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RE: September 2008

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On Sept. 11, Venus and Mars will have a close encounter in the evening sky.

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The Night Sky Flash Sept 5 2008

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Sep ?? - RazakSAT/Cubesats Falcon 1 Launch
Sep ?? - Cosmos-Parus/ Orbcomm-CDS 3/ Sterkh 1 (Cospas 11) Cosmos 3M Launch
Sep ?? - Koronas-Foton Tsyklon 3 Launch
Sep ?? - Condor E Strela Launch
Sep ?? - Theos Dnepr 1 Launch
Sep ?? - Omid 2 Saphir 1 Launch
Sep 01 - Asteroid 1998 SD9 Near-Earth Flyby (0.024 AU)
Sep 01 - Asteroid 951 Gaspra Closest Approach To Earth (0.916 AU)
Sep 01-03 - 8th Workshop of the European Astrobiology Network Association, Neuchchatel, Switzerland.
Sep 01-05 - 7th Microquasar Workshop, Foca, Izmir, Turkey
Sep 01-05 - 3rd Heidelberg Summer School: The Art & Craft of Astronomical Instrumentation - from Optical to Infrared, Heidelberg, Germany
Sep 01-05 - High Energy Astrophysics VIRGO.UA Workshop, Kiev, Ukraine
Sep 02 - Cassini, Distant Janus Flyby
Sep 02 - Comet C/2007 Y2 (McNaught) Closest Approach To Earth (4.260 AU)
Sep 02 - Asteroid 216 Kleopatra Occults TYC 1167-00586-1 (10.5 Magnitude Star)
Sep 02 - Asteroid 3267 Glo Closest Approach To Earth (1.125 AU)
Sep 02 - Lecture: Comets, Asteroids, and Minor Planets, Baltimore, Maryland
Sep 02-04 - 7th ESA CNES International Workshop on Space Pyrotechnics, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Sep 02-04 - 3DNTT Proposal Meeting, Quebec, Canada
Sep 03 - Asteroid 1732 Klemola Occults HIP 37135 (6.8 Magnitude Star)
Sep 03 - Asteroid 10221 Kubrick Closest Approach To Earth (1.516 AU)
Sep 03 - Cassini, Distant Methone Flyby
Sep 03 - Asteroid 5254 Ulysses Closest Approach To Earth (4.140 AU)
Sep 03-05 - KICP Workshop: Viewing the Universe via the World Wide Web, Chicago, Illinois
Sep 04 - Comet C/2008 A1 (McNaught) Closest Approach To Earth (1.325 AU)
Sep 04 - Asteroid 2004 ST26 Near-Ceres Flyby (0.018 AU)
Sep 05 - Rosetta, Asteroid 2867 Steins Flyby
Sep 05 - Asteroid 43 Ariadne At Opposition (9.8 Magnitude)
Sep 05-09 - IAU Symposium 257: Universal Heliophysical Processes, Ioannina, Greece
Sep 06 - GeoEye 1 (Orbview 5) Delta 2 Launch
Sep 06 - Comet Shajn-Schaldach Perihelion (2.108 AU)
Sep 06 - Asteroid 3 Juno Occults TYC 5647-00086-1 (12.4 Magnitude Star)
Sep 07 - First Quater
Sep 07 - Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko Closest Approach To Earth (1.395 AU)
Sep 07 - Asteroid 2003 WT153 Near-Earth Flyby (0.015 AU)
Sep 07 - Asteroid 2000 RK12 Near-Earth Flyby (0.059 AU)
Sep 07 - Asteroid 3767 DiMaggio Closest Approach To Earth (1.922 AU)
Sep 07-11 - 2nd Crisis in Cosmology Conference: Challenges to Consensus Cosmology and the Quest for a New Picture of the Universe, Port Angeles, Washington
Sep 07-12 - 11th Electromagnetic and Light Scattering Conference, Hatfield, United Kingdom
Sep 07-14 - Conference: Cosmology Across Cultures, Granada, Spain
Sep 07-19 - Conference: Probing Stellar Populations Out to the Distant Universe, Cefalu, Sicily, Italy
