Space Calendar

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The Space Calendar covers space-related activities and anniversaries for the coming year. Included are over 1,800 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.

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

August 2010

• Aug 09 - Asteroid 2010 PJ9 Near-Earth Flyby (0.007 AU)
• Aug 09 - Asteroid 2010 PJ Near-Earth Flyby (0.088 AU)
• Aug 10 - Yaogan 10 CZ-4C Launch, Successful
• Aug 10 - Asteroid 6239 Minos Near-Earth Flyby (0.098 AU)
• Aug 10 - Asteroid 716 Berkeley Closest Approach To Earth (1.906 AU)
• Aug 10 - 20th Anniversary (1990), Magellan, Venus Orbit Insertion
• Aug 10-11 - Exploration of Near Earth Objects (NEO) Objectives Workshop, Washington DC
• Aug 10-15 - ASTROBLAST 2010 Star Party, near Franklin, Pennsylvania
• Aug 11 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Titan
• Aug 11 - Asteroid 3173 McNaught Closest Approach To Earth (0.772 AU)
• Aug 11-14 - Conference: Planetary Systems Beyond the Main Sequence, Bamberg, Germany
• Aug 11-15 - Oregon Star Party, Indian Trail Spring, Oregon
• Aug 12 - Perseids Meteor Shower Peak
• Aug 12 - Asteroid 2010 HZ103 Near-Earth Flyby (0.053 AU)
• Aug 12 - 50th Anniversary (1960), Echo 1 Launch
• Aug 12-15 - Starfest 2010, near Ayton, Canada
• Aug 12-16 - Saskatchewan Summer Star Party 2010, Cypress Hills, Canada
• Aug 13 - Cassini, Enceladus Flyby, Successful
• Aug 13 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Dione, Calypso & Epimetheus
• Aug 13 - Asteroid 2002 AC9 Near-Earth Flyby (0.044 AU)
• Aug 13 - Asteroid 51828 Ilanramon Closest Approach To Earth (1.964 AU)
• Aug 13-15 - SETIcon: The Search for Life in the Universe in Science Fact and Science Fiction, Santa Clara, California
• Aug 13-15 - 2010 Butter Pot Star Party, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
• Aug 14 - AEHF F-1 Atlas 5 Launch, Successful
• Aug 14 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Atlas, Pandora, Dahpnis, Janus, Pan & Tethys
• Aug 14 - Comet 223P/Skiff Perihelion (2.420 AU)
• Aug 14 - Kuiper Belt Object 2004 PG115 At Opposition (35.909 AU)
• Aug 14 - Celebration of the Night and Star Party, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico
• Aug 15 - Asteroid 2010 CB55 Near-Earth Flyby (0.048 AU)
• Aug 15 - Asteroid 4808 Ballaero Closest Approach To Earth (1.838 AU)
• Aug 16 - Comet P/2010 N1 (WISE) Perihelion (1.495 AU)
• Aug 16 - Asteroid 2007 XZ9 Near-Earth Flyby (0.072 AU)
• Aug 16 - Asteroid 4148 McCartney Closest Approach To Earth (1.404 AU)
• Aug 16 - Asteroid 1024 Hale Closest Approach To Earth (1.420 AU)
• Aug 16 - GALFACTS/POSSUM 2010 Workshop, Calgary, Canada
• Aug 16-19 - Workshop: Astronomy of Exoplanets with Precise Radial Velocities, University Park, Pennsylvania
• Aug 16-20 - 17th European White Dwarf Workshop, Tuebingen, Germany
• Aug 16-20 - Meeting: Why Galaxies Care About AGB Stars II, Vienna, Austria
• Aug 16-20 - Cosmology Workshop: Confronting Theory with Observations, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Aug 16-22 - Meeting: Astronomy & Astrophysics in Antarctica, Xi'an, China
• Aug 17 - Comet 238P/Read Closest Approach To Earth (1.607 AU)
• Aug 17 - Comet 243P/NEAT Closest Approach To Earth (1.772 AU)
• Aug 17 - Comet 164P/Christensen Closest Approach To Earth (2.041 AU)
• Aug 17 - Comet 95P/Chiron Closest Approach To Earth (15.419)
• Aug 17 - Asteroid 1 Ceres Occults TYC 6833-00163-1 (11.8 Magnitude Star)
• Aug 17 - 40th Anniversary (1970), Venera 7 Launch (USSR Venus Lander)
• Aug 18 - Comet P/2010 L1 (WISE) Closest Approach To Earth (1.657 AU)
• Aug 18 - Comet C/2009 P2 (Boattini) Closest Approach To Earth (5.704 AU)
• Aug 18 - Asteroid 2004 SC56 Near-Earth Flyby (0.086 AU)
• Aug 18 - Asteroid 757 Portlandia Closest Approach To Earth (1.415 AU)
• Aug 18 - Asteroid 4337 Arecibo Closest Approach To Earth (2.349 AU)
• Aug 18 - 25th Anniversary (1985), Suisei Launch (Japan Comet Halley Mission)
• Aug 19 - Lecture: Aquarius - Studying Sea Surface Salinity from Space, Pasadena, California
• Aug 19 - NASA Commercial Crew Initiative Forum, Washington DC
• Aug 19 - 50th Anniversary (1960), Sputnik 5 Launch (Carried Dogs Belka & Strelka)
• Aug 20 - Venus At Its Greatest Eastern Elongation (46 Degrees)
• Aug 20 - Neptune At Opposition
• Aug 20 -[Sep 08] Asteroid 2010 RT3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.077 AU)
• Aug 20 - Asteroid 2041 Lancelot Closest Approach To Earth (1.986 AU)
• Aug 20 - Lecture: Aquarius - Studying Sea Surface Salinity from Space, Pasadena, California
• Aug 20 - 35th Anniversary (1975), Viking 1 Launch (Mars Lander/Orbiter)
• Aug 20 - 125th Anniversary (1885), Ernst Hartwig's Discovery of S Andromedae
• Aug 21 -[Sep 09] Asteroid 2010 RY11 Near-Earth Flyby (0.023 AU)
• Aug 21 - Asteroid 469 Argentina Closest Approach To Earth (2.589 AU)
• Aug 21 - 45th Anniversary (1965), Gemini 5 Launch (Gordon Cooper & Charles Conrad)
• Aug 21-22 - Les Rencontres Spatiales de St Maximin, Saint Maximin la Sainte Baume, France
• Aug 21-27 - 20th General Meeting of the International Mineralogical Association (IMA2010), Budapest, Hungary
• Aug 22 - Asteroid 2074 Shoemaker Closest Approach To Earth (1.039 AU)
• Aug 22 - Asteroid 1373 Cincinnati Closest Approach To Earth (1.813 AU)
• Aug 22-26 - IAU Symposium 273: Physics of Sun and Star Spots, Ventura, California
• Aug 23 - Comet C/2010 J3 (McMillan) Perihelion (2.455 AU)
• Aug 23 - Comet 187P/LINEAR Closest Approach To Earth (3.356 AU)
• Aug 23 - Asteroid 10217 Richardcook Occults HIP 12468 (8.0 Magnitude Star)
• Aug 23-25 - 2nd International EMU Workshop, Pasadena, California
• Aug 23-26 - CALCON Technical Conference: Conference on Characterization and Radiometric Calibration for Remote Sensing, Logan, Utah
• Aug 23-26 - Photon 10 Conference, Southampton, United Kingdom
• Aug 23-27 - International Colloquium: Detection and Dynamics of Transiting Exoplanets, Haute-Provence, France
• Aug 23-27 - 40th International Symposium Ahrenshoop on the Theory of Elementary Particles: Recent Developments in String/M-Theory and Field Theory, Wernsdorf, Germany
• Aug 23-27 - NITheP Workshop: Quantum Field Theory on Curved Spacetime - From the Algebraic Approach to Local Covariance, Durban-Westville, South Africa
• Aug 23-28 - 18th International Conference on Supersymmetry and Unification of Fundamental Interactions (SUSY 10), Bonn, Germany
• Aug 24 - Tianhui 1 Long March 2D Launch (China), Successful
• Aug 24 - Asteroid 5356 (1991 FF1) Occults HIP 14607 (6.3 Magnitude Star)
• Aug 24 -[Sep 04] Asteroid 2010 RE Near-Earth Flyby (0.027 AU)
• Aug 24 - Asteroid 2005 QQ87 Near-Earth Flyby (0.082 AU)
• Aug 24 - Asteroid 2003 JN14 Near-Mars Flyby (0.049 AU)
• Aug 24 - Asteroid 8256 Shenzhou Closest Approach To Earth (1.172 AU)
• Aug 24 - Kuiper Belt Object 225088 (2007 OR10) At Opposition (85.144 AU)
• Aug 24-28 - International Workshop: Supersymmetry in Integrable Systems (SIS'10), Yerevan, Armenia
• Aug 25 - Northern Iota Aquarids Meteor Shower Peak
• Aug 25 - Comet 10P/Tempel 2 Closest Approach To Earth (0.651 AU)
• Aug 25 - Asteroid 697 Galilea Closest Approach To Earth (1.474 AU)
• Aug 25 - Asteroid 11911 Angel Closest Approach To Earth (1.797 AU)
• Aug 25-28 - Bengaluru Space Expo 2010, Bengaluru, India
• Aug 26 - Asteroid 2007 DS7 Near-Earth Flyby (0.096 AU)
• Aug 26 - Asteroid 2007 RY8 Near-Venus Flyby (0.043 AU)
• Aug 26 - Asteroid 1031 Arctica Closest Approach To Earth (2.276 AU)
• Aug 26 - Lecture: Lunar Bombardment Record as a Window into the Early Solar System, Houston, Texas
• Aug 27 - Comet P/2010 L2 (LINEAR) Closest Approach To Earth (2.007 AU)
• Aug 27 -[Sep 09] Asteroid 2010 RZ11 Near-Earth Flyby (0.006 AU)
• Aug 27 -[Sep 09] Asteroid 2010 RE31 Near-Earth Flyby (0.042 AU)
• Aug 27 - Asteroid 2006 EK53 Near-Mars Flyby (0.045 AU)
• Aug 27-Sep 04 - International Summer School And Conference On High Energy Physics: Standard Model And Beyond (ISSCSMB '10), Mugla, Akyaka, Turkey
• Aug 28 - Comet 237P/LINEAR Closest Approach To Earth (2.007 AU)
• Aug 28 - Asteroid 1 Ceres Occults UCAC2 20445859 (11.8 Magnitude Star)
• Aug 28 - Astroid 2007 DD Near-Earth Flyby (0.082 AU)
• Aug 28 - Asteroid 4116 Elachi Closest Approach To Earth (1.069 AU)
• Aug 28-29 - Topical Workshop in Low Radioactivity Techniques (LRT 2010), Sudbury, Canada
• Aug 29 - Comet C/2010 DG56 (WISE) Closest Approach To Earth (1.145 AU)
• Aug 29 -[Sep 04] Asteroid 2010 RC Near-Earth Flyby (0.022 AU)
• Aug 29 -[Sep 09] Asteroid 2010 RC31 Near-Earth Flyby (0.068 AU)
• Aug 29 - Asteroid 36800 Katarinawitt Closest Approach To Earth (1.009 AU)
• Aug 29 - Asteroid 7359 Messier Closest Approach To Earth (1.791 AU)
• Aug 29 - Asteroid 2006 SQ372 Closest Approach To Earth (23.717 AU)
• Aug 29 - 35th Anniversary (1975), Discovery of Nova Cygni 1975
• Aug 29-Sep 02 - Cool Stars 16 Workshop, Seattle, Washington
• Aug 29-Sep 03 - 21st European Conference On Few-Body Problems In Physics (EFB 21), Salamanca, Spain
• Aug 29-Sep 05 - School and Workshops on the Standard Model and Beyond - Cosmology, Corfu, Greece
• Aug 30 - ICESat Reenters Earth's Atmosphere
• Aug 30 - Comet 2P/Encke Closest Approach To Earth (1.114 AU)
• Aug 30 - Asteroid 1642 Hill Occults HIP 106143 (6.6 Magnitude Star)
• Aug 30 - Asteroid 4055 Magellan Closest Approach To Earth (0.560 AU)
• Aug 30 - Asteroid 4342 Freud Closest Approach To Earth (1.522 AU)
• Aug 30 - Asteroid 203 Pompeja Closest Approach To Earth (1.664 AU)
• Aug 30-31 - Symposium on Climate Change, Nagoya, Japan
• Aug 30-Sep 02 - 2010 VEXAG International Workshop: Venus, Our Closest Earth-like Planet - From Surface to Thermosphere - How does it Work?, Madison, Wisconsin
• Aug 30-Sep 02 - AIAA SPACE 2010 Conference & Exposition/28th AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC-2010), Anaheim, California
• Aug 30-Sep 03 - Workshop: Encounters and Interactions in Dense Stellar Systems - Modeling, Computing, and Observations (MODEST 10), China
• Aug 30-Sep 03 - 25th Summer School and International Symposium on the Physics of Ionized Gases, Donji Milanovac, Serbia
• Aug 30-Sep 04 - 18th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Astronomy in Culture (SEAC), Gilching, Germany
• Aug 31 - Comet 186P/Garradd Closest Approach To Earth (3.853 AU)
• Aug 31 - Asteroid 1999 CG9 Near-Earth Flyby (0.083 AU)
• Aug 31 - Asteroid 1566 Icarus Closest Approach To Earth (0.602 AU)

