Ye olde Aprile 2000 ce StarDial
Jehana

Sat Apr  1 10:03:23 2000
StarDial for April 2000, ce.  Not an exciting month, space-wise, although we do have a pretty close fly-by.  *br*Some excitements, however, we can do without.*p**br*     Apr 02 - Daylight Savings Time begins -- you lose an hour in most of the United States.  *br*Doesn't sound like any savings to me...*p*     Apr 03 - The Moon passes 1.6 degrees south of Mercury at 8 am, EDT*br*     Apr 03-05 - 1st Annual Astrobiology Science Conference, Mountain View, California *br*     Apr 03-05 - IAF Specialists Symposium: Bringing Space Into Education, Strasbourg, France *br*     Apr 03-06 - 16th National Space Symposium, Colorado Springs, Colorado *br*     Apr 03-06 - AIAA Space Inflatables Forum, Atlanta, Georgia  (I'm not even going to ask...*br*     Apr 03-08 - 3rd Euroconference On Clusters And Associations, Cargese, Corse, France *br*     Apr 03-09 - Astronomy Week (Hence, all the conferences, which must surely rip those who want to get to them all...)*p*     Apr 04 - New Moon at 2:12 pm, EDT*br*     Apr 04 - Soyuz TM Launch (Mir-28 Crew) *br*     Apr 04 - Asteroid 1999 RQ36 Near-Earth Flyby (0.271 AU) *p*     Apr 05 - Comet C/1999 J2 (Skiff) Perihelion (7.110 AU) *p*     Apr 06 - Mars Passes 1.0 Degrees From Jupiter *p*     Apr 07-8 - 7th Annual Great Moonbuggy Race, Huntsville, Alabama (This one sounds like fun.  *br*Maybe our brave Summerlands leaders can go check this out...  http://moonbuggy.msfc.nasa.gov/)*p*     Apr 08 - Astronomy Day *br*     Apr 08 - Moon at perigee at 6:07 EDT, closest point to Earth this cycle.*br*     Apr 08 - Asteroid 1994 PM Near-Earth Flyby (0.270 AU) *p*     Apr 10 - New Hubble Space Telescope Postage Stamp Unveiled *p*     Apr 11 - First quarter Moon at 9:30 am, EDT*br*     Apr 11 - 30th Anniversary (1970), Apollo 13 Launch (Attempted Manned Moon Landing) (The one they made that *br*deadly dull movie about...)*p*     Apr 12 - Asteroid 2000 EE104 Near-Earth Flyby (0.043 AU) *p*     Apr 15 - Mars Passes 2.3 Degrees From Saturn *p*     Apr 17 - Asteroid 11500 (1989 UR) Near-Earth Flyby (0.270 AU) *p*     Apr 18 - Full Moon at 1:41 pm EDT.  *p*     Apr 19 - Asteroid 1999 VS6 Near-Earth Flyby (0.128 AU) *br* *br*     Apr 22 - Earth Day *br*     Apr 22 - Lyrids Meteor Shower Peaks (Or, the 21st.  Look both nights).  *br* *br*     Apr 23 - Easter Sunday.  First Sunday after the first Full Moon after the first *br*(and only) Spring Equinox of the year.*p*     Apr 24 - Moon at apogee 8:26 am, EDT.*p*     Apr 26 - Moon Occults Neptune, 2 pm EDT.*br*     Apr 26 - Last quarter Moon at 3:30 pm.   *p*     Apr 26-28 - 8th Workshop On The Physics Of Dusty Plasmas, Santa Fe, New Mexico *br* *br*     Apr 27-29 - Space Access 2000 Conference, Scottsdale, Arizona *p*     Apr 28 - Mercury Passes 0.3 Degrees From Venus *p**p**br*Resources:  (For whatever reason, the Space Calendar has now decided to post a million space conferences.  I'm *br*uploading the names of the most intriguing.)*p*  Space Calendar:      http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/*br*  Astronomy Magazine:  http://www.astronomy.com/*br*