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The Space Calendar covers space-related activities and anniversaries for 1999. This Calendar is compiled and maintained by Ron Baalke. Please send any updates or corrections to ron@jpl.nasa.gov.

January 1999

Jan 01 - Asteroid 6053 (1993 BW3) Closest Approach To Earth (0.585 AU)
Jan 02 - Asteroid 1998 YR11 Near-Earth Flyby (0.344 AU)
Jan 02 - Asteroid 2062 Aten Closest Approach To Earth (1.027 AU)
Jan 02 - Asteroid 3892 Dezso Closest Approach To Earth (1.883 AU)
Jan 02 - 40th Anniversary (1959), Luna 1 Launch (1st Moon Mission)
Jan 03 - Mars Polar Lander/ Deep Space 2 Delta 2 Launch, Successful
Jan 03 - NEAR, Rendezvous Maneuver, Successful
Jan 03 - Quadrantids Meteor Shower Peak
Jan 03 - Asteroid 7553 (1981 FG) Closest Approach To Earth (1.256 AU)
Jan 03 - Asteroid 5828 (1991 AM) Closest Approach To Earth (1.934 AU)
Jan 04 - Earth at Perihelion (0.983 AU from Sun)
Jan 04-08 - National Radio Science Meeting, Boulder, Colorado
Jan 05 - Venus Passes 1.7 Degrees From Neptune
Jan 05 - 30th Anniversary (1969), Venera 5 Launch (Soviet Venus Lander)
Jan 05-09 - 193rd Meeting Of The American Astronomical Society (AAS), Austin, Texas
Jan 06 - Asteroid 313 Chaldaea Occults 59 Orionis (6.0 Magnitude Star)
Jan 07 - Asteroid 6239 Minos Near-Earth Flyby (0.386 AU)
Jan 07 - Asteroid 1998 XQ16 Near-Earth Flyby (0.395 AU)
Jan 07 - Asteroid 7614 (1996 EA) Closest Approach To Earth (1.468 AU)
Jan 07-14 - Conference On Inspirations Of Astronomical Phenomena, Island Republic of Malta
Jan 08 - Asteroid 1998 WS Closest Approach To Earth (0.887 AU)
Jan 09 - Cassini At Opposition
Jan 09 - Asteroid 389 Industria At Opposition (11.0 Magnitude)
Jan 09 - Asteroid 5261 Eureka Closest Approach To Earth (0.700 AU)
Jan 10 - Comet C/1998 X1 (ODAS) Closest Approach To Earth (1.716 AU)
Jan 10 - Asteroid 4775 Hansen Closest Approach To Earth (1.857 AU)
Jan 10 - 30th Anniversary (1969), Venera 6 Launch (Soviet Venus Lander)
Jan 11 - Comet Tsuchinshan 2 Closest Approach to Earth (0.875 AU)
Jan 11 - Comet P/1998 U3 (Jager) Closest Approach To Earth (1.262 AU)
Jan 11 - Asteroid 1998 XR16 Near-Earth Flyby (0.161 AU)
Jan 11 - Comet C/1198 W3 (LINEAR) Closest Approach To Earth (3.926 AU)
Jan 11-14 - 1st Princeton-PUC Workshop On Astrophysics, Pucon, Chile
Jan 11-15 - Chapman Conference On Magnetospheric Current Systems, Kono, Hawaii
Jan 12 - Asteroid 1998 YW5 Near-Earth Flyby (0.238 AU)
Jan 12 - Asteroid 1991 BB Closest Approach To Earth (1.171 AU)
Jan 12 - Asteroid 7546 (1979 MB4) Closest Approach To Earth (1.508 AU)
Jan 12 - Asteroid 7451 (1978 PU2) Closest Approach To Earth (2.084 AU)
Jan 12 - Technical Workshop On Internet Protocols Over Satellite, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Jan 13 - Venus Passes 0.9 Degrees From Uranus
Jan 13 - Mars Occults 139407 (7.1 Magnitude Star)
Jan 13 - Comet Harrington-Abell Closest Approach To Earth (0.802 AU)
Jan 13 - Olin Wilson's 90th Birthday (1909)
Jan 14 - Unveiling Of Mars Millennium Project, Washington DC
Jan 14-18 - 3rd Annual Highlands Stargaze, Okeechobee, Florida
Jan 15 - Asteroid 1999 AF4 Near-Earth Flyby (0.198 AU)
Jan 15 - Asteroid 2938 Hopi Closest Approach To Earth (2.343 AU)
Jan 15 - Kuiper Belt Object 1997 CU29 at Opposition (43.808 AU - 23.0 Magnitude)
Jan 16 - Asteroid 1999 CV8 Near-Earth Flyby (0.171 AU)
Jan 16 - Asteroid 3849 Incidentia Closest Approach To Earth (1.385 AU)
Jan 16 - Asteroid 196 Philomela At Opposition (11.0 Magnitude)
Jan 16 - 30th Anniversary (1969), 1st Manned Vehicle Docking & 1st Crew Exchange (Soyuz 4 & 5)
Jan 17 - Asteroid 1999 AO10 Near-Earth Flyby (0.023 AU)
Jan 17 - Kuiper Belt Object 1997 CS29 at Opposition (42.619 AU - 21.4 Magnitude)
Jan 18 - Comet C/1998 W1 (Spahr) Perihelion (1.584 AU)
Jan 18 - Asteroid 6618 (1936 SO) Closest Approach To Earth (0.898 AU)
Jan 18 - Asteroid 6976 (1993 KD2) Closest Approach To Earth (1.618 AU)
Jan 18-22 - European Symposium On Atmospheric Measurements From Space, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Jan 19 - Asteroid 1991 VE Near-Earth Flyby (0.157 AU)
Jan 20 - NEAR Cleanup Burn, Successful
Jan 20 - Asteroid 1999 AM10 Near-Earth Flyby (0.084 AU)
Jan 20 - Asteroid 1998 YQ11 Closest Approach To Earth (0.490 AU)
Jan 21 - Mars Polar Lander, Trajectory Correction Maneuver #1 (TCM-1), Successful
Jan 21 - CAPER Launch (NASA Sounding Rocket), Successful
Jan 21 - Asteroid 4956 Noymer Closest Approach To Earth (1.625 AU)
Jan 21 - Kuiper Belt Object 1997 CW29 at Opposition (41.495 AU - 22.8 Magnitude)
Jan 21 - Mars Sample Return Lecture, Pasadena, California
Jan 22 - Asteroid 103 Hera At Opposition
Jan 23 - Asteroid 1999 BL33 Near-Earth Flyby (0.277 AU)
Jan 23 - Asteroid 5131 (1990 BG) Closest Approach To Earth (0.803)
Jan 24 - Comet C/1998 M5 (LINEAR) Perihelion (1.747 AU)
Jan 24 - Asteroid 349 Dembowska Occults PPM 128176 (10.6 Magnitude Star)
Jan 25 - Comet P/1998 X2 (Bowell-Skiff) Closest Approach To Earth (1.329 AU)
Jan 25 - Asteroid 1998 YF27 Closest Approach To Earth (0.595 AU)
Jan 25 - 5th Anniversary (1994), Clementine Launch (Moon Orbiter)
Jan 25 - 35th Anniversary (1963), Echo 2 Launch, 1st Joint US-USSR Program
Jan 26 - ROCSAT Athena 1 Launch, Successful
Jan 26-29 - Workshops On Advanced Applied Research Into Space Utilization, Japan
Jan 27 - Mercury Passes 2.2 Degrees From Neptune
Jan 27 - Comet Harrington-Abell Perihelion (1.758 AU)
Jan 27 - Asteroid 234 Barbara Occults PPM 150800 (8.9 Magnitude Star)
Jan 27-28 - Harsh Environments Initiative Workshop, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Jan 28 - Asteroid 1991 VB Closest Approach To Earth (1.218 AU)
Jan 28-29 - Workshop On X-Ray Interferometry, Boulder, Colorado
Jan 29 - Galileo, Orbital Trim Maneuver #59 (OTM-59)
Jan 29 - Comet C/1999 A1 (Tilbrook) Perihelion (0.733 AU)
Jan 29 - 10th Anniversary (1989), Phobos 2 Mars Orbit Insertion
Jan 29-31 - Pritzker Symposium On The Status Of Inflationary Cosmology, Chicago, Illinois
Jan 31 - Penumbral Lunar Eclipse
Jan 31 - Asteroid 6324 (1991 DN1) Closest Approach To Earth (1.225 AU)
Jan 31 - Asteroid 3269 Vibert-Douglas Closest Approach To Earth (1.810 AU)
Jan 31-Feb 04 - Space Technology & Applications International Forum (STAIF 99), Albuquerque, New Mexico

February 1999

Feb 01 - Galileo, Europa 19 Flyby
Feb 01 - Asteroid 4503 Cleobulus Near-Earth Flyby (0.344 AU)
Feb 01 - Asteroid 1999 BY9 Closest Approach To Earth (0.500 AU)
Feb 01 - Asteroid 6050 (1992 AE) Closest Approach To Earth (1.528 AU)
Feb 01 - Asteroid 5469 (1988 BK4) Closest Approach To Earth (1.882 AU)
Feb 01-03 - Pritzker Workship On The Status Of Inflationary Cosmology, Chicago, Illinois
Feb 01-05 - International Symposium On Mars Exploration Program & Sample Return Missions, Paris, France
Feb 01-05 - Relativistic Cosomology Conference, Cape Town, South Africa
Feb 01-05 - 2nd ICRA Network Workshop: The Chaotic Universe, Rome, Italy
Feb 02 - Mercury Passes 1.5 Degrees From Uranus
Feb 02 - Asteroid 1999 CS3 Closest Approach To Earth (0.463 AU)
Feb 03 - Asteroid 1999 CG9 Near-Earth Flyby (0.023 AU)
Feb 03 - Asteroid 1994 AB1 Closest Approach To Earth (1.274 AU)
Feb 03 - 5th Anniversary (1994), STS-60 Launch (Discovery), 1st Russian Cosmonaut on Space Shuttle, Wake Shield Facility
Feb 03 - 5th Anniversary (1994), Maiden Flight of NASDA H-2 Launch Vehicle (Japan)
Feb 03 - 15th Anniversary (1984), STS-41B Launch (Challenger), 1st Untethered Spacewalk (Manned Maneuvering Unit)
Feb 04 - Mars Global Surveyor Completes Aerobraking
Feb 04 - Cassini, Trajectory Correction Maneuver #6 (TCM-6), Successful
Feb 04 - Znamya 2.5 Deployed
Feb 04 - Asteroid 1999 CQ2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.0068 AU)
Feb 04 - Asteroid 9671 (1997 TU9) Closest Approach To Earth (1.020 AU)
Feb 04 - Asteroid 3988 (1986 LA) Closest Approach To Earth (1.081 AU)
Feb 04 - Asteroid 3416 Dorrit Closest Approach To Earth (1.432 AU)
Feb 04 - Kuiper Belt Object 1995 DB2 at Opposition (39.299 AU - 23.5 Magnitude)
Feb 05 - Galileo, Orbital Trim Maneuver #60 (OTM-60)
Feb 05 - Asteroid 4 Vesta At Opposition (6.2 Magnitude)
Feb 05 - Asteroid 9969 (1992 KD) At Opposition
Feb 05 - Kuiper Belt Object 1995 DA2 at Opposition (33.070 AU - 23.3 Magnitude)
Feb 05 - Kuiper Belt Object 1997 CT29 at Opposition (43.893 AU - 21.5 Magnitude)
Feb 05 - 25th Anniversary (1974), Mariner 10 Venus Flyby
Feb 06 - 2nd Test Flight Of The X-38 (V-131), Successful
Feb 06 - Asteroid 1999 CS45 Closest Approach To Earth (0.823 AU)
Feb 06 - Asteroid 2061 Anza Closest Approach To Earth (1.867 AU)
Feb 06 - 40th Anniversary (1959), 1st Titan Launch
Feb 07 - STARDUST Delta 2 Launch (Comet Wild-2 Sample Return Mission), Successful
Feb 07 - Kuiper Belt Object 1997 CR29 at Opposition (40.604 AU - 22.7 Magnitude)
Feb 07-10 - 1999 AAS/AIAA Space Flight Mechanics Meeting, Colorado
Feb 08 - Globalstar Soyuz Launch, Successful
Feb 08 - Kuiper Belt Object 1997 CV29 at Opposition (39.590 AU - 23.1 Magnitude)
Feb 08 - 5th Anniversary (1994), Maiden Flight of CZ-3A Launcher (China)
Feb 08-11 - AVIRIS Earth Science And Applications Workshop, Pasadena, California
Feb 08-13 - Symposium On Dynamics Of The Magnetosphere and Its Coupling to the Ionosphere On Multiple Scales Using INTERBALL, ISTP and Ground-Based Observations, Zvenigorod, Russia
Feb 09 - Comet C/1998 W3 (LINEAR) Perihelion (4.863 AU)
Feb 09-11 - Conference On Electronics For Extreme Environments, Pasadena, California
Feb 10 - Asteroid 1999 CT3 Closest Approach To Earth (0.468 AU)
Feb 10 - Asteroid 4596 (1981 QB) Closest Approach To Earth (1.131 AU)
Feb 10 - Kuiper Belt Object 1999 DA At Opposition (45.086 AU - 24.5 Magnitude)
Feb 10 - 25th Anniversary (1974), Mars 4 Mars Flyby (Soviet Union)
Feb 11 - Pluto Crosses Neptune's Orbit And Becomes the Farthest Planet From the Sun
Feb 11 - Asteroid 19 Fortuna At Opposition (10.2 Magnitude)
Feb 11 - Asteroid 1999 AQ10 Near-Earth Flyby (0.100 AU)
Feb 11 - Asteroid 1999 AN10 Near-Earth Flyby (0.195 AU)
Feb 11-12 - In Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU III) Technical Interchange Meeting, Denver, Colorado
Feb 12 - Asteroid 1999 CT8 Closest Approach To Earth (0.433 AU)
Feb 12 - 25th Anniversary (1974), Mars 5 Mars Flyby (Soviet Union)
Feb 14 - Asteroid 10 Hygiea At Opposition (9.7 Magnitude)
Feb 15 - JCSat 6 Atlas IIAS Launch, Successful
Feb 15 - Telstar-6 Proton Launch, Successful
Feb 15 - Galileo Galilei's 435th Birthday (1564)
Feb 16 - Annular Eclipse, Visible From Central Australia
Feb 16 - Asteroid 11 Parthenope At Opposition (10.0 Magnitude)
Feb 16 - Asteroid 40 Harmonia At Opposition (9.8 Magnitude)
Feb 16 - Chinese New Year
Feb 16 - Asteroid 1999 BE8 Closest Approach To Earth (0.612 AU)
Feb 17 - Moon Occults Mercury
Feb 17 - Asteroid 156 Xanthippe At Opposition
Feb 17 - Asteroid 6322 (1991 CQ) Closest Approach To Earth (0.525 AU)
Feb 17 - Asteroid 2059 Baboquivari Closest Approach To Earth (1.908 AU)
Feb 17 - Asteroid 4384 (1990 AA) Closest Approach To Earth (2.017 AU)
Feb 17-19 - AAS Workshop On Human Space Flight, Houston, Texas
Feb 18 - Comet C/1999 D1 (Hermann) Perihelion (1.813 AU)
Feb 18 - Asteroid 77 Frigga Occults ACT 1391 0781 (9.8 Magnitude Star)
Feb 18 - Asteroid 5863 Tara Closest Approach To Earth (1.944 AU)
Feb 18 - Sixth Annual International Space Station Satellite Teleconference
Feb 18-20 - 14th International Workshop On Nonlinear Astronomy and Physics, Gainesville, Florida
Feb 19 - Asteroid 1999 EO3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.267 AU)
Feb 20 - TM-29 Soyuz Launch (Russia), Successful
Feb 21 - Asteroid 1998 QS52 Closest Approach To Earth (0.699 AU)
Feb 21 - Asteroid 5620 (1990 OA) Closest Approach To Earth (1.640 AU)
Feb 22-26 - Workshop On Small Missions For Astrophysics, Los Alamos, New Mexico
Feb 23 - Argos/ Sunsat/ Orsted Delta 2 Launch, Successful
Feb 23 - Moon Occults Aldebaran
Feb 23 - Venus Passes 0.1 Degrees From Jupiter
Feb 23 - Asteroid 1999 DB7 Near-Earth Flyby (0.033 AU)
Feb 23 - Asteroid 1999 CW8 Near-Earth Flyby (0.289 AU)
Feb 23 - Asteroid 5736 Sanford Closest Approach To Earth (2.098 AU)
Feb 24 - Asteroid 89 Julia At Opposition
Feb 24 - Asteroid 1999 BJ8 Near-Earth Flyby (0.036 AU)
Feb 24 - Asteroid 1999 CU3 Closest Approach To Earth (0.709 AU)
Feb 24 - Asteorid 8034 (1992 LR) Closest Approach To Earth (1.417 AU)
Feb 24 - 20th Anniversary (1979), Solwind P78-1 Launch
Feb 25 - Asteroid 1992 BF Near-Earth Flyby (0.365 AU)
Feb 25 - Asteroid 1997 DF Closest Approach To Earth (0.611 AU)
Feb 25 - Sixth Annual International Space Station Satellite Teleconference
Feb 25 - 30th Anniversary (1969), Mariner 6 Launch (Mars Flyby Mission)
Feb 25 - 50th Anniversary (1949), WAC Corporal Launch
Feb 26 - Arabsat 3A/ Skynet 4E Ariane 4 Launch, Successful
Feb 27 - Asteroid 1992 BL2 Closest Approach To Earth (1.268 AU)
Feb 27 - Kuiper Belt Object 1997 CQ29 at Opposition (40.142 AU - 22.6 Magnitude)
Feb 28 - Soyuz Return To Earth, Successful
Feb 28 - Raduga-1 Proton Launch (Russia), Successful
Feb 28 - Mercury at Perihelion
Feb 28 - Kuiper Belt Object 1995 DC2 at Opposition (40.172 AU - 23.5 Magnitude)
Feb 28 - 40th Anniversary (1959), Discoverer 1 Launch (1st Polar Orbiter)

