2060s
The 2060s decade will begin on January 1, 2060 and will end on December 31, 2069.
Notable predictions and known events
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- November 11 – Transit of Mercury
- November 22 – 12:45 UTC—Venus will occult Jupiter. It will be very difficult to observe from Earth, because the elongation of Venus and Jupiter from the Sun at this time will be only 7 degrees. This event will be the first occultation of a planet by another since January 3, 1818; however the next will occur less than two years later, on July 15, 2067.
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- The UK will have at least half a million people aged over 100. [3]
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- February 15 – Assuming no further extensions to the term of copyrights become law in the interim, all sound recordings fixed before February 15, 1972 will enter the public domain in the U.S.[4]
- July 15 – 11:56 UTC—Mercury will occult Neptune. This rare event will be very difficult to observe from Earth.
- October – A METI message Cosmic Call 1 sent from the 70-meter Eupatoria Planetary Radar arrives at its destination, HD 178428 star.
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Metaphysical speculation
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- Isaac Newton predicted that the world, according to his interpretation of the Bible, would end no sooner than 2060.[5][6]
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Fictional references
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- In The Planet of Doubt, the Young expedition explores Uranus.
- On September 14, according to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, the United Nations Starship Unity launches from the remnants of Earth to the Alpha Centauri System and the planet Chiron.
- BE, a concept album by Swedish progressive metal band Pain of Salvation, tells that in this year the human population will be reduced to only 1.2 million.
- The storyline of the anime The Wonderful Galaxy of Oz is set in the year 2060.
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