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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 2,500 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.
Note that launch dates are subject to change at any time.
Also, anniversary dates are listed in
5 year increments only.
April 2012
- Apr 18 - Mercury At Its Greatest Western
Elongation (27 Degrees)
- Apr 18 - Asteroid 2011 GW11
Near-Earth Flyby (0.013 AU)
- Apr 18 - Asteroid 2012 FC71
Near-Earth Flyby (0.076 AU)
- Apr 18 - Lecture: Apollo 16 - Exploring the Highlands of the Moon, London, United Kingdom
- Apr 18-20 - Conference: Spectroscopy of the Dynamic Sun, London, United Kingdom
- Apr 18-20 - Conference: Resolving The Sky - Radio Interferometry - Past, Present and Future, Manchester, United Kingdom
- Apr 18-21 - Mid-South Star Gaze, French Camp, Mississippi
- Apr 19 - Asteroid 2012 HM13
Near-Earth Flyby (0.002 AU)
- Apr 19 - Asteroid 2007 HV4
Near-Earth Flyby (0.012 AU)
- Apr 19 - Asteroid 2012 HD25
Near-Earth Flyby (0.025 AU)
- Apr 19 - Asteroid 2012 HK8
Near-Earth Flyby (0.063 AU)
- Apr 19 - Asteroid 2653 Principia Closest Approach To Earth (1.331 AU)
- Apr 19 - Meeting: Review of NASA Human Research Program's Scientific Merit Assessment Processes, Washington DC
- Apr 19 - 30th Anniversary (1982), Salyut 7 Space Station Launch
- Apr 19-20 - European Lunar Symposium, Berlin, Germany
- Apr 19-20 - 2012 ARTES Applications Workshop, Harwell, United Kingdom
- Apr 20 - Progress M-15M
Soyuz U Launch (Internatiional Space Station 47P), Successful
- Apr 20 - MESSENGER,
Orbit Correction Maneuver, Successful
- Apr 20 - Comet P/2012 H1 (PANSTARRS)
Closest Approach To Earth (2.841 AU)
- Apr 20 - Asteroid 2012 HB2
Near-Earth Flyby (0.029 AU)
- Apr 20 - Asteroid 2012 GE5
Near-Earth Flyby (0.047 AU)
- Apr 20 - Asteroid 2012 HO8
Near-Earth Flyby (0.071 AU)
- Apr 20 - Asteroid 5760 Mittlefehldt Closest Approach To Earth (2.019 AU)
- Apr 20 - Meeting: Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and GIS in Extreme Environments, Flagstaff, Arizona
- Apr 20 - Lecture: Radiogenic Argon Release from Titan - Sources, Efficiency, and the Role of the Ocean, Houston, Texas
- Apr 20-22 - 15th East Coast Gravity Meeting (ECG) and Josh Goldberg Fest, Syracuse, New York
- Apr 21 - Asteroid 2012 HN1
Near-Earth Flyby (0.013 AU)
- Apr 21 - Asteroid 2012 GP1
Near-Earth Flyby (0.023 AU)
- Apr 21 - Asteroid 2009 HU44
Near-Earth Flyby (0.087 AU)
- Apr 21 - Asteroid 69263 Big Ben Closest Approach To Earth (1.416 AU)
- Apr 21 - Educator Workshop: Greenhouse Gases and Their Roles on Earth, Pasadena, California
- Apr 22 - Earth Day
- Apr 22 - Mercury Passes 2.1 Degrees From
Uranus
- Apr 22 - Lyrids Meteor Shower Peak
- Apr 22 - Asteroid 2012 HE
Near-Earth Flyby (0.018 AU)
- Apr 22 - Asteroid 2011 UD21
Near-Earth Flyby (0.055 AU)
- Apr 22 - Asteroid 2012 FY23
Near-Earth Flyby (0.085 AU)
- Apr 22 - Asteroid 15332 CERN Closest Approach To Earth (1.414 AU)
- Apr 22 - Asteroid 2620 Santana Closest Approach To Earth (2.056 AU)
- Apr 22 - Asteroid 341 California Closest Approach To Earth (1.323 AU)
- Apr 22-24 - 9th INTEGRAL/BART Workshop, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic
- Apr 22-27 - European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2012, Vienna, Austria
- Apr 22-27 - 12th Hadron Physics Conference, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
- Apr 23 - Comet P/2010 C1 (Scotti)
Closet Approach To Earth (5.125 AU)
- Apr 23 - Asteroid 2012 GC2
Near-Earth Flyby (0.047 AU)
- Apr 23 - Asteroid 2003 WH166
Near-Earth Flyby (0.049 AU)
- Apr 23 - Asteroid 9253 Oberth Closest Approach To Earth (1.620 AU)
- Apr 23 - 45th Anniversary (1967), Soyuz 1 Launch
- Apr 23-24 - Meeting: New Windows on Transients Across the Universe, London, United Kingdom
- Apr 23-25 - International Symposium: Mars 500, Moscow, Russia
- Apr 23-26 - 53rd Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference (SDM), Honolulu, Hawaii
- Apr 23-25 - Colloquium on the Facets of Professional Astronomy, Paris, France
- Apr 23-27 - Conference: The Epoch of Reionization - Theory - Simulations - Observations, Strasbourg, France
- Apr 23-27 - Sentinel-2 Preparatory Symposium, Frascati, Italy
- Apr 23-27 - 6th International School on Field Theory and Gravitation, Petropolis, Brazil
- Apr 23-28 - 19th Young Scientists' Conference on Astronomy and Space Physics, Kyiv, Ukraine
- Apr 23-29 - Astronomy Week
- Apr 24 - Yahsat 1B
Proton M-Briz M Launch, Successful
- Apr 24 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #318 (OTM-318)
- Apr 24 - Comet 31P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 2
Closest Approach To Earth (3.038 AU)
- Apr 24 - Comet 82P/Gehrels
Closest Approach To Earth (3.263 AU)
- Apr 24 - Asteroid 2012 HE2
Near-Earth Flyby (0.023 AU)
- Apr 24 - Asteroid 2012 HQ
Near-Earth Flyby (0.025 AU)
- Apr 24 - Asteroid 2012 FG58
Near-Earth Flyby (0.066 AU)
- Apr 24 - Asteroid 2012 HR2
Near-Earth Flyby (0.086 AU)
- Apr 24 - Asteroid 149 Medusa Closest Approach To Earth (1.304 AU)
- Apr 24 - Asteroid 4523 MIT Closest Approach To Earth (1.409 AU)
- Apr 24 - Asteroid 37452 Spirit Closest Approach To Earth (3.820 AU)
- Apr 24-25 - 18th Annual Improving Space Operations Workshop, Pasadena, California
- Apr 24-26 - COST Conference: Black Holes - From Quantum To Gravity, Valletta, Malta
- Apr 24-26 - 2012 Integrated Communications Navigation and Surveillance (ICNS) Conference, Washington DC
- Apr 24-27 - NOAA Space Weather Workshop, Boulder, Colorado
- Apr 24-27 - Conference: Electromagnetic Radiation from Pulsars and Magnetars, Zielona Gora, Poland
- Apr 25 - RISAT 1
PSLV-C19 Launch, Successful
- Apr 25 - Asteroid 1094 Siberia Closest Approach To Earth (1.714 AU)
- Apr 25 - Asteroid 2197 Shanghai Closest Approach To Earth (2.109 AU)
- Apr 25-27 - International Conference on Student Small Satellites (CSSS 2012), Istanbul, Turkey
- Apr 25-27 - Meeting: Implementation of a Sustained Land Imaging Program, Washington DC
- Apr 26 - Asteroid 2074 Shoemaker Closest Approach To Earth (0.950 AU)
- Apr 26 - Asteroid 8208 Volta Closest Approach To Earth (1.615 AU)
- Apr 26 - Asteroid 589 Croatia Closest Approach To Earth (2.261 AU)
- Apr 26 - Asteroid 4169 Celsius Closest Approach To Earth (2.970 AU)
- Apr 26 - Asteroid 2483 Guinevere Closest Approach To Earth (3.724 AU)
- Apr 26 - 50th Anniversary (1962), Cosmos-4 Launch (1st USSR Weather Satellite)
- Apr 27 - Soyuz TMA-22 Return To Earth (International Space Station), Successful
- Apr 27 - Asteroid 5594 Jimmiller Occults 2UCAC 35401744 (6.6 Magnitude Star)
- Apr 27 - Asteroid 2012 HP13
Near-Earth Flyby (0.005 AU)
- Apr 27 - Asteroid 13606 Bean Closest Approach To Earth (1.238 AU)
- Apr 27 - Asteroid 19034 Santorini Closest Approach To Earth (3.908 AU)
- Apr 27 - Lecture: The Solar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) - Measuring the Sun's Influence on Climate from Space, Houston, Texas
- Apr 28 - Astronomy Day
- Apr 28 - Asteroid 2012 HM
Near-Earth Flyby (0.004 AU)
- Apr 28 - Asteroid 2011 WV134
Near-Earth Flyby (0.099 AU)
- Apr 28 - Asteroid 990 Yerkes Closest Approach To Earth (2.121 AU)
- Apr 28 - Asteroid 2315 Czechoslovakia Closest Approach To Earth (2.322 AU)
- Apr 29 - Beidou 2-M3 (Compass M-3)/
Beidou 2-M4 (Compass M-4)
CZ-3B Launch, Successful
- Apr 29 - Cassini,
Orbital Trim Maneuver #319 (OTM-319), Successful
- Apr 29 - Asteroid 2008 UC202
Near-Earth Flyby (0.026 AU)
- Apr 29 - Asteroid 29470 Higgs Closest Approach To Earth (1.285 AU)
- Apr 29 - Asteroid 9997 COBE Closest Approach To Earth (1.789 AU)
- Apr 29 - Asteroid 8250 Cornell Closest Approach To Earth (2.211 AU)
- Apr 29-May 05 - 5th Petrov International Symposium on High Energy Physics, Cosmology and Gravity, Kyiv, Ukraine
- Apr 29-May 07 - 5th Isradynamics Conference: Dynamical Processes in Space and Astrophysical Plasmas, Jerusalem, Israel
- Apr 30 - Comet 171P/Spahr
Perihelion (1.765 AU)
- Apr 30 - Asteroid 2012 HE31
Near-Earth Flyby (0.007 AU)
- Apr 30 - Asteroid 1388 Aphrodite Closest Approach To Earth (2.013 AU)
- Apr 30 - Asteroid 6984 Lewiscarroll Closest Approach To Earth (3.360 AU)
- Apr 30 - Kuiper Belt Object 90568 (2004 GV9)
At Opposition (38.273 AU)
- Apr 30 - Carl Friedrich Gauss' 235th Birthday (1777)
- Apr 30-May 03 - AGU Science Policy Conference, Washington DC
- Apr 30-May 04 - 26th NSO Workshop: Solar Origins of Space Weather and Climate - Connecting the Interior to the Corona, Sunspot, New Mexico
- Apr 30-May 04 - 9th International Conference on High Energy Density Laboratory Astrophysics (HEDLA2012), Tallahassee, Florida
May 2012
- May ?? - Fajr Safir 1B Launch (Iran)
- May ?? -
[May 15] ChinaSat 1B (Zhong Xing 1B) CZ-3B/E Launch
- May 01 - Asteroid 711 Marmulla Occults HIP 91137 (6.9 Magnitude Star)
- May 01 - Asteroid 55555 DNA Closest Approach To Earth (1.657 AU)
- May 01-02 - Meeting: Evaluating NASA's Strategic Direction, Washington DC
- May 02 - Cassini,
Enceladus Flyby, Successful
- May 02 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Polydeuces, Atlas & Dione
- May 02 - Asteroid 2012 HA34
Near-Earth Flyby (0.007 AU)
- May 02 - Asteroid 1992 JD
Near-Earth Flyby (0.024 AU)
- May 02 - Asteroid 3200 Phaethon
Closest Approach To Earth (0.873 AU)
- May 02 - Lecture: Exploring Protoplanets Through the Dawn Mission, Pasadena, California
- May 02 - Colloquium: A Wider Audience - Turning VLBI into a Survey Instrument, Sydney, Australia
- May 02-03 - Exploration Telerobotics Symposium, Greenbelt, Maryland
- May 02-04 - 1st International Space Station Symposium, Berlin, Germany
- May 02-05 - Annual NASA Explorer Schools Symposium, Houston, Texas
- May 03 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Titan
- May 03 - Comet P/2008 R1 (Garradd)
Closest Approach To Earth (1.560 AU)
- May 03 - Comet C/2012 E1 (Hill)
Closest Approach To Earth (7.171 AU)
- May 03 -
[May 16] Asteroid 2012 JP4
Near-Earth Flyby (0.036 AU)
- May 03 - Asteroid 2001 SZ269
Near-Earth Flyby (0.071 AU)
- May 03 -
[May 13] Asteroid 2012 JQ
Near-Earth Flyby (0.074 AU)
- May 03 - Asteroid 2012 FD1
Near-Earth Flyby (0.086 AU)
- May 03 - Asteroid 9523 Torino Closest Approach To Earth (1.257 AU)
- May 03 - JPL Small Business Science Forum/Supplier Fair, Pasadena, California
- May 04 - Space Day
- May 04 - AEHF F-2
Atlas 5 Launch, Successful
- May 04 - Comet C/2012 H2 (McNaught)
Perihelion (1.735 AU)
- May 04 - Comet C/2010 L3 (Catalina)
Closest Approach To Earth (9.492 AU)
- May 04 -
[May 16] Asteroid 2012 JO4
Near-Earth Flyby (0.037 AU)
- May 04 - Asteroid 2010 KX7
Near-Earth Flyby (0.039 AU)
- May 04 - Asteroid 6154 Stevesynnott Closest Approach To Earth (1.202 AU)
- May 04 - Asteroid 218998 Navi Closest Approach To Earth (1.248 AU)
- May 04 - 10th Anniversary (2002),
AQUA Launch
- May 04 - 45th Anniversary (1967), Lunar Orbiter 4 Launch
- May 05 - Eta Aquarids Meteor Shower Peak
- May 05 - 2012 U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame induction, Kennedy Space Center, Florida
- May 06 - Tian Hui 1B CZ-2D Launch, Successful
- May 06 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Titan
- May 06 - Comet P/2011 U2 (Bressi)
Perihelion (4.838 AU)
- May 06 - Asteroid 5720 Halweaver Closest Approach To Earth (1.274 AU)
- May 06 - Willem de Sitter's 140th Birthday (1872)
- May 06-10 - 43rd Annual Meeting of the American Astronomical Society Division on Dynamical Astronomy, Mt. Hood, Oregon
- May 07 - Comet 123P/West-Hartley
Closest Approach To Earth (2.094 AU)
- May 07 - Asteroid 3 Juno Occults UCAC2 30551972 (11.8 Magnitude Star)
- May 07 - Asteroid 2012 HL
Near-Earth Flyby (0.054 AU)
- May 07 - Asteroid 12524 Conscience Closest Approach To Earth (1.431 AU)
- May 07 - Asteroid 1134 Kepler Closest Approach To Earth (1.864 AU)
- May 07 - 15th Anniversary (1997), Galileo, Ganymede 8 Flyby
- May 07-09 - Meeting: Reusable Booster System: Review and Assessment, Washington DC
- May 07-09 - Phenomenology 2012 Symposium, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- May 07-10 - 2012 STScI May Symposium: Gas Flows in Galaxies, Baltimore, Maryland
- May 07-10 - Reinventing Space Conference, Los Angeles, California
- May 07-11 - Gamma-Ray Bursts 2012 Conference, Munich, Germany
- May 07-11 - Astronomical Data Analysis 7 Tutorials: Advanced Data Processing and Reproducible Research, Cargese, Corsica
- May 07-11 - 16th LNF Spring School n Nuclear, Subnuclear and Astroparticle Physics, Frascati, Italy
- May 07-12 - Spontaneous Workshop VI: Hot topics in Modern Cosmology, Cargese, France
- May 08 -
[May 16] Asteroid 2012 JQ4
Near-Earth Flyby (0.052 AU)
- May 08 -
[May 16] Asteroid 2012 JN4
Near-Earth Flyby (0.080 AU)
- May 08 - Asteroid 4341 Poseidon
Closest Approach To Earth (0.808 AU)
- May 08 - Asteroid 44597 Thoreau Closest Approach To Earth (0.982 AU)
- May 08 - Asteroid 228029 MANIAC Closest Approach To Earth (1.098 AU)
- May 08-10 - Spacecraft Technology Expo 2012: Design-Build-Test, Los Angeles, California
- May 08-11 - Workshop: Revealing Evolution of Protoplanetary Disks in the ALMA Era, Kyoto, Japan
- May 09 - Asteroid 2012 HM8
Near-Earth Flyby (0.036 AU)
- May 09 - Asteroid 2012 GB5
Near-Earth Flyby (0.058 AU)
- May 09 - Asteroid 9325 Stonehenge Closest Approach To Earth (1.372 AU)
- May 09 - Asteroid 5256 Farquhar Closest Approach To Earth (1.407 AU)
- May 09 - Asteroid 1241 Dysona Closest Approach To Earth (2.100 AU)
- May 09 - 2012 Aerospace Spotlight Awards Gala, Washington DC
- May 09 - Lecture: From Star to Star - The Story of Gold , Winchester, United Kingdom
- May 09-10 - 2nd Annual Conference: MilSatCom Asia, Singapore
- May 09-11 - Workshop: Advances on Space Radiation and Plasma Environment Monitoring, Data Analysis and Flight Opportunities, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
- May 09-12 - Conference: Conformal Nature of the Universe, Waterloo, Canada
- May 10 -
[May 14] Yaogan 14/Tian Tuo 1
CZ-4B Launch, Successful
- May 10 - Comet C/2010 R1 (LINEAR)
Closest Approach To Earth (4.694 AU)
- May 10 - Asteroid 1998 HE3
Near-Earth Flyby (0.032 AU)
- May 10 - Asteroid 2012 JA
Near-Earth Flyby (0.048 AU)
- May 10 - Asteroid 3122 Florence
Closest Approach To Earth (1.298 AU)
- May 10 - Lecture: The Quest for Other Worlds Like Earth, Pasadena, California
- May 10 - Colloquium: Gaseous Halos of Spiral Galaxies, Sydney, Australia
- May 10-24 - Natal School on Gravity and String Theory, Natal, Brazil
- May 11 - Comet C/2012 H2 (McNaught)
Closest Approach To Earth (1.653 AU)
- May 11 - Asteroid 28 Bellona Occults HIP 78870 (6.5 Magnitude Star)
- May 11 - Asteroid 1420 Radcliffe Occults HIP 80461 (6.8 Magnitude Star)
- May 11 - Asteroid 2012 HB25
Near-Earth Flyby (0.029 AU)
- May 11 - Asteroid 2005 SQ9
Near-Earth Flyby (0.085 AU)
- May 11 - Asteroid 6135 Billowen Closest Approach To Earth (1.169 AU)
- May 11 - Lecture: The Quest for Other Worlds Like Earth, Pasadena, California
- May 11 - Lecture: Compositional Diversity of the Moon's Primary Crust from Integrated Diviner and M3 Analysis, Houston, Texas
- May 11 - Lecture: Megamasers, Magnetic Fields, and Dense Gas in Starburst Galaxies, Los Altos Hills, California
- May 13 - Comet 60P/Tsuchinshan
Perihelion (1.618 AU)
- May 13 -
[May 14] Asteroid 2012 JU
Near-Earth Flyby (0.001 AU)
- May 13 - Asteroid 6470 Cronkite Closest Approach To Earth (1.583 AU)
- May 13 - Asteroid 3125 Hay Closest Approach To Earth (1.679 AU)
- May 13-19 - Gravitational-Wave Advanced Detector Workshop, Waikoloa, Hawaii
- May 14 -
[May 15] Soyuz TMA-04M
Soyuz FG Launch (International Space Station 30S), Successful
- May 14 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #321 (OTM-321)
- May 14 - Comet 133P/Elst-Pizarro
Closest Approach To Earth (1.863 AU)
- May 14 - Comet P/2011 FR143 (Lemmon)
Closest Approach To Earth (3.519 AU)
- May 14 -
[May 18] Asteroid 2012 JX11
Near-Earth Flyby (0.042 AU)
- May 14 - Asteroid 3850 Peltier Closest Approach To Earth (1.265 AU)
- May 14 - Asteroid 23638 Nagano Closest Approach To Earth (1.387 AU)
- May 14 - Asteroid 90022 Apache Point Closest Approach To Earth (1.486 AU)
- May 14 - Asteroid 7273 Garyhuss Closest Approach To Earth (2.131 AU)
- May 14 - Asteroid 2069 Hubble Closest Approach To Earth (2.369 AU)
- May 14 - Asteroid 13010 Germantitov Closest Approach To Earth (2.425 AU)
- May 14 - Asteroid 9661 Hohmann Closest Approach To Earth (3.202 AU)
- May 14-16 -
[May 14] Rencontres de Physique des Particules (RPP-2012), Montpellier, France
- May 14-17 - Extreme Space Weather Events Workshop, Boulder, Colorado
- May 14-17 - 7th Harvard-Smithsonian Conference on Theoretical Astrophysics: Testing General Relativity (GR) with Astrophysical Systems, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- May 14-18 - Conference: Mapping Oxygen in the Universe, Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain
- May 14-18 - 7th Conference of the Astronomical Data Analysis (ADA7), Cargese, Corsica, France
- May 14-18 - Conference: Galaxies - Origin, Dynamics, Structure, Sochi, Russia
- May 14-18 - 12th Spacecraft Charging Technology Conference, Kitakyushu, Japan
- May 14-18 - Workshop: Subhaloes Going Notts, Dovedale, United Kingdom
- May 15 -
[May 16] Vinasat 2/
JC-Sat 13
Ariane 5 Launch, Successful
- May 15 - Asteroid 2012 GK
Near-Earth Flyby (0.056 AU)
- May 15 - Asteroid 2012 HN13
Near-Earth Flyby (0.082 AU)
- May 15 - Asteroid 3594 Scotti Closest Approach To Earth (1.570 AU)
- May 15-17 - 12th International Conference on Ionospheric Radio Systems and Techniques, York, United Kingdom
- May 16 - Asteroid 2238 Steshenko Occults HIP 40866 (5.8 Magnitude Star)
- May 16 - Asteroid 12927 Pinocchio Closest Approach To Earth (1.581 AU)
- May 16 - Asteroid 1213 Algeria Closest Approach To Earth (2.465 AU)
- May 16 - Colloquium: The PAWS View of Giant Molecular Clouds, Gas Flows and Star Formation in M51, Sydney, Australia
- May 16-20 - Asteroids, Comets, Meteors (ACM) 2012 Meeting, Niigata, Japan
- May 17 -
[May 18] Nimiq 6
Proton M-Briz M Launch, Successful
- May 17 -
[May 18] Cosmos 2480 (Kobalt N-8) Soyuz U Launch, Successful
- May 17 -
[May 18] Shizuku (GCOM-W1)/
Kompsat 3/
SDS-4/
Horyu 2
H-2A Launch, Successful
- May 17 -
[May 18] Asteroid 2012 KA
Near-Earth Flyby (0.001 AU)
- May 17 - Asteroid 2614 Torrence Closest Approach To Earth (1.370 AU)
- May 18 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #322 (OTM-322)
- May 18 - Comet C/2010 R1 (LINEAR)
Perihelion (5.621 AU)
- May 18 - Lecture: Faults and Folds on Mercury, Houston, Texas
- May 18-20 - 2012 Bootleg Astronomy Star Party, Harmon, Illinois
- May 19 -
[May 13] Dragon C-2 & C-3
Falcon 9 Launch (International Space Station)
- May 19 - Asteroid 433 Eros Occults 2UCAC 23131631 (11.7 Magnitude Star)
- May 19 - Asteroid 2660 Wasserman Occults HIP 69564 (6.4 Magnitude Star)
- May 19 - Asteroid 2010 KK37
Near-Earth Flyby (0.006 AU)
- May 19 - Northern Meeting of the British Interplanetary Society, York, United Kingdom
- May 19 - Keele Observatory's 50th Birthday Star Party, Keele, United Kingdom
- May 19-27 - Cracow School of Theoretical Physics: Astroparticle Physics in the LHC Era, Zakopane, Poland
- May 20 -
[May 17] Annular Solar Eclipse, Visible From China, Japan & North America
- May 20 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Tethys, Enceladus, Daphnis, Prometheus, Pan, Methone, Pallene & Telesto
- May 20 - Asteroid 2675 Tolkien Closest Approach To Earth (1.337 AU)
- May 20 - Asteroid 13667 Samthurman Closest Approach To Earth (1.716 AU)
- May 20-25 - ESF Research Conference: The Modern Era of Helio- and Asteroseismology, Otz Valley, near Innsbruck, Austria
