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Space News Update
- November 9, 2018 -
In
the News
Story 1:
Multimessenger
Links to NASA’s Fermi Mission Show
How Luck
Favors the
Prepared
Story 2:
Galaxy-Scale Fountain Seen in Full Glory with
Infalling
And Outflowing Gas
Story 3:
Scientists Push Back Against Harvard 'Alien Spacecraft'
Theory
Departments
The Night Sky
ISS Sighting
Opportunities
NASA-TV
Highlights
Space Calendar
Food for Thought
Space Image of the WeekSlide2
Multimessenger
Links to NASA’s Fermi Mission Show How Luck Favors the PreparedSlide3
Galaxy-Scale Fountain Seen in Full Glory with
Infalling And Outflowing GasSlide4
Scientists Push Back Against Harvard 'Alien Spacecraft' TheorySlide5
The Night Sky
Monday, November 12• Vega is the brightest star in the west in early evening. Its little constellation Lyra extends to its left. Somewhat farther left, about a fist and a half at arm's length from Vega, is 3rd-magnitude Albireo, the beak of Cygnus the Swan. Albireo is one of the finest and most colorful double stars for small telescopes.
• Algol should be at its minimum brightness for a couple hours centered on 8:10 p.m. EST. If you glance up at Algol at any
random
time, you have only a 1 in 30 chance of catching it at least a magnitude fainter than normal.
Friday, November 9
• As twilight fades, the crescent Moon in the southwest directs you down to Mercury and fainter Antares, as shown above. Too early the sky will still be too bright; look too late and they'll be too low or setting! Your best chance will probably be 20 to 30 minutes after sunset. Bring binoculars.
• Algol should be at its minimum brightness, magnitude 3.4 instead of its usual 2.1, for a couple hours centered on 11:21 p.m. EST (8:21 p.m. PST).
• Happy 84th birthday, Carl Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996). If only.
Saturday
, November 10
• The "star" glowing upper left of the crescent Moon during and just after dusk is Saturn, as shown here. It's currently 4,075 times more distant than the Moon.
Sunday
, November 11• These evenings Capella is the brightest star in the northeast, climbing the sky as winter approaches. It's the equal of Vega, which is descending in the northwest as summer fades into the past.Look for the Pleiades to Capella's right by three fists at arm's length. As evening grows later, orange Aldebaran climbs up below the Pleiades. By about 8:30 (depending on your location), Orion is clearing the horizon below Aldebaran.
Sky & Telescope Slide6
ISS Sighting Opportunities
Sighting information for other cities can be found at NASA’s Satellite Sighting Information
ISS
For Denver
:
Date
Visible
Max Height
Appears
Disappears
Sat Nov 10, 5:42 AM
4 min
31°
12° above NNW
25° above ENE
Sun Nov 11, 4:52 AM
2 min
21°
20° above NNE
15° above ENE
Mon Nov 12, 5:35 AM
3 min
70°
19° above NW
35° above ESE
Tue Nov 13, 4:45 AM
1 min
37°
37° above NE
25° above E
Tue Nov 13, 6:19 AM
1 min
16°
11° above W
16° above WSlide7
NASA-TV
Highlights Watch NASA TV online by going to the NASA website
MAVEN Launch November 18, 2013
NASA
MAVEN Launch November 18, 2013
NASA
MAVEN Launch November 18, 2013
NASA
Friday, November 9
9:30 a.m., Live Interviews with ISS Expedition 58 Flight Engineer Anne McClain of NASA from the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia (all channels)
Tuesday
, November 13
2 p.m., “What’s on Board?” Briefing for Northrup Grumman Cygnus CRS-10 Cargo Flight to the International Space Station (all channels)
(all times Eastern Time Zone)Slide8
Space Calendar
JPL Space Calendar
Nov 09 -
Carl Sagan Day
Nov 09 -
Comet 373P/
Rinner
At Opposition
(1.550 AU)
Nov 09 -
Comet C/2017 S7 (Lemmon)
Closest Approach To Earth (7.495 AU)Nov 09 - [Nov 07] Apollo Asteroid 2018 VA2
Near-Earth Flyby (0.005 AU)Nov 09 - Apollo Asteroid 2015 TL178
Near-Earth Flyby (0.055 AU)
Nov 09 -
Asteroid 376
Geometria
Closest Approach To Earth (1.631 AU)
Nov 10 - 50th Anniversary (1968),
Zond 6
Launch (USSR Moon Orbit & Return)
Nov 10 - [Nov 04]
CICERO
/
Outernet 1
/
Lemur-2
Electron Launch
Nov 10 -
Comet 38P/Stephan-
Oterma
Perihelion
(1.583 AU)
Nov 10 -
Comet 71P/Clark
At Opposition
(2.782 AU)
Nov 10 -
Comet P/2016 J1-A (PANSTARRS)
At Opposition
(2.858 AU)
Nov 10 -
Comet P/2016 J1-B (PANSTARRS)
At Opposition
(2.858 AU)
Nov 10 -
Comet P/2017 R1 (PANSTARRS)
Closest Approach To Earth
(2.997 AU)
Nov 10 -
Comet 83D/Russell
At Opposition (4.120 AU)
Nov 10 -
Comet C/2017 F1 (Lemmon)
At Opposition
(4.461 AU)
Nov 10 - [Nov 07]
Apollo Asteroid 2018 VX1
Near-Earth Flyby (0.003 AU)
Nov 10 - [Nov 06]
Apollo Asteroid 2018 VS1
Near-Earth Flyby (0.009 AU)
Nov 10 - [Nov 06]
Apollo Asteroid 2018 VR1
Near-Earth Flyby (0.034 AU)
Nov 10 - [Nov 04]
Apollo Asteroid 2018 UE3
Near-Earth Flyby (0.089 AU)
Nov 10 -
Asteroid 1756
Giacobini
Occults HIP 7358
(6.7 Magnitude Star)
Nov 10 -
Asteroid 15417 Babylon
Closest Approach To Earth (3.101 AU)
Nov 10 -
Andrei
Tupolev's
130th Birthday (1888)
Nov 10 - 195th Anniversary (1823),
Waseda
Meteorite Fall (Hit House in Japan)
Nov 11 -
Asteroid 4370 Dickens
Closest Approach To Earth (0.850 AU)
Nov 11 -
Asteroid 14967 Madrid
Closest Approach To Earth (1.306 AU)
Nov 11 -
Asteroid 3259 Brownlee
Closest Approach To Earth (2.508 AU)
Nov 12 -
Moon Occults Pluto
Nov 12 -
Comet P/2018 L1 (PANSTARRS)
Perihelion
(1.886 AU)
Nov 12 -
Apollo Asteroid 2018 QN1
Near-Earth Flyby (0.055 AU)
Nov 12 -
Aten Asteroid 2011 WA
Near-Earth
Fyby
(0.067 AU)
Nov 12 -
Asteroid 48575 Hawaii
Closest Approach To Earth (1.860 AU)
Nov 12 -
Asteroid 6639
Marchis
Closest Approach To Earth (2.382 AU)
Nov 12 -
Centaur Object 2015 KJ153
At Opposition
(6.337 AU)
Nov 12 -
Irving Reed's
95th Birthday (1923)
Nov 12 - 185th Anniversary (1833),
Great
Leonids
Meteor Shower of 1833Slide9
Food
for Thought
That Rectangular Iceberg Took a Long, Hazardous JourneySlide10
Space Image of the Week
Little Planet Lookout
Image Credit &
Copyright
:
Gyorgy
Soponyai