September 2010

• Sep ?? - ResourceSat 2/ YouthSat PSLV Launch (India)
• Sep ?? - Yaogan 11 CZ-2D Launch
• Sep ?? -[Sep 08] Shen Tong 1-B CZ-3A Launch
• Sep 01 - Asteroid 3895 Earhart Closest Approach To Earth (1.772 AU)
• Sep 01-11 - Taller de Altas Energias (TAE) Workshop, Barcelona, Spain
• Sep 02 -[Sep 07] Cosmos 2464, 2465, 2466 (Cosmos-Glonass M27, M28 & M29) Proton M-DM2 Launch, Successful
• Sep 02 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Polydeuces & Telesto
• Sep 02 -[Sep 04] Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #261 (OTM-261), Successful
• Sep 02 - Asteroid 2008 EL68 Near-Earth Flyby (0.030 AU)
• Sep 02 -[Sep 09] Asteroid 2010 RA12 Near-Earth Flyby (0.030 AU)
• Sep 02 -[Sep 09] Asteroid 2010 RV11 Near-Earth Flyby (0.042 AU)
• Sep 02 - 8th Meeting of the Venus Exploration and Analysis Group, Madison, Wisconsin
• Sep 02-03 - 5th Space Agency - MOD Round Table Workshop on GaN Component Technologies, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
• Sep 02-03 - Conference: 70th Open Puzzle in Galaxy Formation and Evolution, Portsmouth, United Kingdom
• Sep 02-09 - 2010 Heart Of America Star Party, Butler, Missouri
• Sep 03 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Aegaeon, Titan, Epimetheus & Dione
• Sep 03 - Comet 227P/Catalina-LINEAR Perihelion (1.795 AU)
• Sep 03 - Comet C/2010 D3 (WISE) Perihelion (4.247 AU)
• Sep 03 -[Sep 03] Asteroid 2010 QG2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.012 AU)
• Sep 03 - Asteroid 79896 Billhaley Closest Approach To Earth (2.010 AU)
• Sep 04 -[Sep 07] Chinasat 6A CZ-3B Launch, Successful
• Sep 04 -[Sep 09] Asteroid 2010 RB12 Near-Earth Flyby (0.006 AU)
• Sep 04 - Asteroid 2753 Duncan Closest Approach To Earth (1.845 AU)
• Sep 04-06 -[Sep 03] Cleveland National Air Show, Cleveland, Ohio
• Sep 04-11 - Neutrino Oscillation Workshop, Otranto, Lecce, Italy
• Sep 05 - Comet 111P/Helin-Roman-Crockett Closest Approach To Earth (3.340 AU)
• Sep 05 -[Sep 08] Asteroid 2010 RU3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.063 AU)
• Sep 05 - Asteroid 9007 James Bond Closest Approach To Earth (1.181 AU)
• Sep 05-07 - 3rd International Workshop on Analogue and Mixed Signal Integrated Circuits for Space Applications (AMICSA 2010), Noordwijk, The Netherlands
• Sep 05-09 - International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (TAUP 2011), Munich, Germany
• Sep 05-12 - School and Workshops on Fields and Strings: Theory-Cosmology-Phenomenology, Corfu, Greece
• Sep 06 - Asteroid 4813 Terebizh Occults HIP 2762 (5.2 Magnitude Star)
• Sep 06 -[Sep 08] Asteroid 2010 RX3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.073 AU)
• Sep 06 -[Sep 08] Asteroid 2010 RY3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.075 AU)
• Sep 06 -[Sep 09] Asteroid 2010 RW11 Near-Earth Flyby (0.091 AU)
• Sep 06 - Workshop: New Results in X-ray Astronomy 2010, Durham, United Kingdom
• Sep 06-07 - Conference: From Varying Couplings To Fundamental Physics, Lisbon, Portugal
• Sep 06-09 - Conference: Herschel and the Formation of Stars and Planetary Systems, Goteborg, Sweden
• Sep 06-10 - Joint European and National Astronomy Meeting 2010 (JENAM 2010), Lisbon, Portugal
• Sep 06-10 - IAU Symposium 274: Advances in Plasma Astrophysics, Giardini-Naxos, Italy
• Sep 06-10 - 10th Hvar Astrophysical Colloquium: The Active Sun, Hvar, Croatia
• Sep 06-10 - 10th European Workshop on Astrobiology, Pushchino, Russia
• Sep 06-10 - 3rd International Symposium for Dark-sky Parks and 3rd International Dark-sky Camp, Lastovo Island, Croatia
• Sep 06-10 - 5th International Workshop On Semiconductor Pixel Detectors For Particles And Imaging (Pixel 2010), Grindelwald, Switzerland
• Sep 06-10 - 5th Heidelberg Summer School: First Stars and Cosmic Reionization, Heidelberg, Germany
• Sep 07 -[Sep 03] Charles Bolden Lecture: Our Nation's Future in Space, West Lafayette, Indiana
• Sep 07-10 - Exoclimes Conference: Exploring the Diversity of Planetary Atmospheres, Exeter, United Kingdom
• Sep 07-11 - 22nd Indian Summer School Of Physics And SPHERE School On Strangeness Nuclear Physics, Rez/Prague, Czech Republic
• Sep 08 -[Sep 09] Gonets M2/Cosmos 2467/Cosmos 2468 Rokot KM Launch, Successful
• Sep 08 - Comet 236P/LINEAR Perihelion (1.831 AU)
• Sep 08 -[Sep 08] Asteroid 2010 RF12 Near-Earth Flyby (0.0005 AU)
• Sep 08 -[Sep 08] Asteroid 2010 RX30 Near-Earth Flyby (0.002 AU)
• Sep 08 - Asteroid 3673 Levy Closest Approach To Earth (1.208 AU)
• Sep 08 - Lecture: The Case for our Cosmic Ancestry, Winchester, United Kingdom
• Sep 08 - 35th Anniversary (1975), Viking 2 Launch (Mars Orbiter/Lander)
• Sep 08 - 45th Anniversary (1965), Kaoru Ikeya & Tsutomu Seki's Discovery of Comet Ikeya-Seki
• Sep 08 - Marshall Space Flight Center's 50th Birthday (1960)
• Sep 08 - Thomas Keith Glennan's 105th Birthday (1905)
• Sep 08-10 - 8th Workshop on Science with the New Generation of High Energy Gamma-ray Experiments: Gamma-ray Astrophysics in the Multimessenger Context, Trieste, Italy
• Sep 08-12 - Satellite Workshop on Noncommutative Field Theory and Gravity, Corfu, Greece
• Sep 08-15 - 19th International Workshop: High Energy Physics and Quantum Field Theory, Moscow, Russia
• Sep 09 - Asteroid 2005 VL1 Near-Venus Flyby (0.048 AU)
• Sep 09 - Asteroid 1940 Whipple Closest Approach To Earth (2.081 AU)
• Sep 09 - Lecture: Hayabusa and Hayabusa 2 Missions and Space Weathering, Houston, Texas
• Sep 09 -[Sep 09] Teleconference: A Decadal Strategy for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics)
• Sep 09-11 - Inaugural Workshop on Black Holes in Supergravity and M/Superstring Theory, State College, Pennsylvania
• Sep 09-12 - 6th Annual Central Nevada Star Party, Tonopah, Nevada
• Sep 09-12 - Illinois Dark Skies Star Party 2010, Chandlerville, Illinois
• Sep 10 -[Sep 09] Progress M-07M Soyuz U Launch (International Space Station 39P)
• Sep 10 - Comet 97P/Metcalf-Brewington Closest Approach To Earth (2.530 AU)
• Sep 10 - Asteroid 2010 PR10 Near-Earth Flyby (0.090 AU)
• Sep 10 - Asteroid 426 Hippo Closest Approach To Earth (2.214 AU)
• Sep 10-12 - 20th Annual Connecticut Star Party, Ashford, Connecticut
• Sep 11 - Michibiki (Quasi-Zenith Satellite 1) H-2A Launch (Japan)
• Sep 11 - Moon Occults Venus
• Sep 11 - Asteroid 8 Flora At Opposition (8.2 Magnitude)
• Sep 11 - Celebration of the Night and Star Party, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico
• Sep 11 - ScopeOut Astronomy Fair, Cincinnait, Ohio
• Sep 11 - 25th Anniversary (1985), ICE, Comet Giacobini-Zinner Flyby
• Sep 11-18 - Crete Conference On Gauge Theories And The Structure Of Spacetime, Crete, Greece
• Sep 12 - 40th Anniversary (1970), Luna 16 Launch (Soviet Moon Sample Return)
• Sep 12-Oct 02 - 32nd International School for Young Astronomers (ISYA-2010), Byurakan, Armenia
• Sep 13 - Asteroid 29075 (1950 DA) Closest Approach To Earth (1.133 AU)
• Sep 13 - Asteroid 19383 Rolling Stones Closest Approach To Earth (0.971 AU)
• Sep 13 - Asteroid 5143 Heracles Closest Approach To Earth (2.236 AU)
• Sep 13-15 - Workshop: The Delivery of Volatiles and Organics - From Earth to Exoearths with JWST, Baltimore, Maryland
• Sep 13-15 - 5th Advanced Satellite Multimedia Systems Conference/11th Signal Processing for Space Communications Workshop, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
• Sep 13-17 - IAU Symposium 275: Jets at all Scales, Buenos Aires, Argentina,
• Sep 13-17 - Conference: Great Barriers in High Mass Star Formation, Townsville, Australia
• Sep 13-17 - Cosmic Ray International Seminar (CRIS 2010): One Hundred Years of Cosmic Ray Physics - From Pioneering Experiments to Physics in Space, Catania, Italy
• Sep 13-17 - 7th ESA Round-Table on MNT for Space Applications & 6th CANEUS Workshops, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
• Sep 13-17 - Annual Fall Meeting and 83nd General Assembly: Zooming In - The Cosmos at High Resolution, Bonn, Germany
• Sep 13-17 - 5th International Workshop DICE2010: Space-Time-Matter - Current Issues In Quantum Mechanics And Beyond, Castiglioncello, Tuscany, Italy
• Sep 13-17 - 9th Meeting of the Astronomy Spanish Society, Madrid, Spain
• Sep 13-18 - 4th UniverseNet Annual School: Frontiers of Particle Cosmology, Lecce, Italy
• Sep 14 -[Sep 02] Asteroid 39 Laetitia At Opposition (9.1 Magnitude)
• Sep 14 -[Sep 09] Asteroid 2010 RF31 Near-Earth Flyby (0.049 AU)
• Sep 14 - Asteroid 2001 XE1 Near-Mars Flyby (0.035 AU)
• Sep 14 - Asteroid 18458 Caesar Closest Approach To Earth (1.521 AU)
• Sep 14 - John Dobson's 95th Birthday (1915)
• Sep 14-15 - Oil and Gas Workshop, Frascati, Italy
• Sep 14-16 - 2010 Annual Meeting of the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group (LEAG), Washington DC
• Sep 14-17 - 3rd International Workshop on High Precision for Hard Processes at the LHC, Florence, Italy
• Sep 14-23 - 6th Mathematical Physics Meeting: Summer School And Conference On Modern Mathematical Physics (MPHYS6), Belgrade, Serbia
• Sep 15 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #261A (OTM-261A)
• Sep 15 - Moon Occults Asteroid 15 Eunomia
• Sep 15 - Asteroid 2753 Duncan Occults HIP 112168 (6.8 Magnitude Star)
• Sep 15 -[Sep 08] Asteroid 2010 RJ4 Near-Earth Flyby (0.061 AU)
• Sep 15 - Asteroid 2005 UH6 Near-Venus Flyby (0.023 AU)
• Sep 16 - Lecture: Mars Science Laboratory - The Search for Habitable Environments, Pasadena, California
• Sep 16 - Lecture: The Story of the Enceladus Plumes - Is There liquid Water Underneath?, Houston, Texas
• Sep 16-17 - Outer Planets Assessment Group (OPAG) Meeting, Boulder, Colorado
• Sep 16-24 - International School Of Nuclear Physics - 32nd Course - Particle And Nuclear Astrophysics, Erice, Sicily, Italy
• Sep 17 - Asteroid 3763 Qianxuesen Occults HIP 108494 (6.1 Magnitude Star)
• Sep 17 - Asteroid 4147 Lennon Closest Approach To Earth (1.467 AU)
• Sep 17 - Lecture: Mars Science Laboratory - The Search for Habitable Environments, Pasadena, California
• Sep 18 - Asteroid 3354 McNair Closest Approach To Earth (1.237 AU)
• Sep 18 - Asteroid 9954 Brachiosaurus Closest Approach To Earth (1.540 AU)
• Sep 19 - Mercury At Its Greatest Western Elongation (18 Degrees)
• Sep 19 -[Sep 03] Asteroid 6 Hebe At Opposition (7.7 Magnitude)
• Sep 19 -[Sep 03] Asteroid 2010 RA Near-Earth Flyby (0.084 AU)
• Sep 19 -[Sep 08] Asteroid 2010 RV3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.096 AU)
• Sep 19-24 - 7th International Workshop on Planetary, Solar and Heliospheric Radio Emissions (PREVII), Graz, Austria
• Sep 19-24 - 5th Zermatt ISM Symposium: Conditions and Impact of Star Formation - New Results with Herschel and Beyond, Zermatt, Switzerland
• Sep 19-25 - European Planetary Science Congress 2010, Rome, Italy
• Sep 20 - NROL-41 Atlas 5 Launch
• Sep 20 -[Sep 08] Asteroid 1997 GL3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.042 AU)
• Sep 20 - International Symposium on Asteroid Mitigation, College Station, Texas
• Sep 20-21 - Workshop: GIS for Planetary Mappers II, Flagstaff, Arizona
• Sep 20-22 - Journees 2010: New Challenges for Reference Systems and Numerical Standards in Astronomy, Paris, France
• Sep 20-24 - Conference: Evolution of Galaxies, Their Central Black Holes and Their Large-scale Environment, Potsdam, Germany
• Sep 20-24 - 10th European VLBI Network Symposium and EVN Users Meeting: VLBI and the New Generation of Radio Arrays, Manchester, United Kingdom
• Sep 20-24 - 11th Spacecraft Charging Technology Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico
• Sep 21 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #262 (OTM-262)
• Sep 21 - Jupiter At Opposition
• Sep 21 - Uranus At Opposition
• Sep 21 - Asteroid 1541 Estonia Closest Approach To Earth (1.947 AU)
• Sep 21-23 - 5th ESA Workshop on Tracking, Telemetry and Command Systems for Space Applications, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
• Sep 21-24 - UN/Austria/ESA Symposium on Small Satellite Programmes for Sustainable Development: Payloads for Small Satellite Programmes, Graz, Austria
• Sep 21-25 - 20th Workshop on General Relativity and Gravitation in Japan (JGRG20), Kyoto, Japan
• Sep 21-25 - 40th International Symposium On Multiparticle Dynamics (ISMD 2010), Antwerp, Belgium
• Sep 21-25 - Conference: Geometry And Physcis In Cracow, Cracow, Poland
• Sep 22 - Asteroid 4923 Clarke Closest Approach To Earth (0.928 AU)
• Sep 22-24 - 1st Planetary Crater Consortium Meeting, Flagstaff, Arizona
• Sep 22-24 - Conference: Multiwavelength Variability of Blazars, Guangzhou, China
• Sep 22-26 - 6th International Conference of Aerospace Medicine, Thessaloniki, Greece
• Sep 23 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Enceladus, Calypso & Polydeuces
• Sep 23 - Autumnal Equinox, 03:09 UT
• Sep 23-24 - Conference: The Transient Universe - From Exoplanets to Hypernovae, Dublin, Ireland
• Sep 23-24 - iNExT Workshop: The NExT Phase of Particle Physics, Sussex, United Kingdom
• Sep 23-25 - Space Generation Congress 2010, Prague, Czech Republic
• Sep 24 - Cassini, Titan Flyby
• Sep 24 - Lecture: Mitigation of Lunar Dust Adhered to Mechanical Parts of Equipment Used for Lunar Exploration, Houston, Texas
• Sep 24 - John Young's 80th Birthday (1930)
• Sep 24-26 - 2010 Astronomy Symposium, Hope, New Jersey
• Sep 25 - Asteroid 11650 (1997 CN) Occults HIP 91347 (5.9 Magnitude Star)
• Sep 25 - Asteroid 85990 (1999 JV6) Near-Venus Flyby (0.026 AU)
• Sep 26 -[Sep 07] SBSS-1 Minotaur 4 Launch
• Sep 26 -[Sep 04] Asteroid 471 Papagena At Opposition (9.7 Magnitude)
• Sep 26 - 5th Anniversary (2005), Cassini, Hyperion Flyby
• Sep 26-Oct 05 - International School On AstroParticle Physics: Early Universe and Gravitational Waves, Pisa, Italy
• Sep 27 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #263 (OTM-263)
• Sep 27 - Asteroid 3169 Ostro Closest Approach To Earth (1.132 AU)
• Sep 27 - Asteroid 7853 Confucius Closest Approach To Earth (2.735 AU)
• Sep 27-29 - 4th Mars Science Laboratory Landing Site Community Workshop, Pasadena, California
• Sep 27-30 - 8th INTEGRAL Workshop: The Restless Gamma-ray Universe, Dublin, Ireland
• Sep 27-Oct 01 - 61st International Astronautical Congress, Prague, Czech Republic
• Sep 27-Oct 01 - Annual Cosmo International Conference on Particle Physics and Cosmology, Tokyo, Japan
• Sep 27-Oct 01 - Workshop: Challenges in Infrared Extragalactic Astrophysics II, Crete, Greece
• Sep 27-Oct 01 - 1st European Single Dish School in the Era of Arrays, Bonn, Germany
• Sep 28 - Comet 242P/Spahr Closest Approach To Earth (3.665 AU)
• Sep 28 - Asteroid 6 Hebe Occults UCAC2 24017500 (11.6 Magnitude Star)
• Sep 28 - Asteroid 2002 TZ57 Near-Earth Flyby (0.064 AU)
• Sep 28 - Asteroid 477 Italia Closest Approach To Earth (1.020 AU)
• Sep 28 - Asteroid 73079 Davidbaltimore Closest Approach To Earth (1.590 AU)
• Sep 28 - Ismael Bullialdus' 405th Birthday (1605)
• Sep 28-30 - 11th International Workshop on Simulation and ECSE facilities for Space Programmes, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
• Sep 28-Oct 01 - Regensburg Conference: Quantum Field Theory And Gravity - Conceptual And Mathematical Advances In The Search For A Unified Framework, Regensburg, Germany
• Sep 29 - Comet 31P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 2 Perihelion (3.424 AU)
• Sep 29 - Comet C/2008 FK75 (Lemmon-Siding Spring) Perihelion (4.511 AU)
• Sep 29-Oct 01 - Meeting: Charge Exchange, Madrid, Spain
• Sep 30 - Cosmos-Oko US-K N86 Molniya M Launch
• Sep 30 - Asteroid Gallia Occults HIP 43813 (3.1 Magnitude Star)
• Sep 30 - Asteroid 2009 SH2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.018 AU)
• Sep 30 - Asteroid 2005 NZ6 Near-Mercury Flyby (0.047 AU)
• Sep 30 - 35th Anniversary (1975), Charles Kowal's Discovery of Jupiter Moon Themisto
• Sep 30-Oct 01 - 23rd Meeting of the Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group (MEPAG), Monrovia, California
• Sep 30-Oct 03 -[Sep 04] Prairie Skies Star Party, near Bourbonnais, Illinois