Sep 08 - Asteroid 2001 QL163 Near-Earth Flyby (0.062 AU)
Sep 08 - Asteroid 1998 SJ70 Near-Earth Flyby (0.098 AU)
Sep 08-09 - Workshop on Simulations for ALMA, Grenoble, France
Sep 08-11 - 7th INTEGRAL Workshop: Compact Objects, Copenhagen, Denmark
Sep 08-12 - Workshop: Future Ground based Solar System Research - Synergies with Space Probes and Space Telescope, Livorno, Italy
Sep 08-12 - Meeting: Cosmic Dust - Near & Far, Heidelberg, Germany
Sep 08-12 - 12th European Solar Physics Meeting, Freiburg, Germany
Sep 08-12 - Joint European and National Astronomy Meeting (JENAM-2008): New challenges to European Astronomy, Vienna, Austria
Sep 09 - 30th Anniversary (1978), Venera 11 Launch (USSR Venus Lander)
Sep 10 - Progress M-65 Soyuz U Launch (International Space Station 30P)
Sep 10 - Cassini, Distant Epimetheus Flyby
Sep 10 - GOCE Rokot Launch
Sep 10 - Asteroid 185851 (2000 DP107) Near-Earth Flyby (0.058 AU)
Sep 10 - Asteroid 2005 QC5 Near-Venus Flyby (0.039 AU)
Sep 10 - Asteroid 9941 Iguanodo Closest Approach To Earth (1.483 AU)
Sep 10-12 - Symposium: Star Formation from Spitzer (Lyman) to Spitzer (Telescope) and Beyond, Vienna, Austria
Sep 11 - Mercury At Its Greatest Eastern Elongation (27 Degrees)
Sep 11 - Comet 7P/Pons-Winnecke Perihelion (1.253 AU)
Sep 11 - Asteroid 6249 Jennifer Occults HIP 28447 (6.5 Magnitude Star)
Sep 11 - Asteroid 2829 Bobhope Closest Approach To Earth (1.665 AU)
Sep 11 - Final presentation of the ESA BGAN-X Phase 1 Programme, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Sep 11-12 - EXPERT Scientific Payloads Workshop, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Sep 12 - Asteroid 1083 Salvia Occults HIP 1158 (5.1 Magnitude Star)
Sep 12 - Asteroid 9 Metis Occults HIP 14764 (6.0 Magnitude Star)
Sep 12 - Asteroid 216 Kleopatra Occults TYC 1163-00264-1 (9.2 Magnitude Star)
Sep 12 - Asteroid 4370 Dickens Closest Approach To Earth (0.778 AU)
Sep 12 - Asteroid 2309 Mr. Spock Closest Approach To Earth (1.942 AU)
Sep 12 - Astrochemistry Young Researchers Meeting, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Sep 13 - Uranus At Opposition
Sep 13 - Asteroid 588 Achilles Closest Approach To Earth (4.219 AU)
Sep 13 - Sally Ride Science Festival, Colorado Springs, Colorado
Sep 13-14 - Pacific Astronomy and Telescope Show, Pasadena, California
Sep 14 - 30th Anniversary (1978), Venera 12 Launch (USSR Venus Lander)
Sep 14 - 40th Anniversary (1968), Zond 5 Launch (USSR Moon Orbiter)
Sep 14-19 - 8th European Space Power Conference, Konstanz, Germany
Sep 15 - Full Moon
Sep 15 - Comet C/2006 OF2 (Broughton) Perihelion (2.431 AU)
Sep 15 - Asteroid 35352 Texas Closest Approach To Earth (0.952 AU)
Sep 15-17 - Workshop on the Early Solar System Impact Bombardment, Houston, Texas
Sep 15-17 - Meeting: Thermal Models for Planetary Science, Beaulieu sur Mer, France
Sep 15-17 - Workshop: Cosmic Dust & Radiative Transfer, Heidelberg, Germany
Sep 15-17 - Workshop: Measuring the Atmospheric Spectra of Extra-Solar Planets, Exeter, United Kingdom
Sep 15-19 - Workshop: Galaxies in Real Life and Simulations, Leiden, The Netherlands
