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Volume 7 Issue 02February 2001
This Month At-A-Glance Calendar

01. First Quarter Moon
02. Ground Hog Day
Happy B'day Kim
03. Luna 9 Lands On Moon (1966)
Mercury Begins Retrograde Motion
05. Mariner 10 Fly-by of Venus (1974)
Apollo 14 Lands On Moon (1971)
06. First Golf Ball Hit On Moon - Apollo 14 (1971)
Launch of STS-98
07. First Human Satellite (1984)
De-Orbit of Salyut 7 Space Station (1986)
08. Full Moon
09. Apollo 14 Splashdown (1971)
Uranus In Conjunction With Sun
11. Japan Launches First Spacecraft Ohsumi (1970)
Equation Of Time At Minimum
12. NEAR Space Craft Lands on Asteroid Eros
13. Mercury At Inferior Conjunction
Saturn At Eastern Quadrature
14. Voyager 1 Takes Family Portrait
15. Last Quarter Moon
16. Voyager 2 Spacecraft Returns Images of Uranus (1986)
Jupiter And Pluto At Heliocentric Opposition
18. Clyde Tombaugh Discovers Pluto (1930)
20. Launch of Mir Space Station (1986)
John Glenn Orbits the Earth (1962)
Jupiter At Eastern Quadrature
22. Venus At Perihelion
Mars At Western Quadrature
23. New Moon
Venus Reaches Its Greatest Brightness
24. Jocelyn Bell discovers Pulsar (1968)
25. Luna 20 Returns Core Sample From Moon (1972)
Mercury Resumes Direct (Eastward) Motion


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