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Space News Update
- June 13, 2014 In the News
Story 1:
NASA Experiments Recreate Aromatic Flavors of Titan
Story 2:
Spectacular Gravitational Lens Discovered
Story 3:
NASA Turns World Cup into Lesson in Aerodynamics
Departments
The Night Sky
ISS Sighting Opportunities
Space Calendar
NASA-TV Highlights
Food for Thought
Space Image of the Week
NASA Experiments Recreate Aromatic
Flavors of Titan
Spectacular Gravitational Lens Discovered
NASA Turns World Cup into Lesson in
Aerodynamics
The Night Sky
Friday, June 13
Vega is the brightest star shining in the east
after dusk. It's currently the top star of the
big Summer Triangle. The brightest star to
Vega's lower left is Deneb. Look farther to
Vega's lower right for Altair. The Summer
Triangle will climb higher in early evening all
through the summer, to pose highest
overhead at dusk just as fall begins.
Saturday, June 14
Mars and Spica arrest your eye in the southwest just after dark this week. Spot brighter Arcturus high above
them. Half as far below them is the four-star pattern of Corvus, the Crow.
Sunday, June 15
The waning gibbous Moon rises in the east-southeast around 11 p.m. (depending on where you live). Well to its
upper left shines Altair, flagged by the little star Tarazed about a finger-width at arm's length above it. Left or
lower left of Altair, by about a fist and a half at arm's length, look for the compact constellation Delphinus, the
Dolphin.
Monday, June 16
After dark, look below Mars and Spica in the southwest for the four-star pattern of Corvus, the Crow. It's a
springtime constellation descending now that spring is nearing its end. Sky & Telescope
ISS Sighting Opportunities
ISS For Denver:
Date
Visible
Max
Height
Appears
Disappears
Fri Jun 13, 9:23 PM
1 min
10°
10 above N
10 above NNE
Fri Jun 13, 11:00 PM
2 min
20°
18 above N
18 above NE
Sat Jun 14, 00:34 AM
< 1 min
12°
10 above WNW
12 above WNW
Sat Jun 14, 10:11 PM
3 min
15°
14 above N
10 above ENE
Sat Jun 14, 11:45 PM
2 min
28°
10 above NW
28 above NW
Sun Jun 15, 9:21 PM
2 min
13°
11 above N
10 above NE
Sun Jun 15, 10:58 PM
2 min
40°
25 above NNW
40 above NE
Mon Jun 16, 10:09 PM
3 min
26°
21 above N
16 above ENE
Mon Jun 16, 11:44 PM
< 1 min
17°
12 above WNW
17 above WNW
Sighting information for other cities can be found at NASA’s Satellite Sighting Information
NASA-TV Highlights
(all times Eastern Daylight Time)
Friday, June 13
4 p.m. - Replay of “Astronaut Mike Hopkins Talks Living & Working in Space” (all channels)
5:07 p.m - Replay of Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) Pre-Launch Briefing (all channels)
Monday, June 16
8:55 a.m - ISS Expedition 40 In-Flight Interviews with WBAL Radio, Baltimore and The Weather Channel (all
channels)
Tuesday, June 17
11:55 a.m. - ISS Expedition 40 In-Flight Educational Event with the Colvin Run Elementary School in
Vienna, Va. - JSC (all channels)
Watch NASA TV online by going to the NASA website
Space Calendar
Jun 13 - Comet C/2013 Y2 (PANSTARRS) Perihelion (1.919 AU)
Jun 13 - Jet Propulsion Laboratory's 70th Birthday (1944)
Jun 14 - [Jun 12] Low Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) Test Flight
Jun 14 - Glonass-M Soyuz-2-1b Fregat-M Launch
Jun 14 - Asteroid 1566 Icarus Closest Approach To Earth (0.561 AU)
Jun 14 - 20th Anniversary (1994), St. Robert Meteorite Fall (Hit House in Canada)
Jun 15 - [Jun 12] Orbcomm 2 (FM45-FM50) Falcon 9 Launch
Jun 15 - [Jun 07] Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #382 (OTM-382)
Jun 15 - Comet C/2012 L2 (LINEAR) At Opposition (4.180 AU)
Jun 15 - Comet C/2012 K8 (Lemmon) At Opposition (6.124 AU)
Jun 15 - Asteroid 7749 Jackschmitt Closest Approach To Earth (1.258 AU)
Jun 15 - Centaur Object 10199 Chariklo At Opposition (13.836 AU)
Jun 15-Jul 06 - Workshop: Fast and Furious - Understanding Exotic Astrophysical Transcients,
Aspen, Colorado
Jun 16 - Comet C/2014 J1 (Catalina) Perihelion (1.724 AU)
Jun 16 - Comet C/2013 O3 (PANSTARRS) At Opposition (3.330 AU)
Jun 16 - Asteroid 2014 HN178 Near-Earth Flyby (0.044 AU)
Jun 16 - Asteroid 1704 Wachmann Closest Approach To Earth (1.183 AU)
Jun 16 - Asteroid 5062 Glennmiller Closest Approach To Earth (1.470 AU)
Jun 16 - Asteroid 1832 Mrkos Closest Approach To Earth (2.391 AU)
Jun 16 - Asteroid 250840 Motorhead Closest Approach To Earth (2.465 AU)
JPL Space Calendar
Food for Thought
Sam the Monkey After His Ride in the Little Joe 2 Spacecrafts
Space Image of the Week
Three Galaxies over New Zealand
Image Credit & Copyright: Mike Mackinven