 01-02 - Workshop on Modeling Martian Hydrous Environments, Houston, Texas
Jun 01-02 - Conference: Physics of Relativistic Flows - An Observational View, Stockholm, Sweden
Jun 01-03 - European Advanced Life Support Workshop, Barcelona, Spain
Jun 01-04 - 4th International Meeting on Gravitation and Cosmology, Santa Clara, Cuba
Jun 01-05 - 2nd Chaotic Modeling and Simulation International Conference, Chania, Greece
Jun 01-05 - Meeting: The Monster's Fiery Breath - Feedback in Galaxies, Groups, and Clusters, Madison, Wisconsin
Jun 01-05 - 5th International Workshop on the Dark Side of the Universe (DSU09), Melbourne, Australia
Jun 01-06 - Summer School in Statistics for Astronomers V, State College, Pennsylvania
Jun 02 -[May 09] Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)/ Lunar CRater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) Atlas 5 Launch
Jun 02 - Comet C/2008 Q3 (Garradd) Closest Approach To Earth (0.935 AU)
Jun 02 -[May 12] Asteroid 2 Pallas Occults TYC 0188-00749-1 (11.0 Magnitude Star)
Jun 02 - Asteroid 2002 LT38 Near-Earth Flyby (0.096 AU)
Jun 02 - Asteroid 3066 McFadden Closest Approach To Earth (1.672 AU)
Jun 02 - Asteroid 1578 Kirkwood Closest Approach To Earth (3.836 AU)
Jun 02-05 - Conference: Panoramic Radio Astronomy - Wide-field 1-2 GHz Research on Galaxy Evolution, Groningen, the Netherlands
Jun 03 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #199 (OTM-199)
Jun 03-04 - ESA Telecom and Integrated Applications Information Days 2009, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Jun 03-05 - Workshop on the Surface Composition of Mercury from Ultraviolet-Visible-Infrared Spectroscopy: State of the Art and Future Strategies, Parma, Italy
Jun 03-12 - 52nd Session of the Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, Vienna, Austria
Jun 04 - Comet C/2007 M1 (McNaught) Closest Approach To Earth (6.935 AU)
Jun 04 - Asteroid 6434 Jewitt Closest Approach To Earth (1.320 AU)
Jun 04 - Asteroid 11911 Angel Closest Approach To Earth (2.517 AU)
Jun 04 - Steven J. Ostro Memorial Symposium, Pasadena, California
Jun 05 - Venus At Its Greatest Western Elongation (46 Degrees)
Jun 05 -[May 10] Asteroid 1846 Bengt Occults HIP 78699 (6.2 Magnitude Star)
Jun 05 - Asteroid 341 California Closest Approach To Earth (1.009 AU)
Jun 05 - Asteroid 79896 Billhaley Closest Approach To Earth (1.749 AU)
Jun 05 - John Couch Adams' 190th Birthday (1819)
Jun 06 - Cassini, Titan Flyby
Jun 06 - Asteroid 2004 FY15 Near-Earth Flyby (0.092 AU)
Jun 06 -[May 12] StarConn 2009, Middletown, Connecticut
Jun 07 - Asteroid 2247 Hiroshima Closest Approach To Earth (1.647 AU)
Jun 07 - Asteroid 12485 Jenniferharris Closest Approach To Earth (1.655 AU)
Jun 07-11 - 214th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), Pasadena, California
Jun 07-11 - 17th IAA Human in Space Symposium, Moscow, Russia
Jun 07-11 - 19th ESA Symposium on European Rocket and Balloon Programmes and Related Research, Bad Reichenhall, Germany
Jun 07-11 - Conference: Anions - From the Lab to the Stars, Bad Honnef, Germany
Jun 08 -[May 12] Asteroid 3 Juno Occults UCAC2 32472723 (11.5 Magnitude Star)
Jun 08 - Kuiper Belt Object 28978 Ixion Closest Approach To Earth (40.576 AU)
Jun 08-12 - Conference: Binaries - Key to Comprehension of the Universe, Brno, Czech Republic
Jun 08-12 - Conference: Millimeter and Submillimeter Astronomy at High Angular Resolution, Taipei, Taiwan
Jun 08-18 - Nordic-Baltic Optical/NIR and Radio Astronomy Summer School: Star Formation in the Milky Way and Nearby Galaxies, Turku, Finland
Jun 09 -[May 11] Asteroid 393 Lampetia Occults HIP 83738 (6.4 Magnitude Star)
Jun 09 -[May 13] Asteroid 2 Pallas Occults TYC 0202-00295-1 (10.7 Magnitude Star)
Jun 09 - Asteroid 143651 (2003 QO104) Near-Earth Flyby (0.095 AU)
Jun 09 - Asteroid 7359 Messier Closest Approach To Earth (2.485 AU)
Jun 09 - Asteroid 2041 Lancelot Closest Approach To Earth (2.675 AU)
Jun 09-11 - Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Science Targeting Meeting, Tempe, Arizona
Jun 10 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #200 (OTM-200)
Jun 10 -[May 10] Comet 220P/McNaught Closest Approach To Earth (1.365 AU)
Jun 10 - Asteroid 136617 (1994 CC) Near-Earth Flyby (0.017 AU)
Jun 10 - Asteroid 2004 SX Near-Mars Flyby (0.042 AU)
Jun 10 - Asteroid 2266 Tchaikovsky Closest Approach To Earth (3.012 AU)
Jun 11 - Asteroid 2001 WT1 Near-Venus Flyby (0.049 AU)
Jun 11 - Kuiper Belt Object 50000 Quaoar Closest Approach To Earth (42.193 AU)
Jun 11 - Lecture: The Really Big Picture - Things We Know About the Universe, and How We Know Them, Pasadena, California
Jun 11 - 5th Anniversary (2004), Cassini, Phoebe Flyby
Jun 12 - Asteroid 2002 LR24 Near-Earth Flyby (0.076 AU)
Jun 12 - Asteroid 2003 HT42 Near-Venus Flyby (0.036 AU)
Jun 12 - Lecture: The Really Big Picture - Things We Know About the Universe, and How We Know Them, Pasadena, California
Jun 13 - STS-127 Launch, Space Shuttle Endeavour, Japanese Experiment Logistics Module - Exposed Section (ELM-ES) (International Space Station 2J/A)
Jun 13 - Comet C/2008 T2 (Cardinal) Perihelion (1.202 AU)
Jun 13 - Asteroid 74625 Tieproject Closest Approach To Earth (1.644 AU)
Jun 13 - Jet Propulsion Lab's 65th Birthday (1944)
Jun 13-20 - 2009 Grand Canyon Star Party (GCSP), Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
Jun 14 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #201 (OTM-201)
Jun 14 - Comet 64P/Swift-Gehrels Perihelion (1.377 AU)
Jun 14 - Asteroid 137078 (1998 XZ4) Near-Venus Flyby (0.039 AU)
Jun 14-20 - 14th International Clay Conference, Castellaneta Marina, Italy
Jun 15 -[May 09] Asteroid 1300 Marcelle Occults HIP 68050 (6.9 Magnitude Star)
Jun 15 -[May 13] Asteroid 3 Juno Occults TYC 0585-00378-1 (10.6 Magnitude Star)
Jun 15-17 - Atmospheric Composition Constellation (ACC) Workshop on Air Quality, Frascati, Italy
Jun 15-18 - Workshop: Searching for the Origins of Cosmic Rays, Trondheim, Norway
Jun 15-28 - International Workshop: Pulsars in their Diversity, Marciana Marina, Elba island, Italy
Jun 15-19 - 7th International Planetary Probe Workshop (IPPW-7), Barcelona, Spain
Jun 15-19 - 7th Serbian Conference on Spectral Line Shapes in Astrophysics, Zrenjanin, Serbia
Jun 15-19 - Conference: Modern Challenges in Nonlinear Plasma Physics, Halkidiki, Greece
Jun 15-19 - workshop: Physics of Galactic Nuclei, Ringberg Castle, Tegernsee, Germany
Jun 16 - Comet P/2003 A1 (LINEAR) Perihelion (1.916 AU)
Jun 16 - Asteroid 498 Tokio Closest Approach To Earth (1.423 AU)
Jun 16 - Asteroid 16809 Galapagos Closest Approach To Earth (1.483 AU)
Jun 16 - Asteroid 1772 Gagarin Closest Approach To Earth (1.475 AU)
Jun 16-17 - 1st European Workshop on Launchers Avionics, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Jun 17 - Asteroid 7225 Huntress Closest Approach To Earth (1.714 AU)
Jun 18 - Asteroid 4769 Castalia Closest Approach To Earth (1.366 AU)
Jun 18 - William Lassell's 210th Birthday (1799)
Jun 18 - Lecture: Caltech Submillimeter Observatory, Waimea, Hawaii
Jun 18-19 - Ground Segment Coordination Body Workshop 2009, Frascati, Italy
Jun 19 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #202 (OTM-202)
Jun 20 - Asteroid 2008 YC3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.089 AU)
Jun 20 - Asteroid 5066 Garradd Closest Approach To Earth (0.719 AU)
Jun 21 - Summer Solstice, 05:45 UT
Jun 21-26 - Symposium: Evolution of Planetary and Stellar Systems: Dynamical Interactions with DNC Lin, Prato, Italy
Jun 22 - Cassini, Titan Flyby
Jun 22 - Comet P/2009 F7 (LINEAR) Perihelion (1.701 AU)
Jun 22 - Dwarf Planet 134340 Pluto Closest Approach To Earth (30.664 AU)
Jun 22 - Asteroid 2008 WM64 Near-Earth Flyby (0.045 AU)
Jun 22 - Asteroid 2008 EL68 Near-Earth Flyby (0.050 AU)
Jun 22 - Asteroid 2000 AH205 Near-Earth Flyby (0.069 AU)
Jun 22 - Asteroid 5811 Keck Closest Approach To Earth (1.066 AU)
Jun 22 - Asteroid 3208 Fraschetti Closest Approach To Earth (1.075 AU)
Jun 22 - Asteroid 1940 Whipple Closest Approach To Earth (2.254 AU)
Jun 22-24 -[May 14] Symposium: NASA Earth System Science at 20 - Accomplishments, Plans, and Challenges, Washington DC
Jun 22-24 - 6th Orlov Conference: The Study of the Earth as a Planet by Methods of Geophysics, Geodesy and Astronomy, Kiev, Ukraine
Jun 22-25 - Conference: Observing the Dark Universe with Euclid, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Jun 22-26 - 1st International Conference on Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes, Paris, France
Jun 22-26 - 8th International e-VLBI Workshop, Madrid, Spain
Jun 22-26 - Galaxy Metabolism Conference: Galaxy Evolution Near and Far, Sydney, Australia
Jun 22-26 - IPMU International Conference: Dark Energy - Lighting Up The Darkness!, Kashiwa, Japan
Jun 22-26 - HELAS-NA5 Workshop: Synergies Between Solar and Stellar Modelling, Rome, Italy
Jun 23 - Pluto At Opposition
Jun 23 - Comet Shoemaker-Levy 3 Near-Jupiter Flyby (0.286 AU)
Jun 23 - Comet C/2008 Q3 (Garradd) Perihelion (1.798 AU)
Jun 24 - TerreStar 1 Ariane 5 Launch
Jun 24 - Comet C/2009 F1 (Larson) Perihelion (1.838 AU)
Jun 24 - Asteroid 10050 Rayman Closest Approach To Earth (1.007 AU)
Jun 24 - 10th Anniversary (1999), Cassini, 2nd Venus Flyby
Jun 24 - 35th Anniversary (1974), Salyut 3 Launch (USSR Space Station)
Jun 24-26 - ESA's 2nd Swarm International Science Meeting, Potsdam, Germany
Jun 24-Jul 01 - Summer School on Particle Physics, Cosmology and Strings, Waterloo, Canada
Jun 25 - Asteroid 5720 Halweaver Closest Approach To Earth (1.939 AU)
Jun 26 -[May 09] GOES-O Delta 4 Launch
Jun 26 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #203 (OTM-203)
Jun 26 - Asteroid 742 Edisona Closest Approach To Earth (1.891 AU)
Jun 28 - Asteroid 2001 FE90 Near-Earth Flyby (0.018 AU)
Jun 28 - Asteroid 4511 Rembrandt Closest Approach To Earth (1.006 AU)
Jun 28-Jul 01 - 2009 Society of Amateur Radio Astronomers (SARA) Annual Meeting and Technical Conference, Green Bank, West Virginia
Jun 28-Jul 03 - Conference: The Many Faces of Centaurus A, Sydney, Australia
Jun 29 -[Jun 06] Sirius FM-5 Proton M-Briz M Launch
Jun 29 - Asteroid 2008 EV68 Near-Mars Flyby (0.033 AU)
Jun 29 - Asteroid 4664 Hanner Closest Approach To Earth (1.769 AU)
Jun 29-Jul 02 - Conference: The Energetic Cosmos - from Suzaku to Astro-H, Otaru, Japan
Jun 29-Jul 03 - Invisible Universe International Conference, Paris France
Jun 29-Jul 03 - 4th International Conference on Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows, Chamonix, France
Jun 29-Jul 03 - ASTROCAM School: Young Stellar Objects: From Cool Stars to Exoplanets, Madrid, Spain
Jun 29-Jul 04 - Annual Meeting of the French Astronomical Society, Besancon, France
Jun 29-Jul 13 - Nordic-NASA Summer School: Water, Ice and the Origin of Life in the Universe, Reykjavik, Iceland
Jun 30 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #204 (OTM-204)
Jun 30 -[May 09] Comet 219P/LINEAR Closest Approach To Earth (1.853 AU)
Jun 30 - Asteroid 2006 MV1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.025 AU)