March 1999

Mar 01 - Moon Occults Regulus
Mar 01 - Asteroid 1999 DJ3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.284 AU)
Mar 01-05 - VLT Opening Symposium, Antofagasta, Chile
Mar 02 - Blue Moon
Mar 02 - Asteroid 1999 CV3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.214 AU)
Mar 02 - Asteroid 1998 XB Near-Earth Flyby (0.343 AU)
Mar 02-03 - 11th Annual High-Tech Small Business Development Procurement Conference, City Of Industry, California
Mar 03 - Mercury At Its Greatest Eastern Elongation (18 Degrees)
Mar 03 - Asteroid 349 Dembowska At Opposition (10.3 Magnitude)
Mar 03 - Asteroid 1999 DY2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.112 AU)
Mar 03 - Asteroid 1996 EO Closest Approach To Earth (0.455 AU)
Mar 03 - 30th Anniversary (1969), Apollo 9 Launch
Mar 03 - 40th Anniversary (1959), Pioneer 4 Launch (1st US Moon Flyby)
Mar 03 - Nautical Almanac Office's 150th Birthday (1849)
Mar 04 - Wide Field Infrared Explorer (WIRE) Pegasus XL Launch, Successful Launch
Mar 04 - Mars Climate Orbiter, Trajectory Correction Maneuver #2 (TCM-2), Successful
Mar 04 - First Flight Of X-38 (V-132), Successful
Mar 04 - Asteroid 1998 VD35 Near-Earth Flyby (0.169 AU)
Mar 04 - Comet P/1998 U4 (Spahr) Perihelion (3.826 AU)
Mar 04-06 - International Workship On Treasure-Hunting In Astronomical Plates Archives, Sonneberg, Germany
Mar 05 - Kuiper Belt Object 1999 CY118 At Opposition (37.571 AU - 24.0 Magnitude)
Mar 05 - Kuiper Belt Object 1994 ES2 at Opposition (44.307 AU - 24.0 Magnitude)
Mar 05 - 20th Anniversary (1979), Voyager 1 Flyby of Jupiter
Mar 05-07 - Contact XVI, Santa Clara, California
Mar 06 - Asteroid 1999 FA Near-Earth Flyby (0.011 AU)
Mar 06 - Asteroid 1998 QR52 Near-Earth Flyby (0.283 AU)
Mar 06 - Kuiper Belt Object 1999 CZ118 At Opposition (47.793 AU - 24.6 Magnitude)
Mar 07 - Comet P/1998 U3 (Jager) Perihelion (2.153 AU)
Mar 07 - Asteroid 1999 FQ10 Near-Earth Flyby (0.049 AU)
Mar 07 - Asteroid 1999 FQ5 Closest Approach To Earth (0.713 AU)
Mar 07 - Asteroid 7962 (1994 WG3) Closest Approach To Earth (1.661 AU)
Mar 07-13 - Space Week
Mar 08 - Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Mapping Begins
Mar 08 - WIRE Spacecraft Runs Out Of Hydrogen, Science Mission Ended
Mar 08 - Comet Tsuchinshan 2 Perihelion (1.771 AU)
Mar 08 - Kuiper Belt Object 1999 CB119 At Opposition (40.467 AU - 23.0 Magnitude)
Mar 08 - Kuiper Belt Object 1999 CW118 At Opposition (42.460 AU - 24.1 Magnitude)
Mar 08 - Kuiper Belt Object 1999 CA119 At Opposition (44.429 AU - 24.2 Magnitude)
Mar 09 - Comet Skiff-Kosai Perihelion (2.789 AU)
Mar 09 - Kuiper Belt Object 1999 CC119 At Opposition (43.446 AU - 23.3 Magnitude)
Mar 09 - 25th Anniversary (1974), Mars 7 Mars Flyby (Soviet Union)
Mar 10 - Comet C/1999 D1 (Hermann) Closest Approach To Earth (0.851 AU)
Mar 10 - Comet C/1998 M5 (LINEAR) Closest Approach To Earth (1.534 AU)
Mar 10 - Kuiper Belt Object 1998 FS144 At Opposition (40.960 AU - 22.9 Magnitude)
Mar 10-11 - Spacelab Accomplishments Forum, Washington DC
Mar 10-12 - Workshop On Optical And Infrared Spectroscopy Of Circumstellar Matter, Tautenburg, Germany
Mar 11 - New Martian Meteorite Found
Mar 12 - Asteroid 1864 Daedalus Closest Approach To Earth (1.331 AU)
Mar 12 - Kuiper Belt Object 1999 CD119 At Opposition (44.022 AU - 23.7 Magnitude)
Mar 12 - 25th Anniversary (1974), Mars 6 Mars Flyby/Landing (Soviet Union)
Mar 13 - Asteroid 1999 FR5 Near-Earth Flyby (0.009 AU)
Mar 13 - Kuiper Belt Object 1999 CX118 At Opposition (43.706 AU - 23.3 Magnitude)
Mar 13-17 - 8th UN/ESA Workshop On Basic Space Science: Science Exploration, Mafraq, Jordan
Mar 14 - Globalstar Soyuz Launch, Successful
Mar 14 - Asteroid 60 Echo At Opposition (10.4 Magnitude)
Mar 14 - Asteroid 1998 YP11 Near-Earth Flyby (0.266 AU)
Mar 14 - Asteroid 5378 Ellyett Closest Approach To Earth (0.996 AU)
Mar 14 - Kuiper Belt Object 1999 CE119 At Opposition (28.749 AU - 23.1 Magnitude)
Mar 14 - Albert Einstein's 120th Birthday (1879)
Mar 15 - Mars Polar Lander, Trajectory Correction Maneuver #2 (TCM-2), Successful
Mar 15 - Asteroid 1999 DJ4 Near-Earth Flyby (0.142 AU)
Mar 15-19 - 30th Lunar And Planetary Science Conference, Houston, Texas
Mar 16 - Asteroid 1998 FH12 Closest Approach To Earth (0.649 AU)
Mar 16 - Asteroid 7947 Toland Closest Approach To Earth (1.194 AU)
Mar 16 - Asteroid 1993 DQ1 Closest Approach To Earth (1.424 AU)
Mar 16 - Kuiper Belt Object 1999 CW131 At Opposition (42.714 AU - 24.5 Magnitude)
Mar 16-18 - International Symposium On Atmospheric Reentry Vehicles And Systems, Arcachon, France
Mar 17 - Comet Shoemaker 1 Perihelion (1.979 AU)
Mar 17 - Asteroid 4008 Corbin Closest Approach To Earth (1.010 AU)
Mar 17 - Asteroid 587 Hypsipyle Closest Approach To Earth (1.067 AU)
Mar 17 - Asteroid 4730 (1980 XZ) Closest Approach To Earth (2.197 AU)
Mar 17-18 - 37th Goddard Memorial Symposium, Greenbelt, Maryland
Mar 18 - Galileo, Orbital Trim Maneuver #61 (OTM-61)
Mar 18 - Asteroid 6047 (1991 TB1) Near-Earth Flyby (0.1632 AU)
Mar 18 - Asteroid 6446 Lomberg Closest Approach To Earth (1.726 AU)
Mar 19 - Venus Passes 2.4 Degrees From Saturn
Mar 19 - Asteroid 1999 FR19 Near-Earth Flyby (0.043 AU)
Mar 19 - Asteroid 1999 EE5 Near-Earth Flyby (0.233 AU)
Mar 19-22 - 7th Annual South Pacific Star Party, Wiruna, Australia
Mar 20 - Asiasat-3S Proton Launch, Successful
Mar 20 - Asteroid 140 Siwa At Opposition
Mar 20-21 - 3rd Meeting of Amateur Astronomy, Marinha Granda, Portugal
Mar 21 - Astra-1H Proton Launch
Mar 21 - Vernal Equinox, 01:46 UT
Mar 21 - Asteroid 39 Laetitia At Opposition (10.4 Magnitude)
Mar 21 - Comet Mueller 3 Perihelion (3.010 AU)
Mar 21 - Asteroid 1999 GT3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.302 AU)
Mar 21 - Asteroid 7079 (1986 RR) Closest Approach To Earth (1.813 AU)
Mar 21 - Kuiper Belt Object 1994 GV9 at Opposition (41.230 AU - 23.2 Magnitude)
Mar 22 - Galileo Enters Solar Conjunction
Mar 22 - Moon Occults Aldebaran
Mar 22 - Asteroid 1999 GS3 Closest Approach To Earth (0.750 AU)
Mar 22 - 2nd International Conference on Micro/Nanotechnology For Space Applications, Los Angeles, California
Mar 22 - F.W.A. Argelander's 200th Birthday (1799)
Mar 22-24 - Workshop On Helioseismology At Moderate And High Spherical Harmonic Degree, Tuscon, Arizona
Mar 23 - Asteroid 120 Lachesis Occults 9.9 Magnitude Star
Mar 24 - Asteroid 5224 Abbe Closest Approach To Earth (1.251 AU)
Mar 24 - Symposium On Space Exploration At The Millennium, Washington DC
Mar 24-25 - Ultra Lightweight Space Optics Challenge Workshop, Napa, California
Mar 25 - Asteroid 12 Victoria At Opposition (10.4 Magnitude)
Mar 25 - Comet Shoemaker-Levy 8 Closest Approach To Earth (2.083 AU)
Mar 25 - Asteroid 1999 CF9 Near-Earth Flyby (0.148 AU)
Mar 26 - Asteroid 10115 (1992 SK) Near-Earth Flyby (0.0560 AU)
Mar 27 - Inaugural Sea Launch Zenit from Launch Platform, Successful
Mar 27 - Asteroid 1999 GS6 Near-Earth Flyby (0.095 AU)
Mar 27 - Asteroid 7161 (1982 UY10) Closest Approach To Earth (1.875 AU)
Mar 27 - Asteroid 5983 Praxiteles Closest Approach To Earth (2.028 AU)
Mar 27 - 30th Anniversary (1969), Mariner 7 Launch (Mars Flyby Mission)
Mar 28 - European Daylight Savings - Set Clock Ahead 1 Hour
Mar 28 - Mars Global Surveyor High Gain Antenna Deployment, Successful
Mar 28 - Asteroid 37 Fides At Opposition (10.8 Magnitude)
Mar 28 - Asteroid 1999 EF5 Near-Earth Flyby (0.279 AU)
Mar 28 - Asteroid 5349 Paulharris Closest Approach To Earth (1.899 AU)
Mar 28 - Asteroid 7280 Bergengruen Closest Approach To Earth (2.116 AU)
Mar 28 - Pierre Simon Laplace's 250th Birthday (1749)
Mar 29 - Asteroid 12 Victoria At Opposition
Mar 29 - Asteroid 1994 RH Closest Approach To Earth (1.741 AU)
Mar 29 - Cassini Lecture, Los Angeles, California
Mar 29 - 25th Anniversary (1974), Mariner 10, 1st Mercury Flyby
Mar 29-Apr 01 - International Conference On Imaging The Universe In Three Dimensions, Walnut Creek, California
Mar 30 - Comet C/1999 E1 (Li) Perihelion (4.055 AU)
Mar 31 - Asteroid 8 Flora At Opposition (9.7 Magnitude)
Mar 31 - Blue Moon
Mar 31 - Asteroid 7364 (1996 KS) Closest Approach To Earth (1.446 AU)

April 1999

Apr 01 - STARDUST WebChat
Apr 01 - Asteroid 1863 Antinous Near-Earth Flyby (0.1894 AU)
Apr 01 - Asteroid 1999 FJ21 Near-Earth Flyby (0.333 AU)
Apr 01 - Asteroid 6268 Versailles Closest Approach To Earth (1.490 AU)
Apr 01 - Asteroid 9400 (1994 TW1) Closest Approach To Earth (1.637 AU)
Apr 02 - Progress M-41 Launch (Russia), Successful
Apr 02 - Insat-2E Ariane 4 Launch, Successful
Apr 02 - Asteroid 5869 Tanith Closest Approach To Earth (0.776 AU)
Apr 02 - 40th Anniversary (1959), Selection Of The Mercury 7 Astronauts
Apr 03 - Comet Schorr Perihelion (2.847 AU)
Apr 03 - Asteroid 121 Hermione Occults SAO 119282 (7.6 Magnitude Star)
Apr 03 - Asteroid 1996 FR3 Closest Approach To Earth (0.511 AU)
Apr 04 - Easter Sunday
Apr 04 - Daylight Savings - Set Clock Ahead 1 Hour (North America)
Apr 04 - Asteroid 9162 (1987 OA) Closest Approach To Earth (1.031 AU)
Apr 05 - Asteroid 1999 GY5 Near-Earth FLyby (0.073 AU)
Apr 05-08 - 1999 National Space Symposium, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Apr 06 - Comet Singer Brewster Perihelion (2.032 AU)
Apr 06 - Asteroid 1999 FK21 Near-Earth Flyby (0.143 AU)
Apr 06 - Asteroid 6239 Minos Near-Earth Flyby (0.303 AU)
Apr 06-09 - International Workshop On Instrumentation At The ING: The Next Decade, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Apr 07 - Asteroid 1999 FQ19 Closest Approach To Earth (0.649 AU)
Apr 07 - Asteroid 5856 (1994 AL2) Closest Approach To Earth (1.934 AU)
Apr 07 - Kuiper Belt Object 1993 FW at Opposition (40.975 AU - 23.2 Magnitude)
Apr 07-09 - International Conference On Perspectives On Radio Astronomy, Amsterdan, The Netherlands
Apr 07-11 - 31st Annual National Congress on Aviation & Space Education, Orlando, Florida
Apr 08 - Cassini, Trajectory Correction Maneuver #7 (TCM-7)
Apr 08 - Asteroid 1991 GO Near-Earth Flyby (0.055 AU)
Apr 08 - Kuiper Belt Object 1995 HM5 at Opposition (31.060 AU - 23.0 Magntude)
Apr 08 - 35th Anniversary (1964), Gemini 1 Launch (Unmanned)
Apr 09 - Asteroid 1999 GU3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.030 AU)
Apr 09 - Asteroid 8039 (1993 RB16) Closest Approach To Earth (1.368 AU)
Apr 09 - DSP-19 Titan 4B Launch, Failed
Apr 09 - Asteroid 1981 Midas Closest Approach To Earth (0.490 AU)
Apr 09 - Asteroid 4237 Raushenbakh Closest Approach To Earth (1.891 AU)
Apr 10 - Galileo Exits Solar Conjunction
Apr 10 - Meteor Balloon Launch
Apr 10 - Moon Occults Neptune
Apr 10 - Kuiper Belt Object 1998 KD66 At Opposition (39.894 AU - 25.0 Magnitude)
Apr 10 - Kuiper Belt Object 1998 KE66 At Opposition (41.061 AU - 25.2 Magnitude)
Apr 10 - Kuiper Belt Object 1998 KG66 At Opposition (44.199 AU - 25.4 Magnitude)
Apr 11 - Moon Occults Uranus
Apr 11 - Venus Occults 76150 (7.7 Magnitude Star)
Apr 11 - Asteroid 6490 (1991 NR2) Closest Approach To Earth (2.005 AU)
Apr 11 - Kuiper Belt Object 1998 KF66 At Opposition (30.139 AU - 24.7 Magnitude)
Apr 12 - Eutelsat W3 Atlas 2AS Launch, Successful
Apr 12 - Cosmonauts' Day
Apr 12 - Asteroid 1580 Betulia Closest Approach To Earth (1.291 AU)
Apr 12 - Asteroid 7059 (1990 SK3) Closest Approach To Earth (1.318 AU)
Apr 12 - 150th Anniversary (1849), de Gasparis' Discovery of Asteroid Hygiea
Apr 12-15 - Leonid MAC Workshop, Moffett Field, California
Apr 12-15 - 1999 High Energy Astrophysics Division Meeting, Charleston, South Carolina
Apr 12-16 - Cataclysmic Variables: A 60th Birthday Symposium In Honor Of Brian Warner, Oxford, United Kingdom
Apr 13 - Comet C/1999 G2 (SOHO) Perihelion (0.0049 AU)
Apr 13 - Asteroid 21 Lutetia At Opposition (10.8 Magnitude)
Apr 13 - Asteroid 1999 GR6 Near-Earth Flyby (0.236 AU)
Apr 13 - Asteroid 1999 HW1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.362 AU)
Apr 13-14 - Workshop On Advanced Life Support, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Apr 14 - Moon Occults Mercury
Apr 14 - Asteroid 815 Coppelia Closest Approach To Earth (1.650 AU)
Apr 14 - Asteroid 10370 (1995 DW2) At Opposition (18.067 AU - 20.8 Magnitude)
Apr 14 - Christian Huygens' 370th Birthday (1629)
Apr 14-16 - Astrophysical Dynamics Conference, Evora, Portugal
Apr 15 - Landsat 7 Delta 2 Launch, Successful
Apr 15 - Globalstar Soyuz Launch, Successful
Apr 15 - Asteroid 1999 HC1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.019 AU)
Apr 15 - Astrobiology Lecture, Pasadena, California
Apr 15-17 - Oceanic Impacts - Mechanisms and Environmental Perturbations, Bremerhaven, Germany
Apr 16 - Mir Spacewalk, Successfull
Apr 16 - Mercury at Greatest Western Elongation (27.5 Degrees)
Apr 16 - Asteroid 1999 GJ2 Closest Apporach To Earth (0.732 AU)
Apr 16 - Kuiper Belt Object 1994 EV3 at Opposition (43.701 AU - 23.5 Magnitude)
Apr 16 - Astrobiology Lecture, Pasadena, California
Apr 16 - "Water in the Solar System" Educators' Symposium
Apr 17 - Asteroid 1999 FN19 Near-Earth Flyby (0.021 AU)
Apr 17-18 - International Occultation Timing Association (IOTA) Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado
Apr 18 - Asteroid 9969 (1992 KD) Closest Approach To Earth (1.073 AU)
Apr 19 - Comet C/1999 H2 (SOHO) Perihelion (0.0051 AU)
Apr 19 - Asteroid 1999 JR6 Closest Approach To Earth (0.657 AU)
Apr 19-21 - IAF Symposium: Novel Concepts For Smaller, Faster & Better Missions, Redondo Beach, California
Apr 19-22 - 17th Annual Space Power Workshop, Long Beach, California
Apr 19-23 - Space Weather Week, Boulder, Colorado
Apr 19-23 - 24th General Assembly Of The European Geophysical Society, The Hague, The Netherlands
Apr 20 - Asteroid 9 Metis At Opposition (9.6 Magnitude)
Apr 20 - Asteroid 124 Alkeste At Opposition (11.0 Magnitude)
Apr 20 - Venus at Perihelion
Apr 20-21 - NGST Dectector Workshop, Baltimore, Maryland
Apr 21 - UoSat12 Dnepr Launch (Russia), Successful
Apr 21 - Asteroid 1999 FP59 Closest Approach To Earth (0.834 AU)
Apr 21 - Asteroid 3103 Eger Closest Approach To Earth (1.021 AU)
Apr 21-23 - International Symposium Of Space Travel, Bremen, Germany
Apr 22 - Earth Day
Apr 22 - Lyrids Meteor Shower Peak
Apr 22 - Asteroid 1999 JD6 Near-Earth Flyby (0.375 AU)
Apr 22 - Asteroid 2000 Herschel Closest Approach To Earth (2.059 AU)
Apr 23-24 - Minor Planet Astrometry And Photometry Workshop, Flagstaff, Arizona
Apr 23-24 - Space Access '99, Phoenix, Arizona
Apr 24 - Mars At Opposition
Apr 25-28 - AIAA International Space Station Service Vehicles Conference, Houston, Texas
Apr 25-29 - Workshop On Spectrophotometric Dating Of Stars And Galaxies, Annapolis, Maryland
Apr 26 - Comet Shoemaker-Levy 6 Closest Approach To Earth (2.066 AU)
Apr 26 - Asteroid 6496 Kazuko Closest Approach To Earth (1.259 AU)
Apr 26 - Asteroid 1368 Numidia Closest Approach To Earth (1.450 AU)
Apr 26-28 - Workshop On Science With Minisat 01, Madrid, Spain
Apr 27 - IKONOS-1 Athena 2 Launch, Failed
Apr 27 - Comet C/1999 H4 (SOHO) Perihelion (0.0055 AU)
Apr 27 - Asteroid 1999 FP19 Near-Earth Flyby (0.242 AU)
Apr 27 - Kuiper Belt Object 1994 JQ1 at Opposition (41.9 AU - 23.3 Magnitude)
Apr 27-30 - 36th Space Congress, Cape Canaveral, Florida
Apr 27-30 - 6th Open Young Scientists Conference On Astronomy And Space Physics, Kyiv, Ukraine
Apr 27-30 - International Workshop On Global Picture Of Solar Eruptive Events, Greenbelt, Maryland
Apr 28 - Abrixas/ MegSat-0 Cosmos Launch, Successful
Apr 28 - Asteroid 1999 ED5 Near-Earth Flyby (0.214 AU)
Apr 28 - Asteroid 10302 (1989 ML) Near-Earth Flyby (0.2520 AU)
Apr 28 - Asteroid 4825 Ventura Closest Approach To Earth (1.582 AU)
Apr 28-30 - Workshop On Thermal Emission Spectroscopy And Analysis Of Dust, Disks, And Regoliths, Houston, Texas
Apr 29 - Asteroid 1998 MW5 Near-Earth Flyby (0.129 AU)
Apr 29 - Asteroid 1999 HY1 Closest Approach To Earth (0.417 AU)
Apr 29 - Explorer Workshop, College Park, Maryland
Apr 30 - Deadline For Name The Deep Space 2 Microprobes Contest
Apr 30 - Milstar-2 Titan 4B Launch, Failed
Apr 30 - Asteroid 88 Thisbe At Opposition (10.6 Magnitude)
Apr 30 - Asteroid 4601 Ludkewycz Closest Approach To Earth (1.492 AU)
Apr 30-May 01 - Symposium Of The Impact Of Antarctic Meteorites On Planetary Science, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