October 2010

• Oct ?? - Chang'e 2 Launch (China Moon Orbiter)
• Oct ?? - Feng Yun 3-B CZ-4C Launch (China)
• Oct ?? - Mesbah Safir 2 Launch (Iran)
• Oct ?? - G-Sat 5 (Insat 4-D) GSLV-F06 Launch
• Oct ?? - Dragon C-1 Falcon 9 Launch
• Oct ?? - Beidou 2 G-4 (Compass G-4) CZ-3C Launch
• Oct 01 - STP-26/ FASTRAC-A & B/ FalconSat 4/ OREOS/RAC Minotaur 4 Launch
• Oct 01 - Asteroid 137032 (1998 UO1) Near-Earth Flyby (0.082 AU)
• Oct 01 - Asteroid 7225 Huntress Closest Approach To Earth (1.478 AU)
• Oct 01-03 - 2010 Workshop On Major DUSEL Physics Topics, Rapid City, South Dakota
• Oct 02 - Asteroid 1996 Adams Closest Approach To Earth (1.212 AU)
• Oct 02 - Asteroid 12104 Chesley Closest Approach To Earth (2.050 AU)
• Oct 02 - Celebration of the Night and Star Party, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico
• Oct 02 - Hayden Planetarium's 75th Birthday (1935)
• Oct 02-09 - Discover Hawaii Expedition, Hawaii
• Oct 03 - Asteroid 136 Austria Closest Approach To Earth (1.161 AU)
• Oct 03 - Asteroid 4444 Escher Closest Approach To Earth (1.210 AU)
• Oct 03 - Asteroid 1772 Gagarin Closest Approach To Earth (1.792 AU)
• Oct 03 - 195th Anniversary (1815), Chassigny Meteorite Fall (Mars Meteorite)
• Oct 03-05 - ADAS Workshop 2010, College Hill, Armagh, Northern Ireland
• Oct 03-08 - 42nd Annual Meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society, Pasadena, California
• Oct 04 - Comet 240P/NEAT Perihelion (2.124 AU)
• Oct 04 -[Sep 04] Asteroid 2010 RD Near-Earth Flyby (0.051 AU)
• Oct 04 - Asteroid 3783 Morris Closest Approach To Earth (1.017 AU)
• Oct 04-05 - Workshop: The Physics of the Sun and the Solar Neutrinos- 2nd, L'Aquila, Italy
• Oct 04-06 - Workshop: Opening New Frontiers with the Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT2010), Seoul, Korea
• Oct 04-08 - 42nd Meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) of the American Astronomical Society, Pasadena, California
• Oct 04-08 - 5th Alfven Conference: Plasma Interaction with Non-Magnetized Planets/Moons and its Influence on Planetary Evolution, Sapporo, Japan
• Oct 04-08 - International Conference on Space Optics (ICSO 2010), Rhodes Island, Greece
• Oct 04-08 - Conference: Time and Matter, Budva, Montenegro
• Oct 04-08 - 7th IRAM Interferometry School 2010, Grenoble, France
• Oct 04-09 - Conference: Comprehensive Characterization of Astronomical Sites, Kislovodsk, Russia
• Oct 04-09 - 2nd Space School Africa Space Fest, Constantine, Algeria
• Oct 04-10 - World Space Week
• Oct 05 - Asteroid 1221 Amor Closest Approach To Earth (1.756 AU)
• Oct 05-06 - Workshop: Robotic Science from the Moon - Gravitational Physics, Heliophysics and Cosmology, Boulder, Colorado
• Oct 05-08 - 32nd ESA Antenna Workshop on Antennas for Space Applications, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
• Oct 05-14 - Conference: High Energy View of Accreting Objects - AGN and X-ray Binaries, Agios Nikolaos, Crete, Greece
• Oct 06 - 20th Anniversary (1990), Ulysses Launch (Solar Polar Orbiter)
• Oct 06-08 - Second IAA Symposium on Searching for Life Signatures, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
• Oct 06-08 - Neutrino Geoscience 2010 Conference, Gran Sasso, Assergi, Italy
• Oct 06-14 - School On Astroparticle Physics, Obertrubach-Baernfels, Germany
• Oct 07-08 - ICATPP Conference on Cosmic Rays for Particle and Astroparticle Physics, Villa Olmo, Italy
• Oct 07-09 - Workshop on Detector R&D, Batavia, Illinois
• Oct 07-09 -[Sep 03] Big Bend Star Party, Alpine, Texas
• Oct 08 - Soyuz TMA-01M Soyuz FG Launch (International Space Station 24S)
• Oct 08 - Comet C/2010 A4 (Siding Spring) Perihelion (2.738 AU)
• Oct 08 - Asteroid 2001 TB Near-Earth Flyby (0.005 AU)
• Oct 08 - Asteroid 9250 Chamberlin Closest Approach To Earth (2.581 AU)
• Oct 09 - Draconids Meteor Shower Peak
• Oct 09 - Asteroid 1322 Coppernicus Closest Approach To Earth (1.461 AU)
• Oct 09 - Asteroid 5720 Halweaver Closest Approach To Earth (1.613 AU)
• Oct 09 - 4th Ibero-American Symposium on Comets of LIADA, Rosario, Argentina
• Oct 09 - Celebration of the Night and Star Party, Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico
• Oct 10 - Asteroid 2062 Aten Closest Approach To Earth (0.586 AU)
• Oct 10 - Asteroid 83360 Catalina Closest Approach To Earth (1.221 AU)
• Oct 10 - Asteroid 2801 Huygens Closest Approach To Earth (1.362 AU)
• Oct 10 - Very Large Array's (VLA) 30th Birthday (1980)
• Oct 10-12 - WittFest Conference: Origins & Evolution of Dust, Toledo, Ohio
• Oct 10-15 - Pulsar Conference 2010: Radio Pulsars - An Astrophysical Key to Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe, Chia Laguna, Sardinia, Italy
• Oct 11 - Cassini, End of Equinox Mission
• Oct 11 - Asteroid 11998 Fermilab Closest Approach To Earth (1.427 AU)
• Oct 11 - Asteroid 19148 Alaska Closest Approach To Earth (2.612 AU)
• Oct 11 - 65th Anniversary (1945), WAC Corporal Launch
• Oct 11-14 - Conference: Science with the Hubble Space Telescope - III, Venice, Italy
• Oct 11-14 - 2nd International Workshop On Physics Of Fundamental Symmetries And Interactions At Low Energies And The Precision Frontier: PSI 2010, Villigen, Switzerland
• Oct 11-15 - IAU Symposium 276: The Astrophysics of Planetary Systems - Formation, Structure, and Dynamical Evolution, Torino, Italy
• Oct 11-15 - 4th Hinode Science Meeting, Palermo, Italy
• Oct 11-15 - 1st Moscow Solar System Symposium (1M-S3): Mars System Studies, Moscow, Russia
• Oct 11-15 - International Conference on Accretion and Outflow in Black Hole Systems, Kathmandu, Nepal
• Oct 11-15 - Workshop: Frontiers in Computational Astrophysics - Particle and Flames in Radiative and Magnetic Flows, Lyon, France
• Oct 12 - Comet 242P/Spahr Near-Jupiter Flyby (0.357 AU)
• Oct 12 - Asteroid 742 Edisona Closest Approach To Earth (1.707 AU)
• Oct 12 - Asteroid 16809 Galapagos Closest Approach To Earth (1.735 AU)
• Oct 13 - Comet 236P/LINEAR Closest Approach To Earth (0.904 AU)
• Oct 13 - Lecture: What's New in the Solar System, Winchester, United Kingdom
• Oct 13-15 - 4th International Workshop on System & Concurrent Engineering for Space Applications (SECESA 2010), Lausanne, Switzerland
• Oct 14 - Cassini, Titan Flyby
• Oct 14 - XM-5 Proton M-Briz M Launch
• Oct 14 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #264 (OTM-264)
• Oct 14 - Asteroid 162269 (1999 VO6) Near-Earth Flyby (0.088 AU)
• Oct 14 - Asteroid 2009 BU5 Near-Mars Flyby (0.046 AU)
• Oct 14 - Dwarf Planet 136199 Eris (2003 UB313) Closest Approach To Earth (95.667 AU)
• Oct 14 - Lecture: From Near Earth Asteroids to the Most Distant Galaxies - Scientific Results from the Spitzer Space Telescope, Pasadena, California
• Oct 14-15 - 4th Coastal Altimetry Workshop, Porto, Portugal
• Oct 15 - Comet 69P/Taylor Closest Approach To Earth (2.091 AU)
• Oct 15 - Asteroid 13070 Seanconnery Closest Approach To Earth (0.928 AU)
• Oct 15 - Lecture: From Near Earth Asteroids to the Most Distant Galaxies - Scientific Results from the Spitzer Space Telescope, Pasadena, California
• Oct 15 - 4th AFI symposium: Our Evolving Universe, Innsbruck, Austria
• Oct 15-17 - Chandrasekhar Centennial Symposium, Chicago, Illinois
• Oct 16 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Polydeuces, Mimas, Pallene, Telesto, Methone & Aegaeon
• Oct 16 - Comet 142P/Ge-Wang Closest Approach To Earth (1.738 AU)
• Oct 16 - 35th Anniversary (1975), GOES 1 Launch (1st Weather Satellite in Geosynchronous Orbit)
• Oct 16-18 - 3rd International Congress on Image and Signal Processing (CISP'10), Yantai, China
• Oct 17 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Dione & Rhea
• Oct 17 - New Horizons, Halfway to Pluto
• Oct 17 - Asteroid 25924 Douglasadams Closest Approach To Earth (1.619 AU)
• Oct 18 - Comet P/2010 P4 (WISE) Closest Approach To Earth (1.209 AU)
• Oct 18 - Asteroid 2009 ST Near-Vesta Flyby (0.043 AU)
• Oct 18-20 - Workshop on Aeronomy of Jupiter's and Saturn's Systems, Liege, Belgium
• Oct 18-20 - Workshop on Fractional Differentiation and Its Applications (FDA'10), Badajoz, Spain
• Oct 18-21 -[Sep 04] 26th Space Simulation Conference, Annapolis, Maryland
• Oct 18-22 - Conference: The Origin of Stellar Masses, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
• Oct 18-22 - International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight (ISPCS 2010), Las Cruces, New Mexico
• Oct 18-22 - Graduate School in Astronomy: XV Special Advanced Courses, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• Oct 19 - NROL-32 Delta 4-Heavy Launch
• Oct 19 - Globalstar 2 (1-6) Soyuz 2-1a-Fregat Launch
• Oct 19 - Kuiper Belt Object 15760 (1992 QB1) At Opposition (40.105 AU)
• Oct 19 - Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar's 100th Birthday (1910)
• Oct 19-21 - 4th European Space Cryogenics Workshop, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
• Oct 19-22 - X-shooter 2010 Conference: In Memory of R. Pallavicini, Como, Italy
• Oct 19-22 - Conference: Big Science with Small Telescopes - The Role of 2-4m Telescopes in the ERA of Large and Extremely Large Telescopes, Dornburg Castle, Germany
• Oct 20 - 40th Anniversary (1970), Zond 8 Launch (USSR Moon Flyby)
• Oct 20-21 - KVN Coreshift Workshop: Nuclear Opacity in AGN and its Astrometric and Astrophysical Applications, Seoul, Korea
• Oct 21 - Orionids Meteor Shower Peak
• Oct 21 - Comet 103P/Hartley 2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.121 AU)
• Oct 21 - Asteroid 1566 Icarus Closest Approach To Earth (0.636 AU)
• Oct 21 - Asteroid 4535 Adamcarolla Closest Approach To Earth (2.183 AU)
• Oct 22 - Asteroid 202683 (2006 US216) Near-Venus Flyby (0.025 AU)
• Oct 22 - Asteroid 4783 Wasson Closest Approach To Earth (1.481 AU)
• Oct 22 - 35th Anniversary (1975), Venera 9, Venus Landing (Soviet Venus Orbiter/Lander)
• Oct 22-24 - The Eddy Cross-Disciplinary Symposium on Sun-Climate Research, Apen, Colorado
• Oct 23 - Asteroid 2000 TU28 Near-Earth Flyby (0.065 AU)
• Oct 23 - Asteroid 2247 Hiroshima Closest Approach To Earth (1.185 AU)
• Oct 23 - Karl Jansky's 105th Birthday (1905)
• Oct 24 - Comet 244P/Scotti Closest Approach To Earth (3.276 AU)
• Oct 24 - Asteroid 2009 FD Near-Earth Flyby (0.066 AU)
• Oct 24 - Asteroid 2710 Veverka Closest Approach To Earth (1.687 AU)
• Oct 24-27 - 1st Puerto Rico Space Congress, San Juan, Puerto Rico
• Oct 25 - Comet C/2008 S3 (Boattini) Closest Approach To Earth (7.149 AU)
• Oct 25 - Asteroid 2005 UN Near-Earth Flyby (0.020 AU)
• Oct 25 - Asteroid 1998 SD9 Near-Mercury Flyby (0.048 AU)
• Oct 25 - Asteroid 10217 Richardcook Closest Approach To Earth (1.075 AU)
• Oct 25 - Asteroid 3066 McFadden Closest Approach To Earth (1.262 AU)
• Oct 25 - 35th Anniversary (1975), Venera 10, Venus Landing
• Oct 25-29 - 7th International Conference on the Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena (INSAP VII), Bath, United Kingdom
• Oct 25-29 - International Conference: In the Spirit of Lyot 2010 - Direct Detection of Exoplanets and Circumstellar Disks, Paris, France
• Oct 25-29 - Conference: Galaxy Evolution - Infrared to Millimeter Wavelength Perspective, Guilin, China
• Oct 26 - Asteroid 2004 XD6 Near-Mars Flyby (0.023 AU)
• Oct 26 - Asteroid 82332 Las Vegas Closest Approach To Earth (1.576 AU)
• Oct 26 - Asteroid 1193 Africa Closest Approach To Earth (1.955 AU)
• Oct 27 - Progress M-08M Soyuz U Launch (International Space Station 40P)
• Oct 27 - Asteroid 162269 (1999 VO6) Near-Venus Flyby (0.041 AU)
• Oct 27 - Asteroid 4766 Malin Closest Approach To Earth (1.457 AU)
• Oct 27 - Asteroid 3693 Barringer Closest Approach To Earth (1.607 AU)
• Oct 27 - Kuiper Belt Object 55637 (2002 UX25) At Opposition (40.589 AU)
• Oct 27-30 - Joint Meeting: Paneth Kolloquium & The First 10 Million Years of the Solar System, Nordlingen, German
• Oct 28 - Meridian 3 Soyuz 2-1a-Fregat Launch
• Oct 28 -[Sep 09] B-Sat 3B/ Eutelsat W3B Ariane 5 Launch
• Oct 28 - Comet 103P/Hartley 2 Perihelion (1.059 AU)
• Oct 28 - Asteroid 4151 Alanhale Closest Approach To Earth (2.247 AU)
• Oct 28-29 - 2nd International Workshop on On-Board Payload Data Compression - OBPDC 2010, Toulouse, France
• Oct 29 - Asteroid 2007 JB21 Near-Earth Flyby (0.099 AU)
• Oct 30 -[Sep 09] Cosmo-Skymed 4 Delta 2 Launch
• Oct 30 - Moon Occults Asteroid 7 Iris
• Oct 30 - Comet 223P/Skiff Closest Approach To Earth (1.636 AU)
• Oct 30 - Comet 219P/LINEAR Closest Approach To Earth (1.833 AU)
• Oct 30 - Asteroid 1 Ceres Occults TYC 6869-00429-1 (11.6 Magnitude Star)
• Oct 30 - Asteroid 2003 UV11 Near-Earth Flyby (0.013 AU)
• Oct 30 - Asteroid 2848 ASP Closest Approach To Earth (1.577 AU)
• Oct 30 - Asteroid 6487 Tonyspear Closest Approach To Earth (1.692 AU)
• Oct 30 - Asteroid 16035 Sasandford Closest Approach To Earth (1.856 AU)
• Oct 30 - Kuiper Belt Object 84522 (2002 TC302) At Opposition (45.316 AU)
• Oct 30 - Sally Ride Science Festival, Arlington, Texas
• Oct 31 - Asteroid 925 Alphonsina Occults HIP 89954 (6.9 Magnitude Star)
• Oct 31 - Asteroid 1640 Nemo Closest Approach To Earth (0.776 AU)
• Oct 31 - Asteroid 30444 Shemp Closest Approach To Earth (1.489 AU)
• Oct 31 - Michael Collins' 80th Birthday (1930)
• Oct 31-Nov 03 - Geological Society of America (GSA) Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado

November 2010

• Nov ?? - Orbcomm 2-1, 2-2 & 2-3 Falcon 1e Launch
• Nov ?? - Shi Jian 6G & GH CZ-2C Launch
• Nov ?? - TacSat 4 Minotaur 4 Launch
• Nov ?? - Geo IK-2 N1 Rokot KM Launch
• Nov ?? - 10th Anniversary (2000), Discovery of the NWA 480 Meteorite (Mars Meteorite)
• Nov 01 -[Sep 09] STS-133 Launch, Space Shuttle Discovery, International Space Station
• Nov 01 - Moon Occults Asteroid 3 Juno
• Nov 01 - Asteroid 2009 WY7 Near-Earth Flyby (0.065 AU)
• Nov 01-03 - 6th International Workshop on Satellite Constellation and Formation Flying (IWSCFF 2010), Taipei, Taiwan
• Nov 01-03 - 15th IASTED International Conference on Robotics and Applications (RA 2010), Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Nov 01-04 - Conference: Stormy Cosmos - The Evolving ISM from Spitzer to Herschel and Beyond, Pasadena, California
• Nov 01-04 - Gamma Ray Bursts 2010 Conference, Annapolis, Maryland
• Nov 01-05 - International Young Astronomer School on High Angular Resolution Techniques (2010), Paris, France
• Nov 01-06 - Petrov 2010 Anniversary Symposium On General Relativity And Gravitation, Kazan, Russia
• Nov 02 - Asteroid 2008 EL Near-Earth Flyby (0.032 AU)
• Nov 02 - Harlow Shapley's 125th Birthday (1885)
• Nov 02-05 - 4th East Asian Numerical Astrophysics Meeting, Taipei, Taiwan
• Nov 03 - Taurids Meteor Shower Peak
• Nov 04 -[Sep 09] EPOXI, Comet 103P/Hartley 2 Flyby
• Nov 04 - Asteroid 2006 JY26 Near-Earth Flyby (0.037 AU)
• Nov 04-06 - 4th KIAS Workshop on Cosmology and Structure Formation, Seoul, South Korea
• Nov 05 - Moon Occults Venus
• Nov 05 - Asteroid 9134 Encke Closest Approach To Earth (1.901 AU)
• Nov 06 - Asteroid 736 Harvard Closest Approach To Earth (1.061 AU)
• Nov 07 - Daylight Saving - Set Clock Back 1 Hour (United States)
• Nov 07 - Comet C/2010 A4 (Siding Spring) Closest Approach To Earth (2.738 AU)
• Nov 07 - Comet C/2010 FB87 (WISE-Garradd) Perihelion (2.843 AU)
• Nov 07 - Asteroid 2002 VE68 Near-Earth Flyby (0.035 AU)
• Nov 07 - Asteroid 3753 Cruithne Closest Approach To Earth (0.422 AU)
• Nov 07 - Asteroid 63163 Jerusalem Closest Approach To Earth (1.417 AU)
• Nov 07 - Asteroid 582 Olympia Closest Approach To Earth (1.450 AU)
• Nov 07 - Asteroid 8734 Warner Closest Approach To Earth (1.736 AU)
• Nov 07-10 - ESO Workshop: The Spiral Structure in the Milky Way - Confronting Observations and Theory, Copiapo, Chile
• Nov 07-11 - 20th Annual Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems (ADASS) Conference, Boston, Massachusetts
• Nov 08 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #265 (OTM-265)
• Nov 08 - Asteroid 243 Ida Closest Approach To Earth (1.759 AU)
• Nov 08 - 50th Anniversary (1960), Little Joe 5 Launch
• Nov 08-10 - Workshop: Massive Galaxies Over Cosmic Time 3 - The Role of Gas and Dust, Tucson, Arizona
• Nov 08-11 - Workshop: Kinetic Processes in Plasma - Instabilities, Turbulence and Transport, Bochum, Germany
• Nov 08-12 - 13th Latin American Regional IAU Meeting, Morelia, Mexico
• Nov 09 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Dione & Enceladus
• Nov 09 - Comet C/2009 T1 (McNaught) Closest Approach To Earth (6.118 AU)
• Nov 09 - 5th Anniversary (2005), Venus Express Launch (ESA Venus Orbiter)
• Nov 09 - 40th Anniversary (1970), OFO-1 (Orbiting Frog Otolith) Launch
• Nov 09-12 - Conference: Cosmic Radiation Fields - Sources in the Early Universe, Hamburg, Germany
• Nov 10 - Comet C/2010 L3 (Catalina) Perihelion (9.883 AU)
• Nov 10 - Asteroid 149 Medusa Closest Approach To Earth (1.042 AU)
• Nov 10 - Lecture: Tour of the Night Sky, Winchester, United Kingdom
• Nov 10 - 40th Anniversary (1970), Luna 17 Launch (USSR Moon Rover Mission)
• Nov 10-11 - Synchrotron Radiation in Earth, Space & Planetary Science Workshop, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
• Nov 11 - Cassini, Titan Flyby
• Nov 11 - Asteroid 253 Mathilde Closest Approach To Earth (1.402 AU)
• Nov 11 - Asteroid 3623 Chaplin Closest Approach To Earth (1.717 AU)
• Nov 11 - Asteroid 10050 Rayman Closest Approach To Earth (2.075 AU)
• Nov 11 - Lecture: The JUNO Mission to Jupiter, Pasadena, California
• Nov 11 - Vesto Slipher's 135th Birthday (1875)
• Nov 11-12 - Meeting: Computational Physics with GPUs 2010, Lund, Sweden
• Nov 12 - Lecture: The JUNO Mission to Jupiter, Pasadena, California
• Nov 12 - 30th Anniversary (1980), Voyager 1, Saturn Flyby
• Nov 13 - Asteroid 1832 Mrkos Closest Approach To Earth (1.955 AU)
• Nov 14 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #266 (OTM-266)
• Nov 14 - Asteroid 152 Atala Occults HIP 56242 (6.3 Magnitude Star)
• Nov 14 - Asteroid 2009 TN8 Near-Vesta Flyby (0.029 AU)
• Nov 14 - Kuiper Belt Object 90377 Sedna At Opposition (86.377 AU)
• Nov 15-17 - 4th International Workshop on Remote Sensing of Vegetation Fluorescence, Valencia, Spain
• Nov 15-19 - 1st International Workshop on LHC Era Physics (LHEP), Nanning, China
• Nov 15-19 - Symposium: Geospatial Data and Geovisualization - Environment, Security and Society, Orlando, Florida
• Nov 15-26 - 22nd Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics on Asteroseismology, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
• Nov 16 - 45th Anniversary (1965), Venera 3 Launch (USSR Venus Lander)
• Nov 16-17 - 24th Annual European Workshop on Thermal and ECLS Software, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
• Nov 16-18 - 9th Triennial Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Users Meeting, Taipei, Taiwan
• Nov 17 - GPS 2F-2 Atlas 5 Launch
• Nov 17 - Leonids Meteor Shower Peak
• Nov 17 - Asteroid 2933 Amber Closest Approach To Earth (1.588 AU)
• Nov 17 - Asteroid 2005 JU81 Near-Earth Flyby (0.038 AU)
• Nov 18 - Asteroid 2005 BT1 Near-Mercury Flyby (0.024 AU)
• Nov 18 - Asteroid 7958 Leakey Closest Approach To Earth (0.928 AU)
• Nov 18 - Asteroid 7934 Sinatra Closest Approach To Earth (1.522 AU)
• Nov 18 - Asteroid 1143 Odysseus Closest Approach To Earth (3.891 AU)
• Nov 19 - Asteroid 25559 (1999 XW172) Occults HIP 18532 (2.9 Magnitude Star)
• Nov 20 - Asteroid 1 Ceres Occults HIP 93277 (7.9 Magnitude Star)
• Nov 20 - Asteroid 6373 Stern Closest Approach To Earth (1.798 AU)
• Nov 20 - Asteroid 1000 Piazzia Closest Approach To Earth (3.073 AU)
• Nov 20 - 5th Anniversary (2005), Hayabusa, Asteroid 25143 Itokawa Sample Collection
• Nov 21 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #267 (OTM-267)
• Nov 21 - Comet C/2009 W2 (Boattini) Closest Approach To Earth (6.067 AU)
• Nov 21 - Asteroid 2010 JW34 Near-Earth Flyby (0.50 AU)
• Nov 21 - Asteroid 12485 Jenniferharris Closest Approach To Earth (1.056 AU)
• Nov 22 - Glory/ E1P/KySat 1/HERMES Taurus Launch
• Nov 22 - Comet C/2009 Y1 (Catalina) Closest Approach To Earth (2.480 AU)
• Nov 22 - Comet C/2009 U1 (Garradd) Closest Approach To Earth (2.652 AU)
• Nov 22 - Asteroid 1756 Giacobini Closest Approach To Earth (1.041 AU)
• Nov 23 - Asteroid 2008 KT Near-Earth Flyby (0.014 AU)
• Nov 23 - 50th Anniversary (1960), Tiros II Launch (Weather Satellite)
• Nov 24 - Comet P/2006 F1 (Kowalski) Closest Approach To Earth (3.897 AU)
• Nov 24 - Asteroid 5254 Ulysses Closest Approach To Earth (3.616 AU)
• Nov 25 - KA-Sat Proton M-Briz M Launch
• Nov 25 - Asteroid 2002 KL3 Near-Venus Flyby (0.031 AU)
• Nov 25 - Asteroid 498 Tokio Closest Approach To Earth (1.545 AU)
• Nov 25 - 3552 Don Quixote Closest Approach To Earth (3.547 AU)
• Nov 26 - Moon Occults Asteroid 7 Iris
• Nov 26 - Asteroid 1736 Floirac Occults HIP 107302 (6.0 Magnitude Star)
• Nov 26 - Asteroid 164294 (2004 XZ130) Near-Venus Flyby (0.032 AU)
• Nov 26 - Asteroid 5102 Benfranklin Closest Approach To Earth (1.478 AU)
• Nov 26 - 45th Anniversary (1965), Asterix 1 Launch (France's 1st Satellite)
• Nov 27 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #268 (OTM-268)
• Nov 27 - Comet P/2009 SK280 (Spacewatch-Hill) Closest Approach To Earth (3.500 AU)
• Nov 28 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Hyperion
• Nov 28 -[Sep 09] Asteroid 37 Fides At Opposition (9.6 Magnitude)
• Nov 28 - Asteroid 207945 (1991 JW) Near-Earth Flyby (0.095 AU)
• Nov 28 - Asteroid 2009 WY104 Near-Earth Flyby (0.096 AU)
• Nov 28 - Asteroid 1157 Arabia Closest Approach To Earth (2.523 AU)
• Nov 28 - Nathaniel Bliss' 310th Birthday (1700)
• Nov 29 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Titan
• Nov 29 - Comet P/2008 O2 (McNaught) Closest Approach To Earth (3.276 AU)
• Nov 29 - Asteroid 1674 Groeneveld Occults HIP 25539 (4.9 Magnitude Star)
• Nov 29 - 10th Anniversary (2000), Discovery of Y000593 Meteorite (Mars Meteorite)
• Nov 29-Dec 01 - Workshop: Observing With ALMA - Early Science, Grenoble, France
• Nov 29-Dec 03 - Workshop on Hadron-Hadron & Cosmic-Ray Interactions at multi-TeV Energies, Trento, Italy
• Nov 29-Dec 03 - 5th Session of the International Conference Geotunis 2010: The Use of GIS and Remote Sensing for Sustainable Development, Tunisia
• Nov 30 - Cassini, Enceladus Flyby
• Nov 30 - Cosmos-Glonass M-30, M-31 & M-32 Proton M-DM2 Launch
• Nov 30 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Atlas & Janus
• Nov 30 - Asteroid 13609 Lewicki Closest Approach To Earth (1.500 AU)
• Nov 30 - Asteroid 5382 McKay Closest Approach To Earth (1.762 AU)
• Nov 30 - Kuiper Belt Object 84922 (2003 VS2) At Opposition (35.518 AU)
• Nov 30-Dec 02 - 4th International MAXI Workshop: The First Year of MAXI - Monitoring Variable X-ray Sources, Tokyo, Japan
• Nov 30-Dec 02 - IAA/NASRDA International Symposium on the Equatorial Plane: Attributes and Characteristics, Abuja, Nigeria

