StarDial 2000 ce, January 
Jehana

Thu Jan  6 23:13:51 2000
JANUARY 2000 CE STARDIAL - read down for the upcoming Lunar Eclipse !!*p*We've all survived the Y2K glitches, emergencies, and the end of the world.  *br*Now, rather than worrying about what's happening down here on Earth, maybe *br*we'd get a better clue by focusing out there on the celestial shebang...*p*REFERENCES:*p*Space Calendar:  *br*     http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/*p*Solar Eclipse Newsletter:*br*     http://www.MrEclipse.com/*p*Astronomy Magazine:*br*     http://www.astronomy.com/*p**br*  Jan 01 - Comet P/1999 X1 (Hug-Bell) Closest Approach To Earth (1.543 AU)*p*  Jan 02 - Comet Tempel 1 Perihelion (1.500 AU)*br*  Jan 02 - Earth at perihelion (from Sun) at midnight EST (Eastern Standard Time), 91.4 million miles.*p*  Jan 03 - Quadrantids Meteor Shower Peak*br*  Jan 03 - Asteroid 1999 YB Near-Earth Flyby (0.398 AU)*br*  Jan 03 - Moon at apogee to Earth at 252,536 miles.*p*  Jan 04 - Earth at Perihelion (0.983 AU From Sun)*br*  Jan 04 - Comet C/1999 L3 (LINEAR) Perihelion (1.991 AU)*p*  Jan 05 - Asteroid 1999 VO11 Near-Earth Flyby (0.218 AU)*br*  Jan 05 - 95th Anniversary (1905), Discovery Of Saturn Moon Elara by Charles Perrine*p*  Jan 06 - Dark Moon at 1:14 EST, don't look, you won't find her... <g>*p*  Jan 07 - 390th Anniversary (1610), Galileo Galilei's Discovery Of Jupiter's Moons*p*  Jan 09 - Asteroid 1999 XL136 Near-Earth Flyby (0.127 AU)*p*  Jan 11 - Comet Wiseman-Skiff Perihelion (1.569 AU)*p*  Jan 12 - 180th Birthday (1820), Royal Astronomical Society*br*  Jan 12 - Saturn appears stationary, 9 pm, EST.*br* *br*  Jan 13 - Asteroid 4034 (1986 PA) Closest Approach To Earth (0.401 AU)*p*  Jan 14 - First Quarter Moon at 8:34 am, EST*p*  Jan 15 - Comet Machholz 2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.319 AU)*p*  Jan 17 - Moon Occults Aldebaran*br*  Jan 17 - Three total solar eclipses will be visible within a strip of the*br*Pacific Ocean south of Hawaii over a period of only 4.3 years:  17 January*br*2447, 12 May 2450 and 1 May 2451.  Approximate geographic longitude and*br*latitude is 159 to 156 degrees West, 10 degress North.  Unfortunately, none of us will likely be *br*around to experience this.  (Ref. Jean Meeus 9/99)*p*  Jan 18 - Comet Vaisala-Oterma Closest Approach To Earth (2.993 AU)*p*  Jan 19 - Moon at perigee at 5:49 pm, EST.  223,297 miles from Earth.*p*  Jan 20 - Buzz Aldrin's 70th Birthday (1930)  Remember him????*p*  Jan 20 - Lunar Eclispe, according to Astronomy Magazine (but it does continue over into the 21st...)*br*Specifically, starts at 3:00 UT (Universal Time), 10 pm EST, 7 pm PST, and reaches totality at 4:04 UT, *br*11:04 pm EST, 8:04 pm PST.  Totality lasts 78 minutes.  Be There!  Clear skies!!! *br*  Jan 20 - Full Moon at 11:40 EST.*p*  Jan 21 - Lunar Eclipse, according to Space Calendar, which runs on UT*p*  Jan 24 - Asteroid 1999 TT16 Near-Earth Flyby (0.246 AU)*br*  Jan 24 - Asteroid 3362 Khufu Near-Earth Flyby (0.293 AU)*br*  Jan 24 - in 1925:  Famous New York Eclipse.  Its northern limit passed somewhere*br*through Manhattan: exact line between 95 and 97th Streets. Observers were *br*stationed at every intersection between 72nd and 135th Streets. New*br*York and Connecticut had clear skies.  Millions of people witnessed this*br*eclipse.*p*  Jan 25 - STARDUST, Collection Of Interstellar Dust Begins (ISP-1)*br*  Jan 25 - in 1908:  The corona of the Sun was photographed for the first*br*time.*p**br*  Jan 27 - STARDUST, Trajectory Correction Maneuver #3 (TCM-3)*p*  Jan 28 - Last quarter Moon at 2:57 am EST.  *p*  Jan 31 - Moon at apogee 8:21 pm EST, 252,033 miles from Earth.