July 2009

Jul ?? - Dragon 1 Falcon 9 Launch
Jul ?? - Zohreh 1 Soyuz FG-Fregat Launch
Jul ?? - Dialog 1 Rokot-Briz Launch
Jul ?? - Eros C Start 1 Launch (Israel)
Jul ?? - Sudansat 1 Dnepr 1 Launch
Jul ?? - Thor 6 Ariane 5 Launch
Jul ?? - Equars VLS-1 Launch (Brazil)
Jul ?? - Condor E Strela Launch
Jul ?? - Sinosat 4 CZ-3B Launch
Jul ?? - Optus D-3 Ariane 5 Launch
Jul ?? - Amsat Phase 3E Express Ariane 5 Launch
Jul ?? - Hausat 2 Dnepr 1 Launch
Jul ?? - Cosmos-Liana Soyuz U Launch
Jul 01 - Asteroid 18626 Michaelcarr Closest Approach To Earth (1.142 AU)
Jul 01 - 10th Anniversary (1999), Giotto, Earth Flyby
Jul 02 - Asteroid 82332 Las Vegas Closest Approach To Earth (1.667 AU)
Jul 03 - Asteroid 12104 Chesley Closest Approach To Earth (1.946 AU)
Jul 04 - Earth At Aphelion (1.017 AU From Sun)
Jul 04 - Asteroid 7 Iris at Opposition (8.7 Magnitude)
Jul 04 - Galaxy Forum USA 2009, San Jose, California
Jul 04 - 955th Anniversary (1054), The Crab Nebula Supernova
Jul 05 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #205 (OTM-205)
Jul 05 - Comet C/2009 E1 (Itagaki) Closest Approach To Earth (0.923 AU)
Jul 05 - Asteroid 9950 ESA Closest Approach To Earth (0.875 AU)
Jul 05 - Asteroid 2675 Tolkien Closest Approach To Earth (1.171 AU)
Jul 05-10 - Gordon Research Conference: Origins of Solar Systems, South Hadley, Massachusetts
Jul 06 - Comet C/2006 W3 (Christensen) Perihelion (3.127 AU)
Jul 06-08 - Planetary Decadal Survey 2009-2011: First Meeting, Washington DC
Jul 06-08 - Joint European/Japanese Workshop on the SPICA Space Mission, Oxford, United Kingdom
Jul 06-10 - 25th IAP Annual Colloquium: The Lyman Alpha Universe, Paris, France
Jul 06-10 - Conference: L'Univers Invisible - Energie Noire et Matiere Noire, Paris, France
Jul 07 - Penumbral Lunar Eclipse
Jul 07 - Asteroid 2710 Veverka Closest Approach To Earth (1.486 AU)
Jul 07-12 -[May 14] 2009 FQXi International Conference: Exploring the Foundations and Boundaries of Physics and Cosmology, Ponta Delgada, Azores
Jul 08 - Cassini, Titan Flyby
Jul 08 - Asteroid 6560 Pravdo Closest Approach To Earth (1.074 AU)
Jul 08 - Asteroid 6470 Aldrin Closest Approach To Earth (1.330 AU)
Jul 08-10 - Workshop: Supernova Remnants and Pulsar Wind Nebulae in the Chandra Era , Boston, Massachusetts
Jul 08-12 - 9th Biennial History of Astronomy Workshop, Notre Dame, Indiana
Jul 08-15 - 31st International Cosmic Ray Conference, Lodz, Poland
Jul 09 - Asteroid 16035 Sasandford Closest Approach To Earth (1.522 AU)
Jul 09 - Asteroid 4766 Malin Closest Approach To Earth (1.922 AU)
Jul 09 - Asteroid 3693 Barringer Closest Approach To Earth (1.990 AU)
Jul 09 - 30th Anniversary (1979), Voyager 2, Jupiter Flyby
Jul 10 - Asteroid 2001 HY7 Near-Earth Flyby (0.092 AU)
Jul 10 - Asteroid 63163 Jerusalem Closest Approach To Earth (1.706 AU)
Jul 11 - Cassini, Distant Dione Flyby
Jul 11 - Asteroid 1221 Amor Closest Approach To Earth (1.084 AU)
Jul 11 - Asteroid 14967 Madrid Closest Approach To Earth (1.431 AU)
Jul 11 - Asteroid 5102 Benfranklin Closest Approach To Earth (1.657 AU)
Jul 11 - 30th Anniversary (1979), Skylab Re-Enters Into Earth's Atmosphere
Jul 12 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #206 (OTM-206)
Jul 12 - Asteroid 13609 Lewicki Closest Approach To Earth (1.325 AU)
Jul 12-18 - 12th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, Paris, France
Jul 12-18 - 5th NAIC/NRAO Single-Dish Summer School, Arecibo, Puerto Rico
Jul 13 - Asteroid 5790 Nagasaki Closest Approach To Earth (1.363 AU)
Jul 13 - Asteroid 4783 Wasson Closest Approach To Earth (2.063 AU)
Jul 13-17 - Workshop: Distribution of Mass in the Milky Way Galaxy, Leiden, The Netherlands
Jul 13-18 - 72nd Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Nancy, France
Jul 15 - Asiasat 5 Proton M Launch
Jul 15-17 - 2009 Europa Jupiter System Mission (EJSM) Instrument Workshop, Laurel, Maryland
Jul 16 - SMOS/Proba 2 Rokot KM Launch
Jul 16 - Comet C/2008 N1 (Holmes) Closest Approach To Earth (2.576 AU)
Jul 16 - Asteroid 2933 Amber Closest Approach To Earth (1.510 AU)
Jul 16 - Lecture: Exploring the Moon, Pasadena, California
Jul 16 - Lecture: Joint Astronomy Centre, Waimea, Hawaii
Jul 16 - 40th Anniversary (1969), Apollo 11 Launch (1st Manned Moon Landing)
Jul 16-17 - Conference: The Long View - 400 Years of the Telescope, Greenwich, United Kingdom
Jul 16-22 - 2009 International Conference on Laboratory Astrophysics, Dunhuang, China
Jul 16-22 - 15th Anniversary (1994), Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Impacts on Jupiter
Jul 17 - PAN Atlas 5 Launch
Jul 17 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #207 (OTM-207)
Jul 17 - Asteroid 4535 Adamcarolla Closest Approach To Earth (1.523 AU)
Jul 17 - Lecture: Exploring the Moon, Pasadena, California
Jul 17-18 - IJCAI-09 Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Space (IJCAI-09), Pasadena, California
Jul 17-20 - Astrobiology Graduate Student Conference 2009 (AbGradCon), Seattle, Washington
Jul 17-20 - Space Frontier Foundation NewSpace Conference, Mountain View, California
Jul 18 - Asteroid 2008 NP3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.030 AU)
Jul 18 - Asteroid 6318 Cronkite Closest Approach To Earth (2.372 AU)
Jul 19 - Asteroid 17898 Scottsheppard Closest Approach To Earth (1.011 AU)
Jul 19-22 - Conference: Galaxy Wars - Stellar Populations and Star Formation in Interacting Galaxies, Johnson City Tennessee
Jul 19-23 - 3rd International Conference on Space Mission Challenges for Information Technology (SMC-IT 2009), Pasadena, California
Jul 19-24 - Meeting: New Technologies for Probing the Diversity of Brown Dwarfs and Exoplanets, Shanghai, China
Jul 19-29 - Joint Assembly Meeting of IAMAS, IAPSO and IACS (MOCA-09), Montreal, Canada
Jul 20 - Asteroid 2006 TU7 Near-Earth Flyby (0.036 AU)
Jul 20 - Asteroid 8749 Beatles Closest Approach To Earth (1.593 AU)
Jul 20 - Asteroid 12927 Pinocchio Closest Approach To Earth (1.307 AU)
Jul 20 - 10th Anniversary (1999), Retrieval Of Liberty Bell 7 Capsule From Ocean Floor
Jul 20 - 40th Anniversary (1969), 1st Man On The Moon (Apollo 11)
Jul 20-23 - NASA 2009 Lunar Science Forum, Moffett Field, California
Jul 20-24 - 2009 Sagan Exoplanet Summer Workshop: Exoplanetary Atmospheres, Pasadena, California
Jul 20-24 - NASA's 21st Annual Planetary Science Summer School - Session 1, Pasadena, California
Jul 20-24 - 4th Meeting on Hot Subdwarf Stars and Related Objects, Shanghai, China
Jul 20-24 - Conference: From Core to Crust - Towards an Integrated Vision of Earth's Interior, Trieste, Italy
Jul 20-24 - 13th International Workshop on Low Temperature Detectors, Stanford, California
Jul 20-25 - Workshop: Massive Black Hole Binaries and Their Coalescence in Galactic Nuclei, Beijing, China
Jul 21 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #208 (OTM-208)
Jul 21 - 95th Anniversary (1914), Seth Nicholson's Discovery of Jupiter Moon Sinope
Jul 21-24 - 3rd International Workshop on Mars Polar Energy Balance and the CO2 Cycle, Seattle, Washington
Jul 21-26 - 21st Century Midwest Star Party: EPOCH 2009, Beaver City, Indiana
Jul 22 - Total Solar Eclipse
Jul 22 - Comet C/2008 P1 (Garradd) Perihelion (3.896 AU)
Jul 22 - Asteroid 3623 Chaplin Closest Approach To Earth (1.684 AU)
Jul 22 - Friedrich Bessel's 225th Birthday (1784)
Jul 23-25 - 13th Paris Cosmology Colloquium 2009: The Standard Model of the Universe - From Inflation to Today Dark Energy, Paris, France
Jul 24 - Cassini, Titan Flyby
Jul 24 - Asteroid 2006 LC Near-Pallas Flyby (0.036 AU)
Jul 25 - Wideband Gapfiller Satellite (WGS-3) F-3 Delta 4M Launch
Jul 25 - Comet P/1999 XB69 (LINEAR) Perihelion (1.652 AU)
Jul 25 - Asteroid 2001 GM2 Near-Mars Flyby (0.023 AU)
Jul 25 - 25th Anniversary (1984), 1st Woman Spacewalk (Svetlana Savitskaya)
Jul 26 - Cassini, Distant Tethys Flyby
Jul 26 - Asteroid 2005 SP9 Near-Mercury Flyby (0.034 AU)
Jul 26 - Asteroid 8734 Warner Closest Approach To Earth (1.832 AU)
Jul 26 - Asteroid 9250 Chamberlin Closest Approach To Earth (1.862 AU)
Jul 27 - Asteroid 2009 DC12 Near-Earth Flyby (0.050 AU)
Jul 27 - Asteroid 5703 Hevelius Closest Approach To Earth (1.706 AU)
Jul 27-28 - The New Martian Chemistry Workshop, Medford, Massachusetts
Jul 27-29 - Workshop: Extreme Star Formation in Dwarf Galaxies, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Jul 27-Oct 02 - Conference: Particle Acceleration in Astrophysical Plasmas, Santa Babara, California
Jul 28 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #209 (OTM-209)
Jul 28 - Asteroid 6312 Robheinlein Closest Approach To Earth (1.275 AU)
Jul 28 - 45th Anniversary (1964), Ranger 7 Launch (Moon Impact Mission)
Jul 29 - DMSP F-18 Atlas 5 Launch
Jul 29 - South Delta-Aquarids Meteor Shower Peak
Jul 29 - 10th Anniversary (1999), Deep Space 1Deep Space 1, Asteroid Braille Flyby
Jul 29-30 -[May 09] 21st Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group (MEPAG) Meeting , Providence, Rhode Island
Jul 29-Aug 01 - NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS-2009), San Francisco, California
Jul 30 - AEHF F-1 Atlas 5 Launch
Jul 30 - 5th Anniversary (2004), Cassini, Saturn Orbit Insertion
Jul 31 - Asteroid 9134 Encke Closest Approach To Earth (1.799 AU)
Jul 31 - Asteroid 7853 Confucius Closest Approach To Earth (2.594 AU)
Jul 31 - 10th Anniversary (1999), Lunar Prospector, Moon Impact
Jul 31 - 40th Anniversary (1969), Mariner 6, Mars Flyby