May 1999

May 01 - Mercury Passes 1.6 Degrees From Jupiter
May 01 - Asteroid 10563 (1993 WD) Near-Earth Flyby (0.379 AU)
May 01 - California Space Development Council Space Summit, Bakersfield, California
May 01 - 50th Anniversary (1949), Gerard Kuiper's Discovery of Nereid (Neptune Moon)
May 02 - Liberty Bell 7 Located In Atlantic Ocean
May 02 - Galileo, Orbital Trim Maneuver #62 (OTM-62)
May 02 - Comet Shoemaker-Levy 6 Perihelion (1.135 AU)
May 02 - Asteroid 1999 JU3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.289 AU)
May 02-05 - 4th IAA International Conference On Low-Cost Planetary Missions, Laurel, Maryland
May 03-05 - Global Air & Space '99, Arlington, Virginia
May 03-06 - Symposium On The Largest Explosions Since The Big Bang: Supernovae And Gamma Ray Bursts, Baltimore, Maryland
May 03-07 - 2nd EGS Alfven Conference On Auroral Particle Acceleration, Stockholm, Sweden
May 03-08 - International Workshop On Particles In Astrophyics And Cosmology, Valencia, Spain
May 04 - Orion F3 Delta 3 Launch, Failed
May 04 - Comet Forbes Perihelion (1.446 AU)
May 04 - Asteroid 387 Aquitania At Opposition (10.9 Magnitude)
May 04 - 10th Anniversary (1989), Magellan Launch (Venus Orbiter)
May 05 - Galileo, Callisto 20 Flyby, Successful
May 05 - Eta Aquarids Meteor Shower Peak
May 05 - Comet C/1999 H1 (Lee) Closest Approach To Earth (0.720 AU)
May 05 - Asteroid 6491 (1991 OA) Near-Earth Flyby (0.244 AU)
May 05 - Asteroid 10578 (1995 LH) Closest Approach To Earth (1.549 AU)
May 06 - Space Day
May 06 - Comet Faye Perihelion (1.657 AU)
May 06-07 - International Colloquium On Space Law, Perugia, Italy
May 07 - Moon Occults Neptune
May 07 - Asteroid 1999 KL1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.093 AU)
May 07 - Asteroid 5033 Mistral Closest Approach To Earth (1.828 AU)
May 08 - Moon Occults Uranus
May 08 - Comet C/1999 J1 (SOHO) Perihelion (0.0062 AU)
May 09 - Galileo, Orbital Trim Maneuver #63 (OTM-63)
May 09 - Asteroid 1998 SC15 Closest Approach To Earth (0.561 AU)
May 09 - Asteroid 1999 KV4 Closest Approach To Earth (0.853 AU)
May 09 - Asteroid 1999 HV1 Closest Approach To Earth (1.334 AU)
May 10 - Fengyun-1C/Shijian 5 Long March 4B Launch (China), Successful
May 10 - Comet C/1999 J4 (LINEAR) Closest Approach To Earth (3.577 AU)
May 10 - Asteroid 1991 JG1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.317 AU)
May 10 - Asteorid 1999 JS6 Near-Earth Flyby (0.390 AU)
May 10-11 - First World Summit On The Space Transportation Industry, Paris, France
May 10-12 - 22nd ESTEC Antenne Workshop On Antenna Measurements, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
May 11 - Asteroid 1999 JZ10 Near-Earth Flyby (0.069 AU)
May 11 - Asteroid 1999 DB2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.292 AU)
May 11 - Asteroid 7262 (1995 BX1) Closest Approach To Earth (0.992 AU)
May 11 - Asteroid 5646 (1990 TR) Closest Approach To Earth (1.449 AU)
May 11-13 - Leonid Meteroid Storm And Satellite Threat Conference, Manhatten Beach, California
May 12 - Asteroid 1999 FN53 Near-Earth Flyby (0.059 AU)
May 12 - Asteroid 4429 Chinmov Closest Approach To Earth (1.857 AU)
May 12-13 - Workshop On Electronic Packaging For Space Applications, Pasadena, California
May 12-15 - Middle Atlantic Planetarium Society (MAPS) Conference, Lancaster, Pennsylvania
May 12-16 - 1999 SIAM Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia
May 13 - Mercury Passes 0.6 Degrees From Saturn
May 13 - Asteroid 1999 HD1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.345 AU)
May 13 - Kuiper Belt Object 1998 HJ151 At Opposition (40.995 AU - 23.7 Magnitude)
May 13 - Kuiper Belt Object 1998 HP151 At Opposition (41.904 AU - 23.6 Magnitude)
May 14 - Comet P/1998 X2 (Bowell-Skiff) Perihelion (1.972 AU)
May 14 - Kuiper Belt Object 1998 HQ151 Closest Approach To Earth (27.395 AU - 23.3 Magnitude)
May 14 - Kuiper Belt Object 1998 HK151 At Opposition (29.368 AU - 22.3 Magnitude)
May 14 - Galileo Educators' Workshop: Life In The Solar System
May 15 - Comet C/1999 K4 (LINEAR) Closest Approach To Earth (0.466 AU)
May 16 - Comet C/1999 K4 (LINEAR) Perihelion (1.448 AU)
May 16 - Asteroid 1999 JU6 Near-Earth Flyby (0.269 AU)
May 16 - Asteroid 1999 GT6 Closest Approach To Earth (0.760 AU)
May 16 - 30th Anniversary (1969), Venera 5 Venus Impact
May 17 - Deadline For Solar System Ambassador Program
May 17 - Asteroid 1999 LK1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.074 AU)
May 17 - Asteroid 5277 (1988 DO) Closest Approach To Earth (1.388 AU)
May 17 - Asteroid 4578 Kurashiki Closest Approach To Earth (1.772 AU)
May 17 - Lecture On The Impacts Of Comets And Asteroids Upon The Earth, Los Angeles, California
May 17 - 30th Anniversary (1969), Venera 6 Venus Impact
May 17-21 - 6th Topical Seminar On Neutrino And Astro-Particle Physics, Pisa, Italy
May 17-23 - Astronomy Week
May 18 - Terriers/ Mublcom/ Pegasus XL Launch, Successful Launch
May 18 - Jupiter at Perihelion
May 18 - Asteroid 1994 AW1 Closest Approach To Earth (1.361 AU)
May 18 - Asteroid 8405 (1995 GO) At Opposition (7.985 AU - 18.5 Magnitude)
May 18 - 2060 Chiron at Oppositon (8.445 AU - 16.1 Magnitude)
May 18 - 30th Anniversary (1969), Apollo 10 Launch
May 18-19 - TABES '99: Technology For The Future, Huntsville, Alabama
May 19 - Asteroid 45 Eugenia Occults SAO 95562 (8.3 Magnitude Star)
May 19 - Asteroid 17 Thetis Occults SAO 080067 (8.9 Magnitude Star)
May 19 - Asteroid 5645 (1990 SP) Closest Approach To Earth (0.758 AU)
May 19 - Asteroid 1999 HW2 Closest Approach To Earth (0.771 AU)
May 19 - Premiere Of "Star Wars: Episode I The Plantom Menace
May 19-20 - Meeting On Magnetic Activity In Stars, Discs And Quasars, United Kingdom
May 19-21 - 33rd Aeorspace Mechanisms Symposium, Pasadena, California
May 20 - Nimiq-1 Proton Launch (Russia), Successful
May 20 - Asteroid 1998 HD14 Near-Earth Flyby (0.264 AU)
May 20 - Space Technology Lecture, Pasadena, California
May 20 - Lecture On Planet Orbiting Other Stars, Cambridge, Massachussetts
May 21 - Moon Occults Regulus
May 21 - Venus Occults 78995 (7.5 Magnitude Star)
May 21 - Venus Occults 79012 (7.7 Magnitude Star)
May 21 - Comet C/1999 K1 (SOHO) Perihelion (0.0051 AU)
May 21 - Asteroid 1999 JE1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.112 AU)
May 21 - Asteroid 1999 LJ1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.124 AU)
May 21 - Asteroid 1992 NA Closest Approach To Earth (1.713 AU)
May 21 - Kuiper Belt Object 1998 HM151 At Opposition (42.526 AU - 24.3 Magnitude)
May 21 - Space Technology Lecture, Pasadena, California
May 22 - Astronomy Day
May 22 - DOD Titan 4B Launch, Successful
May 22 - Asteroid 654 Zelinda Occults TYC 7806 01547 (9.7 Magnitude Star)
May 23 - Amateur Rocket Launch Attempt, Failed To Reach Space
May 23 - Asteroid 27 Euterpe At Opposition (10.4 Magnitude)
May 23 - Asteroid 1999 JW6 Closest Approach To Earth (0.535 AU)
May 23 - Asteroid 1980 Tezcatlipoca Closest Approach To Earth (1.017 AU)
May 23 - Asteroid 5112 Kusaji Closest Approach To Earth (1.432 AU)
May 24-27 - International Conference On Optical And IR Interferometry From Ground And Space, Dana Point, California
May 25 - Comet C/1999 K3 (LINEAR) Closest Approach To Earth (1.430 AU)
May 25-28 - Conference On Stellar Clusters And Associations: Convection, Rotation, And Dynamos, Mondello, Sicily, Italy
May 26 - KITSAT-3/ Tubsat/ OceanSat 1 PSLV Launch, Successful
May 26 - Asteroid 23 Thalia At Opposition (10.5 Magnitude)
May 26 - Asteroid 30 Urania At Opposition (10.8 Magnitude)
May 26 - Asteroid 4947 Ninkasi Closest Approach To Earth (0.598 AU)
May 26 - Asteroid 6271 Farmer Closest Approach To Earth (0.969 AU)
May 26 - Asteroid 6130 (1989 SL5) Closest Approach To Earth (1.681 AU)
May 26-27 - Industry Space Days, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
May 26-27 - Meeting On XEUS Scientific Goals (X-Ray Evolving Universe Spectroscopy Mission), Noordwijk, The Netherlands
May 26-28 - 4th International Space University Syposium: International Space Station - Creating New Opportunities, Strasboug, France
May 26-29 - David N. Schramm Memorial Symposium: Inner Space/Outer Space II, Batavia, Illinois
May 27 - STS-96 Launch, Space Shuttle Discovery, ISS-2A.1, Starshine, Successful
May 27 - Asteroid 40 Harmonia Occults TYC 1412 00005 (11.1 Magnitude Star)
May 27 - Mercury at Perihelion
May 27 - Asteroid 1999 KQ6 Closest Approach To Earth (0.600 AU)
May 27-31 - 18th Annual International Space Development Conference, Houston, Texas
May 28 - Asteroid 3 Juno At Opposition (10.2 Magnitude)
May 28 - Asteroid 1998 WT7 Near-Earth Flyby (0.211 AU)
May 28 - Asteroid 1996 AS1 Closest Approach To Earth (0.943 AU)
May 28 - Pulsar Lecture, Greenbelt, Maryland
May 28 - 35th Anniversary (1964), 1st Launch of the Saturn 1 Rocket
May 28 - 40th Anniversary (1959), Jupiter C Launch Of Two Monkeys (Able & Baker)
May 28-31 - 31st Annual Riverside Telescope Makers Conference, Camp Oaks, California
May 29 - Space Shuttle Discovery Docks With International Space Station
May 29 - Space Station Spacewalk, Successful
May 29 - Asteroid 1995 MA1 Closest Approach To Earth (1.832 AU)
May 29 - Kuiper Belt Object 1994 JS at Opposition (34.136 AU - 23.4 Magnitude)
May 29 - 25th Anniversary (1974), Luna 22 Launch (Soviet Moon Orbiter)
May 29 - 80th Anniversary (1919), Solar Eclipse Confirms Einstein's General Theory Of Relativity
May 29-Jun 03 - 7th European Symposium On Life Sciences Research In Space, Maastricth, The Netherlands
May 30 - Comet P/1999 J5 (LINEAR) Closest Approach To Earth (2.720 AU)
May 30 - Pluto at Opposition
May 30 - Asteroid 230 Athamantis At Opposition (10.3 Magnitude)
May 30 - Venus Occults HIP 37517 (8.2 Magnitude Star)
May 30 - Asteroid 511 Davida Occults GSC 5022 00290 (11.7 Magnitude Star)
May 30-Jun 03 - 194th Meeting Of The American Astronomical Society, Chicago, Illinois
May 31 - Asteroid 1134 Kepler Closest Approach To Earth (1.436 AU)
May 31-Jun 03 - 14th ESA Symposium On European Rocket And Balloon Programmes, Potsdam, Germany