December 2010

• Dec ?? - Cosmos Geizer N21 Proton K Launch
• Dec ?? - Cosmos-Prognoz N11 Proton K-DM2 Launch
• Dec ?? - Condor E Strela Launch
• Dec ?? - Cosmos-Garpun N-1 Proton M-Briz M Launch
• Dec ?? - Bissat Cosmos 3M Launch
• Dec ?? -[Sep 08] Hispasat 1-E/ Koreasat 6 Ariane 5 Launch
• Dec ?? - Tugsat 1 (Brite-Austria) Dnepr 1 Launch
• Dec ?? - Intelsat New Dawn Ariane 5 Launch
• Dec ?? - Sich 2/ Nigeriasat 2/NX/ Rasat/ Edusat Dnepr 1 Launch
• Dec ?? -[Sep 08] Beidou 2-IGS-2 (Compass IGS-2) CZ-3A Launch
• Dec ?? - 10th Anniversary (2000), Discovery of NWA 817 Meteorite (Mars Meteorite)
• Dec 01 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #269 (OTM-269)
• Dec 01 - Mercury At Its Greatest Eastern Elongation (22 Degrees)
• Dec 01 - Asteroid 2005 GC120 Near-Earth Flyby (0.043 AU)
• Dec 01 - Asteroid 8721 AMOS Closest Approach To Earth (2.873 AU)
• Dec 01 - Asteroid 588 Achilles Closest Approach To Earth (3.500 AU)
• Dec 01 - 50th Anniversary (1960), Sputnik 6 Launch (Carried Two Dogs: Pchelka & Mushka)
• Dec 01-08 - Dark Matter Awareness Week
• Dec 02 - 15th Anniversary (1995), SOHO Launch
• Dec 03 - Asteroid 2409 Chapman Closest Approach To Earth (1.195 AU)
• Dec 03 - 10th Anniversary (2000), Discovery of Y000749 Meteorite (Mars Meteorite)
• Dec 03-20 - 5th ICTP-CAPES Latin-American String School (LASS 2010), Sao Paulo, Brazil
• Dec 04 - Asteroid 5790 Nagasaki Closest Approach To Earth (1.539 AU)
• Dec 04 - 45th Anniversary (1965), Gemini 7 Launch (Frank Borman & Jim Lovell)
• Dec 05 - Asteroid 13208 Fraschetti Closest Approach To Earth (1.685 AU)
• Dec 05 - Kuiper Belt Object 19521 Chaos Closest Approach To Earth (40.692 AU)
• Dec 06 - Moon Occults Mars
• Dec 06 - Asteroid 2000 AC6 Near-Earth Flyby (0.064 AU)
• Dec 06 - Asteroid 1999 VM11 Near-Vesta Flyby (0.031 AU)
• Dec 06 - Asteroid 10044 Squyres Closest Approach To Earth (1.398 AU)
• Dec 06 - Asteroid 5471 Tunguska Closest Approach To Earth (2.210 AU)
• Dec 06 - Asteroid 4446 Carolyn Closest Approach To Earth (3.571 AU)
• Dec 06-08 - Workshop: Carbon In The Solar System, Brussels, Belgium
• Dec 06-09 -[Sep 02] Workshop: Star Formation under Extreme Conditions - The Galactic Center, Besancon, France
• Dec 06-10 - 25th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, Heidelberg, Germany
• Dec 06-11 - Symposium on Prospects in the Physics of Discrete Symmetries, Rome, Italy
• Dec 07 - Akatsuki (Planet-C), Venus Orbit Insertion
• Dec 07 - Asteroid 356 Liguria Occults HIP 109472 (5.4 Magnitude Star)
• Dec 07 - Asteroid 6032 Nobel Closest Approach To Earth (1.663 AU)
• Dec 07 - Asteroid 1776 Kuiper Closest Approach To Earth (2.108 AU)
• Dec 07 - Kuiper Belt Object 2004 XR190 At Opposition (56.925 AU)
• Dec 07 - 15th Anniversary (1995), Galileo, Jupiter Orbit Insertion
• Dec 07 - Gerard Kuiper's 105th Birthday (1905)
• Dec 08 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #270 (OTM-270)
• Dec 08 - Asteroid 916 America Closest Approach To Earth (1.133 AU)
• Dec 08 - Lecture: Infrared Astronomy, Winchester, United Kingdom
• Dec 08 - 20th Anniversary (1990), Galileo, 1st Earth Flyby
• Dec 08 - 165th Anniversary (1845), Karl Hencke's Discovery of Asteroid 5 Astraea
• Dec 08-10 - 5th ESA Workshop on Satellite Navigation Technologies, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
• Dec 09 - Asteroid 16 Psyche At Opposition (9.4 Magnitude)
• Dec 09 - Asteroid 2010 JL33 Near-Earth Flyby (0.043 AU)
• Dec 09 - Asteroid 14967 Madrid Closest Approach To Earth (1.446 AU)
• Dec 09 - Asteroid 6560 Pravdo Closest Approach To Earth (1.652 AU)
• Dec 09 - Asteroid 11945 Amsterdam Closest Approach To Earth (2.188 AU)
• Dec 09 - Asteroid 5661 Hildebrand Closest Approach To Earth (3.326 AU)
• Dec 09 - Lecture: The Dry Ice Polar Caps of Mars, Pasadena, California
• Dec 10 - Soyuz TMA-20 Soyuz FG Launch (International Space Station 25S)
• Dec 10 - ORS-Sat 1 Minotaur 1 Launch
• Dec 10 - Asteroid 1544 Vinterhansenia Occults HIP 109624 (6.1 Magnitude Star)
• Dec 10 - Lecture: The Dry Ice Polar Caps of Mars, Pasadena, California
• Dec 10 - 60th Anniversary (1950), St. Louis Meteorite Fall (Hit Car)
• Dec 12 - Comet P/2001 R6 (LINEAR-Skiff) Closest Approach To Earth (2.002 AU)
• Dec 11 - Asteroid 327 Columbia Closest Approach To Earth (1.931 AU)
• Dec 12 - Asteroid 4511 Rembrandt Closest Approach To Earth (1.942 AU)
• Dec 13 - Geminids Meteor Shower Peak
• Dec 13 - Asteroid 2006 VB14 Near-Earth Flyby (0.080 AU)
• Dec 13 - Asteroid 5811 Keck Closest Approach To Earth (1.905 AU)
• Dec 13 - Asteroid 784 Pickeringia Closest Approach To Earth (2.875 AU)
• Dec 13 - Kuiper Belt Object 50000 Quaoar At Opposition (44.120 AU)
• Dec 13-17 - 2010 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU), San Francisco, California
• Dec 13-17 - IAU Symposium 277: Tracing the Ancestry of Galaxies (On the Land of our Ancestors), Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
• Dec 14 - Asteroid 732 Tjilaki Occults HIP 20698 (6.4 Magnitude Star)
• Dec 14 - Asteroid 2002 XS90 Near-Earth Flyby (0.075 AU)
• Dec 14 - Asteroid 2007 RW17 Near-Mars Flyby (0.040 AU)
• Dec 14 - Asteroid 1094 Siberia Closest Approach To Earth (1.285 AU)
• Dec 14 - Asteroid 6135 Billowen Closest Approach To Earth (1.604 AU)
• Dec 14 - Asteroid 7610 Sudbury Closest Approach To Earth (1.873 AU)
• Dec 14-16 - 11th International Workshop on Next generation Nucleon Decay and Neutrino Detectors (NNN10), Toyama, Japan
• Dec 14-17 - 5th Symposium On Large TPCs For Low Energy Rare Event Detection & Workshop on Neutrinos from Supernovae, Paris, France
• Dec 15 - SBIRS-Geo 1 Atlas 5 Launch
• Dec 15 - Asteroid 2007 MC24 Near-Mars Flyby (0.045 AU)
• Dec 15 - 40th Anniversary (1970), Venera 7, Venus Landing (USSR)
• Dec 15 - 45th Anniversary (1965), Gemini 6 Launch (Walter Schirra & Thomas Stafford)
• Dec 15-17 - International Conference on Signal and Image Processing (ICSIP 2010), Tamil Nadu, India
• Dec 16 -[Sep 08] ATV-2 (Johannes Kepler) Ariane 5 Launch
• Dec 16 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Titan
• Dec 16 - Comet C/2009 UG89 (Lemmon) Perihelion (3.931 AU)
• Dec 16 - Asteroid 1886 Lowell Closest Approach To Earth (1.974 AU)
• Dec 16 - 45th Anniversary (1965), Pioneer 6 Launch (Sun Orbiter)
• Dec 17 - Hylas 1 Soyuz STA-Fregat Launch
• Dec 17 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #271 (OTM-271)
• Dec 17 - Asteroid 624 Hektor Closest Approach To Earth (4.290 AU)
• Dec 18 - Comet 240P/NEAT Closest Approach To Earth (1.251 AU)
• Dec 18 - Asteroid 416 Vaticana Closest Approach To Earth (2.414 AU)
• Dec 19 - Asteroid 5703 Hevelius Closest Approach To Earth (1.276 AU)
• Dec 19 - 50th Anniversary (1960), Mercury 1A Launch (Unmanned)
• Dec 20 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Titan, Dione, Pan, Pandora & Daphnis
• Dec 20 - Asteroid 4836 Medon Occults HIP 21517 (6.5 Magnitude Star)
• Dec 20 - Asteroid 2008 YL2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.032 AU)
• Dec 20 - Asteroid 9252 Goddard Closest Approach To Earth (2.145 AU)
• Dec 21 - Total Lunar Eclipse
• Dec 21 - Winter Solstice, 23:38 UT
• Dec 21 - Cassini, Enceledus Flyby
• Dec 21 - Asteroid 3192 A'Hearn Closest Approach To Earth (1.172 AU)
• Dec 21 - Asteroid 1584 Fuji Closest Approach To Earth (1.205 AU)
• Dec 21 - Asteroid 6434 Jewitt Closest Approach To Earth (1.477 AU)
• Dec 22 - Ursids Meteor Shower Peak
• Dec 24 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #272 (OTM-272)
• Dec 24 - Comet C/2010 B1 (Cardinal) Closest Approach To Earth (2.069 AU)
• Dec 24 - Asteroid 1365 Henyey Occults HIP 38975 (6.0 Magnitude Star)
• Dec 24 - Asteroid 6377 Cagney Closest Approach To Earth (2.014 AU)
• Dec 24 - 45th Anniversary (1965), Barwell Meteorite Fall (Hit Car, Buildings)
• Dec 25 - Asteroid 74625 Tieproject Closest Approach To Earth (1.035 AU)
• Dec 26 - Asteroid 341 California Closest Approach To Earth (1.486 AU)
• Dec 26 - Asteroid 1631 Kopff Closest Approach To Earth (1.495 AU)
• Dec 27 - Progress M-09M Soyuz U (International Space Station 41P)
• Dec 27 - Comet 123P/West-Hartley Closest Approach To Earth (1.630 AU)
• Dec 27 - Asteroid 55 Pandora Closest Approach To Earth (1.704 AU)
• Dec 27 - Asteroid 1537 Transylvania Closest Approach To Earth (1.737 AU)
• Dec 28 - SkyTerra-1 Proton M-Briz M Launch
• Dec 28 - Asteroid 719 Albert Closest Approach To Earth (1.926 AU)
• Dec 28 - 10th Anniversary (2000), Galileo, Ganymede 29 Flyby
• Dec 29 - Comet P/2004 HC18 (LINEAR) Perihelion (1.714 AU)
• Dec 29 - Asteroid 3526 Jeffbell Occults HIP 17181 (6.1 Magnitude Star)
• Dec 30 - Asteroid 2007 YH1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.052 AU)
• Dec 30 - Asteroid 2865 Laurel Closest Approach To Earth (1.773 AU)
• Dec 30 - Asteroid 2476 Andersen Closest Approach To Earth (2.155 AU)
• Dec 30 - 10th Anniversary (2000), Cassini, Jupiter Flyby
• Dec 30 - 25th Anniversary (1985), Stephen Synnott's Discovery of Uranus Moon Puck
• Dec 31 - Cubesats/ PW-Sat 1/ Laser Relativity Satellite (LARES) Vega Launch (Inaugural Vega Launch)
• Dec 31 - Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, End of Primary Mission
• Dec 31 - Asteroid 2004 JX20 Near-Venus Flyby (0.050 AU)

