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- May 13, 2014 In the News
Story 1:
NASA Spots Square-Shaped 'Hole' in the Sun
Story 2:
'Hypervelocity Star' May Reveal Clues about Dark Matter in Milky Way
Story 3:
Satellite operators to proceed with launches from Russia
Departments
The Night Sky
ISS Sighting Opportunities
NASA-TV Highlights
Space Calendar
Food for Thought
Space Image of the Week
NASA Spots Square-Shaped 'Hole' in the Sun
'Hypervelocity Star' May Reveal Clues
About Dark Matter in Milky Way
Satellite operators to proceed with launches
from Russia
The Night Sky
Tuesday, May 13
The bright Moon, practically full, shines near Saturn. The
Moon creeps to within 1° to 3° of Saturn before dawn
Wednesday morning for the Americas. For New Zealand and
most of Australia, the Moon occults (covers and uncovers)
Saturn during nighttime; map and timetables.
Wednesday, May 14
Full Moon (exact at 3:16 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time.) Look
for Saturn to its upper right. Once the Moon is well up after
dark, look for Antares and the other stars of upper Scorpius
below it.
Thursday, May 15
Jupiter's moon Io crosses the face of the planet from 9:41
to 11:57 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. Io's tiny but more
visible shadow follows it across from 10:42 p.m. to 12:59
a.m. EDT.
Friday, May 16
Look for Mercury as twilight darkens. It's low in the westnorthwest, far to the lower right of Jupiter. Mercury is
coming into its highest apparition of 2014 for skywatchers
at mid-northern latitudes.
Saturday, May 17
Arcturus shines high in the southeast these evenings. Vega
shines much lower in the northeast. Look a third of the way
from Arcturus to Vega for dim little Corona Borealis, the
Northern Crown, with its one modestly bright star, Alphecca
or Gemma. Two thirds of the way from Arcturus to Vega
glimmers the dim Keystone of Hercules.
Saturn in occultation behind the moon, on
Sept. 18, 1997. Credit: Victor C. Rogus.
Space.com
Sky & Telescope
ISS Sighting Opportunities
ISS For Denver:
Date
Visible
Max Height
Appears
Disappears
Wed May 14, 4:50 AM
4 min
17°
10 above S
13 above E
Fri May 16, 4:49 AM
4 min
52°
13 above SSW
31 above ENE
Sat May 17, 4:02 AM
3 min
28°
24 above SSE
15 above E
Sighting information for other cities can be found at NASA’s Satellite Sighting Information
NASA-TV Highlights
(all times Eastern Daylight Time)
• May 13, Tuesday
3 p.m. - ISS Expedition 39 Farewells and Hatch Closure Coverage (hatch closure scheduled at 3:15
p.m. ET) - JSC (All Channels)
6:15 p.m. - ISS Expedition 39/Soyuz TMA-11M Undocking Coverage (undocking scheduled at 6:36
p.m. ET) - JSC (All Channels)
8:45 p.m. - ISS Expedition 39/Soyuz TMA-11M Deorbit Burn and Landing Coverage (Deorbit burn
scheduled at 9:04 p.m. ET; landing near Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan scheduled at 9:58 p.m. ET) - JSC
via Kazakhstan (All Channels)
• May 14, Wednesday
12 a.m. - Video File of the ISS Expedition 39/Soyuz TMA-11M Landing and Post-Landing Activities HQ (All Channels)
12 p.m. - Video File of the ISS Expedition 39/Soyuz TMA-11M Landing and Post-Landing Activities;
scheduled to include post-landing interviews with Expedition 39 Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of
NASA and Commander Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and the return of
Cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin to Chkalovsky Airfield near Star City, Russia (some portion of the Wakata
interview might be in Japanese) - JSC (All Channels)
• May 15, Thursday
10 a.m. - Video File of the ISS Expedition 40/41 Crew Departure from Star City, Russia for Baikonur,
Kazakhstan - JSC (All Channels)
12 p.m. - ISS Expedition 40 In-Flight Interview with KMGH-TV, Denver - JSC (All Channels)
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Asteroid 166614 Zsazsa Closest Approach To Earth (1.647 AU)
Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #379 (OTM-379)
Moon Occults Saturn
Comet 295P/LINEAR Perihelion (2.049 AU)
Kuiper Belt Object 50000 Quaoar Occults 2UCAC 26269279 (14.5 Magnitude Star)
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5th Anniversary (2009), Herschel/Planck Launch
150th Anniversary (1864), Orgueil Meteorite Shower in France
GPS 2F-6 Delta 4 Launch
Venus Passes 1.3 Degrees from Uranus
Asteroid 9 Metis At Opposition (9.6 Magnitude)
Asteroid 4763 Ride Closest Approach To Earth (1.493 AU)
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Plutino 38628 Huya At Opposition (27.556 AU)
Express AM-4R Proton-M Briz-M Launch
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Asteroid 697 Galilea Closest Approach To Earth (2.035 AU)
The launchings of twin spacecraft
45th Anniversary (1969), Venera 5, Venus Impact
Venera 5 and 6 were timed so they
[May 10] Cassini, Titan Flyby
would arrive at Venus one day apart.
Comet P/2012 B1 (PANSTARRS) Closest Approach To Earth (3.165 AU)
Venera 6 transmitted data for only 51
Comet C/2014 G1 (PANSTARRS) Closest Approach To Earth (4.679 AU)
minutes as it fell, about 2 minutes less
Asteroid 2010 JO33 Near-Earth Flyby (0.010 AU)
than Venera 5. Just before the probe
was presumably crushed, its
[May 06] Asteroid 2014 JH15 Near-Earth Flyby (0.020 AU)
instruments indicated an atmospheric
[May 10] Asteroid 2014 JA31 Near-Earth Flyby (0.066 AU)
pressure of 26 Earth atmospheres and
Asteroid 3498 Belton Closest Approach To Earth (1.584 AU)
an altitude of 10-12 km. (see more)
Asteroid 7220 Philnicholson Closest Approach To Earth (1.753 AU)
Asteroid 7755 Haute-Provence Closest Approach To Earth (1.764 AU)
Asteroid 6824 Mallory Closest Approach To Earth (2.692 AU)
JPL Space Calendar
45th Anniversary (1969), Venera 6, Venus Impact
Food for Thought
NASA West Antarctic Ice Sheet Findings: Glacier
Loss Appears Unstoppable
Time Lapsed Picture of Glacier
Space Image of the Week
Valles Marineris: The Grand Canyon of Mars
Image Credit: Viking Project, USGS, NASA