June 1999

Jun 01 - Asteroid 41 Daphne At Opposition (9.7 Magnitude)
Jun 01 - Comet C/1999 K10 (SOHO) Perihelion (0.0055 AU)
Jun 01 - Asteroid 7467 (1989 WQ1) Closest Approach To Earth (0.796 AU)
Jun 01 - Pre-Forum Seminar: International Context Of National Security And Commerical Space, Washington DC
Jun 01-02 - Workshop On Extremely Large Telescopes, Lund, Sweden
Jun 01-03 - 5th International Symposium On Artificial Intelligence, Robotics And Automation In Space, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Jun 01-04 - International Meeting Programs For Asteroid And Comet Threat (IMPACT Workshop), Torina, Italy
Jun 02 - Comet C/1999 L4 (SOHO) Perihelion (0.0078 AU)
Jun 02-03 - 3rd National Space Forum: Space Based Remote Sensing - Seeing and Shaping the Planet, Washington DC
Jun 02-04 - 1st NASA & NCI Workshop On Sensors For Bio-Molecular Signatures, Pasadena, California
Jun 03 - Cassini, Trajectory Correction Maneuver #8 (TCM-8)
Jun 03 - Moon Occults Neptune
Jun 03 - Asteroid 6489 Golevka Near-Earth Flyby (0.0501 AU)
Jun 04 - Galileo, Orbital Trim Maneuver #64 (OTM-64)
Jun 04 - Moon Occults Uranus
Jun 04 - Asteroid 22 Kalliope At Opposition (10.8 Magnitude)
Jun 04 - Asteroid 1999 KW4 Near-Earth Flyby (0.212 AU)
Jun 04 - Asteroid 1999 LP28 Near-Earth Flyby (0.328 AU)
Jun 04 - Kuiper Belt Object 1994 JR1 at Opposition (33.757 AU - 22.9 Magnitude)
Jun 04 - Cosmology Lecture, Greenbelt, Maryland
Jun 05 - Asteroid 261 Prymno Occults HIP 94510 (7.0 Magnitude Star)
Jun 05 - Comet C/1999 L1 (SOHO) Perihelion (0.0053 AU)
Jun 05 - Comet C/1999 K7 (LINEAR) Closest Approach To Earth (1.739 AU)
Jun 05 - Asteroid 1998 YN1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.098 AU)
Jun 05 - John Couch Adams' 180th Birthday (1819)
Jun 05-06 - Jet Propulsion Lab Open House, Pasadena, California
Jun 06 - Space Shuttle Discovery Return To Earth (STS-96), Successful
Jun 06-09 - Symposium On Imaging At Radio Through Submillimeter Wavelengths, Tucson, Arizona
Jun 06-09 - Black Holes II Workshop: Theory And Mathematical Aspects, Val Morin, Quebec, Canada
Jun 07 - Comet C/1999 H3 (LINEAR) Closest Approach To Earth (3.250 AU)
Jun 07 - Asteroid 8567 (1996 HW1) Closest Approach To Earth (1.046 AU)
Jun 07 - Search For Life On Mars Lecture, Los Angeles, California
Jun 07-14 - Colloquium On The Fundamental Problems In Classical, Quantum And String Cosmology - Black Holes And String Gravity, Paris, France
Jun 07-18 - Conference On The Neutron Star - Black Hole Connection, Elounda, Crete, Greece
Jun 08 - Asteroid 738 Alagasta Occults SAO 159146 (7.3 Magnitude Star)
Jun 08 - Asteroid 1999 LX1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.065 AU)
Jun 08-11 - Workshop: From Giant Planets To Cool Stars, Flagstaff, Arizona
Jun 09 - Asteroid 1999 LD6 Near-Earth Flyby (0.084 AU)
Jun 09 - Asteroid 1999 JV6 Near-Earth Flyby (0.108 AU)
Jun 09 - Asteroid 1999 JV3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.166 AU)
Jun 09 - Asteroid 5308 (1981 DC2) Closest Approach TO Earth (1.395 AU)
Jun 09-11 - Symposium On The Legacy Of J. C. Kapteyn, Groningen, The Netherlands
Jun 10 - Globalstar-3 Delta 2 Launch, Successful
Jun 10 - Mars Global Surveyor, Orbital Trim Maneuver #2 (OTM-2)
Jun 10 - Asteroid 1995 LG Closest Approach To Earth (0.958 AU)
Jun 10 - Asteroid 4257 Ubasti Closest Approach To Earth (1.763 AU)
Jun 10 - Asteroid 4279 De Gasparis Closest Approach To Earth (1.826 AU)
Jun 10 - Asteroid 4388 (1964 VE) Closest Approach To Earth (1.905 AU)
Jun 10 - Kuiper Belt Object 1996 KV1 at Opposition (39.729 AU - 23.1 Magnitude)
Jun 10-11 - Space Shuttle Development Conference, League City, Texas
Jun 10-12 - 8th Canadian Conference On General Relativity And Relativisitic Astrophysics, Montreal, Canada
Jun 11 - Iridium Long March Launch, Successful
Jun 11 - Venus at Greatest Eastern Elongation (45 Degrees)
Jun 11 - Comet C/1999 L5 (SOHO) Perihelion (0.0077 AU)
Jun 11 - Comet Singer Brewster Closest Approach To Earth (1.110 AU)
Jun 12 - Asteroid 56 Melete At Opposition
Jun 12 - Asteroid 1998 WM Near-Earth Flyby (0.276 AU)
Jun 12 - Asteroid 1999 LT1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.291 AU)
Jun 12 - Asteroid 1810 Epimetheus Closest Approach To Earth (1.403 AU)
Jun 12 - Asteroid 8193 Ciaurro Closest Approach To Earth (1.486 AU)
Jun 13 - Asteroid 1999 LS7 Near-Earth Flyby (0.083 AU)
Jun 13 - Asteroid 3613 Kunlun Closest Approach To Earth (1.410 AU)
Jun 13 - Asteroid 4566 Chaokuangpiu Closest Approach To Earth (1.997 AU)
Jun 13 - Asteroid 3688 Navajo Closest Approach To Earth (2.186 AU)
Jun 13 - Jet Propulsion Lab's 55th Birthday (1944)
Jun 13-18 - IAU Colloquium 174: Small Galaxy Groups, Turku, Finland
Jun 13-18 - Gordon Research Conference On Origins Of Solar Systems, Henniker, New Hampshire
Jun 14 - Asteroid 56 Melete At Opposition (10.5 Magnitude)
Jun 14 - Asteroid 526 Jena Occults TYC 6304 01425 (8.8 Magnitude Star)
Jun 14 - Asteroid 3581 Alvarez Closest Approach To Earth (1.104 AU)
Jun 14 - Asteroid 3703 Volkonskaya Closest Approach To Earth (1.178 AU)
Jun 14-17 - SHINE 99 Summer Workshop, Boulder, Colorado
Jun 15 - Deadline For Name The Asteroid Contest
Jun 15 - Asteroid 1999 JO6 Closest Approach To Earth (0.730 AU)
Jun 15 - Asteroid 8277 (1991 GV8) Closest Approach To Earth (1.418 AU)
Jun 16 - Asteroid 105 Artemis Occults TYC 1536 00035 (10.8 Magnitude Star)
Jun 16 - Comet C/1999 M1 (SOHO) Perihelion (0.0055 AU)
Jun 16 - Asteroid 1685 Toro Closest Approach To Earth (0.757 AU)
Jun 17 - Astra-1H Proton Launch, Successful
Jun 17 - Asteroid 2050 Francis Closest Approach To Earth (0.859 AU)
Jun 17 - Asteroid 1048 Feodosia Closest Approach To Earth (1.306 AU)
Jun 18 - Asteroid 1999 LW1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.146 AU)
Jun 18 - Asteroid 1999 LT7 Near-Earth Flyby (0.251 AU)
Jun 18 - Asteroid 5731 Zeus Closest Approach To Earth (1.184 AU)
Jun 18 - William Lassell's 200th Birthday (1799)
Jun 18-20 - Spaceflight Days, Morgenroethe-Rautenkranz, Germany
Jun 19 - QuikSCAT (Quick Scatterometer) Titan II Launch, Successful
Jun 20 - Asteroid 1999 LV7 Near-Earth Flyby (0.228 AU)
Jun 20-23 - 35th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, Los Angeles, California
Jun 20-26 - GEM Workshop, Snowmass, Colorado
Jun 21 - Summer Solstice (19:49 UT)
Jun 21 - Asteroid 8037 (1993 HO1) Closest Approach To Earth (1.555 AU)
Jun 21-24 - Conference On The Hy-Redshift Universe, Berkeley, California
Jun 21-25 - Star Formation 1999 Conference, Nagoya, Japan
Jun 21-25 - 2nd Conference On New Developments In Photodetection, Beaune, France
Jun 21-29 - Oxford 6th International Conference On Archaeoastronomy And Astronomy In Culture, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
Jun 22 - Asteroid 1999 JO8 Near-Earth Flyby (0.187 AU)
Jun 22 - Asteroid 1999 LO28 Closest Approach To Earth (0.538 AU)
Jun 22-25 - 8th SOHO Workshop, Paris, France
Jun 23-25 - International Workshop On Applications Of The ERS Along Track Scanning Radiometer, Frascati, Italy
Jun 23-25 - Symposium On Instrumentation And Cosmology, Princeton, New Jersey
Jun 24 - Cassini, 2nd Venus Flyby, Successful
Jun 24 - Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer (FUSE) Delta II Launch, Successful
Jun 24 - Terrier-Black Brant Sounding Rocket Launch, Successful
Jun 24 - Comet C/1999 K6 (LINEAR) Closest Approach To Earth (1.501 AU)
Jun 24 - 25th Anniversary (1974), Salyut 3 Launch (USSR Space Station)
Jun 24-26 - Nearby Stars Workshop, Moffett Field, California
Jun 25 - Asteroid 93 Minerva At Opposition (10.7 Magnitude)
Jun 25 - Comet C/1998 T1 (LINEAR) Perihelion (1.468 AU)
Jun 25-27 - 1999 New Zealand Astronomy Conference, Auckland, New Zealand
Jun 26 - Comet Kowal-Vavrova Closest Approach To Earth (2.091 AU)
Jun 26 - Asteroid 1999 LE6 Near-Earth Flyby (0.090 AU)
Jun 26 - Asteroid 1999 LQ28 Near-Earth Flyby (0.313 AU)
Jun 26 - Asteroid 5011 Ptah Closest Approach To Earth (1.361 AU)
Jun 26-27 - Minor Planet Amateur Meeting, Germany
Jun 27 - Galileo, Orbital Trim Maneuver #65 (OTM-65)
Jun 27 - Comet C/1999 M2 (SOHO) Perihelion (0.0049 AU)
Jun 27 - Comet Holmes Closest Approach To Earth (2.160 AU)
Jun 27 - Comet Ge-Wang Perihelion (2.496 AU)
Jun 27-30 - Annual Meeting Of The Canadian Astronomical Society, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Jun 27-Jul 02 - Gordon Research Conference: Gravitational Effects In Physico-Chemical Systems, Henniker, New Hampshire
Jun 27-Jul 02 - Meeting On Satellite Galaxies, Tegernsee, Germany
Jun 27-Jul 03 - 11th Rencontres de Blois: Frontiers Of Matter, Lorie Valley, France
Jun 28 - Venus Occults 98625 (7.8 Magnitude Star)
Jun 28 - Comet C/1999 L2 (LINEAR) Closest Approach To Earth (1.087 AU)
Jun 28-Jul 01 - 6th Southern Photometry Conference, Auckland, New Zealand
Jun 28-Jul 02 - IAU Colloquium 175: The Be Phenomenon In Early-Type Stars, Alicante, Spain
Jun 28-Jul 02 - International Seminar On Black Holes And Gravitaitonal Waves, Kyoto, Japan
Jun 29 - Cassini at Perihelion (0.72 AU)
Jun 29 - Asteroid 1999 LD30 Near-Earth Flyby (0.171 AU)
Jun 29-Jul 02 - IGRAP International Conference: Clustering At High Redshift, Marseilles, France
Jun 30 - Galileo, Callisto 21 Encounter
Jun 30 - Deadline For Mars Surveyor 2001 Logo Contest

July 1999

Jul 01 - Application Deadline For NASA Astronaut Selection
Jul 01 - Giotto, Earth Flyby
Jul 01 - Moon Occults Neptune
Jul 01 - Comet C/1999 N1 (SOHO) Perihelion (0.0052 AU)
Jul 01 - Asteroid 2201 Oljato Near-Earth Flyby (0.398 AU)
Jul 01-04 - 4th Biennial History Of Astronomy Workshop, Notre Dame, Indiana
Jul 01-07 - 111th Annual Meeting Of The Astronomical Society Of The Pacific (ASP), Toronto, Canada
Jul 02 - Moon Occults Uranus
Jul 02 - Asteroid 41 Daphne Occults SAO 121499 (9.4 Magnitude Star)
Jul 02 - Asteroid 81 Terpsichore Occults HIP 1153 (7.4 Magnitude Star)
Jul 02 - Asteroid 4878 (1968 OF) Closest Approach To Earth (1.113 AU)
Jul 02-07 - Symposium On The Future Of The Universe And The Future Of Our Civilization, Budapest, Hungary
Jul 03 - Comet C/1998 T1 (LINEAR) Closest Approach To Earth (0.485 AU)
Jul 03 - Asteroid 1999 KU4 Near-Earth Flyby (0.385 AU)
Jul 04 - Galileo, Orbital Trim Maneuver #66 (OTM-66)
Jul 04 - Cassini, Trajectory Correction Maneuver #9 (TCM-9)
Jul 04 - Asteroid 1999 CE9 Closest Approach To Earth (0.483 AU)
Jul 04 - Asteroid 1999 KX4 Closest Approach To Earth (0.636 AU)
Jul 05 - Raduga Proton K Launch (Russia), Failed
Jul 05 - Earth At Aphelion (1.017 AU From Sun)
Jul 05-08 - 35th Liege International Astrophyics Colloquium: From Globular Clusters To Field Stars, Leige, Belgium
Jul 06-08 - Workshop On Extraterrestrial Materials From Cold And Hot Deserts, Pilanesberg, South Africa
Jul 06-10 - IAU Symposium 195: Highly Energetic Physical Processes And Mechanism For Emissions From Astrophyiscal Plasmas, Bozeman, Montana
Jul 07 - Asteroid 1999 MN Near-Earth Flyby (0.064 AU)
Jul 07 - Asteroid 1999 MM Near-Earth Flyby (0.088 AU)
Jul 07 - Asteroid 1999 HX1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.186 AU)
Jul 08 - Astronaut Pete Conrad Killed In Motorcycle Accident
Jul 08 - Molniya-3 Molniya Launch (Russia), Successful
Jul 08 - Asteroid 4034 (1986 PA) Closest Approach To Earth (0.544 AU)
Jul 08 - Asteroid 2518 Rutllant Closest Approach To Earth (1.000 AU)
Jul 09 - Second Flight Of X-38 (V-132), Successful
Jul 09 - Asteroid 1995 QX9 Closest Approach To Earth (0.801 AU)
Jul 09 - 20th Anniversary (1979), Voyager 2 Flyby Of Jupiter
Jul 09-13 - 15th IAP Meeting - Galaxy Dynamics: From The Early Universe To The Present, Paris France
Jul 09-13 - 33rd Annual Scientific Meeting Of The Astronomical Society Of Australia (ASA), Sydney, Australia
Jul 10 - Globalstar-4 Delta 2 Launch, Successful
Jul 10 - Moon Occults Aldebaran
Jul 10 - Comet C/1999 N3 (SOHO) Perihelion (0.0055 AU)
Jul 10 - Asteroid 116 Sirona At Opposition
Jul 10 - Asteroid 5693 (1993 EA) Near-Earth Flyby (0.346 AU)
Jul 11 - Comet C/1999 N2 (Lynn) Closest Approach To Earth (0.561 AU)
Jul 11 - Comet C/1999 H1 (Lee) Perihelion (0.708 AU)
Jul 11 - 20th Anniversary (1979), Skylab Re-Enters Into Earth's Atmosphere
Jul 11-12 - 1999 Space Cryogenics Workshop, Quebec City, Canada
Jul 11-13 - Astronomy Education Meeting, Sydney, Australia
Jul 11-15 - Meeting On Unsolved Problems Of Noise, Adelaide, Australia
Jul 11-16 - 62nd Annual Meteoritical Society Meeting, Johannesburg, South Africa
Jul 12 - Comet Tempel 2 Closest Approach To Earth (0.654 AU)
Jul 12-15 - 9th SOHO Workshop On Helioseismic Diagnostics Of Solar Convetion And Activity, Stanford, California
Jul 12-16 - Symposium On Preserving The Astronomical Sky, Vienna, Austria
Jul 12-17 - SOFIA/Star Formation Workshop, Santa Cruz, California
Jul 13-17 - ASTROCON 99, Cheney, Washington
Jul 13-17 - Workshop On Cosmic Flows, Victoria, Canada
Jul 13 - 30th Anniversary (1969), Luna 15 Launch (Soviet Moon Sample Return)
Jul 14 - Mars WebChat
Jul 14 - Venus At Its Greatest Brillancy (-4.5 Magnitude)
Jul 14 - Asteroid 2964 Jaschek Closest Approach To Earth (1.656 AU)
Jul 14 - Asteroid 1009 Sirene Closest Approach To Earth (2.062 AU)
Jul 15 - Asteroid 1999 NW2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.016 AU)
Jul 15 - Asteroid 7350 (1993 VA) Closest Approach To Earth (0.871 AU)
Jul 15 - 3D Earth Mapping Lecture, Pasadena, California
Jul 15-16 - Commercial Lunar Base Development Symposium, League City, Texas
Jul 15-17 - International Workshop On Life Cycles Of Radio Galaxies, Baltmore, Maryland
Jul 16 - Progress M42 Soyuz-U Launch (Russia), Successful
Jul 16 - 3D Earth Mapping Lecture, Pasadena, California
Jul 16 - 30th Anniversary (1969), Apollo 11 Launch (1st Manned Moon Landing)
Jul 16-22 - 5th Anniversary (1994), Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Impacts Jupiter
Jul 17 - Okean O-N1 Zenit 2 Launch (Russia), Successful
Jul 17 - Asteroid 1995 SC Closest Approach To Earth (1.924 AU)
Jul 18 - Asteroid 1995 BC2 Closest Approach To Earth (1.135 AU)
Jul 18-21 - Space Science XIII Teacher Workshop, Medford Massachussetts
Jul 18-23 - 5th International Conference On Mars, Pasadena, California
Jul 18-30 - 22nd General Assembly of the International Union Of Geodesy and Geophysics, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Jul 19 - Cassini, Trajectory Correction Maneuver #10 (TCM-10), Successful
Jul 19 - Asteroid 1999 HX2 Closest Approach To Earth (0.481 AU)
Jul 19-22 - 14th UCL Astronomy Colloqium: Extragalatic Astrophysics At Millimeter & Infrared Wavelengths, Windsor Great Park, United Kingdom
Jul 19-23 - UNISPACE III, Vienna, Austria
Jul 19-23 - Liftoff '99 Workshop Houston, Texas
Jul 19-30 - 22nd General Assembly Of The International Union Of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG99), Birmingham, United Kingdom
Jul 19-30 - UNISPACE III, Vienna, Austria
Jul 20 - Retrieval Of Liberty Bell 7 Capsule From Ocean Floor
Jul 20 - Asteroid 1999 LN28 Near-Earth Flyby (0.132 AU)
Jul 20 - 30th Anniversary (1969), 1st Man On The Moon (Apollo 11)
Jul 20-21 - 1999 NASA/JPL Miniature Pumps Workshop, Pasadena, California
Jul 20-22 - Educational Workshop On Capacity Building In Astronomy And Basic Space Science, Vienna, Austria
Jul 21 - Asteroid 4769 Castalia Closest Approach To Earth (0.788 AU)
Jul 21 - 30th Anniversary (1969), Luna 15 Impact On Moon
Jul 22 - Galileo, Orbital Trim Maneuver #67 (OTM-67)
Jul 22 - Asteroid 1999 JB Closest Approach To Earth (0.420 AU)
Jul 22 - Asteroid 1166 Sakuntala Closest Approach To Earth (1.013 AU)
Jul 22 - Freidrich Bessel's 215th Birthday (1784)
Jul 23 - STS-93 Launch, Space Shuttle Columbia, Chandra X-Ray Observatory, Successful
Jul 23 - Mir Spacewalk
Jul 23 - 1st Test Flight Of Roton ATV
Jul 23 - Comet C/1999 N2 (Lynn) Perihelion (0.761 AU)
Jul 23 - Asteroid 8311 Zhangdaning Closest Approach To Earth (1.233 AU)
Jul 24 - Comet C/1999 K6 (LINEAR) Perihelion (2.251 AU)
Jul 25 - Globalstar-5 Delta 2 Launch, Successful
Jul 25 - Mars Climate Orbiter, Trajectory Correction Maneuver #3 (TCM-3), Successful
Jul 25 - Neptune At Opposition
Jul 25 - Asteroid 1999 OQ3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.176 AU)
Jul 25-30 - Conference On Gravitational Lensing: Recent Progress and Future Goals, Boston, Massachusetts
Jul 26 - Asteroid 63 Ausonia At Opposition (9.7 Magnitude)
Jul 26 - Comet C/1999 K2 (Ferris) Closest Approach To Earth (4.251 AU)
Jul 26 - Asteroid 1998 WQ5 Closest Approach To Earth (1.458 AU)
Jul 26-30 - Asteroid, Comet, Meteors Conference, Cornell, New York
Jul 27 - Space Shuttle Columbia Returns To Earth (STS-93), Successful
Jul 27 - Asteroid 1166 Sakuntala At Opposition (10.8 Magnitude)
Jul 27 - Kuiper Belt Object 1998 KR65 At Opposition (43.420 AU - 23.2 Magnitude)
Jul 28 - Mir Spacewalk, Successful
Jul 28 - Partial Lunar Eclipse
Jul 28 - Moon Occults Neptune
Jul 28 - Asteroid 1995 UX1 Closest Approach To Earth (1.410 AU)
Jul 28 - Asteroid 2521 Heidi Closest Approach To Earth (1.963 AU)
Jul 28 - Kuiper Belt Object 1998 KS65 At Opposition (41.230 AU - 23.8 Magnitude)
Jul 28 - Kuiper Belt Object 1998 KG62 At Opposition (43.761 AU - 23.0 Magnitude)
Jul 28 - Kuiper Belt Object 1986 KY61 At Opposition (44.803 AU - 24.1 Magnitude)
Jul 28 - Eclipse Lecture, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Jul 28 - 35th Anniversary (1964), Ranger 7 Launch (Moon Impact Mission)
Jul 29 - Deep Space 1, Asteroid Braille Encounter, Successful
Jul 29 - South Delta-Aquarids Meteor Shower Peak
Jul 29 - Moon Occults Uranus
Jul 30 - Mars WebChat
Jul 30 - Asteroid 1999 JM8 Near-Earth Flyby (0.057 AU)
Jul 31 - Lunar Prospector Crashes On The Moon
Jul 31 - Deadline For Student-Built Mars '01 Experiment
Jul 31 - Asteroid 4341 Poseidon Closest Approach To Earth (1.546 AU)
Jul 31 - Kuiper Belt Object 1999 KL17 At Opposition (43.722 AU - 25.2 Magnitude)
Jul 31 - 30th Anniversary (1969), Mariner 6 Mars Flyby