- May 20-25 - Japan Geoscience Union Meeting (JpGU) 2012, Chiba City, Japan
- May 20-26 - 12th Pisa Meeting on Advanced Detectors, La Biodola, Isola d'Elba, Italy
- May 20-Jun 09 - Aspen Meeting Summer 2012: A Window on the Formation of the Milky Way, Aspen, Colorado
- May 21 - Asteroid 29075 (1950 DA)
Closest Approach To Earth (0.238 AU)
- May 21 - Asteroid 63163 Jerusalem Closest Approach To Earth (1.438 AU)
- May 21 - Asteroid 3252 Johnny Closest Approach To Earth (1.802 AU)
- May 21 - Colloquium: The Distribution of Star-forming Regions in the Milky Way, Sydney, Australia
- May 21-22 - Workshop: Extraterrestrial Life - Beyond Our Expectations?, Vienna, Austria
- May 21-23 - Workshop on Coronal Magnetism: Connecting Models to Data and the Corona to the Earth, Boulder, Colorado
- May 21-23 - Workshop: Galaxy Clusters as Giant Cosmic Laboratories, Madrid, Spain
- May 21-23 -
[May 14] Microwave Technology and Techniques Workshop 2012, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
- May 21-23 -
[May 14] International Forum on Satellite Earth Observation for Geohazard Risk Management, Santorini, Greece
- May 21-23 -
[May 15] 2012 ESA Workshop on Aerospace EMC, Venice, Italy
- May 21-24 - Workshop: Stars Without Borders - Radial Migration in Spiral Galaxies, Medana, Slovenia
- May 21-24 - 1st International Conference on New Trends and Applications of GNSS, Cairo, Egypt
- May 21-24 - Conference: SatCom 2012 Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa
- May 21-25 - 3rd Conference on Early Mars: Geologic, Hydrologic, and Climatic Evolution and the Implications for Life, Carson City, Nevada
- May 21-25 - First Stars IV Conference: From Hayashi to the Future, Kyoto, Japan
- May 21-25 - 9th LISA Symposium, Paris, France
- May 21-25 - 4th International Meeting on Gravitation and Cosmology, Guadalajara, Mexico
- May 21-25 - 3rd International European Radioactive Ion Beam Conference (EURORIB 2012), Padova, Italy
- May 21-26 - NASA's 3rd Annual Lunabotics Mining Competition, Kennedy Space Center, Florida
- May 21-26 - SIGRAV Graduate School in Contemporary Relativity and Gravitational Physics: Astrophysical Black Holes, Como, Italy
- May 22 -
[May 15] Cassini, Titan Flyby
- May 22 - Mercury Passes 0.4 Degrees From
Jupiter
- May 22 - Comet 231P/LINEAR-NEAT
Closest Approach To Earth (2.509 AU)
- May 22 -
[May 18] Asteroid 2012 JV11
Near-Earth Flyby (0.017 AU)
- May 22 - Asteroid 231307 Peterfalk Closest Approach To Earth (2.013 AU)
- May 22 - Asteroid 3866 Langley Closest Approach To Earth (2.237 AU)
- May 22-24 - Global Space Exploration Conference, Washington DC
- May 23 - Asteroid 433 Eros Occults TYC 6090-01641-1 (10.8 Magnitude Star)
- May 23 -
[May 18] Lecture: Visions of the Future - Science Fiction, Spaceflight and the BIS, London, United Kingdom
- May 24 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #323 (OTM-323)
- May 24 - Asteroid 32096 Puckett Closest Approach To Earth (1.393 AU)
- May 24 - Asteroid 4969 Lawrence Closest Approach To Earth (2.893 AU)
- May 24 - 50th Anniversary (1962), Aurora 7 Launch (Scott Carpenter)
- May 24-28 - International Space Development Conference (ISDC 2012), Washington DC
- May 25 - Asteroid 7392 Kowalski Closest Approach To Earth (1.520 AU)
- May 25 - Asteroid 6318 Cronkite Closest Approach To Earth (2.553 AU)
- May 25 - Asteroid 39382 Opportunity Closest Approach To Earth (3.756 AU)
- May 26 -
[May 13] Asteroid 7986 Romania Closest Approach To Earth (0.862 AU)
- May 26 - Asteroid 7328 Casanova Closest Approach To Earth (1.604 AU)
- May 26 - Asteriod 2875 Lagerkvist Closest Approach To Earth (1.808 AU)
- May 26 - Asteroid 1815 Beethoven Closest Approach To Earth (2.530 AU)
- May 27 - Asteroid 8553 Bradsmith Closest Approach To Earth (1.021 AU)
- May 27 - Asteroid 9949 Excalibur Closest Approach To Earth (1.931 AU)
- May 27 - Asteroid 11739 Baton Rouge Closest Approach To Earth (3.633 AU)
- May 27-30 - Workshop: Whereabouts, Physical State and Metallicity of the Missing Baryons in the Local Universe, Cervia Milano Marittima, Italy
- May 27-Jun 01 - 24th Rencontres de Blois: Particle Physics and Cosmology, Blois, France
- May 27-Jun 03 - Workshop: Planetary Origins and Frontiers of Exploration, Rehovot, Israel
- May 28 - Comet P/2004 H3 (Larsen)
Closest Approach To Earth (1.802 AU)
- May 28-30 - Gravitational Wave Bursts Workshop 2012, Tobermory, Scotland, United Kingdom
- May 28-31 - Workshop: The Physics and Evolution of Active Black Holes, Haifa, Israel
- May 28-Jun 01 - PLANCK 2012 Conference: From the Planck Scale to the Electroweak Scale, Warsaw, Poland
- May 29 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #324 (OTM-324)
- May 29 - Asteroid 2322 Kitt Peak Closest Approach To Earth (1.348 AU)
- May 29 - Asteroid 12426 Racquetball Closest Approach To Earth (1.492 AU)
- May 29 - Asteroid 10001 Palermo Closest Approach To Earth (1.636 AU)
- May 29 - Asteroid 3768 Monroe Closest Approach To Earth (2.427 AU)
- May 29 - ESA Concluding Conference: Consultation with Industry 2012, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
- May 29 - John F. Kennedy's 95th Birthday (1917)
- May 29-30 - 1st Interplantary CubeSat Workshop, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- May 29-Jun 01 - Workshop: Cosmological Frontiers in Fundamental Physics 2012, Brussels, Belgium
- May 29-Jun 01 -
[May 16] 5th International Conference on Astrodynamics Tools and Techniques (ICATT), Noordwijk, The Netherlands
- May 29-Jun 01 - 46th Canadian Meteorological and Oceanograpgic Society (CMOS) Congress 2012: The Changing Environment and its Impact on Climate, Ocean and Weather Services, Montreal, Canada
- May 29-Jun 02 - Meeting: The Warm Universe - Astrochemistry at Intermediate and Elevated Temperatures, Tallinn, Estonia
- May 29-Jun 03 - 11th Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics (CIPANP 2012), St. Petersburg, Florida
- May 29-Jun 05 - 13th Synthesis Imaging Workshop, Socorro, New Mexico
- May 30 - Comet 128P/Shoemaker-Holt 1-B Closest Approach To Earth (4.939 AU)
- May 30 - Asteroid 2001 CQ36
Near-Earth Flyby (0.026 AU)
- May 30 - Asteroid 9012 Benner Closest Approach To Earth (2.326 AU)
- May 30 - International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) Regional Meeting in Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
- May 30-31 - 2nd International Workshop on On-Orbit Satellite Servicing, Greenbelt, Maryland
- May 30-Jun 01 - Meeting: Exploring the Radio Continuum Universe with SKA Pathfinders, Sydney, Austrailia
- May 31 - Comet 152P/Helin-Lawrence
Closest Approach To Earth (2.114 AU)
- May 31 - Comet P/2011 N1 (ASH)
Perihelion (2.858 AU)
- May 31 - Comet P/2010 H5 (Scotti)
Closest Approach To Earth (5.382 AU)
- May 31 - Asteroid 6790 Pingouin Closest Approach To Earth (1.001 AU)
- May 31 - Asteroid 40227 Tahiti Closest Approach To Earth (2.634 AU)
- May 31 - Martin Schwarzschild's 100th Birthday (1912)
- May 31-Jun 01 -
[May 17] 2nd IXV Industrial Workshop: Status and Perspectives, Esrin, Italy
- May 31-Jun 07 - Heliophysics Summer School 2012, Boulder, Colorado
June 2012
- Jun ?? -
[May 16] Shenzhou 9
CZ-2F/H Launch (Manned Docking with Tian Gong 1)
- Jun ?? - GRAIL,
End of Primary Mission
- Jun ?? - Katysat 1/
KiwiSat/
Atmocube/
Cubesat-RAFT/
Funsat/UCISA Dnepr 1 Launch
- Jun ?? - Cosmos-Glonass K1 N2 Soyuz 2-1B-Fregat Launch
- Jun ?? - Venta-1 PSLV-C19 Launch
- Jun ?? - Globalstar 2 (19-24) Soyuz 2-1a-Fregat Launch
- Jun ?? - Tian Lian 1-C CZ-3C Launch
- Jun ?? - G-Sat 10 Ariane 5 Launch
- Jun 01 -
[May 18] Soyuz TMA-03M Return To Earth (International Space Station)
- Jun 01 -
[May 14] Intelsat 19
Zenit 3SL Launch
- Jun 01 - Mercury Passes 0.2 Degrees From
Venus
- Jun 01 - Comet P/2012 G1 (PANSTARRS)
Perihelion (2.584 AU)
- Jun 01 - Comet C/2006 S3 (LONEOS)
Closest Approach To Earth (4.141 AU)
- Jun 01-03 - Mid-States Region of the Astronomical League (MSRAL) Convention, Kansas City, Kansas
- Jun 02 - Asteroid 2007 LE
Near-Earth Flyby (0.048 AU)
- Jun 02 - Asteroid 3169 Ostro Closest Approach To Earth (0.974 AU)
- Jun 03 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #325 (OTM-325)
- Jun 03 - Comet C/2011 U3 (PANSTARRS)
Perihelion (1.071 AU)
- Jun 03 - Asteroid 3 Juno Occults TYC 5022-00057-1 (10.7 Magnnitude Star)
- Jun 03 - Asteroid 264020 Stuttgart Closest Approach To Earth (1.624 AU)
- Jun 03 - Asteroid 20488 Pic-du-Midi Closest Approach To Earth (1.684 AU)
- Jun 03 - Asteroid 727 Nipponia Closest Approach To Earth (1.840 AU)
- Jun 03 - Asteroid 5145 Pholus
Closest Approach To Earth (23.680 AU)
- Jun 03-06 - Transiting Planets in the House of the Sun: A Workshop on M Dwarf Stars and Their Planets, Maui, Hawaii
- Jun 03-07 - Workshop: Applications of Gauge-Gravity Duality, Haifa, Israel
- Jun 03-08 - 18th International Symposium On Particles, Strings And Cosmology (PASCOS 2012), Merida, Mexico
- Jun 03-09 - 25th International Conference On Neutrino Physics And Astrophysics (Neutrino 2012), Kyoto, Japan
- Jun 03-09 - 21st International Conference on Spectral Line Shapes, St. Petersburg, Russia
- Jun 03-09 - IUCSS Summer School on the Lorentz- and CPT-violating Standard-Model Extension, Bloomington, Indiana
- Jun 04 - Partial Lunar Eclipse
- Jun 04 - Asteroid 3306 Byron Closest Approach To Earth (0.935 AU)
- Jun 04 - Asteroid 7919 Prime Closest Approach To Earth (1.220 AU)
- Jun 04 - Asteroid 15845 Bambi Closest Approach To Earth (1.449 AU)
- Jun 04 - Asteroid 2421 Nininger Closest Approach To Earth (2.244 AU)
- Jun 04 - Asteroid 2309 Mr. Spock Closest Approach To Earth (2.291 AU)
- Jun 04-06 - Workshop: Moving FORWARD in Space, Philadelphia, Pennsylvia
- Jun 04-06 - Conference: Progress on Statistical Issues in Searches, Menlo Park, California
- Jun 04-06 - 18th AIAA/CEAS Aeroacoustics Conference/33rd AIAA Aeroacoustics Conference, Colorado Springs, Colorado
- Jun 04-06 - 19th St Petersburg International Conference on Integrated Navigation Systems, St. Petersburg, Russia
- Jun 04-06 - Meeting: Energetic Astronomy, Annapolis, Maryland
- Jun 04-07 - Canadian Astronimical Society (CASCA) 2012 Conference: Production and Analysis of Large Astronomical Datasets and Simulations, Calgary, Canada
- Jun 04-07 - Gravitational Wave Physics & Astronomy Workshop (GWPAW 2012), Hannover, Germany
- Jun 04-07 - Conference: Horizons of Innovative Theories, Experiments, and Supercomputing in Nuclear Physics (Hites 2012), New Orleans, Louisiana
- Jun 04-07 - Annual Meeting of the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics (SF2A 2012), Nice, France
- Jun 04-08 - Conference: Space Weather Effects on Humans - in Space and on Earth, Moscow, Russia
- Jun 04-08 - Conference: CompStar - The Physics and Astrophysics of Compact Stars, Tahiti
- Jun 04-08 - 5th Southern Cross Conference: Multiwavelength Surveys - A Vintage Decade, Hunter Valley, Australia
- Jun 04-08 - Workshop: Exploring AdS-CFT Dualities in Dynamical Settings, Waterloo, Canada
- Jun 04-08 - Lunar Workshop For Educators, Durango, Colorado
- Jun 04-08 - Summer School in Statistics for Astronomers VIII, University Park, Pennsylvania
- Jun 04-08 - Small Satellites Systems and Services - The 4S Symposium 2012, Portoroz, Slovenia
- Jun 04-09 - 1st European School on Fundamental Processes in Space Weather: A Challenge in Numerical Modeling, Spineto, Tuscany, Italy
- Jun 04-10 - 17th International Seminar on High Energy Physics (QUARKS-2012), Yaroslavl, Russia
- Jun 05 - Venus Transits the Sun
- Jun 05 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Pallene, Prometheus, Pandora, Mimas, Daphnis & Atlas
- Jun 05 - Asteroid 2012 HK31
Near-Earth Flyby (0.035 AU)
- Jun 05 - Asteroid 3255 Tholen Closest Approach To Earth (2.268 AU)
- Jun 05 - 5th Anniversary (2007), MESSENGER, 2nd Venus Flyby
- Jun 05-07 - Conference: Mars - Connecting Planetary Scientists in Europe (MPSE), Budapest, Hungary
- Jun 05-08 - Annual Meeting of the French Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nice, France
- Jun 06 - Asteroid 2006 SG7
Near-Earth Flyby (0.086 AU)
- Jun 06 - Asteroid 84225 Verish Closest Approach To Earth (1.627 AU)
- Jun 06 -
[May 18] FLPP/CUST Workshop, Paris, France
- Jun 06-08 - Workshop: Dust, Atmosphere and Plasma Environment of the Moon and Small Bodies (DAP-2012), Boulder, Colorado
- Jun 06-08 - Chalonge School Meudon Workshop 2012: Warm Dark Matter Galaxy Formation in Agreement with Observations, Meudon, France
- Jun 06-08 -
[May 15] Conference: GeoHistories from Gubbio Apennines - Half century in Reading the Pages of Earth History Written in the Rocks: 1962-2012, Gubbio, Italy
- Jun 06-10 - 3rd SCOSTEP/CAWSES Workshop: Solar Influences on the Magnetosphere, Ionosphere and Atmosphere, Sozopol, Bulgaria
- Jun 07 - Kanopus-V N1/
Belka 2/MKA-DKI Soyuz FG-Fregat Launch
- Jun 07 - Cassini, Titan Flyby
- Jun 07 - Mars Science Laboratory (MSL),
Trajectory Correction Maneuver #3 (TCM-3)
- Jun 07 - Asteroid 4844 Matsuyama Occults HIP 92682 (6.8 Magnitude Star)
- Jun 07 - Asteroid 2001 LB
Near-Earth Flyby (0.075 AU)
- Jun 07 - Asteroid 8749 Beatles Closest Approach To Earth (1.656 AU)
- Jun 07 - Asteroid 3784 Chopin Closest Approach To Earth (1.662 AU)
- Jun 07 - Asteroid 18725 Atacama Closest Approach To Earth (2.120 AU)
- Jun 07 - Asteroid 2244 Tesla Closest Approach To Earth (2.217 AU)
- Jun 07-09 - 7th Theory Canada Conference, Lethbridge, Canada
- Jun 08 - Asteroid 2912 Lapalma Closest Approach To Earth (1.246 AU)
- Jun 08 - Asteroid 8000 Isaac Newton Closest Approach To Earth (1.909 AU)
- Jun 08 -
[May 11] Asteroid 4115 Peternorton Closest Approach To Earth (2.049 AU)
- Jun 08 -
[May 18] Lecture: Mercury Hollows, Houston, Texas
- Jun 09 -
[May 18] Asteroid 2012 JU11
Near-Earth Flyby (0.073 AU)
- Jun 09 - Asteroid 9879 Mammuthus Closest Approach To Earth (1.236 AU)
- Jun 09 - Asteroid 1584 Fuji Closest Approach To Earth (1.645 AU)
- Jun 09 - Asteroid 67085 Oppenheimer Closest Approach To Earth (1.746 AU)
- Jun 09 - Asteroid 4305 Clapton Closest Approach To Earth (1.957 AU)
- Jun 09 - Kuiper Belt Object 28978 Ixion
At Opposition (39.884 AU)
- Jun 09 - Chinese/Soviet Symposium, London, United Kingdom
- Jun 09 -
[May 17] Canadian Astronmy Swap Meet, Oakville, Canada
- Jun 09-10 -
[May 17] Jet Propulsion Laboratory Open House, Pasadena, California
- Jun 10 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #326 (OTM-326)
- Jun 10 - Asteroid 3192 A'Hearn Closest Approach To Earth (1.478 AU)
- Jun 10 - Asteroid 9766 Bradbury Closest Approach To Earth (1.601 AU)
- Jun 10 -
[May 15] Asteroid 7645 Pons Closest Approach To Earth (1.705 AU)
- Jun 10-14 - 220th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), Anchorage, Alaska
- Jun 10-15 - Conference: The Origins of Stars and Planetary Systems, Hamilton, Canada
- Jun 10-15 - 8th International Workshop on the Dark Side of the Universe, Buzios, Brazil
- Jun 10-16 - International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics (ICFP 2012), Kolymbari, Crete, Greece
- Jun 11 - Comet 138P/Shoemaker-Levy
Perihelion (1.701 AU)
- Jun 11 - Asteroid 7470 Jabberwock Closest Approach To Earth (1.160 AU)
- Jun 11 - Asteroid 7434 Osaka Closest Approach To Earth (1.483 AU)
- Jun 11 - Asteroid 128 Nemesis Closest Approach To Earth (1.888 AU)
- Jun 11 - Asteroid 7495 Feynman Closest Approach To Earth (2.013 AU)
- Jun 11 - Marie Paul Fabry's 145th Birthday (1867)
- Jun 11-13 - 3rd International Starlight Conference, Lake Tekapo, New Zealand
- Jun 11-14 - Workshop: What Is V? - From New Experimental Neutrino Results To A Deeper Understanding Of Theoretical Physics And Cosmology, Florence, Italy
- Jun 11-15 - 12th International Conference on Space Operations (SpaceOps 2012), Stockholm, Sweden
- Jun 11-15 - 12th XMM-Newton SAS Workshop, Madrid, Spain
- Jun 11-15 - 15th Capra Meeting on Radiation Reaction in General Relativity, College Park, Maryland
- Jun 11-15 - AGU Chapman Conference on Volcanism and the Atmosphere, Selfoss, Iceland
- Jun 11-15 - International School of Astrophysics, Teramo, Italy
- Jun 11-16 - Sardinian Summer School in Astrophysics: Detecting Radio Waves, Pula, Sardinia, Italy
- Jun 12 - Asteroid 9619 Terrygilliam Closest Approach To Earth (1.244 AU)
- Jun 12 - Asteroid 3869 Norton Closest Approach To Earth (1.253 AU)
- Jun 12 - 45th Anniversary (1967), Venera 4 Launch (Soviet Venus Lander)
- Jun 12-13 - Ices and Organics in the Inner Solar System Conference, Los Angeles, California
- Jun 12-13 - Meeting: Assessing the Impacts of Climate Change on Social and Political Stresses, Irvine, California
- Jun 12-14 - Workshop: Concepts and Approaches for Mars Exploration, Houston, Texas
- Jun 12-15 - 3rd International Planetary Dunes Workshop, Flagstaff, Arizona
- Jun 12-15 - Workshop: From Antikythera to the SKA - Lessons from the Ancients, Kerastari, Greece
- Jun 13 - NuStar
Pegasus XL Launch
- Jun 13 - Asteroid 5050 Doctorwatson Closest Approach To Earth (1.599 AU)
- Jun 13 - Lecture: Our Dynamic Sun - Sunspots and Climate Change, Winchester, United Kingdom
- Jun 13-15 - Conference: Exploring Mars Habitability, Lisbon, Portugal
- Jun 14 - Asteroid 7231 Porco Closest Approach To Earth (2.102 AU)
- Jun 14 - Asteroid 241418 Darmstadt Closest Approach To Earth (2.254 AU)
- Jun 14 - Kuiper Belt Object 50000 Quaoar
At Opposition (42.082 AU)
- Jun 14 - 45th Anniversary (1967), Mariner 5 Launch (Venus Flyby Mission)
- Jun 14-16 - Conference: The Baryon Cycle, Irvine, California
- Jun 14-17 -
[May 18] NASA-WPI Sample Return Robot Challenge, Worcester, Massachusetts
- Jun 15 - Asteroid 4103 Chahine Closest Approach To Earth (1.416 AU)
- Jun 15 - Asteroid 2161 Grissom Closest Approach To Earth (1.878 AU)
- Jun 15 - Asteroid 15058 Billcooke Closest Approach To Earth (2.477 AU)
- Jun 15-16 - 1st Annual Northern Michigan Astronomy Club (NOMAC) Star Party, East Jordan, Michigan
- Jun 16 - Asteroid 945 Barcelona Closest Approach To Earth (2.084 AU)
- Jun 17 - Moon Occults Jupiter
- Jun 17 - Asteroid 19631 Greensleeves Closest Approach To Earth (2.074 AU)
- Jun 17-22 - Geospace Environment Modeling (GEM) Summer Workshop, Snowmass, Colorado
- Jun 17-Jul 01 - Workshop: The Evolution of Massive Stars and Progenitors of GRBs, Aspen, Colorado
- Jun 18 - Comet P/2005 JN (Spacewatch)
Closest Approach To Earth (1.528 AU)
- Jun 18 - Asteroid 78756 Sloan Closest Approach To Earth (2.026 AU)
- Jun 18 -
[May 14] CASBAA Satellite Industry Forum, Shangri-La, Singapore
- Jun 18-20 - The Great Andromeda Galaxy: A Workshop to Celebrate Martin Schwarzschild's Centennial, Princeton, New Jersey
- Jun 18-20 - Workshop: The Milky Way - Stars, Gas, Dust and Magnetic Fields in 3D, Heidelberg, Germany
- Jun 18-20 - 17th Itzykson Meeting: Heart of Darkness - Dark Energy And Modified Gravity, Saclay, France
- Jun 18-21 - Meeting: UV Astronomy - HST and Beyond, Kauai, Hawaii
- Jun 18-21 -
[May 15] TOOLS 2012 Workshop, Stockholm, Sweden
- Jun 18-22 - 9th International Planetary Probe Workshop (IPPW-9), Toulouse, France
- Jun 18-22 - 3rd Volcano-Ice Interactions on Earth and Mars Conference, Anchorage, Alaska
- Jun 18-22 - 13th International Solar Wind Conference, Big Island, Hawaii
- Jun 18-22 - 5th Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium Workshop, Balatonfured, Hungary
- Jun 18-22 - NASA's 24th Annual Planetary Science Summer School (Session 1), Pasadena, California
- Jun 18-22 - Meeting: Life in Space for Life on Earth, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
- Jun 18-22 - Symposium: Gamma Ray Bursts in the Era of Rapid Follow-up, Liverpool, United Kingdom
