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Timeline Of The Near Future

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1. Transit of Mercury and an occultation of Jupiter by Venus.






2. August will be the first time Pluto reaches aphelion since its discovery.






3. 52 UTC - Venus will occult Saturn.






4. The maximum calendar year limit within the Microsoft Windows XP - Windows Vista and Windows 7 operating systems.






5. Information on the Falklands War declassified.






6. Solar eclipse of 7 min 14 s - Solar Saros 139. Exceeding 7 minutes of totality - this will be the first time this has happened in 177 years; the last one occurred on June 30 - 1973. when the Concorde prototype followed the totality spot during 73 min






7. The Chernobyl exclusion zone becomes habitable.






8. Triple conjunction Mars






9. At 15-28 UTC - on September 14 - Venus will eclipse Jupiter.






10. Transit of Venus on June 9.






11. Asteroid 2007 VK184 has a chance of 1 in 3030 of hitting Earth in this year.






12. There will be a Solar Eclipse on August 21.






13. Triple conjunction Mars






14. Solar eclipse of 7 min 29 s (very close to the theoretical maximum) - saros 139 - 'crowing' this serie. This is predicted to be the longest eclipse during the current 10000 year period - from 4000 BC to AD 6000 (eclipse predictions by Fred Espenak -






15. Triple conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn.






16. Transit of Venus.






17. The second full orbit of Neptune around the sun since its discovery in 1846.






18. Year 2038 problem - similar to the Year 2000 problem may occur on this date.






19. The M1 Abrams will be retired from service.






20. The Voyager program is expected to terminate. Manned mission to the Moon by China.






21. Construction of Sagrada Familia to be completed.






22. On March 4 at 10-52 UTC - Venus will occult Uranus.






23. Triple conjunction Mars






24. At 15-28 UTC - on September 14 - Venus will eclipse Jupiter.






25. Sedna overtakes Eris as the farthest known spheroid orbiting the Sun.






26. With an estimated probability of 0.07% - Apollo asteroid 1999 RQ36 could hit the Earth.






27. The Green Wall of China is expected to be completed.






28. Year 2038 problem - similar to the Year 2000 problem may occur on this date.






29. Triple conjunction Mars






30. Transit of Venus on June 11.






31. Halley's Comet returns to the inner Solar System






32. 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup to be held in Russia.






33. Last year which can be represented using the File Allocation Table date format.






34. Construction of Sagrada Familia to be completed.






35. Venus occults Spica.The previous occultation of Spica by Venus was on November 10 - 1783. December 24 - The Moon will occult Neptune.






36. With an estimated probability of 0.07% - Apollo asteroid 1999 RQ36 could hit the Earth.






37. Beginning of the 16th century according to the Islamic calendar.






38. 2016 Summer Olympics to be held in Rio de Janeiro.






39. Triple conjunction of Mars and Saturn.






40. The 17th Pan-American Games to be held in Toronto. Spacecrafts New Horizons and Dawn to arrive at the dwarf planets Pluto and Ceres - respectively. Alignment of Earth - Venus and Jupiter. Rugby World Cup held in England and Wales. 2015 Cricket World






41. Transit of Mercury.






42. The Green Wall of China is expected to be completed.






43. Winter Olympics held in Sochi - Russia. 2014 FIFA World Cup held in Brazil. Expected time of completion for the World Trade Center site. The fifth report of the UN'sInternational Panel on Climate Change to be given.






44. Transit of Venus on June 11.






45. On December 2 at 12-32 UTC Mars will occult Jupiter.






46. Grand Trine of Uranus - Neptune - and Pluto. This last occurred in 1769 and 1770.






47. 'First Plutonian anniversary' of the dwarf planet's discovery - given that Pluto's orbit is just under 248 Earth years.






48. FIFA World Cup to be held in Qatar.






49. Triple conjunction Mars






50. Brood X - the largest brood of North American seventeen-year cicadas - will emerge.