The 2070's

== Notable predictions and known events ==

2070 February – The Teen Age Message, an Active SETI message sent from the 70-meter Eupatoria Planetary Radar, arrives at its destination, the star HD 197076

2074 February 22 - Asteroid 2 Pallas will make a record close approach to Earth at 1.233 AU.

2075 The ozone layer is expected to have fully recovered.[1]

2076 c. May 31 - the planetoid 90377 Sedna is expected to reach its perihelion, its closest point to the Sun. It is expected to reach a distance of 76 AU, or 76 times the average distance Earth is from the Sun. Sedna has a highly elliptical orbit, thus it is difficult to locate —at its aphelion, it reaches a distance of about 942 AU. This date is subject to adjustment as Sedna's orbit is still being refined.

2079 May 1 - A total solar eclipse is predicted for New York City, as well as Nova Scotia in Canada.[2] June 6 - The smalldatetime fields in SQL-Server databases will wrap around to January 1, 1900. August 11 - Mercury occults Mars for the first time since 578. It is difficult to observe, but the best observable occultation of a planet by another in the 21st century.

== Biblical references ==

Bede computed that the world would end in 2076, extrapolating from Biblical references and the year of Jesus' birth.[3]