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2017 (MMXVII) will be a common year starting on a Sunday. In the Gregorian calendar it will be the 2017th year of the Common Era or of the Anno Domini designation; the 17th year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century; and the 8th year of the 2010s decade. Predicted and scheduled events January The ESA's Solar Orbiter (SOLO) will orbit the Sun to perform close observations of the star's polar regions. January 1 Albania Bosnia and Herzegovina Macedonia Montenegro Serbia and Turkey are set to enter the European Union. February 11 A penumbral lunar eclipse will occur. February 26 An annular solar eclipse will be visible from parts of South America and Africa. March 31 The Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository is scheduled to begin accepting nuclear waste.1 June The 2017 FIFA Confederations Cup will be held. July 1 The first possible government in Hong Kong elected by universal suffrage is scheduled to take office. August 7 A partial lunar eclipse will occur. August 21 A total solar eclipse will take place the first total solar eclipse of the 21st century for the United States and the first visible in the continental U.S. since February 26 1979. Totality will occur along a path curving from Oregon to South Carolina and will last at most 2 minutes 40.2 seconds. The location and time of "greatest eclipse" will be on the western edge of Christian County Kentucky at 36.9715 degrees North and 87.6559 degrees West occurring at 18:25.4716 UTC.2 Date unknown The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is likely to be launched no earlier than 2017. It is intended as a successor to the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) which was launched in 1990. The government of China has announced it will launch an unmanned sample-return mission to the Moon in 2017 with a manned landing to follow a few years later.3 South Korea states that it will attempt a manned space mission by this year.4 Gazprom hopes that its market capitalization will reach one trillion dollars by 2017.5 India will complete construction of the Dibang Valley Dam near Roing and Anini.6 The remaining classified documents pertaining to the assassination of John F. Kennedy will be released to the public. In fiction Literature The epilogue of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (2007) takes place in this year. Set a century after the Russian Revolution 2017 is a novel by Olga Slavnikova and the winner of the 2006 Booker-Open Russia Literary Prize. The Carbon Diaries: 2017 the second book in a teenage diary series about climate change is set in this year. Computer and video games Ever17 (2002) Neo Geo Battle Coliseum (2005) Earth Defense Force 2017 (2006) Phoenix Wright: Justice For All begins in 2017 but ends in 2018. Film Cherry 2000 (1987) The Running Man (1987): The beginning events occur in 2017. Barb Wire (1996) Click (2006) Surrogates (2009) Music The Billy Joel song "Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out on Broadway)" is set in this year. The Sheryl Crow song "Gasoline" from her album Detours describes a gas shortage in the year 2017. Television Code-E (2007) Code Geass: The events of the first season are said to take place in 2017. However since the series uses a different calendar system in this case the a.t.b. calendar system the 2017 of their continuity is equivalent to 1962 AD. References "New target set for receiving waste at Yucca". ReviewJournal.com. http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrjhome/2006/Jul-19-Wed-2006/news/8571904.html.  Hermit.org Solar Eclipse Information "China Wants Men on Moon by 2017". FoxNews.com. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0293317872200.html.  South Korea reaches for space in 2017 "Russia's Gazprom Plans Pipeline to Italy". VOA News. 2007-06-26. http://www.allamericanpatriots.com/48725624worldrussiasgazpromplanspipelineitaly.  HydroWorld Big Dams