Astronomy Calendar - 2008
May (contintued)
- May 26-29 - Conference: The Solar System Bodies - from Optics to Geology, Kharkiv, Ukraine
- May 26-29 - 4th Workshop on Compact Steep Spectrum and GHz-Peaked Spectrum Radio Sources, Riccione, Italy
- May 26-30 - Workshop: Gamma Doradus Stars in the COROT Fields, Nice, France
- May 26-30 - 4S Symposium: Small Satellites Systems and Services, Rhodes, Greece
- May 26-31 - 23rd International Conference On Neutrino Physics And Astrophysics (Neutrino 2008), Christchurch, New Zealand
- May 27 - Comet P/2001 K1 (NEAT) Perihelion (2.469 AU)
- May 27 - Asteroid 1995 CS Near-Mars Flyby (0.032 AU)
- May 27-30 - 2008 Joint Assembly (AGU, AAGG, CIGMEX, GS, MSA, SBGf, SEG, SPD/AAS and UMEC), Fort Lauderdale, Florida
- May 27-30 - 30th ESA Antenna Workshop on Antennas for Earth Observation, Science, Telecommunication and Navigation Space Mission, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
- May 27-30 - Conference: The X-ray Universe 2008, Granada, Spain
- May 28 - Cassini, Titan Flyby
- May 28 - Comet 79P/du Toit-Hartley Perihelion (1.230 AU)
- May 28-31 - 1st international HEPPA Workshop: High-Energy Particle Precipitation in the Atmosphere, Helsinki, Finland
- May 29 - Comet 15P/Finlay Closest Approach To Earth (1.342 AU)
- May 29-Jun 01 - 27th International Space Development Conference, Washington DC
- May 30 - Asteroid 2005 YY128 Near-Mercury Flyby (0.022 AU)
- May 31 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #158 (OTM-158)
- May 31 - Asteroid 9252 Goddard Closest Approach To Earth (2.137 AU)
- May 31 - 10th Anniversary (1998), Galileo, Europa 15 Flyby
- May 31-Jun 04 - 120th Annual Meeting of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, St. Louis, Missouri
June
- Jun 01 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Pallene & Janus
- Jun 01-05 - 212th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS), St. Louis, Missouri
- Jun 01-06 - International Workshop: Solar Variability, Earth's Climate and the Space Environment, Bozeman, Montana
- Jun 01-06 - 14th International Symposium on Particles, Strings, and Cosmology (PASCOS 08), Waterloo, Canada
- Jun 01-08 - 26th International Symposium on Space Technology and Science (ISTS): Challenge Spirits for Infinite Space, Hamamatsu, Japan
- Jun 02 - Comet C/2007 W3 (LINEAR) Perihelion (1.776 AU)
- Jun 02 - Asteroid 32096 Puckett Closest Approach To Earth (1.338 AU)
- Jun 02 - 5th Anniversary (2003), Mars Express/ Beagle 2 Launch
- Jun 02 - 25th Anniversary (1983), Venera 15 Launch (USSR Venus Orbiter)
- Jun 02-04 - Melbourne Neutrino Theory Workshop, Melbourne, Australia
- Jun 02-05 - 7th European Conference on Synthetic Aperture Radar (EUSAR 2008), Friedrichshafen, Germany
- Jun 02-05 - 7th International ESA Conference on Guidance, Navigation & Control Systems (GNC 2008), Ireland
- Jun 03 - Asteroid 9249 Yen Closest Approach To Earth (1.099 AU)
- Jun 03 - Asteroid 416 Vaticana Closest Approach To Earth (1.171 AU)
- Jun 03 - Asteroid 9349 Lucas Closest Approach To Earth (1.205 AU)
- Jun 03 - Asteroid 2362 Mark Twain Closest Approach To Earth (1.283 AU)
- Jun 03 - 200-inch Hale Telescope's 60th Birthday (1948)
- Jun 04-06 - Scientific Workshop: The Central Kiloparsec - Active Galactic Nuclei and Their Hosts, Crete, Italy
- Jun 05 - Asteroid 25275 Jocelynbell Closest Approach To Earth (1.603 AU)
- Jun 05 - Comet C/2006 U6 (Spacewatch) Perihelion (2.498 AU)
- Jun 06 - Kuiper Belt Object 28978 Ixion Closest Approach To Earth (40.804 AU)
- Jun 06 - 25th Anniversary (1983), Venera 16 Launch (USSR Venus Orbiter)
- Jun 07 - Comet 86P/Wild 3 Closest Approach To Earth (1.290 AU)
- Jun 07 - Asteroid 67 Asia Closest Approach To Earth (1.124 AU)
- Jun 08 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Pan & Pandora
- Jun 08 - New Horizons, Crosses Saturn's Orbit
- Jun 08 - Asteroid 5471 Tunguska Closest Approach To Earth (1.786 AU)
- Jun 09 - Kuiper Belt Object 50000 Quaoar Closest Approach To Earth (42.230 AU)
- Jun 09-13 - IAU Symposium 254: The Galaxy Disk in Cosmological Context, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Jun 10 - Asteroid 7328 Casanova Closest Approach To Earth (1.499 AU)
- Jun 10 - 5th Anniversary (2003), Mars Exploration Rover A (Spirit) Launch
- Jun 10 - 35th Anniversary (1973), Explorer 49 Launch (Moon Orbiter)
- Jun 10-12 - ISCe Satellite and Communications Conference, San Diego, Califronia
- Jun 10-13 - Workshop: Gas and Stars in Galaxies - A Multi-Wavelength 3D Perspective, Garching, Germany
- Jun 10-17 - 11th Synthesis Imaging Workshop, Socorro, New Mexico
- Jun 12 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Titan
- Jun 12 - Asteroid 2099 Opik Closest Approach To Earth (1.541 AU)
- Jun 12-14 - International Workshop: Post Newton 2008, Jena, Germany
- Jun 13 - Comet C/2007 W1 (Boattini) Near-Earth Flyby (0.209 AU)
- Jun 13 - Asteroid 7610 Sudbury Closest Approach To Earth (1.952 AU)
- Jun 13-15 - 3rd International Conference on the Nature and Ontology of Spacetime, Montreal, Canada
- Jun 13-15 - Annual CanSat Competition, Amarillo, Texas
- Jun 15 - OSTM/Jason 2 Delta 2 Launch
- Jun 15 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Epimetheus & Prometheus