- Jun 18-22 - Conference: The Labyrinth of Star Formation, Crete, Greece
- Jun 18-22 - Conference: Black Hole Universe 2012, Bamberg, Germany
- Jun 18-22 - Lunar Workshop For Educators, Morehead, Kentucky
- Jun 18-22 - Conference School on Gravitational-Wave Advanced Detector, Pisa, Italy
- Jun 18-22 - 6th International Symposium on Isotopomers (ISI-2012), Washington DC
- Jun 18-29 - International Pulsar Timing Array 2012 Science Meeting and Student Workshop, Sydney/Kiama, Australia
- Jun 19 - Echostar 17 (Jupiter 1)/
MSG-3 Ariane 5 Launch
- Jun 19 - Comet P/2011 U1 (PANSTARRS)
Perihelion (2.359 AU)
- Jun 19 - Asteroid 3265 Fletcher Closest Approach To Earth (1.453 AU)
- Jun 19 - Asteroid 4513 Louvre Closest Approach To Earth (2.214 AU)
- Jun 19 - Asteroid 3534 Sax Closest Approach To Earth (2.273 AU)
- Jun 19-21 - Dark Matter Silver Jubilee Symposium, Richland, Washington
- Jun 19-21 - Infotech@Aerospace 2012 Conference, Garden Grove, California
- Jun 19-22 - Lowell Observatory Workshop: Star Formation in Dwarf Galaxies, Flagstaff, Arizona
- Jun 19-22 - 5th International Workshop on Acoustic and Radio EeV Neutrino Detection Activities (ARENA 2012), Erlangen, Germany
- Jun 20 - NROL-38 Atlas 5 Launch
- Jun 20 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #327 (OTM-327)
- Jun 20 - Asteroid 6511 Furmanov Occults HIP 111170 (6.2 Magnitude Star)
- Jun 20 - Asteroid 7958 Leakey Closest Approach To Earth (0.966 AU)
- Jun 20 - Asteroid 10111 Frensel Closest Approach To Earth (1.562 AU)
- Jun 20 - Colloquium: Radio-Mode Feedback, Sydney, Australia
- Jun 20-22 - 9th Workshop on Science with the New Generation of High Energy Gamma-ray Experiments (SciNeGHE 2012): From High Energy Gamma Sources to Cosmic Rays, One Century After Their Discovery, Lecce, Italy
- Jun 20-23 - Conference: Recent Developments in Gravity (NEB15), Chania, Greece
- Jun 20-24 - 3rd Fermi Asian Network (FAN) Workshop, Daejeon, South Korea
- Jun 21 - Summer Solstice,
11:11 UT
- Jun 21 - Astra 4-B (SES-5) Proton M-Briz M Launch
- Jun 21 - Asteroid 1948 Kampala Occults HIP 92329 (6.7 Magnitude Star)
- Jun 21 - Asteroid 308242 (2005 GO21)
Near-Earth Flyby (0.044 AU)
- Jun 21 - Asteroid 7644 Cslewis Closest Approach To Earth (1.565 AU)
- Jun 21 - Asteroid 37117 Narcissus
Closest Approach To Earth (9.094 AU)
- Jun 21 - Lecture: Melting Snows - The Threatened Lifeblood of the Western US, Pasadena, California
- Jun 21-23 - Mt Bachelor Star Party, Brothers, Oregon
- Jun 22 - Asteroid 1677 Tycho Brahe Closest Approach To Earth (1.321 AU)
- Jun 22 - Lecture: Melting Snows - The Threatened Lifeblood of the Western US, Pasadena, California
- Jun 22 -
[May 18] Lecture: Acid Sulfate Minerals in Mawrth Vallis and Related Areas on Mars, Houston, Texas
- Jun 22-24 - Conference: SETIcon II, Santa Clara, California
- Jun 23 - Asteroid 17898 Scottsheppard Closest Approach To Earth (1.018 AU)
- Jun 24 - Comet 96P/Machholz
Closest Approach To Earth (0.932 AU)
- Jun 24 - Asteroid 6312 Robheinlein Closest Approach To Earth (1.318 AU)
- Jun 24-29 - 17th Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars: Stellar Systems and the Sun, Barcelona, Spain
- Jun 24-29 - 7th Annual International Conference on Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flow (ASTRONUM-2012), Big Island, Hawaii
- Jun 24-29 - Goldschmidt 2012 Conference: Earth In Evolution, Montreal, Canada
- Jun 24-29 - CPS 9th International School of Planetary Sciences: Across the Earth into Exoplanets, Kobe, Japan
- Jun 25 - Comet C/2011 U3 (PANSTARRS)
Closest Approach To Earth (0.814 AU)
- Jun 25 - Asteroid 2012 FA14
Near-Earth Flyby (0.032 AU)
- Jun 25 - Asteroid 2004 YG1
Near-Earth Flyby (0.089 AU)
- Jun 25 - Asteroid 2404 Antarctica Closest Approach To Earth (1.693 AU)
- Jun 25 - Asteroid 449 Hamburga Closest Approach To Earth (1.856 AU)
- Jun 25 - Kuiper Belt Object 2002 MS4
At Opposition (46.080 AU)
- Jun 25 - 15th Anniversary (1997), Galileo, Callisto 9 Flyby
- Jun 25-27 - Workshop: Tidal Disruption events and AGN Outbursts, Villafranca del Castillo, Spain
- Jun 25-27 -
[May 16] Meeting: NASA's Strategic Direction, Washington DC
- Jun 25-28 - Toulouse Space Show 2012, Toulouse, France
- Jun 25-28 - Conference on Comparative Climatology of Terrestrial Planets, Boulder, Colorado
- Jun 25-28 - 4th AIAA Atmospheric and Space Environments Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana
- Jun 25-29 - Planetary Data: A Workshop for Users and Software Developers 2012, Flagstaff, Arizona
- Jun 25-29 - ESLAB Symposium: Formation and Evolution of Moons, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
- Jun 25-29 - Meeting: Relativity and Gravitation - 100 years after Einstein in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
- Jun 25-29 - 6th Solar Information Processing Workshop, Bozeman, Montana
- Jun 25-29 - Workshop: Black Holes by the Black Sea, Istanbul, Turkey
- Jun 25-29 - IPA-Subaru Joint International Conference: Stellar populations Across Cosmic Times, Paris, France
- Jun 25-29 - Solar Heliospheric and INterplanetary Environment (SHINE) 2012 Conference, Wailea Maui, Hawaii
- Jun 25-29 - Lunar Workshop For Educators, Houston, Texas
- Jun 26 -
[May 18] HTV-3
H-2B Launch (International Space Station, Japan)
- Jun 26 - Asteroid 2008 YT30
Near-Earth Flyby (0.071 AU)
- Jun 26 - Asteroid 3773 Smithsonian Closest Approach To Earth (1.033 AU)
- Jun 26-28 - Centenary Symposium 2012: Discovery of Cosmic Rays, Denver, Colorado
- Jun 26-28 - 1st Annual International Space Station (ISS) Research and Development Conference, Denver, Colorado
- Jun 27 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Titan
- Jun 27 - Asteroid 30439 Moe Closest Approach Tto Earth (1.595 AU)
- Jun 27 - Asteroid 5553 Chodas Closest Approach To Earth (1.907 AU)
- Jun 27 - Asteroid 4559 Strauss Closest Approach To Earth (1.984 AU)
- Jun 27 - 15th Anniversary (1997), NEAR,
Asteroid Mathilde Flyby
- Jun 27 - Alexis Bouvard's 245th Birthday (1767)
- Jun 27-28 - Workshop: From Stars to Black Holes - mm-VLBI with ALMA and Other Telescopes, Garching, Germany
- Jun 28 - NROL-15
Delta 4-Heavy Launch
- Jun 28 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Tethys
- Jun 28 - Comet 105P/Singer Brewster
Closest Approach To Earth (1.276 AU)
- Jun 28 - Comet C/2011 O1 (LINEAR)
Closest Approach To Earth (3.232 AU)
- Jun 28 - Asteroid 2625 Jack London Closest Approach To Earth (0.892 AU)
- Jun 28 - Asteroid 3001 Michelangelo Closest Approach To Earth (1.506 AU)
- Jun 29 - Asteroid 8991 Solidarity Closest Approach To Earth (1.354 AU)
- Jun 29 - Asteroid 8958 Stargazer Closest Approach To Earth (1.580 AU)
- Jun 29 - Asteroid 27500 Mandelbrot Closest Approach To Earth (2.129 AU)
- Jun 29 - Dwarf Planet 134340 Pluto
At Opposition (31.240 AU)
- Jun 30 - Asteroid 17058 Rocknroll Closest Approach To Earth (1.789 AU)
- Jun 30 - Asteroid 7367 Giotto Closest Approach To Earth (2.128 AU)
- Jun 30 - Asteroid 34901 Mauna Loa Closest Approach To Earth (2.864 AU)
July 2012
- Jul ?? - AzerSpace 1 (AfricaSat 1A) Ariane 5 Launch
- Jul ?? - Cosmos-Musson 2 Rokot KM Launch
- Jul ?? - Bissat Cosmos 3M Launch
- Jul ?? - Resurs P-1 Soyuz 2-1b Launch
- Jul ?? - Sirius FM-6
Proton M-Briz M Launch
- Jul ?? -
[May 14] Intelsat 20/
Hylas 2 Ariane 5 Launch
- Jul ?? - Gonets M3 & M4/
Cosmos-Rodnik N4/MiR Rokot KM Launch
- Jul ?? - MetOp-B
Soyuz 2-1A-Fregat Launch
- Jul ?? -
[May 14] Shi Jian 11-05 CZ-2C Launch
- Jul ?? -
[May 14] Yaogan 16A, 16B & 16C CZ-4C Launch
- Jul 01 - Kennedy Space Center's 50th Birthday (1962)
- Jul 01 - Juno, Deep Space Maneuver (DSM-1)
- Jul 01 - Mercury At Its Greatest Eastern
Elongation (26 Degrees)
- Jul 01 - Asteroid 1221 Amor
Closest Approach To Earth (0.745 AU)
- Jul 01 - Asteroid 216 Kleopatra Closest Approach To Earth (2.036 AU)
- Jul 01 - 165th Anniversary (1847), Karl Hencke's Discovery of
Asteroid 6 Hebe
- Jul 01-06 - European Week of Astronomy and Space Science (EWASS 2012), Rome, Italy
- Jul 01-06 - Conference: The Early Phase of Star Formation - Assembling Pieces of the Missing Paradigm (EPoS 2012), Heidelberg, Germany
- Jul 01-06 - SPIE Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation 2012 Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Jul 01-06 - Astronomical Society of Australia (ASA) Annual Scientific Meeting, Sydney, Australia
- Jul 01-07 - 13th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity (MG13), Stockholm, Sweden
- Jul 02 - Asteroid 9618 Johncleese Closest Approach To Earth (1.226 AU)
- Jul 02 - Asteroid 115561 Frankherbert Closest Approach To Earth (2.214 AU)
- Jul 02 - Workshop: The Structure of Galaxy Disks Shaped by Secular Evolution and Environmental Processes, Rome, Italy
- Jul 02-03 - Symposium: Molecular Gas in High Redshift Galaxies, Rome, Italy
- Jul 02-03 - Symposium: 30 Years of Italian Participation to ESO, Rome, Italy
- Jul 02-04 - Symposium: Stellar Populations 55 years after the Vatican Conference, Rome Italy
- Jul 02-05 - 22nd UCL Astrophysics Colloquium: Opacities in Cool Stars and Exoplanets, Windsor, United Kingdom
- Jul 02-06 - 11th Hvar Astrophysical Colloquium: The Most Mysterious Binaries - Significance for Astrophysics, Hvar, Croatia
- Jul 02-15 - Nordic-NASA Summer School: Water, Ice and the Origin of Life in the Universe, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Jul 03 - Comet P/2011 JB15 (Spacewatch-Boattini)
Closest Approach To Earth (4.098 AU)
- Jul 03 - Asteroid 1855 Korolev Closest Approach To Earth (1.264 AU)
- Jul 03 - Asteroid 7000 Curie Closest Approach To Earth (1.328 AU)
- Jul 03 - Asteroid 2843 Yeti Closest Approach To Earth (1.465 AU)
- Jul 03 - Asteroid 1381 Danubia Closest Approach To Earth (1.524 AU)
- Jul 03 - 20th Anniversary (1992), SAMPEX Launch
- Jul 03-19 - International Summer School: Solar Astrophysics - Modern Trends and Techniques, Bogota, Colombia
- Jul 04 - Asteroid 1 Ceres Occults TYC 1251-00358-1 (9.1 Magnitude Star)
- Jul 04 - Asteroid 32497 (2000 XF18) Occults HIP 83014 (6.6 Magnitude Star)
- Jul 04 - Asteroid 1740 Paavo Nurmi Closest Approach To Earth (1.439 AU)
- Jul 04 - 15th Anniversary (1997), Mars Pathfinder, Mars Landing
- Jul 04-06 - Midwest Astro-Imaging Conference, Lincolnshire, Illinois
- Jul 04-07 - Workshop: MHD Waves and Seismology of the Solar Atmosphere, Fodele Beach, Crete, Greece
- Jul 04-10 - International School of Cosmic Ray Astrophysics: A New ERA in Particle Astrophysics - New Instruments, New Results and New Understanding, Erice, Sicily, Italy
- Jul 04-11 - 36th International Conference on High Energy Physics (ICHEP 2012), Melbourne, Australia
- Jul 05 - Earth
At Aphelion (1.017 AU From Sun)
- Jul 05 - Asteroid 26858 Misterrogers Closest Approach To Earth (2.202 AU)
- Jul 05 - Andrew Douglass' 145th Birthday (1867)
- Jul 06 - 325th Anniversary (1687), Isaac Newton's
Principia Published
- Jul 07 - Asteroid 3155 Lee Closest Approach To Earth (1.488 AU)
- Jul 07 - Asteroid 3199 Nefertiti Closest Approach To Earth (1.697 AU)
- Jul 07 - Asteroid 1069 Planckia Closest Approach To Earth (2.217 AU)
- Jul 08 - Asteroid 1057 Wanda Occults HIP 61969 (6.9 Magnitude Star)
- Jul 08 - Asteroid 3148 Grechko Occults HIP 9295 (6.1 Magnitude Star)
- Jul 08 - Asteroid 1999 NW2
Near-Earth Flyby (0.085 AU)
- Jul 08 - 20th Anniversary (1992), Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Near-Jupiter Flyby (0.0008 AU), Comet Breakup
- Jul 08-11 - 23rd NASA Space Radiation Investigators' Workshop, Durham, North Carolina
- Jul 08-11 - Conference: Star Formation and Gas Reservoirs in Groups and Clusters, Schenectady, New York
- Jul 08-13 -
[May 17] 15th Annual Global Hands-on Universe (GHOU), Ifrane, Morocco
- Jul 08-15 - 3rd Azarquiel School of Astronomy: A Bridge Between East and West, Istanbul, Turkey
- Jul 09 - Comet 189P/NEAT
Closest Approach To Earth (0.172 AU)
- Jul 09 - Comet 152P/Helin-Lawrence
Perihelion (3.116 AU)
- Jul 09 - Asteroid 1818 Brahms Closest Approach To Earth (0.834 AU)
- Jul 09 - Asteroid 1997 Leverrier Closest Approach To Earth (1.002 AU)
- Jul 09-11 - Adaptive Optics Tomography Workshop, Leiden, The Netherlands
- Jul 09-12 - 14th Canadian Conference on General Relativity and Relativistic Astrophysics (CCGRRA 14), St. John's, Canada
- Jul 09-13 - 5th International Symposium on High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy (Gamma2012), Heidelberg, Germany
- Jul 09-13 - 40th Liege International Astrophysical Colloquium: Aging Low Mass Stars - From Red Giants to White Dwarfs, Liege, Belgium
- Jul 09-13 - Lunar Workshop For Educators, Greenbelt, Maryland
- Jul 09-13 - 2nd International Nuclear Physics Conference: Nuclear Structure and Dynamics, Opatija, Croatia
- Jul 09-13 - 10th Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society, Valencia, Spain
- Jul 09-15 - Farnborough International Airshow 2012, Farnborough, United Kingdom
- Jul 10 - Telcom 3/
Express MD-2 Proton M-Briz M Launch
- Jul 10 - Asteroid 1831 Nicholson Closest Approach To Earth (0.980 AU)
- Jul 10 - Asteroid 12464 Manhattan Closest Approach To Earth (1.415 AU)
- Jul 10 -
[May 12] Asteroid 18728 Grammier Closest Approach To Earth (2.192 AU)
- Jul 10 - 20th Anniversary (1992), Giotto,
Comet Grigg-Skjellerup Flyby
- Jul 10 - 50th Anniversary (1962), Telstar 1 Launch
- Jul 10 - Alvan Clark's 180th Birthday (1832)
- Jul 10-12 - Chandra 2012 Science Workshop: X-Ray Binaries - Celebrating 50 Years Since the Discovery of SCO X-1, Boston, Massachusetts
- Jul 10-12 - 7th Meeting of the NASA Small Bodies Assessment Group, Pasadena, California
- Jul 10-13 - International Workshop on AstroParticles Physics Advanced Computing, Madrid, Spain
- Jul 10-14 - ICNPAA 2012 World Congress: 9th International Conference on Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Aerospace and Sciences, Vienna, Austria
- Jul 10-14 - Conference: 3Quantum - Algebra Geometry Information, Tallinn, Estonia
- Jul 10-21 - 4th International Summer School on Neutrino Physics (INSS2012), Blacksburg, Virginia
- Jul 11 - Asteroid 3062 Wren Closest Approach To Earth (2.001 AU)
- Jul 11 - Asteroid 3905 Doppler Closest Approach To Earth (2.099 AU)
- Jul 11 - Lecture: The Origin of Science, United Kingdom
- Jul 12 - Comet C/2012 C2 (Bruenjes)
Closest Approach To Earth (1.266 AU)
- Jul 12 - Comet P/2010 H4 (Scotti)
Closest Approach To Earth (4.616 AU)
- Jul 12 - 35th Anniversary (1977), High Engery Astronomical Observatory (HEAO-1) Launch
- Jul 13 - Asteroid 8084 Dallas Closest Approach To Earth (2.534 AU)
- Jul 13 - Langley Research Center's 95th Birthday (1917)
- Jul 13-15 - 2nd Conference on the Lunar Highlands Crust, Bozeman, Montana
- Jul 13-19 - Workshop: Gravity Theories and their Avatars, Heraklion, Greece
- Jul 14 - Comet 96P/Machholz
Perihelion (0.124 AU)
- Jul 14 - Asteroid 3728 IRAS Closest Approach To Earth (2.241 AU)
- Jul 14-15 - 3rd Annual Lunar Graduate Conference (LunGradCon 2012), Mountain View, California
- Jul 14-22 - 39th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Mysore, India,
- Jul 15 -
[May 18] Soyuz TMA-05M
Soyuz FG Launch (International Space Station 31S)
- Jul 15 - Moon Occults Jupiter
- Jul 15 - Asteroid 21459 Chrisrussell Closest Approach To Earth (0.961 AU)
- Jul 15 - Asteroid 4871 Riverside Closest Approach To Earth (1.325 AU)
- Jul 15 - Asteroid 3263 Bligh Closest Approach To Earth (1.550 AU)
- Jul 15-19 - 42nd International Conference on Environmental Systems, San Diego, California
- Jul 15-20 - Conference: Dark Attack 2012, Ascona, Switzerland
- Jul 16 - Swarm A, B & C Rokot KM Launch
- Jul 16 - Asteroid 17427 Poe Closest Approach To Earth (2.725 AU)
- Jul 16-17 - UK Space Environments Conference, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
- Jul 16-20 - Conference: Characterizing & Modeling Extrasolar Planetary Atmospheres - Theory & Observation, Heidelberg, Germany
- Jul 16-20 - NASA's 24th Annual Planetary Science Summer School (Session 2), Pasadena, California
- Jul 16-20 -
[May 15] Alpine Cosmology Workshop, Mayrhofen, Austria
- Jul 16-21 - Latinoamerican Workshop on High Energy Physics: Particles and Strings, Havana, Cuba
- Jul 16-22 - Workshop: Galactic Winds of Change - Confronting Models with Observations, Sexten, Italy
- Jul 16-27 - Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling (CISM) Summer School, Boulder, Colorado
- Jul 16-27 - Advanced School in General Relativity: Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Jul 16-27 -
[May 16] Summer School on Cosmolog, Trieste, Italy
- Jul 17 - Comet 185P/Petriew
Closest Approach To Earth (1.098 AU)
- Jul 17 - Asteroid 7291 Hyakutake Closest Approach To Earth (2.060 AU)
- Jul 17-19 - Lunar Science Forum 2012, Moffett Field, California
- Jul 17-19 - Conference: X-ray Binaries - Celebrating 50 years since the Discovery of Sco X-1, Boston, Massachusetts
- Jul 17-20 - Gemini Science Meeting 2012, San Francisco, California
- Jul 18 - Comet P/2005 T2 (Christensen)
Closest Approach To Earth (1.286 AU)
- Jul 18 - Asteroid 443 Photographica Closest Approach To Earth (1.261 AU)
- Jul 18 - Asteroid 3590 Holst Closest Approach To Earth (1.415 AU)
- Jul 18 - Asteroid 25275 Jocelynbell Closest Approach To Earth (1.478 AU)
- Jul 18 - Asteroid 3124 Kansas Closest Approach To Earth (1.558 AU)
- Jul 18-22 - Golden State Star Party (GSSP 2012), near Adin, California
- Jul 18-22 - Mason Dixon Star Party 2012, Wellsville, Pennsylvania
- Jul 19 - Asteroid 2305 King Closest Approach To Earth (1.776 AU)
- Jul 19 - Asteroid 13681 Monty Python Closest Approach To Earth (1.809 AU)
- Jul 19 - Asteroid 2598 Merlin Closest Approach To Earth (2.014 AU)
- Jul 19 - Lecture: The Power of Two - How Humans and Robots Explore Space, Pasadena, California
- Jul 19 - 45th Anniversary (1967), Explorer 35 Launch (Moon Orbiter)
- Jul 19-20 -
[May 18] National Capital Area Disks Meeting (NCAD 2012), Baltimore, Maryland
- Jul 20 - Echostar 16 Proton M-Briz M Launch
- Jul 20 - Moon Occults Mercury
- Jul 20 - Comet 189P/NEAT
Perihelion (1.177 AU)
- Jul 20 - Asteroid 1566 Icarus
Closest Approach To Earth (0.996 AU)
- Jul 20 - Asteroid 19535 Rowanatkinson Closest Approach To Earth (1.137 AU)
- Jul 20 - Lecture: The Power of Two - How Humans and Robots Explore Space, Pasadena, California
- Jul 20-23 - Stargazing Manitoulin, Manitoulin Island, Canada
- Jul 21 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #328 (OTM-328)
- Jul 21 - Asteroid 69230 Hermes
Closest Approach To Earth (1.524 AU)
- Jul 22 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Helene
- Jul 22 - Comet C/2011 UF305 (LINEAR)
Perihelion (2.138 AU)
- Jul 22 - Comet 74P/Smirnova-Chernykh
Closest Approach To Earth (3.573 AU)
- Jul 22 - Asteroid 153958 (2002 AM31)
Near-Earth Flyby (0.035 AU)
- Jul 22 - Asteroid 67 Asia Closest Approach To Earth (0.974 AU)
- Jul 22 - Asteroid 14702 Benclark Closest Approach To Earth (1.688 AU)
- Jul 22 - Asteroid 8373 Stephengould
Closest Approach To Earth (4.104 AU)
- Jul 22 - 40th Anniversary (1972), Venera 8, Venus Landing
- Jul 22 - 40th Anniversary (1972), Landsat 1 Launch
- Jul 22-27 - 32nd Annual IGARSS Symposium: Remote Sensing for a Dynamic Earth, Munich, Germany
- Jul 22-28 - 7th International Symbiosis Society Congress: The Earth's Vast Symbiosphere, Krakow, Poland
- Jul 23 - Asteroid 64070 NEAT Closest Approach To Earth (1.497 AU)
- Jul 23 - Asteroid 51823 Rickhusband Closest Approach To Earth (2.250 AU)
- Jul 23-27 - 2012 Sagan Exoplanet Summer Workshop: Working with Exoplanet Light Curves, Pasadena, California
- Jul 23-27 - Workshop: The Formation and Early Evolution of Stellar Clusters, Sexten, Italy
