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In the News Story 1 Mars rover steers toward active sand dunes Story 2 The Origin of Massive Stars Story 3 NASAs STEREOA resumes normal operations Departments The Night Sky ISS Sighting Opportunities ID: 776377

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Space News Update

- November 10, 2015 -

In the News

Story 1:

Mars rover steers toward active sand dunes

Story 2:

The Origin of Massive Stars

Story 3:

NASA's STEREO-A resumes normal operations

Departments

The Night Sky

ISS Sighting Opportunities

Space Calendar

NASA-TV Highlights

Food for Thought

Space Image of the Week

Slide2

Mars rover steers toward active sand dunes

Slide3

The Origin of Massive Stars

This artist's impression shows the disk around the future O-class star AFGL 4176.

Slide4

NASA's STEREO-A resumes normal operations

Slide5

The Night Sky

Sky

& Telescope

Friday, November 20• Before dawn tomorrow morning, look east for bright Jupiter and brighter Venus. Between them is little orange Mars. Look carefully; very close to Mars is the 4th-magnitude star Eta Virginis. The two may appear less than 0.1° apart depending on where you are.• If Mars seems to be awfully slow to brighten as it moves higher in the dawn this season, that's because it's at the aphelion of its orbit, its farthest from the Sun — exactly so today.Saturday, November 21• After dark these nights, Altair is the brightest star in the west-southwest. Look upper left of it, by barely more than a fist at arm's length, for the delicate little constellation Delphinus, the Dolphin. To Altair's upper right by a lesser distance is little Sagitta, the Arrow.Sunday, November 22• Whenever Fomalhaut is "southing" (crossing the meridian due south, which it does around 7 p.m. now depending on your location), the first stars of Orion are just about to rise in the east, and the Pointers of the Big Dipper stand vertical straight below Polaris, due north.

Monday, November 23• Look above or upper left of the gibbous Moon this evening for the two leading stars of Aries. Farther left of the Moon is the Pleiades cluster with Aldebaran down below it. Much farther left shines bright Capella.The full Moon shines in the Hyades near Aldebaran (for North America) the night before Thanksgiving. (The Moon is drawn three times its actual apparent size.)Tuesday, November 24• The almost-full Moon this evening shines not quite midway between the Pleiades to its left and Alpha Ceti (orange-tinted Menkar) to its right. Menkar is well off the edge of the scene here.• Algol is at minimum brightness, magnitude 3.4 instead of its usual 2.1, for a couple hours centered on 10:15 p.m. EST (per new predictions).

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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 21, 4:45 AM

1 min

15°

15° above NNE

10° above NE

Sat Nov 21, 6:18 AM

4 min

73°

10° above NW

44° above ESE

Sun Nov 22, 5:26 AM

3 min

38°

25° above NNW

25° above E

Mon Nov 23, 4:35 AM

< 1 min

18°

18° above ENE

14° above ENE

Mon Nov 23, 6:08 AM

5 min

43°

12° above WNW

13° above SSE

Tue Nov 24, 5:17 AM

2 min

86°

61° above NW

23° above SE

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NASA-TV Highlights

Watch NASA TV online by going to the NASA website

MAVEN Launch November 18, 2013NASA

MAVEN Launch November 18, 2013NASA

MAVEN Launch November 18, 2013NASA

3 p.m., Monday, November 23 - Replay of the ISS Expedition 46-47 Crew News Conference at Star City, Russia (all channels)3:30 p.m., Monday, November 23 - Replay of the ISS Expedition 46-47 Crew’s Ceremonial Visit to the Gagarin Museum in Star City, Russia and their Visit to Red Square and the Kremlin in Moscow (Starts at 3:45 p.m.) (all channels)6:30 a.m., Tuesday, November 24 - Video B-Roll of ISS Expedition 46-47 NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra’s Training (all channels)7 a.m., Tuesday, November 24 - Live Interviews with ISS Expedition 46-47 NASA Astronaut Tim Kopra from Star City, Russia (all channels)

(all times Eastern Time Zone)

Slide8

Space Calendar

JPL Space Calendar

Nov 20 - 

Comet C/2015 GX (PANSTARRS)

 

Closest Approach To Earth

 (1.462 AU)

Nov 20 - 

Comet 147P/

Kushida-Muramatsu

 

At Opposition

 (1.812)

Nov 20 - 

Asteroid 192

Nausikaa

 

At Opposition

 (8.4 Magnitude)

Nov 20 - 

Aten Asteroid 413577 (2005 UL5)

 

Near-Earth Flyby

 (0.015 AU)

Nov 20 -[Nov 20] 

Apollo Asteroid 2015 WC1

 

Near-Earth Flyby

 (0.025 AU)

Nov 20 -[Nov 18] 

Apollo Asteroid 2015 VV142

 Near-Earth Flyby (0.039 AU)

Nov 20 - 

Apollo Asteroid 29075 (1950 DA)

 

