Volume 16 Issue 1 January 2010
This Month-At-A-Glance Calendar
02. Luna 1 - First Lunar orbiter-1959
03. Quadrantid Meteor Shower
Earth at Perihelion (147 097 907 km)
04. Mercury at Inferior Conjunction
07. Last Quarter Moon
11. Venus at Superior Conjunction
12. Cassini Flyby of Saturn's moon Titan
14. Saturn Begins Retrograde Motion
15. New Moon
Annular Solar Eclipse
Mercury Ends retrograde Motion
20. Happy Birthday Buzz Aldrin
23. First Quarter Moon
27. Mercury at Western Elongation
Mars Closest to Earth
Apollo 1 Astronauts Die
  In Launch Pad Fire-1967
28. Cassini Flyby of Saturn's moon Titan
Explosion of Shuttle Challenger
  and Death of Crew-1986
29. Mars at Opposition
30. Full Moon
31. Launch of Apollo 14 to Moon-1971