Last trip to Upper Peninsula was twenty-one years ago October for maternal grandmother's funeral. Full moon weekend twenty-one years later: services are held in diocese graced by bishop from same small town as maternal kin in Upper Peninsula.
Launch October 15, 1997 Cape Canaveral 08:43 UTC:
Mercury 23 05 conjunct Sun 22 02 Libra
Pluto 3 53 Sagittarius sextile Uranus 4 44 Aquarius
Full Moon applying 10 52 Aries
Orbital entry July 1, 2004 Greenwich 02:43 UTC:
Moon 19 43 conjunct Pluto 20 24 Rx Sagittarius
Mars 4 32 Leo opposite Midheaven 4 08 Aquarius
Pallas 9 30 conjunct Sun 9 34
Mercury 23 24 Cancer
Spacecraft destructs September 15, 2017 transits 00:00 UTC:
Mars 6 06 Virgo opposite orbital entry Uranus 6 38 Rx Pisces
Moon 15 14 Cancer conjunct orbital entry Saturn 15 51 opposite
Mercury 4 49 Virgo
Saturday, July 8, 2017 CDT:
Venus opposite natal Ascendant 12:54
Moon opposite natal Venus 23:31
Full Moon 23:07
Sunday, July 9th CDT:
Moon conjunct Pluto 01:06
Mercury conjunct natal Mercury 16:28
Images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute/University of Arizona