Space News Update- June 28, 2013 -
In the News
Story 1: NASA's Voyager 1 Explores Final Frontier of Our 'Solar Bubble'
Story 2:Gas-Giant Exoplanets Cling Close to Their Parent Stars
Story 3:
IRIS Reaches Orbit
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Space Image of the Week
NASA's Voyager 1 Explores Final Frontier of Our 'Solar Bubble'
Gas-Giant Exoplanets Cling Close to Their Parent Stars
The Night SkyFriday, June 28 · The Big Dipper, still high in the northwest, is moving a little lower now and starting to dip around toward the right. Follow the curve of its handle a little more than a Dipper-length left, and you land on bright Arcturus high in the southwest.
Saturday, June 29 · This is the time of year when, after dark, the dim Little Dipper floats straight upward from Polaris (the end of its handle) — like a helium balloon on a string escaped from some summer evening party.
Sunday, June 30 · Vega is the brightest star high in the east. Right next to Vega lies one of the best-known multiple stars in the sky: 4th-magnitude Epsilon (ε) Lyrae, the Double-Double. It forms one corner of a roughly equilateral triangle with Vega and Zeta (ζ) Lyrae. The triangle is less than 2° on a side. A 4-inch telescope at 100× or more should resolve each of Epsilon's two wide components into a tight pair. Zeta Lyrae is also a double star for binoculars; much tougher, but easily split with a telescope.
Monday, July 1 · If you have a dark enough sky, the Milky Way now forms a magnificent arch high across the whole eastern sky after nightfall is complete. It runs all the way from below Cassiopeia low in the north-northeast, up and across Cygnus and the Summer Triangle in the east, and down past the spout of the Sagittarius Teapot in the south-southeast.
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ISS Sighting Opportunities
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Space Calendar
JPL Space Calendar
Jun 27 - [Jun 26] Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) Pegasus XL Launch Jun 27 - [Jun 24] Cosmos-Condor E Strela Launch Jun 27 - Asteroid 3501 Veeder Occults HIP 57791 (5.6 Magnitude Star) Jun 27 - Asteroid 8444 Popovich Closest Approach To Earth (0.956 AU) Jun 27 - Asteroid 3917 Franz Schubert Closest Approach To Earth (1.375 AU) Jun 27 - Asteroid 439 Ohio Closest Approach To Earth (2.381 AU) Jun 27 - Kuiper Belt Object 307261 (2002 MS4) At Opposition (46.018 AU) Jun 27 - EUsatcom Conference 2013, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Jun 28 - [Jun 26] Comet 285P/LINEAR Perihelion (1.691 AU) Jun 28 - Comet 96P/Machholz At Opposition (3.241 AU) Jun 28 - Comet P/1999 XN120 (Catalina) At Opposition (4.042 AU) Jun 28 - Comet C/2012 S4 (PANSTARRS) Perihelion (4.349 AU) Jun 28 - Comet P/2010 H5 (McNaught) At Opposition (5.753 AU) Jun 28 - Asteroid 293726 (2007 RQ17) Near-Earth Flyby (0.036 AU) Jun 29 - Asteroid 1043 Beate Occults HIP 97499 (6.0 Magnitude Star) Jun 29 - Asteroid 2013 LH29 Near-Earth Flyby (0.059 AU) Jun 29 - Asteroid 73079 Davidbaltimore Closest Approach To Earth (1.168 AU) Jun 29 - Asteroid 14967 Madrid Closest Approach To Earth (1.506 AU) Jun 29 - George Hale's 145th Birthday (1868) Jun 30 - Comet P/2012 F2 (PANSTARRS) At Opposition (1.974 AU) Jun 30 - Comet 62P/Tsuchinshan At Opposition (3.913 AU) Jun 30 - Asteroid 3414 Champollion Closest Approach To Earth (1.395 AU) Jun 30 - Asteroid 12397 Peterbrown Closest Approach To Earth (2.256 AU) Jun 30 - 105th Anniversary (1908), Tunguska Explosion Event Jul 01 - [Jun 24] IRNSS 1A PSLV-C22 Launch (India) Jul 01 - Comet 263P/Gibbs At Opposition (2.569 AU) Jul 01 - Comet C/2012 BJ98 (Lemmon) At Opposition (2.600 AU) Jul 01 - Comet 182P/LONEOS At Opposition (3.062 AU) Jul 01 - Comet C/2013 B2 (Catalina) Perihelion (3.734 AU) Jul 01 - Asteroid 3783 Morris Closest Approach To Earth (0.948 AU) Jul 01 - Asteroid 4970 Druyan Closest Approach To Earth (1.640 AU) Jul 01 - Asteroid 50240 Cortina Closest Approach To Earth (1.683 AU) Jul 01 - Dwarf Planet 134340 Pluto At Opposition (31.449 AU)
Food for Thought
US team captures Gold in 2013 International Rocketry Challenge
Space Image of the WeekA Super Moon's Halo
