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| Date | Event | Where | Next | References |
| 2001 Nov. 18 | Leonid meteor storm with two peaks, the Asian one with a Zenithal Hourly Rate approaching 4000. | Americas; Asia/Australia | 1 | Cosmic Mirror (lead) |
| 2002 May 5 | Triangle of three bright planets, Venus, Mars and Saturn, in the evening sky. | Northern hemisphere | ? | Gallery, Fischer2 |
| 2002 Nov. 19 | Final Leonid meteor storm of the 'season', again two peaks, in bright moonlight. | Europe; Americas | 32? | Cosmic Mirror (lead) |
| 2003 Aug. 27 | Mars particularly close to Earth, closer than in almost 60,000 years - to be topped only 2287. | Globe | 18 (284) | Cosmic Mirror (story 3), MLN |
| 2003 Nov. 4 | Strongest solar flare on (recent) record, may have reached X45. | Globe | ? | AGU |
| 2003 Nov. 23 | Total Solar Eclipse over Antarctica, the first on record to be observed from the continent. | Antarctica | ? | Cosmic Mirror (lead), Harrington1: p. 151-3 |
| 2004 May 4 | Occultation of Zubenelgenubi during a Total Lunar Eclipse, seen grazing from Southern Africa. | Namibia, RSA | 46 | Fischer |
| 2004 May | Pair of naked-eye comets visible simultaneously, though both are some 80° apart (happened last in 1911). | Southern hemisphere | ? | Cosmic Mirror (story 3), Bryant1 |
| 2004 June 8 | Transit of Venus, the first in 122 years and the best-observed by far. | Almost globe | 8 | Cosmic Mirror (lead) |
| 2004 Dec. 10-13 | All nine planets lined up in the 'right' order as seen from Earth - such a constellation happens only every few centuries on average. | Globe | 329 | Sky & Tel. |
| 2004 2nd half of Dec. | All naked-eye planets visible simultaneously in the morning sky, though spanning an arc from East to West. | Globe | 9 | Arcturus (PDF; p. 20), Nat'l Geogr., Flannery1 |
| 2005 June 25 | Venus, Mercury & Saturn fit into a 2° triangle, very low in the West at dusk, though. | Not in the North | ca. 25 | Science@NASA, S&T, Knight Ridder |
| 2005 June 27 | Close conjunction of Mercury & Venus, minimum separation 5 arc min (also 2030, 2070, 2084 and 2099). | ? | 25 | Fischer3; pictures + links in the Cosmic Mirror (header) |
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