- Jul 23-27 - Workshop: Galactic Archaeology Surveys- Past, Present and Future, Sydney, Australia
- Jul 23-27 - SciCoder Workshop, New York, New York
- Jul 23-27 - International GNSS Service (IGS) Workshop 2012, Olsztyn, Poland
- Jul 24 - Cassini, Titan Flyby
- Jul 24 - Asteroid 3948 Bohr Closest Approach To Earth (0.814 AU)
- Jul 24 - 20th Anniversary (1992), Geotail Launch
- Jul 24-Aug 02 - Summer School Alpbach 2012: Exploration of the Giant Planets and Gheir Systems, Alpbach/Tyro, Austria
- Jul 25 - Asteroid 816 Juliana Occults HIP 115126 (5.2 Magnitude Star)
- Jul 25-27 - 16th Paris Cosmology Colloquium 2012: The New Standard Model of the Universe - Lambda Warm Dark Matter.Theory and Observations, Paris, France
- Jul 25-Aug 03 - 4th International Summer School on Astroparticle Physics (NIJMEGEN12), Nijmegen, The Netherlands/Kleve, Germany
- Jul 26 - Asteroid 4547 Massachusetts Closest Approach To Earth (1.666 AU)
- Jul 26 - Asteroid 9548 Fortran Closest Approach To Earth (1.818 AU)
- Jul 26 - Asteroid 2864 Soderblom Closest Approach To Earth (2.106 AU)
- Jul 27 - Asteroid 804 Hispania Closest Approach To Earth (1.501 AU)
- Jul 27 - Asteroid 886 Washingtonia Closest Approach To Earth (1.656 AU)
- Jul 27 - Asteroid 12820 Robinwilliams Closest Approach TO Earth (1.863 AU)
- Jul 28 - Intelsat 23 Proton M-Briz M Launch
- Jul 28 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #329 (OTM-329)
- Jul 28 - Asteroid 224 Oceana Closest Approach To Earth (1.532 AU)
- Jul 28 - Asteroid 12382 Niagara Falls Closest Approach To Earth (1.654 AU)
- Jul 28 - Asteroid 11356 Chuckjones Closest Approach To Earth (2.058 AU)
- Jul 29 - South Delta-Aquarids Meteor Shower Peak
- Jul 29 - Asteroid 2713 Luxemburg Closest Approach To Earth (1.780 AU)
- Jul 29 - Asteroid 1691 Oort Closest Approach To Earth (2.207 AU)
- Jul 29 - 30th Anniversary (1982), Burnup of Salyut 6 Space Station (USSR)
- Jul 29-Aug 03 - Gordon Research Conference: Radiation Chemistry - Radiation Driven Processes in Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Industry, Andover, New Hampshire
- Jul 30 - Comet P/2005 J1 (McNaught)
Closest Approach To Earth (1.763 AU)
- Jul 30 - Asteroid 4 Vesta Occults UCAC2 37485056 (11.7 Magnitude Star)
- Jul 30 - Asteroid 3473 Sapporo Closest Approach To Earth (1.513 AU)
- Jul 30 - Asteroid 1006 Lagrangea Closest Approach To Earth (1.666 AU)
- Jul 30-Aug 01 - 48th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Atlanta, Georgia
- Jul 30-Aug 03 - Conference: Rattle and Shine - Gravitational Wave and Electromagnetic Studies of Compact Binary Mergers, Santa Barbara, California
- Jul 30-Aug 03 - Conference: Galactic Scale Star Formation, Heidelberg, Germany
- Jul 30-Aug 03 - Workshop: Black Hole Feedback 2012 - What is the Role of AGN in the Evolution of Galaxies?, Hanover, New Hampshire
- Jul 30-Aug 03 - ANU Nuclei in the Cosmos School, Canberra, Australia
- Jul 30-Aug 03 - Lunar Workshop For Educators, Fairbanks, Alaska
- Jul 30-Aug 03 - Dunlap Institute Summer School 2012: Introduction to Astronomical Instrumentation - Tools and Techniques for Pioneering Astronomers, Toronto, Canada
- Jul 31 -
[May 18] Progress M-16M
Soyuz U Launch (International Space Station 48P)
- Jul 31 - Asteroid 2198 Ceplecha Closest Approach To Earth (1.593 AU)
August 2012
- Aug ?? - Cygnus Mass Simulator/
Dove 1/Phonesat v1A, v1B & v1C
Antares Launch (Inagural Antares Launch)
- Aug ?? - OHO-1 Soyuz STB Launch
- Aug ?? - Condor E Strela Launch
- Aug ?? - Shi Jian 6-05A & 6-05B CZ-4B Launch
- Aug ?? - KompSat 5 (Arirang 5) Dnepr 1 Launch
- Aug ?? - Beidou 2-M2 Compass (M-2)/
Beidou 2-M5 (Compass M-5) CZ-3B Launch
- Aug ?? - SPOT-6 PSLV Launch
- Aug 01 - NROL-36 Atlas 5 Launch
- Aug 01 - Alpha Capricornids Meteor Shower Peak
- Aug 02 - Asteroid 3 Juno Occults TYC 5024-00229-1 (11.9 Magnitude Star)
- Aug 02 - Asteroid 2709 Sagan Closest Approach To Earth (1.259 AU)
- Aug 02 - Asteroid 35977 Lexington Closest Approach To Earth (1.534 AU)
- Aug 02 - 45th Anniversary (1967), Lunar Orbiter 5 Launch
- Aug 03 - Asteroid 185 Eunike Occults HIP 17805 (5.9 Magnitude Star)
- Aug 03 - Asteroid 5451 Plato Closest Approach To Earth (1.260 AU)
- Aug 03 - Asteroid 2046 Leningrad Closest Approach To Earth (1.733 AU)
- Aug 03 - Asteroid 19620 Auckland Closest Approach To Earth (2.022 AU)
- Aug 04 - 5th Anniversary (2007), Phoenix Launch (Mars Lander)
- Aug 04-05 - NIC XII Satellite Workshop on r-process Nucleosynthesis, Cairns, Australia
- Aug 04-08 - 124th Annual Meeting of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific: Communicating Astronomy, Tucson, Arizona
- Aug 04-14 - 6th International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Aug 05 - Asteroid 2062 Aten
Closest Approach To Earth (0.211 AU)
- Aug 05 - Asteroid 306367 Nut Closest Approach To Earth (1.626 AU)
- Aug 05 - Asteroid 10552 Stockholm Closest Approach To Earth (2.702 AU)
- Aug 05-10 - 12th International Symposium on Nuclei in the Cosmos, Cairns, Australia
- Aug 05-10 - 34th International Geological Conference, Brisbane, Australia
- Aug 05-10 - 13th Annual Summer School on Adaptive Optics, Santa Cruz, California
- Aug 05-11 - Boston University Summer School on Plasma Processes in Space Physics, Boston, Massachusetts
- Aug 06 - Mars Science Laboratory (MSL),
Mars Landing
- Aug 06 - Southern Iota Aquarids Meteor Shower Peak
- Aug 06 - Asteroid 2006 EC
Near-Earth Flyby (0.093 AU)
- Aug 06 -
[May 14] Asteroid 73520 Boslough Closest Approach To Earth (1.221 AU)
- Aug 06-08 - Conference: 100 Years Cosmic Rays - Anniversary of Their Discovery by V. F. Hess, Bad Saarow, Germany
- Aug 06-10 - 5th Meeting on Cosmic Dust, Kobe, Japan
- Aug 06-10 - International Radiation Symposium 2012, Berlin, Germany
- Aug 07 - Asteroid 11889 (1991 AH2) Occults HIP 93118 (6.9 Magnitude Star)
- Aug 07 - Asteroid 2006 MV1
Near-Earth Flyby (0.061 AU)
- Aug 08 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #330 (OTM-330)
- Aug 08 - Comet C/2011 R1 (McNaught)
Closest Approach To Earth (2.034 AU)
- Aug 08 - Asteroid 25930 Spielberg Closest Approach To Earth (0.867 AU)
- Aug 08 - 35th Anniversary (1977), Salyut 5 Space Station Burnup
- Aug 09 - Comet C/2011 Q1 (PANSTARRS)
Closest Approach To Earth (6.311 AU)
- Aug 09 - Asteroid 2009 BW2
Near-Earth Flyby (0.034 AU)
- Aug 09 - Asteroid 2004 SC56
Near-Earth Flyby (0.081 AU)
- Aug 09 - Asteroid 8925 Boattini Closest Approach To Earth (1.140 AU)
- Aug 09 - Asteroid 5535 Annefrank
Closest Approach To Earth (1.338 AU)
- Aug 09 - Asteroid 5143 Heracles
Closest Approach To Earth (1.545 AU)
- Aug 09 - Asteroid 4701 Milani Closest Approach To Earth (1.578 AU)
- Aug 09 - Asteroid 25137 Seansolomon Closest Approach To Earth (1.922 AU)
- Aug 09 - Asteroid 1877 Marsden Closest Approach To Earth (2.148 AU)
- Aug 10 - Asteroid 8299 Tealeoni Closest Approach To Earth (1.075 AU)
- Aug 10 - Asteroid 4758 Hermitage Closest Approach To Earth (1.707 AU)
- Aug 10 - 20th Anniversary (1992), TOPEX/Poseidon Launch
- Aug 10 - 20th Anniversary (1992), Kitsat A Launch (1st South Korean Satellite)
- Aug 10 - 40th Anniversary (1972), Daylight Fireball (Utah, Canada)
- Aug 11 - Moon Occults Jupiter
- Aug 11 - Asteroid 18610 Arthurdent Closest Approach To Earth (1.926 AU)
- Aug 11 - Asteroid 48300 Kronk Closest Approach To Earth (1.957 AU)
- Aug 11 - Asteroid 2127 Tanya Closest Approach To Earth (2.110 AU)
- Aug 11 - 50th Anniversary (1962), Vostok 3 Launch
- Aug 11 - 135th Anniversary (1877), Asaph Hall's Discovery of Mars Moon
Deimos
- Aug 11-19 - 29th Annual Mt. Kobau Star Party, Kelowna, Canada
- Aug 12 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Telesto
- Aug 12 - Perseids Meteor Shower Peak
- Aug 12 - Asteroid 37655 Illapa
Near-Earth Flyby (0.095 AU)
- Aug 12 - Asteroid 1539 Borrelly Closest Approach To Earth 1.921 AU)
- Aug 12 - 35th Anniversary (1977), HEAO 1 Launch
- Aug 12 - 50th Anniversary (1962), Vostok 4 Launch
- Aug 12-15 - 2nd Beijing Normal University International Summer School on Quantum Gravity, Beijing (China)
- Aug 12-16 - SPIE Optics + Photonics Conference, San Diego, California
- Aug 12-17 - 75th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Cairns, Australia
- Aug 13 - Moon Occults Venus
- Aug 13 - Comet 185P/Petriew
Perihelion (0.932 AU)
- Aug 13 - Asteroid 12574 LONEOS Closest Approach To Earth (1.838 AU)
- Aug 13 - Asteroid 4037 Ikeya Closest Approach To Earth (2.018 AU)
- Aug 13 - Asteroid 3106 Morabito Closest Approach To Earth (2.059 AU)
- Aug 13 -
[May 16] 2012 Army Commercial SATCOM Users Workshop, Baltimore, Maryland
- Aug 13 - 370th Anniversary (1642), Christiaan Huygens' Discovery of Mars' South Polar Cap
- Aug 13-16 - Solar Information Processing Workshop (SIPWork VI), Bozeman, Montana
- Aug 13-16 - AIAA Guidance, Navigation, and Control and Co-located Conferences, Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Aug 13-16 -
[May 15] Small Satellite Conference: Enhancing Global Awareness through Small Satellites, Logan, Utah
- Aug 13-17 - 18th European Workshop on White Dwarfs, Krakow, Poland
- Aug 13-17 - AOGS - AGU (WPGM) Joint Assembly, Singapore
- Aug 13-17 - Conference: The Cosmic Kaleidoscope - Pulsars and Their Nebulae, Supernova Remnants and More, Kruger National Park, South Africa
- Aug 13-17 - MESA Summer School, Santa Barbara, California
- Aug 13-17 - IV La Plata International School on Astronomy and Geophysics (LAPIS): Millimeter / Submillimeter Astronomy with LLAMA, La Plata, Argentina
- Aug 14 - Asteroid 293 Brasilia Closest Approach To Earth (2.204 AU)
- Aug 14-17 - Hinode-6 Meeting, St. Andrews, United Kingdom
- Aug 15 - Venus At Its Greatest Western
Elongation (46 Degrees)
- Aug 15-18 -
[May 17] Symposium: Physics Of Reality - Space, Time, Matter, Cosmos, London, United Kingdom
- Aug 16 - Mercury At Its Greatest Western
Elongation (19 Degrees)
- Aug 16 - Asteroid 3533 Toyota Closest Approach To Earth (1.293 AU)
- Aug 16 - Lecture: Voyager's Interstellar Mission, Pasadena, California
- Aug 16-19 - Julian StarFest 2012, Julian, California
- Aug 16-19 - North York Astronomical Association StarFest, Ayton, Canada
- Aug 17 - Luch 5-B/
Yamal 300K Proton M-Briz M Launch
- Aug 17 - Mars Passes 2.9 Degrees From
Saturn
- Aug 17 - Comet C/2011 P2 (PANSTARRS)
Closest Approach To Earth (5.800 AU)
- Aug 17 - Asteroid 4330 Vivaldi Closest Approach To Earth (1.223 AU)
- Aug 17 - Asteroid 54439 Topeka Closest Approach To Earth (1.406 AU)
- Aug 17 - Lecture: Voyager's Interstellar Mission, Pasadena, California
- Aug 17 - 135th Anniversary (1877), Asaph Hall's Discovery of Mars Moon
Phobos
- Aug 17 - 255th Anniversary (1757), The Opening of the Macfarlane Observatory
- Aug 17-20 - Manitoulin Star Party, Manitoulin Island, Canada
- Aug 17-21 - Almost Heaven Star Party, Spruce Knob, West Virginia
- Aug 18 - Dragon CRS-1/
Orbcomm 2-1/
CU-Sat 1 & 2 Falcon 9 Launch (International Space Station)
- Aug 18 - Comet C/2011 O1 (LINEAR)
Perihelion (3.891 AU)
- Aug 18 - Kuiper Belt Object 2004 PG115
At Opposition (36.185 AU)
- Aug 19 - Asteroid 3767 DiMaggio Closest Approach To Earth (1.826 AU)
- Aug 19 - Asteroid 3162 Nostalgia Closest Approach To Earth (2.341 AU)
- Aug 19 - 15th Anniversary (1997), Mabuhay 1 Launch (1st Philippine Satellite)
- Aug 20 - Asteroid 2012 EC
Near-Earth Flyby (0.081 AU)
- Aug 20 - Asteroid 3688 Navajo
Closest Approach To Earth (3.715 AU)
- Aug 20 - 35th Anniversary (1977), Voyager 2 Launch
- Aug 20-24 - IAU Symposium 290: Feeding Compact Objects - Accretion on All Scales, Beijing, China
- Aug 20-24 - IAU Symposium 291: Neutron Stars and Pulsars - Challenges and Opportunities after 80 Years, Beijing, China
- Aug 20-24 - IAU Symposium 292: Molecular Gas, Dust, and Star Formation in Galaxies, Beijing, China
- Aug 20-24 - Conference: Hawaiian Volcanoes: From Source to Surface, Waikoloa, Hawaii
- Aug 20-25 - 20th International IUPAP Conference on Few-Body Problems in Physics (FB20), Fukuoka, Japan
- Aug 20-31 - 28th General Assembly of the IAU, Beijing, China
- Aug 20-31 - IAU Symposium 288: Astrophysics from Antarctica, Beijing, China
- Aug 21 - Asteroid 1198 Atlantis Closest Approach To Earth (0.513 AU)
- Aug 21 - Asteroid 9951 Tyrannosaurus Closest Approach To Earth (1.196 AU)
- Aug 21 - 40th Anniversary (1972), Copernicus Launch
- Aug 22 - Asteroid 2742 Gibson Closest Approach To Earth (1.866 AU)
- Aug 23 - RBSP-A & B (Radiation Belt Storm Probes)
Atlas 5 Launch
- Aug 23 - Asteroid 983 Gunila Occults HIP 102631 (6.4 Magnitude Star)
- Aug 23 - Asteroid 9963 Sandage Closest Approach To Earth (0.778 AU)
- Aug 23 - Asteroid 2874 Jim Young Closest Approach To Earth (1.127 AU)
- Aug 24 - Neptune
At Opposition
- Aug 24 - Asteroid 48472 Mossbauer Closest Approach To Earth (1.446 AU)
- Aug 24 - Asteroid 78577 JPL Closest Approach To Earth (1.991 AU)
- Aug 24 - Kuiper Belt Object 225088 (2007 OR10)
At Opposition (85.635 AU)
- Aug 25 - Northern Iota Aquarids Meteor Shower Peak
- Aug 25 - Asteroid 2012 FM52
Near-Earth Flyby (0.060 AU)
- Aug 25 - Asteroid 3140 Stellafane Closest Approach To Earth (1.759 AU)
- Aug 25 - Asteroid 51826 Kalpanachawla Closest Approach To Earth (2.085 AU)
- Aug 25 - 15th Anniversary (1997), Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) Launch
- Aug 25-Sep 01 - 22nd International Society for Photogrammetry & Remote Sensing Congress, Melbourne, Australia
- Aug 26 - Dawn,
Vesta Departure
- Aug 26 - Comet 119P/Parker-Hartley
Closest Approach To Earth (3.100 AU)
- Aug 26 - Comet 95P/Chiron
Closest Approach To Earth (16.254)
- Aug 26 - Asteroid 2200 Pasadena Closest Approach To Earth (1.654 AU)
- Aug 27 - Asteroid 14094 Garneau Closest Approach To Earth (1.771 AU)
- Aug 27 - 50th Anniversary (1962), Mariner 2 Launch
- Aug 27-29 - Workshop: Double-Diffusive Systems, Santa Cruz, California
- Aug 27-31 - IAU Symposium 289: Advancing the Physics of Cosmic Distances, Beijing, China
- Aug 27-31 - IAU Symposium 293: Formation, Detection, and Characterization of Extrasolar Habitable Planets, Beijing, China
- Aug 27-31 - IAU Symposium 294: Solar and Astrophysical Dynamos and Magnetic Activity, Beijing, China
- Aug 27-31 - IAU Symposium 295: The Intriguing Life of Massive Galaxies, Beijing, China
- Aug 27-31 - AGU Chapman Conference on Communicating Climate Science: A Historic Look to the Future, Thira, Santorini, Greece
- Aug 27-31 - 20th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO-2012), Bucharest, Romania
- Aug 27-31 - 8th IAG International Conference on Geomorphology, Paris, France
- Aug 28 - Asteroid 4769 Castalia
Closest Approach To Earth (0.114 AU)
- Aug 28 - Asteroid 12773 Lyman Closest Approach To Earth (1.536 AU)
- Aug 28 - Asteroid 230975 Rogerfederer Closest Approach To Earth (1.899 AU)
- Aug 28 - Asteroid 10806 Mexico Closest Approach To Earth (2.499 AU)
- Aug 29 - Asteroid 11714 Mikebrown Closest Approach To Earth (1.039 AU)
- Aug 29 - Asteroid 447 Valentine Closest Approach To Earth (1.916 AU)
- Aug 29 - Kuiper Belt Object 145452 (2005 RN43)
At Opposition (39.668 AU)
- Aug 30 - Asteroid 1 Ceres Occults TYC 1305-00642-1 (11.4 Magnitude Star)
- Aug 30 - Asteroid 1865 Cerberus
Closest Approach To Earth (1.092 AU)
- Aug 30 - 20th Anniversary (1992), David Jewitt's &
Jane Luu's Discovery of the
1st Kuiper Belt Object (1992 QB1)
- Aug 30-Sep 01 - Workshop: Theoretical and Computational Astrochemistry, Pisa, Italy
- Aug 31 - Asteroid 5036 Tuttle Closest Approach To Earth (2.712 AU)
September 2012
- Sep ?? - Badr 7 Ariane 5 Launch
- Sep ?? - Star One C-3 Ariane 5 Launch
- Sep ?? - Hausat 2 Dnepr 1 Launch
- Sep ?? - Bluesat Dnepr 1 Launch
- Sep ?? - IGS-Radar-4/IGS-Optical-5 H-2A Launch
- Sep ?? -
[May 14] Intelsat 21
Zenit 2SL Launch
- Sep 01 - Asteroid 767 Bondia Closest Approach To Earth (1.575 AU)
- Sep 01 - Asteroid 75564 Audubon Closest Approach To Earth (1.620 AU)
- Sep 01 - 20th Anniversary (1992), Theodore Von Karman Stamp
- Sep 01-07 - Symposium on Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology Including Fundamental InteraCtions (PACIFIC 2012), Moorea, French Polynesia
- Sep 01-08 - 8th Tours Symposium on Nuclear Physics and Astrophysics, Black Forest, Germany
- Sep 02 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Titan
- Sep 02 - Asteroid 1 Ceres Occults UCAC2 38931316 (11.0 Magnitude Star)
- Sep 02 - Asteroid 1125 China Closest Approach To Earth (2.482 AU)
- Sep 02-07 - 11th International Conference on Substorms, Luneburg, Germany
- Sep 02-07 - International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications/IEEE-APS Topical Conference on Antennas and Propagation in Wireless Communications, Cape Town, South Africa
- Sep 03 - Asteroid 11 Parthenope At Opposition (9.0 Magnitude)
- Sep 03 - Asteroid 2012 HG31
Near-Earth Flyby (0.072 AU)
- Sep 03 - Asteroid 9249 Yen Closest Approach To Earth (1.236 AU)
- Sep 03 - Asteroid 16682 Donati Closest Approach To Earth (1.277 AU)
- Sep 03 - Asteroid 484 Pittsburghia Closest Approach To Earth (1.539 AU)
- Sep 03 - Asteroid 2791 Paradise Closest Approach To Earth (1.772 AU)
- Sep 03 - Asteroid 39415 Janeausten Closest Approach To Earth (2.373 AU)
- Sep 03-07 - Conference: Planet Formation and Evolution 2012, Munchen, Germany
- Sep 03-07 - 12th Hvar Astrophysical Colloquium: The Sun and Heliosphere, Hvar, Croatia
- Sep 03-07 - Conference: ESO@50 - the first 50 years of ESO, Garching, Germany
- Sep 03-07 - 2nd Conference on Science with eROSITA and ART-XC Aboard Spectrum-RG - X-ray Sky - From Stars and Black Holes to Cosmology, Kazan, Russia
- Sep 03-07 - Spanish Relativity Meeting in Portugal 2012, Guimaraes, Portugal
- Sep 03-07 - Coqus Summer School 2012: Quantum Physics Meets Gravity, Vienna, Austria
- Sep 04 - 35th Anniversary (1977), Voyager 1 Launch
- Sep 04-07 - GALEX Fest: Exploring the UV Universe: A Conference to Celebrate Nine Years of Exploration, Pasadena, California
- Sep 05 - Comet C/2008 S3 (Boattini)
Closest Approach To Earth (7.518 AU)
- Sep 05 - Asteroid 2063 Bacchus
Closest Approach To Earth (0.237 AU)
- Sep 05 - Asteroid 52301 Qumran Closest Approach To Earth (0.928 AU)
- Sep 05 - Asteroid 19019 Sunflower Closest Approach To Earth (1.180 AU)
- Sep 05 - Asteroid 13897 Vesuvius Closest Approach To Earth (2.424 AU)
- Sep 06 - Asteroid 2007 PS25
Near-Earth Flyby (0.050 AU)
- Sep 06 - Asteroid 2955 Newburn Closest Approach To Earth (1.112 AU)
- Sep 06 - Asteroid 827 Wolfiana Closest Approach To Earth (0.939 AU)
- Sep 06-07 - 3rd Gaia Science Alerts Workshop, Bologna, Italy
- Sep 07 - Comet P/2010 J5 (McNaught)
Closest Approach To Earth (3.322 AU)
- Sep 07 - Asteroid 1 Ceres Occults TYC 1306-00077-1 (11.8 Magnitude Star)
- Sep 08 - Moon Occults Jupiter
- Sep 08 - Asteroid 3837 Carr Closest Approach To Earth (1.367 AU)
- Sep 08 - Asteroid 8564 Anomalocaris Closest Approach To Earth (1.878 AU)
- Sep 08 - Asteroid 2929 Harris Closest Approach To Earth (2.340 AU)
- Sep 08 - 67th Annual General Meeting of the British Interplanetary Society, London, United Kingdom
- Sep 08 - 20th Anniversary (1992), Geotail, Moon Flyby
- Sep 08 - 45th Anniversary (1967), Surveyor 5 Launch (Moon Lander)
- Sep 08-15 - Neutrino Oscillation Workshop (NOW 2012), Otranto, Italy
- Sep 09 - Asteroid 2006 SQ372
Closest Approach To Earth (24.351 AU)
- Sep 09 - 30th Anniversary (1982), Conestoga I Launch (1st Private Rocket)
- Sep 09 - 120th Anniversary (1892), Edward Barnard's Discovery of Jupiter Moon
Amalthea
- Sep 10 - Bion M-1 Soyuz 2-1B Launch
- Sep 10 - Asteroid 770 Bali Closest Approach To Earth (1.116 AU)
- Sep 10 - Asteroid 6676 Monet Closest Appraoch To Earth (2.596 AU)
