May 20 2014 In the News Story 1 Construction to Begin on NASA Mars Lander Scheduled to Launch in 2016 Story 2 Venus Express Gets Ready to Take the Plunge Story 3 ID: 410931
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Space News Update
- May 20, 2014 -
In the News
Story 1:
Construction
to Begin on NASA Mars Lander Scheduled to Launch in
2016
Story 2:
Venus Express Gets Ready to Take the
Plunge
Story
3:
New Meteor Shower from Comet Could Dazzle Stargazers This Week
Departments
The Night Sky
ISS Sighting Opportunities
Space Calendar
NASA-TV Highlights
Food for Thought
Space Image of the WeekSlide2
Construction
to Begin on NASA Mars Lander Scheduled to Launch in 2016Slide3
Venus Express Gets Ready to Take the PlungeSlide4
New
Meteor Shower from Comet Could Dazzle Stargazers This WeekSlide5
The Night Sky
Sky & Telescope
Tuesday, May
20
As the stars come out, Saturn in the southeast, Vega in the northeast,
Capella
in the northwest, and Procyon in the west-southwest are all at about the same altitude (as seen from about 40° north latitude).
Wednesday, May 21
The western twilight Arch of Spring is sinking, but you can still catch this big landmark when the stars come out. Jupiter in the west lies within it. Pollux and Castor, above Jupiter, are lined up roughly horizontally; they're the Arch's top. Look far to their lower left for Procyon, and farther to their lower right for
Menkalinen
and then bright
Capella
. Jupiter is moving closer to the Arch's upper-left side.
Thursday, May 22As twilight fades, spot Mercury low in the west-northwest. It's about 2½ fists to the lower right of bright Jupiter. This evening Mercury is between the horn-tips of Taurus: Beta Tauri (El Nath) to its upper right, and Zeta Tauri to its lower left. Binoculars will help.Friday, May 23New meteor shower? A possible strong meteor shower may arrive in the early-morning hours of Saturday the 24th, timed for North America (perhaps peaking around 3 a.m. EDT, midnight PDT). For just a few hours we'll pass through the predicted debris trail of Comet 209P/LINEAR, which is making an unusually close flyby of Earth. There's even a (slim) possibility that the shower could approach "meteor storm" proportions. The comet itself is closest on May 29th, but it's very small and faint and may reach 11th magnitude at best. As dawn brightens on Saturday morning the 24th, look for Venus well to the lower left of the waning crescent Moon, as shown above.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
Tue May 20, 3:15 AM
2 min
33°
33 above E
13 above ENE
Tue May 20, 4:48 AM
4 min
24°
11 above W
18 above NNE
Wed May 21, 2:28 AM
< 1 min
11°
11 above ENE
11 above ENE
Wed May 21, 4:00 AM
3 min
35°
23 above W
25 above NNE
Thu May 22, 3:13 AM
1 min
51°
51 above N
24 above NE
Thu May 22, 4:48 AM
3 min
14°
10 above NW
11 above NNE
Fri May 23, 2:26 AM
1 min
20°
20 above ENE
11 above NE
Fri May 23, 3:59 AM
3 min
18°
11 above WNW
15 above NSlide7
NASA-TV
Highlights (all times Eastern Time Zone)
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
May 20,
Tuesday
7 - 8 a.m.
- Live Interviews with Expedition 39 Flight Engineer Rick
Mastracchio
of NASA - JSC
(All Channels)
11:10 a.m.
- ISS Expedition 40 In-Flight Interview with CNN’s Original Video Division - JSC
(All Channels)
11:30 a.m.
- Space Station Live - JSC
(All Channels
)
M
ay 21,
Wednesday
1 p.m.
- Video File of the ISS Expedition 40/41 Crew Activities in Baikonur, Kazakhstan - JSC via Baikonur, Kazakhstan
(All Channels)
2 p.m.
- ISS Expedition 40 Mission Overview Briefing - JSC
(All Channels)
3:30
p.m.
- Destination Station: ISS Science Forum - JSC
(All Channels)
May 23, Friday
6 a.m. - 12 p.m.
- Live Media Interviews on New Meteor Shower produced by comet 209P/LINEAR - GSFC
(NTV-3)Slide8
Space Calendar
JPL Space Calendar
• May
20 - Comet 272P/NEAT At Opposition (2.841 AU)
• May
20 - Comet 141P/
Machholz
At Opposition (3.233 AU)
• May
20 - Comet 226P/
Pigott
-LINEAR-Kowalski At Opposition (4.163 AU)
• May
20 - Comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann At Opposition (5.144 AU) • May 20 - Asteroid 242708 (2005 UK1) Near-Earth Flyby (0.094 AU)
• May
20 - Asteroid 9250 Chamberlin Closest Approach To Earth (1.544 AU)
• May
20 - Asteroid 4345 Rachmaninoff Closest Approach To Earth (1.940 AU)
• May
20 - Asteroid 305254 Moron Closest Approach To Earth (2.015 AU)
• May
21 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #380 (OTM-380)
• May
21 - Comet 132P/Helin-Roman-Alu Perihelion (1.908 AU) • May
21 - Comet P/2014 E1 (Larson) Perihelion (2.141 AU)
• May
21 - Comet 134P/
Kowal-Vavrova
Perihelion (2.571 AU)
• May
21 - Comet C/2014 G1 (PANSTARRS) At Opposition (4.682 AU)
• May
21 - Asteroid 2011 JR13 Near-Earth Flyby (0.051 AU)
• May
21 - Asteroid 4487 Pocahontas Approach To Earth (1.047 AU)
• May
21 - Asteroid 7784 Watterson Closest Approach To Earth (1.180 AU)
• May
21 - Asteroid 4238 Audrey Closest Approach To Earth (1.286 AU)
• May
21 - Asteroid 2000 Herschel Closest Approach To Earth (2.147 AU)
• May
21 - Asteroid 1024 Hale Closest Approach To Earth (2.204 AU)
• May
22 - Quasar 19 (NROL-33) Atlas 5 Launch
• May
22 - Comet C/2014 F2 (
Tenagra
) Closest Approach To Earth (4.020 AU)
• May
22 - Comet 29P/
Schwassmann-Wachmann
Closest Approach To Earth (5.144 AU)
• May
22 - Asteroid 9770 Discovery Closest Approach To Earth (1.002 AU)
• May
22 - Asteroid 85585
Mjolnir
Closest Approach To Earth (1.418 AU)
• May
22 - Asteroid 3693
Barringer
Closest Approach To Earth (2.463 AU)
• May
23 - Comet P/2013 A2 (
Scotti
) At Opposition (2.794 AU) Slide9
Food for Thought
NASA's Asteroid-Capture Mission May Test New Method to Defend Earth
New Technique Puts Exoplanets on the Scale
New Technique Puts Exoplanets on the ScaleSlide10
Space Image of the Week
Hubble's Jupiter and the Amazing Shrinking Great Red Spot
Credit: NASA, ESA, and Amy Simon (Goddard Space Flight Center) et al