2029 (MMXXIX) will be a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2029th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 29th year of the 3rd millennium and the 21st century, and the 10th and last year of the 2020s decade.
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Predicted and scheduled events edit
- January 20 – The winner of the 2028 United States presidential election is scheduled to be inaugurated.
- April 13 – Asteroid 99942 Apophis will come close to Earth.
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- Planned launch of the Comet Interceptor.
- The Fehmarn Belt fixed link between Denmark and Germany is expected to be completed.
- The Giant Magellan Telescope, which is currently under construction, is scheduled for completion.[1]
- The Three Seas Initiative (3SI) estimates to end the Rail-2-Sea project by this year.[2]
- Romania expects to have entered the eurozone by this year.[3]
- The digital time capsule "A Message from Earth" will reach its destination on the planet Gliese 581c.
- NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is expected to leave the Solar System.
- Ray Kurzweil predicts artificial general intelligence during this year. AGI is artificial intelligence that can do most things a human can do and has achieved human level intelligence. Ray Kurzweil also predicts that AI will pass the Turing test in 2029.
References edit
- ^ "The Giant Magellan Telescope". Smithsonian Global. Retrieved January 6, 2024.
- ^ "Răzvan Cuc: România susține proiectul RAIL 2 SEA, coridorul feroviar Gdansk – Constanța". Club Feroviar (in Romanian). September 28, 2019.
- ^ Ernst, Iulian (December 16, 2021). "Romania to postpone euro adoption target until 2029". bne IntelliNews.