January 2011

• Jan ?? - 1st Regional IAA Conference in Middle East, Damascus, Syria
• Jan ?? - SRE-2 PSLV Launch
• Jan ?? - NROL-29 Atlas 5 Launch
• Jan ?? - Sinosat 4 CZ-3B Launch
• Jan ?? - AMC-1R Ariane 5 Launch
• Jan ?? - Intelsat 17 Ariane 5 Launch
• Jan ?? - HJ-1C CZ-2C Launch
• Jan ?? - Radio-Astron (Spektr R) Zenit 3F Launch
• Jan ?? - 10th Anniversary (2001), Discovery of NWA 1669 Meteorite (Mars Meteorite)
• Jan ?? - 10th Anniversary (2001), Discovery of NWA 1950 Meteorite (Mars Meteorite)
• Jan 01 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #273 (OTM-273)
• Jan 01 - 210th Anniversary (1801), Guiseppe Piazzi's Discovery of the First Asteroid (Ceres)
• Jan 02 - Asteroid 1816 Liberia Occults HIP 35951 (5.2 Magnitude Star)
• Jan 02 - Asteroid 1235 Schorria Occults HIP 115544 (6.7 Magnitude Star)
• Jan 03 - Earth At Perihelion (0.983 AU From Sun)
• Jan 03 - Quadrantids Meteor Shower Peak
• Jan 03 - Asteroid 5281 Lindstrom Closest Approach To Earth (1.969 AU)
• Jan 03 - Asteroid 12397 Peterbrown Closest Approach To Earth (2.061 AU)
• Jan 03 - 25th Anniversary (1986), Stephen Synnott's Discovery of Uranus Moons Juliet & Portia
• Jan 03 - Grigori Neujmin's 125th Birthday (1886)
• Jan 03-12 -[Sep 04] Workshop on Convection in Stars, Johannesburg, South Africa
• Jan 04 - Partial Solar Eclipse, Visible in Europe, Africa, Asia
• Jan 04 - Asteroid 6318 Cronkite Closest Approach To Earth (0.910 AU)
• Jan 04 - Asteroid 2912 Lapalma Closest Approach To Earth (1.278 AU)
• Jan 05 - Asteroid 2675 Tolkien Closest Approach To Earth (1.249 AU)
• Jan 05 - Asteroid 9777 Enterprise Closest Approach To Earth (1.964 AU)
• Jan 05 - Asteroid 2224 Tucson Closest Approach To Earth (2.035 AU)
• Jan 05 - Asteroid 2906 Caltech Closest Approach To Earth (2.200 AU)
• Jan 05 - Asteroid 1958 Chandra Closest Approach To Earth (2.620 AU)
• Jan 05-09 - 9th Oxford International Symposium on Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy: Building Bridges Between Cultures, Lima Peru
• Jan 07 -[Sep 04] Asteroid 5066 Garradd Closest Approach To Earth (1.320 AU)
• Jan 07 - Asteroid 99905 Jeffgrossman Closest Approach To Earth (2.189 AU)
• Jan 08 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #274 (OTM-274)
• Jan 08 - Venus At Its Greatest Western Elongation (47 Degrees)
• Jan 08 - Asteroid 17898 Scottsheppard Closest Approach To Earth (1.273 AU)
• Jan 08-14 - Colloquium of African Geology, Johannesburg, South Africa
• Jan 09 - Mercury At Its Greatest Western Elongation (23 Degrees)
• Jan 09 - Comet C/2009 K3 (Beshore) Perihelion (3.902 AU)
• Jan 09 - Asteroid 4231 Fireman Occults HIP 29545 (6.6 Magnitude Star)
• Jan 09 - Asteroid 2002 RB182 Near-Earth Flyby (0.070 AU)
• Jan 09 - Asteroid 84225 Verish Closest Approach To Earth (1.044 AU)
• Jan 09 - Asteroid 6470 Aldrin Closest Approach To Earth (1.205 AU)
• Jan 09 - Asteroid 12760 Maxwell Closest Approach To Earth (2.274 AU)
• Jan 09 - Asteroid 3061 Cook Closest Approach To Earth (2.423 AU)
• Jan 09 - 25th Anniversary (1986), Stephen Synnott's Discovery of Uranus Moon Cressida
• Jan 09-13 - 217th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), Seattle, Washington
• Jan 10 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Pandora, Methone
• Jan 10 - Comet 241P/LINEAR Closest Approach To Earth (1.590 AU)
• Jan 10 - Robert Wilson's 75th Birthday (1936)
• Jan 10-14 -[Sep 09] Conference: The Millimeter and Submillimeter Sky in the Planck Mission Era, Paris, France
• Jan 10-14 -[Sep 03] Conference: Essential Cosmology for the Next Generation, Puerto Vallarta , Mexico
• Jan 10-15 - CPS 7th International School of Planetary Sciences, Kobe, Japan
• Jan 11 - Cassini, Rhea Flyby
• Jan 11 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Titan
• Jan 11 - Comet C/2009 K3 (Beshore) Closest Approach To Earth (3.106 AU)
• Jan 11 - Asteroid 2009 BS5 Near-Earth Flyby (0.009 AU)
• Jan 11 - Asteroid 2000 AZ93 Near-Earth Flyby (0.048 AU)
• Jan 11 - Asteroid 2005 EE Near-Earth Flyby (0.100 AU)
• Jan 11 - Asteroid 8749 Beatles Closest Approach To Earth (0.878 AU)
• Jan 11 - Asteroid 1855 Korolev Closest Approach To Earth (1.199 AU)
• Jan 11 - Asteroid 2322 Kitt Peak Closest Approach To Earth (1.302 AU)
• Jan 11 - Asteroid 2246 Bowell Closest Approach To Earth (2.813 AU)
• Jan 12 - Comet 9P/Tempel Perihelion (1.510 AU)
• Jan 12 - Comet 228P/LINEAR Closest Approach To Earth (2.567 AU)
• Jan 12 - Asteroid 6154 Stevesynnott Closest Approach To Earth (1.882 AU)
• Jan 12 - Lecture: Life on Mars, Winchester, United Kingdom
• Jan 13 - 25th Anniversary (1986), Stephen Synnott's Discovery of Uranus Moons Desdemona, Rosalind & Belinda
• Jan 14 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #275 (OTM-275)
• Jan 14 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Titan
• Jan 14 - Asteroid 4343 Tetsuya Occults HIP 20732 (4.7 Magnitude Star)
• Jan 14 - Asteroid 12927 Pinocchio Closest Approach To Earth (1.255 AU)
• Jan 14 - Asteroid 7536 Fahrenheit Closest Approach To Earth (2.306 AU)
• Jan 15 - NROL-49 Delta 4H Launch
• Jan 15 - Asteroid 9253 Oberth Closest Approach To Earth (1.722 AU)
• Jan 15 - 5th Anniversary (2006), Stardust, Capsule Return To Earth
• Jan 15 - 10th Annniversary (2001), Stardust, Earth Flyby
• Jan 15 - 35th Anniversary (1976), Helios 2 Launch (Solar Orbiter)
• Jan 15-17 - Conference: ALMA - Extending the Limits of Astrophysical Spectroscopy, Victoria, Canada
• Jan 16 - Aquarius Delta 2 Launch
• Jan 16-21 - Space Climate Symposium 4, Goa, India
• Jan 17 - Asteroid 2843 Yeti Closest Approach To Earth (1.073 AU)
• Jan 17 - Asteroid 1831 Nicholson Closest Approach To Earth (1.472 AU)
• Jan 17 - Kuiper Belt Object 208996 (2003 AZ84) Closest Approach To Earth (44.305 AU)
• Jan 17-21 - Europlanet JRA1 Workshop: Landing Site Characterization and Selection for Future Exploration Missions, Leiden/Noordwijk, The Netherlands
• Jan 18 - Asteroid 150 Nuwa Occults HIP 41040 (6.8 Magnitude Star)
• Jan 18 - Asteroid 21564 Widmanstatten Closest Approach To Earth (2.172 AU)
• Jan 18-22 - 15th International Conference on Gravitational Microlensing and School on Planetary Microlensing Events Modelling, Salerno, Italy
• Jan 19 - Asteroid 6312 Robheinlein Closest Approach To Earth (1.080 AU)
• Jan 19 - 5th Anniversary (2006), New Horizons Launch (Pluto Mission)
• Jan 19 - Jacobus Kapteyn's 160th Birthday (1851)
• Jan 20 - HTV-2 H-2B Launch
• Jan 20 - Asteroid 7392 Kowalski Closest Approach To Earth (1.652 AU)
• Jan 20 - 25th Anniversary (1986), Rich Terrile's Discovery of Uranus Moons Cordelia & Ophelia
• Jan 21 - Asteroid 23 Thalia At Opposition (9.1 Magnitude)
• Jan 21 - Asteroid 3252 Johnny Closest Approach To Earth (1.389 AU)
• Jan 22 - Asteroid 2625 Jack London Closest Approach To Earth (1.523 AU)
• Jan 22 - Asteroid 12524 Conscience Closest Approach To Earth (1.693 AU)
• Jan 23 - Asteroid 1620 Geographos Closest Approach To Earth (1.190 AU)
• Jan 23 - Asteroid 12426 Racquetball Closest Approach To Earth (1.363 AU)
• Jan 23 - 25th Anniversary (1986), Brad Smith's Discovery of Uranus Moon Bianca
• Jan 23 - Glenn Research Center's 70th Birthday (1941)
• Jan 24 - Asteroid 7 Iris At Opposition (7.9 Magnitude)
• Jan 24 - Asteroid 9860 Archaeopteryx Closest Approach To Earth (2.424 AU)
• Jan 24 - 25th Anniversary (1986), Voyager 2, Uranus Flyby
• Jan 24-28 - 2nd International Conference on Particle Physics (ICPP-II), Istanbul, Turkey
• Jan 25 - Asteroid 2006 QM111 Near-Earth Flyby (0.019 AU)
• Jan 25 - Asteroid 2614 Torrence Closest Approach To Earth (1.693 AU)
• Jan 25 - Joseph Lagrange's 275th Birthday (1736)
• Jan 25-26 - 4th Meeting of the NASA Small Bodies Assessment Group, Washingdon DC
• Jan 27 - Asteroid 26868 Misterrogers Closest Approach To Earth (1.515 AU)
• Jan 27 - Asteroid 2620 Santana Closest Approach To Earth (1.903 AU)
• Jan 27 - Asteroid 397 Vienna Closest Approach To Earth (1.948 AU)
• Jan 27 - Asteroid 439 Ohio Closest Approach To Earth (2.077 AU)
• Jan 28 - Comet C/2009 Y1 (Catalina) Perihelion (2.521 AU)
• Jan 28 - Asteroid 16761 Hertz Closest Approach To Earth (1.920 AU)
• Jan 28 - 25th Anniversary (1986), Space Shuttle Challenger Accident
• Jan 28 - Johannes Hevelius' 400th Birthday (1611)
• Jan 29 - Comet C/2010 D2 (WISE) Closest Approach To Earth (3.182 AU)
• Jan 29-Feb 11 - International Workshop on Extrasolar Planets, Kish Island, Persian Gulf, Iran
• Jan 30 - Asteroid 496 Gryphia Occults HIP 42560 (6.8 Magnitude Star)
• Jan 31 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Epimetheus, Calypso, Prometheus, Enceladus & Helene
• Jan 31 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #276 (OTM-276)
• Jan 31 - Asteroid 1999 CG9 Near-Earth Flyby (0.095 AU)
• Jan 31 - Asteroid 8299 Tealeoni Closest Approach To Earth (1.315 AU)
• Jan 31 - Asteroid 334 Chicago Closest Approach To Earth (2.983 AU)
• Jan 31 - 40th Anniversary (1971), Apollo 14 Launch (3rd Manned Moon Landing)
• Jan 31 - 45th Anniversary (1966), Luna 9 Launch (USSR Moon Lander)
• Jan 31 - 50th Anniversary (1961), Mercury-Redstone 2 Launch (Ham The Chimpanzee)
• Jan 31-Feb 10 - EDIT 2011 School of Excellence: Excellence in Detectors and Instrumentation Technologies, Geneva, Switzerland

February 2011

• Feb ?? - CBERS 3 CZ-4B Launch
• Feb ?? - SSR-1 VSL-1 Launch (Brazil)
• Feb ?? - NROL-39 Atlas 5 Launch
• Feb ?? - TerreStar 2 Ariane 5 Launch
• Feb ?? - Cosmos Glonass K1+K2 Soyuz 2 Fregat Launch
• Feb ?? - Afristar 3 (Worldstar 3) Ariane 5 Launch
• Feb ?? - Unamsat 3 Dnepr 1 Launch
• Feb ?? - Dragonlab 1 Falcon 9 Launch
• Feb ?? - Galileo IOV 1 & 2 Soyuz 2-1b-Fregat Launch
• Feb ?? - Yahsat 1A Ariane 5 Launch
• Feb ?? - Lapansat 2 Dnepr 1 Launch
• Feb ?? - Bluesat Dnepr 1 Launch
• Feb ?? - Hausat 2 Dnepr 1 Launch
• Feb ?? - Insat 4-G Ariane 5 Launch
• Feb ?? - Katysat 1/ KiwiSat/ Atmocube/ Cubesat-RAFT/ Funsat/UCISA Dnepr 1 Launch
• Feb ?? - Yubileyniy 2 Rokot KM Launch
• Feb ?? - Kanopus-V/ Belka 2/MKA-DKI/Baumanets-2 Soyuz FG-Fregat Launch
• Feb ?? - X-Sat PSLV Launch
• Feb ?? - AEHF F-2 Atlas 5 Launch
• Feb ?? - Intelsat 18 Zenit 3SLB Launch
• Feb ?? - Beidou 2-M2 (Compass M-2)/Beidou 2-M3 (Compass M-3) CZ-3B Launch
• Feb ?? -[Sep 08] Globalstar 2 (7-12) Soyuz 2-1a-Fregat Launch
• Feb 02 - Comet C/2010 FB87 (WISE-Garradd) Closest Approach To Earth (2.693 AU)
• Feb 02 - Asteroid 2097 Galle Closest Approach To Earth (2.764 AU)
• Feb 03 - Chinese New Year
• Feb 03 - Asteroid 2008 CK Near-Earth Flyby (0.043 AU)
• Feb 03 - Asteroid 2006 SU217 Near-Earth Flyby (0.085 AU)
• Feb 03 - Asteroid 1998 HE3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.097 AU)
• Feb 03 - Asteroid 12002 Sues Closest Approach To Earth (2.386 AU)
• Feb 03 - Asteroid 3581 Alvarez Closest Approach To Earth (3.037 AU)
• Feb 03 - 45th Anniversary (1966), Luna 9 Landing on the Moon (1st Moon Landing)
• Feb 04 - Asteroid 13667 Samthurman Closest Approach To Earth (1.466 AU)
• Feb 04 - Asteroid 21459 Chrisrussell Closest Approach To Earth (1.552 AU)
• Feb 04 - Clyde Tombaugh's 105th Birthday (1906)
• Feb 05 - Asteroid 30439 Moe Closest Approach To Earth (1.243 AU)
• Feb 05 - Asteroid 2829 Bobhope Closest Approach To Earth (2.677 AU)
• Feb 06 - Asteroid 253 Mathilde Occults TYC 0661-00150-1 (10.7 Magnitude Star)
• Feb 06 - Asteroid 2709 Sagan Closest Approach To Earth (1.120 AU)
• Feb 06 - Asteroid 10001 Palermo Closest Approach To Earth (1.436 AU)
• Feb 06 - Asteroid 1818 Brahms Closest Approach To Earth (1.562 AU)
• Feb 06 - Asteroid 1862 Apollo Closest Approach To Earth (1.588 AU)
• Feb 06 - 20th Anniversary (1991), Salyut-7 Burnup In Earth's Atmosphere (Soviet Union Space Station)
• Feb 06-10 - CTP International Conference on Gravity and Cosmology, Luxor, Egypt
• Feb 07 - Comet C/2010 B1 (Cardinal) Perihelion (2.942 AU)
• Feb 07-11 - Conference: Fast X-ray Timing and Spectroscopy at Extreme Count Rates, Champery, Switzerland
• Feb 07-11 - Workshop: Transport Processes and Accretion in Young Stellar Objects, Schlob Ringberg, Germany
• Feb 07-14 - Workshop: Geobiology in Space Exploration, Marrakech, Morocco
• Feb 08 - Asteroid 945 Barcelona Closest Approach To Earth (1.241 AU)
• Feb 08 - 10th Anniversary (2001), Discovery of the SAU 094 Meteorite (Mars Meteorite)
• Feb 09 - Asteroid 99942 Apophis Closest Approach To Earth (1.219 AU)
• Feb 09 - Asteroid 32096 Puckett Closest Approach To Earth (1.950 AU)
• Feb 09 - Lecture: In the Beginning... Assembling the Universe from the Simplicity of Pure Energy to the Complexity of the Human Brain, Winchester, United Kingdom
• Feb 09-10 - 8th Annual NASA Project Management Challenge 2011, Long Beach, California
• Feb 10 - Asteroid 44 Nysa At Opposition (8.9 Magnitude)
• Feb 11 - Asteroid 2008 CQ116 Near-Earth Flyby (0.086 AU)
• Feb 11 - Asteroid 3773 Smithsonian Closest Approach To Earth (1.523 AU)
• Feb 11 - Asteroid 15845 Bambi Closest Approach To Earth (1.567 AU)
• Feb 11 - Kuiper Belt Object 55565 (2002 AW197) Closest Approach To Earth (45.342 AU)
• Feb 12 - Asteroid 589 Croatia Closest Approach To Earth (2.185 AU)
• Feb 12 - Asteroid 1388 Aphrodite Closest Approach To Earth (2.336 AU)
• Feb 12 - 10th Anniversary (2001), NEAR, Asteroid Eros Landing
• Feb 13 - Asteroid 3001 Michelangelo Closest Approach To Earth (1.339 AU)
• Feb 13 - Asteroid 990 Yerkes Closest Approach To Earth (2.100 AU)
• Feb 13-17 - 21st AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Feb 14 - Stardust, Tempel 1 Flyby
• Feb 14 - Comet 203P/Korlevic Closest Approach To Earth (2.735 AU)
• Feb 14 - Asteroid 848 Inna Occults HIP 47291 (6.7 Magnitude Star)
• Feb 14 - Asteroid 5553 Chodas Closest Approach To Earth (1.206 AU)
• Feb 15 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #277 (OTM-277)
• Feb 15 - Asteroid 9950 ESA Closest Approach To Earth (2.488 AU)
• Feb 16 - Asteroid 2009 QH6 Near-Earth Flyby (0.041 AU)
• Feb 16 - Asteroid 449 Hamburga Closest Approach To Earth (1.136 AU)
• Feb 16 - Asteroid 2069 Hubble Closest Approach To Earth (1.677 AU)
• Feb 17 - Asteroid 3157 Novikov Occults HIP 83196 (5.7 Magnitude Star)
• Feb 17 - 15th Anniversary (1996), NEAR Launch (Asteroid Orbiter/Lander)
• Feb 18 - Cassini, Titan Flyby
• Feb 18 - Asteroid 7086 Bopp Closest Approach To Earth (1.142 AU)
• Feb 18 - Asteroid 1677 Tycho Brahe Closest Approach To Earth (1.773 AU)
• Feb 20 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Enceladus, Pallene & Tethys
• Feb 20 - Asteroid 2007 FS3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.060 AU)
• Feb 20 - Asteroid 727 Nipponia Closest Approach To Earth (1.636 AU)
• Feb 20 - Asteroid 1241 Dysona Closest Approach To Earth (2.411 AU)
• Feb 20 - 25th Anniversary (1986), Mir Space Station Launch
• Feb 21 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #278 (OTM-278)
• Feb 21 - Asteroid 7495 Feynman Closest Approach To Earth (1.385 AU)
• Feb 21 - Kuiper Belt Object 90482 Orcus Closest Approach To Earth (46.988 AU)
• Feb 22 - Asteroid 5050 Doctorwatson Closest Approach To Earth (1.495 AU)
• Feb 22 - Asteroid 25930 Spielberg Closest Approach To Earth (1.634 AU)
• Feb 22 - 55th Anniversary (1966), Kosmos 110 Launch (Carried Two Dogs: Veterok & Ugolyok)
• Feb 23 - Asteroid 1981 Midas Closest Approach To Earth (0.508 AU)
• Feb 24 - Asteroid 2955 Newburn Closest Approach To Earth (1.284 AU)
• Feb 25 - Comet 31P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 2 Closest Approach To Earth (2.489 AU)
• Feb 25 - Asteroid 73 Klytia Occults HIP 90610 (6.6 Magnitude Star)
• Feb 25 - Asteroid 7328 Casanova Closest Approach To Earth (2.060 AU)
• Feb 26 - STS-134 Launch, Space Shuttle Endeavour, International Space Station
• Feb 26 - Asteroid 2004 EK1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.056 AU)
• Feb 27 - Dragon C-2 Falcon 9 Launch
• Feb 27-Mar 04 - AGU Chapman Conference: Relationship Between Auroral Phenomenology and Magnetospheric Processes, Fairbanks, Alaska
• Feb 28 - Comet C/2009 U5 (Grauer) Closest Approach To Earth (5.410 AU)
• Feb 28 - Asteroid 347 Pariana Occults HIP 12354 (6.8 Magnitude Star)
• Feb 28 - Asteroid 2009 FY4 Near-Earth Flyby (0.066 AU)
• Feb 28 - Asteroid 4957 Brucemurray Closest Approach To Earth (1.229 AU)
• Feb 28 - Asteroid 1997 Leverrier Closest Approach To Earth (1.656 AU)
• Feb 28-Mar 01 - Next-Generation Suborbital Researchers Conference, Orlando, Florida
• Feb 28-Mar 04 - 22nd International Symposium on Space Flight Dynamics, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil

March 2011

• Mar ?? - Meteor 3M N2 Soyuz 2-1B Launch
• Mar ?? - Dialog 1 Rokot-Briz Launch
• Mar ?? - Luch 5A/ Amos 5 Proton M-Briz M Launch
• Mar ?? - Express MD-2 Proton M-Briz M Launch
• Mar ?? - Astrosat 1 PSLV Launch (India)
• Mar ?? - Insat 3-D GSLV Launch (India)
• Mar ?? - Pleiades 1/ Elisa 1-4 Soyuz STA-Fregat Launch
• Mar ?? - Dragon C-3 Falcon 9 Launch
• Mar ?? - EuropaSat Proton M-Briz M Launch
• Mar ?? - KOMPSat 5 (Arirang 5) Dnepr 1 Launch
• Mar ?? - NROL-34 Atlas 5 Launch
• Mar ?? -[Sep 08] SES-3/KazSat 2 Proton M-Briz M Launch
• Mar ?? - 10th Anniversary (2001), Discovery of NWA 1950 Meteorite (Mars Meteorite)
• Mar ?? - 10th Anniversary (2001), Discovery of NWA 856 Meteorite (Mars Meteorite)
• Mar 01 - Asteroid 306 Unitas Occults HIP 73565 (6.9 Magnitude Star)
• Mar 01 - Asteroid 434 Hungaria Closest Approach To Earth (1.084 AU)
• Mar 01 - 45th Anniversary (1966), Venera 3, Venus Impact (USSR)
• Mar 01-03 - Workshop: Astronomy with Radioactivities VII, Phillip Island, Victoria, Australia
• Mar 02 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #279 (OTM-279)
• Mar 02 - Asteroid 67 Asia Closest Approach To Earth (1.805 AU)
• Mar 03 - Comet 231P/LINEAR-NEAT Closest Approach To Earth (2.072 AU)
• Mar 03 - Comet 243P/NEAT Perihelion (2.456 AU)
• Mar 03 - Asteroid 18626 Michaelcarr Closest Approach To Earth (0.957 AU)
• Mar 03 - Asteroid 9618 Johncleese Closest Approach To Earth (1.716 AU)
• Mar 03 - Asteroid 4305 Clapton Closest Approach To Earth (1.723 AU)
• Mar 04 - Asteroid 31227 (1998 BC41) Occults HIP 54029 (5.5 Magnitude Star)
• Mar 05 - Comet 82P/Gehrels 3 Closest Approach To Earth (2.856 AU)
• Mar 05 - Asteroid 4169 Celsius Closest Approach To Earth (2.808 AU)
• Mar 05-07 - Workshop: The Prompt Activity of Gamma-Ray Bursts - their Progenitors, Engines, and Radiation Mechanisms, Raleigh, North Carolina
• Mar 05-12 - 2011 IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana
• Mar 06 - Asteroid 2010 CO1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.082 AU)
• Mar 06 - Asteroid 5535 Annefrank Closest Approach To Earth (1.109 AU)
• Mar 06 - 25th Anniversary (1986), Vega 1, Comet Halley Flyby
• Mar 06-11 - Workshop: Evolution of Compact Binaries, Valparaiso, Chile
• Mar 07 - Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 Closest Approach To Earth (5.263 AU)
• Mar 07 - Asteroid 5451 Plato Closest Approach To Earth (1.585 AU)
• Mar 07-11 - 42nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC 2011), Woodlands, Texas
• Mar 08 - Asteroid 3678 Mongmanwai Occults HIP 45153 (6.9 Magnitude Star)
• Mar 08 - Asteroid 1815 Beethoven Closest Approach To Earth (1.815 AU)
• Mar 08 - 25th Anniversary (1986), Susei, Comet Halley Flyby
• Mar 09 - Asteroid 3784 Chopin Closest Approach To Earth (2.393 AU)
• Mar 09 - Asteroid 1134 Kepler Closest Approach To Earth (2.929 AU)
• Mar 09 - Lecture: Aurora - Amazing Light Shows in the Sky, Winchester, United Kingdom
• Mar 09 - 25th Anniversary (1986), Vega 2, Comet Halley Flyby
• Mar 09 - 50th Anniversary (1961), Sputnik 9 Launch (Carried Dog Named Chernushka)
• Mar 10 - Comet 238P/Read Perihelion (2.360 AU)
• Mar 10 - Asteroid 2008 EY5 Near-Earth Flyby (0.090 AU)
• Mar 10 - 5th Anniversary (1996), Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Mars Orbit Insertion
• Mar 10 - 25th Anniversary (1986), Sakigake, Comet Halley Flyby
• Mar 11 - Asteroid 21 Lutetia Occults TYC 6842-01871-1 (10.1 Magnitude Star)
• Mar 11 - Asteroid 2005 EY169 Near-Earth Flyby (0.073 AU)
• Mar 11 - Urbain Leverrier's 200th Birthday (1811)
• Mar 12 - Asteroid 3 Juno At Opposition (8.9 Magnitude)
• Mar 12 - Asteroid 18725 Atacama Closest Approach To Earth (1.728 AU)
• Mar 13 - Daylight Saving - Set Clock Ahead 1 Hour (United States)
• Mar 13 - Asteroid 2 Pallas Occults TYC 1058-01234-1 (10.2 Magnitude Star)
• Mar 13 - Asteroid 3255 Tholen Closest Approach To Earth (1.668 AU)
• Mar 13 - Asteroid 6984 Lewiscarroll Closest Approach To Earth (2.747 AU)
• Mar 13 - 25th Anniversary (1986), Giotto, Comet Halley Flyby
• Mar 13 - 230th Anniversary (1781), William Herschel's Discovery of Uranus
• Mar 14 - Asteroid 2008 FL7 Near-Earth Flyby (0.033 AU)
• Mar 14 - Asteroid 2005 ES70 Near-Earth Flyby (0.058 AU)
• Mar 14-18 - Conference: Astrophysics and Cosmology with Galaxy Clusters, Santa Barbara, California
• Mar 15 - Asteroid 20 Massalia At Opposition (8.8 Magnitude)
• Mar 16 - Asteroid 17058 Rocknroll Closest Approach To Earth (1.553 AU)
• Mar 16 - 45th Anniversary (1966), Gemini 8 Launch (Neil Armstrong & David Scott)
• Mar 16 - 85th Anniversary (1926), 1st Liquid Fuel Rocket Launch By Robert Goddard
• Mar 17 - Asteroid 4 Vesta Occults TYC 6307-02211-1 (11.5 Magnitude Star)
• Mar 17 - Asteroid 8837 London Closest Approach To Earth (1.024 AU)
• Mar 17 - Asteroid 9951 Tyrannosaurus Closest Approach To Earth (1.524 AU)
• Mar 17 - Asteroid 1198 Atlantis Closest Approach To Earth (1.991 AU)
• Mar 17 - Asteroid 2404 Antarctica Closest Approach To Earth (2.049 AU)
• Mar 17 - Asteroid 37452 Spirit Closest Approach To Earth (3.514 AU)
• Mar 18 -[Sep 04] MESSENGER, Mercury Orbit Insertion
• Mar 18 - New Horizons, Crosses Uranus' Orbit
• Mar 18 - Asteroid 2 Pallas Occults TYC 1058-02883-1 (10.6 Magnitude Star)
• Mar 18 - Asteroid 9249 Yen Closest Approach To Earth (1.294 AU)
• Mar 18 - Asteroid 128 Nemesis Closest Approach To Earth (2.077 AU)
• Mar 18 - Asteroid 8000 Isaac Newton Closest Approach To Earth (2.254 AU)
• Mar 18 - Dwarf Planet 136472 Makemake Closest Approach To Earth (51.335 AU)
• Mar 19 - Asteroid 6456 Golombek Closest Approach To Earth (1.565 AU)
• Mar 19 - Asteroid 2309 Mr. Spock Closest Approach To Earth (2.101 AU)
• Mar 19-22 - Fab Five Fest 2010, Arecibo, Puerto Rico
• Mar 20 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Telesto
• Mar 20 - Vernal Equinox, 23:21 UT
• Mar 20 - Comet 43P/Wolf-Harrington Closest Approach To Earth (1.936 AU)
• Mar 20 - Asteroid 2008 EF85 Near-Earth Flyby (0.066 AU)
• Mar 20-25 - 12th International Conference on Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS-12), Te Papa Tongarewa, New Zealand
• Mar 21 - Asteroid 6469 Armstrong Closest Approach To Earth (1.493 AU)
• Mar 21 - Asteroid 25275 Jocelynbell Closest Approach To Earth (1.520 AU)
• Mar 23 - Mercury At Its Greatest Eastern Elongation (19 Degrees)
• Mar 23 - Comet 152P/Helin-Lawrence Closest Approach To Earth (2.951 AU)
• Mar 23 - Asteroid 2010 FN Near-Earth Flyby (0.053 AU)
• Mar 24 - Asteroid 2142 Landau Occults HIP 48324 (6.5 Magnitude Star)
• Mar 24 - Asteroid 3 Juno Occults UCAC2 33756351 (11.7 Magnitude Star)
• Mar 24 - Asteroid 2161 Grissom Closest Approach To Earth (2.187 AU)
• Mar 24 - Asteroid 2421 Nininger Closest Approach To Earth (2.407 AU)
• Mar 25 - Asteroid 1740 Paavo Nurmi Closest Approach To Earth (1.927 AU)
• Mar 25 - Asteroid 4969 Lawrence Closest Approach To Earth (1.999 AU)
• Mar 25 - 15th Anniversary (1996), Comet Hyakutake Near-Earth Flyby (0.10 AU)
• Mar 25 - 50th Anniversary (1961), Sputnik 10 Launch (Carried Dog Named Zvezdochka)
• Mar 26 - Comet P/2010 C1 (Scotti) Closest Approach To Earth (4.550 AU)
• Mar 26 - Asteroid 23990 Springsteen Closest Approach To Earth (1.321 AU)
• Mar 26 - Asteroid 1381 Danubia Closest Approach To Earth (1.919 AU)
• Mar 27 - Daylight Saving - Set Clock Ahead 1 Hour (Europe)
• Mar 27 - Asteroid 3395 Jitka Occults HIP 68267 (6.9 Magnitude Star)
• Mar 27 - Asteroid 3768 Monroe Closest Approach To Earth (2.769 AU)
• Mar 28 - Asteroid 2200 Pasadena Closest Approach To Earth (1.051 AU)
• Mar 28 - 25th Anniversary (1986), ICE, Comet Halley Distant Flyby
• Mar 29 - Asteroid 7000 Curie Closest Approach To Earth (2.126 AU)
• Mar 29-31 - AIAA Infotech@Aerospace 2011, St. Louis, Missouri
• Mar 30 - Soyuz TMA-21 Soyuz FG Launch (International Space Station 26S)
• Mar 30 - Asteroid 7367 Giotto Closest Approach To Earth (1.801 AU)
• Mar 31 - Asteroid 9349 Lucas Closest Approach To Earth (1.659 AU)
• Mar 31 - 45th Anniversary (1966), Luna 10 Launch (USSR Moon Orbiter)

April 2011

• Apr ?? - AFSPC-2 Atlas 5 Launch
• Apr ?? - Electro-L N1 Zenit 3F Launch
• Apr ?? - ViaSat 1 Proton M-Briz M Launch
• Apr ?? - HTV-3 H-2B Launch (International Space Station, Japan)
• Apr ?? - Megha-Tropiques PSLV Launch
• Apr 01 - Asteroid 1582 Martir Occults HIP 64445 (5.8 Magnitude Star)
• Apr 01 - Asteroid 7231 Porco Closest Approach To Earth (2.375 AU)
• Apr 02 - Asteroid 2009 UD Near-Earth Flyby (0.096 AU)
• Apr 03 - Saturn At Opposition
• Apr 03 - Asteroid 9661 Hohmann Closest Approach To Earth (3.775 AU)
• Apr 03 - 45th Anniversary (1966), Luna 10, Moon Orbit Insertion (USSR)
• Apr 03-08 - European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2011, Vienna, Austria
• Apr 04 - Asteroid 11714 Mikebrown Closest Approach To Earth (1.948 AU)
• Apr 04-08 - Workshop: Dynamics of Low-Mass Stellar Systems - From Star Clusters to Dwarf Galaxies, Santiago, Chile
• Apr 05 - Asteroid 11 Parthenope At Opposition (9.9 Magnitude)
• Apr 05 - 20th Anniversary (1991), Compton Gamma Ray Observatory Launch
• Apr 06 - Asteroid 141 Lumen Occults HIP 71890 (6.6 Magnitude Star)
• Apr 06 - Asteroid 2009 HE60 Near-Earth Flyby (0.081 AU)
• Apr 06 - Asteroid 1069 Planckia Closest Approach To Earth (1.835 AU)
• Apr 07 - Asteroid 9963 Sandage Closest Approach To Earth (2.066 AU)
• Apr 07 - Kuiper Belt Object 136108 Haumea At Opposition (50.073 AU)
• Apr 08 - Asteroid 4547 Massachusetts Closest Approach To Earth (1.792 AU)
• Apr 09 - Asteroid 13681 Monty Python Closest Approach To Earth (1.916 AU)
• Apr 10 - Asteroid 827 Wolfiana Closest Approach To Earth (1.623 AU)
• Apr 11 - Comet 37P/Forbes Closest Approach To Earth (1.756 AU)
• Apr 11 - Asteroid 1726 Hoffmeister Occults HIP 65074 (6.7 Magnitude Star)
• Apr 11 - Asteroid 12382 Niagara Falls Closest Approach To Earth (1.783 AU)
• Apr 11 - Asteroid 804 Hispania Closest Approach To Earth (2.085 AU)
• Apr 11 - Asteroid 40227 Tahiti Closest Approach To Earth (3.466 AU)
• Apr 11 - 5th Anniversary (2006), Venus Express, Venus Orbit Insertion
• Apr 11-13 - Joint Urban Remote Sensing Event (JURSE 2011), Munich, Germany
• Apr 11-15 - 18th International Academy of Astronautics (IAA) Humans in Space Symposium, Houston, Texas
• Apr 12 - Asteroid 51 Nemausa At Opposition (9.9 Magnitude)
• Apr 12 - Asteroid 2305 King Closest Approach To Earth (1.864 AU)
• Apr 12 - Yuri's Night: World Space Party
• Apr 12 - 30th Anniversary (1981), 1st Space Shuttle Launch (Robert Crippen & John Young)
• Apr 12 - 50th Anniversary (1961), Vostok 1 Launch (1st Man in Space - Yuri Gagarin)
• Apr 12 - Edward Maunder's 160th Birthday (1851)
• Apr 12-14 - Signposts of Planets Conference, Greenbelt, Maryland
• Apr 13 - Asteroid 9965 GNU Closest Approach To Earth (1.091 AU)
• Apr 13 - Lecture: What's Wrong with the Sun?, Winchester, United Kingdom
• Apr 14 - Asteroid 14702 Benclark Closest Approach To Earth (2.036 AU)
• Apr 14-20 - 9th Pacific Rim Conference on Stellar Astrophysics, Lijiang, Yunnan, China
• Apr 15 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #280 (OTM-280)
• Apr 15 - Asteroid 2007 WC5 Near-Earth Flyby (0.089 AU)
• Apr 15 - Asteroid 64070 NEAT Closest Approach To Earth (1.982 AU)
• Apr 16 - Asteroid 3767 DiMaggio Closest Approach To Earth (1.293 AU)
• Apr 16 - Asteroid 3728 IRAS Closest Approach To Earth (1.945 AU)
• Apr 16 - Asteroid 39382 Opportunity Closest Approach To Earth (3.528 AU)
• Apr 17 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Aegaeon & Helene
• Apr 17 - 35th Anniversary (1976), Closest Ever Flyby of the Sun by Spacecraft (Helios 2)
• Apr 17-21 - 2nd Middle East-Africa IAU Regional Meeting (MEARIM 2011), Cape Town, South Africa
• Apr 19 - Cassini, Titan Flyby
• Apr 19 - Asteroid 2006 HF6 Near-Earth Flyby (0.013 AU)
• Apr 19 - 40th Anniversary (1971), Salyut 1 Launch (1st Space Station)
• Apr 20 - Comet C/2010 F3 (Scotti) Closest Approach To Earth (4.745 AU)
• Apr 20 - Asteroid 3905 Doppler Closest Approach To Earth (2.018 AU)
• Apr 20-22 - 3rd International Conference on Advanced Space Technologies for Humankind Prosperity, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine
• Apr 21 - Asteroid 9548 Fortran Closest Approach To Earth (1.642 AU)
• Apr 22 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #281 (OTM-281)
• Apr 22 - Lyrids Meteor Shower Peak
• Apr 22 - Asteroid 216 Kleopatra Closest Approach To Earth (2.484 AU)
• Apr 23 - Asteroid 2010 HW20 Near-Earth Flyby (0.069 AU)
• Apr 23 - Asteroid 8084 Dallas Closest Approach To Earth (1.676 AU)
• Apr 24 - Easter Sunday
• Apr 24 - Comet 227P/Catalina-LINEAR Closest Approach To Earth (1.681 AU)
• Apr 24 - Comet P/2004 T1 (LINEAR-NEAT) Perihelion (1.708 AU)
• Apr 24 - Asteroid 2003 FF5 Near-Earth Flyby (0.055 AU)
• Apr 26 - Asteroid 21 Lutetia Occults TYC 6873-00257-1 (8.6 Magnitude Star)
• Apr 26 - Asteroid 9342 Carygrant Closest Approach To Earth (1.610 AU)
• Apr 27 - Progress M-10M Soyuz U Launch (International Space Station 42P)
• Apr 27 - Asteroid 2008 UC202 Near-Earth Flyby (0.023 AU)
• Apr 27 - Asteroid 2410 Morrison Closest Approach To Earth (1.084 AU)
• Apr 27 - Asteroid 11365 NASA Closest Approach To Earth (1.475 AU)
• Apr 28 - Asteroid 2008 JV2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.059 AU)
• Apr 28 - Asteroid 3350 Scobee Closest Approach To Earth (1.412 AU)
• Apr 28 - Asteroid 770 Bali Closest Approach To Earth (1.509 AU)
• Apr 28 - Asteroid 12820 Robinwilliams Closest Approach To Earth (2.047 AU)
• Apr 29 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #282 (OTM-282)
• Apr 29 - Asteroid 1554 Yugoslavia Closest Approach To Earth (1.927 AU)
• Apr 30 - Asteroid 38086 Beowolf Closest Approach To Earth (0.720)
• Apr 30 - Asteroid 2362 Mark Twain Closest Approach To Earth (1.504 AU)
• Apr 30 - Asteroid 2198 Ceplecha Closest Approach To Earth (2.092 AU)
• Apr 30 - Kuiper Belt Object 90568 (2004 GV9) At Opposition (38.232 AU)