- Sep 10 - James Keeler's 155th Birthday (1857)
- Sep 10-12 - Conference: 1970-2010 - The Golden Age of Solar System Exploration, Rome, Italy
- Sep 10-12 - Conference: The Mantle of Mars - Insights from Theory, Geophysics, High-Pressure Studies, and Meteorites, Houston, Texas
- Sep 10-13 - Workshop on the Magellanic Clouds, Perth, Australia
- Sep 10-13 - 9th Potsdam Thinkshop 2012: Galaxy Surveys Using Integral Field Spectroscopy - Achievements and Opportunities, Potsdam, Germany
- Sep 10-13 - Meeting: Growing-up at High Redshift - From Proto-clusters to Galaxy Clusters, Madrid, Spain
- Sep 10-14 - 5th Solar Orbiter Workshop, Bruges, Belgium
- Sep 10-14 -
[May 15] MPA/ESO/MPE/Excellence Cluster Universe Conference on Supernovae Illuminating the Universe - From Individuals to Populations, Garching, Germany
- Sep 10-14 - Multiverse and Fundamental Cosmology Conference (Multicosmofun'12), Szczecin, Poland
- Sep 10-14 - 7th Heidelberg Summer School: Computational Astrophysics - Physical Foundations & Numerical Techniques, Heidelberg, Germany
- Sep 10-15 - Summer School on Binary Stars, Leuven, Belgium
- Sep 10-22 - 10th NEON Observing School, Asiago, Italy
- Sep 11 - Asteroid 1554 Yugoslavia Closest Approach To Earth (1.115 AU)
- Sep 11 - Asteroid 2531 Cambridge Closest Approach To Earth (2.172 AU)
- Sep 11 - 15th Anniversary (1997), Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Orbit Insertion
- Sep 11-13 - AIAA SPACE 2012 Conference, Pasadena, California
- Sep 11-14 - de Sitter Workshop: Physics of de Sitter Spacetime, Hannover, Germany
- Sep 11-16 - ILA Berlin Air Show 2012, Berlin, Germany
- Sep 12-16 - 8th Annual Central Nevada Star Party, near Tonopah, Nevada
- Sep 13 -
[May 18] Comet C/2012 J1 (Catalina)
Perihelion (3.580 AU)
- Sep 13 - Asteroid 1655 Comas Sola Closest Approach To Earth (1.640 AU)
- Sep 13 - Lecture: The Challenge of Mars Exploration, Pasadena, California
- Sep 13 - 5th Anniversary (2007), Kaguya (Selene 1) Launch (Japan Moon Orbiter)
- Sep 13-15 - Conference: Molecular Emission at High Redshift Comes of Age, Charlottesville, Virginia
- Sep 13-15 - Mt Bachelor Star Party, Sunriver, Oregon
- Sep 13-16 - Prairie Skies Star Party, near Bourbonnais, Illinois
- Sep 13-16 - 10th Annual Great Lakes Star Gaze Star Party, Gladwin, Michigan
- Sep 14 - Comet 160P/LINEAR
Closest Approach To Earth (1.068 AU)
- Sep 14 - Comet P/2005 N3 (Larson)
Closest Approach To Earth (1.191 AU)
- Sep 14 - Asteroid 1620 Geographos
Closest Approach To Earth (0.447 AU)
- Sep 14 - Asteroid 8837 London Closest Approach To Earth (1.407 AU)
- Sep 14 - Asteroid 51827 Laurelclark Closest Approach To Earth (2.168 AU)
- Sep 14 - Lecture: The Challenge of Mars Exploration, Pasadena, California
- Sep 15 - Asteroid 6524 Baalke Closest Approach To Earth (1.277 AU)
- Sep 16 - Asteroid 363 Padua Occults HIP 72622 (2.7 Magnitude Star)
- Sep 16 - Asteroid 4255 Spacewatch Closest Approach To Earth (2.963 AU)
- Sep 16-21 - 42th International Symposium On Multiparticle Dynamics (ISMD 2012), Kielce, Poland
- Sep 16-23 - Crimean Autumn: International Conference of Young Astronomers, Crimea, Ukraine
- Sep 17 - Asteroid 9349 Lucas Closest Approach To Earth (0.901 AU)
- Sep 17 - Asteroid 3351 Smith Closest Approach To Earth (1.250 AU)
- Sep 17 - Asteroid 48575 Hawaii Closest Approach To Earth (2.167 AU)
- Sep 17 - 15th Anniversary (1997), Galileo, Callisto 10 Flyby
- Sep 17 - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky's 155th Birthday (1857)
- Sep 17-20 - Workshop: Instabilities and Structures in Proto-Planetary Disks, Marseille, France
- Sep 17-21 - Conference: Half a Century of X-ray Astronomy, Mykonos Island, Greece
- Sep 17-21 - International Workshop On Models Of Neutrino Mass: Behind Neutrino Mass (BeNe 2012), Trieste, Italy
- Sep 17-21 -
[May 18] 6th International Workshop: Spacetime - Matter - Quantum Mechanics - From the Planck Scale to Emergent Phenomena (DICE2012), Tuscany, Italy
- Sep 17-22 - 11th School of Cosmology, Cargese, France
- Sep 18 - Comet 160P/LINEAR
Perihelion (2.067 AU)
- Sep 18 - Asteroid 96192 Calgary Closest Approach To Earth (1.022 AU)
- Sep 18 - Asteroid 3430 Bradfield Closest Approach To Earth (1.542 AU)
- Sep 18-21 - International BELISSIMA Conference: Future Science With Metre-Class Telescopes, Belgrade, Serbia
- Sep 19 - Moon Occults Mars
- Sep 19 - Asteroid 1998 FF14
Near-Earth Flyby (0.093 AU)
- Sep 19 - Asteroid 7086 Bopp Closest Approach To Earth (0.838 AU)
- Sep 19 - Asteroid 2825 Crosby Closest Approach TO Earth (0.999 AU)
- Sep 19 - Asteroid 51824 Mikeanderson Closest Approach To Earth (1.714 AU)
- Sep 19 - Asteroid 656 Beagle Closest Approach To Earth (2.537 AU)
- Sep 19-21 - 3rd Planetary Crater Consortium (PCC) Meeting, Flagstaff, Arizona
- Sep 19-21 - Workshop: Relativistic Positioning Systems and their Scientific Applications, Brdo near Kranj, Slovenia
- Sep 19-21 - Workshop: From School to Science - Meeting the Scientists, Blankenberge, Belgium
- Sep 20 - GPS 2F-3
Delta 4M Launch
- Sep 20 - Comet C/2012 BJ98
Perihelion (2.157 AU)
- Sep 20 - Asteroid 8103 Fermi Closest Approach To Earth (2.017 AU)
- Sep 20-23 - International Meteor Conference 2012, La Palma Island, Canary, Spain
- Sep 22 - Autumnal Equinox,
14:49 UT
- Sep 22 - Asteroid 3123 Dunham Closest Approach To Earth (1.140 AU)
- Sep 22 - Asteroid 16155 Buddy Closest Approach To Earth (1.635 AU)
- Sep 22 - Asteroid 5223 McSween Closest Approach To Earth (1.665 AU)
- Sep 22 - Asteroid 34419 Corning Closest Approach To Earth (1.712 AU)
- Sep 23 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #331 (OTM-331)
- Sep 23 - Asteroid 11365 NASA Closest Approach To Earth (0.969 AU)
- Sep 23 - Asteroid 6000 United Nations Closest Approach To Earth (1.162 AU)
- Sep 23-28 - European Planetary Science Congress 2012, Madrid, Spain
- Sep 23-28 - 28th Congress of the International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS), Brisbane, Australia
- Sep 24 - Asteroid 2 Pallas At Opposition (8.3 Magnitude)
- Sep 24 - Asteroid 9965 GNU Closest Approach To Earth (1.637 AU)]
- Sep 24-27 - 30th AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC) and 18th Ka and Broadband Communications, Navigation and Earth Observation Conference, Ottawa, Canada
- Sep 24-27 - 2nd Large Observatory For X-ray Timing (LOFT) Science Meeting, Toulouse, France
- Sep 24-28 - 12th International Symposium on Materials in the Space Environment (ISMSE-12), Noordwijk, The Netherlands
- Sep 24-28 - 18th International Space Planes and Hypersonic Systems and Technologies Conference, Tours, France
- Sep 24-28 - 21st European Conference on Radiation and Its Effects on Components and Systems (RADECS 2012), Biarritz, France
- Sep 24-28 - Annual Meeting of the German Astronomical Society, Hamburg, Germany
- Sep 24-28 - Summer School in Astrophotonics: The Applications of Photonics to Astronomy, Brandenburg, Germany
- Sep 24-29 - Symposium: 20 Years of Progress in Radar Altimetry, Venice, Italy
- Sep 25 - Comet 168P/Hergenrother
Closest Approach To Earth (0.424 AU)
- Sep 25 - Comet C/2012 CH17 (MOSS)
Closest Approach To Earth (1.738 AU)
- Sep 25 - Comet 120P/Mueller
Closest Approach To Earth (1.875 AU)
- Sep 25 - Comet C/2010 S1 (LINEAR)
Closest Approach To Earth (5.615 AU)
- Sep 25 - Asteroid 2006 KM103
Near-Earth Flyby (0.063 AU)
- Sep 25 - 20th Anniversary (1992), Mars Observer Launch
- Sep 25-27 - Workshop: Simulation and EGSE Facilities for Space Programmes, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
- Sep 25-28 - 4th IAA Symposium on Searching for Life Signatures, San Marino, Italy
- Sep 26 - Cassini, Titan Flyby
- Sep 26 - Comet 71P/Clark
Closest Approach To Earth (1.886 AU)
- Sep 27 - Comet 114P/Wiseman-Skiff
Closest Approach To Earth (1.757 AU)
- Sep 27 - Comet 158P/Kowal-LINEAR
Perihelion (4.576 AU)
- Sep 27 - 5th Anniversary (2007), Dawn Launch
- Sep 28 - Galileo IOV 3 & 4
Soyuz STB-Fregat Launch
- Sep 28 - Comet C/2012 CH17 (MOSS)
Perihelion (1.296 AU)
- Sep 28 - Asteroid 17062 Bardot Closest Approach To Earth (2.144 AU)
- Sep 28 - 50th Anniversary (1962), Alouette Launch (Canada's 1st Satellite)
- Sep 28-Oct 01 - Pro Am Conference on Stellar Astrophysics (CAPAS 2012): Double Stars, Stellar Stars, Exoplanets, Supernovae, Onet le Chateau, France
- Sep 29 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #332 (OTM-332)
- Sep 29 - Uranus
At Opposition
- Sep 29 - Asteroid 4907 Zoser Occults HIP 31158 (6.3 Magnitude Star)
- Sep 29 - Asteroid 4487 Pocahontas Closest Approach To Earth (0.345 AU)
- Sep 29 - Asteroid 10221 Kubrick Closest Approach To Earth (1.493 AU)
- Sep 29 - Asteroid 58671 Diplodocus Closest Approach To Earth (1.292 AU)
- Sep 29 - 35th Anniversary (1977), Salyut 6 Space Station Launch
- Sep 30 - Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), End of Extended Mission
- Sep 30 - Asteroid 18024 Dobson Closest Approach To Earth (2.361 AU)
- Sep 30-Oct 03 - Workshop on Outstanding Problems in Massive Star Research, St. Paul, Minnesota
October 2012
- Oct ?? - Cygnus Antares Launch (Test Flight to International Space Station)
- Oct ?? - Deep Impact,
Trajectory Correction Maneuver
- Oct ?? - DubaiSat 2/
STSat 3/
Brite-PL 1/WNISAT-1 Dnepr 1 Launch
- Oct ?? - Venezuela Remote Sensing Satellite 1 (VRSS-1) CZ-2D Launch
- Oct ?? - Tolou Safir-B1 Launch (Iran)
- Oct ?? - Kanopus V N2 Rokot KM Launch
- Oct ?? - Microscope Ariane 5 Launch
- Oct ?? - Yamal 402 Proton M-Briz M Launch
- Oct ?? - STSat 2C Naro 1 Launch
- Oct ?? - Amazonas 3 Ariane 5 Launch
- Oct ?? - Zafar 1 Simorgh Launch (Iran)
- Oct ?? - G-Sat 14 GSLV-D5 Launch
- Oct 01 - Comet 168P/Hergenrother
Perihelion (1.415 AU)
- Oct 01 - Asteroid 6775 Giorgini Closest Approach To Earth (1.668 AU)
- Oct 01 - Asteroid 30441 Curly Closest Approach To Earth (1.766 AU)
- Oct 01 - Asteroid 88705 Potato Closest Approach To Earth (2.342 AU)
- Oct 01-05 - 63rd International Astronautical Congress, Naples, Italy
- Oct 01-05 - Conference: X-Ray Astronomy - Towards The Next 50 Years!, Milan, Italy
- Oct 02 - Comet 158P/Kowal-LINEAR
Closest Approach To Earth (3.584 AU)
- Oct 02 - Asteroid 2410 Morrison Closest Approach To Earth (1.358 AU)
- Oct 02-05 - 1st International IEEE-AESS Conference in Europe About Space and Satellite Telecommunications, Rome, Italy
- Oct 03 - Comet P/2005 K3 (McNaught)
Closest Approach To Earth (0.582 AU)
- Oct 03 - Asteroid 3031 Houston Closest Approach To Earth (1.451 AU)
- Oct 03 - Asteroid 2044 Wirt Closest Approach To Earth (1.497 AU)
- Oct 03 - 50th Anniversary (1962), Sigma 7 Launch (Walter Schirra)
- Oct 03 - 50th Anniversary (1962), Zagami Meteorite Fall (Mars Meteorite)
- Oct 03-05 - Workshop: Radio Stars and Their Lives in the Galaxy, Westford, Massachusetts
- Oct 04 -
[May 18] Comet C/2012 J1 (Catalina)
Closest Approach To Earth (2.717 AU)
- Oct 04 - 5th Anniversary (2007), Kaguya (Selene 1) Moon Orbit Insertion,
- Oct 04 - 55th Anniversary (1957), Sputnik 1 Launch
- Oct 04-06 -
[May 17] 1st International Conference on LunarCubes: The Next Frontier, Mountain View, California
- Oct 04-10 - World Space Week
- Oct 05 - Moon Occults Jupiter
- Oct 05 - European Southern Observatory's (ESO) 50th Birthday (1962)
- Oct 05 - Robert Goddard's 130th Birthday (1882)
- Oct 06 - Mercury Passes 3.5 Degrees From
Saturn
- Oct 06 - Comet 76P/West-Kohoutek-Ikemura
Closest Approach To Earth (1.806 AU)
- Oct 06 - Comet C/2011 S1 (Gibbs)
Closest Approach To Earth (6.278 AU)
- Oct 06 - Asteroid 2009 TK
Near-Earth Flyby (0.045 AU)
- Oct 06 - Asteroid 1604 Tombaugh Closest Approach To Earth (1.784 AU)
- Oct 06 - Asteroid 3317 Paris Closest Approach To Earth (4.312 AU)
- Oct 06-14 - 23rd Annual Twin Lakes Star Party, near Dawson Springs, Kentucky
- Oct 07 - Asteroid 3 Juno Occults HIP 80159 (8.4 Magnitude Star)
- Oct 07 - Asteroid 241 Germania Closest Approach To Earth (1.791 AU)
- Oct 08 - Comet C/2009 F4 (McNaught)
Closest Approach To Earth (5.536 AU)
- Oct 08 - Asteroid 2975 Spahr Closest Approach To Earth (1.470 AU)
- Oct 08 - 20th Anniversary (1992), Pioneer Venus' Burnup in Venus' Atmosphere
- Oct 08-11 - Conference: Rocks n Stars - The Solar System Within Geo- and Astrophysics, Gottingen, Germany
- Oct 08-12 - Symposium: Gamma Ray Burst 2012, Malaga, Spain
- Oct 08-12 - 31st Symposium of the Scientific Instrument Commission, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Oct 08-12 - Workshop: The Low-Metallicity ISM - Chemistry, Turbulence and Magnetic Fields, Goettingen, Germany
- Oct 09 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #333 (OTM-333)
- Oct 09 - Draconids Meteor Shower Peak
- Oct 09 - Asteroid 434 Hungaria Closest Approach To Earth (0.961 AU)
- Oct 09 - 20th Anniversary (1992), Peekskill Meteorite Fall (Hit Car)
- Oct 09-12 -
[May 16] 11th European VLBI Network Symposium, Bordeaux, France
- Oct 09-12 - International Conference on Space Optics, Ajaccio, Corsica, France
- Oct 09-12 - Joint Meeting: Paneth Kolloquium & The First 10 Million Years of the Solar System (DFG SPP 1385), Nordlingen, Germany
- Oct 10 - Asteroid 9885 Linux Closest Approach To Earth (1.313 AU)
- Oct 10 - 45th Anniversary (1967), Enactment of the Outer Space Treaty
- Oct 10-11 - International Workshop on Instrumentation for Planetary Missions, Greenbelt, Maryland
- Oct 10-13 - United Nations/Japan Nano-Satellite Symposium, Nagoya, Japan
- Oct 11 - Asteroid 9342 Carygrant Closest Approach To Earth (0.918 AU)
- Oct 11 - Asteroid 6469 Armstrong Closest Approach To Earth (1.040 AU)
- Oct 11 - Lecture: Herschel Opens Up the Cool Universe, Pasadena, California
- Oct 12 -
[May 13] Comet P/2010 A2 (LINEAR)
Closest Approach To Earth (1.203 AU)
- Oct 12 - Asteroid 7100 Martin Luther Closest Approach To Earth (1.757 AU)
- Oct 12 - Asteroid 9995 Alouette Closest Approach To Earth (1.777 AU)
- Oct 12 - Lecture: Herschel Opens Up the Cool Universe, Pasadena, California
- Oct 14 - Asteroid 8120 Kobe Closest Approach To Earth (1.050 AU)
- Oct 14 - Asteroid 3852 Glennford Closest Approach To Earth (1.516 AU)
- Oct 14 - Asteroid 8952 ODAS Closest Approach To Earth (1.705 AU)
- Oct 14 - Asteroid 7028 Tachikawa Closest Approach To Earth (1.764 AU)
- Oct 14 - Asteroid 204852 Frankfurt Closest Approach To Earth (1.882 AU)
- Oct 14 - 65th Anniversary (1947), Chuck Yeager Breaks Sound Barrier
- Oct 14-19 - Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) Annual Meeting, Reno, Nevada
- Oct 14-19 - Conference: The Time Machine Factory, Turin, Italy
- Oct 15 - Soyuz TMA-06M Soyuz FG Launch (International Space Station 32S)
- Oct 15 - Asteroid 2004 RX10
Near-Earth Flyby (0.082 AU)
- Oct 15 - Asteroid 2006 WV1
Near-Earth Flyby (0.091 AU)
- Oct 15 - Asteroid 3635 Kreutz Closest Approach To Earth (0.883 AU)
- Oct 15 - Asteroid 14593 Everett Closest Approach To Earth (1.223 AU)
- Oct 15 - Asteroid 6223 Dahl Closest Approach To Earth (1.424 AU)
- Oct 15 - Asteroid 11335 Santiago Closest Approach To Earth (1.491 AU)
- Oct 15 - Dwarf Planet 136199 Eris
At Opposition (95.542 AU)
- Oct 15 - Asteroid 11247 Wilburwright Closest Approach To Earth (1.813 AU)
- Oct 15 - Asteroid 508 Princetonia Closest Approach To Earth (2.204 AU)
- Oct 15 - 15th Anniversary (1997), Cassini Launch
- Oct 15-17 - 12th European Workshop on Astrobiology (EANA 2012), Stockholm, Sweden
- Oct 15-18 - Workshop: Science from the Next Generation Imaging and Spectroscopic Surveys, Garching, Germany
- Oct 15-19 - 9th INTEGRAL Workshop: An INTEGRAL View of the High-energy Sky (The First 10 Years), Paris, France
- Oct 15-19 - 8th IRAM Millimeter Interferometry School, Grenoble, France
- Oct 15-26 - Capacity Building Workshop Dedicated to Infrared and Submillimeter Astronomy, San Martin, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Oct 16 - Asteroid 9937 Triceratops Closest Approach To Earth (0.829 AU)
- Oct 16 - Asteroid 15402 Suzaku Closest Approach To Earth (1.305 AU)
- Oct 16 - Asteroid 17023 Abbott Closest Approach To Earth (1.407 AU)
- Oct 16-19 - Dark Workshop 2012: Dark Forces at Accelerators, Frascati, Italy
- Oct 17 - Moon Occults Mercury
- Oct 17 - Kuiper Belt Object 55636 (2002 TX300)
At Opposition (41.885 AU)
- Oct 18 - Asteroid 136993 (1998 ST49)
Near-Earth Flyby (0.074 AU)
- Oct 18 - Asteroid 4987 Flamsteed Closest Approach To Earth (1.429 AU)
- Oct 18 - Asteroid 10093 Diesel Closest Approach To Earth (1.452 AU)
- Oct 18 - 35th Anniversary (1977), Charles Kowal's Discovery of
Chiron
- Oct 18 - 45th Anniversary (1967), Venera 4, Venus Landing
- Oct 18 - 165th Anniversary (1847), John Hind's Discovery of
Asteroid 8 Flora
- Oct 18-20 - Solar System Exploration @50 Conference, Washington DC
- Oct 19 - Comet C/2011 R1 (McNaught)
Perihelion (2.080 AU)
- Oct 19 - Comet C/2009 S3 (Lemmon)
Closest Approach To Earth (5.898 AU)
- Oct 19 - Asteroid 5450 Sokrates Closest Approach To Earth (1.729 AU)
- Oct 19 - Asteroid 15550 Sydney Closest Approach To Earth (1.735 AU)
- Oct 19 - Asteroid 51825 Davidbrown Closest Approach To Earth (1.795 AU)
- Oct 19 - Asteroid 6227 Alanrubin Closest Approach To Earth (2.362 AU)
- Oct 19 - Asteroid 3259 Brownlee Closest Approach To Earth (2.583 AU)
- Oct 19 - 45th Anniversary (1967), Mariner 5, Venus Flyby
- Oct 20 - Christopher Wren's 380th Birthday (1632)
- Oct 21 - Orionids Meteor Shower Peak
- Oct 21 - Kuiper Belt Object 15760 (1992 QB1)
At Opposition (40.160 AU)
- Oct 21 - Yerkes Observatory's 115th Birthday (1897)
- Oct 21-24 - Conference: Brown Dwarf Binaries and the Origin of Brown Dwarfs, Bavaria, Germany
- Oct 22 - Asteroid 2008 CT1
Near-Earth Flyby (0.067 AU)
- Oct 22 - Asteroid 6779 Perrine Closest Approach To Earth (1.391 AU)
- Oct 22-24 - International Conference on Space Weather and Challenges for Modern Society, Oslo, Norway
- Oct 22-24 - Annual Meeting of the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group (LEAG), Greenbelt, Maryland
- Oct 23 - Progress M-17M
Soyuz U Launch (International Space Station 49P)
- Oct 23 - Asteroid 8275 Inca Closest Approach To Earth (1.322 AU)
- Oct 23 - Asteroid 5066 Garradd
Closest Approach To Earth (1.339 AU)
- Oct 23 - Asteroid 73511 Lovas Closest Approach To Earth (2.241 AU)
- Oct 24 - Asteroid 11020 Orwell Closest Approach To Earth (2.192 AU)
- Oct 24 - 5th Anniversary (2007), Chang'e 1 CZ-3A Launch (Chinese Lunar Orbiter)
- Oct 25 - Asteroid 2451 Dollfus Closest Approach To Earth (1.771 AU)
- Oct 25 - Asteroid 4356 Marathon Closest Approach To Earth (2.109 AU)
- Oct 25 - Asteroid 1578 Kirkwood Closest Approach To Earth (2.216 AU)
- Oct 25 - Henry Russell's 135th Birthday (1877)
- Oct 25-27 - 3rd Conference on Terrestrial Mars Analogues, Marrakech, Morocco
- Oct 26 - Mercury At Its Greatest Eastern
Elongation (24 Degrees)
- Oct 26 - Asteroid 162004 (1991 VE)
Near-Earth Flyby (0.087 AU)
- Oct 26 - Asteroid 16260 Sputnik Closest Approach To Earth (1.000 AU)
- Oct 26 - Asteroid 3200 Phaethon
Closest Approach To Earth (1.325 AU)
- Oct 26 - Asteroid 3341 Hartmann Closest Approach To Earth (1.365 AU)
- Oct 26 - Asteroid 46977 Krakow Closest Approach To Earth (1.366 AU)
- Oct 26 - Asteroid 15371 Steward Closest Approach To Earth (2.040 AU)
- Oct 26 - Asteroid 310 Margarita Closest Approach To Earth (2.067 AU)
- Oct 26 - Asteroid 3933 Portugal Closest Approach TO Earth (2.325 AU)
- Oct 27 - Asteroid 2099 Opik Closest Approach To Earth (0.507 AU)
- Oct 27 - Asteroid 5035 Swift Closest Approach To Earth (1.463 AU)
- Oct 27 - Asteroid 9341 Gracekelly Closest Approach To Earth (1.467 AU)
- Oct 27 - Asteroid 5608 Olmos Closest Approach To Earth (1.670 AU)
- Oct 28 - European Summer Time Ends - Set Clock Back 1 Hour (European Union)
