9th millennium

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The 9th millennium is a period of time which will begin on January 1, 8001 and will end on December 31, 9000.

Time capsule

• The Crypt of Civilization, a time capsule located at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, Georgia, is scheduled to be unsealed in 8113.

Astronomical events

All these dates are in a uniform time scale such as Terrestrial Time. When converted to our ordinary solar time or Universal Time, which is decidedly non-uniform, via ΔT, the dates would be about one day earlier. Because of this difference, these dates have no anniversary relation to historical dates and should not be linked to them. Furthermore, they are only astronomical dates, so they are given in the astronomical format of Year Month Day, which allows them to be ordered.

• 8007 October 5: Venus occults Aldebaran
• 8018 December 30: Venus occults Regulus
• 8059 July 20: Similar occurrence of annular solar eclipse and a transit of Mercury
• 8136 September 6: Mercury occults Aldebaran
• 8183 October 26: Mercury occults Regulus
• 8192 October 3: Venus occults Regulus
• 8362 December 7: Mercury occults Regulus
• 8444 October 18: Mars occults Regulus
• 8492 October 30: Mercury occults Regulus
• 8674 February 27: Jupiter occults Saturn
• 8775 October 27: Mars occults Regulus
• 8881 October 14: Venus occults Regulus
• 8971 September 23: Mercury occults Aldebaran

References

• Simultaneous Transits by Meeus and Vitagliano (pdf, 315 KB, in English)
• Conjunctions of Regulus and the planets (in German)
• Accuracy of calculations (in German)