May 2011

• May ?? - Shi Jian 9 CZ-2D2 Launch (China)
• May ?? - Zohreh 1 Soyuz FG-Fregat Launch
• May ?? - NROL-25 Delta 4M Launch
• May 01 - Asteroid 2099 Opik Closest Approach To Earth (2.049 AU)
• May 01-06 - Conference: Exploring Strange New Worlds - From Giant Planets to Super Earths, Flagstaff, Arizona
• May 02-08 - Astronomy Week
• May 05 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #283 (OTM-283)
• May 05 - Eta Aquarids Meteor Shower Peak
• May 05 - Asteroid 35352 Texas Closest Approach To Earth (1.218 AU)
• May 05 - Asteroid 1278 Kenya Closest Approach To Earth (1.539 AU)
• May 05 - Asteroid 2825 Crosby Closest Approach To Earth (1.625 AU)
• May 05 - 50th Anniversary (1961), Freedom 7 Launch (Alan Shepard, 1st US Man in Space)
• May 06 - Space Day
• May 06 - Asteroid 1484 Postrema Occults HIP 97401 (6.9 Magnitude Star)
• May 06 - Asteroid 2010 KX7 Near-Earth Flyby (0.071 AU)
• May 06 - Asteroid 149244 Kriegh Closest Approach To Earth (0.942 AU)
• May 06 - Asteroid 4701 Milani Closest Approach To Earth (2.065 AU)
• May 06 - Asteroid 2598 Merlin Closest Approach To Earth (2.366 AU)
• May 07 - Astronomy Day
• May 07 - Mercury At Its Greatest Western Elongation (27 Degrees)
• May 07 - Comet P/2010 H5 (Scotti) Closest Approach To Earth (5.115 AU)
• May 08 - Cassini, Titan Flyby
• May 08 - Asteroid 9937 Triceratops Closest Approach To Earth (1.804 AU)
• May 09 - Comet C/2009 UG89 (Lemmon) Closest Approach To Earth (3.567 AU)
• May 09 - Asteroid 484 Pittsburghia Closest Approach To Earth (1.692 AU)
• May 09-12 - 7th Aerothermodynamics Symposium, Brugge, Belgium
• May 09-12 - 2011 Fermi Symposium, Rome, Italy
• May 10 - Asteroid 27 Euterpe Occults HIP 115953 (6.3 Magnitude Star)
• May 10 - Asteroid 886 Washingtonia Closest Approach To Earth (2.671 AU)
• May 11 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #284 (OTM-284)
• May 11 - Asteroid 2006 DO62 Near-Earth Flyby (0.024 AU)
• May 11 - Asteroid 6775 Giorgini Closest Approach To Earth (1.407 AU)
• May 11 - Asteroid 6524 Baalke Closest Approach To Earth (1.673 AU)
• May 11 - Theodore Von Karman's 130th Birthday (1881)
• May 11 - Lecture: Songs of the Stars, Winchester, United Kingdom
• May 12 - Asteroid 2975 Spahr Closest Approach To Earth (1.062 AU)
• May 12 - Asteroid 12574 LONEOS Closest Approach To Earth (1.863 AU)
• May 12 - Asteroid 8300 Kronk Closest Approach To Earth (1.922 AU)
• May 12 - Asteroid 7291 Hyakutake Closest Approach To Earth (2.764 AU)
• May 13 - Asteroid 10 Hygiea At Opposition (9.1 Magnitude)
• May 13 - Asteroid 2791 Paradise Closest Approach To Earth (1.616 AU)
• May 15 - Comet C/2010 L3 (Catalina) Closest Approach To Earth (9.294 AU)
• May 15 - Asteroid 6000 United Nations Closest Approach To Earth (1.912 AU)
• May 16 - Comet 231P/LINEAR-NEAT Perihelion (3.033 AU)
• May 17 - Norman Lockyer's 175th Birthday (1836)
• May 18 - Asteroid 2006 JF42 Near-Earth Flyby (0.059 AU)
• May 18 - Asteroid 141432 (2002 CQ11) Near-Earth Flyby (0.089 AU)
• May 18-20 - 4th International Conference on Spacecraft Formation Flying Missions & Technologies, St-Hubert, Canada
• May 19 - Asteroid 1877 Marsden Closest Approach To Earth (2.516 AU)
• May 20 - Asteroid 1006 Lagrangea Closest Approach To Earth (2.970 AU)
• May 21 - Asteroid 293 Brasilia Closest Approach To Earth (1.830 AU)
• May 21 - Asteroid 51823 Rickhusband Closest Approach To Earth (2.785 AU)
• May 22-26 - 218th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), Boston Massachusetts
• May 22-26 - 20th ESA Symposium on European Rocket and Balloon Programmes and Related Research, Hyeres, France
• May 22-27 - Photon 11 Conference, Spa, Belgium
• May 23 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #285 (OTM-285)
• May 23 - Asteroid 9000 Hal Closest Approach To Earth (1.003 AU)
• May 24 - Asteroid 2009 UO1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.055 AU)
• May 24 - Asteroid 1691 Oort Closest Approach To Earth (2.674 AU)
• May 25 - Comet C/2010 D3 (WISE) Closest Approach To Earth (3.820 AU)
• May 25 - Asteroid 767 Bondia Closest Approach To Earth (2.196 AU)
• May 25 - 10th Anniversary (2001), Galileo, Callisto 30 Flyby
• May 25 - 50th Anniversary (1961), John F. Kennedy's Moon Goal Speech
• May 26 - Asteroid 10221 Kubrick Closest Approach To Earth (1.452 AU)
• May 26 - Asteroid 2742 Gibson Closest Approach To Earth (2.081 AU)
• May 26 - Asteroid 4179 Toutatis Closest Approach To Earth (2.907 AU)
• May 28 - Asteroid 2001 Einstein Closest Approach To Earth (0.921 AU)
• May 29 - 40th Anniversary (1971), Mars 3 Launch (USSR Mars Orbiter/Lander)
• May 30 - Asteroid 1539 Borrelly Closest Approach To Earth (2.597 AU)
• May 30 - 40th Anniversary (1971), Mariner 9 Launch (USA Mars Orbiter)
• May 30 - 45th Anniversary (1966), Surveyor 1 Launch (USA Moon Lander)
• May 30-Jun 02 - 42nd Canadian Astronomical Society Meeting, London, Canada
• May 31 - Soyuz TMA-02M Soyuz FG Launch (International Space Station 28S)
• May 31 - Asteroid 896 Sphinx Closest Approach To Earth (0.900 AU)
• May 31 - Asteroid 3351 Smith Closest Approach To Earth (2.358 AU)

June 2011

• Jun ?? - Express AM-4 Proton M-Briz M Launch
• Jun ?? - Amsat Phase 3E Express Ariane 5 Launch
• Jun ?? - Microscope Ariane 5 Launch
• Jun ?? - SES-4 Proton M-Briz M Launch
• Jun ?? - Cygnus Demo Taurus 2 Launch (International Space Station)
• Jun 01 - Partial Solar Eclipse, Visible in Asia, N. America, Iceland
• Jun 01 - Asteroid 9885 Linux Closest Approach To Earth (1.496 AU)
• Jun 01 - Asteroid 5145 Pholus Closest Approach To Earth (23.055 AU)
• Jun 02 - Comet 164P/Christensen Perihelion (1.675 AU)
• Jun 02 - Asteroid 2009 BD Near-Earth Flyby (0.002 AU)
• Jun 02 - Asteroid 447 Valentine Closest Approach To Earth (2.067 AU)
• Jun 03 - 45th Anniversary (1966), Gemini 9 Launch (Thomas Stafford & Eugene Cernan)
• Jun 04 - Comet P/2010 A2 (LINEAR) Closest Approach To Earth (1.547 AU)
• Jun 04 - Comet C/2009 F4 (McNaught) Closest Approach To Earth (5.179 AU)
• Jun 04 - Asteroid 51829 Williemccool Closest Approach To Earth (1.168 AU)
• Jun 04 - Kuiper Belt Object 19521 Chaos At Opposition (42.6604 AU)
• Jun 05 - Asteroid 78577 JPL Closest Approach To Earth (2.211 AU)
• Jun 05-07 - Workshop: Frontier Science Opportunities with the James Webb Space Telescope, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming
• Jun 05-08 - Astrobiology Graduate Student Conference (AbGradCon 2011), Bozeman, Montana
• Jun 05-10 -[Sep 09] 2nd Workshop on Robotic Autonomous Observatories, Malaga, Spain
• Jun 05-10 - 8th International ESA Conference on Guidance and Navigation (GNC 2011), Carlsbad, Czech Republic
• Jun 06 - Asteroid 11881 Mirstation Closest Approach To Earth (1.597 AU)
• Jun 07 - Comet 74P/Smirnova-Chernykh Closest Approach To Earth (3.125 AU)
• Jun 07 - Comet C/2008 S3 (Boattini) Perihelion (8.018 AU)
• Jun 07 - Asteroid 51824 Mikeanderson Closest Approach To Earth (1.914 AU)
• Jun 07 - Asteroid 51826 Kalpanachawla Closest Approach To Earth (2.325 AU)
• Jun 08 - Kuiper Belt Object 28978 Ixion At Opposition (40.116 AU)
• Jun 08 - Lecture: Dark Energy and the Ever-Expanding Universe, Winchester, United Kingdom
• Jun 08-10 - 3rd Workshop On Directional Detection Of Dark Matter (CYGNUS 2011), Aussois, France
• Jun 09 - Comet P/2010 H4 (Scotti) Closest Approach To Earth (4.018 AU)
• Jun 11 - Comet 235P/LINEAR Closest Approach To Earth (2.629 AU)
• Jun 12 - Asteroid 7672 Hawking Closest Approach To Earth (1.385 AU)
• Jun 13-17 - 2nd CoRoT Symposium, Marseille, France
• Jun 14 - Asteroid 3130 Hillary Closest Approach To Earth (1.431 AU)
• Jun 14 - Kuiper Belt Object 50000 Quaoar Closest Approach To Earth (42.119 AU)
• Jun 15 - Total Lunar Eclipse
• Jun 15 - Asteroid 2004 LO2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.025 AU)
• Jun 16 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #286 (OTM-286)
• Jun 16 - Comet 213P/Van Ness Perihelion (2.123 AU)
• Jun 16 - Asteroid 8952 ODAS Closest Approach To Earth (1.415 AU)
• Jun 16 - Asteroid 30441 Curly Closest Approach To Earth (1.856 AU)
• Jun 17 - Asteroid 6223 Dahl Closest Approach To Earth (1.798 AU)
• Jun 18 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Helene & Telesto
• Jun 18 - Asteroid 2451 Dollfus Closest Approach To Earth (1.368 AU)
• Jun 18 - Allan Sandage's 85th Birthday (1926)
• Jun 19 - Asteroid 1 Ceres At Opposition (7.0 Magnitude)
• Jun 19 - Asteroid 1998 KM3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.093 AU)
• Jun 19 - Asteroid 3162 Nostalgia Closest Approach To Earth (2.657 AU)
• Jun 20 - Cassini, Titan Flyby
• Jun 20 - Asteroid 8103 Fermi Closest Approach To Earth (1.852 AU)
• Jun 20 - Asteroid 5223 McSween Closest Approach To Earth (2.233 AU)
• Jun 20 - Asteroid 8373 Stephengould Closest Approach To Earth (2.968 AU)
• Jun 20-24 - Conference: The Cosmic Odyssey of Baryons - Accreting, Outflowing and Hiding, Marseille, France
• Jun 21 - Progress M-11M Soyuz U Launch (International Space Station 43P)
• Jun 21 - Summer Solstice, 17:16 UT
• Jun 21 - Asteroid 4 Vesta Occults TYC 6365-00736-1 (11.6 Magnitude Star)
• Jun 21 - Asteroid 1602 Indiana Closest Approach To Earth (1.340 AU)
• Jun 22 - 35th Anniversary (1976), Salyut 5 Launch (USSR Space Station)
• Jun 23 - Comet P/2010 H2 (Vales) Closest Approach To Earth (2.623 AU)
• Jun 23 - Asteroid 2009 WW104 Near-Earth Flyby (0.039 AU)
• Jun 23 - Asteroid 2010 NY65 Near-Earth Flyby (0.088 AU)
• Jun 23 - Asteroid 1655 Comas Sola Closest Approach To Earth (2.392 AU)
• Jun 24 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #287 (OTM-287)
• Jun 24 - Comet 130P/McNaught-Hughes Perihelion (2.098 AU)
• Jun 24 - Asteroid 2 Pallas Occults TYC 1639-02448-1 (11.4 Magnitude Star)
• Jun 24 - Asteroid 2531 Cambridge Closest Approach To Earth (2.105 AU)
• Jun 25 - Comet 234P/LINEAR Closest Approach To Earth (2.785 AU)
• Jun 25 - Asteroid 17023 Abbott Closest Approach To Earth (1.673 AU)
• Jun 25 - Kuiper Belt Object 2002 MS4 At Opposition (46.139 AU)
• Jun 26 - Dwarf Planet 134340 Pluto Closest Approach To Earth (31.062 AU)
• Jun 26 - Asteroid 2531 Cambridge Occults HIP 89440 (6.0 Magnitude Star)
• Jun 27 - Asteroid 9949 Brontosaurus Closest Approach To Earth (1.302 AU)
• Jun 27 - 10th Anniversary (2001), Discovery of SAU 060 Meteorite (Mars Meteorite)
• Jun 27 - 15th Anniversary (1996), Galileo, Ganymede 1 Flyby
• Jun 27-30 - XMM-Newton Conference: The X-ray Universe 2011, Berlin, Germany
• Jun 28 -[Sep 07] STS-135 Launch?, Space Shuttle, International Space Station
• Jun 28 - Pluto At Opposition
• Jun 28 - Asteroid 43 Ariadne At Opposition (9.0 Magnitude)
• Jun 28 - Asteroid 19367 Pink Floyd Closest Approach To Earth (1.611 AU)
• Jun 28 - Asteroid 1604 Tombaugh Closest Approach To Earth (1.906 AU)
• Jun 28 - 100th Anniversary (1911), Nakhla Meteorite Fall in Egypt (Mars Meteorite, Hit Dog)
• Jun 29 - Asteroid 10799 Yucatan Closest Approach To Earth (1.376 AU)
• Jun 29 - Asteroid 5036 Tuttle Closest Approach To Earth (2.320 AU)
• Jun 29 - Asteroid 2929 Harris Closest Approach To Earth (2.183 AU)
• Jun 30 - Moon Occults Venus
• Jun 30 - Asteroid 241 Germania Closest Approach To Earth (1.932 AU)
• Jun 30 - 40th Anniversary (1971), Death of 3 Cosmonauts in Soyuz 11
• Jun 30-Jul 01 - 4th annual Advances in Biodetection & Biosensors Conference (ABB2011), Hamburg, Germany

