Book Signing Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space ExplorationMeet author and Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin and take home a signed book as a memento.Saturday, June 1, 11:00 am to 2:00 pm. At the Museum Shop
Mission to Mars: My Vision for Space Exploration
Could it be another Hale-Bopp?
Comet PANSTARRS possibly visible to eye in March 2013 | Space | EarthSky.
I sure wish Richmond had seen this kind of creativity when they used a similar contest to name the local baseball team The Flying Squirrels.
Capt. Kirks Vulcan entry wins Pluto moons contest – WTOP.com.
SLOOH SPACE CAMERA TO TRACK ASTEROID 2012 DA14
SKIMMING BY EARTH AT ONLY 17,000 MILES (27,330 KM) AWAY
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Great representations of the size of the solar system, from Earth to the location of Voyager.
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If you’re an early riser, you can see 3 planets in the morning sky-look east, Venus is the brightest, Saturn above right and Mercury below left
Jason Roop’s (Editor of Style Magazine) newsletter highlighted us this week. It included this verbiage, which contains a link to the Style Magazine page describing our sky watch.
WEEKEND ASSIGNMENTS:
1. Gaze at the stars through these powerful lenses with the Richmond Astronomical Society.
Thanks, Jason. And here’s a clip of the page.
The peak of this show is either tonight (Saturday, Aug. 11), or tomorrow night, depending on which web site you look at. But I’d go with Sunday, because we’re going to be clouded out tonight in Richmond. This is one of the best meteor showers of the year, and I was planning on trying tonight too, because even though the peak will last only a few hours, there will be a heavier frequency of meteors for a week on either side of the peak. The closer to the peak, the better, of course.
Curiosity is scheduled to land in the Red Planet’s Gale Crater late Sunday or very, very early Monday, depending on your Earthbound time zone. Confirmation of the landing should come at about 10:31 p.m. PT Sunday for folks on the U.S. West Coast, or 1:31 a.m. ET Monday for those on the East Coast. The rover will have actually touched down before that, but there’s a 14-minute communications lag time for signals traveling the 154 million miles from Mars.
The space agency will begin its live coverage Sunday evening at 8:30 p.m. PT / 10:30 p.m. ET on the NASA TV site and will also show the coverage via UStream
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