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Space News Update - July 29, 2013 -. In the News Story 1: Progress M-20M arrives at ISS with spacesuit repair tools Story 2: The Weakest Solar Cycle in 100 Years Story 3: Opportunity rover Days Away from Mars Mountain Quest Departments The Night Sky
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Space News Update - July 29, 2013 - In the News Story 1: Progress M-20M arrives at ISS with spacesuit repair tools Story 2: The Weakest Solar Cycle in 100 Years Story 3: Opportunity rover Days Away from Mars Mountain Quest Departments The Night Sky ISS Sighting OpportunitiesSpace Calendar NASA-TV Highlights Food for Thought Space Image of the Week
The Night Sky Monday, July 29· Last-quarter Moon (exact at 1:43 p.m. EDT). The Moon rises around midnight tonight, shining below the stars of Aries. As it climbs higher through the morning hours, look well to its lower left for the Pleiades. Tuesday, July 30· Bright Vega shines nearly overhead these evenings, for those of us at mid-northern latitudes. Look southeast for Altair, almost as bright. Above Altair by a finger-width at arm's length is its little orange sidekick Tarazed, 3rd magnitude. Wednesday, July 31· Find Altair again high in the southeast after dark. To its right, by about a fist and a half at arm's length, is the dim but distinctive little constellation Delphinus, the Dolphin, jumping leftward. Thursday, August 1· The asteroid 3 Juno is brightest at opposition this week, glimmering at magnitude 9.0 at the Aquarius-Aquila border. Pick it up with your scope using the finder chart in the August Sky & Telescope, page 51. Friday, August 2· As summer begins to wane, The Big Dipper hangs diagonally on the wall of the northwestern sky during evening. It's about as high as bright Arcturus, shining left of it in the west.</p · In early dawn Saturday morning (you can set your alarm), the waning crescent Moon hangs to the upper right of Jupiter, Mars, and Mercury low in the east-northeast, as shown at right. Sky & Telescope
ISS Sighting Opportunities ISS For Denver: Sighting information for other cities can be found at NASA’s Satellite Sighting Information
NASA-TV Highlights (all times Eastern Daylight Time) July 31, Wednesday9:30 a.m. - ISS Expedition 36 In-Flight Event for the European Space Agency with the Italian TG1 Network - JSC (All Channels) August August 2, Friday12:45 p.m. - ISS Expedition 36 In-Flight Event with Minnesota Public Radio and the U.S. Navy’s Emerging Media Division - JSC(All Channels) Watch NASA TV online by going to the NASA website
Space Calendar Jul 29 - South Delta-Aquarids Meteor Shower Peak Jul 29 - Asteroid 3 Juno Occults PPMX 9823370 (11.3 Magnitude Star) Jul 29 - Asteroid 5760 Mittlefehldt Closest Approach To Earth (1.692 AU) Jul 29 - Asteroid 7225 Huntress Closest Approach To Earth (1.799 AU) Jul 29 - Asteroid 7934 Sinatra Closest Approach To Earth (1.933 AU) Jul 30 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #356 (OTM-356) Jul 30 - Mercury At Its Greatest Western Elongation (20 Degrees) Jul 30 - Comet C/2012 S3 (PANSTARRS)At Opposition (1.341 AU) Jul 30 - Asteroid 3 Juno Occults 2UCAC 30446947 (12.3 Magnitude Star) Jul 30 - Asteroid 2003 DZ15Near-Earth Flyby (0.023 AU) Jul 30 - Asteroid 2013 BO76Near-Earth Flyby (0.053 AU) Jul 30 - Asteroid 1213 Algeria Closest Approach To Earth (1.981 AU) Jul 30 - 75th Anniversary (1938), Seth Nicholson's Discovery of Jupiter Moon Carme Jul 31 - Mars Spring Equinox Jul 31 - Comet P/2013 N3 (PANSTARRS)Closest Approach To Earth (2.370 AU) Jul 31 - Asteroid 69230 HermesClosest Approach To Earth (1.681 AU) Aug 01 - Alpha Capricornids Meteor Shower Peak Aug 01 - Comet C/2012 S3 (PANSTARRS)Closest Approach To Earth (1.338 AU) Aug 01 - Comet 204P/LINEAR-NEATAt Opposition (3.951 AU) Aug 01 - Comet C/2013 G8 (PANSTARRS)Closest Approach To Earth (4.310 AU) Aug 01 - Comet C/2012 C1 (McNaught)Closest Approach To Earth (4.558 AU) Aug 01 - Asteroid 16761 Hertz Closest Approach To Earth (1.386 AU) Aug 01 - Asteroid 5382 McKay Closest Approach To Earth (1.771 AU) Aug 01 - Maria Mitchell's 195th Birthday (1818) Aug 02 - Comet 278P/McNaughtPerihelion (2.098 AU) Aug 02 - Comet 227P/Catalina-LINEARAt Opposition (4.297 AU) Aug 02 - Asteroid 2013 OFNear-Earth Flyby (0.068 AU) Aug 02 - Asteroid 2579 Spartacus Closest Approach To Earth (1.101 AU) Aug 02 - Asteroid 2710 Veverka Closest Approach To Earth (1.612 AU) JPL Space Calendar
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