August 1999

Aug 01 - Alpha Capricornids Meteor Shower Peak
Aug 01-12 - Opening The 3rd Millennium: News Challenges In Astrophysics And Cosmology, Campagne-Ardenne, France
Aug 02 - Asteroid 1999 NZ4 Closest Approach To Earth (0.443 AU)
Aug 02 - Cassini, Trajectory Correction Maneuver #11 (TCM-11), Successful
Aug 02-06 - Bioastronomy 99: A New Era In The Search For Life In The Universe, Kohala Coast, Hawaii
Aug 03 - Comet Arend Perihelion (1.917 AU)
Aug 03 - Asteroid 16 Psyche At Opposition (9.4 Magnitude)
Aug 03 - Asteroid 1566 Icarus Closest Approach To Earth (0.651 AU)
Aug 03-06 - Conference On Asymetrical Planetary Nebulae II: From Origins To Microstructures, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Aug 03-06 - 1999 Pacific Rim Conference On Stellar Astrophysics, Hong Kong, China
Aug 04 - NASA Sounding Rocket Launch
Aug 04-06 - MPA/ESO Workshop On The First Stars, Garching, Germany
Aug 04-08 - 4th Meeting Of Planetary and Cometary Observers (MEPCO '99), Varna, Bulgaria
Aug 05 - Comet C/1999 L2 (LINEAR) Perihelion (1.900 AU)
Aug 05 - Asteroid 1999 OP3 Closest Approach To Earth (1.406 AU)
Aug 05 - 30th Anniversary (1969), Mariner 7 Mars Flyby
Aug 05-11 - 18th European Symposium On Occultation Projects, Stuttgart, Germany
Aug 06 - Southern Iota Aquarids Meteor Shower Peak
Aug 06 - Comet C/1999 P2 (SOHO) Perihelion (0.0049 AU)
Aug 06 - Asteroid 3496 Arieso Closest Approach To Earth (1.693 AU)
Aug 06-07 - Symposium On Lucifer's Rock, A Prehistoric Landmark Of Astronomical Background, Steiermark, Austria
Aug 06-08 - Astronomy Workshop: Getting Started In CCD Research, Louisburg, Kansas
Aug 07 - Uranus At Opposition
Aug 07 - Asteroid 1999 NB5 Near-Earth Flyby (0.087 AU)
Aug 07 - Asteroid 1998 QR52 Near-Earth Flyby (0.303 AU)
Aug 07 - Asteroid 1372 Haremari Closest Approach To Earth (1.817 AU)
Aug 07 - Asteroid 5196 Bustelli Closest Approach To Earth (2.075 AU)
Aug 07 - Asteroid 1282 Utopia Closest Approach To Earth (2.110 AU)
Aug 07 - Asteroid 1998 QM107 Closest Approach To Earth (16.661 AU)
Aug 07-13 - Solar Eclipse August 1999 Symposium, Garching, Germany
Aug 08 - Asteroid 1999 NC5 Closest Approach To Earth (1.191 AU)
Aug 08 - Asteroid 5751 Zao Closest Approach To Earth (1.962 AU)
Aug 08 - 30th Anniversary (1969), Zond 7 Launch (Soviet Moon Mission)
Aug 08-12 - IAU Colloquium 176: The Impact Of Large-Scale Surveys On Pulsating Star Research, Budapest, Hungary
Aug 08-13 - Workshop On Statistics Of Cosmological Data Sets, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Aug 09 - Kuiper Belt Object 1999 OZ3 At Opposition (43.244 AU - 23.8 Magnitude)
Aug 09 - Kuiper Belt Object 1999 OA4 At Opposition (44.858 AU - 24.6 Magnitude)
Aug 09-12 - International Workshop On Radio Methods For Studying Turbulence, Birmingham, United Kingdom
Aug 09-13 - Seminar On Computer Science In Astronomy, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany
Aug 09-13 - Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting, Guernesy, British Isles
Aug 09-14 - Magnetospheres Of The Outer Planets, Paris, France
Aug 10 - Moon Occults Mercury
Aug 11 - Solar Eclipse (Visible From Europe)
Aug 11 - Galileo, Orbital Trim Maneuver #68 (OTM-68)
Aug 11 - Cassini, Trajectory Correction Maneuver #12 (TCM-12), Successful
Aug 11 - Asteroid 737 Arequipa At Opposition (10.9 Magnitude)
Aug 12 - Mars WebChat
Aug 12 - TELKOM-1 Ariane 4 Launch, Successful
Aug 12 - NEAR, Trajectory Correction Maneuver #19 (TCM-19), Successful
Aug 12 - Perseids Meteor Shower Peak
Aug 12 - Asteroid 5585 Parks Closest Approach To Earth (0.860 AU)
Aug 12-15 - 2nd International Mars Society Convention, Boulder, Colorado
Aug 13 - Asteroid 1997 MW1 Closest Approach To Earth (0.604 AU)
Aug 13 - Asteroid 1993 DC Closest Approach To Earth (1.640 AU)
Aug 13-14 - 1999 Stellafane Convention, Breezy Hill, Vermont
Aug 13-15 - Workshop On 100 Years On Observational Astronomy And Astrophysics, Tihany, Hungary
Aug 13-16 - Meeting On The Last Total Eclipse Of The Millennium, Istanbul, Turkey
Aug 13-21 - 26th General Assembly Of The International Union Of Radio Science, Toronto, Canada
Aug 14 - Galileo, Callisto 22 Flyby, Successful
Aug 14 - Mercury at Greatest Western Elongation (18 Degrees)
Aug 14 - Asteroid 219 Thusnelda At Opposition (11.0 Magnitude)
Aug 14-16 - 2nd International Workshop On Cometary Astronomy, Cambridge, England
Aug 15 - Comet Shoemaker-Levy 2 Closest Approach To Earth (1.505 AU)
Aug 15 - Asteroid 1997 US9 Closest Approach To Earth (0.428 AU)
Aug 15 - Asteroid 8315 Bajin Closest Approach To Earth (0.991 AU)
Aug 15 - Asteroid 2428 Kamenyar Closest Approach To Earth (1.961 AU)
Aug 15-19 - 1999 AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialists Conference, Girdwood, Alaska
Aug 15-20 - 8th International Workshop On Low Temperature Detectors, Dalfsen, The Netherlands
Aug 16 - Asteroid 494 Virtus Occults SAO 211561 (10.0 Magnitude Star)
Aug 16 - Asteroid 112 Iphigenia Occults TYC 0587 00376 (10.6 Magnitude Star)
Aug 16 - Asteroid 1999 DK3 Closest Approach To Earth (0.598 AU)
Aug 16-19 - AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialists Conference, Girdwood, Alaska
Aug 16-19 - Variable Star Conference, Kecskeme't, Hungary
Aug 16-20 - Program On Connecting Fundamental Physics And Cosmology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Aug 16-21 - Gamov Memorial International Conference: Original Ideas In Astrophysics And Cosmology, Odessa, Russia
Aug 17 - Globalstar-6 Delta 2 Launch, Successful
Aug 17 - Asteroid 346 Hermentaria Occults TYC 6404 00155 (10.3 Magnitude Star)
Aug 17 - Asteroid 7304 (1994 AE2) Closest Approach To Earth (1.605 AU)
Aug 17-25 - 26th International Cosmic Ray Conference, Salt Lake City, Utah
Aug 18 - Cassini, Earth Flyby, Successful
Aug 18 - Galileo, Orbital Trim Maneuver #69 (OTM-69)
Aug 18 - Cosmos Soyuz-U Launch (Russia), Successful
Aug 18 - Comet C/1999 H3 (LINEAR) Perihelion (3.500 AU)
Aug 18 - Asteroid 1992 JG Closest Approach To Earth (0.478 AU)
Aug 18-20 - Solar System Science Workshop: SIRTF, San Juan Capristrano, California
Aug 19 - Cassini Lecture, Pasadena, California
Aug 20 - Two Minuteman 3 Missiles Launch
Aug 20 - Venus At Inferior Conjuction
Aug 20 - Cassini Lecture, Pasadena, California
Aug 21 - Asteroid 1367 Nongoma Closest Approach To Earth (1.352 AU)
Aug 22 - Cassini, Probe Checkout #4
Aug 22 - Asteroid 1999 PS3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.071 AU)
Aug 22 - Asteroid 6611 (1993 VW) Closest Approach To Earth (1.522 AU)
Aug 22-26 - Gamov Memorial International Conference: Early Universe - Cosmological Problems And Instrumental Technologies, St. Petersburg, Russia
Aug 22-26 - 1999 ACS Symposium: The Origin Of Chemical Elements In The Solar System, New Orleans, Louisiana
Aug 22-27 - 9th Annual V. M. Goldschmidt Conference, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Aug 23 - Mercury At Perihelion
Aug 23 - Asteroid 1999 RA32 Near-Earth Flyby (0.117 AU)
Aug 23 - Asteroid 8289 An-Eefje Closest Approach To Earth (1.091 AU)
Aug 23-27 - Workshop On Thermal Aspects Of Flows From Hot Stars, Tartu, Estonia
Aug 23-27 - IAU Symposium 197: Astrochemistry - From Molecular Clouds To Planetary Systems, Sogwipo, Cheju Island, Korea
Aug 23-27 - Conference On Cosmological Problems And Instrumental Technologies, St. Petersburg, Russia
Aug 24 - Moon Occults Neptune
Aug 24 - Asteroid 128 Nemesis At Opposition (10.8 Magnitude)
Aug 24 - Asteroid 1999 PJ1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.304 AU)
Aug 24-26 - Habitation Module Commercialization Conference, Houston, Texas
Aug 24-27 - Workshop On The Physics Of The Solar Corona And Transition Region, Monterey, California
Aug 25 - Northern Iota Aquarids Meteor Shower Peak
Aug 25 - Moon Occults Uranus
Aug 25 - Comet Giclas Perihelion (1.846 AU)
Aug 25 - Asteroid 1999 HZ1 Closest Approach To Earth (0.901 AU)
Aug 25 - Asteroid 7088 Ishtar Closest Approach To Earth (1.326 AU)
Aug 25 - 10th Anniversary (1989), Voyager 2 Neptune Flyby
Aug 26 - Cosmos 2366 Cosmos Launch (Russia), Successful
Aug 26 - Asteroid 141 Lumen At Opposition (10.6 Magnitude)
Aug 26 - Asteroid 1995 YV3 Closest Approach To Earth (0.997 AU)
Aug 27 - Asteroid 1999 RN28 Near-Earth Flyby (0.180 AU)
Aug 27 - Asteroid 1999 ML Near-Earth Flyby (0.346 AU)
Aug 28 - Space Station Mir Abandoned
Aug 28 - Galileo, Orbital Trim Maneuver #70 (OTM-70)
Aug 28 - Johnson Space Center Open House, Houston, Texas
Aug 28 - Asteroid 1993 HA Near-Earth Flyby (0.358 AU)
Aug 28 - 210th Anniversary (1789), Herschel's Discovery Of Saturn Moon Enceladus
Aug 29 - Asteroid 1999 HE1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.330 AU)
Aug 29 - Asteroid 7682 (1997 CY19) Closest Approach To Earth (1.964 AU)
Aug 30 - Comet Forbes Closest Approach To Earth (0.978 AU)
Aug 30 - Asteroid 1999 RP28 Near-Earth Flyby (0.142 AU)
Aug 30 - Asteroid 1999 RJ27 Closest Approach To Earth (0.525 AU)
Aug 30-Sep 03 - IAU Colloquium 177: Pulsar Astronomy - 2000 And Beyond, Bonn, Germany
Aug 30-Sep 03 - AMOS Technical Conference, Maui, Hawaii
Aug 31 - Cassini, Trajectory Correction Maneuver #13 (TCM-13), Successful
Aug 31 - Comet Ciffreo Closest Approach To Earth (1.754 AU)