August 2009

Aug ?? - Ares I-X Test Flight
Aug ?? - IGS-4A/ IGS-4B H-2A Launch
Aug ?? - Cassiope 1 Falcon 9 Launch
Aug ?? - JC-Sat 12 Ariane 5 Launch
Aug ?? - TanDEM-X Dnepr 1 Launch
Aug ?? - Cosmos-Garpun N-1 Proton M-Briz M Launch
Aug 01 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #210 (OTM-210)
Aug 01 - Alpha Capricornids Meteor Shower Peak
Aug 02 - Asteroid 243 Ida Closest Approach To Earth (1.912 AU)
Aug 02-07 - Astrochemistry Symposium: 42nd IUPAC Congress, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Aug 03 - Asteroid 2009 HV77 Near-Earth Flyby (0.075 AU)
Aug 03 - 5th Anniversary (2004), MESSENGER Delta 2 Launch
Aug 03-05 - Joint Discussion IAU-GA: Dark Matter in Early-Type Galaxies, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Aug 03-07 - IAU Symposium 263: Icy Bodies in the Solar System, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Aug 03-07 - IAU Symposium 264: Solar and Stellar Variability - Impact on Earth and Planets, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Aug 03-07 - NASA's 21st Annual Planetary Science Summer School - Session 2, Pasadena, California
Aug 03-07 - 10th International Colloquium on Atomic Spectra and Oscillator Strengths for Astrophysical and Laboratory Plasmas, Berkeley, California
Aug 03-14 - XXVII IAU General Assemby, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Aug 04 -[May 13] Comet 22P/Kopff Closest Approach To Earth (0.775 AU)
Aug 05 - Asteroid 16 Psyche At Opposition (9.3 Magnitude)
Aug 05 - Asteroid 1537 Transylvania Closest Approach To Earth (1.547 AU)
Aug 05 - 40th Anniversary (1969), Mariner 7 Mars Flyby
Aug 05-06 - Workshop on Robots Supporting Human Science and Exploration, Houston, Texas
Aug 06 - STS-128 Launch, Space Shuttle Atlantis (International Space Station)
Aug 06 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #211 (OTM-211)
Aug 06 - Penumbral Lunar Eclipse
Aug 06 - Southern Iota Aquarids Meteor Shower Peak
Aug 06 - Asteroid 3773 Smithsonian Closest Approach To Earth (0.823 AU)
Aug 06 - Asteroid 19148 Alaska Closest Approach To Earth (2.435 AU)
Aug 07 - Comet P/2001 R6 (LINEAR-Skiff) Closest Approach To Earth (1.871 AU)
Aug 07 - Asteroid 2006 UL185 Near-Mercury Flyby (0.032 AU)
Aug 07-08 - Fifth International Workshop on Cometary Astronomy (IWCA V), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Aug 07-08 - Annual Astronomical League Convention and Exposition (ALCON 2009),
Aug 08 - Asteroid 2322 Kitt Peak Closest Approach To Earth (1.245 AU)
Aug 08 - 40th Anniversary (1969), Zond 7 Launch (Soviet Moon Mission)
Aug 09 - Cassini, Titan Flyby
Aug 09 -[May 14] Comet 24P/Schaumasse Perihelion (1.214 AU)
Aug 09 - Asteroid 2007 RQ17 Near-Earth Flyby (0.022 AU)
Aug 09-13 - 2009 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Aug 10 - Asteroid 2000 SJ8 Near-Mars Flyby (0.026 AU)
Aug 10 - Asteroid 7934 Sinatra Closest Approach To Earth (1.943 AU)
Aug 10 - Kuiper Belt Object 2004 PG115 Closest Approach To Earth (35.781 AU)
Aug 10-13 - Conference: Astronomy and Civilization, Budapest, Hungary
Aug 10-14 - IAU Symposium 265: Chemical Abundances in the Universe - Connecting First Stars to Planets, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Aug 10-14 - IAU Symposium 266: Star Clusters - Basic Galactic Building Blocks Throughout Time And Space, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Aug 10-14 - IAU Symposium 267: Evolution of Galaxies and Central Black Holes - Feeding and Feedback, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Aug 10-14 - 4th Heidelberg Summer School: Statistical Inferences from Astrophysical Data, Heidelberg, Germany
Aug 11 - Comet 95P/Chiron Closest Approach To Earth (14.935 AU)
Aug 11 - Asteroid 12524 Conscience Closest Approach To Earth (0.871 AU)
Aug 11 - Asteroid 3255 Tholen Closest Approach To Earth (1.429 AU)
Aug 11-15 - 6th Annual Meeting and Exhibition of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS 2009), Suntec City, Singapore
Aug 12 - Perseids Meteor Shower Peak
Aug 12 -[May 14] Comet 24P/Schaumasse Closest Approach To Earth (2.219 AU)
Aug 12 - Asteroid 2006 BM8 Near-Earth Flyby (0.069 AU)
Aug 12 - Asteroid 9253 Oberth Closest Approach To Earth (0.976 AU)
Aug 12 - Asteroid 13667 Samthurman Closest Approach To Earth (1.187 AU)
Aug 13 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #212 (OTM-212)
Aug 13 - Comet P/2004 X1 (LINEAR) Near-Earth Flyby (0.194 AU)
Aug 13 - Lecture: W.M. Keck Observatory, Waimea, Hawaii
Aug 14 - GPS 2RM F-8 Delta 2 Launch
Aug 14 - Jupiter At Opposition
Aug 14 - Workshop on Modern Problems of Astrophysics and Cosmology, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Aug 14 - 10th Anniversary (1999), Galileo, Callisto 22 Flyby
Aug 15 - Asteroid 84225 Verish Closest Approach To Earth (1.638 AU)
Aug 16 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #213 (OTM-213)
Aug 16 - Asteroid 434 Hungaria Closest Approach To Earth (0.854 AU)
Aug 17 -[May 10] Space Tracking and Surveillance System (STSS) 1 & 2 Delta 2 Launch
Aug 17 - Neptune At Opposition
Aug 17 - Comet 89P/Russell At Perihelion (2.280 AU)
Aug 17 - Asteroid 163697 (2003 EF54) Near-Earth Flyby (0.053 AU)
Aug 17-21 - Conference: The Dynamics of Discs and Planets, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Aug 17-21 - Conference: Stellar Death and Supernovae, Santa Barbara, California
Aug 17-21 - Workshop: Reionization with Multi-frequency Datasets, Stockholm, Sweden
Aug 17-21 - Summer School on Stellar Collapse, Compact Objects, Supernovae, and Gamma-Ray Bursts, Copenhagen, Denmark
Aug 18 - Moon Occults Vesta
Aug 18 - Asteroid 2002 RQ25 Near-Earth Flyby (0.077 AU)
Aug 18 - Asteroid 6373 Stern Closest Approach To Earth (1.846 AU)
Aug 18 - 5th Anniversary (2004), Cassini, Earth Flyby
Aug 19 - MESSENGER, Trajectory Correction Maneuver #31 (TCM-31)
Aug 20 - Asteroid 2005 CW25 Near-Earth Flyby (0.087 AU)
Aug 20 - Asteroid 2006 SQ372 Closest Approach To Earth (23.328 AU)
Aug 20 - Lecture: From Legs to Wheels, Pasadena, California
Aug 20-23 - 2nd Annual Earth Wind and Sky Star Party, Barry Illinois
Aug 20-23 - Julian Starfest II, Julian, California
Aug 21 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #214 (OTM-214)
Aug 21 - Asteroid 88 Thisbe At Opposition (9.8 Magnitude)
Aug 21 - Asteroid 4151 Alanhale Closest Approach To Earth (2.578 AU)
Aug 21 - Kuiper Belt Object 2007 OR10 Closest Approach To Earth (84.893 AU)
Aug 21 - Lecture: From Legs to Wheels, Pasadena, California
Aug 21-23 - A Festival of Cosmic Explosions: Celebrating the Contributions and Accomplishments of Roger Chevalier, Pasadena, California
Aug 22 - Asteroid 1566 Icarus Closest Approach To Earth (0.404 AU)
Aug 22 - Asteroid 1886 Lowell Closest Approach To Earth (1.310 AU)
Aug 22 - Asteroid 55 Pandora Closest Approach To Earth (1.463 AU)
Aug 22 - Asteroid 3192 A'Hearn Closest Approach To Earth (1.767 AU)
Aug 23 - Asteroid 12426 Racquetball Closest Approach To Earth (1.282 AU)
Aug 23-30 - International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA) 11th Scientific Assembly, Sopron, Hungary
Aug 24 - Mercury At Its Greatest Eastern Elongation (27 Degrees)
Aug 24 - Asteroid 2005 QQ87 Near-Earth Flyby (0.080 AU)
Aug 24-26 - International Conference on Space Technology, Thessaloniki, Greece
Aug 24-27 - 2009 International Kepler Conference, Prague, Czech Republic
Aug 24-27 - CALCON Technical Conference: Characterization and Radiometric Calibration for Remote Sensing, Logan, Utah
Aug 24-28 - Workshop: Microphysics in Computational Relativistic Astrophysics (MICRA 2009), Copenhagen, Denmark
Aug 25 - Cassini, Titan Flyby
Aug 25 - Intelsat 14 Atlas 5 Launch
Aug 25 - Northern Iota Aquarids Meteor Shower Peak
Aug 25 - Asteroid 1855 Korolev Closest Approach To Earth (1.404 AU)
Aug 25 - 20th Anniversary (1989), Voyager 2 Neptune Flyby
Aug 26 - Asteroid 10001 Palermo Closest Approach To Earth (1.233 AU)
Aug 26-28 - 1st IEEE GRSS Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing, Genoble, France
Aug 27 - Cassini, Telesto Flyby
Aug 27 - Comet 54P/de Vico-Swift-NEAT Closest Approach To Earth (1.286 AU)
Aug 27 - Asteroid 69230 Hermes Closest Approach To Earth (1.484 AU)
Aug 28 - Asteroid 2008 KT Near-Earth Flyby (0.087 AU)
Aug 28 - Asteroid 6135 Billowen Closest Approach To Earth (1.636 AU)
Aug 28 - 220th Anniversary (1789), William Herschel's Discovery of Saturn Moon Enceladus
Aug 29 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #215 (OTM-215)
Aug 29 - Comet 104P/Kowal 2 Closest Approach To Earth (1.898 AU)
Aug 30-Sep 05 - Conference: Natrual Dynamos, Stara Lesna, Slovakia
Aug 31-Sep 04 - 3rd Astrophysics of Neutron Stars Workshop, Istanbul, Turkey