Sep 15-19 - Modest-8b Workshop, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Sep 15-19 - Spanish Relativity Meeting 2008: Physics And Mathematics Of Gravitation, Salamanca, Spain
Sep 16 - Galaxy 19 Zenit 3SL Launch
Sep 16 - Asteroid 14424 Laval Occults HIP 8198 (4.3 Magnitude Star)
Sep 16 - Asteroid 17023 Abbott Closest Approach To Earth (1.550 AU)
Sep 16-19 - Workshop: Astrophysics with E-LOFAR, Hamburg, Germany
Sep 16-21 - 27th Scientific Instrument Symposium, Lisbon, Portugal
Sep 17 - Nimiq 4 Proton M-Briz M Launch
Sep 17 - Cassini, Distant Mimas & Calypso Flyby
Sep 17 - Asteroid 216 Kleopatra Occults UCAC2 35859936 (12.0 Magnitude Star)
Sep 17 - Asteroid 2001 SQ3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.056 AU)
Sep 18 - Comet C/2007 S2 (Lemmon) Perihelion (5.549 AU)
Sep 18 - Asteroid 205 Martha Occults HIP 105046 (6.7 Magnitude Star)
Sep 18 - Asteroid 416 Vaticana Occults HIP 84401 (5.6 Magnitude Star)
Sep 18 - Asteroid 3352 McAuliffe Closest Approach To Earth (1.223 AU)
Sep 18 - Asteroid 3568 ASCII Closest Approach To Earth (1.471 AU)
Sep 18 - Lecture: The Great Southern California Shake Out, Pasadena, California
Sep 18-21 - International Meteor Conference 2008, Sachticka, Slovakia
Sep 19 - Chandrayaan 1 PSLV Launch (India - Lunar Orbiter
Sep 19 - Asteroid 181 Eucharis Occults HIP 104297 (6.2 Magnitude Star)
Sep 19 - Asteroid 12569 (1998 VC29) Occults HIP 89341 (3.8 Magnitude Star)
Sep 19 - Asteroid 2003 SW130 Near-Earth Flyby (0.022 AU)
Sep 19 - Asteroid 9949 Brontosaurus Closest Approach To Earth (1.483 AU)
Sep 19 - Lecture: The Great Southern California Shake Out, Pasadena, California
Sep 19 - 160th Anniversary (1848), William Bonds's & George Bond's Disovery of Saturn Moon Hyperion
Sep 19-21 - 41th Italian Astroamateurs Union Congress, Biella, Italy
Sep 20 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #164A (OTM-164A)
Sep 21 - Asteroid 2476 Andersen Occults HIP 84605 (6.8 Magnitude Star)
Sep 21 - 5th Anniversary (2003), Galileo, Jupiter Impact
Sep 21-26 - European Planetary Science Congress 2008, Munster, Germany
Sep 22 - Last Quarter
Sep 22 - Autumnal Equinox, 15:44 UT
Sep 22 - Comet 147P/Kushida-Muramatsu Perihelion (2.756 AU)
Sep 22 - NCTS and ESPC Workshop, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Sep 22-26 - Conference: Searching for Life Signatures, Paris, France
Sep 22-26 - 9th Hvar Astrophysical Colloquium : Solar Minimum Meeting, Hvar, Croatia
Sep 22-26 - 4th International Workshop (DICE2008): From Quantum Mechanics through Complexity to Spacetime - The Role of Emergent Dynamical Structures, Tuscany, Italy
Sep 22-26 - 2nd MERIS/(A)ATSR User Workshop, Rome, Italy
Sep 22-26 - 2nd Network School and Meeting: Seeking Links between Fundamental Physics and Cosmology, Oxford, United Kingdom
Sep 23 - Asteroid 5641 McCleese Closest Approach To Earth (1.079 AU)
Sep 23 - Asteroid 216 Kleopatra Closest Approach To Earth (1.233 AU)
Sep 23 - Asteroid 12574 LONEOS Closest Approach To Earth (1.711 AU)
Sep 23-26 - 9th European VLBI Network Symposium on The Role of VLBI in the Golden Age for Radio Astronomy, Bologna, Italy
Sep 24 - DMSP F-18 Atlas 5 Launch
Sep 24 - Comet C/2008 P1 (Garradd) Closest Approach To Earth (3.667 AU)
