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- October 4, 2016 In the News
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Mission Complete: Rosetta’s Journey Ends in Daring Descent to Comet
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Curiosity Finds Evidence of Mars Crust Contributing to Atmosphere
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The Night Sky
ISS Sighting Opportunities
Space Calendar
NASA-TV Highlights
Food for Thought
Space Image of the Week
NASA's Fermi Finds Record-breaking
Binary in Galaxy Next Door
Mission Complete: Rosetta’s Journey
Ends in Daring Descent to Comet
Curiosity Finds Evidence of Mars Crust
Contributing to Atmosphere
The Night Sky
Monday, October 3
• The waxing crescent Moon is thicker and easier to
see now in the west-southwest in twilight, though it's
still not high, as shown below. Venus is now about 4°
lower left of it (two or three finger-widths at arm's
length).
Tuesday, October 4
• As twilight fades, the Moon is poised between Venus
to its lower right and the Saturn-Antares pair to its
left, as shown above. Antares twinkles 6° below
Saturn.
• Vega is the brightest star very high in the west at
nightfall. Arcturus, equally bright, is getting low in the
west-northwest. The brightest star in the vast expanse
between them, about a third of the way from Arcturus
back up toward Vega, is Alphecca, magnitude 2.2 —
the crown jewel of Corona Borealis. Alphecca is a 17day eclipsing binary, but its brightness dips are too
slight for the eye to see reliably.
Wednesday, October 5
• The Moon this evening forms the right-hand corner of a triangle with Saturn and lower Antares, as shown above.
• After dark, look just above the northeast horizon — far below high Cassiopeia — for bright Capella on the rise. How soon
Capella rises, and how high you'll find it, depends on your latitude. The farther north you are, the sooner and higher.
Thursday, October 6
• The Moon forms the top left corner of a skinny triangle with Saturn and Antares, as shown above.
• Far to their left shines Mars. This evening Mars is passing just 0.2° below the top star of the Sagittarius Teapot, Lambda
Sagittarii. The star, magnitude 2.8, is a dozen times fainter than Mars, magnitude +0.1.
Friday, October 7
• Look south-southwest at dusk for Mars shining lower left of the Moon. Mars is still near Lambda Sagittarii.
Sky & Telescope
ISS Sighting Opportunities
ISS For Denver:
Date
Visible
Max Height
Appears
Disappears
Mon Oct 3, 7:08 PM
4 min
39°
33° above WNW
10° above NE
Mon Oct 3, 8:45 PM
1 min
12°
10° above NW
12° above NNW
Tue Oct 4, 7:52 PM
3 min
15°
13° above NW
11° above NNE
Wed Oct 5, 7:00 PM
4 min
21°
18° above NW
10° above NNE
Wed Oct 5, 8:38 PM
< 1 min
10°
10° above NNW
10° above N
Thu Oct 6, 7:45 PM
2 min
11°
10° above NNW
10° above NNE
Fri Oct 7, 6:52 PM
3 min
14°
11° above NW
10° above NNE
Fri Oct 7, 8:30 PM
< 1 min
10°
10° above N
10° above N
Sighting information for other cities can be found at NASA’s Satellite Sighting Information
MAVEN Launch November 18, 2013
NASA
NASA-TV Highlights
(all times Eastern Time Zone)
1 p.m., 8 p.m., Tuesday, October 4 - Replay of NASA Hispanic Outreach and Leadership Alliance Celebrates
Hispanic Heritage Month with “Aspira con NASA/Aspire with NASA” -- Featuring Diana Trujillo, Mission Lead
for the Mars Curiosity Rover and José M. Hernández, Former NASA Astronaut (all channels)
3 p.m., Tuesday, October 4 - International Space Station Flyover # 1 of Hurricane Matthew (starts at 3:20
p.m.) (all channels)
5 p.m., Tuesday, October 4 - International Space Station Flyover # 2 of Hurricane Matthew (starts at 4:55
p.m.) (all channels)
7 p.m., 11 p.m., Tuesday, October 4 - Replay of ISS Expedition 49 In-Flight Interviews with KZSU Radio,
Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif. and National Public Radio with Flight Engineer Kate Rubins of NASA (all
channels)
1 a.m., 2 a.m., 7 a.m., 11 a.m., 3 p.m., 7 p.m., 11 p.m., Wednesday, October 5 - Replay of ISS Expedition 49
In-Flight Interviews with KZSU Radio, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif. and National Public Radio with Flight
Engineer Kate Rubins of NASA (NTV-1 (Public))
1 p.m., 6 p.m., 10 p.m., Wednesday, October 5 - NASM’S “STEM in 30” - A Sky Full of Color: Live from the
Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta (NTV-1 (Public))
1 a.m., 2 a.m., 7 a.m., 11 a.m., 3 p.m., 7 p.m., 11 p.m., Thursday, October 6 - Replay of ISS Expedition 49
In-Flight Interviews with KZSU Radio, Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif. and National Public Radio with Flight
Engineer Kate Rubins of NASA (NTV-1 (Public))
8 a.m., Friday, October 7 - ISS Expedition 49 In-Flight Interview for JAXA and NHK-TV with Flight Engineer
Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (NTV-1 with English interpretation; NTV-3 in native
language) (all channels)
Watch NASA TV online by going to the NASA website
Space Calendar
Oct 03 - Iridium NEXT 1 & 2/ https://www.qb50.eu/>QB50 Dnepr-1 Launch
Oct 03 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Titan & Helene
Oct 03 - Comet 182P/LONEOS At Opposition (1.444 AU)
Oct 03 - [Oct 03] Apollo Asteroid 2016 TH Near-Earth Flyby (0.001 AU)
Oct 03 - Asteroid 8627 Kunalnayyar Closest Approach To Earth (1.453 AU)
Oct 03 - Asteroid 631 Philippina Closest Approach To Earth (1.978 AU)
Oct 03 - Kathryn Sullivan's 55th Birthday (1961)
Oct 03-04 - Canadian Antarctic Research Workshop, Ottawa, Canada
Oct 04 - NBN-Co 1B/ GSat 18 Ariane 5 Launch
Oct 04 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #462 (OTM-462)
Oct 04 - Comet 238P/Read Closest Approach To Earth (1.368 AU)
Oct 04 - Comet 238P/Read At Opposition (1.368 AU)
Oct 04-10 - [Sep 27] World Space Week
Oct 05 - Comet 341P/Gibbs Closest Approach To Earth (1.690 AU)
Oct 05 - Comet 174P/Echeclus Closest Approach To Earth (5.347 AU)
Oct 05 - [Oct 04] Apollo Asteroid 2016 TO Near-Earth Flyby (0.092 AU)
Oct 05 - Asteroid 7850 Buenos Aires Closest Approach To Earth (1.625 AU)
Oct 06 - Comet 86P/Wild At Opposition (2.884 AU)
Oct 06 - Comet P/2015 PD229 (ISON-Cameron) Closest Approach to Earth (4.175 AU)
Oct 06 - Apollo Asteroid 462959 (2011 DU) Near-Earth Flyby (0.039 AU)
Oct 06 - Apollo Asteroid 2005 UO Near-Earth Flyby (0.088 AU)
Oct 06 - Asteroid 3306 Byron Closest Approach To Earth (1.267 AU)
Oct 06 - Asteroid 793 Arizona Closest Approach To Earth (1.490 AU)
Oct 06 - Kuiper Belt Object 2008 ST291 At Opposition (59.140 AU)
Oct 06 - Online: 32nd Meeting of the Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group (MEPAG)
Oct 06 - [Oct 04] Lecture: Observing Titan's Polar Wetlands, Ithaca, New York
Oct 06 - Nikolai Chernykh's 85th Birthday (1931)
Oct 06 - Riccardo Giacconi's 85th Birthday (1931)
Oct 07 - Comet 208P/McMillan At Opposition (1.624 AU)
Oct 07 - Comet 325P/Yang-Gao At Opposition (2.798 AU)
Oct 07 - [Sep 29] Apollo Asteroid 2016 SR2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.010 AU)
Oct 07 - [Oct 03] Apollo Asteroid 2016 TG Near-Earth Flyby (0.021 AU)
Oct 07 - [Sep 29] Apollo Asteroid 2016 SP2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.071 AU)
Oct 07 - Apollo Asteroid 2016 LB9 Near-Earth Flyby (0.098 AU)
Oct 07 - Asteroid 24750 Ohm Closest Approach To Earth (1.712 AU)
Oct 07 - James Webb's 110th Birthday (1906)
JPL Space Calendar
Food for Thought
Are planets setting the sun's pace?
Space Image of the Week
Final Descent Images from Rosetta Spacecraft
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