September 2009

Sep ?? - Amazonas 2 Ariane 5 Launch
Sep ?? - Canopus 1 Strela Launch
Sep ?? - TacSat 1 Falcon 1 Launch
Sep ?? - TacSat 4 Minotaur 4 Launch
Sep ?? - Helios 2 Ariane 5 Launch
Sep ?? - X-Sat PSLV Launch
Sep ?? - SRE-2 PSLV Launch
Sep ?? - HealthSat (G-Sat 4)/ Tauvex GSLV Launch
Sep 01 - HTV-Demo Test Flight H-2B Launch (International Space Station, Japan)
Sep 01 - Asteroid 327 Columbia Closest Approach To Earth (1.621 AU)
Sep 01 - 30th Anniversary (1979), Pioneer 11, Saturn Flyby
Sep 02 - Comet 217P/LINEAR Closest Approach To Earth (0.577 AU)
Sep 02 - 205th Anniversary (1804), Karl Harding's Discovery of Asteroid 3 Juno
Sep 04 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #216 (OTM-216)
Sep 04 - Saturn's Rings Edge-on From Earth
Sep 04 - Asteroid 2006 SV217 Near-Earth Flyby (0.006 AU)
Sep 06 - Asteroid 15845 Bambi Closest Approach To Earth (1.066 AU)
Sep 06 - Asteroid 26868 Misterrogers Closest Approach To Earth (1.604 AU)
Sep 06 - American Astronomical Society's 110th Birthday (1899)
Sep 06-19 - COSPAR Capacity Building Workshop 2009: Lunar and Planetary Surface Science, Harbin, China
Sep 07 - Asteroid 11945 Amsterdam Closest Approach To Earth (1.658 AU)
Sep 07-11 - X-ray Astronomy 2009 Workshop: Present Status, Multiwavelength Approach and Future Perspectives, Bologna, Italy
Sep 07-11 - Atmospheric Science Conference, Barcelona, Spain
Sep 07-11 - Spanish Relativity Meeting 2009, Bilbao, Spain
Sep 07-13 -[May 09] IHY-ISWI Regional Meeting : Heliophysical Phenomena and Earth's Environment, Sibenik, Croatia
Sep 07-13 -[May 11] International Conference of Young Astronomers (ICYA), Cracow, Poland
Sep 08 - Comet 217P/LINEAR Perihelion (1.224 AU)
Sep 08 - Asteroid 433 Eros Closest Approach To Earth (0.989 AU)
Sep 08 - 5th Anniversary (2004), Genesis, Return To Earth
Sep 08-12 - International Conference: Nonstationary Phenomena and Instabilities in Astrophysics (NPIA-09), Volgograd, Russia
Sep 09 - Asteroid 9777 Enterprise Closest Approach To Earth (1.029 AU)
Sep 09 - Asteroid 2709 Sagan Closest Approach To Earth (1.330 AU)
Sep 09 - William Bond's 220th Birthday (1789)
Sep 09 - Asteroid 9252 Goddard Closest Approach To Earth (1.563 AU)
Sep 09-11 - Brown Dwarf Workshop: Recipes for Making Brownies - Theory vs. Observations, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Sep 12 -[May 13] Comet P/2000 Y3 (Scotti) Closest Approach To Earth (3.899 AU)
Sep 12 - Asteroid 1831 Nicholson Closest Approach To Earth (1.249 AU)
Sep 12 - Asteroid 2865 Laurel Closest Approach To Earth (1.581 AU)
Sep 12 - Asteroid 7610 Sudbury Closest Approach To Earth (1.931 AU)
Sep 12 - 50th Anniversary (1959), Luna 2 Launch (USSR Moon Impact Mission)
Sep 12-16 - 2009 Astronomical Society of the Pacific (ASP) Meeting, Millbrae, California
Sep 13 - Moon Occults Mars
Sep 13 - Asteroid 2007 UT3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.068 AU)
Sep 13 - Asteroid 3001 Michelangelo Closest Approach To Earth (1.375 AU)
Sep 13-18 - European Planetary Science Congress 2009 (EPSC 2009), Potsdam, Germany
Sep 14 - Asteroid 5471 Tunguska Closest Approach To Earth (1.927 AU)
Sep 14 - 35th Anniversary (1974), Charles Kowal's Discovery Of Jupiter Moon Leda
Sep 14-18 - Conference: Pathways Towards Habitable Planets, Barcelona, Spain
Sep 14-18 - Conference: Nearby Dwarf Galaxies, Nizhnij Arkhyz, Russia
Sep 14-19 - 2nd Symposium for Dark-sky Parks and 2nd Dark-sky Camp, Lastovo island, Croatia
Sep 15 - Asteroid 42 Isis At Opposition (9.5 Magnitude)
Sep 15-17 - Mars Dust Cycle Workshop, Moffett Field, California
Sep 15-17 - European Conference on Spacecraft Structures, Materials & Mechanical Testing, Toulouse, France
Sep 15-18 - 11th International Symposium on Materials in Space Environment (ISMSE 2009), Aix en Provence, France
Sep 16 - Asteroid 1776 Kuiper Closest Approach To Earth (2.115 AU)
Sep 16 - Human Dependability Workshop (HUDEP 2009), Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Sep 17 - Uranus At Opposition
Sep 17 - Asteroid 2008 EJ68 Near-Earth Flyby (0.027 AU)
Sep 17 - Asteroid 2000 CO101 Near-Earth Flyby (0.046 AU)
Sep 17 - Asteroid 8299 Tealeoni Closest Approach To Earth (1.243 AU)
Sep 17 - Lecture: Measuring Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide From Space - The NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory Mission, Pasadena, California
Sep 17 - Lecture: Subaru Telescope, Waimea, Hawaii
Sep 17 - 220th Anniversary (1789), William Herschel's Discovery of Saturn Moon Mimas
Sep 17-18 - 3rd Coastal Altimetry Workshop, Frascati, Italy
Sep 18 - Lecture: Measuring Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide From Space - The NASA Orbiting Carbon Observatory Mission, Pasadena, California
Sep 18 - 40th Anniversary (1959), Vanguard 3 Launch
Sep 18-20 - Stokes Star Party, Highlands, New Jersey
Sep 20 - Asteroid 5050 Doctorwatson Closest Approach To Earth (1.187 AU)
Sep 20 - Asteroid 5535 Annefrank Closest Approach To Earth (1.301 AU)
Sep 20 - Asteroid 1000 Piazzia Closest Approach To Earth (2.499 AU)
Sep 20-23 - Workshop: Solar Analogs II, Flagstaff, Arizona
Sep 20-23 - 27th IAS Meeting OF Sedimentologists, Alghero, Italy
Sep 20-27 - 5th European Summer School on Experimental Nuclear Astrophysics, Santa Tecla, Italy
Sep 20-30 - NOVICOSMO 2009 Summer School: Highlights in Astrophysics, Rabac, Croatia
Sep 21 - Asteroid 16761 Hertz Closest Approach To Earth (1.178 AU)
Sep 21 - Chandra Calibration Review, Boston, Massachusetts
Sep 21 - 35th Anniversary (1974), Mariner 10, 2nd Mercury Flyby
Sep 21 - Gustav Holst's 135th Birthday (1874)
Sep 21-24 - 9th Hellenic Astronomical Conference, Athens, Greece
Sep 21-25 - International Conference: Asteroid-Comet Hazard - 2009, St. Petersburg, Russia
Sep 21-25 - SOHO-23 Workshop: Understanding a Peculiar Solar Minimum, Northeast Harbor, Maine
Sep 21-25 - 82nd Astronomische Gesellschaft Annual Meeting: Deciphering the Universe through Spectroscopy, Potsdam, Germany
Sep 21-25 - Meeting: Ocean Information for Society - Sustaining the Benefits, Realizing the Potential (OceanObs09), Venice, Italy
Sep 21-Oct 02 - Workshop: Stellar Mergers, Leiden, The Netherlands
Sep 22 - Autumnal Equinox, 21:18 UT
Sep 22 - Asteroid 3 Juno At Opposition (7.8 Magnitude)
Sep 22 - Asteroid 5281 Lindstrom Closest Approach To Earth (1.689 AU)
Sep 22-23 - 5th UN/ESA/NASA/JAXA Workshop on Basic Space Science and the International Heliophysical Year 2009, Jeju, South Korea
Sep 22-25 - Meeting: Ten Years of Science with Chandra - Chandra's First Decade of Discovery, Boston, Massachusetts
Sep 23 - Comet C/2008 P1 (Garradd) Closest Approach To Earth (3.028 AU)
Sep 23 - Asteroid 1990 UA Near-Pallas Flyby (0.044 AU)
Sep 23 - Asteroid 3252 Johnny Closest Approach To Earth (1.823 AU)
Sep 23-25 - 13th European Space Mechanisms and Tribology Symposium 2009, Vienna, Austria
Sep 24 - Asteroid 20 Massalia At Opposition (9.3 Magnitude)
Sep 24-27 - International Meteor Conference 2009, Porec, Croatia
Sep 25 - Comet C/2008 N1 (Holmes) Perihelion (2.783 AU)
Sep 25 - Asteroid 2005 CN Near-Earth Flyby (0.052 AU)
Sep 25 - Asteroid 2005 SP9 Near-Earth Flyby (0.095 AU)
Sep 25 - Asteroid 6154 Stevesynnott Closest Approach To Earth (1.280 AU)
Sep 25 - Asteroid 6377 Cagney Closest Approach To Earth (1.870 AU)
Sep 26 - Asteroid 2000 WC67 Near-Mars Flyby (0.012 AU)
Sep 28 - Asteroid 2009 FS32 Near-Earth Flyby (0.089 AU)
Sep 28-30 - Workshop: Planetesimal Formation, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Sep 28-30 - Workshop on Using the [alpha/Fe] Abundance Ratio as a Tracer of Formation and Evolution of the Galaxy, Beijing, China
Sep 28-Oct 02 - Conference: Nonlinear Processes in Astrophysical Plasmas - Particle Acceleration, Magnetic Field Amplification, and Radiation Signatures, Santa Barbara, California
Sep 28-Oct 02 -[May 12] 3rd UniverseNet School: Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Barcelona, Spain
Sep 28-Oct 03 - Symposium: Astronomy and its Instruments Before and After Galileo, Venice, Italy
Sep 29 - Asteroid 152664 (1998 FW4) Near-Earth Flyby (0.022 AU)
Sep 29 - 5th Anniversary (2004), SpaceShipOne Launch F-2 (2nd Private Manned Space Flight)
Sep 29-Oct 03 - Conference: Astronomy and its Instruments before and after Galileo, Padova, Italy
Sep 30 - MESSENGER, 3rd Mercury Flyby
Sep 30 - Asteroid 89 Julia At Opposition (9.3 Magnitude)
Sep 30 - Asteroid 2009 HD21 Near-Earth Flyby (0.083 AU)

October 2009

Oct ?? - Phobos-Grunt Soyuz 2 Launch (Russian Phobos Sample Return Mission)
Oct ?? - NROL-39 Atlas 5 Launch
Oct ?? - NROL-41 Atlas 5 Launch
Oct ?? - Microscope Ariane 5 Launch
Oct ?? - Inaugural Falcon 9 Test Launch
Oct ?? - Insat 3-D GSLV Launch (India)
Oct ?? - Astra 3-B Ariane 5 Launch
Oct ?? - Unamsat 3 Dnepr 1 Launch
Oct ?? - Lapansat 2 Dnepr 1 Launch
Oct ?? - Bluesat Dnepr 1 Launch
Oct ?? - Katysat 1/ KiwiSat/Atmocube/ Cubesat-RAFT/Funsat/UCISA Dnepr 1 Launch
Oct ?? - Electro-L N1 Zenit 2-Fregat Launch
Oct ?? - Intelsat 15 Zenit 3SLB Launch
Oct ?? - HJ-1C CZ-2C Launch
Oct ?? - Prisma/ Picard Dnepr 1 Launch
Oct 01 - Soyuz TMA-16 Soyuz FG Launch (International Space Station 20S)
Oct 01 - Asteroid 2006 BT7 Near-Vesta Flyby (0.012 AU)
Oct 01 - Asteroid 21459 Chrisrussell Closest Approach To Earth (1.206 AU)
Oct 01-02 - Wireless Sensor Networks for Space Applications Workshop (WiSens4Space 2009), Santorini, Greece
Oct 03 - Karl Hermann Struve's 155th Birthday (1854)
Oct 04 - Asteroid 21564 Widmanstatten Closest Approach To Earth (1.530 AU)
Oct 04 - 5th Anniversary (2004), SpaceShipOne Launch F-3 (3rd Private Manned Space Flight)
Oct 04 - 50th Anniversary (1959), Luna 3 Launch (USSR Moon Flyby Mission)
Oct 04 - 50th Anniversary (1959), Little Joe 1 Launch
Oct 04-08 - 4th International Workshop on Astronomy and Relativistic Astrophysics: New Phenomena and New States of Matter in the Universe in the AUGER, LHC, FAIR / GSI and GEO / LIGO Era, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Oct 04-09 - 41st Annual Meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society, Fajardo, Puerto Rico
Oct 04-10 - World Space Week
Oct 05-07 -[May 13] Workshop on Interstellar Matter and Star Formation - A Multi-Wavelength Perspective, Hyderabad, India
Oct 06 - Worldview 2 Delta 2 Launch
Oct 06 - Asteroid 8721 AMOS Closest Approach To Earth (2.787 AU)
Oct 06 - 5th Anniversary (2004), Cassini, 1st Targeted Titan Flyby
Oct 07 - Comet C/2007 Q3 (Siding Spring) Perihelion (2.253 AU)
Oct 08 -[May 14] Comet P/2008 O2 (McNaught) Closest Approach To Earth (2.861 AU)
Oct 08 - Asteroid 68216 (2001 CV26) Near-Earth Flyby (0.025 AU)
Oct 08 - Asteroid 4969 Lawrence Closest Approach To Earth (1.110 AU)
Oct 08 - 405th Anniversary (1604), Discovery of Supernova 1604 (Kepler's Nova)
Oct 08-09 - Conference: Space, Time and Beyond, Pots, Germany
Oct 09 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #217 (OTM-217)
Oct 09 - Draconids Meteor Shower Peak
Oct 09 - Comet 127P/Holt-Olmstead Closest Approach To Earth (1.199 AU)
Oct 09 - Asteroid 18 Melpomene At Opposition (7.9 Magnitude)
Oct 09 - Asteroid 5261 Eureka Closest Approach To Earth (0.559 AU)
Oct 09 - Asteroid 2224 Tucson Closest Approach To Earth (1.855 AU)
Oct 09 - Asteroid 416 Vaticana Closest Approach To Earth (2.052 AU)
Oct 10 - Asteroid 2008 TF2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.057 AU)
Oct 11 - 15th Anniversary (1994), Magellan Burnup in Venus' Atmosphere
Oct 12 - Cassini, Titan Flyby
Oct 12 - Moon Occults Mars
Oct 12 - Asteroid 2955 Newburn Closest Approach To Earth (1.271 AU)
Oct 12 - Comet 88P/Howell Perihelion (1.363 AU)
Oct 12 - 45th Anniversary (1964), Voskhod 1 Launch
Oct 12-14 - Geological Mapping of Mars: A Workshop on New Concepts and Tools, Il Ciocco, Italy
Oct 12-16 - 60th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Daejeon, South Korea
Oct 12-16 - B.V. Kukarkin Centenary Conference: Variable Stars, the Galactic Halo and Galaxy Formation, Zvenigorod, Russia
Oct 13 - Cassini, Distant Rhea Flyby
Oct 13 - Asteroid 40227 Tahiti Closest Approach To Earth (2.000 AU)
Oct 13 - Asteroid 661 Hildebrand Closest Approach To Earth (2.485 AU)
Oct 13 - 50th Anniversary (1959), Explorer 7 Launch
Oct 13-16 - Workshop: Towards Other Earths - Perspectives and Limitations in the ELT Era, Porto, Portugal
Oct 14 - Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) Atlas 5 Launch
Oct 14 - Cassini, Distant Mimas & Tethys Flyby
Oct 14 - Asteroid 3061 Cook Closest Approach To Earth (1.610 AU)
Oct 14 - Dwarf Planet 136199 Eris (2003 UB313) Closest Approach To Earth (95.725 AU)
Oct 14-16 - 2nd International Colloquium on Fundamental Aspects and Scientific Applications of Galileo and GNSS, Padua, Italy
Oct 14-16 - Workshop on the Retrieval of Geophysical Variables Using High Spatial Resolution Optical Imagery, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Oct 14-16 - Conference: Advanced Lightweight Structures and Reflector Antennas, Tbilisi, Georgia
Oct 15 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #218 (OTM-218)
Oct 15 - Asteroid 2007 SV1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.052 AU)
Oct 15 - Asteroid 2008 UB95 Near-Earth Flyby (0.080 AU)
Oct 15 - Asteroid 12760 Maxwell Closest Approach To Earth (1.841 AU)
Oct 15 - Kuiper Belt Object 15760 (1992 QB1) Closest Approach To Earth (40.078 AU)
Oct 15 - Lecture: How to Drive a Robot, Pasadena, California
Oct 15 - Lecture: Smithsonian Submillimeter Array, Waimea, Hawaii
Oct 15 - Asaph Hall's 180th Birthday (1829)
Oct 16 - Asteroid 5254 Ulysses Closest Approach To Earth (3.799 AU)
Oct 16 - Lecture: How to Drive a Robot, Pasadena, California
Oct 16-18 - 2nd Halifax Meeting on Computational Astrophysics, Halifax, Canada
Oct 17 - Asteroid 23990 Springsteen Closest Approach To Earth (1.075 AU)
Oct 17 - Asteroid 2620 Santana Closest Approach To Earth (1.660 AU)
Oct 17 - Asteroid 4446 Carolyn Closest Approach To Earth (2.614 AU)
Oct 18 - GPS 2F F-1 Delta 4M Launch
Oct 18 - 20th Anniversary (1989), Galileo Launch (Jupiter Orbiter)
Oct 18-21 - 2009 Geological Society of America (GSA) Meeting, Portland, Oregon
Oct 18-23 - 6th International Conference on The Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena: Celebrating the 400th anniversary of Galileo's First Astronomical Uses of the Telescope, Venice, Italy
Oct 19 - Asteroid 1999 TM12 Near-Earth Flyby (0.094 AU)
Oct 19 - Asteroid 9548 Fortran Closest Approach To Earth (1.077 AU)
Oct 19-23 - Galactic Center Workshop 2009: The Galactic Center - A Window to the Nuclear Environment of Disk Galaxies, Shanghai, China
Oct 19-23 - Conference: Hunting for the Dark - The Hidden Side of Galaxy Formation, Malta
Oct 20 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #219 (OTM-219)
Oct 20 - Asteroid 2009 BD Near-Earth Flyby (0.044 AU)
Oct 20 - Asteroid 159402 (1999 AP10) Near-Earth Flyby (0.076 AU)
Oct 20 - Asteroid 2001 Einstein Closest Approach To Earth (1.175 AU)
Oct 20 - Asteroid 99905 Jeffgrossman Closest Approach To Earth (2.205 AU)
Oct 20 - Asteroid 588 Achilles Closest Approach To Earth (3.799 AU)
Oct 21 - Orionids Meteor Shower Peak
Oct 21 - Comet 127P/Holt-Olmstead Perihelion (2.196 AU)
Oct 21 - Asteroid 2906 Caltech Closest Approach To Earth (1.982 AU)
Oct 21 - Asteroid 7392 Kowalski Closest Approach To Earth (2.098 AU)
Oct 21 - Asteroid 12397 Peterbrown Closest Approach To Earth (2.440 AU)
Oct 22 - Comet Wilson-Harrington Perihelion (0.99 AU)
Oct 22 - Asteroid 25275 Jocelynbell Closest Approach To Earth (1.156 AU)
Oct 22 - Asteroid 5553 Chodas Closest Approach To Earth (2.101 AU)
Oct 23 - Asteroid 2003 EP4 Near-Earth Flyby (0.067 AU)
Oct 25 - Asteroid 8837 London Closest Approach To Earth (1.508 AU)
Oct 26 - Asteroid 7495 Feynman Closest Approach To Earth (1.895 AU)
Oct 26-28 - Meeting: Reionization to Exoplanets - Spitzer's Growing Legacy, Pasadena, California
Oct 26-30 - 1st Galileo-Xu Guangqi Meeting: The Sun, the Stars,the Universe and General Relativity, Shanghai, China
Oct 26-30 - Conference: High Energy Phenomena in Relativistic Outflows II, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Oct 27 - Asteroid 7536 Fahrenheit Closest Approach To Earth (1.920 AU)
Oct 27 - Asteroid 2062 Aten Closest Approach To Earth (0.840 AU)
Oct 28 - Asteroid 2008 EL68 Near-Earth Flyby (0.062 AU)
Oct 28 - Asteroid 2008 UC202 Near-Earth Flyby (0.076 AU)
Oct 28 - Asteroid 9618 Johncleese Closest Approach To Earth (1.145 AU)
Oct 28 - Asteroid 3420 Standish Closest Approach To Earth (2.305 AU)
Oct 28 - 35th Anniverary (1974), Luna 23 Launch (USSR Moon Lander)
Oct 29 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #220 (OTM-220)
Oct 30 - Asteroid 25930 Spielberg Closest Approach To Earth (1.288 AU)
Oct 30 - 10th Anniversary (1999), Discovery of the Los Angeles Meteorite (Mars Meteorite)

