Page Created and Maintained by Ken
Murphy Space Calendar for 2013 January 1: Earth at
perihelion—closest point to the Sun
January 21: Jupiter & Moon conjunction—evening sky
February 1: 10th Anniversary Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster
February 8: Mars & Mercury conjunction—evening sky
February 10: Chinese New Year—Year of the Snake
March 8: Comet PANSTARRS begins its best 2 weeks, low in the west
after sunset.
March 10: Spring ahead! Daylight Saving Time begins.
March 20: Spring begins—officially at 6:02am CDT
April 25: Partial Lunar Eclipse—not visible in N. America
April 27: Saturn at opposition—up all night
April 28: Launch of IRIS—Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph, UV
Solar Telescope
May 9: Partial Solar Eclipse—Hawaii, N. Australia, Pacific
May 15: 50th Anniversary, Mercury 9—Gordon Cooper
May 28: Venus, Jupiter & Mercury conjunction-evening sky
June 16: 50th Anniversary, 1st Woman In Space—Russian Valentina
Tereshkova
June 21: Summer starts at the solstice, 12:04am CDT
July 1: Dwarf planet Pluto at opposition
July 5: Earth at aphelion—farthest point from the Sun
July 21: Venus & bright star Regulus—evening sky
July 22: Mars & Jupiter conjunction—morning sky
August 12: Launch of LADEE--Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment
Explorer
August 12: Perseid Meteor Shower peaks.
August 26: Neptune at opposition.
September 8: Venus & Moon conjunction —evening sky
September 20: Venus & Saturn conjunction —evening sky
September 22: Fall arrives—Autumnal Equinox at 3:44pm CDT
October 2: Uranus at opposition.
October 9: Juno-Earth Flyby—Juno arrives Jupiter July 2016
October 28: 75th Anniversary, War of the Worlds broadcast
November 1: Launch of Mars Orbiter—India
November 3: Total Solar Eclipse—mid Atlantic, central
Africa—partial for east coast of N. America
November 4: Fall back! Daylight Saving Time ends.
December 13: Geminid Meteor Shower peaks.
November 30: Possible bright Comet ISON in morning sky.
December 21: Winter commences at solstice, 11:11am CST.