Closest Approach To Earth

 (1.533 AU)

Nov 20 - 

Asteroid 4749

Ledzepplin

 Closest Approach To Earth (1.781 AU)

Nov 20 - 

Lecture: Human

Colonisation

of Mars

, London, United Kingdom

Nov 21 - 

Comet 74P/

Smirnova-Chernykh

 

Closest Approach To Earth

 (3.291 AU)

Nov 21 - 

Comet C/2015 A2 (PANSTARRS)

 

At Opposition

 (4.338 AU)

Nov 21 - 

Apollo Asteroid 2015 VE66

 

Near-Earth Flyby

 (0.019 AU)

Nov 21 - 

Asteroid 7010 Locke

 Closest Approach To Earth (1.013 AU)

Nov 21 - 

Asteroid 1991 Darwin

 Closest Approach To Earth (1.358 AU)

Nov 21 - 

Asteroid 8734 Warner

 Closest Approach To Earth (1.762 AU)

Nov 21 - 

Asteroid 6442 Salzburg

 Closest Approach To Earth (1.790 AU)

Nov 21 - 

Griffith Observatory Star Party

, Los Angeles, California

Nov 21 - 80th Anniversary (1935), 

Great Meteor Shower of 1935

Nov 21 - 90th Anniversary (1925), 

Great Meteor Shower of 1925

Nov 22 - 

Moon Occults Uranus

Nov 22 - 

Comet 147P/

Kushida-Muramatsu

 

Closest Approach To Earth

 (1.811)

Nov 22 - 

Comet 308P/Lagerkvist-

Carsenty

 

Closest Approach To Earth

 (3.357 AU)

Nov 22 - 

Asteroid 2002 Euler

 Closest Approach To Earth (1.608 AU)

Nov 22 - 

Asteroid 5471 Tunguska

 Closest Approach To Earth (2.176 AU

)

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Space Calendar

JPL Space Calendar

Nov

22 - 

Geoff

Notkin

Talk

, Leicester, United Kingdom

Nov 22 - 

Owen

Garriott's

 85th Birthday (1930)

Nov 22 - 

Jerrie Mock's

 90th Birthday (1925)

Nov 22 - 

Karl

Bruhns

'

 185th Birthday (1830)

Nov 23 - 

Cassini

, Distant Flyby of Tethys

Nov 23 - 

Comet P/2014 V1 (PANSTARRS)

 

At Opposition

 (2.344 AU)

Nov 23 - 

Comet 125P/Spacewatch

 

At Opposition

 (3.759 AU)

Nov 23 - 

Asteroid 35137

Meudon

 Closest Approach To Earth (1.748 AU)

Nov 23 - 

Asteroid 2906 Caltech

 Closest Approach To Earth (1.936 AU)

Nov 23 - 

Asteroid 3131 Mason-Dixon

 Closest Approach To Earth (2.021 AU)

Nov 23 - 

Phobos

and Deimos Webcast: Space Weathering and Regolith,

DusSpace

Weathering and Regolith, Dust

Nov 23 - 55th Anniversary (1960), 

Tiros

II

 Launch (Weather Satellite)

Nov 23 - 

Vladislav

Volkov's

 80th Birthday (1935)

Nov 24 - 

Telstar 12V

 H-2A Launch

Nov 24 - 

Cassini

, Distant Flyby of Atlas,

Daphins

&

Methone

Nov 24 - 

Comet 315P/LONEOS

 

Closest Approach To Earth

 (2.716 AU)

Nov 24 -[Nov 18] 

Comet C/2015 V3 (PANSTARRS)

 

Perihelion

 (4.239 AU)

Nov 24 - 

Asteroid 269 Justitia Occults HIP 29704

 (5.3 Magnitude Star)

Nov 24 -[Nov 17] 

Apollo Asteroid 2015 VO142

 Near-Earth Flyby (0.003 AU)

Nov 24 - 

Amor Asteroid 2015 VH2

 

Near-Earth Flyby

 (0.033 AU)

Nov 24 - 

Apollo Asteroid 2015 RQ82

 

Near-Earth Flyby

 (0.074 AU)

Nov 24 - 

Amor Asteroid 2011 YS62

 

Near-Earth Flyby

 (0.092 AU)

Nov 24 - 

Asteroid 9620

Ericidle

 Closest Approach To Earth (0.927 AU)

Nov 24 - 

Asteroid 3831

Pettengill

 Closest Approach To Earth (1.392 AU)

Nov 24 - 

Asteroid 243 Ida

 

Closest Approach To Earth

 (1.759 AU)

Nov 24 - 

John Brashear's

 175th Birthday (1840)

 

Slide10

Food for Thought

'Chemical Laptop' Could Search for Signs of Life Outside Earth

Slide11

Space

Image(s) of the Week

A Day on Pluto

 

Image Credit: NASA

Slide12

Space

Image(s) of the Week

A Day on

Charon

 

Image Credit: NASA