November 2009

Nov ?? - Astrosat 1 PSLV Launch (India)
Nov ?? - Cryosat 2 Dnepr 1 Launch
Nov ?? - Monitor IR1 Rokot KM Launch
Nov ?? - Cubesats/PW-Sat 1/ Laser Relativity Satellite (LARES) Vega Launch (Inaugural Vega Launch)
Nov ?? - Cosmos Geizer N21 Proton K Launch
Nov ?? - Bissat Cosmos 3M Launch
Nov ?? - Insat 4-G Ariane 5 Launch
Nov ?? - Satcom Bw-2A Ariane 5 Launch
Nov ?? - Gonets D1 M2-M4 Rocket KM Launch
Nov 01 - Daylight Saving - Set Clock Back 1 Hour (United States)
Nov 01 - Widefield Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) Launch
Nov 01 - 15th Anniversary (1994), Wind Launch
Nov 02 - Cassini, Enceladus Flyby
Nov 02 - Asteroid 2006 JY26 Near-Earth Flyby (0.017 AU)
Nov 02 - Asteroid 2000 VZ44 Near-Earth Flyby (0.070 AU)
Nov 02-05 - 2009 Fermi Symposium, Washington DC
Nov 03 - Taurids Meteor Shower Peak
Nov 03 - Asteroid 2874 Jim Young Closest Approach To Earth (0.954 AU)
Nov 03 - Asteroid 32096 Puckett Closest Approach To Earth (1.521 AU)
Nov 03 - Asteroid 2069 Hubble Closest Approach To Earth (1.971 AU)
Nov 03-06 - Workshop: From Circumstellar Disks to Planetary Systems, Garching, Germany
Nov 04 - Asteroid 2000 XK44 Near-Earth Flyby (0.074 AU)
Nov 05 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #221 (OTM-221)
Nov 05 - Asteroid 17058 Rocknroll Closest Approach To Earth (1.470 AU)
Nov 05 - Asteroid 7861 Messenger Closest Approach To Earth (1.562 AU)
Nov 07 - Asteroid 2006 WV1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.078 AU)
Nov 08 -[May 12] Comet 14P/Wolf Closest Approach To Earth (2.217 AU)
Nov 08 - Asteroid 2002 KM3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.078 AU)
Nov 08 - Asteroid 3753 Cruithne Closest Approach To Earth (0.409 AU)
Nov 08 - Asteroid 18725 Atacama Closest Approach To Earth (1.471 AU)
Nov 08 - Asteroid 1677 Tycho Brahe Closest Approach To Earth (1.684 AU)
Nov 09 - Asteroid 2007 JB21 Near-Earth Flyby (0.056 AU)
Nov 09 - Asteroid 9249 Yen Closest Approach To Earth (1.448 AU)
Nov 09 - Carl Sagan's 75th Birthday (1934)
Nov 09-10 -[May 09] 1st Arab Impact Cratering and Astrogeology Conference, Amman, Jordan
Nov 09-11 - Conference: Dynamics of Outer Planetary Systems, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Nov 09-12 - Conference: Galaxy Clusters in the Early Universe, Pucon, Chile
Nov 09-13 - Fringe 2009 Workshop: Advances in the Science and Applications of SAR Interferometry, Frascati, Italy
Nov 10 - Progress M-SO-2 Soyuz FG Launch (International Space Station 5R)
Nov 10 - Asteroid 2200 Pasadena Closest Approach To Earth (1.715 AU)
Nov 11 - Rosetta, 3rd Earth Flyby
Nov 12 - STS-129 Launch, Space Shuttle Discovery (International Space Station)
Nov 12 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #222 (OTM-222)
Nov 12 - Lecture: Taking a Closer Look at Exoplanet Atmospheres, Pasadena, California
Nov 12 - Audouin Dollfus' 85th Birthday (1924)
Nov 13 - Asteroid 11365 NASA Closest Approach To Earth (0.885 AU)
Nov 13 - Asteroid 2410 Morrison Closest Approach To Earth (1.330 AU)
Nov 13 - Lecture: Taking a Closer Look at Exoplanet Atmospheres, Pasadena, California
Nov 14 - Comet C/2009 F2 (McNaught) Perihelion (5.875 AU)
Nov 14 - Asteroid 9860 Archaeopteryx Closest Approach To Earth (2.249 AU)
Nov 14 - 40th Anniversary (1969), Apollo 12 Launch (Manned Moon Mission)
Nov 15 - Asteroid 2004 PZ19 Near-Ceres Flyby (0.022 AU)
Nov 15 - 5th Anniversary (2004), SMART-1, Moon Orbit Insertion
Nov 16 -[May 14] Comet P/2001 YX127 (LINEAR) Closest Approach To Earth (3.117 AU)
Nov 16 - Comet C/2008 S3 (Boattini) Closest Approach To Earth (7.734 AU)
Nov 16 - Asteroid 7328 Casanova Closest Approach To Earth (1.452 AU)
Nov 16 - Kuiper Belt Object 90377 Sedna Closest Approach To Earth (86.685 AU)
Nov 16-20 - 6th European Space Weather Week, Brussels, Belgium
Nov 17 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #223 (OTM-223)
Nov 17 - Leonids Meteor Shower Peak
Nov 17-18 - Workshop: Advanced RF Sensors and Remote Sensing Instruments 2009, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Nov 18 - Asteroid 202683 (2006 US216) Near-Earth Flyby (0.057 AU)
Nov 18 - 20th Anniversary (1989), COBE Launch
Nov 18-20 - Conference: Earth Observation and Water Cycle Science, Rome, Italy
Nov 18-21 - 5th Korean Astrophysics Workshop on Shock Waves, Turbulence, and Particle Acceleration, Pohang, Korea
Nov 19 - Comet Wilson-Harrington Closest Approach To Earth (0.379 AU)
Nov 19 - Asteroid 2246 Bowell Closest Approach To Earth (3.132 AU)
Nov 19 - Lecture: University of Hawai'i at Hilo Telescope, Waimea, Hawaii
Nov 20 - 5th Anniversary (2004), Swift Launch
Nov 20 - Edwin Hubble's 120th Birthday (1889)
Nov 21 - Cassini, Enceladus & Rhea Flyby
Nov 21 - Asteroid 1815 Beethoven Closest Approach To Earth (1.769 AU)
Nov 21 - Asteroid 3581 Alvarez Closest Approach To Earth (1.871 AU)
Nov 21 - Asteroid 12002 Sues Closest Approach To Earth (2.099 AU)
Nov 22 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #224 (OTM-224)
Nov 22 - Comet C/2009 F1 (Larson) Closest Approach To Earth (1.673 AU)
Nov 22 - Asteroid 1998 VF32 Near-Earth Flyby (0.043 AU)
Nov 23 - Asteroid 2004 XJ Near-Earth Flyby (0.090 AU)
Nov 23-27 -[May 11] Symposium: Mathematics and Astronomy - A Joint Long Journey, Madrid, Spain
Nov 24 - Asteroid 4305 Clapton Closest Approach To Earth (1.911 AU)
Nov 25 - Comet C/2007 VO53 (Spacewatch) Closest Approach To Earth (4.499 AU)
Nov 25 - Asteroid 3353 Jarvis Closest Approach To Earth (1.000 AU)
Nov 25 - Asteroid 67 Asia Closest Approach To Earth (1.597 AU)
Nov 25-27 - Workshop on Methane on Mars: Current Observations, Interpretation and Future Plans, Frascati, Italy
Nov 26 - Asteroid 149244 Kriegh Closest Approach To Earth (1.418 AU)
Nov 26 - 10th Anniversary (1999), Galileo Io 25 Flyby
Nov 26 - 10th Anniversary (1999), Discovery of SAU 005 & SAU 008 (Mars Meteorites)
Nov 27 - Asteroid 2791 Paradise Closest Approach To Earth (1.517 AU)
Nov 28 - Comet 54P/de Vico-Swift-NEAT Perihelion (2.172 AU)
Nov 28 - 45th Anniversary (1964), Mariner 4 Launch (Mars Flyby Mission)
Nov 29 - MESSENGER, Deep Space Maneuver 5 (DSM-5)
Nov 29 - Asteroid 6469 Armstrong Closest Approach To Earth (1.417 AU)
Nov 29 - Asteroid 5451 Plato Closest Approach To Earth (1.891 AU)
Nov 30 - Comet 169P/NEAT Perihelion (0.607 AU)
Nov 30 - Asteroid 2005 XC1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.077 AU)
Nov 30 - 55th Anniversary (1954), Sylacauga Meteorite Fall (Hit Woman)
Nov 30-Dec 02 - Workshop: Missing Baryons, Accretion, and Feedback in Galaxies, Sydney, Australia
Nov 30-Dec 04 - 5th Workshop Lidar Measurements in Latin America, Buenos Aires, Argentina

