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Space News Update - August 22, 2014 -

Space News Update - August 22, 2014 -. In the News Story 1: European Probe Survives Daring Dive Through Venus Atmosphere Story 2: Super-Black Nano-Coating to Be Tested for the First Time in Space Story 3: Engineers and Technicians Install Protective Shell on NASA’s Orion Spacecraft

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Space News Update - August 22, 2014 -

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  1. Space News Update - August 22, 2014 - In the News Story 1: European Probe Survives Daring Dive Through Venus Atmosphere Story 2: Super-Black Nano-Coating to Be Tested for the First Time in Space Story 3: Engineers and Technicians Install Protective Shell on NASA’s Orion Spacecraft Departments The Night Sky ISS Sighting OpportunitiesSpace Calendar NASA-TV Highlights Food for Thought Space Image of the Week

  2. European Probe Survives Daring Dive Through Venus Atmosphere

  3. Super-Black Nano-Coating to Be Tested for the First Time in Space

  4. Engineers and Technicians Install Protective Shell on NASA’s Orion Spacecraft

  5. The Night Sky Friday, August 22 Altair is the brightest star shining halfway up the southeastern sky after nightfall. Look to its left, by a little more than a fist at arm's length, for the dim but distinctive constellation Delphinus, the Dolphin. He's leaping leftward, just below the Milky Way. Saturday, August 23 August is prime Milky Way time. After dark, the Milky Way runs from Sagittarius and Scorpius in the south-southwest, up and left across Aquila and through the big Summer Triangle very high in the southeast and east, and on down through Cassiopeia to Perseus rising low in the north-northeast. Sunday, August 24 Mars and Saturn are closest together this evening and Monday evening, separated by 3.4°. They're the same brightness but not the same color. And, compare Mars's color to that of its rival Antares, not quite as bright, in Scorpius about 20° to the left. (See the last illustration below.) Mars will pass Antares by just 3° in late September. Monday, August 25 Before moonlight comes back into the evening sky, take the opportunity to explore the dim nebulae, and the somewhat brighter star clusters, around Deneb and the North America Nebula in Cygnus nearly overhead. They're not easy; use Sue French's maps, drawing, photo, and article in the September Sky & Telescope, page 56, to pinpoint what you're looking for. New Moon (exact at 10:13 a.m. EDT). Tuesday, August 26 If you're in the Earth's mid-northern latitudes, bright Vega shines near your zenith just as night becomes fully dark. Whenever you see Vega most nearly straight up, you know that Sagittarius, with its deep-sky riches, is highest in the south. Sky & Telescope

  6. ISS Sighting Opportunities ISS For Denver: Sighting information for other cities can be found at NASA’s Satellite Sighting Information

  7. NASA-TV Highlights (all times Eastern Daylight Time) 1 p.m., Monday, August 25 - NASA Science Briefing, New Horizons Pluto Mission: Mirroring the Voyager Spacecraft Legacy (all channels) 2 p.m., Monday, August 25 - NASA Science Briefing, The Voyager Mission Experience: Memories from the Team (all channels) Watch NASA TV online by going to the NASA website

  8. Space Calendar Aug 22 - [Aug 21] Galileo FM1 & FM2Soyuz 2-1B-Fregat Launch Aug 22 - Comet 19P/BorrellyClosest Approach To Earth (2.220 AU) Aug 22 - Asteroid 5143 HeraclesClosest Approach To Earth (0.843 AU) Aug 22 - 30th Anniversary (1984), Tomiya Meteorite Fall (Hit Houses in Japan) Aug 23 - Comet 303P/NEATAt Opposition (1.510 AU) Aug 23 - Asteroid 2559 Svoboda Occults HIP 23583 (6.2 Magnitude Star) Aug 23 - Asteroid 2100 Ra-ShalomClosest Approach To Earth (1.337 AU) Aug 23 - Asteroid 3769 Arthurmiller Closest Approach To Earth (1.388 AU) Aug 23 - Asteroid 293934 MPIA Closest Approach To Earth (1.459 AU) Aug 23 - Asteroid 3061 Cook Closest Approach To Earth (1.490 AU) Aug 23 - Asteroid 17656 Hayabusa Closest Approach To Earth (1.586 AU) Aug 23 - Centaur Object 7066 NessusAt Opposition (24.966 AU) Aug 23 - Kuiper Belt Object 307982 (2004 PG115)At Opposition (36.536 AU) Aug 24 - Asteroid 2001 Einstein Closest Approach To Earth (1.019 AU) Aug 24 - Greg Jarvis' 70th Birthday (1944) Aug 24-Sep 14 - Workshop: The Galaxy-Halo Connection Across Cosmic Time, Aspen, Colorado Aug 25 - AsiaSat 6 (Thaicom 7)Falcon 9 Launch Aug 25 - New Horizons Crosses Neptune's Orbit Aug 25 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #389 (OTM-389) Aug 25 - Northern Iota Aquarids Meteor Shower Peak Aug 25 - Comet 304P/OryPerihelion (1.382 AU) Aug 25 - Comet 227P/Catalina-LINEARAt Opposition (4.270 AU) Aug 25 - Asteroid 63 AusoniaAt Opposition (9.7 Magnitude) Aug 25 - Asteroid 2008 RG1Near-Earth Flyby (0.068 AU) Aug 25 - Asteroid 4535 Adamcarolla Closest Approach To Earth (1.791 AU) Aug 25 - Asteroid 2925 Beatty Closest Approach To Earth (1.806 AU) Aug 25 - Asteroid 30928 Jefferson Closest Approach To Earth (1.956 AU) Aug 25 - 25th Anniversary (1989), Voyager 2, Neptune Flyby Aug 26 - Kuiper Belt Object 225088 (2007 OR10)At Opposition (86.117 AU) JPL Space Calendar

  9. Food for Thought Ozone-Depleting Compound Persists, NASA Research Shows

  10. Space Image of the Week Blue Marble, Eastern Hemisphere

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