- Oct 28 - Asteroid 76272 De Jong Closest Approach To Earth (1.194 AU)
- Oct 28 - Asteroid 51829 Williemccool Closest Approach To Earth (1.421 AU)
- Oct 28 - Asteroid 26715 South Dakota Closest Approach To Earth (1.450 AU)
- Oct 28 - Asteroid 11881 Mirstation Closest Approach To Earth (1.457 AU)
- Oct 28 - Asteroid 3975 Verdi Closest Approach To Earth (1.819 AU)
- Oct 28-Nov 02 - 4th International Fermi Symposium, Monterey, California
- Oct 29 - Asteroid 2000 EA14
Near-Earth Flyby (0.100 AU)
- Oct 29 - Asteroid 1154 Astronomia Closest Approach To Earth (2.508 AU)
- Oct 29-Nov 01 - 2012 Military Communications Conference, Orlando, Florida
- Oct 29-Nov 02 - 5th East Asia Numerical Astrophysics Meeting, Kyoto, Japan
- Oct 30 - Asteroid 8423 Macao Closest Approach To Earth (1.356 AU)
- Oct 30 - Asteroid 4149 Harrison Closest Approach To Earth (2.028 AU)
- Oct 30 - Kuiper Belt Object 55637 (2002 UX25)
At Opposition (40.313 AU)
- Oct 31 - Asteroid 1602 Indiana Closest Approach To Earth (1.324 AU)
- Oct 31 - Asteroid 149244 Kriegh Closest Approach To Earth (1.393 AU)
- Oct 31 - Asteroid 7707 Yes Closest Approach To Earth (2.087 AU)
- Oct 31 - Kuiper Belt Object 84522 (2002 TC302)
At Opposition (45.806 AU)
November 2012
- Nov ?? - Shenzhou 10
CZ-2F/H Launch (Chinese Manned Launch to
Tian Gong1 1 Space Station)
- Nov ?? - X37B OTV-1 F-2 Atlas 5 Launch
- Nov ?? - Electro L N2 Zenit 3F Launch
- Nov ?? - MexSat 3 Ariane 5 Launch
- Nov ?? - SSR-1 VSL-1 Launch (Brazil)
- Nov ?? - Unamsat 3 Dnepr 1 Launch
- Nov ?? - Astra 2F Proton M-Briz M Launch
- Nov ?? - AFSPC-2 Atlas 5 Launch
- Nov ?? - AIST/
Mikhailo Lomonosov Soyuz 2-1V Launch (Inaugural Launch of the Light, Two-stage Version of Soyuz)
- Nov ?? - Mesbah Safir 2 Launch (Iran)
- Nov ?? - SatMex 8 Proton M-Briz M Launch
- Nov ?? - Gonets M5, M6 & M7 /Rokot KM Launch
- Nov ?? - Cosmos-Persona N2 Soyuz 2-1B Launch
- Nov ?? - Eutelsat 70B (W5A) Zenit 3SL Launch
- Nov ?? - Shi Jian 9A & 9B/Feng Niao 1A & 1B CZ-2D Launch (China)
- Nov ?? - Cosmos-Bars N1 Soyuz U Launch
- Nov ?? - SARAL/
Sapphire/
CanX-3/
Tugsat 1 (Brite-Austria) PSLV Launch
- Nov 01 - Asteroid 18125 Brianwilson Closest Approach To Earth (1.844 AU)
- Nov 02 - Moon Occults Jupiter
- Nov 02 - Asteroid 4798 Mercator Closest Approach To Earth (1.405 AU)
- Nov 02 - Asteroid 16046 Gregnorman Closest Approach To Earth (2.335 AU)
- Nov 02 - Asteroid 1268 Libya Closest Approach To Earth (2.868 AU)
- Nov 02 - 10th Anniversary (2002), Stardust,
Asteroid 5535 Annefrank Flyby
- Nov 02 - 95th Anniversary (1917), Mount Wilson 100-inch Telescope First Light
- Nov 03 - Taurids Meteor Shower Peak
- Nov 03 - Asteroid 1604 Tombaugh Occults TYC 1180-01189-1 (11.2 Magnitude Star)
- Nov 03 - Asteroid 16857 Goodall Closest Approach To Earth (1.246 AU)
- Nov 03 - Asteroid 2985 Shakespeare Closest Approach To Earth (1.859 AU)
- Nov 03 - Asteroid 52422 LPL Closest Approach To Earth (2.387 AU)
- Nov 03 - 55th Anniversary (1957), Sputnik 2 Launch (Laika Dog)
- Nov 04 - Daylight Saving - Set Clock Back 1 Hour (United States)
- Nov 04 - Comet P/1997 C1 (Gehrels)
Closest Approach To Earth (2.925 AU)
- Nov 04 - Asteroid 2009 SB15
Near-Earth Flyby (0.076 AU)
- Nov 04 - Asteroid 2011 EL51
Near-Earth Flyby (0.082 AU)
- Nov 04 - Asteroid 3753 Cruithne
Closest Approach To Earth (0.450 AU)
- Nov 04 - Asteroid 3018 Godiva Closest Approach To Earth (1.441 AU)
- Nov 04-08 - 22nd Annual Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS) Conference, Champaign, Illinois
- Nov 04-16 - 24th Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics, Puerto de La Cruz, Tenerife, Spain
- Nov 05 - Comet C/2012 A2 (LINEAR)
Perihelion (3.537 AU)
- Nov 05 - Asteroid 214869 (2007 PA8)
Near-Earth Flyby (0.043 AU)
- Nov 05 - Asteroid 9949 Brontosaurus Closest Approach To Earth (1.500 AU)
- Nov 05 - 5th Anniversary (2007), Chang'e 1, Moon Orbit Insertion,
- Nov 05 - 10th Anniversary (2002), Galileo, Amalthea 34 Flyby
- Nov 05-08 - 27th Space Simulation Conference, Annapolis, Maryland
- Nov 05-08 - Conference: Dust in Core-Collapse Supernovae Near & Far - Understanding Its Formation and Evolution, Ascona, Switzerland
- Nov 05-09 - 9th European Space Weather Week, Brussels, Belgium
- Nov 05-09 - Workshop: Ecology of Blue Straggler Stars, Santiago, Chile
- Nov 05-09 - 1st Southeast Asian Young Astronomers Collaboration (SEAYAC) Meeting, Puerto Princesa City, Palawan, Philippines
- Nov 06 - Asteroid 1288 Santa Closest Approach To Earth (1.788 AU)
- Nov 06 - Asteroid 129564 Christy Closest Approach To Earth (1.884 AU)
- Nov 06 - 15th Anniverary (1997), Galileo, Europa 11 Flyby
- Nov 06-09 - International Symposium on Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Pune, India
- Nov 07 - Asteroid 6600 Qwerty Closest Approach To Earth (0.807 AU)
- Nov 07 - Asteroid 6030 Zolensky Closest Approach To Earth (2.004 AU)
- Nov 07 - 45th Anniversary (1967), Surveyor 6 Launch (Moon Lander)
- Nov 08 - Asteroid 10866 Peru Closest Approach To Earth (1.640 AU)
- Nov 08 - Asteroid 6758 Jesseowens Closest Approach To Earth (2.023 AU)
- Nov 08 - Asteroid 2688 Halley Closest Approach To Earth (2.431 AU)
- Nov 08 - Asteroid 30440 Larry Closest Approach To Earth (2.590 AU)
- Nov 08 - Lecture: Exploring New Worlds with the Dawn Mission, Pasadena, California
- Nov 08 - 20th Anniversary (1992), Geotail, 3rd Moon Flyby
- Nov 08 - 30th Anniversary (1982), Wethersfield Meteorite Fall (Hit House)
- Nov 09 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #334 (OTM-334)
- Nov 09 - Asteroid 24101 Cassini Closest Approach To Earth (0.925 AU)
- Nov 09 - Asteroid 896 Sphinx Closest Approach To Earth (1.624 AU)
- Nov 09 - Lecture: Exploring New Worlds with the Dawn Mission, Pasadena, California
- Nov 09 - 45th Anniversary (1967), 1st Saturn V Launch (Apollo 4)
- Nov 10 - Asteroid 71000 Hughdowns Closest Approach To Earth (1.208 AU)
- Nov 10 - Asteroid 3350 Scobee Closest Approach To Earth (1.243 AU)
- Nov 10 - Asteroid 4628 Laplace Closest Approach To Earth (1.795 AU)
- Nov 10 - Asteroid 15092 Beegees Closest Approach To Earth (2.004 AU)
- Nov 11 - Asteroid 951 Gaspra Occults TYC 0818-00307-1 (10.0 Magnitude Star)
- Nov 11 - 440th Anniversary (1572), Tycho Brahe's Discovery of SN1572
- Nov 12 - Comet C/2012 C1 (McNaught)
Closest Approach To Earth (4.873 AU)
- Nov 12 - Asteroid 671 Carnegia Closest Approach To Earth (1.952 AU)
- Nov 12 - Asteroid 16522 Tell Closest Approach To Earth (2.263 AU)
- Nov 12-16 - GONG 2012/SOHO-27/SDO Conference: Eclipse on the Coral Sea - Cycle 24 Ascending, Palm Cove, Australia
- Nov 12-16 - AGU Chapman Conference on Longitude and Hemispheric Dependence of Space Weather, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Nov 13 - Total Solar Eclipse, Visible From Australia & S. Pacific
- Nov 13 - Cassini, Titan Flyby
- Nov 13 - 5th Anniversary (2007), Rosetta, 2nd Earth Flyby
- Nov 13-15 - Multi-Messenger Time Domain Astronomy Conference, Greenbelt, Maryland
- Nov 13-16 - Conference: Earth Observation and Cryosphere Science - Advancing Knowledge of Cryosphere-Astmosphere-Ocean Interactions from Space , Rome, Italy
- Nov 14 - Moon Occults Mercury
- Nov 14 - Asteroid 4659 Roddenberry Closest Approach To Earth (0.907 AU)
- Nov 14 - Asteroid 32605 Lucy Closest Approach To Earth (2.571 AU)
- Nov 14-16 - 2012 Canadian Space Summit: Bridging Communities - Unifying the Canadian Space Sector, London, Canada
- Nov 15 - Asteroid 2362 Mark Twain Closest Approach To Earth (0.946 AU)
- Nov 15 - Kuiper Belt Object 90377 Sedna
At Opposition (85.759 AU)
- Nov 16 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #335 (OTM-335)
- Nov 17 - Leonids Meteor Shower Peak
- Nov 17 - Comet P/1994 X1 (McNaught-Russell)
Closest Approach To Earth (0.840 AU)
- Nov 17 - Asteroid 1278 Kenya Closest Approach To Earth (1.316 AU)
- Nov 17 - Asteroid 5731 Zeus Closest Approach To Earth (0.412 AU)
- Nov 17 - Henry Gellibrand's 415th Birthday (1597)
- Nov 18 - Asteroid 35352 Texas Closest Approach To Earth (1.518 AU)
- Nov 19 - Comet P/2010 TO20 (LINEAR-Grauer)
Closest Approach To Earth (4.828 AU)
- Nov 19 - Asteroid 7672 Hawking Closest Approach To Earth (1.107 AU)
- Nov 19-23 - Workshop on Recent Developments in Astronuclear and Astroparticle Physics, Trieste, Italy
- Nov 20 - Asteroid 4352 Kyoto Closest Approach To Earth (1.224 AU)
- Nov 20 - Asteroid 3487 Edgeworth Closest Approach To Earth (1.757 AU)
- Nov 20 - Asteroid 4716 Urey Closest Approach To Earth (1.980 AU)
- Nov 20-23 - Conference: Solar Physics with Radio Observations - Twenty Years of Nobeyama Radioheliograph and Beyond, Aichi, Japan
- Nov 21 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #336 (OTM-336)
- Nov 21 - Asteroid 17024 Costello Closest Approach To Earth (1.570 AU)
- Nov 21 - Asteroid 7554 Johnspencer Closest Approach To Earth (2.303 AU)
- Nov 22 - Asteroid 3174 Alcock Closest Approach To Earth (1.629 AU)
- Nov 23 - Asteroid 14413 Geiger Closest Approach To Earth (0.983 AU)
- Nov 23 - 35th Anniversary (1977), Meteosat 1 Launch (ESA's 1st Satellite)
- Nov 24 - Asteroid 463 Lola Occults HIP 45896 (6.2 Magnitude Star)
- Nov 24 - Asteroid 2009 WB105
Near-Earth Flyby (0.040 AU)
- Nov 24 - Asteroid 9941 Iguanodo Closest Approach To Earth (1.164 AU)
- Nov 25 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #337 (OTM-337)
- Nov 25 - Asteroid 2010 JK1
Near-Earth Flyby (0.024 AU)
- Nov 25 - Asteroid 2597 Arthur Closest Approach To Earth (1.596 AU)
- Nov 25 - Asteroid 10204 Turing Closest Approach To Earth (1.601 AU)
- Nov 25-30 - Conference: Progress in Physics of the Sun and Stars - A New Era in Helio- and Asteroseismology, Hakone, Japan
- Nov 26 - Soyuz TMA-07M Soyuz FG Launch (International Space Station 33S)
- Nov 26 - Asteroid 8489 Boulder Closest Approach To Earth (2.529 AU)
- Nov 26-28 - Conference: Reading the Book of Globular Clusters With the Lens of Stellar Evolution, Rome, Italy
- Nov 27 - Venus Passes 0.5 Degrees From
Saturn
- Nov 27 - Mars Passes 4.5 Degrees From
Pluto
- Nov 27 - Asteroid 10005 Chernega Occults HIP 24984 (6.3 Magnitude Star)
- Nov 27 - Asteroid 1994 XD
Near-Earth Flyby (0.052 AU)
- Nov 27 - Asteroid 4252 Godwin Closest Approach To Earth (2.040 AU)
- Nov 28 - Lunar Eclipse
- Nov 28 - 10th Anniversary (2002), Alsat 1 Launch (1st Algerian Satellite)
- Nov 28-Dec 02 - American Society for Gravitational and Space Biology Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Lousiana
- Nov 29 - Cassini, Titan Flyby
- Nov 29 - Moon Occults Jupiter
- Nov 29 - Asteroid 1762 Russell Closest Approach To Earth (1.699 AU)
- Nov 29 - Asteroid 6128 Lasorda Closest Approach To Earth (2.098 AU)
- Nov 29 - 45th Anniversary (1967), Wresat 1 Launch (Australia's 1st Satellite)
- Nov 29-Dec 01 - Workshop: Near Field Cosmology as a Probe of Early Universe, Dark Matter and Gravity, Annapolis, Maryland
- Nov 30 - Asteroid 14764 Kilauea Closest Approach To Earth (0.975 AU)
- Nov 30-Dec 05 - Meeting: Tracing the Connections in Solar Eruptive Events, Petaluma, California
December 2012
- Dec ?? - GRAIL,
End of Extended Mission
- Dec ?? - Monitor IR1 Rokot KM Launch
- Dec ?? - Feng Yun 3C CZ-4B Launch
- Dec ?? - GPS 2F-4 Delta 4M Launch
- Dec ?? - Amos 4 Zenit 3SLB Launch
- Dec ?? - Express AM-5 Proton M-Briz M Launch
- Dec ?? - Huan Jing 1-C (HJ-1C) CZ-2C Launch
- Dec ?? - TK-Sat 1 CZ-3B/E Launch
- Dec ?? - CBERS 3 CZ-4B Launch
- Dec ?? - Zohreh 1 Soyuz FG-Fregat Launch
- Dec ?? - Dialog 1 Rokot-Briz Launch
- Dec ?? - Anik G1 Proton M-Briz M Launch
- Dec ?? - Lightsail 1 PSLV Launch
- Dec ?? - Cassiope 1/
Orbcomm 2-2 Falcon 9 Launch
- Dec ?? - Insat 3-D Ariane 5 Launch
- Dec ?? -
[May 15] Meteor M-2/
Baumanets-2/
Monika (Relek) Soyuz 2-1b-Fregat Launch
- Dec ?? -
[May 14] Gokturk 2 CZ-2C Launch
- Dec 01 - Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) Pegasus XL Launch
- Dec 01 - TDRS-K Atlas 5 Launch
- Dec 01 - Asteroid 3808 Tempel Closest Approach To Earth (1.336 AU)
- Dec 01 - Asteroid 6216 San Jose Closest Approach To Earth (1.490 AU)
- Dec 02 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #338 (OTM-338)
- Dec 02 - Asteroid 6456 Golombek Closest Approach To Earth (1.676 AU)
- Dec 02 - Asteroid 15318 Innsbrook Closest Approach To Earth (1.730 AU)
- Dec 02 - Kuiper Belt Object 84922 (2003 VS2)
At Opposition (35.553 AU)
- Dec 03 - Jupiter
At Opposition
- Dec 03 - Comet 121P/Shoemaker-Holt
Closest Approach To Earth (2.939 AU)
- Dec 03 - Asteroid 19367 Pink Floyd Closest Approach To Earth (1.121 AU)
- Dec 03 - Asteroid 3714 Kenrussell Closest Approach To Earth (1.179 AU)
- Dec 03 - Asteroid 9770 Discovery Closest Approach To Earth (1.515 AU)
- Dec 03-07 - American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California
- Dec 03-08 - Symposium: New Trends of Radio Astronomy in the ALMA Era - The 30th Anniversary of Nobeyama Radio Observatory, Hakone, Japan
- Dec 04 - Mercury At Its Greatest Western
Elongation (21 Degrees)
- Dec 05 - Asteroid 3130 Hillary Closest Approach To Earth (1.349 AU)
- Dec 05 - Kuiper Belt Object 174567 (2003 MW12)
At Opposition (48.323 AU)
- Dec 06 - Comet C/2012 A2 (LINEAR)
Closest Approach To Earth (3.018 AU)
- Dec 06 - Asteroid 10168 Stony Ridge Closest Approach To Earth (1.568 AU)
- Dec 06 - Lecture: GRAIL Unwraps the Moon, Pasadena, California
- Dec 06-10 - American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2012 Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California
- Dec 07 - Asteroid 3720 Hokkaido Closest Approach To Earth (1.525 AU)
- Dec 07 - Kuiper Belt Object 19521 Chaos
At Opposition (40.592 AU)
- Dec 07 - Kuiper Belt Object 2004 XR190
At Opposition (56.754 AU)
- Dec 07 - Lecture: GRAIL Unwraps the Moon, Pasadena, California
- Dec 07 - 40th Anniversary (1972), Apollo 17 Launch (Last Manned Mission to the Moon)
- Dec 08 - Dragon CRS-2
Falcon 9 Launch (International Space Station)
- Dec 08 - Asteroid 294727 Dennisritchie Closest Approach To Earth (1.763 AU)
- Dec 08 - 20th Anniversary (1992), Galileo, 2nd Earth Flyby
- Dec 09 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Titan
- Dec 09 - Asteroid 4 Vesta At Opposition (6.7 Magnitude)
- Dec 09 - Asteroid 9000 Hal Closest Approach To Earth (1.532 AU)
- Dec 09 - Asteroid 4 Vesta Closest Approach To Earth (1.588 AU)
- Dec 09 - Asteroid 10957 Alps Closest Approach To Earth (1.701 AU)
- Dec 10 - 20th Anniversary (1992), Mihonoseki Meteorite Fall (Fell Through Roof Of A House In Japan)
- Dec 11 - Asteroid 1168 Brandia Occults HIP 18805 (5.7 Magnitude Star)
- Dec 11 - Asteroid 2009 BS5
Near-Earth Flyby (0.022 AU)
- Dec 11 - Asteroid 43844 Rowling Closest Approach To Earth (1.655 AU)
- Dec 12 - Moon Occults Mercury
- Dec 12 - Comet 129P/Shoemaker-Levy
Closest Approach To Earth (3.078 AU)
- Dec 12 - Asteroid 4179 Toutatis
Near-Earth Flyby (0.046 AU)
- Dec 12 - Asteroid 2187 La Silla Closest Approach To Earth (1.550 AU)
- Dec 12 - Asteroid 10792 Ecuador Closest Approach To Earth (2.164 AU)
- Dec 12 - 45th Anniversary (1967), Pioneer 8 Launch Launch
- Dec 12-15 - ALMA First Science Workshop, Santigao, Chile
- Dec 12-15 - Conference: Compact Stars in the QCD Phase Diagram III, Guaruja, Brazil
- Dec 13 - Geminids Meteor Shower Peak
- Dec 13 - Comet P/2011 N1 (ASH)
Closest Approach To Earth (2.262 AU)
- Dec 13 - Asteroid 4368 Pillmore Occults HIP 18893 (6.9 Magnitude Star)
- Dec 13 - Asteroid 73491 Robmatson Closest Approach To Earth (1.517 AU)
- Dec 13 - Asteroid 128036 Rafaelnadal Closest Approach To Earth (1.985 AU)
- Dec 13 - 40 Years (1972) Since Man Has Been to the Moon (Apollo 17)
- Dec 13 - Kristian Birkeland's 145th Birthday (1867)
- Dec 14 - Asteroid 21 Lutetia Occults UCAC2 40324622 (12.0 Magnitude Star)
- Dec 14 - Asteroid 125071 Lugosi Closest Approach To Earth (1.186 AU)
- Dec 14 - Asteroid 4134 Schutz Closest Approach To Earth (1.457 AU)
- Dec 14 - Asteroid 793 Arizona Closest Approach To Earth (1.883 AU)
- Dec 14 - Asteroid 12258 Oscarwilde Closest Approach To Earth (1.933 AU)
- Dec 14 - 50th Anniversary (1962), Mariner 2, Venus Flyby
- Dec 14 - 205th Anniversary (1807), Weston Meteorite Fall
- Dec 15 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Titan
- Dec 15 - Comet 36P/Whipple
Closest Approach To Earth (2.560 AU)
- Dec 15 - Asteroid 21 Lutetia Occults UCAC2 40324521 (11.5 Magnitude Star)
- Dec 15 - Asteroid 172996 Stooke Closest Approach To Earth (1.789 AU)
- Dec 16 - Asteroid 2002 XQ40
Near-Earth Flyby (0.091 AU)
- Dec 16 - Asteroid 1862 Apollo
Closest Approach To Earth (0.729 AU)
- Dec 16 - Asteroid 25143 Itokawa
Closest Approach To Earth (0.645 AU)
- Dec 16 - Asteroid 9395 Saint Michel Closest Approach To Earth (1.727 AU)
- Dec 16 - Asteroid 8353 Megryan Closest Approach To Earth (2.128 AU)
- Dec 16 - 15th Anniversary (1997), Galileo, Europa 12 Flyby
- Dec 16 - Arthur C. Clarke's 95th Birthday (1917)
- Dec 16 - Edward Barnard's 155th Birthday (1857)
- Dec 16-20 - 26th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics (TEXAS 2012), Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Dec 17 - Comet P/2011 U2 (Bressi)
Closest Approach To Earth (3.887 AU)
- Dec 17 - Asteroid 2979 Murmansk Occults HIP 31448 (5.9 Magnitude Star)
- Dec 17 - Asteroid 631 Philippina Occults HIP 19719 (5.4 Magnitude Star)
- Dec 17 - Asteroid 2004 YA5
Near-Earth Flyby (0.060 AU)
- Dec 17 - Asteroid 3831 Pettengill Closest Approach To Earth (1.530 AU)
- Dec 17 - Asteroid 232 Russia Closeset Approach To Earth (1.762 AU)
- Dec 18 - Comet 111P/Helin-Roman-Crockett
Closest Approach To Earth (2.723 AU)
- Dec 18 - Asteroid 1 Ceres At Opposition (6.7 Magnitude)
- Dec 18 - Asteroid 10799 Yucatan Closest Approach To Earth (1.396 AU)
- Dec 18 - Asteroid 991 McDonalda Closest Approach To Earth (2.440 AU)
- Dec 19 - Asteroid 2022 West Closest Approach To Earth (1.502 AU)
- Dec 20 - Comet P/2003 O2 (LINEAR)
Closest Approach To Earth (1.633 AU)
- Dec 20 - Asteroid 1 Ceres Occults UCAC2 40650639 (12.0 Magnitude Star)
- Dec 20 - Asteroid 2001 Einstein Closest Approach To Earth (1.196 AU)
- Dec 20 - Asteroid 1704 Wachmann Closest Approach To Earth (1.236 AU)
- Dec 20 - Asteroid 2919 Dali Closest Approach To Earth (2.592 AU)
- Dec 20 - 10th Anniversary (2002), Nozomi, Earth Flyby
- Dec 21 - Winter Solstice,
11:11 UT
- Dec 21 - Mayan Calendar Ends
- Dec 21 - Asteroid 1 Ceres Closest Approach To Earth (1.679 AU)
- Dec 22 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Titan & Rhea
- Dec 22 - Ursids Meteor Shower Peak
- Dec 22 - Asteroid 1 Ceres Occults TYC 1865-00446-1 (12.2 Magnitude Star)
- Dec 22 - Asteroid 8277 Machu-Picchu Closest Approach To Earth (1.411 AU)
- Dec 22 - Asteroid 1197 Rhodesia Closest Approach To Earth (1.726 AU)
- Dec 22 - Asteroid 10346 Triathlon Closest Approach To Earth (1.804 AU)
- Dec 22 - Asteroid 12818 Tomhanks Closest Approach To Earth (1.880 AU)
- Dec 22-26 - 4th International Conference on Collective Motion in Nuclei under Extreme Conditions (COMEX4), Kanagawa, Japan
- Dec 23 - Comet 58P/Jackson-Neujmin
Closest Approach To Earth (2.073 AU)
- Dec 23 - Asteroid 4167 Riemann Occults TYC 0182-01832-1 (6.9 Magnitude Star)
- Dec 23 - Asteroid 3015 Candy Occults HIP 25816 (6.0 Magnitude Star)
- Dec 23 - 340th Anniversary (1672), Giovanni Cassini's Discovery of Saturn Moon
Rhea
- Dec 24 - Asteroid 1 Ceres Occults TYC 1865-02657-1 (10.2 Magnitude Star)
- Dec 24 - Asteroid 2034 Bernoulli Closest Approach To Earth (0.884 AU)
- Dec 24 - Asteroid 11246 Orvillewright Closest Approach To Earth (1.356 AU)
- Dec 24 - Asteroid 4238 Audrey Closest Approach To Earth (1.426 AU)
- Dec 25 - Comet P/2011 R3 (Novichonok-Gerke)
Closest Approach To Earth (2.859 AU)