December 2009

Dec ?? - Meteor 3M N2 Soyuz 2-1B Launch
Dec ?? - Hylas Falcon 9 Launch
Dec ?? - Kanopus-V/Belka 2 Rokot-Briz KM Launch
Dec ?? - Insat 4-D GSLV-1 Launch
Dec ?? - Tugsat 1 (Brite-Austria) Dnepr 1 Launch
Dec 01 - Asteroid 2006 WQ127 Near-Earth Flyby (0.037 AU)
Dec 02 - Asteroid 9951 Tyrannosaurus Closest Approach To Earth (1.688 AU)
Dec 02 - 35th Anniversary (1974), Pioneer 11, Jupiter Flyby
Dec 03 - Kuiper Belt Object 19521 Chaos Closest Approach To Earth (40.745 AU)
Dec 03 - Lecture: Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, or Aster, Pasadena, California
Dec 03 - 105th Anniversary (1904), Charles Perrine's Discovery of Himalia (Jupiter Moon)
Dec 04 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #225 (OTM-225)
Dec 04 - Asteroid 3905 Doppler Closest Approach To Earth (0.978 AU)
Dec 04 - Asteroid 31664 Randiiwessen Closest Approach To Earth (1.746 AU)
Dec 04 - Lecture: Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer, or Aster, Pasadena, California
Dec 04 - 50th Anniversary (1959), Little Joe 2 Launch (Monkey "Sam")
Dec 05 - Comet 203P/Korlevic Closest Approach To Earth (2.217 AU)
Dec 05 - Asteroid 3728 IRAS Closest Approach To Earth (1.252 AU)
Dec 06 - Comet 100P/Hartley Perihelion (1.982 AU)
Dec 07 - Asteroid 2002 XN14 Near-Earth Flyby (0.097 AU)
Dec 07 - Asteroid 1198 Atlantis Closest Approach To Earth (1.192 AU)
Dec 07 - Kuiper Belt Object 2004 XR190 Closest Approach To Earth (57.011 AU)
Dec 08 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #226 (OTM-226)
Dec 08 - Asteroid 2829 Bobhope Closest Approach To Earth (2.494 AU)
Dec 09 - Cassini, Distant Helene Flyby
Dec 09 - Comet P/2008 J3 (McNaught) Closest Approach To Earth (2.138 AU)
Dec 09 - Asteroid 19 Fortuna At Opposition (9.3 Magnitude)
Dec 09 - Asteroid 2309 Mr. Spock Closest Approach To Earth (1.802 AU)
Dec 10 - Asteroid 9965 GNU Closest Approach To Earth (1.854 AU)
Dec 10 - Asteroid 334 Chicago Closest Approach To Earth (2.987 AU)
Dec 10 - 10th Anniversary (1999), X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission (XMM-Newton) Launch
Dec 10 - 25th Anniversary (1984), Claxton Meteorite Fall (Hit Mailbox)
Dec 10 - 35th Anniversary (1974), Helios 1 Launch (Solar Orbiter)
Dec 11 - Asteorid 3767 DiMaggio Closest Approach To Earth (1.805 AU)
Dec 12 - Cassini, Titan Flyby
Dec 13 - Geminids Meteor Shower Peak
Dec 13 - Asteroid 9349 Lucas Closest Approach To Earth (1.421 AU)
Dec 13 - 5th Anniversary (2004), Cassini, 2nd Titan Flyby
Dec 13 - Sir William Hunter McCrea's 105th Birthday (1904)
Dec 15 - X-37A F-1 Atlas 5 Launch
Dec 15 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #227 (OTM-227)
Dec 15 -[May 10] Comet 220P/McNaught Perihelion (1.549 AU)
Dec 15 - 25th Anniversary (1984), Vega 1 Launch (Soviet Venus/Comet Halley Mission)
Dec 16 - 15th Anniversary (1994), Discovery of QUE 94201 Meteorite (Mars Meteorite)
Dec 17 - Lecture: Thirty Meter Telescope, Waimea, Hawaii
Dec 19 - Asteroid 5841 Stone Closest Approach To Earth (0.942 AU)
Dec 20 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #228 (OTM-228)
Dec 20 - Asteroid 2002 PR1 Near-Ceres Flyby (0.049 AU)
Dec 20 - Asteroid 3568 ASCII Closest Approach To Earth (2.394 AU)
Dec 20 - Ames Research Center's 70th Birthday (1939)
Dec 20 - Mt. Wilson Observatory's 105th Birthday (1904)
Dec 21 - Winter Solstice, 17:47 UT
Dec 21 - Asteroid 7000 Curie Closest Approach To Earth (1.361 AU)
Dec 21 - 25th Anniversary (1984), Vega 2 Launch (Soviet Venus/Comet Halley Mission)
Dec 22 - Ursids Meteor Shower Peak
Dec 22 - Asteroid 2003 YL118 Near-Earth Flyby (0.034 AU)
Dec 22 - Asteroid 8084 Dallas Closest Approach To Earth (1.705 AU)
Dec 23 - Asteroid 64070 NEAT Closest Approach To Earth (1.153 AU)
Dec 24 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #229 (OTM-229)
Dec 24 - Asteroid 2007 MK13 Near-Earth Flyby (0.058 AU)
Dec 24 - 30th Anniversary (1979), Inaugural Ariane 1 Launch
Dec 25 - Asteroid 11 Parthenope At Opposition (9.9 Magnitude)
Dec 25 - Asteroid 2004 XG29 Near-Earth Flyby (0.098 AU)
Dec 25 - Asteroid 6456 Golombek Closest Approach To Earth (1.968 AU)
Dec 26 - Cassini, Distant Tethys Flyby
Dec 26 - Asteroid 2008 YZ32 Near-Earth Flyby (0.055 AU)
Dec 26 - Asteroid 51829 Williemccool Closest Approach To Earth (1.350 AU)
Dec 26 - 35th Anniversary (1974), Salyut 4 Launch (USSR Space Station)
Dec 27 - Comet 30P/Reinmuth Closest Approach To Earth (1.180 AU)
Dec 27 - Asteroid 2161 Grissom Closest Approach To Earth (1.663 AU)
Dec 27 - 25th Anniversary (1984), Discovery of ALH84001 Meteorite (Mars Meteorite)
Dec 28 - Cassini, Titan Flyby
Dec 28 - Asteroid 1998 HE3 Near-Venus Flyby (0.017 AU)
Dec 28 - Asteroid 324 Bamberga At Opposition (9.8 Magnitude)
Dec 28 - Maarten Schmidt's 80th Birthday (1929)
Dec 29 - Asteroid 896 Sphinx Closest Approach To Earth (1.649 AU)
Dec 30 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #230 (OTM-230)
Dec 31 - Venus Express, Mars Express, End of Extended Mission
Dec 31 - Partial Lunar Eclipse
Dec 31 - Asteroid 2362 Mark Twain Closest Approach To Earth (1.258 AU)
Dec 31 - Asteroid 7367 Giotto Closest Approach To Earth (2.209 AU)
Dec 31 - Asteroid 4169 Celsius Closest Approach To Earth (2.216 AU)
Dec 31 - 5th Anniversary (2004), Cassini, Iapetus Flyby
Dec 31 - Robert Aiken's 145th Birthday (1864)

January 2010

Jan ?? - GOES-P Delta 4M Launch
Jan ?? - Luch 5A Soyuz 2-Fregat Launch
Jan ?? - Afristar 3 (Worldstar 3) Ariane 5 Launch
Jan ?? - X-37B Atlas 5 Launch
Jan ?? - NROL-25 Delta 4M Launch
Jan ?? - Yamal 301/302 Proton K-DM-2M Launch
Jan ?? - CBERS 3 CZ-4B Launch
Jan ?? - TerreStar 2 Ariane 5 Launch
Jan ?? - Express AM-4/Express MD-2 Proton M-Briz M Launch
Jan 01 - Asteroid 25143 Itokawa Closest Approach To Earth (0.571 AU)
Jan 01 - Asteroid 6984 Lewiscarroll Closest Approach To Earth (2.306 AU)
Jan 02 - Asteroid 9342 Carygrant Closest Approach To Earth (1.350 AU)
Jan 02 - Isaac Asimov's 90th Birthday (1920)
Jan 02 - Leslie Peltier's 110th Birthday (1900)
Jan 03 - Quadrantids Meteor Shower Peak
Jan 03 - Asteroid 6524 Baalke Closest Approach To Earth (1.252 AU)
Jan 03 - 10th Annivesary (2000), Galileo, Europa 26 Flyby
Jan 04 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #231 (OTM-231)
Jan 04 - Earth At Perihelion (0.983 AU From Sun)
Jan 05 - Comet 82P/Gehrels 3 Closest Approach To Earth (2.650 AU)
Jan 05 - Asteroid 1069 Planckia Closest Approach To Earth (2.047 AU)
Jan 05 - Asteroid 8000 Isaac Newton Closest Approach To Earth (2.333 AU)
Jan 05 - Asteroid 2404 Antarctica Closest Approach To Earth (2.520 AU)
Jan 05 - 105th Anniversary (1905), Charles Perrine's Discovery of Jupiter Moon Elara
Jan 06 - Comet P/2005 S2 (Skiff) Closest Approach To Earth (6.374 AU)
Jan 06 - Asteroid 9963 Sandage Closest Approach To Earth (1.473 AU)
Jan 06 - Asteroid 3784 Chopin Closest Approach To Earth (2.673 AU)
Jan 06 - 25th Anniversary (1985), La Criolla Meteorite Fall (Hit House)
Jan 07 - 25th Anniversary (1985), Sakigake Launch (Japan Comet Halley Mission)
Jan 07 - 400th Anniversary (1610), Galileo Galilei's Discovery of Jupiter's Moons
Jan 08 - Asteroid 2005 YO3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.095 AU)
Jan 08 - Asteroid 12382 Niagara Falls Closest Approach To Earth (1.922 AU)
Jan 09 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #232 (OTM-232)
Jan 09 - 20th Anniversary (1990), STS-32 Columbia Launch (LDEF Satellite)
Jan 10 - Asteroid 10221 Kubrick Closest Approach To Earth (1.373 AU)
Jan 11 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Pandora & Methone
Jan 12 - Cassini, Titan Flyby
Jan 12 - Comet 169P/NEAT Near-Earth Flyby (0.194 AU)
Jan 12 - Comet 82P/Gehrels 3 Perihelion (3.633 AU)
Jan 12 - 5th Anniversary (2005), Deep Impact Delta 2 Launch,
Jan 12 - Royal Astronomical Society's 190th Birthday (1820)
Jan 13 - Asteroid 9885 Linux Closest Approach To Earth (1.237 AU)
Jan 13 - Asteroid 3350 Scobee Closest Approach To Earth (1.715 AU)
Jan 13 - Asteroid 2421 Nininger Closest Approach To Earth (2.334 AU)
Jan 13 - 30th Anniversary (1980), Discovery of EETA 79001 (Mars Meteorite)
Jan 14 - Asteroid 1134 Kepler Closest Approach To Earth (2.444 AU)
Jan 14 - 5th Anniversary (2005), Huygens Probe, Titan Landing
Jan 15 - Annular Solar Eclipse, Visible in Africa, India & China
Jan 15 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #233 (OTM-233)
Jan 15 - Asteroid 9000 Hal Closest Approach To Earth (1.707 AU)
Jan 16 - Asteroid 29075 (1950 DA) Closest Approach To Earth (0.901 AU)
Jan 17 - Comet 64P/Swift-Gehrels Closest Approach To Earth (1.822 AU)
Jan 17 - Asteroid 2009 DA43 Near-Earth Flyby (0.092 AU)
Jan 17 - Asteroid 5554 Keesey Closest Approach To Earth (1.235 AU)
Jan 17 - Asteroid 35352 Texas Closest Approach To Earth (1.917 AU)
Jan 17 - Asteroid 13681 Monty Python Closest Approach To Earth (2.194 AU)
Jan 18 - Asteroid 2008 XM Near-Earth Flyby (0.079 AU)
Jan 19 - 30th Anniversary (1980), Voyager 1's Discovery of Saturn Moon Janus
Jan 19 - 45th Anniversary (1965), Gemini 2 launch (Unmanned Suborbital Flight)
Jan 19 - 170th Anniversary (1840), Discovery of Antarctica
Jan 20 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #234 (OTM-234)
Jan 20 - Asteroid 11714 Mikebrown Closest Approach To Earth (2.347 AU)
Jan 20 - Buzz Aldrin's 80th Birthday (1930)
Jan 21 - 50th Anniversary (1960), Little Joe Launch (Miss Sam Monkey)
Jan 22 - Asteroid 2003 BH Near-Earth Flyby (0.091 AU)
Jan 22 - Asteroid 7672 Hawking Closest Approach To Earth (1.226 AU)
Jan 22 - Asteroid 12574 LONEOS Closest Approach To Earth (1.493 AU)
Jan 22 - Asteroid 7231 Porco Closest Approach To Earth (2.390 AU)
Jan 23 - Glory Taurus Launch
Jan 24 - 10th Anniversary (2000), Discovery of Dhofar 019 Meteorite (Mars Meteorite)
Jan 24 - 20th Anniversary (1990), Hiten Launch (Japan Moon Orbiter)
Jan 25 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #235 (OTM-235)
Jan 25 - Asteroid 9949 Brontosaurus Closest Approach To Earth (1.357 AU)
Jan 25-29 -[May 09] SEASAR 2010 Workshop: Advances in SAR Oceanography from ENVISAT, ERS and ESA Third Party Missions, Frascati, Italy
Jan 26 - Asteroid 2198 Ceplecha Closest Approach To Earth (1.490 AU)
Jan 26 - 30th Anniversary (1980), Voyager 1's Discovery of Saturn Moon Epimetheus
Jan 26 - Asteroid 2198 Ceplecha Closest Approach To Earth (1.490 AU)
Jan 26 - 30th Anniversary (1980), Voyager 1's Discovery of Saturn Moon Epimetheus
Jan 27 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Dione, Telesto, Methone, Pan & Prometheus
Jan 27 - Mercury At Its Greatest Western Elongation (25 Degrees)
Jan 27 - Asteroid 3768 Monroe Closest Approach To Earth (2.357 AU)
Jan 28 - Cassini, Titan Flyby
Jan 28 - Mars Closest Approach To Earth (0.664 AU)
Jan 28 - Asteroid 14702 Benclark Closest Approach To Earth (2.323 AU)
Jan 28 - Asteroid 37452 Spirit Closest Approach To Earth (2.830 AU)
Jan 29 - Mars At Opposition
Jan 29 -[May 10] Comet P/1998 VS24 (LINEAR) Closest Approach To Earth (3.286 AU)
Jan 29 - Asteroid 6775 Giorgini Closest Approach To Earth (2.112 AU)
Jan 30 - Asteroid 2008 CN1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.095 AU)
Jan 31 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #236 (OTM-236)