July 2011

• Jul ?? -[Sep 03] Dawn, Vesta Arrival
• Jul ?? - Rosetta, Enters Hibernation
• Jul ?? - Equars VLS-1 Launch (Brazil)
• Jul ?? - Monitor IR1 Rokot KM Launch
• Jul 01 - Partial Solar Eclipse, Visible in Indian Ocean
• Jul 01 - Asteroid 4 Vesta Occults TYC 6365-01035-1 (10.4 Magnitude Star)
• Jul 01 - Asteroid 2002 EM7 Near-Earth Flyby (0.028 AU)
• Jul 01 - Asteroid 3267 Glo Closest Approach To Earth (1.829 AU)
• Jul 01 - Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum's 35th Birthday (1976)
• Jul 02 - Asteroid 2001 QP181 Near-Earth Flyby (0.090 AU)
• Jul 02 - Comet 176P/LINEAR Perihelion (2.575 AU)
• Jul 02 - Asteroid 3353 Jarvis Closest Approach To Earth (0.764 AU)
• Jul 03 - Asteroid 5841 Stone Closest Approach To Earth (1.085 AU)
• Jul 03-08 - Origins 2011: The International Astrobiology Society and IAU C51 (Bioastronomy) Joint International Conference (ISSOL), Montpellier, France
• Jul 04 - Earth At Aphelion (1.017 AU From Sun)
• Jul 04 - Comet 123P/West-Hartley Perihelion (2.129 AU)
• Jul 04 - Asteroid 21 Lutetia At Opposition (9.4 Magnitude)
• Jul 04-08 - IAU Symposium 281: Binary Paths to the Explosions of Type Ia Supernovae, Padova, Italy
• Jul 04-08 - 6th International Conference: New Developments In Photodetection (NDIP11), Lyon, France
• Jul 05 - Asteroid 8575 Hawaii Closest Approach To Earth (2.391 AU)
• Jul 05 - Asteroid 51827 Laurelclark Closest Approach To Earth (2.479 AU)
• Jul 06 - Asteroid 128523 Johnmuir Closest Approach To Earth (1.344 AU)
• Jul 06 - Asteroid 11246 Orvillewright Closest Approach To Earth (1.400 AU)
• Jul 06 - Asteroid 11247 Wilburwright Closest Approach To Earth (1.937 AU)
• Jul 06 - Asteroid 1125 China Closest Approach To Earth (2.788 AU)
• Jul 07 - Asteroid 17062 Bardot Closest Approach To Earth (2.030 AU)
• Jul 08 - Asteroid 16857 Goodall Closest Approach To Earth (1.789 AU)
• Jul 09 - Cassini, Distant Titan Flyby
• Jul 09 - Asteroid 951 Gaspra Closest Approach To Earth (1.213 AU)
• Jul 09 - Asteroid 17024 Costello Closest Approach To Earth (1.259 AU)
• Jul 09 - Asteroid 7818 Muirhead Closest Approach To Earth (1.888 AU)
• Jul 10 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Helene, Janus, Pan & Prometheus
• Jul 10 - Asteroid 3 Juno Occults UCAC2 33935848 (11.5 Magnitude Star)
• Jul 10 - Asteroid 951 Gaspra Occults TYC 6274-00940-1 (10.3 Magnitude Star)
• Jul 10 - Asteroid 4573 Piestany Occults HIP 100713 (6.8 Magnitude Star)
• Jul 10 - Asteroid 6676 Monet Closest Approach To Earth (2.525 AU)
• Jul 11 - Asteroid 2008 LV16 Near-Earth Flyby (0.080 AU)
• Jul 11-14 -[Sep 02] 7th Symposium on Realistic Advanced Scientific Space Missions - Missions to the Outer Solar System and Beyond, Aosta, Italy
• Jul 11-15 - 4th Kepler Asteroseismic Science Consortium (KASC) Workshop, Boulder, Colorado
• Jul 11-15 - 4th International Symposium on Physical Sciences in Space, Bonn, Germany
• Jul 13 - Asteroid 21 Lutetia Occults TYC 6863-00833-1 (12.1 Magnitude Star)
• Jul 13 - Asteroid 1991 Darwin Closest Approach To Earth (0.811 AU)
• Jul 13 - Asteroid 24101 Cassini Closest Approach To Earth (2.278 AU)
• Jul 14 - Asteroid 9941 Iguanodo Closest Approach To Earth (1.560 AU)
• Jul 15 -[Sep 02] Kuiper Belt Object 20000 Varuna At Opposition (44.587 AU)
• Jul 16 - Asteroid 4370 Dickens Closest Approach To Earth (1.062 AU)
• Jul 16 - Asteroid 2000 Herschel Closest Approach To Earth (1.763 AU)
• Jul 16 - Asteroid 5035 Swift Closest Approach To Earth (2.027 AU)
• Jul 16 - Giuseppe Piazzi's 265th Birthday (1746)
• Jul 17 - Comet 69P/Taylor Perihelion (2.271 AU)
• Jul 17 - Asteroid 656 Beagle Closest Approach To Earth (2.434 AU)
• Jul 18 - Asteroid 4255 Spacewatch Closest Approach To Earth (2.435 AU)
• Jul 18 - 45th Anniversary (1966), Gemini 10 Launch (John Young & Michael Collins)
• Jul 18 - John Glenn's 90th Birthday (1921)
• Jul 18-20 - Seminar Towards Comparative Planetology, Bad Honnef, Germany
• Jul 18-22 - IAU Symposium 282: From Interacting Binaries to Exoplanets - Essential Modeling Tools, Tatranska Lomnica, Slovakia
• Jul 18-22 - Conference: The Physics of Galaxy Formation, Durham, United Kingdom
• Jul 19 - Comet P/2010 J5 (McNaught) Closest Approach To Earth (3.030 AU)
• Jul 19 - Comet C/2006 S3 (LONEOS) Closest Approach To Earth (4.554 AU)
• Jul 19 - Asteroid 90 Antiope Occults HIP 112420 (6.7 Magnitude Star)
• Jul 19 - Edward Pickering's 165th Birthday (1846)
• Jul 20 - Mercury At Its Greatest Eastern Elongation (27 Degrees)
• Jul 20 - Asteroid 51825 Davidbrown Closest Approach To Earth (2.076 AU)
• Jul 20 - 35th Anniversary (1976), Viking 1, Mars Landing
• Jul 21 - Asteroid 2187 La Silla Closest Approach To Earth (1.350 AU)
• Jul 21 - 50th Anniversary (1961), Mercury 4 Launch (Gus Grissom, Liberty Bell 7)
• Jul 21-27 - 2011 Europhysics Conference On High Energy Physics: HEP 2011 (EPS-HEP2011), Grenoble, France
• Jul 22 - Asteroid 2007 RQ17 Near-Earth Flyby (0.034 AU)
• Jul 22 - Asteroid 2008 TC Near-Earth Flyby (0.061 AU)
• Jul 22 - Asteroid 5450 Sokrates Closest Approach To Earth (2.133 AU)
• Jul 23 - Asteroid 2007 DD Near-Earth Flyby (0.024 AU)
• Jul 24 - Asteroid 2985 Shakespeare Closest Approach To Earth (1.713 AU)
• Jul 24 - Asteroid 6227 Alanrubin Closet Approach To Earth (1.731 AU)
• Jul 25 - Asteroid 532 Herculina At Opposition (9.8 Magnitude)
• Jul 25 - Asteroid 4149 Harrison Closest Approach To Earth (1.531 AU)
• Jul 25 - Asteroid 1288 Santa Closest Approach To Earth (1.759 AU)
• Jul 25-29 - IAU Symposium 283: Planetary Nebulae - An Eye to the Future, Tenerife, Spain
• Jul 26 - Asteroid 9880 Stegosaurus Closest Approach To Earth (1.440 AU)
• Jul 26 - 40th Anniversary (1971), Apollo 15 Launch (4th Manned Moon Landing)
• Jul 26-29 - 11th Asia-Pacific IAU Regional Meeting (APRIM 2011), Chiang Mai, Thailand
• Jul 27 - Moon Occults Mars
• Jul 27 - Asteroid 9 Metis At Opposition (9.6 Magnitude)
• Jul 27 - George Airy's 210th Birthday (1801)
• Jul 28 - Asteroid 380 Fiducia Occults HIP 20455 (3.8 Magnitude Star)
• Jul 28 - Asteroid 1865 Cerberus Closest Approach To Earth (0.504 AU)
• Jul 28 - Asteroid 508 Princetonia Closest Approach To Earth (2.176 AU)
• Jul 29 - South Delta-Aquarids Meteor Shower Peak
• Jul 29 - Asteroid 3000 Leonardo Closest Approach To Earth (1.158 AU)
• Jul 29 - Asteroid 43844 Rowling Closest Approach To Earth (1.457 AU)
• Jul 30 - Asteroid 2004 Lexell Closest Approach To Earth (1.230 AU)
• Jul 30 - 10th Anniversary (2001), MAP, Moon Flyby

August 2011

• Aug ?? - Cassiope 1 Falcon 9 Launch
• Aug 01 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Helene, Titan, Telesto, Methone & Rhea
• Aug 01 - Alpha Capricornids Meteor Shower Peak
• Aug 01 - Comet 48P/Johnson Closest Approach To Earth (1.325 AU)
• Aug 01 - Asteroid 2 Pallas At Opposition (9.5 Magnitude)
• Aug 01 - Asteroid 1103 Sequoia Closest Approach To Earth (0.815 AU)
• Aug 01 - Asteroid 2063 Bacchus Closest Approach To Earth (0.902 AU)
• Aug 01 - Asteroid 4 Vesta Closest Approach To Earth (1.227 AU)
• Aug 01 - Asteroid 17059 Elvis Closest Approach To Earth (1.342 AU)
• Aug 01 - Asteroid 310 Margarita Closest Approach To Earth (1.874 AU)
• Aug 02 - Asteroid 4433 Goldstone Closest Approach To Earth (1.118 AU)
• Aug 03 - Asteroid 10051 Albee Closest Approach To Earth (1.315 AU)
• Aug 04 - Asteroid 88292 Bora-Bora Closest Approach To Earth (0.673 AU)
• Aug 04 - Asteroid 2991 Bilbo Closest Approach To Earth (0.838 AU)
• Aug 05 - Juno Atlas 5 Launch
• Aug 05 - Asteroid 4 Vesta At Opposition (5.6 Magnitude)
• Aug 05 - Asteroid 6758 Jesseowens Closest Approach To Earth (1.570 AU)
• Aug 05 - Asteroid 3808 Tempel Closest Approach To Earth (1.583 AU)
• Aug 06 - Southern Iota Aquarids Meteor Shower Peak
• Aug 06 - Asteroid 4769 Castalia Closest Approach To Earth (0.463 AU)
• Aug 06 - Asteroid 2597 Arthur Closest Approach To Earth (1.888 AU)
• Aug 06 - 10th Anniversary (2001), Galileo, Io 31 Flyby
• Aug 06 - 50th Anniversary (1961), Vostok 2 Launch (Gherman Titov - 2nd Man in Space)
• Aug 06 - 830th Anniversary (1181), Discovery of Supernova Cassiopeia
• Aug 07 - Asteroid 1566 Icarus Closest Approach To Earth (0.909 AU)
• Aug 07 - Asteroid 9770 Discovery Closest Approach To Earth (1.370 AU)
• Aug 07 - 15th Anniversary (1996), Announcement of Possible Microfossils Found in ALH84001 Martian Meteorite
• Aug 07 - 35th Anniversary (1976), Viking 2, Mars Orbit Insertion
• Aug 08 - Asteroid 1718 Namibia Closest Approach To Earth (0.755 AU)
• Aug 08 - 10th Anniversary (2001), Genesis Launch (Solar Particle Sample Return)
• Aug 08-12 - 74th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society, Greenwich, United Kingdom
• Aug 09 - Asteroid 5891 Gehrig Closest Approach To Earth (1.432 AU)
• Aug 09 - Asteroid 4628 Laplace Closest Approach To Earth (1.919 AU)
• Aug 09 - 35th Anniversary (1976), Luna 24 Launch (USSR Moon Sample Return)
• Aug 10 - 45th Anniversary (1966), Lunar Orbiter 1 Launch
• Aug 12 - Perseids Meteor Shower Peak
• Aug 12 - Asteroid 6030 Zolensky Closest Approach To Earth (2.045 AU)
• Aug 12 - Asteroid 3259 Brownlee Closest Approach To Earth (2.401 AU)
• Aug 13 - Asteroid 5000 IAU Closest Approach To Earth (1.171 AU)
• Aug 13 - Asteroid 69230 Hermes Closest Approach To Earth (1.629 AU)
• Aug 13 - Asteroid 10204 Turing Closest Approach To Earth (1.889 AU)
• Aug 13 - 415th Anniversary (1596), Discovery of Mira, Omicron Ceti by David Fabricius
• Aug 14 - Asteroid 2022 West Closest Approach To Earth (1.620 AU)
• Aug 14-19 - Goldschmidt 2011 Conference, Prague, Czeck Republic
• Aug 15 - Comet 45P/Honda-Mrkos-Pajdusakova Near-Earth Flyby (0.060 AU)
• Aug 15 - Asteroid 349 Dembowska At Opposition (9.7 Magnitude)
• Aug 15 - Asteroid 1762 Russell Closest Approach TO Earth (1.793 AU)
• Aug 16 - Comet C/2009 Y1 (Catalina) Closest Approach To Earth (2.327 AU)
• Aug 16 - Kuiper Belt Object 2004 PG115 At Opposition (36.044 AU)
• Aug 16 - 50th Anniversary (1961), Explorer 12 Launch
• Aug 17 - 45th Anniversary (1966), Pioneer 7 Launch
• Aug 18 - Asteroid 783 Nora Occults HIP 73587 (6.6 Magnitude Star)
• Aug 18 - Asteroid 1154 Astronomia Closest Approach To Earth (2.208 AU)
• Aug 19 - Asteroid 2688 Halley Closest Approach To Earth (1.836 AU)
• Aug 19 - Orville Wright's 140th Birthday (1871)
• Aug 19 - John Flamsteed's 365th Birthday (1646)
• Aug 21 - Comet 97P/Metcalf-Brewington Perihelion (2.597 AU)
• Aug 21 - Asteroid 6336 Dodo Closest Approach To Earth (1.341 AU)
• Aug 21 - Asteroid 1225 Ariane Closest Approach To Earth (1.359 AU)
• Aug 22 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #288 (OTM-288)
• Aug 22 - Neptune At Opposition
• Aug 22 -[Sep 03] Comet P/2004 HC18 (LINEAR) Closest Approach To Earth (1.771 AU)
• Aug 22 - Comet 95P/Chiron Closest Approach To Earth (15.859)
• Aug 22 - Asteroid 17744 Jodiefoster Closest Approach To Earth (0.657 AU)
• Aug 22 - Asteroid 3355 Onizuka Closest Approach To Earth (1.225 AU)
• Aug 22 - Asteroid 671 Carnegia Closest Approach To Earth (2.202 AU)
• Aug 23 -[Sep 02] Comet C/2009 P1 (Garradd) Closest Approach To Earth (1.391 AU)
• Aug 23 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Epimetheus & Atlas
• Aug 23 - Comet 228P/LINEAR Perihelion (3.430 AU)
• Aug 23 -[Sep 08] Comet 158P/Kowal-LINEAR Closest Approach To Earth (3.598 AU)
• Aug 24 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Titan
• Aug 24 - Asteroid 1578 Kirkwood Closest Approach To Earth (3.059 AU)
• Aug 24 - 5th Anniversary (2006), Pluto Demoted As A Planet
• Aug 24 - 45th Anniversary (1966), Luna 11 Launch (USSR Moon Orbiter)
• Aug 25 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Hyperion
• Aug 25 - Northern Iota Aquarids Meteor Shower Peak
• Aug 25 - Asteroid 2005 QQ87 Near-Earth Flyby (0.084 AU)
• Aug 25 - Kuiper Belt Object 225088 (2007 OR10) At Opposition (85.390 AU)
• Aug 26 - Asteroid 2007 UT3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.090 AU)
• Aug 26 - Asteroid 793 Arizona Closest Approach To Earth (1.506 AU)
• Aug 26 - 30th Anniversary (1981), Voyager 2, Saturn Flyby
• Aug 27 - Asteroid 1340 Yvette Occults HIP 107095 (5.2 Magnitude Star)
• Aug 27 - Asteroid 5731 Zeus Closest Approach To Earth (2.624 AU)
• Aug 28 - Asteroid 2002 JR100 Near-Earth Flyby (0.051 AU)
• Aug 28 - Asteroid 2010 JW34 Near-Earth Flyby (0.078 AU)
• Aug 28 - Asteroid 4238 Audrey Closest Approach To Earth (1.552 AU)
• Aug 29 - Asteroid 30440 Larry Closest Approach To Earth (1.954 AU)
• Aug 30 - 20th Anniversary (1991), Yohkoh Launch
• Aug 31 -[Sep 04] Comet 213P/Van Ness Closest Approach To Earth (1.201 AU)
• Aug 31 - Asteroid 2271 Kiso Occults HIP 69427 (4.2 Magnitude Star)

September 2011

• Sep 01 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #288A (OTM-288A)
• Sep 01 - Asteroid 6471 Collins Closest Approach To Earth (1.698 AU)
• Sep 01 - Asteroid 73491 Robmatson Closest Approach To Earth (1.970 AU)
• Sep 01 - Asteroid 2006 SQ372 Closest Approach To Earth (24.005 AU)
• Sep 02 - Comet C/2010 G2 (Hill) Perihelion (1.981 AU)
• Sep 02 - Asteroid 192 Nausikaa At Opposition (8.3 Magnitude)
• Sep 03 - Mercury At Its Greatest Western Elongation (18 Degrees)
• Sep 03 - Asteroid 1 Ceres Occults TYC 5839-00556-1 (11.2 Magnitude Star)
• Sep 03 - 5th Anniversary (2006), SMART-1, Moon Impact
• Sep 03 - 35th Anniversary (1976), Viking 2, Mars Landing
• Sep 04 - Asteroid 1430 Somalia Closest Approach To Earth (1.087 AU)
• Sep 05-09 -[Sep 03] 13th International Conference on Topics in Astroparticle and Underground Physics (TAUP 2011), Munich, Germany
• Sep 06 - Asteroid 2008 EK1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.084 AU)
• Sep 06 - 15th Anniversary (1996), Galileo, Ganymede 2 Encounter
• Sep 08 - GRAIL Delta 2 Heavy Launch
• Sep 08 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #289 (OTM-289)
• Sep 08 -[Sep 02] 45th Anniversary (1966), 1st Star Trek Episode on TV
• Sep 11-17 -[Sep 02] Conference: Extreme Solar Systems II, Moran, Wyoming
• Sep 12 -[Sep 02] Cassini, Titan Flyby
• Sep 12 -[Sep 03] Asteroid 12818 Tomhanks Closest Approach To Earth (1.622 AU)
• Sep 12 -[Sep 03] Asteroid 1268 Libya Closest Approach To Earth (3.196 AU)
• Sep 12 -[Sep 03] 45th Anniversary (1966), Gemini 11 Launch (Charles Conrad and Richard Gordon)
• Sep 13 -[Sep 04] Cassini, Distant Flyby of Pandora, Enceladus & Janus
• Sep 13 -[Sep 04] Asteroid 2967 Vladisvyat Occults HIP 118081 (6.5 Magnitude Star)
• Sep 13 -[Sep 05] Asteroid 10792 Ecuador Closest Approach To Earth (1.803 AU)
• Sep 14 -[Sep 05] Cassini, Distant Flyby of Methone, Pallene & Telesto
• Sep 14 -[Sep 06] Asteroid 3949 Mach Closest Approach To Earth (1.274 AU)
• Sep 15 -[Sep 06] Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #290 (OTM-290)
• Sep 15 -[Sep 07] 20th Anniversary (1991), UARS Launch from Space Shuttle Discovery
• Sep 16 -[Sep 07] Cassini, Distant Flyby of Hyperion
• Sep 16 -[Sep 08] Asteroid 1991 TF3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.086 AU)
• Sep 17 -[Sep 08] Asteroid 1 Ceres At Opposition (7.6 Magnitude)
• Sep 17 -[Sep 09] Asteroid 1 Ceres Closest Approach To Earth (1.989 AU)
• Sep 18 -[Sep 09] Asteroid 2 Pallas Occults TYC 1056-02803-1 (11.3 Magnitude Star)

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

baalke@zagami.jpl.nasa.gov