September 1999

Sep 01 - Mars WebChat
Sep 01 - Mars Polar Lander Landing Site Adjustment Maneuver, Successful
Sep 01 - Japanese Docking Experiment, Successful
Sep 01 - Asteroid 4660 Nereus Closest Approach To Earth (0.816 AU)
Sep 01 - 20th Anniversary (1979), Pioneer 11 Flyby Of Saturn
Sep 03 - Asteroid 198 Ampella At Opposition (10.2 Magnitude)
Sep 03 - Asteroid 747 Winchester At Opposition (10.7 Magnitude)
Sep 03 - Asteroid 346 Hermentaria Occults HIP 116206 (8.4 Magnitude Star)
Sep 03 - Asteroid 1999 KK1 Closest Approach To Earth (0.627 AU)
Sep 03 - Asteroid 7661 Reincken Closest Approach To Earth (1.877 AU)
Sep 04 - Koreasat-3 Ariane 4 Launch, Successful
Sep 04 - Asteroid 1999 RZ31 Near-Earth Flyby (0.022 AU)
Sep 05 - Comet C/1999 R1 (SOHO) Perihelion (0.0565 AU)
Sep 05 - Asteroid 1998 XS16 Closest Approach To Earth (0.442 AU)
Sep 05 - Asteroid 5786 Talos Closest Approach To Earth (0.953 AU)
Sep 05-11 - Meeting On Plasma Turbulence And Energetics Particles In Astrophysics, Cracow, Poland
Sep 06 - Yamal 101/Yamal 102 Proton Launch (Russia), Successful
Sep 06 - Asteroid 194 Prokne Occults SAO 111458 (9.5 Magnitude Star)
Sep 06 - Asteroid 194 Prokne Occults HIP 18028 (8.1 Magnitude Star)
Sep 06 - Asteroid 7495 Feynman Closest Approach To Earth (2.198 AU)
Sep 06 - X-Ray Astronomy 1999 Meeting, Bologna, Italy
Sep 06-08 - ESO Workshop On Black Holes In Binaries And Galactic Nuclei, Garching, Germany
Sep 06-10 - 6th International Workshop On AstroParticle And Underground Physics (TAUP 99), Paris, France
Sep 06-10 - X-Ray Astronomy 1999 Conference, Bologna, Italy
Sep 07 - Asteroid 8764 Gallinago Closest Approach To Earth (1.307 AU)
Sep 07 - Kuiper Belt Object 1996 RR20 at Opposition (42.662 AU - 23.4 Magnitude)
Sep 07-11 - Joint European And National Astronomical Meeting (JENAM-99), Toulouse, France
Sep 08 - Mars WebChat
Sep 08 - Comet Tempel 2 Perihelion (1.482 AU)
Sep 08 - Asteroid 1999 RJ33 Near-Earth Flyby (0.034 AU)
Sep 08 - Asteroid 1999 LU7 Near-Earth Flyby (0.242 AU)
Sep 08 - Asteroid 699 Hela Closest Approach To Earth (0.644 AU)
Sep 08 - Asteroid 1998 AK8 Closest Approach To Earth (1.363 AU)
Sep 08 - Asteroid 1995 SA Closest Approach To Earth (1.856 AU)
Sep 08 - Kuiper Belt Object 1997 RX9 at Opposition (41.136 AU - 24.2 Magnitude)
Sep 08 - Kuiper Belt Object 1997 RT5 at Opposition (41.444 AU - 23.2 Magnitude)
Sep 09 - Public Debut Of Liberty Bell 7
Sep 09 - Foton-12 Soyuz-U Launch (Russia), Successful
Sep 09 - Asteroid 1999 SJ10 Near-Earth Flyby (0.063 AU)
Sep 09 - Asteroid 1999 RB32 Near-Earth Flyby (0.076 AU)
Sep 09 - Asteroid 1999 TF5 Near-Earth Flyby (0.313 AU)
Sep 09 - Asteroid 1999 RM28 Closest Approach To Earth (0.726 AU)
Sep 09 - Asteroid 4587 Rees Closest Approach To Earth (1.191 AU)
Sep 09 - William Bond's 210th Birthday (1789)
Sep 09-10 - International Science Symposium, Maribor, Slovenia
Sep 10 - Multipurpose Transportation Satellite (MTSat) H-II Launch (Japan)
Sep 10 - Asteroid 1999 QJ Near-Earth Flyby (0.367 AU)
Sep 10-11 - 2nd Annual Northern Arizona Star Party, Rock And Cross Ranch, Arizona
Sep 11 - Asteroid 1995 UB4 Closest Approach To Earth (1.028 AU)
Sep 12 - Asteroid 1999 RZ129 Closest Approach To Earth (1.126 AU)
Sep 12 - 40th Anniversary (1959), Luna 2 Launch (Soviet Moon Mission)
Sep 12-18 - 9th European Meeting On Solar Physics, Florence, Italy
Sep 13 - Galileo, Orbital Trim Maneuver #71 (OTM-71)
Sep 13 - Cassini At Opposition
Sep 13 - Asteroid 346 Hermentaria At Opposition (10.6 Magnitude)
Sep 13 - Comet C/1999 K8 (LINEAR) Closest Approach To Earth (4.210 AU)
Sep 13 - Kuiper Belt Object 1995 QY9 At Opposition (28.483 AU - 22.1 Magnitude)
Sep 13-15 - Shuttle Small Payloads Project Office Symposium, Annapolis, Maryland
Sep 13-15 - Journess 1999 & Lohrmann Colloquium, Lohrmann Observatory, Germany
Sep 13-16 - Next Generation Space Telescope Science And Technology Expo, Woods Hole, Massachusetts
Sep 13-16 - 4th ESO Workshop On Optical Detectors For Astronomy, Garching bei Munchen, Germany
Sep 13-17 - Conference On The Progress In Cosmic Ray Dynamics, Moscow, Russia
Sep 13-17 - 5th International Conference On Position-Sensitive Detectors, London, United Kingdom
Sep 13-18 - International Conference On A New Millennium For Galaxy Morphology, Johannesburg, South Africa
Sep 13-18 - International Conference On Modern Theories Of Structure Formation, CAUP, Portugal
Sep 14 - 25th Anniversary (1974), Discovery of Jupiter Moon Leda By Charles Kowal
Sep 15 - Mars Climate Orbiter, Trajectory Correction Maneuver #4 (TCM-4), Successful
Sep 15 - Air Force Atmospheric Interceptor Technology Rocket Launch, Successful
Sep 15 - Kuiper Belt Object 1999 SN165 At Opposition (37.244 AU - 22.0 Magnitude)
Sep 15-17 - 5th Comptom Symposium, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Sep 16 - Galileo, Callisto 23 Flyby, Successful
Sep 16 - Comet Kearns-Kwee Perihelion (2.339 AU)
Sep 16 - Asteroid 1999 RH33 Closest Approach To Earth (0.947 AU)
Sep 16 - Asteroid 7536 Fahrenheit Closest Approach To Earth (1.624 AU)
Sep 16 - Voyager/Galileo Lecture, Pasadena, California
Sep 16 - 2nd Annual STA/SIA Military Space Conference, Washington DC
Sep 16-18 - 4th Hellenic Astronomical Meeting, Samos, Greece
Sep 17 - Voyager/Galileo Lecture, Pasadena, California
Sep 17 - Comet C/1999 S1 (SOHO) Perihelion (0.0058 AU)
Sep 17 - John Goodricke's 235th Birthday (1764)
Sep 18 - Deep Space 1, End Of Primary Mission
Sep 18 - Asteroid 1999 TX2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.317 AU)
Sep 18 - Asteroid 4203 Brucato Closest Approach To Earth (1.774 AU)
Sep 18 - Space Memorabillia Auction, New York, New York
Sep 19 - Asteroid 1999 SH10 Near-Earth Flyby (0.016 AU)
Sep 19 - Asteroid 1999 ND43 Near-Earth Flyby (0.095 AU)
Sep 19 - Asteroid 1996 RG3 Closest Approach To Earth (0.689 AU)
Sep 19 - Asteroid 3363 Bowen Closest Approach To Earth (1.976 AU)
Sep 20 - Galileo, Orbital Trim Maneuver #72 (OTM-72)
Sep 20 - Moon Occults Neptune
Sep 20 - Comet C/1999 J3 (LINEAR) Perihelion (0.977 AU)
Sep 20 - Asteroid 1999 RK33 Near-Earth Flyby (0.040 AU)
Sep 20 - Asteroid 1998 SV4 Closest Approach To Earth (0.670 AU)
Sep 20 - Workshop On Software Project Risk Management And Cost Estimation, Fontainebleau, France
Sep 20-22 - Workshop On Large Scale Structure In The X-Ray Universe, Santorini Island, Greece
Sep 20-24 - GEANT 4 Workshop, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Sep 20-25 - Astronomische Gesellschaft 73rd Annual Meeting, Goettingen, Germany
Sep 21 - Mars WebChat
Sep 21 - Moon Occults Uranus
Sep 21 - Asteroid 375 Ursula Occults PPM 45819 (9.9 Magnitude Star)
Sep 21 - Asteroid 162 Laurentia Occults SAO 128861 (9.3 Magnitude Star)
Sep 21 - Asteroid 1999 SM5 Near-Earth Flyby (0.054 AU)
Sep 21 - Asteroid 1999 SO5 Near-Earth Flyby (0.176 AU)
Sep 21 - Kuiper Belt Object 1997 QH4 at Opposition (40.410 AU - 23.1 Magnitude)
Sep 21 - 25th Anniversary (1974), Mariner 10, 2nd Flyby Of Mercury
Sep 21-23 - Frontiers In Deep Space Communication and Navigation Symposium, Pasadena, California
Sep 22 - Globalstar Soyuz Launch, Successful
Sep 22 - Asteroid 1999 RL45 Closest Approach To Earth (0.415 AU)
Sep 22 - Asteroid 1999 SK5 Closest Approach To Earth (0.551 AU)
Sep 22 - Asteroid 4953 (1990 MU) Closest Approach To Earth (1.672 AU)
Sep 22-24 - Workshop On New Views Of The Moon II, Flagstaff, Arizona
Sep 23 - Mars Climate Orbiter, Mars Orbit Insertion, Failed
Sep 23 - EchoStar 5 (MCI-1) Atlas 2AS Launch, Successful
Sep 23 - Autumnal Equinox, 11:23 UT
Sep 23 - Comet P/1999 RO28 (LONEOS) Near-Earth Flyby (0.247 AU)
Sep 23 - Asteroid 57 Mnemsoyne At Opposition (11.0 Magnitude)
Sep 23 - Asteroid 1999 RQ36 Near-Earth Flyby (0.015 AU)
Sep 23 - Kuiper Belt Object 1997 RY6 At Opposition (40.367 AU - 23.7 Magnitude)
Sep 23 - Kuiper Belt Object 1996 TO66 at Opposition (44.945 AU - 21.1 Magnitude)
Sep 23 - Free-Flying Micro Observer Workshop, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Sep 23-24 - Pluto And Triton Workshop: Comparison And Evolution Over Time, Flagstaff, Arizona
Sep 23-26 - Space Frontier Foundation Conference VIII, Los Angeles, California
Sep 23-26 - International Meteor Conference, Frasso Sabino, Italy
Sep 23-27 - Conference On Stellar Magnetic Fields, Nizhnij Arkhyz, Russia
Sep 24 - CRSS Athena 2 Launch, Successful
Sep 24 - Foton 12 Capsule Returns To Earth, Successful
Sep 24 - Asteroid 1999 RO28 Near-Earth Flyby (0.249 AU)
Sep 24 - Asteroid 1998 KK17 Closest Approach To Earth (0.574 AU)
Sep 24 - Asteroid 1990 OL Closest Approach To Earth (1.004 AU)
Sep 24 - Kuiper Belt Object 1997 TX8 at Opposition (31.010 AU - 23.5 Magnitude)
Sep 24 - Kuiper Belt Object 1997 QJ4 at Opposition (33.542 AU - 22.9 Magnitude)
Sep 25 - Telstar-7 Ariane 4 Launch, Successful
Sep 25 - Comet West-Kohoutek-Ikemura Closest Approach To Earth (1.990 AU)
Sep 25 - Asteroid 1999 RJ45 Closest Approach To Earth (0.659 AU)
Sep 25 - Asteroid 7717 (1997 AL5) Closest Approach To Earth (1.818 AU)
Sep 25 - Kuiper Belt Object 1993 RO at Opposition (30.499 AU - 22.9 Magnitude)
Sep 25 - Kuiper Belt Object 1996 TC68 At Opposition (37.949 AU - 22.1 Magnitude)
Sep 26 - LMI-1 Proton Launch, Successful
Sep 26 - Asteroid 1999 TE5 Near-Earth Flyby (0.194 AU)
Sep 26 - Asteroid 1999 SN5 Near-Earth Flyby (0.374 AU)
Sep 26 - Asteroid 1998 RO1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.375 AU)
Sep 26 - Asteroid 7803 (1997 EW2) Closest Approach To Earth (1.844 AU)
Sep 27 - Asteroid 1999 RO36 Near-Earth Flyby (0.235 AU)
Sep 27 - Asteroid 4813 Terebizh Closest Approach To Earth (1.914 AU)
Sep 27 - Kuiper Belt Object 1994 TB at Opposition (28.856 AU - 21.7 Magnitude)
Sep 27 - Kuiper Belt Object 1996 TR66 At Opposition (35.580 AU - 23.1 Magnitude)
Sep 27-30 - International Symposium On Planetary Impact Events And Their Consequences To The Earth, Yamaguchi, Japan
Sep 27-30 - IAU Colloquium 178: Polar Motion - Historical and Scientific Problems, Sardinia, Italy
Sep 27-Oct 02 - International Workshop On Particle Physics And The Early Universe, Trieste, Italy
Sep 28 - Mars WebChat
Sep 28 - Asteroid 1999 RN45 Closest Approach To Earth (0.415 AU)
Sep 28 - Asteroid 1998 EP8 Closest Approach To Earth (0.424 AU)
Sep 28 - Asteroid 7628 (1997 QY) Closest Approach To Earth (1.203 AU)
Sep 28-30 - AIAA Space Technology & Exposition, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Sep 28-Oct 01 - International Conference Of H2 In Space, Paris, France
Sep 29 - Space Intercept Test
Sep 29 - Asteroid 2047 Smetana Closest Approach To Earth (0.934 AU)
Sep 29 - Asteroid 5879 Almeria Closest Approach To Earth (0.951 AU)
Sep 29 - Asteroid 3691 (1982 FT) Closest Approach To Earth (1.190 AU)
Sep 29 - Kuiper Belt Object 1997 RL13 at Opposition (43.517 AU - 26.0 Magnitude)
Sep 29-30 - Workshop On Alerts And Lessons Learned: An Effective Way To Prevent Failures And Problems, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Sep 29-Oct 01- 8th European Space Mechanisms And Tribology Symposium, Toulouse, France
Sep 29-Oct 01 - DESY Theory Workshop: NU-EWS From The Universe, Hamburg, Germany
Sep 30 - Galileo, Orbital Trim Maneuver #73 (OTM-73)
Sep 30 - Asteroid 10115 (1992 SK) Closest Approach To Earth (0.479 AU)
Sep 30 - Asteroid 1998 SG35 Closest Approach To Earth (9.253 AU)