February 2010

Feb ?? -[May 10] STS-130 Launch, Space Shuttle Endeavour, Node 3, Cupola, International Space Station
Feb ?? - SBIRS-Geo 1 (SBIRS-High 2) Atlas 5 Launch
Feb ?? - NROL-29 Atlas 5 Launch
Feb ?? - Radio-Astron (Spektr R) Zenit 2-Fregat-SB Launch
Feb ?? - SSR-1 VSL-1 Launch (Brazil)
Feb ?? - Giove A2 Soyuz FG-Fregat Launch
Feb ?? - Cosmo-Skymed 4 Delta 2 Launch
Feb ?? - GPS 2F-2 Atlas 5 Launch
Feb ?? - Badr 5 (Arabsat 5B) Ariane 5 Launch
Feb 01 - Asteroid 9937 Triceratops Closest Approach To Earth (1.588 AU)
Feb 03 - Asteroid 2008 CD119 Near-Earth Flyby (0.072 AU)
Feb 03 - Asteroid 9770 Discovery Closest Approach To Earth (1.167 AU)
Feb 03 - Asteroid 1862 Apollo Closest Approach To Earth (1.306 AU)
Feb 03 - Asteroid 12820 Robinwilliams Closest Approach To Earth (2.009 AU)
Feb 04 - Asteroid 2008 CL20 Near-Earth Flyby (0.059 AU)
Feb 04 - Asteroid 2001 UF18 Near-Mercury Flyby (0.026 AU)
Feb 06 - Asteroid 2001 SF286 Near-Mercury Flyby (0.036 AU)
Feb 07 - Asteroid 2099 Opik Closest Approach To Earth (1.753 AU)
Feb 07 - Asteroid 4701 Milani Closest Approach To Earth (1.795 AU)
Feb 08 - Comet 203P/Korlevic Perihelion (3.182 AU)
Feb 08 - Asteroid 216 Kleopatra Closest Approach To Earth (1.917 AU)
Feb 08 - 10th Anniversary (2000), Discovery of GRV 99027 Meteorite (Mars Meteorite)
Feb 09 - 20th Anniversary (1990), Galileo, Venus Flyby
Feb 09-10 - NASA Project Management Challenge 2010, Galveston, Texas
Feb 10 - Asteroid 2008 CQ116 Near-Earth Flyby (0.050 AU)
Feb 10 - Asteroid 6000 United Nations Closest Approach To Earth (2.018 AU)
Feb 11 - STS-131 Launch, Space Shuttle Atlantis, Multi-Purpose Logistics Module, International Space Station
Feb 11 - Asteroid 8952 ODAS Closest Approach To Earth (1.658 AU)
Feb 11 - Asteroid 48300 Kronk Closest Approach To Earth (2.050 AU)
Feb 11 - Kuiper Belt Object 55565 (2002 AW197) Closest Approach To Earth (45.458 AU)
Feb 11 - 40th Anniversary (1970), Ohsumi Launch (Japan's 1st Satellite)
Feb 12 - Comet C/2005 S2 (Skiff) Perihelion (3.300 AU)
Feb 12 - Asteroid 1991 Darwin Closest Approach To Earth (1.721 AU)
Feb 13 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Calypso & Epimetheus
Feb 13 - Cassini, Mimas Flyby
Feb 13 - Comet 81P/Wild 2 Perihelion (1.598 AU)
Feb 13 - Asteroid 2001 TE2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.067 AU)
Feb 13 - Asteroid 17196 Mastrodemos Closest Approach To Earth (1.653 AU)
Feb 14 - Chinese New Year
Feb 14 - Asteroid 1996 BG1 Near-Venus Flyby (0.042 AU)
Feb 14 - 10th Anniversary (2000), NEAR, Asteroid Eros Orbit Insertion
Feb 14 - 20th Anniversary (1990), Voyager 1, Family Portrait Images
Feb 14 - 25th Anniversary (1985), Solar Maximum Mission Launch
Feb 15-18 - Conference: Probing Strong Gravity near Black Holes, Prague, Czech Republic
Feb 17 - 45th Anniversary (1965), Ranger 8 Launch (Moon Impact Mission)
Feb 18 - Asteroid 2005 YQ96 Near-Mercury Flyby (0.034 AU)
Feb 18 - Asteroid 2991 Bilbo Closest Approach To Earth (1.760 AU)
Feb 18 - 80th Anniversary (1930), Clyde Tombaugh's Discovery of Pluto
Feb 19 - Comet 149P/Mueller 4 Perihelion (2.650 AU)
Feb 19 - Asteroid 9941 Iguanodo Closest Approach To Earth (1.066 AU)
Feb 19 - Kuiper Belt Object 90482 Orcus Closest Approach To Earth (46.951 AU)
Feb 20 - Asteroid 2002 XY38 Near-Earth Flyby (0.042 AU)
Feb 20 - Asteroid 17024 Costello Closest Approach To Earth (1.545 AU)
Feb 21 - Tom Gehrels' 85th Birthday (1925)
Feb 22 - Comet 126P/IRAS Perihelion> (1.713 AU)
Feb 22 - Asteroid 4 Vesta Closest Approach To Earth (1.411 AU)
Feb 22 - 10th Anniversary (2000), Galileo, Io 27 Flyby
Feb 23 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #237 (OTM-237)
Feb 23 - Comet 94P/Russell Closest Approach To Earth (1.275 AU)
Feb 25 - Asteroid 33342 (1998 WT24) Near-Mercury Flyby (0.022 AU)
Feb 25 - Asteroid 88292 Bora-Bora Closest Approach To Earth (1.790 AU)
Feb 25 - Asteroid 9661 Hohmann Closest Approach To Earth (3.896 AU)
Feb 26 - Asteroid 2009 FY4 Near-Earth Flyby (0.074 AU)
Feb 26 - Asteroid 3808 Tempel Closest Approach To Earth (0.974 AU)
Feb 26 - Asteroid 99942 Apophis Closest Approach To Earth (1.631 AU)
Feb 27 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #238 (OTM-238)
Feb 28 -[May 12] Comet P/1999 XN120 (Catalina) Closest Approach To Earth (2.837 AU)

March 2010

Mar ?? - Sich 2 Dnepr 1 Launch
Mar ?? - XM-5 Zenit 3SL Launch
Mar 01 - Asteroid 2007 EF Near-Earth Flyby (0.059 AU)
Mar 01 - Asteroid 39382 Opportunity Closest Approach To Earth (2.932 AU)
Mar 01 - 30th Anniversary (1980), Laques & Lechaceux's Discovery of Saturn Moon Helene
Mar 01-04 - 11th High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) Meeting, Waikoloa, Hawaii
Mar 01-05 - 41st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC 2010), The Woodlands, Texas
Mar 02 - Cassini, Rhea Flyby
Mar 02 - Asteroid 2001 PT9 Near-Earth Flyby (0.032 AU)
Mar 02 - Asteroid 18106 Blume Closest Approach To Earth (2.705 AU)
Mar 03 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Calypso
Mar 03 - Cassini, Helene Flyby
Mar 03 - Asteroid 2742 Gibson Closest Approach To Earth (1.979 AU)
Mar 03 - Asteroid 11881 Mirstation Closest Approach To Earth (2.115 AU)
Mar 04 - 5th Anniversary (2005), Rosetta, 1st Earth Gravity Assist
Mar 05 -[May 09] Comet 219P/LINEAR Perihelion (2.364 AU)
Mar 05 - Asteroid 2008 EY5 Near-Earth Flyby (0.088 AU)
Mar 05 - Asteroid 2006 AM4 Near-Mercury (0.043 AU)
Mar 05 - Asteroid 951 Gaspra Closest Approach To Earth (1.507 AU)
Mar 05 - Asteroid 3130 Hillary Closest Approach To Earth (1.959 AU)
Mar 06 - Asteroid 2006 LD1 Near-Venus Flyby (0.043 AU)
Mar 06 - Michelangelo's 535th Birthday (1475)
Mar 06-13 -[May 12] 2010 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana
Mar 07 - Asteroid 2007 FB Near-Earth Flyby (0.054 AU)
Mar 07 - Asteroid 30785 Greeley Closest Approach To Earth (1.882 AU)
Mar 08 - Asteroid 4149 Harrison Closest Approach To Earth (1.508 AU)
Mar 09 - Asteroid 4370 Dickens Closest Approach To Earth (1.597 AU)
Mar 10 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #239 (OTM-239)
Mar 10 - Asteroid 447 Valentine Closest Approach To Earth (2.083 AU)
Mar 11 - Asteroid 719 Albert Closest Approach To Earth (2.154 AU)
Mar 11 - 45th Anniversary (1965), Pioneer 5 Launch (Solar Orbiter)
Mar 12 - Simon Newcomb's 175th Birthday (1835)
Mar 13 - 30th Anniversary (1980), Pascu/Seidelmann/Baum/Currie's Discovery of Saturn Moon Calypso
Mar 13 - Percival Lowell's 155th Birthday (1855)
Mar 14 - Daylight Saving - Set Clock Ahead 1 Hour (United States)
Mar 14 -[May 14] Comet 202P/Scotti Closest Approach To Earth (2.405 AU)
Mar 14 - Giovanni Schiaparelli's 175th Birthday (1835)
Mar 15 - Asteroid 2002 AJ129 Near-Mars Flyby (0.041 AU)
Mar 15 - Asteroid 16857 Goodall Closest Approach To Earth (1.312 AU)
Mar 15 - Asteroid 78577 JPL Closest Approach To Earth (1.971 AU)
Mar 15-17 - Conference: High-Resolution X-Ray Spectroscopy: Past, Present, and Future, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Mar 16 - Asteroid 2008 JC Near-Venus Flyby (0.022 AU)
Mar 16 - Asteroid 10799 Yucatan Closest Approach To Earth (1.941 AU)
Mar 16 - Asteroid 7291 Hyakutake Closest Approach To Earth (2.726 AU)
Mar 16 - Dwarf Planet Makemake Closest Approach To Earth (51.283 AU)
Mar 16 - 35th Anniversary (1975), Mariner 10, 3rd Mercury Flyby
Mar 16 - Caroline Herschel's 260th Birthday (1750)
Mar 17 - Asteroid 8103 Fermi Closest Approach To Earth (1.931 AU)
Mar 17 - Asteroid 51824 Mikeanderson Closest Approach To Earth (2.305 AU)
Mar 17 - Jim Irwin's 80th Birthday (1930)
Mar 18 - Asteroid 1999 MN Near-Mercury Flyby (0.015 AU)
Mar 18 - Asteroid 6758 Jesseowens Closest Approach To Earth (1.454 AU)
Mar 18 - 30th Anniversary (1980), Soviet Rocket Launch Explosion (48 Dead)
Mar 18 - 45th Anniversary (1965), 1st Spacewalk, Leonov On Voskhod 2
Mar 19 - Asteroid 3356 Resnik Closest Approach To Earth (1.183 AU)
Mar 19 - Asteroid 6223 Dahl Closest Approach To Earth (2.059 AU)
Mar 19 - Asteroid 886 Washingtonia Closest Approach To Earth (3.064 AU)
Mar 19 - 20th Anniversary (1990), Hiten, Moon Flyby (Japan)
Mar 20 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Telesto, Prometheus & Methone
Mar 20 - Vernal Equinox, 17:32 UT
Mar 20 - Asteroid 9880 Stegosaurus Closest Approach To Earth (1.341 AU)
Mar 20 - Asteroid 4433 Goldstone Closest Approach To Earth (1.742 AU)
Mar 20 - Asteroid 19367 Pink Floyd Closest Approach To Earth (1.753 AU)
Mar 21 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Pallene & Polydeuces
Mar 21 - Saturn At Opposition
Mar 21 - Asteroid 2001 FE7 Near-Earth Flyby (0.078 AU)
Mar 21 - Asteroid 3656 Hemingway Closest Approach To Earth (1.121 AU)
Mar 21 - 45th Anniversary (1965), Ranger 9 Launch (Moon Impact Mission)
Mar 23 - Asteroid 2000 EW70 Near-Earth Flyby (0.059 AU)
Mar 23 - Asteroid 128523 Johnmuir Closest Approach To Earth (1.892 AU)
Mar 23 - 45th Anniversary (1965), Gemini 3 Launch (Virgil Grissom, John Young)
Mar 24 - Asteroid 11246 Orvillewright Closest Approach To Earth (1.906 AU)
Mar 24 - Asteroid 1691 Oort Closest Approach To Earth (2.531 AU)
Mar 25 - Asteroid 3355 Onizuka Closest Approach To Earth (1.218 AU)
Mar 25 - Asteroid 1877 Marsden Closest Approach To Earth (3.233 AU)
Mar 25 - 10th Anniversary (2000), IMAGE Launch
Mar 25 - 355th Anniversary (1655), Christiaan Huygens' Discovery of Saturn Moon Titan
Mar 26 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #240 (OTM-240)
Mar 26 - Comet P/2001 R6 (LINEAR-Skiff) Perihelion (2.179 AU)
Mar 26 - Asteroid 2004 FU162 Near-Earth Flyby (0.082 AU)
Mar 26 - Asteroid 2007 MT20 Near-Venus Flyby (0.043 AU)
Mar 26 - Asteroid 51826 Kalpanachawla Closest Approach To Earth (2.190 AU)
Mar 26 - Asteroid 51823 Rickhusband Closest Approach To Earth (2.634 AU)
Mar 27 - Asteroid 3267 Glo Closest Approach To Earth (1.840 AU)
Mar 28 - Asteroid 17744 Jodiefoster Closest Approach To Earth (2.066 AU)
Mar 29 - Comet 94P/Russell Perihelion (2.240 AU)
Mar 29 - Asteroid 1225 Ariane Closest Approach To Earth (1.183 AU)
Mar 29 - Asteroid 5036 Tuttle Closest Approach To Earth (1.612 AU)
Mar 29-Apr 02 - Conference: Exoplanets Rising - Astronomy and Planetary Science at the Crossroads, Santa Barbara, California
Mar 30 - Asteroid 17059 Elvis Closest Approach To Earth (1.615 AU)
Mar 30 - Asteroid 3000 Leonardo Closest Approach To Earth (1.775 AU)
Mar 30 - Asteroid 4957 Brucemurray Closest Approach To Earth (2.084 AU)
Mar 31 -[May 13] Comet P/2008 Y3 (McNaught) Closest Approach To Earth (4.266 AU)

