StarDial, September Jehana Thu Aug 31 17:11:05 2000 September 2000 StarDial. Except for Fall Equinox, a pretty lame stellar showing...)*p**br* Sep 01 - Asteroid 2000 NX3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.200 AU)*br* Sep 01 - Asteroid 1566 Icarus Near-Earth Flyby (0.380 AU)*p* Sep 04 - Asteroid 2000 ET70 Near-Earth Flyby (0.190 AU)*p* Sep 05 - First quarter Moon at 12:27 pm EDT*p* Sep 06 - Asteroid 2100 Ra-Shalom Near-Earth Flyby (0.1896 AU) (I *p*suspect a typo in the name, as we don't know what will be discovered in the year 2100...)*p* Sep 07 - Asteroid 2000 PF5 Near-Earth Flyby (0.174 AU)*br* Sep 07 - Jupiter passes 5° north of Aldebaran, 2 pm EDT*p* Sep 08 - Moon at apogee (251,507 miles from Earth), 8:36 pm EDT*br* Sep 08 - STS-106 Launch, Space Shuttle Atlantis, International Space *p*Station-2A.2B*br* Sep 08 - Asteroid 2000 PZ5 Near-Earth Flyby (0.389 AU)*p* Sep 09 - Comet Encke Perihelion (0.340 AU)*br* Sep 09 - Asteroid 1994 ES1 Near-Mars Flyby (0.076 AU)*br* Sep 09 - Asteroid 1998 UO1 Closest Approach To Earth (0.409 AU)*br* Sep 09 - 25th Anniversary (1975), Viking 2 Launch (Mars *br*Lander/Orbiter)*p* Sep 12 - Saturn appears stationary, 4 pm EDT*p* Sep 13 - Full Moon at 3:37 pm EDT*p* Sep 14 - Comet Kojima Perihelion (2.003 AU)*br** Sep 14 - Asteroid 2000 PQ27 Near-Earth Flyby (0.316 AU)*p* Sep 18 - Comet Wolf Closest Approach To Earth (1.523 AU) (I like the name. Actually, they are named after the primary discoverer.)*br* Sep 18 - Asteroid 8407 (1991 CB1) Near-Earth Flyby (0.2477 AU)*br* Sep 18 - Venus passes 3° north of Spica, 3 pm EDT*br* Sep 18 - Moon passes 1.8° south of Saturn, 9 pm EDT*p* Sep 19 - Asteroid 2000 DP107 Near-Earth Flyby (0.048 AU)*br* Sep 19 - Moon passes 2° south of Jupiter at 3 pm EDT*br* *br* Sep 20 - Last quarter Moon at 9:28 pm EDT*p* Sep 21 - Asteroid 2000 DM8 Closest Approach To Earth (0.494 AU)*p* Sep 22 - Autumnal Equinox, 17:11 UT, 1:27 pm EDT*br* Sep 22 - Asteroid 2000 PK5 Near-Earth Flyby (0.324 AU)*p* Sep 24 - Asteroid 2000 OG8 Near-Earth Flyby (0.262 AU)*br* Sep 24 - John Young's 70th Birthday (1930)*p* Sep 25 - Asteroid 2000 PH6 Near-Earth Flyby (0.339 AU)*br* Sep 25 - Moon passes 2° north of Mars, 1 pm EDT*p* Sep 26 - Asteroid 2000 BJ19 Closest Approach To Earth (0.666 AU) (the Asteroid of the Beast???)*p* Sep 27 - Asteroid 1999 SN5 Near-Earth Flyby (0.300 AU)*br* Sep 27 - Asteroid 1998 RO1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.314 AU)*br* Sep 27 - New Moon at 3:53 pm EDT*p* Sep 29 - Jupiter appears stationary, 10 am EDT*p* http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/ - Space Calendar*br* http://www.astronomy.com/ - Astronomy Magazine*p**br*