Transcript NASA`s Webb Telescope`s Last Backbone Component Completed

Space News Update
- June 14, 2013 In the News
Story 1:
NASA's Webb Telescope's Last Backbone Component Completed
Story 2:
Black Hole Discovery Explains Decades Of Observations
Story 3:
Shenzhou 10 docks with Chinese Space Lab in Orbit
Departments
The Night Sky
ISS Sighting Opportunities
NASA-TV Highlights
Space Calendar
Food for Thought
Space Image of the Week
NASA's Webb Telescope's Last Backbone
Component Completed
Black Hole Discovery Explains Decades Of
Observations
Shenzhou 10 docks with Chinese Space Lab in
Orbit
The Night Sky
Friday, June 14
· The waxing crescent Moon hangs to the lower left of Regulus
and the Sickle of Leo this evening.
· With the solstice a week away, have you been watching the
sunset point on your horizon day by day? See the June Sky &
Telescope, page 50, for more on watching the reality of the
solstice.
Saturday, June 15
· Mercury is drawing closer to Venus as it fades in the twilight,
as shown at right. They're 3.3° apart now and will be 2° from
each other at their closest on the 19th.
Sunday, June 16
· First-quarter Moon (exact at 1:24 p.m. EDT). The Moon shines
under the dim head of Virgo.
Monday, June 17
· The Moon this evening forms the end of a curving line with
Spica and Saturn, counting to the Moon's left. Look below the
Moon for the four-star figure of Corvus.
ISS Sighting Opportunities
ISS For Denver:
LOCAL
DURATION
MAX ELEV
APPROACH
DEPARTURE
DATE/TIME
(MIN)
(DEG)
(DEG-DIR)
(DEG-DIR)
Fri Jun 14, 9:02 PM
< 1 min
10°
10 above N
10 above N
Fri Jun 14, 10:39 PM
3 min
15°
14 above N
10 above NE
Sat Jun 15, 0:14 AM
1 min
62°
10 above NW
23 above NW
Sat Jun 15, 9:50 PM
2 min
12°
11 above N
10 above NE
Sat Jun 15, 11:27 PM
1 min
37°
24 above NNW
35 above NNE
Sun Jun 16, 9:00 PM
2 min
11°
10 above N
10 above NNE
Sun Jun 16, 10:38 PM
2 min
24°
20 above N
20 above ENE
Mon Jun 17, 0:13 AM
< 1 min
42°
10 above WNW
12 above WNW
Mon Jun 17, 9:48 PM
3 min
18°
15 above N
11 above ENE
Mon Jun 17, 11:24 PM
2 min
78°
13 above NW
36 above WNW
Sighting information for other cities can be found at NASA’s Satellite Sighting Information
NASA-TV Highlights
(all times Eastern Daylight Time)
June 15, Saturday
8 a.m. - Coverage of the Docking of the European Space Agency’s “Albert Einstein” Automated Transfer
Vehicle-4 Cargo Ship to the ISS (docking scheduled at 9:46 a.m. ET) - JSC (All Channels)
Watch NASA TV online by going to the NASA website
Space Calendar
Jun 14 - Comet 258P/PANSTARRS At Opposition (3.539 AU)
Jun 14 - Asteroid 39566 Carllewis Closest Approach To Earth (1.167 AU)
Jun 14 - Asteroid 13677 Alvin Closest Approach To Earth (2.220 AU)
Jun 15 - Comet 17P/Holmes At Opposition (1.959 AU)
Jun 15 - Asteroid 1640 Nemo Closest Approach To Earth (1.145 AU)
Jun 16 - [Jun 11] 50th Anniversary (1963), 1st Woman In Space (Valentina Tereshkova)
Jun 16 - Asteroid 20707 (1999 WW4) Occults HIP 66200 (4.9 Magnitude Star)
Jun 16 - Asteroid 3354 McNair Closest Approach To Earth (1.108 AU)
Jun 16 - Asteroid 7041 Nantucket Closest Approach To Earth (1.253 AU)
Jun 16 - Asteroid 55 Pandora Closest Approach To Earth (1.862 AU)
Jun 16 - Kuiper Belt Object 50000 Quaoar At Opposition (42.047 AU)
Jun 17 - Comet 91P/Russell Closest Approach To Earth (1.693 AU)
Jun 17 - Asteroid 4147 Lennon Closest Approach To Earth (1.186 AU)
Jun 17 - Asteroid 2157 Ashbrook Closest Approach To Earth (1.475 AU)
Jun 17 - Asteroid 7610 Sudbury Closest Approach To Earth (1.946 AU)
JPL Space Calendar
Food for Thought
Valentina Tereshkova: First Woman in Space
Space Image of the Week
A View of Mercury From Afar