Space News Update - November 2, - PowerPoint Presentation

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Space News Update

- November 2, 2018 -

In

the News

Story 1:

Missions Accomplished: Two NASA Missions Come to an End

Story 2:

Russians Trace Soyuz Launch Abort to Faulty Sensor

Story 3:

Artificial Intelligence Bot Trained to Recognize Galaxies

Departments

The Night Sky

ISS Sighting

Opportunities

NASA-TV

Highlights

Space Calendar

Food for Thought

Space Image of the WeekSlide2

Missions Accomplished: Two NASA Missions Come to an EndSlide3

Russians Trace Soyuz Launch Abort to Faulty SensorSlide4

Artificial Intelligence Bot Trained to Recognize GalaxiesSlide5

The Night Sky

Monday, November 5

• Draw a line from Altair, the brightest star very high in the southwest after dark, to the right through Vega, very high in the west and even brighter. Continue the line about half as far onward and you hit the Lozenge: the pointy-nosed head of Draco, the Dragon. Its brightest star is orange Eltanin, the tip of the Dragon's nose, which always points to Vega.

Tuesday

, November 6

• Sometime between about 8 and 9:30 p.m., depending on where you are, zero-magnitude Capella rises exactly as high in the northeast as zero-magnitude Vega has sunk in the west-northwest. How accurately can you time this event? Astrolabe not required. . . but it might help.

Friday, November 2

• Look for Capella sparkling low in the northeast these evenings. About three fists at arm's length to Capella's right, look for the fingertip-sided Pleiades cluster. They're early markers of the cold months to come.

Above the space between them are the stars of Perseus, astride the Milky Way.

Saturday

, November 3

• Mars shines in the south after dark. Look barely 1° east (left) of it for Delta

Capricorni

, only a twentieth as bright at magnitude 2.8. A similar distance lower right of Mars is Gamma

Capricorni, magnitude 3.6.• Daylight-saving time ends at 2 a.m. tonight in North America; clocks fall back an hour. Showerthought: The old saying that clocks "spring forward" and "fall back" in spring and fall used to be metaphorical; you had to change the clock. But now it's literally true; internet-controlled clocks jump back and forth themselves.Sunday, November 4• Tonight and tomorrow, Mars and Delta Capricorni are only 0.6° apart. The scene tonight is shown here.• After dark this week, Capella is up in the northeast. Look for the Pleiades three fists to Capella's right. As evening grows later, you'll find orange Aldebaran climbing up below the Pleiades. By about 9:30 or 10 p.m. (depending on your location), Orion is clearing the horizon below Aldebaran.• In Monday's dawn, spot the thin waning crescent Moon sitting cup-like low inthe east-southeast. Way down under it is Venus. Using binoculars, can you see little Spica 4° above Venus?

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

Fri Nov 2, 5:37 AM

< 1 min

15°

15° above NNE11° above NNESat Nov 3, 6:20 AM2 min11°

11° above NNW

10° above NNE

Sun Nov 4, 6:05 AM

1 min

10°

10° above N

10° above NNE

Mon Nov 5, 5:13 AM

< 1 min

10°

10° above N

10° above N

Tue Nov 6, 5:57 AM

3 min

13°

10° above NNW

10° above NESlide7

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

November 2, Friday

2 p.m., 6 p.m., 10 p.m. - Replay of

SpaceCast

Weekly (All Channels)

November 3, Saturday8 a.m., 3 p.m., 7 p.m. - Replay of SpaceCast Weekly  (All Channels)9 a.m., 4 p.m., 9 p.m. – Replay of Previewing the InSight Spacecraft’s Nov. 26 Landing on Mars (All Channels)10 a.m., 5 p.m., 10 p.m. – Replay of the RS-25 Engine Test (All Channels)November 4, Sunday

9 a.m., 1 p.m., 8 p.m. – Replay of Previewing the InSight Spacecraft’s Nov. 26 Landing on Mars (All Channels)

10 a.m., 2 p.m., 9 p.m. – Replay of the RS-25 Engine Test (All Channels)

11 a.m., 5 p.m., 11 p.m. - Replay of

SpaceCast

Weekly (All Channels)

November

5, Monday

9 a.m. – NASA astronaut Serena

Aunon

-Chancellor Interviews with the Coloradoan, Fort Collins, Colorado (All Channels)

(all times Eastern Time Zone)Slide8

Space Calendar

JPL Space Calendar

Nov 02 - 

Comet 300P/Catalina

Perihelion

 (0.833 AU)

Nov 02 - 

Comet C/2018 B1 (Lemmon)

At Opposition

 (4.438 AU)

Nov 02 - 

Asteroid 5703

Hevelius Closest Approach To Earth (1.142 AU)Nov 02 - Asteroid 13188 Okinawa Closest Approach To Earth (1.378 AU)Nov 02 - Asteroid 29132 Bradpitt Closest Approach To Earth (1.448 AU)Nov 02 - Asteroid 4355 Memphis Closest Approach To Earth (1.717 AU)Nov 02 - Asteroid 12820 Robinwilliams Closest Approach To Earth (1.805 AU)Nov 02 - [Oct 29] Centaur Object 49036 Pelion At Opposition (20.022 AU)Nov 03 - GLONASS-M 760 Soyuz-2.1b/Fregat

