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2061 (MMLXI) will be a common year starting on Saturday (dominical letter B) of the Gregorian calendar, the 2061st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 61st year of the 3rd millennium, the 61st year of the 21st century, and the 2nd year of the 2060s decade.

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Predicted and scheduled events

  • April 20 – A total solar eclipse will occur.
  • July 28 – Halley's Comet reaches its perihelion, the closest point to the Sun—the last return reached its perihelion on February 9, 1986.
  • October 13 – An annular solar eclipse will occur.
  • December 31
  • Expiration of the Singapore-Malaysia Water Agreement.
  • The American Association for the Advancement of Science completes an effort—begun in 1985—to "help all Americans become literate in science, mathematics, and technology," based on defined benchmarks.

    • Speculations

  • Commercial mining of the Moon's elements could be economically feasible.

    • In fiction

  • The novel 2061: Odyssey Three takes place in the year 2061.
  • Television: The Twilight Zone, Rip Van Winkle Caper (1961). Four men pull a gold heist, go into suspended animation for 100 years hoping the robbery will be forgotten.
  • May 21 – The Last Question is asked for the first time.
  • Around June in "The Rip Van Winkle Caper" episode of The Twilight Zone, three of the four gold burglars awake from a century of being in a state of suspended animation.
  • September 12 – The events of the Commodore 64 computer game Project Firestart begin.
  • Real Drive, a television show, takes place.
  • Red Mars details the first Mars revolution and the Third World War on Earth, in the plot of Kim Stanley Robinson's novel.
  • Heart of the Comet details an expedition to capture Halley's Comet
  • Galilei Donna, an anime television series, is set in this year.
  • In the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Carpenter Street", this year is mentioned in relation to the depletion of earth's fossil fuels.
  • In the video game Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, the Sentinel Task Force accompanies the 37th Airborne during the initial shock-and-awe campaign against Atlas HQ in New Baghdad on January 8. When this fails, the protagonist and his small squad are captured and subsequently break out to prevent Atlas from launching a deadly bioweapon. This proves successful and Irons is killed.

    • References

    2061 Wikipedia
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