Volume 14 Issue 1 January 2008
This Month-At-A-Glance Calendar
01. Comet 8P/Tuttle Closest To Earth
02. Luna 1 - First Lunar orbiter-1959
Earth at Perihelion (147 096 448 km)
04. Quadrantid Meteor Shower
05. Saturn Passes M-95
Cassini Titan Flyby
07. Venus Near Antares
Galileo Discovers Three of
  Jupiter's Four Largest Moons-1610
08. New Moon
10. STS-122 Launch To ISS
14. MESENGER Flyby of Mercury
15. First Quarter Moon
16. Mercury Near Vesta
17. Launch of New Horizons
  to Pluto-2005
20. Happy Birthday Buzz Aldrin
22. Full Moon
Mercury At Eastern Elongation
  and Near Neptune
24. Venus Near Pluto and
  M-20, Trifid Nebula
Voyager 2 Uranus Flyby-1986
25. Venus Near M-21
27. Comet 8P/Tuttle At Perihelion
Apollo 1 Astronauts Die
  In Launch Pad Fire-1967
28. Mercury Begins Retrograde
Explosion of Shuttle Challenger
  and Death of Crew-1986
30. Last Quarter Moon
Mars Ends Retrograde
31. Venus Near Jupiter
Launch of Apollo 14 to Moon-1971