- Dec 25 - Asteroid 8990 Compassion Closest Approach To Earth (2.223 AU)
- Dec 25 - Asteroid 4337 Arecibo Closest Approach To Earth (2.437 AU)
- Dec 26 - Progress M-18M
Soyuz U Launch (International Space Station 50P)
- Dec 26 - Moon Occults Jupiter
- Dec 26 - Asteroid 2010 BB
Near-Earth Flyby (0.055 AU)
- Dec 26 - Asteroid 13801 Kohlhase Closest Approach To Earth (1.739 AU)
- Dec 26 - Asteroid 2991 Bilbo Closest Approach To Earth (1.829 AU)
- Dec 26 - Asteroid 2956 Yeomans Closest Approach To Earth (1.966 AU)
- Dec 26 - Asteroid 469 Argentina Closest Approach To Earth (2.161 AU)
- Dec 27 - Asteroid 1107 Lictoria Occults HIP 20885 (4.0 Magnitude Star)
- Dec 28 - Asteroid 17059 Elvis Closest Approach To Earth (1.376 AU)
- Dec 28 - Asteroid 4433 Goldstone Closest Approach To Earth (1.642 AU)
- Dec 28 - Arthur Eddington's 130th Birthday (1882)
- Dec 29 - Asteroid 2003 UC20
Near-Earth Flyby (0.066 AU)
- Dec 29 - Asteroid 96193 Edmonton Closest Approach To Earth (1.373 AU)
- Dec 29 - Asteroid 24750 Ohm Closest Approach To Earth (1.705 AU)
- Dec 29 - Asteroid 160512 Franck-Hertz Closest Approach To Earth (1.759 AU)
- Dec 29 - Asteroid 5029 Ireland Closest Approach To Earth (2.044 AU)
- Dec 29 - 35th Anniversary (1977), Discovery of ALHA 77005 Meteorite (Mars Meteorite)
- Dec 30 - Asteroid 17768 Tigerlily Closest Approach To Earth (1.806 AU)
- Dec 31 - Comet 79P/du Toit-Hartley
Closest Approach To Earth (1.747 AU)
- Dec 31 - 5th Anniversary (2007), Deep Impact (EPOXI), Earth Flyby
January 2013
- Jan ?? - Chinasat 9A CZ-3B Launch (China)
- Jan ?? - Amir-Kabir 1 (AUTSAT 1) Simorgh Launch (Iran)
- Jan ?? - Shi Jian 10 CZ-2C Launch (China)
- Jan ?? - Dragonlab 1 Falcon 9 Launch
- Jan ?? - Orbcomm 2 (3-10) Falcon 9 Launch
- Jan ?? - G-Sat 6 (Insat 4-E) GSLV Launch
- Jan ?? - Proba-V Soyuz-STA Launch
- Jan ?? - SRE-2/
CAN-X4/CAN-X5 PSLV Launch
- Jan ?? - NROL-39
Atlas 5 Launch
- Jan ?? - Equars VLS-1 Launch (Brazil)
- Jan ?? - WGS F-5 Delta 4M Launch
- Jan ?? - Asnaro 1 Dnepr 1 Launch
- Jan ?? - EuropaSat Proton M-Briz M Launch
- Jan ?? - TechDemoSat 1 Vega Launch
- Jan 01 - Comet P/1996 R2 (Lagerkvist)
Closest Approach To Earth (2.546 AU)
- Jan 01 - Asteroid 9 Metis At Opposition (8.5 Magnitude)
- Jan 01 - Asteroid 4768 Hartley Closest Approach To Earth (2.412 AU)
- Jan 02 - Earth
At Perihelion (0.983 AU From Sun)
- Jan 02 - Comet C/2011 UF305 (LINEAR)
Closest Approach To Earth (1.917 AU)
- Jan 02 - Asteroid 9957 Rafaellosanti Closest Approach To Earth (1.512 AU)
- Jan 02 - Asteroid 3154 Grant Closest Approach To Earth (1.760 AU)
- Jan 03 - Quadrantids Meteor Shower Peak
- Jan 03 - Asteroid 8080 Intel Closest Approach To Earth (1.843 AU)
- Jan 03 - Asteroid 54522 Menaechmus Closest Approach To Earth (2.267 AU)
- Jan 04 - Asteroid 3267 Glo Closest Approach To Earth (0.835 AU)
- Jan 04 - Asteroid 128523 Johnmuir Closest Approach To Earth (1.384 AU)
- Jan 04 - Asteroid 6701 Warhol Closest Approach To Earth (1.748 AU)
- Jan 04 - Asteroid 1430 Somalia Closest Approach To Earth (1.972 AU)
- Jan 04 - Asteroid 1941 Wild Closest Approach To Earth (3.014 AU)
- Jan 04 - Asteroid 132904 Notkin Closest Approach To Earth (3.355 AU)
- Jan 04 - Isaac Newton's 370th Birthday (1643)
- Jan 05 - Comet 242P/Spahr
Closest Approach To Earth (3.368 AU)
- Jan 05 - Asteroid 9621 Michaelpalin Closest Approach To Earth (0.917 AU)
- Jan 05 - Asteroid 9880 Stegosaurus Closest Approach To Earth (1.086 AU)
- Jan 05 - Asteroid 25399 Vonnegut Closest Approach To Earth (1.610 AU)
- Jan 05 - Asteroid 1991 Darwin Closest Approach To Earth (1.661 AU)
- Jan 05 - Asteroid 1495 Helsinki Closest Approach To Earth (2.095 AU)
- Jan 06 - Asteroid 61342 Lovejoy Closest Approach To Earth (1.795 AU)
- Jan 06 - Asteroid 132524 APL Closest Approach To Earth (2.223 AU)
- Jan 06 - 15th Anniversary (1998), Lunar Prospector Launch (Moon Orbiter)
- Jan 06 - 45th Anniversary (1968), Surveyor 7 Launch (Moon Lander)
- Jan 06-10 - 221st Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), Long Beach, California
- Jan 07 - Asteroid 2002 AY1
Near-Earth Flyby (0.038 AU)
- Jan 07 - Asteroid 2005 DD
Near-Earth Flyby (0.100 AU)
- Jan 07 - Asteroid 6471 Collins Closest Approach To Earth (1.179 AU)
- Jan 07 - Asteroid 3498 Belton Closest Approach To Earth (1.228 AU)
- Jan 07 - Asteroid 4122 Ferrari Closest Approach To Earth (1.614 AU)
- Jan 07-10 - 51st AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Grapevine, Texas
- Jan 08 - Comet C/2011 F1 (LINEAR)
Perihelion (1.819 AU)
- Jan 08 - Comet C/2012 A1 (PANSTARRS)
Closest Approach To Earth (6.902 AU)
- Jan 08 - Asteroid 42998 Malinafrank Closest Approach To Earth (1.608 AU)
- Jan 08 - Asteroid 17627 Humptydumpty Closest Approach To Earth (1.737 AU)
- Jan 08 - 40th Anniversary (1973), Luna 21 Launch (USSR Moon Lander/Rover)
- Jan 08 - Sir Frank Dyson's 145th Birthday (1868)
- Jan 09 - Asteroid 99942 Apophis
Near-Earth Flyby (0.097 AU)
- Jan 09 - Asteroid 4763 Ride Closest Approach To Earth (1.626 AU)
- Jan 09 - Asteroid 9969 Braille
Closest Approach To Earth (1.854 AU)
- Jan 10 - Asteroid 11094 Cuba Closest Approach To Earth (2.685 AU)
- Jan 11 - Asteroid 163800 Richardnorton Closest Approach To Earth (1.418 AU)
- Jan 11 - Asteroid 1777 Gehrels Closest Approach To Earth (1.593 AU)
- Jan 11 - Asteroid 11947 Kimclijsters Closest Approach To Earth (2.794 AU)
- Jan 12 - Asteroid 6336 Dodo Closest Approach To Earth (1.492 AU)
- Jan 12 - Asteroid 214476 Stephencolbert Closest Approach To Earth (2.393 AU)
- Jan 13 - Asteroid 12490 Leiden Closest Approach To Earth (2.269 AU)
- Jan 13-19 - Workshop: Earth-Sun System Exploration 5: Earth Sun System Disturbances - Weak, Moderate and Extreme, Kona, Hawaii
- Jan 14 - Asteroid 13188 Okinawa Closest Approach To Earth (1.191 AU)
- Jan 14 - Asteroid 1913 Sekanina Closest Approach To Earth (1.842 AU)
- Jan 14 - Kuiper Belt Object 20000 Varuna
At Opposition (42.669 AU)
- Jan 14 - 5th Anniversary (2008), MESSENGER, 1st Mercury Flyby
- Jan 15 - Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) Atlas 5 Launch
- Jan 15 - Asteroid 4636 Chile Closest Approach To Earth (1.657 AU)
- Jan 16 - Comet 131P/Mueller 2
Closest Approach To Earth (2.313 AU)
- Jan 16 - Asteroid 30826 Coulomb Closest Approach To Earth (1.878 AU)
- Jan 17 - Asteroid 2266 Tchaikovsky Closest Approach To Earth (1.963 AU)
- Jan 17 - Asteroid 12284 Pohl Closest Approach To Earth (2.351 AU)
- Jan 17 - Asteroid 3552 Don Quixote Closest Approach To Earth (6.094 AU)
- Jan 18 - Kuiper Belt Object 208996 (2003 AZ84)
At Opposition (44.126 AU)
- Jan 19 - Comet 138P/Shoemaker-Levy
Closest Approach To Earth (1.651 AU)
- Jan 19 - Asteroid 3297 Hong Kong Closest Approach To Earth (1.977 AU)
- Jan 20 - Asteroid 2000 Herschel Closest Approach To Earth (1.022 AU)
- Jan 20 - Asteroid 17942 Whiterabbit Closest Approach To Earth (1.544 AU)
- Jan 21 - Asteroid 2011 TO
Near-Earth Flyby (0.086 AU)
- Jan 21 - Asteroid 2228 Soyuz-Apollo Closest Approach To Earth (1.780 AU)
- Jan 21 - Asteroid 904 Rockefellia Closest Approach To Earth (1.822 AU)
- Jan 22 - Moon Occults Jupiter
- Jan 22 - Comet 87P/Bus
Closest Approach To Earth (2.080 AU)
- Jan 22 - Asteroid 3122 Florence Closest Approach To Earth (1.613 AU)
- Jan 22 - Asteroid 166614 Zsazsa Closest Approach To Earth (1.618 AU)
- Jan 22 - Asteroid 9954 Brachiosaurus Closest Approach To Earth (1.641 AU)
- Jan 22 - Asteroid 171183 Haleakala Closest Approach To Earth (1.918 AU)
- Jan 22 - Asteroid 8720 Takamizawa Closest Approach To Earth (2.316 AU)
- Jan 22 - 45th Anniversary (1968), Apollo 5 Launch
- Jan 23 - Asteroid 9622 Terryjones Closest Approach To Earth (0.901 AU)
- Jan 23 - Asteroid 1718 Namibia Closest Approach To Earth (1.905 AU)
- Jan 23 - Asteroid 2866 Hardy Closest Approach To Earth (2.356 AU)
- Jan 24 - Asteroid 3000 Leonardo Closest Approach To Earth (1.479 AU)
- Jan 25 - Comet P/2010 T2 (PANSTARRS)
Closest Approach To Earth (3.627 AU)
- Jan 25 - Asteroid 4457 van Gogh Closest Approach To Earth (1.465 AU)
- Jan 25 - Asteroid 88292 Bora-Bora Closest Approach To Earth (1.760 AU)
- Jan 25 - 30th Anniversary (1983), IRAS Launch
- Jan 26 - Asteroid 951 Gaspra
Closest Approach To Earth (1.289 AU)
- Jan 26 - Asteroid 9133 d'Arrest Closest Approach To Earth (1.916 AU)
- Jan 26 - 35th Anniversary (1978), IUE Launch
- Jan 27 - 105th Anniversary (1908), Philibert Melotte's Discovery of Jupiter Moon
Pasiphae
- Jan 28 - Comet P/2004 F1 (NEAT)
Closest Approach To Earth (1.451 AU)
- Jan 28 - Comet 246P/NEAT
Perihelion (2.880 AU)
- Jan 28 - Asteroid 2011 BY10
Near-Earth Flyby (0.055 AU)
- Jan 28 - Asteroid 2004 Lexell Closest Approach To Earth (1.110 AU)
- Jan 28 - Asteroid 3709 Polypoites Closest Approach To Earth (4.107 AU)
- Jan 29 - Comet 185P/Petriew
Closest Approach To Earth (1.450 AU)
- Jan 30 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #339 (OTM-339)
- Jan 30 - Comet 111P/Helin-Roman-Crockett
Perihelion (3.704 AU)
- Jan 30 - Asteroid 1225 Ariane Closest Approach To Earth (1.088 AU)
- Jan 30 - Asteroid 2343 Siding Spring Closest Approach To Earth (1.556 AU)
- Jan 30 - 145th Anniversary (1868), Pultusk Meteorite Shower in Poland
- Jan 31 - Asteroid 17744 Jodiefoster Closest Approach To Earth (2.010 AU)
- Jan 31 - Asteroid 17078 Sellers Closest Approach To Earth (2.280 AU)
- Jan 31 - Asteroid 10379 Lake Placid Closest Approach To Earth (2.459 AU)
- Jan 31 - 55th Anniversary (1958), Explorer 1 Launch (1st US Satellite)
February 2013
- Feb ?? - Amsat Phase 3E Express Ariane 5 Launch
- Feb ?? - AlphaSat I-XL Ariane 5 Launch
- Feb ?? - NROL-45 Atlas 5 Launch
- Feb ?? - TerreStar 2 Ariane 5 Launch
- Feb ?? - NROL-29 Atlas 5 Launch
- Feb ?? - Cartosat 2-C PSLV Launch
- Feb ?? - Astrosat 1/
Lapan-A2/
Lapan-Orari-A3 PSLV Launch (India)
- Feb ?? - Chinasat 11 (Zhong Xing 11) CZ-3B/E Launch
- Feb ?? -
[May 15] IRNSS 1 PSLV-C22 Launch (India)
- Feb ?? -
[May 14] ABS-2 (ST-2, KoreaSat 8) Ariane 5 Launch
- Feb 01 - 10th Anniversary (2003), Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster
- Feb 01 - Asteroid 15000 CCD Closest Approach To Earth (1.797 AU)
- Feb 01 - Asteroid 1143 Odysseus Closest Approach To Earth (3.864 AU)
- Feb 02 - Progress M-19M Soyuz U Launch (International Space Station 51P)
- Feb 03 - Comet 244P/Scotti
Closest Approach To Earth (3.188 AU)
- Feb 03 - Asteroid 5000 IAU Closest Approach To Earth (1.708 AU)
- Feb 03 - Asteroid 716 Berkeley Closest Approach To Earth 1.736 AU)
- Feb 03 - Asteroid 4104 Alu Closest Approach To Earth (1.865 AU)
- Feb 03 - Asteroid 18932 Robinhood Closest Approach To Earth (1.922 AU)
- Feb 03 - Asteroid 1031 Arctica Closest Approach To Earth (1.984 AU)
- Feb 04 - Mars Passes 0.5 Degrees From
Neptune
- Feb 04 - Comet C/2012 C1 (McNaught)
Perihelion (4.836 AU)
- Feb 04 - Asteroid 2003 BN4
Near-Earth Flyby (0.070 AU)
- Feb 04 - Asteroid 7816 Hanoi Closest Approach To Earth (1.382 AU)
- Feb 04 - Asteroid 18132 Spector Closest Approach To Earth (1.422 AU)
- Feb 04 - Asteroid 472 Roma Closest Approach To Earth (1.477 AU)
- Feb 04 - Asteroid 6042 Chesirecat Closest Approach To Earth (2.547 AU)
- Feb 04 - Asteroid 15417 Babylon Closest Approach To Earth (3.083 AU)
- Feb 04 - Asteroid 5254 Ulysses Closest Approach To Earth (4.157 AU)
- Feb 04-08 - Conference: Stella Novae - Past and Future Decade, Cape Town, South Africa
- Feb 05 - Comet C/2012 F6 (Lemmon)
Closest Approach To Earth (0.988 AU)
- Feb 06 - Mercury Passes 0.5 Degrees From
Neptune
- Feb 06 - Comet 26P/Grigg-Skjellerup
Closest Approach To Earth (1.346 AU)
- Feb 06 - Asteroid 9620 Ericidle Closest Approach To Earth (1.086 AU)
- Feb 06 - Asteroid 3656 Hemingway Closest Approach To Earth (1.352 AU)
- Feb 06 - Asteroid 4370 Dickens Closest Approach To Earth (1.441 AU)
- Feb 06 - Asteroid 2554 Skiff Closest Approach To Earth (1.494 AU)
- Feb 07 - Asteroid 7818 Muirhead Closest Approach To Earth (1.119 AU)
- Feb 07 - Asteroid 2160 Spitzer Closest Approach To Earth (2.171 AU)
- Feb 08 - Mercury Passes 0.3 Degrees From
Mars
- Feb 08 - Comet 133P/Elst-Pizarro
Perihelion (2.650 AU)
- Feb 08 - Asteroid 2002 LY1
Near-Earth Flyby (0.074 AU)
- Feb 08 - Asteroid 11195 Woomera Closest Approach To Earth (1.073 AU)
- Feb 08 - Asteroid 11055 Honduras Closest Approach To Earth (1.867 AU)
- Feb 08 - Asteroid 118401 LINEAR Closest Approach To Earth (2.446 AU)
- Feb 08 - Jules Verne's 185th Birthday (1828)
- Feb 09 - Comet 176P/LINEAR
Closest Approach To Earth (2.444 AU)
- Feb 09 - Asteroid 1282 Utopia Closest Approach To Earth (2.144 AU)
- Feb 09 - Asteroid 4327 Ries Closest Approach To Earth (2.449 AU)
- Feb 09-16 - Workshop: Exoplanets in Multi-body Systems in the Kepler Era, Aspen, Colorado
- Feb 10 - Chinese New Year
- Feb 10 - Asteroid 3356 Resnik Closest Approach To Earth (1.345 AU)
- Feb 10 - Asteroid 19578 Kirkdouglas Closest Approach To Earth (1.612 AU)
- Feb 10 - Asteroid 4804 Pasteur Closest Approach To Earth (1.887 AU)
- Feb 10 - 15th Anniversary (1998), Galileo, Europa 13 Flyby
- Feb 10-14 - 23rd AAS/AIAA Spaceflight Mechanics Meeting, Kauai, Hawaii
- Feb 11 - Comet P/2009 SK280 (Spacewatch-Hill)
Closest Approach To Earth (4.225 AU)
- Feb 11 - Asteroid 4221 Picasso Closest Approach To Earth (1.648 AU)
- Feb 11 - Asteroid 7755 Haute-Provence Closest Approach To Earth (2.087 AU)
- Feb 11 - Asteroid 9250 Chamberlin Closest Approach To Earth (2.208 AU)
- Feb 11 - Asteroid 1712 Angola Closest Approach To Earth (2.417 AU)
- Feb 11 - Asteroid 35350 Lespaul Closest Approach To Earth (2.477 AU)
- Feb 12 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #340 (OTM-340)
- Feb 12 - Comet P/2010 R2 (La Sagra)
Closest Approach To Earth (2.643 AU)
- Feb 12 - Comet P/2011 W1 (PANSTARRS)
Closest Approach To Earth (2.824 AU)
- Feb 12 - Asteroid 30785 Greeley Closest Approach To Earth (1.976 AU)
- Feb 12 - Asteroid 2636 Lassell Closest Approach To Earth (2.098 AU)
- Feb 12 - Asteroid 2023 Asaph Closest Approach To Earth (2.487 AU)
- Feb 12 - Asteroid 4446 Carolyn Closest Approach To Earth (4.051 AU)
- Feb 13 - Asteroid 3949 Mach Closest Approach To Earth (1.176 AU)
- Feb 13 - Kuiper Belt Object 55565 (2002 AW197)
At Opposition (45.112 AU)
- Feb 14 - Asteroid 2006 DD1
Near-Earth Flyby (0.094 AU)
- Feb 14 - Asteroid 3355 Onizuka Closest Approach To Earth (1.132 AU)
- Feb 14 - Asteroid 7220 Philnicholson Closest Approach To Earth (1.759 AU)
- Feb 14 - Asteroid 9446 Cicero Closest Approach To Earth (2.302 AU)
- Feb 14 - 50th Anniversary (1963), Syncom 1 Launch (1st Geosynchronous Satellite)
- Feb 14 - Fritz Zwicky's 115th Birthday (1898)
- Feb 15 - Asteroid 2012 DA14
Near-Earth Flyby (0.0002 AU)
- Feb 15 - Asteroid 4345 Rachmaninoff Closest Approach To Earth (1.824 AU)
- Feb 16 - Mercury At Its Greatest Eastern
Elongation (18 Degrees)
- Feb 16 - Asteroid 2012 DA14
Near-Earth Flyby (0.002 AU)
- Feb 16 - Asteroid 2008 DG17
Near-Earth Flyby (0.095 AU)
- Feb 16 - Asteroid 4536 Drewpinsky Closest Approach To Earth (1.073 AU)
- Feb 16 - Comet 125P/Spacewatch
Perihelion (1.525 AU)
- Feb 16 - 65th Anniversary (1948), Gerard Kuiper's Discovery of Uranus Moon
Miranda
- Feb 17 - Cassini, Titan Flyby
- Feb 17 - Comet 175P/Hergenrother
Closest Approach To Earth (1.123 AU)
- Feb 17 - Asteroid 10195 Nebraska Closest Approach To Earth (2.345 AU)
- Feb 17 - Asteroid 11911 Angel Closest Approach To Earth (2.534 AU)
- Feb 18 - Moon Occults Jupiter
- Feb 18 - Asteroid 9387 Tweeddledee Closest Approach To Earth (1.030 AU)
- Feb 18 - Asteroid 3043 San Diego Closest Approach To Earth (1.063 AU)
- Feb 18 - Asteroid 5062 Glennmiller Closest Approach To Earth (1.411 AU)
- Feb 18 - Asteroid 4099 Wiggins Closest Approach To Earth (1.529 AU)
- Feb 19 - Asteroid 4017 Disneya Closest Approach To Earth (1.849 AU)
- Feb 19 - Nicolaus Copernicus' 540th Birthday (1473)
- Feb 20 - Asteroid 3353 Jarvis Closest Approach To Earth (1.102 AU)
- Feb 20 - Asteroid 9769 Nautilus Closest Approach To Earth (1.020 AU)
- Feb 20 - Asteroid 797 Montana Closest Approach To Earth (1.531 AU)
- Feb 21 - Asteroid 1034 Mozartia Closest Approach To Earth (1.901 AU)
- Feb 21 - Asteroid 35165 Quebec Closest Approach To Earth (2.224 AU)
- Feb 21 - Asteroid 588 Achilles Closest Approach To Earth (3.811 AU)
- Feb 21 - Asteroid 5661 Hildebrand Closest Approach To Earth (3.867 AU)
- Feb 21 - Asteroid 624 Hektor Closest Approach To Earth (4.137 AU)
- Feb 22 - Comet 120P/Mueller
Perihelion (2.729 AU)
- Feb 22 - Asteroid 2002 Euler Closest Approach To Earth (1.399 AU)
- Feb 22 - Kuiper Belt Object 90482 Orcus
At Opposition (47.053 AU)
- Feb 23 - Asteroid 1501 Baade Closest Approach To Earth (1.836 AU)
- Feb 23 - Asteroid 6714 Montreal Closest Approach To Earth (1.919 AU)
- Feb 24 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #341 (OTM-341)
- Feb 24 - Mercury Passes 4.2 Degrees From
Mars
- Feb 24 - Asteroid 5430 Luu Closest Approach To Earth (1.335 AU)
- Feb 24 - Asteroid 8672 Morse Closest Approach To Earth (1.704 AU)
- Feb 24 - Asteroid 10916 Okina-Ouna Closest Approach To Earth (1.923 AU)
- Feb 24 - 45th Anniversary (1968), Jocelyn Bell's Discovery of Pulsars
- Feb 25 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Titan
- Feb 25 - Asteroid 5841 Stone Closest Approach To Earth (1.050 AU)
- Feb 25 - Asteroid 1896 Beer Closest Approach To Earth (1.836 AU)
- Feb 25 - Asteroid 12759 Joule Closest Approach To Earth (2.006 AU)
- Feb 25 - Asteroid 9340 Williamholden Closest Approach To Earth (2.241 AU)
- Feb 25-27 - 1st Workshop on Experimental Laboratory Astrophysics, Poipu, Kauai, Hawaii
- Feb 25-Mar 01 - Workshop: Shaping E-ELT Science and Instrumentation, Garching, Germany
- Feb 26 - Asteroid 1981 Midas
Closest Approach To Earth (1.507 AU)
- Feb 27 - Comet 63P/Wild
Closest Approach To Earth (1.060 AU)
- Feb 27 - Asteroid 5203 Pavarotti Closest Approach To Earth (1.584 AU)
- Feb 27 - Asteroid 24102 Jacquecassini Closest Approach To Earth (1.708 AU)
- Feb 27 - Asteroid 2068 Dangreen Closest Approach To Earth (1.867 AU)
- Feb 27 - Asteroid 4047 Chang'E Closest Approach To Earth (2.171 AU)
- Feb 27 - Asteroid 1373 Cincinnati
Closest Approach To Earth (3.209 AU)
- Feb 28 - ATV 4 (Albert Einstein) Ariane 5ES Launch (International Space Station)
- Feb 28 - Venus Passes 0.8 Degrees From
Neptune
- Feb 28 - Asteroid 5682 Beresford Closest Approach To Earth (1.981 AU)
March 2013
- Mar ?? - Soyuz TMA-08M Soyuz FG Launch (International Space Station 34S)
- Mar ?? - G-Sat 7 (Insat 4-F) GSLV Launch
- Mar ?? - Pakistani Remote Sensing Satellite 1 (PRSS-1) CZ-2D Launch
- Mar ?? - Soyuz-Sat-O Rokot KM Launch
- Mar ?? - GeoEye 2 Atlas 5 Launch
- Mar 01 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #342 (OTM-342)
- Mar 01 - Comet 91P/Russell
Perihelion (2.617 AU)
- Mar 01 - Asteroid 11083 Caracas Closest Approach To Earth (1.396 AU)
- Mar 01 - Asteroid 12542 Laver Closest Approach To Earth (2.630 AU)
- Mar 02 - Asteroid 4150 Starr Closest Approach To Earth (1.588 AU)
- Mar 02-09 - 2013 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana
- Mar 03 - Asteroid 17033 Rusty Closest Approach To Earth (1.437 AU)
- Mar 03 - Asteroid 8889 Mockturtle Closest Approach To Earth (2.358 AU)
- Mar 04 - Patrick Moore's 90th Birthday (1923)
- Mar 04-08 - International Colloquium and Workshop: Ganymede Lander - Scientific Goals and Experiments, Moscow, Russia
- Mar 04-08 - International Conference on Nuclear Data for Science & Technology, New York, New York
- Mar 05 - Comet C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS)
Closest Approach To Earth (1.097 AU)
- Mar 05 - Asteroid 38086 Beowolf
Closest Approach To Earth (1.596 AU)
