2010: The Year We Make Contact

2010 (MMX) is a common year that started on a Friday and is the current year. In the Gregorian calendar, it is the 2010th year of the Common Era or the Anno Domini designation; the 10th year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century; and the 1st of the 2010s decade.

The United Nations has designated 2010 the International Year of Biodiversity andInternational Year of Youth.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010

Predicted and scheduled events

November

• November – The final space shuttle mission, STS-134, is scheduled to launch.

• November – The first Peruvian nanosatellite will be launched from Russia.^{[38][39][40][41]}
• November 29 – December 10 – 2010 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Cancún, Mexico, also referred to as the 16th Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 16), it serves too as the 6th meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (CMP 6).^[42][43]