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 About Astronomy and Space Logo - Astronomy Events Including Meteor Showers & Eclipses Nick Greene Astronomy Events Including Meteor Showers & Eclipses - 2008From JPL Space Calendar
First Quarter - January, February and March - 2008January
- Jan 01 - Comet 8P/Tuttle Near-Earth Flyby (0.253 AU)
- Jan 01 - Asteroid 434 Hungaria Occults TYC 5963-01049-1 (10.1 Magnitude Star)
- Jan 01 - Asteroid 838 Seraphina Occults HIP 64218 (6.8 Magnitude Star)
- Jan 01 - Asteroid 2003 FY6 Near-Mercury Flyby (0.018 AU)
- Jan 02 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #142 (OTM-142)
- Jan 02 - Asteroid 1862 Apollo Closest Approach To Earth (1.038 AU)
- Jan 03 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Dione, Pallene, Janus, Prometheus & Pandora
- Jan 03 - Earth At Perihelion (0.983 AU From Sun)
- Jan 03 - Quadrantids Meteor Shower Peak
- Jan 03 - Comet C/2007 U1 (LINEAR) Closest Approach To Earth (2.975 AU)
- Jan 03 - Asteroid 9219 (1995 WO8) Occults HIP 42353 (6.5 Magnitude Star)
- Jan 03 - Asteroid 137805 (1999 YK5) Near-Mercury Flyby (0.036 AU)
- Jan 03 - Asteroid 1913 Sekanina Closest Approach To Earth (1.798 AU)
- Jan 03-05 - 11th Young Astronomers' Meeting (YAM 2008), Kottayam, Kerala, India
- Jan 04 - Asteroid 2007 VN243 Near-Earth Flyby (0.086 AU)
- Jan 04 - Isaac Newton's 365th Birthday (1643)
- Jan 05 - Cassini, Titan Flyby
- Jan 05 - Comet 194P/LINEAR Closest Approach To Earth (0.865 AU)
- Jan 05 - Asteroid 19274 (1995 XA1) Occults HIP 73473 (5.0 Magnitude Star)
- Jan 06 - 10th Anniversary (1998), Lunar Prospector Launch (Moon Orbiter)
- Jan 06 - 40th Anniversary (1968), Surveyor 7 Launch (Moon Lander)
- Jan 07 - Asteroid 17640 Mount Stromlo Closest Approach To Earth (1.217 AU)
- Jan 07-09 - 9th International Symposium on Frontiers of Fundamental and Computational Physics, Trieste, Italy
- Jan 07-10 - International Workshop on Astronomy with Radioactivities, Ringberg Castle, Bavaria, Germany
- Jan 07-10 - 46th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, Reno, Nevada
- Jan 07-12 - International Workshop On Standard Model And Beyond In The LHC Era, Valparaiso, Chile
- Jan 08 - Asteroid 1219 Britta Occults HIP 65420 (5.8 Magnitude Star)
- Jan 08 - Asteroid 1877 Marsden Closest Approach To Earth (3.811 AU)
- Jan 08 - Web Seminar: Discover Microbial Worlds
- Jan 08 - 35th Anniversary (1973), Luna 21 Launch (USSR Moon Lander/Rover)
- Jan 08 - Sir Frank Dyson's 140th Birthday (1868)
- Jan 08-09 - American Astronomical Society Historical Astronomy Division Meeting, Austin, Texas
- Jan 08-11 - Workshop: Accretion and Outflow in Astrophysics and the 2nd Korea-Japan Young Astronomers Meeting (KJYAM), Kyoto, Japan
- Jan 08-12 - 211th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), Austin, Texas
- Jan 08-13 - 5th JETSET School High Performance Computing in Astrophysics, Galway, Ireland
- Jan 09 - Asteroid 434 Hungaria Closest Approach To Earth (1.218 AU)
- Jan 09-11 - The ASSERTive Days, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
- Jan 10 - STS-122 Launch, Space Shuttle Atlantis, ESA's Columbus Laboratory (International Space Station 1E)
- Jan 10 - Asteroid 15 Eunomia At Opposition (8.2 Magnitude)
- Jan 10 - Asteroid 2005 WJ56 Near-Earth Flyby (0.028 AU)
- Jan 10 - Asteroid 7225 Huntress Closest Approach To Earth (0.884 AU)
- Jan 11 - Comet C/2006 S5 (Hill) Closest Approach To Earth (1.673 AU)
- Jan 12 - Asteroid 2001 FZ57 Near-Mercury Flyby (0.037 AU)
- Jan 12 - Asteroid 520 Franziska Occults HIP 4559 (6.7 Magnitude Star)
- Jan 13 - Comet 108P/Ciffreo Closest Approach To Earth (1.484 AU)
- Jan 13 - Comet P/2007 C2 (Catalina) Closest Approach To Earth (2.881 AU)
- Jan 13-16 - 30th Annual Pacific Telecommunications Council (PTC) Conference, Honolulu, Hawaii
- Jan 14 - MESSENGER, 1st Mercury Flyby
- Jan 14 - Ulysses, Maximum North Solar Latitude (79.8 Degrees)
- Jan 14 - Thuraya 3 Zenit 3SL Launch
- Jan 14-15 - JETSET Board & Science Meetings, Galway, Ireland
- Jan 14-16 - 1st Meeting of the International Primitive Body Exploration Working Group (IPEWG), Okinawa, Japan
- Jan 15 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #143 (OTM-143)
- Jan 15 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Methone & Pandora
- Jan 15 - Comet C/2005 L3 (McNaught) Perihelion (5.593 AU)
- Jan 15 - Comet Shoemaker-Holt 2 Near-Jupiter Flyby (0.255 AU)
- Jan 15 - NSTA Web Seminar: Nanoscale Science: Activities for Grades 6-12
- Jan 16 - Comet C/2007 T6 (Catalina) Closest Approach To Earth (1.598 AU)
- Jan 16 - Comet Mueller 5 Closest Approach To Earth (3.267 AU)
- Jan 16 - Lecture: The International Space Station as a Laboratory and Technology, Tallahassee, Florida
- Jan 16-17 - 3rd Grid and eCollaboration Workshop for the Earth Science Community, Frascati, Italy
- Jan 16-18 - Conference: Surveys and Simulations of Large-Scale Structure, Berkeley, California
- Jan 16-18 - 2nd International Conference on the State of Remote Sensing Law, Oxford, Mississippi
- Jan 19 - Asteroid 10792 Ecuador Closest Approach To Earth (2.278 AU)
- Jan 19-24 - SPIE Photonics West Conference, San Jose, California
- Jan 19-Feb 01 - 8th COSPAR Capacity Building Workshop: Space Astrophysics with NASA & ESA Missions - Swift, Chandra, and XMM/Newton, Alexandria, Egypt
- Jan 20 - Theos Dnepr 1 Launch
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