2007 in science
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Scientific events scheduled to occur in the year 2007 include:
- February 28 - The New Horizons space probe will make a gravitational slingshot against Jupiter to change its trajectory towards Pluto.
- March 3-March 4 - Total lunar eclipse.
- March 19 - Partial solar eclipse.
- May 19 - The 23rd annual United States National Science Olympiad tournament will be held in Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas.
- June 5 - NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft will make its second flyby of Venus en route to Mercury.
- June 20 - NASA's Dawn spacecraft is scheduled to be launched.
- August 30-September 3 - The 65th World Science Fiction Convention will take place in Yokohama, Japan.
- November - The Large Hadron Collider, a particle accelerator and collider at CERN in France and Switzerland, is scheduled to be switched on.
- Uranus' orbit will be positioned such that the Sun shines directly above its equator.
