2005, Year

2005, Year OTT Union Time Line

Earth Events

2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday (dominical letter G) of the Gregorian calendar, the 2007th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 7th year of the 3rd millennium, the 7th year of the 21st century, and the 8th year of the 2000s decade.

A Boeing 737-4Q8, Adam Air Flight 574, disappeared from Jakarta's radar. A week later it was founded that the aircraft has crashed onto the Makassar Strait, killing all 102 people on board. Comet C/2006 P1 Comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught), the brightest comet in more than 40 years, makes perihelion. The New Horizons space probe makes a gravitational slingshot against Jupiter, which changes its trajectory towards Pluto Gliese 581 c, a potentially Earth-like extrasolar planet habitable for life, is discovered in the constellation Libra. NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft makes its second fly-by of Venus en route to Mercury. The Phoenix spacecraft is launched toward the Martian north pole. The SELENE spacecraft launches. JAXA has called the mission, "the largest lunar mission since the Apollo program ."

In the space of a few hours, Comet Holmes develops a coma and flares up to half a million times its former brightness, becoming visible to the naked eye. Its coma later becomes larger in volume than the Sun, the second such comet in 2007 after Comet McNaught