Sep 24-26 - International Workshop: Multipactor, Corona and Passive Intermodulation (MULCOPIM '08), Valencia, Spain
Sep 25 - Cosmos 2422-2444 (Glonass M15-M17) Proton K-DM2 Launch
Sep 25 - Asteroid 2001 SY269 Near-Mars Flyby (0.044 AU)
Sep 25-27 - Symposium: The Invention of the Dutch Telescope, Middelburg, the Netherlands
Sep 25-27 - Workshop: Transformational Science with ALMA - The Birth and Feedback of Massive Stars, Within and Beyond the Galaxy, Charlottesville, Virginia
Sep 25-28 - 6th Annual Great Lakes Star Gaze, Gladwin, Michigan
Sep 26 - NROL-26 Delta 4H Launch
Sep 26 - Asteroid 137032 (1998 UO1) Near-Earth Flyby (0.063 AU)
Sep 26 - 10th Anniversary (1998), Galileo, Europa 17 Flyby
Sep 27 - Asteroid 2006 TD Near-Earth Flyby (0.081 AU)
Sep 27 - Asteroid 8014 (1990 MF) Near-Mars Flyby (0.022 AU)
Sep 27 - Sally Ride Science Festival, Huntsville, Alabama
Sep 27 - 5th Anniversary (2003), SMART-1 Launch (ESA Moon Orbiter)
Sep 29 - New Moon
Sep 29 - Comet C/2008 A1 (McNaught) Perihelion (1.073 AU)
Sep 29 - Asteroid 7818 Muirhead Closest Approach To Earth (0.734 AU)
Sep 29 - Asteroid 3355 Onizuka Closest Approach To Earth (1.141 AU)
Sep 29-30 - 11th Mars Crater Consortium Meeting, Flagstaff, Arizona
Sep 29-Oct 02 - Meeting: 400 Years of Astronomical Telescopes - A Review of History, Science and Technology, Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Sep 29-Oct 03 - 59th International Astronautical Congress, Glasgow, Scotland
Sep 29-Oct 03 - 2nd Hinode Science Meeting: Beyond Discovery - Toward Understanding, Boulder, Colorado
Sep 29-Oct 03 - Back to the Galaxy II Conference, Santa Barbara, California
Sep 29-0ct 03 - Conference: Dark Matter, Dark Energy and Dark Ages with Gravitational Lensing, Sydney, Australia
Sep 29-Oct 03 - Conference: High-Energy Sources at Different Time Scales, Kathmandu, Nepal
Sep 30 - Asteroid 3808 Tempel Closest Approach To Earth (1.619 AU)
Sep 30 - Asteroid 4169 Celsius Closest Approach To Earth (1.827 AU)

-- Edited by Blobrana at 15:48, 2008-09-22

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This is a special month for planet watchers, as Mercury, Mars and Venus join in a special dance against the background of the stars of the constellation Virgo.
Brilliant Venus makes the trio easy to spot low in the west shortly after sunset, with the closest combination taking place Sept. 10. The bright star to the left of the trio is Spica.
Look for the planets early in the month. Mercury will be fading, and soon both Mercury and Mars will be lost in the twilight.
Jupiter continues to hover above the stars of the teapot, constellation Sagittarius.
Saturn reached a point opposite the sun from Earth on Wednesday, and, by the end of the month, will reappear in the morning sky.

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On August 29 from midnorthern latitudes, Venus will be visible low above the western horizon after sunset. If you're lucky you might catch Mars and Mercury too. If you can't find it, keep looking during the coming weeks; Venus will set later after sunset every night, eventually becoming an unmissable "evening star."

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