Space News Update- August 19, 2013 -

In the News

Story 1: Proton rocket to resume flights in September

Story 2:Spacewalkers Wire Up Station for Future Lab

Story 3:

Radar Images of Asteroid 2005 WK4 Departments

The Night SkyISS Sighting Opportunities

NASA-TV HighlightsSpace CalendarFood for Thought

Space Image of the Week

Proton rocket to resume flights in September

Spacewalkers Wire Up Station for Future Lab

Radar Images of Asteroid 2005 WK4

The Night SkyMonday, August 19 • Look east in early dawn for the next few mornings and spot bright Jupiter. Look lower left of Jupiter for faint Mars. Mars forms the bottom end of a curving line with similarly bright Pollux and Castor (to its upper left). Watch this line straighten out day by day as Mars speeds eastward. It becomes exactly straight on Sunday morning the 25th. Tuesday, August 20 • Full Moon (exact at 9:45 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time). The Moon rises around sunset and shines in dim Aquarius after dark. Wednesday, August 21 • This is the time of year when the Big Dipper scoops down during evening, as if to pick up the water that it will dump from high overhead early next spring. Look northwest. Thursday, August 22 • After dark, spot Vega overhead and Arcturus in the west. A third of the way down from Vega toward Arcturus is the dim Keystone of Hercules. Two thirds of the way is the dim semicircle of Corona Borealis, the Northern Crown. Corona has only one modestly bright star, Alphecca. Friday, August 23 • The Great Square of Pegasus, tipped up on one corner, hangs above the waning gibbous Moon after the Moon rises in mid-evening.

ISS Sighting Opportunities

Sighting information for other cities can be found at NASA’s Satellite Sighting Information

ISS For Denver:

LOCAL DATE/TIME VISIBLE (MIN)

MAX HEIGHT

(DEG)

APPEARS(DEG)

DISAPPEARS(DEG)

Mon Aug 19, 9:22 PM 3 min 27° 16 above NNW 24 above NE

Tue Aug 20, 8:33 PM 4 min 19° 12 above NNW 11 above ENE

Tue Aug 20, 10:10 PM < 1 min 34° 22 above WNW 34 above WNW

Wed Aug 21, 9:22 PM 2 min 63° 27 above NW 56 above ENE

Thu Aug 22, 8:33 PM 5 min 37° 17 above NNW 13 above E

Thu Aug 22, 10:09 PM 1 min 19° 11 above W 19 above W

Fri Aug 23, 9:21 PM 2 min 43° 24 above W 39 above SSW

NASA-TV Highlights

(all times Eastern Daylight Time)

August 20, Tuesday9:40 a.m. - ISS Expedition 36 In-Flight Interviews with the Military Times and WBUR-FM, Boston - JSC (All Channels)11 a.m. - NASA Astronaut Candidates Media Briefing and Introductory Event with Administrator Charles Bolden - JSC (All Channels)

August 22, Thursday7 a.m. - ISS Expedition 36 Russian Spacewalk Coverage (Spacewalk begins at 7:40 a.m. ET) - JSC (All Channels)

Watch NASA TV online by going to the NASA website

Space Calendar

JPL Space Calendar

Aug 19 - G-Sat 14 GSLV-D5 Launch Aug 19 - Comet 211P/Hill At Opposition (3.525 AU) Aug 19 - Comet C/2012 C1 (McNaught) At Opposition (4.590 AU) Aug 19 - Asteroid 4923 Clarke Closest Approach To Earth (0.758 AU) Aug 20 - Asteroid 25143 Itokawa Closest Approach To Earth (0.845 AU) Aug 20 - Kuiper Belt Object 307982 (2004 PG115) At Opposition (36.352 AU) Aug 21 - [Aug 15] Comet C/2013 N4 (Borisov) Perihelion (1.211 AU) Aug 21 - [Aug 12] Comet C/2013 P2 (PANSTARRS) Closest Approach To Earth (2.739 AU) Aug 21 - Comet 152P/Helin-Lawrence At Opposition (2.746 AU) Aug 21 - Asteroid 2013 HG20 Near-Earth Flyby (0.69 AU) Aug 21 - Asteroid 990 Yerkes Closest Approach To Earth (1.178 AU) Aug 22 - Kompsat 5 (Arirang 5) Dnepr 1 Launch Aug 22 - Comet 125P/Spacewatch At Opposition (1.269 AU) Aug 22 - Asteroid 1590 Tsiolkovskaja Occults HIP 98910 (6.4 Magnitude Star) Aug 22 - [Aug 16] Asteroid 2013 PA39 Near-Earth Flyby (0.038 AU) Aug 22 - Asteroid 3252 Johnny Closest Approach To Earth (1.925 AU) Aug 23 - Comet 79P/du Toit-Hartley Perihelion (1.124 AU) Aug 23 - Comet P/2013 J2 (McNaught) Perihelion (2.148 AU) Aug 23 - Asteroid 137126 (1999 CF9) Near-Earth Flyby (0.063 AU) Aug 23 - Asteroid 2653 Principia Closest Approach To Earth (1.631 AU) Aug 23 - Asteroid 2309 Mr. Spock Closest Approach To Earth (2.031 AU) Aug 23 - Asteroid 2421 Nininger Closest Approach To Earth (2.108 AU)

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by a StarNASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Credit: European Space Agency