October 1999

Oct 01 - Deadline For Mars Microphone Essay Contest
Oct 01 - Unmanned 'Space Shuttle' Long March 2E Launch (China)
Oct 01 - Asteroid 554 Peraga Occults TYC 1885 0275 (10.0 Magnitude Star)
Oct 01 - Asteroid 1999 RC32 Near-Earth Flyby (0.338 AU)
Oct 01 - Asteroid 4450 Pan Closest Approach To Earth (0.591 AU)
Oct 01 - Kuiper Belt Object 1993 SC at Opposition (33.800 AU - 22.4 Magnitude)
Oct 01 - Kuiper Belt Object 1996 TK66 at Opposition (41.842 AU - 23.3 Magnitude)
Oct 01-03 - Mars Week, MIT, Massachussetts
Oct 01-04 - 8th Annual Antique Telescope Society Meeting, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Oct 02 - Comet P/1999 RO28 (LONEOS) Perihelion (1.231 AU)
Oct 02 - Asteroid 1999 RK45 Near-Earth Flyby (0.108 AU)
Oct 02 - Asteroid 1999 GK4 Near-Earth Flyby (0.321 AU)
Oct 02 - Kuiper Belt Object 1992 QB1 At Opposition (39.916 AU - 23.1 Magnitude)
Oct 02-04 - Workshop On Mars 2001: Integrated Science In Preparation For Sample Return And Human Exploration, Houston, Texas
Oct 03 - Asteroid 1999 CU3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.231 AU)
Oct 03-06 - 9th Annual Conference On Astronomical Data Analysis Software & Systems, Hawaii
Oct 04 - Asteroid 1999 TB10 Closest Approach To Earth (0.542 AU)
Oct 04 - Asteroid 1996 BZ3 Closest Approach To Earth (1.241 AU)
Oct 04 - Kuiper Belt Object 1998 SM165 At Opposition (33.348 AU - 21.8 Magnitude)
Oct 04 - 40th Anniversay (1959), Luna 3 Launch (Soviet Moon Flyby Mission)
Oct 04-06 - Galactic Disks 1999 Workshop, Heidelberg, Germany
Oct 04-08 - 50th IAF Congress, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Oct 04-08 - 11th Cambridge Workshop On Cool Stars, Stellar Systems And The Sun, Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain
Oct 05 - Mars WebChat
Oct 05 - Asteroid 85 Io At Opposition (10.1 Magnitude)
Oct 05 - Comet C/1999 S3 (LINEAR) Closest Approach To Earth (1.134 AU)
Oct 05 - Asteroid 1999 TO13 Near-Earth Flyby (0.032 AU)
Oct 05 - Asteroid 2917 Sawyer Hogg Closest Approach To Earth (1.495 AU)
Oct 05 - Asteroid 2469 Tadjikistan Closest Approach To Earth (2.042 AU)
Oct 05-08 - International Workshop On Strong Magnetic Fields In Neutrino Astrophysics, Yaroslavl, Russia
Oct 06 - Galileo, Orbital Trim Maneuver #74 (OTM-74)
Oct 06 - Asteroid 92 Undina At Opposition (10.8 Magnitude)
Oct 06 - Asteroid 1999 HP11 Near-Earth Flyby (0.201 AU)
Oct 06 - Asteroid 1999 RV2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.239 AU)
Oct 06 - Kuiper Belt Object 1993 SB At Opposition (29.808 AU - 22.9 Magnitude)
Oct 06-08 - Conference On The Science With The Atacama Large Millimeter Array, Washington DC
Oct 06-08 - Symposium On Applications Of Particle Detectors In Medicine, Biology and Astrophysics, Siegen, Germany
Oct 07 - GPS IIR-3 Delta 2 Launch, Successful
Oct 07 - Asteroid 1998 UP1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.107 AU)
Oct 07 - Asteroid 1999 OW3 Closest Approach To Earth (2.056 AU)
Oct 08 - Asteroid 1999 TY2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.025 AU)
Oct 08 - Asteroid 1999 VT Near-Earth Flyby (0.158 AU)
Oct 08 - Asteroid 1999 TA10 Near-Earth Flyby (0.388 AU)
Oct 08 - Asteroid 1998 TU3 Closest Approach To Earth (0.774 AU)
Oct 08 - Asteroid 687 Tinette Closest Approach To Earth (1.012 AU)
Oct 08 - Kuiper Belt Object 1997 SZ10 At Opposition (30.384 AU - 23.3 Magnitude)
Oct 08 - Kuiper Belt Object 1995 QZ9 at Opposition (34.096 AU - 22.9 Magnitude)
Oct 08 - Kuiper Belt Object 1996 RQ20 At Opposition (38.477 AU - 22.9 Magnitude)
Oct 09 - Draconids Meteor Shower Peak
Oct 09 - Asteroid 1999 TM13 Near-Earth Flyby (0.080 AU)
Oct 09 - Asteroid 1999 RP36 Near-Earth Flyby (0.307 AU)
Oct 09 - Asteroid 1999 TL12 Closest Approach To Earth (0.543 AU)
Oct 09 - 395th Anniversary (1604), Discovery of Supernova 1604 (Kepler's Supernova)
Oct 10 - DirecTv-1R Zenit 3SL Sea launch, Successful
Oct 10 - Jupiter Occults 92746 (8.0 Magnitude Star)
Oct 10 - Asteroid 48 Doris Occults TAC -16 07318 (11.4 Magnitude Star)
Oct 10 - Asteroid 3579 (1977 YA) Closest Approach To Earth (1.883 AU)
Oct 10 - Asteroid 7547 (1979 MO4) Closest Approach To Earth (1.928 AU)
Oct 10-15 - Meeting Of The AAS Division For Planetary Sciences, Padova, Italy
Oct 11 - Galileo, Io 24 Flyby, Successful
Oct 11 - Asteroid 1999 TA5 Near-Earth Flyby (0.237 AU)
Oct 11 - Asteroid 1999 RU2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.248 AU)
Oct 11-13 - 10th Annual October Astrophysics Conference: Cosmic Explosions, College Park, Maryland
Oct 12 - 1st Roton ATV Tranlational Test Flight, Successsful
Oct 12 - Asteroid 916 America Occults TAC +40 01831 (9.8 Magnitude Star)
Oct 12 - Asteroid 8476 (1986 QT2) Clossest Approach To Earth (1.043 AU)
Oct 12 - Kuiper Belt Object 1996 SZ4 At Opposition (29.126 AU - 22.7 Magnitude)
Oct 12 - 5th Anniversary (1994), Magellan Burnup In Venus' Atmosphere
Oct 12 - 35th Anniversary (1964), Voskhod 1 Launch
Oct 12-13 - 1st Gossamer Spacecraft Workshop, Oxnard, California
Oct 12-14 - The Four Candidate Earth Explorer Core Missions Consultative Workshop, Granada, Spain
Oct 13 - Comet Ge-Wang Closest Approach To Earth (1.670 AU)
Oct 13 - Asteroid 1999 SF10 Near-Earth Flyby (0.0078 AU)
Oct 13 - Asteroid 1999 TU16 Near-Earth Flyby (0.276 AU)
Oct 13 - Asteroid 3632 Grachevka Closest Approach To Earth (1.255 AU)
Oct 13 - Asteroid 4747 Jujo Closest Approach To Earth (1.719 AU)
Oct 13 - Mars Global Surveyor Lecture, Ithaca, New York
Oct 14 - Cape Canaveral Launch Pad 41 Demolished
Oct 14 - CBERS-1/SACI-1 CZ-4B Launch, Successful
Oct 14 - Asteroid 1999 SG10 Near-Earth Flyby (0.092 AU)
Oct 14 - Asteroid 1994 TF2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.292 AU)
Oct 14 - Asteroid 1998 SZ27 Closest Approach To Earth (0.513 AU)
Oct 14 - Asteroid 10860 (1995 LE) Closest Approach To Earth (0.608 AU)
Oct 15 - Galileo, Orbital Trim Maneuver #75 (OTM-75)
Oct 15 - Asteroid 1999 TM12 Near-Earth Flyby (0.074 AU)
Oct 15 - Asteroid 1999 LF6 Near-Earth Flyby (0.087 AU)
Oct 15 - Asteroid 1999 TZ4 Near-Earth Flyby (0.363 AU)
Oct 15 - Asteroid 7664 (1994 TE3) Closest Approach To Earth (1.599 AU)
Oct 15 - Asteroid 3156 Ellington Closest Approach To Earth (1.942 AU)
Oct 15-16 - Starry Nights Festival, Yucca Valley, California
Oct 16 - Asteroid 3200 Phaethon Closest Approach To Earth (1.124 AU)
Oct 16 - Conference To Celebrate 400 Years Of Astronomy On Merseyside, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Oct 16 - South Wales Association Of Astronomical Societies (SWAAS) Convention, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Oct 17 - Asteroid 1999 TN12 Closest Approach To Earth (0.455 AU)
Oct 17-24 - 4th International Conference On Cosmology, Relativistic Astrophysics, Moscow, Russia
Oct 18 - Globalstar Soyuz Launch, Successful
Oct 18 - Moon Occults Neptune
Oct 18 - Comet C/1999 J3 (LINEAR) Closest Approach To Earth (0.508 AU)
Oct 18 - Asteroid 1999 TK12 Closest Approach To Earth (0.552 AU)
Oct 18 - Asteroid 1994 WZ2 Closest Approach To Earth (0.839 AU)
Oct 18 - Micro & Nano Spacecraft Lecture, Los Angeles, California
Oct 18 - 10th Anniversary (1989), Galileo Launch (Jupiter Orbiter)
Oct 18-20 - High Energy Solar Physics Workshop, College Park, Maryland
Oct 18-21 - 4th ESA International Conference On Spacecraft Guidance, Navigation and Control Systems, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Oct 18-22 - 5th Huntville Gamma-Ray Burst Symposium, Huntsville, Alabama
Oct 19 - Orion-2 Ariane 4 Launch, Successful
Oct 19 - Moon Occults Uranus
Oct 19 - Asteroid 1999 TN13 Near-Earth Flyby (0.030 AU)
Oct 19 - Asteroid 193 Ambrosia Closest Approach To Earth (1.026 AU)
Oct 19 - Asteroid 4667 Robbiesh Closest Approach To Earth (1.432 AU)
Oct 19-22 - 2nd TAMA Workshop On Gravitational Wave Detection, Tokyo, Japan
Oct 20 - NEAR, Trajectory Correction Maneuver #20 (TCM-20), Partially Successful
Oct 20 - Asteroid 1999 TV16 Near-Earth Flyby (0.035 AU)
Oct 20 - Asteroid 1999 UG5 Closest Approach To Earth (6.575 AU)
Oct 20 - Kuiper Belt Object 1995 TL8 At Opposition (41.555 AU - 21.5 Magnitude)
Oct 21 - Orionids Meteor Shower Peak
Oct 21 - Mars Occults 186484 (7.6 Magnitude Star)
Oct 21 - Asteroid 1996 AS1 Closest Approach To Earth (0.821 AU)
Oct 21 - Asteroid 5653 (1992 WD5) Closest Approach To Earth (0.886 AU)
Oct 21 - Next Mars Landing Lecture, Pasadena, California
Oct 21 - Astrobiology Symposium, Washington DC
Oct 21-22 - Atelier PNP 1999: Formation Des Systemes Planetaires, Paris, France
Oct 22 - Galileo's First Closeup Image Of Io
Oct 22 - Asteroid 1999 UR Near-Earth Flyby (0.047 AU)
Oct 22 - Asteroid 1999 UZ5 Near-Earth Flyby (0.072 AU)
Oct 22 - Asteroid 1999 TB5 Near-Earth Flyby (0.340 AU)
Oct 22 - Asteroid 1999 VP11 Near-Earth Flyby (0.374 AU)
Oct 22 - Asteroid 11066 (1992 CC1) Closest Approach To Earth (0.511 AU)
Oct 22 - Next Mars Landing Lecture, Pasadena, California
Oct 22 - David Levy Lecture, Escondido, California
Oct 23 - Jupiter At Opposition
Oct 23 - Asteroid 1990 UA Near-Earth Flyby (0.223 AU)
Oct 23 - Kuiper Belt Object 1996 TP66 at Opposition (25.383 AU - 20.7 Magnitude)
Oct 23 - Arizona Astrometry Meeting, Sierra Vista, Arizona
Oct 23-24 - Space Memorabilia Auction, Beverly Hills, California
Oct 24 - Mercury Greatest Eastern Elongation (24 Degrees)
Oct 24 - Comet Schuster Closest Approach To Earth (0.777 AU)
Oct 24 - Asteroid 568 Cheruskia Occults SAO 96397 (8.9 Magnitude Star)
Oct 24 - Asteroid 1999 UQ Near-Earth Flyby (0.119 AU)
Oct 24 - Kuiper Belt Object 1996 TQ66 at Opposition (33.628 AU - 22.5 Magnitude)
Oct 24 - Buhl's Planetarium And Institute Of Popular Science's 60th Birthday (1939)
Oct 25 - Asteroid 386 Siegena Occults SAO 142082 (9.8 Magnitude Star)
Oct 25 - Comet C/1999 U2 (SOHO) Perihelion (0.0492 AU)
Oct 25 - Asteroid 1999 SE10 Near-Earth Flyby (0.244 AU)
Oct 25 - Asteroid 1999 VO6 Closest Approach To Earth (0.605 AU)
Oct 25-28 - Geological Society Of America Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado
Oct 25-28 - 35th International Telemetering Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada
Oct 25-29 - International Conference On Astrophysical Plasmas, Mexico City, Mexico
Oct 26 - Asteroid 186 Celuta Closest Approach To Earth (1.209 AU)
Oct 26 - Asteroid 7681 Chenjingrun Closest Approach To Earth (1.410 AU)
Oct 26-27 - 2nd Annual Microelectronics Reliability and Qualification Workshop, Pasadena, California
Oct 26-29 - CEOS SAR Workshop, Toulouse, France
Oct 27 - Express A1 Proton Launch (Russia), Failed
Oct 27 - Asteroid 604 Tekmessa Occults SAO 109603 (8.1 Magnitude Star)
Oct 27 - Asteroid 1999 RQ28 Near-Earth Flyby (0.127 AU)
Oct 27 - Asteroid 3838 Epona Near-Earth Flyby (0.374 AU)
Oct 27 - Asteroid 1997 GO27 Closest Approach To Earth (0.462 AU)
Oct 27 - Asteroid 3922 Heather Closest Approach To Earth (1.572 AU)
Oct 27 - Space Transportation Day '99, Huntsville, Alabama
Oct 27-29 - Space Resources Utilization Roundtable, Colorado
Oct 28 - Mars WebChat
Oct 28 - Asteroid 1999 TC10 Near-Earth Flyby (0.162 AU)
Oct 28 - Asteroid 1998 QH2 Closest Approach To Earth (1.775 AU)
Oct 28 - 25th Anniversary (1974), Luna 23 Launch (Soviet Moon Sample Return Mission)
Oct 29 - Asteroid 365 Corduba Occults SAO 114572 (9.2 Magnitude Star)
Oct 29 - Asteroid 7681 (1996 YK2) Closest Approach To Earth (1.412 AU)
Oct 30 - Mars Polar Lander, Trajectory Correction Maneuver #3 (TCM-3), Successful
Oct 30 - Venus at Greatest Western Elongation (46.5 Degrees)
Oct 30 - Asteroid 1999 VU25 Near-Earth Flyby (0.068 AU)
Oct 30 - Asteroid 1999 VP6 Near-Earth Flyby (0.180 AU)
Oct 31 - Daylight Saving - Set Clock Back 1 Hour (USA & Europe)
Oct 31 - Asteroid 1342 Brabantia Closest Approach To Earth (1.754 AU)
Oct 31 - Asteroid 7678 Onoda Closest Approach To Earth (2.088 AU)

November 1999

Nov 01 - Asteroid 1999 VF22 Near-Earth Flyby (0.038 AU)
Nov 01 - Kuiper Belt Object 1998 WV31 At Opposition (32.179 AU - 22.9 Magnitude)
Nov 01 - Kuiper Belt Object 1996 TL66 At Opposition (34.067 AU - 20.6 Magnitude)
Nov 01 - Lecture On Choosing Your First Telescope, Los Angeles, California
Nov 01-03 - Tech East '99, Miami Beach, Florida
Nov 01-05 - AIAA 9th International Space Planes And Hypersonic Systems And Technologies Conference, Norfolk, Virginia
Nov 01-05 - 33rd ESLAB Symposium: Star Formation From The Small To The Large Scale, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Nov 01-19 - Educators' Workshop: Water In The Solar System
Nov 02 - Galileo, Orbital Trim Maneuver #76 (OTM-76), Successful
Nov 02 - Asteroid 1999 TW16 Near-Earth Flyby (0.154 AU)
Nov 02 - Asteroid 4546 Franck Closest Approach To Earth (1.292 AU)
Nov 02 - Kuiper Belt Object 1998 WS31 At Opposition (30.523 AU - 23.1 Magnitude)
Nov 02 - Kuiper Belt Object 1998 UR43 At Opposition (30.799 AU - 22.7 Magnitude)
Nov 02 - Kuiper Belt Object 1998 WA31 At Opposition (38.561 AU - 23.0 Magnitude)
Nov 02-04 - International Space Business Assembly, Washington DC
Nov 03 - Taurids Meteor Shower Peak
Nov 03 - Asteroid 1999 VM11 Near-Earth Flyby (0.246 AU)
Nov 03 - Asteroid 11885 (1990 SS) Near-Earth Flyby (0.356 AU)
Nov 03 - Kuiper Belt Object 1998 UU43 At Opposition (36.534 AU - 22.9 Magnitude)
Nov 03 - Kuiper Belt Object 1996 TS66 at Opposition (37.791 AU - 21.9 Mag)
Nov 03-05 - Inspection 99, Houston, Texas
Nov 03-05 - National Annual Meeting Of Mexican Astronomy, Guanajuato, Mexico
Nov 04 - New Closeup Galileo Images Of Io
Nov 04 - Asteroid 276 Adelheid Occults TAC -02 11304 (11.4 Magntiude Star)
Nov 04 - Asteroid 1999 VS6 Near-Earth Flyby (0.190 AU)
Nov 04 - Asteroid 1999 VQ11 Near-Earth Flyby (0.371 AU)
Nov 04 - Asteroid 1999 TC5 Near-Earth Flyby (0.377 AU)
Nov 04 - Washington Area Astronomers Meeting, Washington DC
Nov 04-06 - Mount Magazine Star Party, Arkansas
Nov 05 - Comet P/1999 U3 (LINEAR) Perihelion (1.872 AU)
Nov 05 - Asteroid 8875 (1992 UP10) Closest Approach To Earth (0.818 AU)
Nov 05 - Conference On Developing US Launch Capability, Washington DC
Nov 05 - Tidewater Regional IDA Meeting & Outdoor Lighting Workshop, Virginia Beach, Virginia
Nov 06 - Saturn At Opposition
Nov 07 - Comet Mueller 3 Closest Approach To Earth (2.281 AU)
Nov 07 - Kuiper Belt Object 1998 WT31 At Opposition (38.289 AU - 23.0 Magnitude)
Nov 08 - Asteroid 1999 VQ5 Closest Approach To Earth (0.423 AU)
Nov 08 - Asteroid 1999 TX16 Closest Approach To Earth (0.719 AU)
Nov 08 - Asteroid 1943 Anteros Closest Approach To Earth (0.809 AU)
Nov 08 - Kuiper Belt Object 1998 WV24 At Opposition (37.190 AU - 23.3 Magnitude)
Nov 08-10 - Workshop On Massive Stellar Clusters, Strasbourg, France
Nov 08-12 - Workshop On ISO Surveys Of A Dusty Universe, Ringberg Castle, Germany
Nov 09 - Asteroid 248 Lameia Occults TYC 1260 00449 1 (10.2 Magnitude Star)
Nov 09 - Comet C/1999 S3 (LINEAR) Perihelion (1.894 AU)
Nov 09-11 - Conference On Characterization And Radiometric Calibration For Remote Sensing, Logan, Utah
Nov 10 - Mars WebChat
Nov 10 - Asteroid 13 Egeria At Opposition (9.8 Magnitude)
Nov 10 - Asteroid 141 Lumen Occults PPM 709313 (10.3 Magnitude Star)
Nov 10-12 - Workshop On The Assessment Of Data Purchase Strategies In Planetary Science, Tuscson, Arizona
Nov 10-12 - 2nd International Workshop On ERS SAR Interferometry, Leige, Belgium
Nov 11 - New Meteor Shower?
Nov 11 - Asteroid 16 Pysche Occults SAO 164047 (8.7 Magnitude Star)
Nov 11 - Asteroid 1999 TY16 Closest Approach To Earth (0.663 AU)
Nov 11 - Asteroid 1994 LC1 Closest Approach To Earth (1.280 AU)
Nov 12 - Asteroid 8176 (1991 WA) Closest Approach To Earth (0.476 AU)
Nov 12 - Asteroid 5496 (1973 NA) Closest Approach To Earth (1.485 AU)
Nov 12 - Kuiper Belt Object 1998 WW24 At Opposition (30.436 AU - 22.7 Magnitude)
Nov 12 - Kuiper Belt Object 1998 US43 At Opposition (34.359 AU - 23.4 Magnitude)
Nov 12 - Interplanetary Internet Research Seminar, College Park, Maryland
Nov 12-13 - 9th Midwest Relativity Meeting, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois
Nov 12-19 - 1999 Jordanian Leonids Meteors Conference, Jordan
Nov 13 - GE-4 Ariane 4 Launch, Successful
Nov 13 - Asteroid 1999 VQ6 Closest Approach To Earth (0.531 AU)
Nov 13 - Asteroid 1998 VR Closest Approach To Earth (0.865 AU)
Nov 13 - Kuiper Belt Object 1998 WU31 At Opposition (31.634 AU - 23.3 Magnitude)
Nov 13 - Kuiper Belt Object 1998 WA25 At Opposition (41.047 AU - 23.3 Magnitude)
Nov 13 - John Glenn Book Signing, Pasadena, California
Nov 13-19 - SC99 High Performance And Computing Conference, Portland, Oregon
Nov 14 - Moon Occults Neptune
Nov 14 - Asteroid 1999 VW25 Near-Earth Flyby (0.043 AU)
Nov 14 - Asteroid 1999 VN11 Near-Earth Flyby (0.185 AU)
Nov 14 - Asteroid 1998 TF35 Closest Approach To Earth (16.915 AU - 22.0 Magnitude)
Nov 14 - 30th Anniversary (1969), Apollo 12 Launch
Nov 15 - MTSAT H-2 Launch (Japan), Failed
Nov 15 - Mercury Transits The Sun
Nov 15 - Moon Occults Uranus
Nov 15 - Asteroid 1999 XO35 Near-Earth Flyby (0.319 AU)
Nov 15 - Asteroid 9202 (1993 PB) Closest Approach To Earth (0.865 AU)
Nov 15 - Deep Space 1 Lecture, Los Angeles, California
Nov 15-19 - Conference On Cosmic Evolution And Galaxy Formation, Tonantizintla, Puebla, Mexico
Nov 16 - Asteroid 1999 VK12 Near-Earth Flyby (0.020 AU)
Nov 16 - Asteroid 1999 TD5 Near-Earth Flyby (0.221 AU)
Nov 16 - Asteroid 1999 VL12 Closest Approach To Earth (0.888 AU)
Nov 16 - Kuiper Belt Object 1998 WW31 At Opposition (45.367 AU - 23.4 Magnitude)
Nov 16-17 - Teachers' Astronomy Workshop, Ithaca, New York
Nov 16-18 - 1999 AAS National Conference and 46th Annual Meeting, Pasadena, California
Nov 16-19 - 4th RESCEU International Symposium: The Birth And Evolution Of The Universe, Tokyo, Japan
Nov 16-19 - Darwin And Astronomy Conference: The Infrared Space Interferometer, Stockholm, Sweden
Nov 17 - Leonids Meteor Shower Peak (Meteor Storm)
Nov 17 - Comet C/1999 J4 (LINEAR) Perihelion (3.780 AU)
Nov 17 - Asteroid 1999 VV25 Near-Earth Flyby (0.024 AU)
Nov 17 - Asteroid 3607 Naniwa Closest Approach To Earth (1.211 AU)
Nov 17 - Asteroid 1999 TR11 Closest Approach To Earth (28.900 AU - 23.1 Magnitude)
Nov 17 - Kuiper Belt Object WX24 At Opposition (43.921 AU - 23.0 Magnitude)
Nov 17-19 - Program On Darwin And Astronomy: The Infrared Space Interferometer, Stockholm, Sweden
Nov 18 - Asteroid 284 Amalia Occults TYC 1333 01580 (10.5 Magnitude Star)
Nov 18 - Asteroid 1999 VR6 Near-Earth Flyby (0.078 AU)
Nov 18 - Asteroid 10165 (1995 BL2) Closest Approach To Earth (0.573 AU)
Nov 18 - Asteroid 1999 VV Closest Approach To Earth (0.848 AU)
Nov 18 - Asteroid 1998 BP26 Closest Approach To Earth (0.911 AU)
Nov 18 - Asteroid 3314 Beals Closest Approach To Earth (1.142 AU)
Nov 18 - Lecture On NASA Photos, Pasadena, California
Nov 18 - Symposium On Computational Astrobiology For The 21st Century, Moffett Field, California
Nov 18 - 10th Anniversary (1989), COBE Launch
Nov 19 - Mercury At Perihelion
Nov 19 - Lecture On NASA Photos, Pasadena, California
Nov 20 - Chinese Test Launch For Manned Flight (Shenzhou), Successful
Nov 20 - Asteroid 354 Eleonora At Opposition (10.5 Magnitude)
Nov 20 - Asteroid 1999 VX25 Near-Earth Flyby (0.017 AU)
Nov 20 - Asteroid 1997 NJ6 Near-Earth Flyby (0.241 AU)
Nov 20 - Asteroid 1999 VX15 Closest Approach To Earth (1.100 AU)
Nov 20 - Kuiper Belt Object 1998 WZ31 At Opposition (32.070 AU - 23.2 Magnitude)
Nov 20 - Edwin Hubble's 110th Birthday (1889)
Nov 21 - Asteroid 9045 (1991 PG15) Closest Approach To Earth (1.238 AU)
Nov 21 - Kuiper Belt Object 1998 VG44 At Opposition (29.475 AU - 21.3 Magnitude)
Nov 21 - Kuiper Belt Object 1998 WH24 At Opposition (41.385 AU - 20.9 Magnitude)
Nov 21-24 - Colloquium On Quantitative Socio-Dynamics Of Astronomy, Bischenberg, France
Nov 22 - UHF-F10 Atlas 2A Launch, Successful
Nov 22 - Globalstar-6 Soyuz Launch, Successful
Nov 22 - Comet Giclas Closest Approach To Earth (1.053 AU)
Nov 22 - Asteroid 1989 VA Near-Earth Flyby (0.194 AU)
Nov 22 - Asteroid 3753 Cruithne Near-Earth Flyby (0.317 AU)
Nov 22 - Asteroid 1998 YW3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.397 AU)
Nov 22 - Asteroid 1999 JV3 Closest Approach To Earth (0.546 AU)
Nov 22-26 - IAU Symposium 198: The Light Elements And Their Evolution, Natal, Brazil
Nov 23 - Galileo, Orbital Trim Maneuver #77 (OTM-77)
Nov 23 - Asteroid 337 Devosa Occults TYC 2366 01236 1 (10.1 Magnitude Star)
Nov 24 - Comet C/1999 U3 (LINEAR) Closest Approach To Earth (1.000 AU)
Nov 24 - Asteroid 216 Kleopatra At Opposition (9.6 Magnitude)
Nov 24-25 - ESTEC Workshop On Russian GNC Re-Entry Technologies, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Nov 25 - Mars At Perihelion
Nov 25 - Asteroid 1276 Ucclia Closest Approach To Earth (1.971 AU)
Nov 26 - Galileo, Io 25 Flyby, Successful
Nov 26 - Asteroid 337 Devosa At Opposition (11.0 Magnitude)
Nov 26 - Asteroid 10563 (1993 WD) Near-Earth Flyby (0.370 AU)
Nov 26 - Asteroid 1993 DQ1 Closest Approach To Earth (1.701 AU)
Nov 27 - Comet C/1997 BA6 (Spacewatch) Perihelion (3.436 AU)
Nov 27 - Asteroid 8567 (1996 HW1) Closest Approach To Earth (1.300 AU)
Nov 28 - Asteroid 1999 UM3 Closest Approach To Earth (0.475 AU)
Nov 28 - 35th Anniversary (1964), Mariner 4 Launch (Mars Flyby Mission)
Nov 29 - Galileo, Orbital Trim Maneuver #78 (OTM-78)
Nov 29 - Mars Passes 1.7 Degrees From Neptune
Nov 30 - Mars Polar Lander, Trajectory Correction Maneuver #4 (TCM-4)
Nov 30 - Asteroid 1999 XN141 Near-Earth Flyby (0.055 AU)
Nov 30 - Asteroid 1999 VG22 Closest Approach To Earth (0.457 AU)
Nov 30 - Kuiper Belt Object 1994 VK8 At Opposition (42.498 AU - 22.9 Magnitude)
Nov 30-Dec 01 - 13th European Workshop On Thermal And ECLS Software, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Nov 30-Dec 04 - IAU Symposium 1999: The Universe At Low Radio Frequencies, Pune, India

