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This article is about the year 2017.
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MMXVIIAb urbe condita 2770 Armenian calendar 1466
ԹՎ ՌՆԿԶAssyrian calendar 6767 Bahá'í calendar 173 – 174 Bengali calendar 1424 Berber calendar 2967 British Regnal year 65 Eliz. 2 – 66 Eliz. 2 Buddhist calendar 2561 Burmese calendar 1379 Byzantine calendar 7525 – 7526 Chinese calendar 丙申年十二月初四日
(4653/4713-12-4)— to —丁酉年十一月十四日
(4654/4714-11-14)Coptic calendar 1733 – 1734 Ethiopian calendar 2009 – 2010 Hebrew calendar 5777 – 5778 Hindu calendars - Bikram Samwat 2073 – 2074 - Shaka Samvat 1939 – 1940 - Kali Yuga 5118 – 5119 Holocene calendar 12017 Iranian calendar 1395 – 1396 Islamic calendar 1438 – 1439 Japanese calendar Heisei 29
(平成29年)Korean calendar 4350 Minguo calendar ROC 106
民國106年Thai solar calendar 2560 Unix time 1483228800 – 1514764799
2017 (MMXVII) will be a common year starting on a Sunday. In the Gregorian calendar, it will be the 2017th year of the Common Era, or of the Anno Domini designation; the 17th year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century; and the 8th year of the 2010s decade.Predicted and scheduled events
January
- The ESA's Solar Orbiter (SOLO) will be launched to orbit the Sun, aiming to perform close observations of its polar regions.
February
- February 11 – A penumbral lunar eclipse will occur.
- February 26 – An annular solar eclipse will be visible from parts of South America and Africa.
July
- July 1 – The first possible government in Hong Kong elected by universal suffrage is scheduled to take office.
August
- August 7 – A partial lunar eclipse will occur.
- August 21 – A total solar eclipse will take place. This will be the first total solar eclipse of the 21st century for the United States, and the first visible in the continental U.S. since February 26, 1979. Totality will occur along a path curving from Oregon to South Carolina, and will last at most for 2 minutes and 40.2 seconds. The location and time of "greatest eclipse" will be on the western edge of Christian County, Kentucky, at 36.9715 degrees north and 87.6559 degrees west, occurring at 18:25 UTC.[1]
October
- NASA's Juno Jupiter exploration probe is scheduled to end its mission and be deorbited.[2]
December
- December – NASA is expected to conduct the maiden flight of the Space Launch System, the replacement for the Space Shuttle program, which was ended in 2011.[3]
Date unknown
- The government of China has announced it will launch an unmanned sample-return mission to the Moon in 2017, with a manned landing to follow a few years later.[4][5]
- South Korea states that it will attempt a manned space mission by this year.[6]
- NASA will conduct a test flight of its new deep-space rocket, the Space Launch System, in 2017. [7]
- Russian natural gas company Gazprom hopes that its market capitalization will reach one trillion dollars by 2017.[8]
- The Dibang Valley Dam in Arunachal Pradesh, India, will be completed, becoming India's largest hydroelectric dam and the tallest concrete dam in the world.[9]
- The remaining classified documents pertaining to the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy will be released to the public.
In fiction
Literature
- The epilogue of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007) takes place in this year.
- Set a century after the Russian Revolution, 2017 is a novel by Olga Slavnikova, and the winner of the 2006 Booker-Open Russia Literary Prize.
- The Carbon Diaries: 2017, the second book in a teenage diary series about climate change, is set in 2017.
Computer and video games
- Ever17 (2002)
- Neo Geo Battle Coliseum (2005)
- Earth Defense Force 2017 (2006)
- Phoenix Wright: Justice For All (2006): The story begins in 2017, but ends in 2018.
Film
- Cherry 2000 (1987)
- The Running Man (1987): The beginning events occur in 2017.
- Barb Wire (1996)
- Click (2006)
- Surrogates (2009)
Music
- The Billy Joel song "Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)" is set in this year.
- The Sheryl Crow song "Gasoline", from her album Detours, describes a gas shortage in 2017.
Television
- The Name of the Game: A 1971 episode of the series is entitled L.A. 2017. Notable as the first feature-length piece directed by Steven Spielberg, the episode features Gene Barry as a magazine publisher transported to a dystopian Los Angeles in 2017, where the residents have been driven underground by pollution.
- Code-E (2007)
- Code Geass (2006): The events of the first season of the series are said to take place in 2017. However, since Code Geass uses the fictional a.t.b. calendar system, the year 2017 of its continuity is equivalent to 1962 AD.
References
- ^ Hermit.org Solar Eclipse Information
- ^ "Juno Mission to Jupiter" NASA. Retrieved October 15, 2011.
- ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/15/science/space/15nasa.html NASA Unveils New Rocket Design New York Times
- ^ "China Wants Men on Moon by 2017". FoxNews.com. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,178722,00.html.
- ^ "China's Moon Ambitions: Rover in 2013, Bring Home Samples in 2017, and a Manned Base to Follow". PopSci. http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-05/chinas-moon-ambitions-rover-2013-sample-return-2017-and-manned-base-follow.
- ^ South Korea reaches for space in 2017
- ^ Reuters News Agency, September 15, 2011
- ^ "Russia's Gazprom Plans Pipeline to Italy". VOA News. 2007-06-26. http://www.allamericanpatriots.com/48725624_world_russias_gazprom_plans_pipeline_italy.
- ^ HydroWorld – Big Dams
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