The best current ( 2009 ) estimate of the International Astronomical Union ( IAU ) for the value of the astronomical unit in meters is A = m, based on a comparison of JPL and IAA – RAS ephemerides.

* 1988 – Anagabriela Espinoza, Mexican model, Miss International 2009

* See International Year of Natural Fibres 2009

2009, Materials Park, OH: ASM International.

* The International Telecommunications Union showed Internet penetration ( Internet users per 100 population ) in 2009 at 27 % for Belarus, 42 % for Serbia, 37 % for Romania, 29 % for Russia, and 17 % for Ukraine.

After the second terminal of International Airport Sofia was built the total number of passengers rose and reached 3 230 696 in 2008, and in April 2011 Airport Sofia serviced 282 694 passengers, 13 % more than the same period of 2009, when the record was 250 000 passengers.

De Palma at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival

According to the International Reciprocal Trade Association, the industry trade body, more than 450, 000 businesses transacted $ 10 billion globally in 2008 – and officials expect trade volume to grow by 15 % in 2009.

The Quaternary Period was officially recognized by the International Commission on Stratigraphy in June 2009, and the former Tertiary Period was officially disused in 2004.

In recent years, Craven Cottage has hosted several International Friendly matches, including the Republic of Ireland national football team who played Colombia and Nigeria there in May 2008 and May 2009 respectively and Oman in 2012.

The novel, which won the 2009 International Prize for Arabic Fiction and will be published in English under the title Azazeel, is set in 5th-century Egypt and Syria and deals with the early history of Christianity.

) ( 2009 ) International Don Quixote.

* Kampala International University-began operations in January 2009 operating from Quality Plaza along Pugu road. Currently, the University Centre is situated on a of land, at Gongo la Mboto area in Ilala District, 7 km from Mwalimu Julius Nyerere International Airport along Pugu road.

* 2009 – Colgan Air Flight 3407 crashes into a house in Clarence Center, New York while on approach to Buffalo-Niagara International Airport, killing all on board and one on the ground.

Tostan, France, 2009 ; link courtesy of Tostan International, YouTube.

The historic centre of Florence attracts millions of tourists each year, and Euromonitor International ranked the city as the world's 72nd most visited in 2009, with 1, 685, 000 visitors.

The first International Exhibition was only held in 2009.

Climate Change Reconsidered: 2009 Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change ( NIPCC ) ( 2009 ).

In 2009 Point Salines International Airport was renamed Maurice Bishop International Airport in tribute to the former Prime Minister.

On 28 September 2009, in what became known as the ' Bloody Monday ' massacre / 2009 Guinea protest, Amnesty International said that Guinea security forces killed more than 150 people and raped over 40 women during and following the protests.

The International Crisis Group said in September 2010 that from 2001 to 2009 the size of the armed forces has risen dramatically from 10, 000 in 2001 to a reported 45, 000 in 2010 ( though the latter figure needs to be treated with great caution.

The New Zealand Rugby Union ( NZRU ) ultimately decided to stay with the previous format for the rebranded 2010 ITM Cup, with the same four-team playoff as in 2009.

Image :: Maxime Medard-French Rugby Union Training-Moore Park, Sydney 23 June 2009. jpg | Maxime Médard

Nine's other popular recurring sporting events include the Rugby League State of Origin, British Open, US Golf Open, US Tennis Open, Wimbledon, the French Open, KFC Twenty20, Commonwealth Bank Series Cricket, and Test cricket and formerly the Australian Swimming Championships until Nine lost the rights in 2009.

Schools in Rugby include the Lawrence Sheriff School for boys ( which came top of the country in the 2009 and 2010 GCSE League Tables ), and Rugby High School for Girls, which are grammar schools.

The town's rugby football Club, Acton Nomads RFC, was founded in 2009 and won the 2010 RFU Presidents XV " This is Rugby " Award.

He was in the first class of inductees into the International Rugby Hall of Fame in 1997, and was inducted into the IRB Hall of Fame in 2009.

The Österreichischer Touch Verband ( Touch Austria Association ) became an associate member of F. I. T ( Federation International Touch ) in October 2009 with 3 official member clubs ( Touch Rugby Vienna, ACC Touch, Touch Voralberg ).

The first Rugby Union international at the San Siro took place when Italy played New Zealand national rugby union team in the 2009 end of year rugby tests.

In the fall of 2009, Spike showed live Australian rugby league semi finals games from the National Rugby League and also showed the grand final, as David Niu tried to bring professional rugby league ( National Rugby League USA ) to the United States.

Neath Rugby Football Club, the famous and very successful " Welsh All Blacks ", play at The Gnoll who have managed to win 4 consecutive titles in the Semi Professional Principality Premiership and 3 Swalec Cup titles ( Previously known as Schweppes and Konica Minolta Cups ) and are now competing in a new competition The British and Irish Cup founded in 2009.

He was head coach of England from October 2004 until November 2006, then coach of Edinburgh Rugby and joint coach of Scotland A between October 2007 and June 2009.

Leinster won the title in 2009 in their first ever final after beating Munster in the semi-final in front of a then world record Rugby Union club match attendance in Croke Park.

Teams playing in the Premiership also compete in the two European Rugby Cup, 2007, 2009, 2010

In 2009, the men joined a newly established Ivy Rugby Conference that kicked off as a separate conference in Division 1.

In 2009, the men joined a newly established Ivy Rugby Conference that kicked off as a separate conference in the Northeast Rugby Union.

* Gerald Davies – Wales and British Lion Rugby Union player, Times Journalist and Manager of the British and Irish Lions in South Africa 2009

Marlborough is home to Marlborough Rugby Club, who completed their most successful season in recent history in the 2009 / 10 South West Division Dorset & Wilts 1 North League.

* STV Rugby ( 2009 – present )

Scarborough Rugby Union Football Club moved to a new £ 4-million ground development on the outskirts of the town in January 2009, which will also be home to Scarborough Athletic Club, and the nationally achieving Scarborough Gymnastics Academy has a highly developed, specialist facility.

* Though not technically third jumpers, the Centenary of Rugby League celebrations left all teams with special jerseys for the Centenary round, and in 2009 several teams wore the same jerseys ( the Newcastle Knights, however, wore their foundation strip, in 2008 they wore a Newcastle Rebels jersey, which was the first Newcastle team in the NSWRL and played in the NSWRL's foundation season.

" The Code of Silence ", which aired 11 May 2009, was an investigative report on the attitudes towards and the treatment of women by National Rugby League players.

The team won the Bundaberg competition in 2009, won the Fraser Coast Rugby League competition in 2010 and 2011 after moving back into that competition and will now contest the reserve grade final in the Bundaberg competition against Past Brothers.