-M LaunchNov 03 - Taurids Meteor Shower

 Peak

Nov 03 - 

Comet 368P/NEAT

At Opposition

 (1.157 AU)

Nov 03 - 

Comet 64P/Swift-

Gehrels

Perihelion

 (1.392 AU)

Nov 03 - 

Comet 374P/Larson

At Opposition

 (1.737 AU)Nov 03 - Comet 130P/McNaught-Hughes Closest Approach To Earth (1.903 AU)Nov 03 - Amor Asteroid 2016 VH2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.064 AU)Nov 03 - Asteroid 5748 Davebrin Closest Approach To Earth (1.281 AU)Nov 03 - Asteroid 5790 Nagasaki Closest Approach To Earth (1.374 AU)Nov 03 - Asteroid 9769 Nautilus Closest Approach To Earth (1.431 AU)Nov 03 - 45th Anniversary (1973), Mariner 10 Launch (Venus & Mercury Flyby Mission)Nov 03 - Alfred Perot's 155th Birthday (1863)Nov 04 - Daylight Saving - Set Clock Back 1 Hour (United States)Nov 04 - Comet 25D/Neujmin At Opposition (1.959 AU)Nov 04 - Asteroid 4 Vesta Occults 2UCAC 21648345 (11.9 Magnitude Star)Nov 04 - [Oct 24] Aten Asteroid 2018 UY1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.019 AU)Nov 04 - Aten Asteroid 2002 VE68 Near-Earth Flyby (0.038 AU)Nov 04 - [Oct 30] Amor Asteroid 2018 UR2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.086 AU)Nov 04 - Asteroid 365159 Garching Closest Approach To Earth (1.666 AU)Nov 04 - Asteroid 3933 Portugal Closest Approach To Earth (2.349 AU)Nov 04 - Asteroid 88705 Potato Closest Approach To Earth (2.379 AU)Nov 04 - [Oct 27] Plutino 47171 Lempo (2 Moons) At Opposition (29.628 AU)Nov 04 - Kuiper Belt Object 472271 (2014 UM33) At Opposition (42.710 AU)

Oct 10 -

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Oct 08Near-Earth Flyby (0.029 AU) Slide9

Space Calendar

JPL Space Calendar

Nov

04 - 

Richard

Binzel's

 60th Birthday (1958)

Nov 05 - 

Parker Solar Probe

, 1st Perihelion (0.17 AU)

Nov 05 - 

Asteroid 4

Vesta

Occults UCAC4-324-200768

 (12.0 Magnitude Star)Nov 05 - Asteroid 3 Juno Occults TYC 4725-00763-1 (12.0 Magnitude Star)Nov 05 - Asteroid 2554 Skiff Closest Approach To Earth (1.489 AU)Nov 05 - Asteroid 11247 Wilburwright Closest Approach To Earth (1.908 AU)Nov 05 - [Oct 30] Kuiper Belt Object 120348 (2004 TY364) At Opposition (38.050 AU)Nov 05 - 5th Anniversary (2013), Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) Launch (India)Nov 05-06 - 4th NoR HGT& LUCA Conference: Molecules to Microbes, Athens, GreeceNov 05-08 - 

30th Space Simulation Conference, Annapolis, Maryland

Nov 06 - 

METOP-C

Soyuz-ST-B

Fregat

-MT Launch

Nov 06 - 

Mercury

 At Its Greatest Eastern 

Elongation

 (23 Degrees)

Nov 06 - 

Apollo Asteroid 2018 TF3

 Near-Earth Flyby (0.021 AU)

Nov 06 - 

Asteroid 16529

Dangoldin Closest Approach To Earth (0.754 AU)Nov 06 - Atira Asteroid 418265 (2008 EA32) Closest Approach To Earth (1.293 AU)Nov 06 - Asteroid 16761 Hertz Closest Approach To Earth (1.316 AU)Nov 06 - Asteroid 11277 Ballard Closest Approach To Earth (1.509 AU)Nov 06 - Asteroid 5107 Laurenbacall Closest Approach To Earth (1.963 AU)Nov 06 - Asteroid 249516 Aretha Closest Approach To Earth (2.160 AU)Nov 06 - Plutino 144897 (2004 UX10) At Opposition (38.310 AU)Nov 06 - [Oct 26] Kuiper Belt Object 2014 UZ224 At Opposition (89.746 AU)Nov 06 - James Gregory's 380th Birthday (1638)Oct 10 - [Oct 08Near-Earth Flyby (0.029 AU) Slide10

Food

for ThoughtIndependent board chair calls JWST a “step too far”Slide11

Space Image of the Week

Hubble Reveals a Giant Cosmic 'Bat Shadow'