April 2010

Apr ?? - Cosmos Glonass K1+K2 Soyuz 2 Fregat Launch
Apr ?? - Cosmos-Prognoz N11 Proton K-DM2 Launch
Apr ?? - Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), End of Primary Mission
Apr 01 - 50th Anniversary (1960), Tiros 1 Launch (1st Weather Satellite)
Apr 02 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #241 (OTM-241)
Apr 02 - Comet 149P/Mueller 4 Closest Approach To Earth (1.802 AU)
Apr 02 - Asteroid 2001 XO88 Near-Vesta Flyby (0.037 AU)
Apr 02 - Asteroid 3949 Mach Closest Approach To Earth (1.138 AU)
Apr 02 - Asteroid 18932 Robinhood Closest Approach To Earth (1.599 AU)
Apr 02 - Asteroid 3351 Smith Closest Approach To Earth (2.857 AU)
Apr 02 - Asteroid 1006 Lagrangea Closest Approach To Earth (3.266 AU)
Apr 04 - Easter Sunday
Apr 04 - American Rocket Society's 80th Birthday (1930)
Apr 05 - Cassini, Titan Flyby
Apr 05 - Asteroid 2009 HE60 Near-Earth Flyby (0.054 AU)
Apr 05 - Asteroid 1604 Tombaugh Closest Approach To Earth (2.292 AU)
Apr 05 - 20th Anniversary (1990), 1st Pegasus Rocket Launch
Apr 06 -[May 11] Comet P/1999 XB69 (LINEAR) Closest Approach To Earth (2.008 AU)
Apr 06 - Asteroid 2004 ER21 Near-Earth Flyby (0.082 AU)
Apr 06 - Asteroid 132524 APL Closest Approach To Earth (1.871 AU)
Apr 06 - 45th Anniversary (1965), Intelsat 1 Launch (1st Commercial Communications Satellite)
Apr 07 - Cassini, Dione Flyby
Apr 07 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Mimas, Tethys, Calypso, Epimetheus & Janus
Apr 07 - Kuiper Belt Object 136108 Haumea Closest Approach To Earth (50.125 AU)
Apr 07-10 - Conference: From Stars to Galaxies - Connecting Our Understanding of Star and Galaxy Formation, Gainesville, Florida
Apr 08 - STS-132 Launch, Space Shuttle Atlantis, International Space Station
Apr 08 - Mercury At Its Greatest Eastern Elongation (19 Degrees)
Apr 08 - Asteroid 7818 Muirhead Closest Approach To Earth (2.023 AU)
Apr 08 - 30th Anniversary (1980), Voyager 1's Discovery of Saturn Moon Telesto
Apr 09 -[May 11] Comet 211P/Hill Closest Approach To Earth (2.191 AU)
Apr 09 - Asteroid 2007 TD Near-Venus Flyby (0.038 AU)
Apr 09 - Asteroid 1034 Mozartia Closest Approach To Earth (1.593 AU)
Apr 10 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #242 (OTM-242)
Apr 10 - Asteroid 2004 FG11 Near-Earth Flyby (0.065 AU)
Apr 10 - Asteroid 4238 Audrey Closest Approach To Earth (1.228 AU)
Apr 10 - Asteroid 5682 Beresford Closest Approach To Earth (1.879 AU)
Apr 11 - Asteroid 2003 TT9 Near-Earth Flyby (0.098 AU)
Apr 11 - Asteroid 3162 Nostalgia Closest Approach To Earth (2.404 AU)
Apr 11 - Asteroid 5223 McSween Closest Approach To Earth (2.722 AU)
Apr 11 - Asteroid 4179 Toutatis Closest Approach To Earth (2.873 AU)
Apr 11 - 40th Anniversary (1970), Apollo 13 Launch
Apr 12 - Asteroid 17062 Bardot Closest Approach To Earth (2.119 AU)
Apr 12 - Yuri's Night - World Space Party
Apr 13 - Asteroid 2008 FH Near-Earth Flyby (0.040 AU)
Apr 13 - Asteroid 5203 Pavarotti Closest Approach To Earth (1.307 AU)
Apr 13 - Asteroid 4150 Starr Closest Approach To Earth (1.388 AU)
Apr 13 - Asteroid 2985 Shakespeare Closest Approach To Earth (1.876 AU)
Apr 13 - 50th Anniversary (1960), Transit 1B Launch (1st Experimental Navigation Satellite)
Apr 14 - Asteroid 5035 Swift Closest Approach To Earth (1.644 AU)
Apr 14 - Asteroid 6227 Alanrubin Closest Approach To Earth (2.044 AU)
Apr 16 - Asteroid 2008 CB6 Near-Earth Flyby (0.031 AU)
Apr 16 - Asteroid 2001 QE71 Near-Earth Flyby (0.094 AU)
Apr 16 - Asteroid 7862 Keikonakamura Closest Approach To Earth (2.051 AU)
Apr 16 - Petrus Apianus' 515th Birthday (1495)
Apr 17 - Comet C/2009 F2 (McNaught) Closest Approach To Earth (4.982 AU)
Apr 17 - Asteroid 10051 Albee Closest Approach To Earth (2.115 AU)
Apr 18 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #243 (OTM-243)
Apr 19 - Comet 30P/Reinmuth Perihelion (1.884 AU)
Apr 19 - Asteroid 2005 YU55 Near-Earth Flyby (0.014 AU)
Apr 19 - Asteroid 5891 Gehrig Closest Approach To Earth (1.724 AU)
Apr 19-25 - Astronomy Week
Apr 20 - Asteroid 2008 UC202 Near-Earth Flyby (0.098 AU)
Apr 20 - Asteroid 6336 Dodo Closest Approach To Earth (1.708 AU)
Apr 20 - Asteroid 2000 Herschel Closest Approach To Earth (2.039 AU)
Apr 20 - Asteroid 11247 Wilburwright Closest Approach To Earth (2.570 AU)
Apr 21 - Asteroid 1288 Santa Closest Approach To Earth (2.036 AU)
Apr 21 - Asteroid 43844 Rowling Closest Approach To Earth (2.173 AU)
Apr 22 - Lyrids Meteor Shower Peak
Apr 22 - Asteroid 4628 Laplace Closest Approach To Earth (1.442 AU)
Apr 23 - Asteroid 8575 Hawaii Closest Approach To Earth (2.136 AU)
Apr 23 - Asteroid 51827 Laurelclark Closest Approach To Earth (2.143 AU)
Apr 24 - Astronomy Day
Apr 24 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #244 (OTM-244)
Apr 24 - 20th Anniversary (1990), Hubble Space Telescope Launch (STS-31)
Apr 24 - 40th Anniversary (1970), Mao 1 Launch (1st Chinese Satellite)
Apr 26 - Comet C/2007 VO53 (Spacewatch) Perihelion (4.843 AU)
Apr 26 - Asteroid 6676 Monet Closest Approach To Earth (1.947 AU)
Apr 27 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Prometheus, Telesto, Pandora & Pallene
Apr 28 - Cassini, Enceladus Flyby
Apr 28 - Asteroid 656 Beagle Closest Approach To Earth (1.912 AU)
Apr 28 - Asteroid 51825 Davidbrown Closest Approach To Earth (2.149 AU)
Apr 28 - Asteroid 5555 Wimberly Closest Approach To Earth (2.306 AU)
Apr 28 - Jan Oort's 110th Birthday (1900)
Apr 29 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #245 (OTM-245)
Apr 29 - Asteroid 5450 Sokrates Closest Approach To Earth (1.931 AU)
Apr 29 - Asteroid 4957 Brucemurray Closest Approach To Earth (2.185 AU)
Apr 30 - Asteroid 9769 Nautilus Closest Approach To Earth (1.050 AU)

May 2010

May 02 - Asteroid 2007 DB61 Near-Earth Flyby (0.090 AU)
May 03 - Asteroid 24101 Cassini Closest Approach To Earth (2.343 AU)
May 04 - Comet 104P/Kowal 2 Perihelion (1.180 AU)
May 04 - Asteroid (141495) 2002 EZ11 Near-Mars Flyby (0.018 AU)
May 05 - Eta Aquarids Meteor Shower Peak
May 06 - Asteroid 9016 Henrymoore Closest Approach To Earth (2.898 AU)
May 07 - Space Day
May 07 - Asteroid 2009 BD Near-Earth Flyby (0.023 AU)
May 07 - Asteroid 2688 Halley Closest Approach To Earth (1.867 AU)
May 07 - Asteroid 4255 Spacewatch Closest Approach To Earth (2.438 AU)
May 08 - Asteroid 1224 Fantasia Closest Approach To Earth (1.728 AU)
May 11 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #246 (OTM-246)
May 11 - Asteroid 2005 JR5 Near-Earth Flyby (0.061 AU)
May 11 - Asteroid 6471 Collins Closest Approach To Earth (1.430 AU)
May 12 - Asteroid 2007 TZ68 Near-Mars Flyby (0.012 AU)
May 12 - Asteroid 9133 d'Arrest Closest Approach To Earth (1.879 AU)
May 14 - Griffith Observatory's 75th Birthday (1935)
May 15 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #247 (OTM-247)
May 15 -[May 07] Asteroid 10204 Turing Closest Approach To Earth (2.010 AU)
May 18 -[May 07] Cassini, Enceladus & Methone Flyby
May 19 -[May 14] Comet 24P/Schaumasse Closest Approach To Earth (2.277 AU)
May 19 -[May 08] Asteroid 2003 QC10 Near-Earth Flyby (0.089 AU)
May 19-21 -[May 11] 4th International Association for the Advancement of Space Safety (IAASS) Conference, Huntsville, Alabama
May 20 -[May 08] Cassini, Titan Flyby
May 20 -[May 09] Asteroid 2004 FG11 Near-Mercury (0.039 AU)
May 20 -[May 09] Asteroid 11055 Honduras Closest Approach To Earth (0.985 AU)
May 20 -[May 10] 10th Anniversary (2000), Galileo, Ganymede 28 Flyby
May 21 -[May 10] Asteroid 3259 Brownlee Closest Approach To Earth (1.833 AU)
May 21 -[May 11] Asteroid 6433 Enya Closest Approach To Earth (1.879 AU)
May 22 -[May 11] Asteroid 232 Russia Closest Approach To Earth (1.175 AU)
May 22 -[May 12] 15th Anniversary (1995), Saturn Ring Plane Crossing (1 of 3)
May 23 -[May 12] Aquarius Delta 2 Launch
May 23 -[May 13] Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #248 (OTM-248)
May 23 -[May 13] Asteroid 2008 GA4 Near-Venus Flyby (0.031 AU)
May 23 -[May 14] Asteroid 9969 Braille Closest Approach To Earth (0.427 AU)
May 23 -[May 14] Asteroid 8088 Australia Closest Approach To Earth (1.526 AU)

Please direct questions and comments about this calendar to
Ron Baalke
Jet Propulsion Lab

baalke@zagami.jpl.nasa.gov