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
Slide2Mars rover steers toward active sand dunes
Slide3The Origin of Massive Stars
This artist's impression shows the disk around the future O-class star AFGL 4176.
Slide4NASA's STEREO-A resumes normal operations
Slide5The 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).
Slide6ISS 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
Slide7NASA-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)
Slide8Space 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
)
Slide9Space 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)
Food for Thought
'Chemical Laptop' Could Search for Signs of Life Outside Earth
Slide11Space
Image(s) of the Week
A Day on Pluto
Image Credit: NASA
Slide12Space
Image(s) of the Week
A Day on
Charon
Image Credit: NASA