December 1999

Dec 01 - Venus At Perihelion
Dec 01 - Asteroid 7619 (1997 AP21) Closest Approach To Earth (1.057 AU)
Dec 01 - Asteroid 9245 (1998 HF101) Closest Approach To Earth (1.645 AU)
Dec 01 - Kuiper Belt Object 1998 WX31 At Opposition (40.041 AU - 22.4 Magnitude)
Dec 02 - Mars Polar Lander, Trajectory Correction Maneuver #5 (TCM-5)
Dec 02 - Asteroid 1999 VN6 Near-Earth Flyby (0.182 AU)
Dec 02 - Asteroid 1992 JE Closest Approach To Earth (1.650 AU)
Dec 03 - Mars Polar Lander/ Deep Space 2 Lands On Mars
Dec 03 - Helios-1B/ Clementine Ariane 4 Launch, Successful
Dec 03 - Mercury At Its Greatest Western Elongation (20 Degrees)
Dec 03 - Saturn Occults SAO 093040 (9.2 Magnitude Star)
Dec 03 - Asteroid 1999 RR28 Near-Earth Flyby (0.319 AU)
Dec 03 - Asteroid 6456 Golombek Closest Approach To Earth (1.673 AU)
Dec 03-05 - Planetfest '99, Pasadena, California
Dec 03-05 - 9th Annual Australian Space Research Institute Conference, Canberra, Australia
Dec 03 - 25th Anniversary (1974), Pioneer 11 Flyby Of Jupiter
Dec 04 - ORBCOMM-4 Pegasus XL Launch, Successful
Dec 04 - Comet Shoemaker 1 Closest Approach to Earth (2.027 AU)
Dec 04 - Asteroid 1999 WK13 Near-Earth Flyby (0.298 AU)
Dec 04 - Asteroid 1999 YK5 Near-Earth Flyby (0.395 AU)
Dec 04 - Kuiper Belt Object YY3 At Opposition (29.828 AU - 23.3 Magnitude)
Dec 05 - Comet Wiseman-Skiff Closest Approach To Earth (0.700 AU)
Dec 05 - Asteroid 1999 XD106 Closest Approach To Earth (0.799 AU)
Dec 06 - NEAR, Trajectory Correction Maneuver #21 (TCM-21), Successful
Dec 06 - Asteroid 1999 XK136 Near-Earth Flyby (0.042 AU)
Dec 06 - Asteroid 1999 SK10 Near-Earth Flyby (0.111 AU)
Dec 06 - Asteroid 1999 XR35 Closest Approach To Earth (0.771 AU)
Dec 06 - Asteroid 1876 Napolitania Closest Approach To Earth (1.126 AU)
Dec 06-10 - ASPRS - Pecroa 14/Land Satellite Information III Conference, Denver, Colorado
Dec 07 - Asteroid 3951 Zichichi Closest Approach To Earth (0.955 AU)
Dec 07 - Kuiper Belt Object 1998 WY31 At Opposition (44.254 AU - 23.7 Magnitude)
Dec 08 - Asteroid 9413 Eichendorff Closest Approach To Earth (1.430 AU)
Dec 08-11 - Workshop On Observational And Theoretical Progress In The Study Of Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies, Physikzentrum Bad Honnef, Germany
Dec 09 - Comet Machholz 2 Perihelion (0.749 AU)
Dec 09 - Asteroid 1999 YD Near-Earth Flyby (0.032 AU)
Dec 09 - Asteroid 3872 Akirafujii Closest Approach To Earth (1.592 AU)
Dec 09 - Asteroid 9082 (1994 VR6) Closest Approach To Earth (2.037 AU)
Dec 09 - Kuiper Belt Object 1998 WG24 At Opposition (40.599 AU - 22.6 Magnitude)
Dec 09 - Kuiper Belt Object WY24 At Opposition (41.013 AU - 23.0 Magnitude)
Dec 09 - Kuiper Belt Object 1999 XY143 At Opposition (42.264 AU - 22.5 Magnitude)
Dec 09-11 - Workshop On Helioseismology At Low Angular Degree, Stanford, California
Dec 10 - XMM Ariane 504 Launch, Successful
Dec 10 - Asteroid 6 Hebe At Opposition (8.3 Magnitude)
Dec 10 - Asteroid 29 Amphitrite At Opposition (8.8 Magnitude)
Dec 10 - Asteroid 532 Herculina At Opposition (10.8 Magnitude)
Dec 10 - Comet Shoemaker-Levy 8 Perihelion (2.721 AU)
Dec 10 - Asteroid 63 Ausonia Occults TYC 5799 00101 (10.0 Magnitude Star)
Dec 10 - Asteroid 1999 RH27 Near-Earth Flyby (0.260 AU)
Dec 10 - Asteroid 1999 XK141 Closest Approach To Earth (0.702 AU)
Dec 10 - Asteroid 4464 Vulcano Closest Approach To Earth (1.123 AU)
Dec 10 - Kuiper Belt Object 1998 WZ24 At Opposition (31.407 AU - 23.2 Magnitude)
Dec 10 - 25th Anniversary (1974), Helios 1 Launch (Sun Mission)
Dec 10-16 - PASCOS99: 7th International Symposium On Particles, Strings and Cosmology, Lake Tahoe, California
Dec 11 - Saci-2 VLS Launch (Brazil), Failed
Dec 11 - Moon Occults Neptune
Dec 11 - 1st Conference On Light Pollution, Caracas, Venezuela
Dec 11-16 - 7th International Symposium On Particles, Strings And Cosmology, Tahoe City, California
Dec 12 - DMSP Titan 2 Launch, Successful
Dec 12 - Moon Occults Mars
Dec 12 - Moon Occults Uranus
Dec 12 - Asteroid 2920 Automedon Occults TAC +10 00879 (10.5 Magnitude Star)
Dec 12 - Asteroid 7796 Jaracimrman Closest Approach To Earth (1.460 AU)
Dec 13 - Geminids Meteor Shower Peak
Dec 13 - Asteroid 1999 VT25 Near-Earth Flyby (0.210 AU)
Dec 13 - Asteroid 4561 Lemeshev Closest Approach To Earth (1.228 AU)
Dec 13-16 - IAU Symposium 179: Cyclical Evolution Of Solar Magnetic Fields, Kodaikanal, India
Dec 13-17 - 1999 Fall Meeting Of The American Geophysical Union (AGU), San Francisco, California
Dec 14 - Galileo, Orbital Trim Maneuver #79 (OTM-79)
Dec 14 - Mars Passes 0.6 Degrees From Uranus
Dec 14 - Asteroid 1998 CS1 Closest Approach To Earth (0.753 AU)
Dec 14 - Asteroid 7673 (1995 UY3) Closest Approach To Earth (1.035 AU)
Dec 14 - Asteroid 9188 (1991 RM15) Closest Approach To Earth (1.698 AU)
Dec 14-16 - 49th JANNAF Propulsion Meeting, Tucson, Arizona
Dec 14-16 - 1st European Conference On Launch Vehicle Technology, Toulouse, France
Dec 15 - Deadline For Name The Penguin Contest
Dec 15 - Asteroid 1992 QN Closest Approach To Earth (0.722 AU)
Dec 15 - Kuiper Belt Object 1998 XY95 At Opposition (41.772 AU - 22.4 Magnitude)
Dec 15 - 15th Anniversary (1984), Vega 1 Launch (Soviet Comet Halley/Venus Mission)
Dec 16 - Comet Schuster Perihelion (1.550 AU)
Dec 16 - Asteroid 1991 VF Closest Approach To Earth (0.763 AU)
Dec 16 - Kuiper Belt Object 1995 WY2 at Opposition (46.319 AU - 23.7 Magnitude)
Dec 17 - Asteroid 150 Nuwa Occults TAC +17 00745 (10.5 Magnitude Star)
Dec 17 - Asteroid 375 Ursula Occults GSC 2921 00075 (10.7 Magnitude Star)
Dec 17 - Asteroid 1999 XM141 Near-Earth Flyby (0.194 AU)
Dec 17 - Asteroid 1996 FG3 Closest Approach To Earth (0.483 AU)
Dec 17 - Asteroid 1709 Ukraina Closest Approach To Earth (1.468 AU)
Dec 17 - Workshop On Ultramafic Volcanism: From The Earth's Archeon To Io's Present, San Franciso, California
Dec 17 - 15th Anniversary (1984), ALH84001 Discovered In Antarctica (Mars Meteorite)
Dec 18 - Terra Atlas IIAS Launch, Successful
Dec 18 - Asteroid 2000 AZ93 Near-Earth Flyby (0.045 AU)
Dec 18 - Asteroid 5066 Garradd Closest Approach To Earth (1.254 AU)
Dec 18 - Asteroid 1817 Katanga Closest Approach To Earth (1.743 AU)
Dec 19 - STS-103 Launch, Space Shuttle Discovery, Hubble Space Telescope 3A, Successful
Dec 19 - Asteroid 645 Agrippina Occults HIP 027791 (7.7 Magnitude Star)
Dec 19 - Asteroid 690 Wratislavia Occults TYC 1307 01530 (10.6 Magnitude Star)
Dec 20 - Tselina-2 (SigInt)? Zenith-2 Launch (Russia)
Dec 20 - Comet Arend Closest Approach To Earth (1.417 AU)
Dec 20 - Asteroid 1999 US3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.368 AU)
Dec 20 - Asteroid 9468 Brewer Closest Approach To Earth (1.355 AU)
Dec 20 - Asteroid 3055 Annapavlova Closest Approach To Earth (1.378 AU)
Dec 21 - KOMPSAT/ ACRIMSAT Taurus Launch, Successful
Dec 21 - Asteroid 1999 YC Near-Earth Flyby (0.353 AU)
Dec 21 - 15th Anniversary (1984), Vega 2 Launch (Soviet Comet Halley/Venus Mission)
Dec 22 - Galaxy 11 Ariane 4 Launch, Successful
Dec 22 - Winter Solstice, 07:44 UT
Dec 22 - Last Full Moon Of The Century
Dec 22 - Ursids Meteor Shower Peak
Dec 23 - Asteroid 11311 (1993 XN2) Closest Approach To Earth (0.847 AU)
Dec 24 - Asteroid 2000 AB6 Near-Earth Flyby (0.018 AU)
Dec 24 - 20th Anniversary (1979), 1st Ariane Launch
Dec 25 - Asteroid 87 Sylvia Occults SAO 077604 (7.2 Magnitude Star)
Dec 25 - Asteroid 1999 XP35 Near-Earth Flyby (0.291 AU)
Dec 25 - Asteroid 1999 YA Closest Approach To Earth (0.493 AU)
Dec 26 - Cosmos 2367 Tsiklon-2 Launch (Russia), Successful
Dec 26 - Asteroid 554 Peraga At Opposition (10.8 Magnitude)
Dec 26 - Asteroid 1988 PF1 Closest Approach To Earth (1.988 AU)
Dec 26 - 25th Anniversary (1974), Salyut 4 Launch (USSR Space Station)
Dec 27 - Space Shuttle Discovery (STS-103) Returns To Earth, Successful
Dec 27 - Comet Wild 1 Perihelion (1.961 AU)
Dec 28 - STARDUST, Trajectory Correction Maneuver A (TCM-A), Successful
Dec 28 - Oko Molniya-M Launch (Russia), Successful
Dec 28 - Asteroid 690 Wratisavia Occults SAO 094809 (9.1 Magnitude Star)
Dec 28 - Comet C/1999 Y2 (SOHO) Perihelion (0.0483 AU)
Dec 28 - Asteroid 1999 WY Closest Approach To Earth (1.179 AU)
Dec 28 - Asteroid 1998 PF Closest Approach To Earth (1.684 AU)
Dec 28 - Maarten Schmidt's 70th Birthday (1929)
Dec 29 - Asteroid 14 Irene At Opposition (9.3 Magnitude)
Dec 29 - Asteroid 1999 VM40 Closest Approach To Earth (0.785 AU)
Dec 30 - Asteroid 568 Cheruskia Occults HIP 31792 (7.8 Magnitude Star)
Dec 30 - Asteroid 2000 AH205 Near-Earth Flyby (0.027 AU)
Dec 30 - Asteroid 2825 Crosby Closest Approach To Earth (0.987 AU)
Dec 31 - Galileo, End Of Galileo Europa Mission
Dec 31 - Asteroid 1999 WC2 Closest Approach To Earth (0.582 AU)

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Ron Baalke
Jet Propulsion Lab

ron@jpl.nasa.gov

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