- Mar 05 - Asteroid 1071 Brita Closest Approach To Earth (1.771 AU)
- Mar 05 - Asteroid 697 Galilea Closest Approach To Earth (2.352 AU)
- Mar 05 - Asteroid 2041 Lancelot Closest Approach To Earth (2.387 AU)
- Mar 05 - Asteroid 4321 Zero Closest Approach To Earth (2.728 AU)
- Mar 06 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #343 (OTM-343)
- Mar 06 - Mercury Passes 5.3 Degrees From
Venus
- Mar 07 - Asteroid 10051 Albee Closest Approach To Earth (1.679 AU)
- Mar 07 - Asteroid 1432 Ethiopia Closest Approach To Earth (1.936 AU)
- Mar 07 - Asteroid 1940 Whipple Closest Approach To Earth (2.045 AU)
- Mar 08 - Asteroid 4319 Jackierobinson Closest Approach To Earth (1.713 AU)
- Mar 09 - Cassini, Rhea Flyby
- Mar 09 - Asteroid 4125 Lew Allen Closest Approach To Earth (1.200 AU)
- Mar 09 - Asteroid 15907 Robot Closest Approach To Earth (1.490 AU)
- Mar 09 - Asteroid 4342 Freud Closest Approach To Earth (1.988 AU)
- Mar 09 - Asteroid 11998 Fermilab Closest Approach To Earth (2.829 AU)
- Mar 10 - Daylight Saving - Set Clock Ahead 1 Hour (United States)
- Mar 10 - Comet C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS)
Perihelion (0.302 AU)
- Mar 10 - Asteroid 7359 Messier Closest Approach To Earth (2.440 AU)
- Mar 10-15 - AGU Chapman Conference on Fundamental Properties and Processes of Magnetotails, Reykjavik, Iceland
- Mar 11 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #344 (OTM-344)
- Mar 11 - Asteroid 426 Hippo Closest Approach To Earth (1.639 AU)
- Mar 12 - Asteroid 1103 Sequoia Closest Approach To Earth (1.208 AU)
- Mar 13 - Asteroid 2009 SC15
Near-Earth Flyby (0.080 AU)
- Mar 14 - Asteroid 2005 ES70
Near-Earth Flyby (0.057 AU)
- Mar 14 - Asteroid 100267 JAXA Closest Approach To Earth (1.468 AU)
- Mar 15 - Asteroid 12104 Chesley Closest Approach To Earth (2.044 AU)
- Mar 15 - Asteroid 21811 Burroughs Closest Approach To Earth (2.060 AU)
- Mar 15 - Asteroid 1024 Hale Closest Approach To Earth (2.537 AU)
- Mar 15 - 40th Anniversary (1973), San Juan Capistrano Meteorite Fall
- Mar 16 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #345 (OTM-345)
- Mar 16 - Asteroid 6433 Enya Closest Approach To Earth (1.716 AU)
- Mar 16 - Asteroid 42487 Angstrom Closest Approach To Earth (1.819 AU)
- Mar 16 - Asteroid 7749 Jackschmitt Closest Approach To Earth (2.696 AU)
- Mar 16 - Asteroid 8721 AMOS Closest Approach To Earth (3.002 AU)
- Mar 17 - Comet 256P/LINEAR
Perihelion (2.690 AU)
- Mar 17 - Asteroid 96205 Ararat Closest Approach To Earth (1.862 AU)
- Mar 17 - Asteroid 1008 La Paz Closest Approach To Earth (2.281 AU)
- Mar 17 - 55th Anniversary (1958), Vanguard 1 Launch
- Mar 18 - MESSENGER,
End of Extended Mission
- Mar 18 - Comet 197P/LINEAR
Closest Approach To Earth (1.180 AU)
- Mar 18 - Asteroid 2007 EO88
Near-Earth Flyby (0.011 AU)
- Mar 18 - Asteroid 1224 Fantasia Closest Approach To Earth (1.704 AU)
- Mar 18 - Asteroid 6824 Mallory Closest Approach To Earth (2.539 AU)
- Mar 18-22 - 44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC 2013), The Woodlands, Texas
- Mar 19 - Asteroid 4957 Brucemurray
Closest Approach To Earth (1.227 AU)
- Mar 19 - Dwarf Planet 136472 Makemake
At Opposition (51.435 AU)
- Mar 20 - Vernal Equinox,
11:02 UT
- Mar 20 - Asteroid 2010 SE
Near-Earth Flyby (0.073 AU)
- Mar 20 - Asteroid 325102 (2008 EY5)
Near-Earth Flyby (0.083 AU)
- Mar 20 - Asteroid 2006 GX2
Near-Earth Flyby (0.096 AU)
- Mar 20 - Asteroid 1489 Attila Closest Approach To Earth (1.743 AU)
- Mar 21 - Asteroid 7462 Grenoble Closest Approach To Earth (1.244 AU)
- Mar 21 - Asteroid 11277 Ballard Closest Approach To Earth (1.773 AU)
- Mar 21 - Asteroid 25000 Astrometria Closest Approach To Earth (1.912 AU)
- Mar 22 - Mars Passes 0.2 Degrees From
Uranus
- Mar 22 - Asteroid 2008 SE85
Near-Earth Flyby (0.062 AU)
- Mar 22 - Asteroid 2012 FK15
Near-Earth Flyby (0.082 AU)
- Mar 22 - Asteroid 1284 Latvia Closest Approach To Earth (1.906 AU)
- Mar 22 - Asteroid 742 Edisona Closest Approach To Earth (2.387 AU)
- Mar 22-23 - Space Weather Community Operations Workshop, Park City, Utah
- Mar 23 - Comet C/2012 F6 (Lemmon)
Perihelion (0.731 AU)
- Mar 23 - Asteroid 2003 FY6
Near-Earth Flyby (0.054 AU)
- Mar 23 - Asteroid 2012 FM35
Near-Earth Flyby (0.088 AU)
- Mar 23 - Asteroid 38237 Roche Closest Approach To Earth (1.103 AU)
- Mar 23 - Asteroid 19148 Alaska Closest Approach To Earth (1.754 AU)
- Mar 24 - Comet 197P/LINEAR
Perihelion (1.061 AU)
- Mar 24 - Comet P/2012 B1 (PANSTARRS)
Closest Approach To Earth (2.896 AU)
- Mar 24 - Asteroid 3693 Barringer Closest Approach To Earth (2.792 AU)
- Mar 24 - Wilhelm Baade's 120th Birthday (1893)
- Mar 25 - Asteroid 1000 Piazzia Closest Approach To Earth (1.714 AU)
- Mar 25-28 - 22nd AIAA Aerodynamic Decelerator Systems Technology Conference/AIAA Balloon Systems Conference/20th AIAA Lighter-Than-Air Systems Technology Conference, Daytona Beach, Florida
- Mar 26 - Asteroid 7032 Hitchcock Closest Approach To Earth (1.292 AU)
- Mar 26 - Asteroid 7853 Confucius Closest Approach To Earth (1.337 AU)
- Mar 26 - Asteroid 6827 Wombat Closest Approach To Earth (1.687 AU)
- Mar 26 - Asteroid 2118 Flagstaff Closest Approach To Earth (1.718 AU)
- Mar 27 - Asteroid 8249 Gershwin Closest Approach To Earth (0.971 AU)
- Mar 27 - Asteroid 51828 Ilanramon Closest Approach To Earth (1.836 AU)
- Mar 27 - Asteroid 114703 North Dakota Closeset Approach To Earth (1.854 AU)
- Mar 27 - Asteroid 8722 Schirra Closest Approach To Earth (2.100 AU)
- Mar 28 - Venus Passes 0.7 Degrees From
Uranus
- Mar 28 - Asteroid 9674 Slovenija Closest Approach To Earth (1.279 AU)
- Mar 28 - Asteroid 8146 Jimbell Closest Approach To Earth (1.676 AU)
- Mar 29 - Asteroid 9258 Johnpauljones Closest Approach To Earth (1.351 AU)
- Mar 29 - 15th Anniversary (1998), Galileo, Europa 14 Flyby
- Mar 30 - Comet C/2010 R1 (LINEAR)
Closest Approach To Earth (5.102 AU)
- Mar 31 - Easter Sunday
- Mar 31 - European Summer Time Begins - Set Clock Ahead 1 Hour (European Union)
- Mar 31 - Mercury At Its Greatest Western
Elongation (28 Degrees)
- Mar 31 - Asteroid 1743 Schmidt Closest Approach To Earth (1.146 AU)
- Mar 31 - Asteroid 8088 Australia Closest Approach To Earth (1.634 AU)
- Mar 31 - Asteroid 42355 Typhon
Closest Approach To Earth (18.052 AU)
April 2013
- Apr ?? -
[May 14] Multipurpose Laboratory Module (MLM)/
European Robotic Arm (ERA) Proton Launch (International Space Station)
- Apr 01 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #346 (OTM-346)
- Apr 01 - Asteroid 20103 de Vico Closest Approach To Earth (1.488 AU)
- Apr 01 - Asteroid 11926 Orinoco Closest Approach To Earth (1.704 AU)
- Apr 01 - Asteroid 203 Pompeja Closest Approach To Earth (1.873 AU)
- Apr 01 - Asteroid 35334 Yarkovsky Closest Approach To Earth (2.069 AU)
- Apr 02 - Asteroid 91007 Ianfleming Closest Approach To Earth (1.779 AU)
- Apr 02 - Asteroid 9533 Aleksejleonov Closest Approach To Earth (1.974 AU)
- Apr 02 - Asteroid 1157 Arabia Closest Approach To Earth (2.217 AU)
- Apr 02 - 50th Anniversary (1963), Luna 4 Launch (Soviet Moon Flyby Mission)
- Apr 03 - Comet P/2011 U1 (PANSTARRS)
Closest Approach To Earth (2.127 AU)
- Apr 03 - 40th Anniversary (1973), Salyut 2 Launch (USSR's 2nd Space Station)
- Apr 04 - Asteroid 10189 Normanrockwell Closest Approach To Earth (1.923 AU)
- Apr 04 - Asteroid 60186 Las Cruces Closest Approach To Earth (2.139 AU)
- Apr 04 - Asteroid 2848 ASP Closest Approach To Earth (2.795 AU)
- Apr 04 - 45th Anniversary (1968), Apollo 6 Launch (Last Test Flight of Saturn V)
- Apr 05 - Cassini, Titan Flyby
- Apr 05 - Asteroid 5738 Billpickering Closest Approach To Earth (1.041 AU)
- Apr 05 - Asteroid 49272 Bryce Canyon Closest Approach To Earth (2.020 AU)
- Apr 05 - Asteroid 2801 Huygens Closest Approach To Earth (2.235 AU)
- Apr 05 - 40th Anniversary (1973), Pioneer 11 Launch (Jupiter & Saturn Flyby Mission)
- Apr 06 - Venus Passes 0.7 Degrees From
Mars
- Apr 06 - Asteroid 117329 Spencer Closest Approach To Earth (1.107 AU)
- Apr 06 - Asteroid 1541 Estonia Closest Approach To Earth (1.579 AU)
- Apr 06 - Asteroid 3264 Bounty Closest Approach To Earth (1.884 AU)
- Apr 07 - Asteroid 2005 TS15
Near-Earth Flyby (0.039 AU)
- Apr 07 - Asteroid 7079 Baghdad Closest Approach To Earth (1.640 AU)
- Apr 07 - Asteroid 10389 Robmanning Closest Approach To Earth (1.692 AU)
- Apr 07 - Asteroid 15495 Bogie Closest Approach To Earth (2.010 AU)
- Apr 07 - Asteroid 13926 Berners-Lee Closest Approach To Earth (2.318 AU)
- Apr 07 - Asteroid 1832 Mrkos Closest Approach To Earth (2.591 AU)
- Apr 07 - 45th Anniversary (1968), Luna 14 Launch (Soviet Moon Orbiter Mission)
- Apr 07-12 -
[May 17] European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, Vienna, Austria
- Apr 08 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #347 (OTM-347)
- Apr 08-11 - 54th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials and Co-located Conferences, Boston, Massachusetts
- Apr 09 - Dwarf Planet 136108 Haumea
At Opposition (49.956 AU)
- Apr 10 - Comet 63P/Wild
Perihelion (1.950 AU)
- Apr 10 - Comet P/2012 F2 (PANSTARRS)
Perihelion (2.899 AU)
- Apr 10 - Asteroid 6136 Gryphon Closest Approach To Earth (2.083 AU)
- Apr 11 - Asteroid 5231 Verne Closest Approach To Earth (1.994 AU)
- Apr 11 - Asteroid 719 Albert
Closest Approach To Earth (2.496 AU)
- Apr 12 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Titan & Polydeuces
- Apr 12 - Asteroid 10183 Ampere Closest Approach To Earth (0.988 AU)
- Apr 12 - Yuri's Night: World Space Party
- Apr 13 - Asteroid 2010 GM23
Near-Earth Flyby (0.010 AU)
- Apr 15 - Asteroid 10050 Rayman Closest Approach To Earth (1.486 AU)
- Apr 15 - Asteroid 9500 Camelot Closest Approach To Earth (1.714 AU)
- Apr 15-19 -
[May 17] AGU Chapman Conference on Communicating Climate Science: A Historic Look to the Future, Santorini, Greece
- Apr 15-21 - Astronomy Week
- Apr 16 - Asteroid 3769 Arthurmiller Closest Approach To Earth (1.351 AU)
- Apr 17 - Asteroid 91287 Simon-Garfunkel Closest Approach To Earth (1.065 AU)
- Apr 17 - Asteroid 4535 Adamcarolla Closest Approach To Earth (1.401 AU)
- Apr 17 - Asteroid 3904 Honda Closest Approach To Earth (1.758 AU)
- Apr 18 - Asteroid 1279 Uganda Closest Approach To Earth (1.132 AU)
- Apr 18 - Asteroid 4808 Ballaero Closest Approach To Earth (1.925 AU)
- Apr 19 - Mercury Passes 2.0 Degrees From
Uranus
- Apr 19 - Asteroid 1850 Kohoutek Closest Approach To Earth (1.066 AU)
- Apr 19 - Asteroid 30444 Shemp Closest Approach To Earth (2.107 AU)
- Apr 20 - Astronomy Day
- Apr 20 - Comet P/2011 C2 (Gibbs)
Closest Approach To Earth (4.672 AU)
- Apr 20 - Asteroid 10637 Heimlich Closest Approach To Earth (2.152 AU)
- Apr 21 - Asteroid 3672 Stevedberg Closest Approach To Earth (1.472 AU)
- Apr 21 - Asteroid 79896 Billhaley Closest Approach To Earth (1.543 AU)
- Apr 22 - Earth Day
- Apr 22 - Lyrids Meteor Shower Peak
- Apr 22 - Asteroid 2009 SQ104
Near-Earth Flyby (0.071 AU)
- Apr 23 - Asteroid 2830 Greenwich Closest Approach To Earth (0.929 AU)
- Apr 23 - Asteroid 3651 Friedman Closest Approach To Earth (1.136 AU)
- Apr 23 - Asteroid 2169 Taiwan Closest Approach To Earth (1.892 AU)
- Apr 23 - Asteroid 253 Mathilde
Closest Approach To Earth (1.965 AU)
- Apr 24 - Asteroid 2952 Lilliputia Closest Approach To Earth (1.699 AU)
- Apr 24 - Asteroid 16035 Sasandford Closest Approach To Earth (1.746 AU)
- Apr 25 - Partial Lunar Eclipse
- Apr 26 - Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann
Closest Approach To Earth (5.230 AU)
- Apr 26 - Asteroid 3153 Lincoln Closest Approach To Earth (1.727 AU)
- Apr 26 - Asteroid 16626 Thumper Closest Approach To Earth (1.925 AU)
- Apr 26 - 15th Anniversary (1998), Cassini, Venus Flyby
- Apr 26 - 165th Anniversary (1848), Andrew Graham's Discovery of
Asteroid 9 Metis
- Apr 28 - Saturn
At Opposition
- Apr 28 - 10th Anniversary (2003), Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) Launch
- Apr 28 - Eugene Shoemaker's 85th Birthday (1928)
- Apr 29 - Asteroid 242643 (2005 NZ6)
Near-Earth Flyby (0.064 AU)
- Apr 29 - Asteroid 7016 Conandoyle Closest Approach To Earth (1.184 AU)
- Apr 29 - Asteroid 9134 Encke Closest Approach To Earth (1.919 AU)
- Apr 29 - Asteroid 11945 Amsterdam Closest Approach To Earth (2.150 AU)
- Apr 29 - Asteroid 12432 Usuda Closest Approach To Earth (2.180 AU)
- Apr 29 - Asteroid 9252 Goddard Closest Approach To Earth (2.413 AU)
- Apr 29 - Asteroid 1537 Transylvania Closest Approach To Earth (2.890 AU)
- Apr 29 - Asteroid 3202 Graff Closest Approach To Earth (3.019 AU)
- Apr 29-May 08 - Cargese School 2013: Cosmic Accelerators, Cargese, Corsica
- Apr 30 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #348 (OTM-348)
- Apr 30 - Asteroid 12923 Zephyr Closest Approach To Earth (1.083 AU)
- Apr 30 - Asteroid 12413 Johnnyweir Closest Approach To Earth (1.570 AU)
- Apr 30 - Asteroid 10217 Richardcook Closest Approach To Earth (2.095 AU)
May 2013
- May ?? - Soyuz TMA-09M Soyuz FG Launch (International Space Station 35S)
- May ?? - SkyTerra 2 Proton-Briz M Launch
- May ?? - ArSat 1 Soyuz STB Launch
- May ?? -
[May 14] DMSP 3D5 F-19 Atlas 5 Launch
- May 01 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Titan
- May 01 - Asteroid 3115 Baily Closest Approach To Earth (1.888 AU)
- May 01 - 15th Anniversary (1998), Discovery of Dar al Gani 476 (Mars Meteorite)
- May 02 - Comet 256P/LINEAR
Closest Approach To Earth (1.783 AU)
- May 02 - Asteroid 4151 Alanhale Closest Approach To Earth (2.026 AU)
- May 02 - Kuiper Belt Object 90568 (2004 GV9)
At Opposition (38.315 AU)
- May 03 - Space Day
- May 03 - Asteroid 17656 Hayabusa Closest Approach To Earth (1.805 AU)
- May 03 - Asteroid 189202 Calar Alto Closest Approach To Earth (2.118 AU)
- May 03 - Asteroid 3623 Chaplin Closest Approach To Earth (2.000 AU)
- May 03 - Asteroid 84882 Table Mountain Closest Approach To Earth (2.242 AU)
- May 05 - Eta Aquarids Meteor Shower Peak
- May 05 - Asteroid 10101 Fourier Closest Approach To Earth (1.453 AU)
- May 05 - Asteroid 1996 Adams Closest Approach To Earth (1.788 AU)
- May 05 - Asteroid 9357 Venezuela Closest Approach To Earth (2.110 AU)
- May 06 - Asteroid 165347 Philplait Closest Approach To Earth (1.252 AU)
- May 06 - Asteroid 293934 MPIA Closest Approach To Earth (1.712 AU)
- May 07 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Titan
- May 07 - Mercury Passes 0.5 Degrees From
Mars
- May 07 - Comet 76P/West-Kohoutek-Ikemura
Perihelion (1.600 AU)
- May 07 - Comet 117P/Helin-Roman-Alu
Closest Approach To Earth (2.425 AU)
- May 07 - Asteroid 81203 Polynesia Closest Approach To Earth (1.240 AU)
- May 07 - Asteroid 11548 Jerrylewis Closet Approach To Earth (1.519 AU)
- May 07 - Asteroid 8657 Cedrus Closest Approach To Earth (2.030 AU)
- May 08 - Asteroid 37582 Faraday Closest Approach To Earth (1.439 AU)
- May 08 - Asteroid 13070 Seanconnery Closest Approach To Earth (1.574 AU)
- May 08 - Asteroid 8734 Warner Closest Approach To Earth (1.995 AU)
- May 09 - Moon Occults Mars
- May 09 - Moon Occults Mercury
- May 09 - Asteroid 2925 Beatty Closest Approach To Earth (1.367 AU)
- May 09 - Asteroid 16809 Galapagos Closest Approach To Earth (1.485 AU)
- May 09 - Asteroid 7336 Saunders Closest Approach To Earth (1.797 AU)
- May 09 - Asteroid 5102 Benfranklin Closest Approach To Earth (2.215 AU)
- May 10 - Annular Solar Eclipse (Visible From Austrlia, Pacific Ocean)
- May 10 -
[May 11] Asteroid 1988 TA
Near-Earth Flyby (0.034 AU)
- May 10 - Asteroid 1322 Coppernicus Closest Approach To Earth (1.148 AU)
- May 11 - Asteroid 498 Tokio Closest Approach To Earth (1.795 AU)
- May 11 - Richard Feynam's 95th Birthday (1918)
- May 12 - Asteroid 5020 Asimov Closest Approach To Earth (1.174 AU)
- May 12 - Asteroid 4416 Ramses Closest Approach To Earth (1.420 AU)
- May 12 - Asteroid 10044 Squyres Closest Approach To Earth (1.928 AU)
- May 12 - Asteroid 2246 Bowell Closest Approach To Earth (2.728 AU)
- May 13 - Comet 114P/Wiseman-Skiff
Perihelion (1.575 AU)
- May 14 - Asteroid 100000 Astronautica Closest Approach To Earth (1.108 AU)
- May 14 - Asteroid 477 Italia Closest Approach To Earth (1.450 AU)
- May 14 - Asteroid 9007 James Bond Closest Approach To Earth (1.788 AU)
- May 14 - Asteroid 3780 Maury Closest Approach To Earth (1.869 AU)
- May 14 - Asteroid 3061 Cook Closest Approach To Earth (2.230 AU)
- May 14 - 40th Anniversary (1973), Skylab Launch
- May 15 - 50th Anniversary (1963), Mercury 9 Launch (Gordon Cooper)
- May 15 - Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille's 300th Birthtday (1713)
- May 16 - Asteroid 85386 Payton Closest Approach To Earth (1.836 AU)
- May 17 - Asteroid 5277 Brisbane Closest Approach To Earth (1.394 AU)
- May 18 -
[May 11] Comet P/2006 R2 (Christensen)
Closest Approach To Earth (3.106 AU)
- May 18 - Asteroid 243 Ida
Closest Approach To Earth (1.964 AU)
- May 18 - Asteroid 13330 Dondavis Closest Approach To Earth (2.024 AU)
- May 18 - Asteroid 99905 Jeffgrossman Closest Approach To Earth (2.744 AU)
- May 19 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #349 (OTM-349)
- May 19 - Asteroid 5471 Tunguska Closest Approach To Earth (1.822 AU)
- May 19 - Asteroid 1776 Kuiper Closest Approach To Earth (2.128 AU)
- May 19 - Asteroid 334 Chicago Closest Approach To Earth (2.824 AU)
- May 19 - Asteroid 41488 Sinbad Closest Approach To Earth (3.374 AU)
- May 20 - Comet C/2010 S1 (LINEAR)
Perihelion (5.900 AU)
- May 20 -
[May 11] 25th Anniversary (1978), Pioneer Venus 1 Launch
- May 21 -
[May 11] Asteroid 2012 FC71 Near-Earth Flyby (0.057 AU)
- May 21 -
[May 11] Asteroid 19398 Creedence Closest Approach To Earth (1.641 AU)
- May 22 -
[May 12] Asteroid 6735 Madhatter Closest Approach To Earth (1.313 AU)
- May 22 -
[May 12] Asteroid 6349 Acapulco Closest Approach To Earth (1.376 AU)
- May 22 - Asteroid 3654 AAS Closest Approach To Earth (1.598 AU)
- May 22 -
[May 12] Asteroid 16529 Dangoldin Closest Approach To Earth (2.087 AU)
- May 22-24 -
[May 11] XMM-Newton 2013 Science Workshop: The Fast and the Furious - Energetic Phenomena in Isolated Neutron Stars, Pulsar Wind Nebulae and Supernova Remnants, Madrid, Spain
- May 23 -
[May 13] Cassini, Titan Flyby
- May 23 -
[May 13] Comet 175P/Hergenrother
Perihelion (1.946 AU)
- May 23 -
[May 14] Asteroid 163364 (2002 OD20) Near-Earth Flyby (0.039 AU)
- May 23 -
[May 14] Asteroid 5811 Keck Closest Approach To Earth (1.386 AU)
- May 24 -
[May 14] Asteroid 784 Pickeringia Closest Approach To Earth (1.367 AU)
- May 24 -
[May 15] Asteroid 78905 Seanokeefe Closest Approach To Earth (1.528 AU)
- May 24 -
[May 15] Asteroid 21564 Widmanstatten Closest Approach To Earth (2.515 AU)
- May 25 -
[May 15] Lunar Eclipse
- May 25 -
[May 16] Mercury Passes 1.4 Degrees From
Venus
- May 25 -
[May 16] Asteroid 1814 Bach Closest Approach To Earth (1.482 AU)
- May 25 -
[May 16] Asteroid 3526 Jeffbell Closest Approach To Earth (1.582 AU)
- May 25 -
[May 17] Asteroid 12561 Howard Closest Approach To Earth (1.778 AU)
- May 25 -
[May 17] Asteroid 1958 Chandra Closest Approach To Earth (1.834 AU)
- May 25 -
[May 17] Asteroid 65675 Mohr-Gruber Closest Approach To Earth (1.995 AU)
- May 25 -
[May 18] Asteroid 5649 Donnashirley Closest Approach To Earth (2.118 AU)
- May 25 -
[May 18] 5th Anniversary (2008), Phoenix, Mars Landing
- May 26 -
[May 18] Asteroid 15131 Alanalda Closest Approach To Earth (1.370 AU)
- May 27-29 - 20th St. Petersburg International Conference on Integrated Navigation Systems, St. Petersburg, Russia
- May 30 -
[May 18] Comet 107P/Wilson-Harrington
Closest Approach To Earth (1.801 AU)
Please direct questions and comments about this calendar to
Ron Baalke
Jet Propulsion Lab
baalke@zagami.jpl.nasa.gov