Transcript Ocean satellite dies after 11½-year mission Fit Check Sets Stage for

Space News Update
- July 5, 2013 In the News
Story 1:
Ocean satellite dies after 11½-year mission
Story 2:
Fit Check Sets Stage for Orion Recovery Test
Story 3:
A Galaxy Grows Fat on Nearby Gas
Departments
The Night Sky
ISS Sighting Opportunities
NASA-TV Highlights
Space Calendar
Food for Thought
Space Image of the Week
Ocean satellite dies after 11½-year
mission
Fit Check Sets Stage for Orion Recovery
Test
A Galaxy Grows Fat on Nearby Gas
The Night Sky
Friday, July 5
· Venus, the "Evening Star," is very gradually brightening
and moving higher above the west-northwest horizon in
twilight. Keep watch through the summer and fall!
· During dawn Saturday morning, look low in the eastnortheast for the waning Moon. It guides your way to
Mars, Jupiter, Aldebaran, and Beta Tauri, as shown at
right. Binoculars will help.
· Earth is at aphelion, its farthest from the Sun for the
year (only 1/30 farther than at perihelion in January).
Saturday, July 6
· Two hours after sunset, after darkness is truly complete,
the east-northeast horizon bisects the Great Square of
Pegasus across two of its opposite corners. By midnight
the whole Great Square is up in good view, balanced on
its bottom corner.
Sunday, July 7
· When the stars begin to come out these evenings, the
Big Dipper hangs straight down from its handle high in the
northwest, while the dim, elusive Little Dipper stands
straight up on its handle from Polaris in the north.
Sky & Telescope
Monday, July 8
· This is the time of year when, as twilight fades to dark, the two brightest summer stars, Arcturus and Vega,
shine equally close to the zenith (depending on where you are). Arcturus is the one toward the southwest; Vega is
toward the east.
· New Moon (exact at 3:14 a.m. on this date EDT).
ISS Sighting Opportunities
ISS For Denver:
No Sighting Opportunities through July 15.
Sighting information for other cities can be found at NASA’s Satellite Sighting Information
NASA-TV Highlights
(all times Eastern Daylight Time)
No special programming. For NASA-TV’s daily program schedule go to:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/schedule.html
Watch NASA TV online by going to the NASA website
Space Calendar
Jul 05 - Earth At Aphelion (1.017 AU From Sun)
Jul 05 - Comet 271P/van Houten-Lemmon Perihelion (4.250 AU)
Jul 06 - Comet 26P/Grigg-Skjellerup Perihelion (1.086 AU)
Jul 06 - Comet 246P/NEAT Closest Approach To Earth (2.007 AU)
Jul 06 - Comet 108P/Ciffreo At Opposition (2.921 AU)
Jul 06 - Asteroid 18458 Caesar Closest Approach To Earth (1.168 AU)
Jul 06 - Asteroid 11334 Rio de Janeiro Closest Approach To Earth (1.273 AU)
Jul 06 - 75th Anniversary (1938), Seth Nicholson's Discovery of Jupiter Moon Lysithea
Jul 07 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #352 (OTM-352)
Jul 07 - Comet 174P/Echeclus At Opposition (5.567 AU)
Jul 07 - Asteroid 4783 Wasson Closest Approach To Earth (2.061 AU)
Jul 07 - Asteroid 44016 Jimmypage Closest Approach To Earth (2.069 AU)
Jul 07 - Asteroid 2197 Shanghai Closest Approach To Earth (2.497 AU)
Jul 07 - 10th Anniversary (2003), Mars Exploration Rover B (Opportunity) Launch
Jul 08 - Comet 156P/Russell-LINEAR At Opposition (2.020 AU)
Jul 08 - Comet 170P/Christensen At Opposition (2.672 AU)
Jul 08 - Comet 270P/Gehrels Perihelion (3.602 AU)
Jul 08 - Asteroid 99942 Apophis Closest Approach To Earth (0.244 AU)
JPL Space Calendar
Food for Thought
Earth Is Farthest From the Sun for 2013 Today
Space Image of the Week
M82: Starburst Galaxy with a Superwind
Image Credit & Copyright: Ken Crawford (Rancho Del Sol Obs.)