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Volume 7 Issue 01January 2001
This Month At-A-Glance Calendar

02. First Quarter Moon
Luna 1 Is First To Orbit The Sun (1959)
New Jupiter Moon Discovered, Elara (1905)
03. Quadrantid Meteor Shower
04. Earth at Perihelion (147 100 000 km)
07. Galileo Discovers Moons Of Jupiter (1610)
09. Full Moon
Total Lunar Eclipse (Visible from Europe)
11. William Herschel discovers Uranus Moon Titania (1787)
14. Soyuz 4, Soyuz 5 Complete First Space Docking (1969)
15. Earth Flyby - Stardust Spacecraft
16. Last Quarter Moon
17. Venus at Greatest Eastern Elongation
18. Scheduled Launch of STS-98
24. New Moon
Launch of STS-51-C Discovery (1985)
Voyager 2 Closest Approach to Uranus (1986)
25. Launch of IRAS (1983)
Jupiter and Saturn End Retrograde Motion
26. Neptune in Conjunction With the Sun
27. Apollo 1 Astronauts Die In Fire (1967)
Discovery of Jupiter Moon Pasiphae (1908)
28. Explosion of Shuttle Challenger and Deaths of Crew (1986)
Mercury at Greatest Eastern Elongation
31. Mars Global Surveyor Mission Ends
Launch of Apollo 14 to Moon (1971)
Launch of Luna 9 to moon (1966)


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