Space News Update - May 20, 2014 - In the News Story 1: Construction to Begin on NASA Mars Lander Scheduled to Launch in 2016 Story 2: Venus Express Gets Ready to Take the Plunge Story 3: New Meteor Shower from Comet Could Dazzle Stargazers This Week Departments The Night Sky ISS Sighting Opportunities Space Calendar NASA-TV Highlights Food for Thought Space Image of the Week
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Space News Update- May 20, 2014 -
In the News
Story 1: Construction to Begin on NASA Mars Lander Scheduled to Launch in 2016
Story 2:
Venus Express Gets Ready to Take the Plunge
Story 3: New Meteor Shower from Comet Could Dazzle Stargazers This Week
Departments
The Night SkyISS Sighting Opportunities
Space CalendarNASA-TV Highlights
Food for ThoughtSpace Image of the Week
Story #2
Story #1
Story #3
The NightSky
ISSSightings
NASA-TV
Food forThought
Image ofthe Week
SpaceCalendar
Construction to Begin on NASA Mars Lander Scheduled to Launch in 2016
New Meteor Shower from Comet Could Dazzle Stargazers This Week
Story #2
Story #1
Story #3
The NightSky
ISSSightings
NASA-TV
Food forThought
Image ofthe Week
SpaceCalendar
The Night Sky
Sky & Telescope
Tuesday, May 20• As the stars come out, Saturn in the southeast, Vega in
the northeast, Capella in the northwest, and Procyon in the west-southwest are all at about the same altitude (as seen from about 40° north latitude).
Wednesday, May 21• The western twilight Arch of Spring is sinking, but you
can still catch this big landmark when the stars come out. Jupiter in the west lies within it. Pollux and Castor, above Jupiter, are lined up roughly horizontally; they're the Arch's top. Look far to their lower left for Procyon, and farther to their lower right for Menkalinen and then bright Capella. Jupiter is moving closer to the Arch's upper-left side.
Thursday, May 22• As twilight fades, spot Mercury low in the west-
northwest. It's about 2½ fists to the lower right of bright Jupiter. This evening Mercury is between the horn-tips of Taurus: Beta Tauri (El Nath) to its upper right, and Zeta Tauri to its lower left. Binoculars will help.
Friday, May 23• New meteor shower? A possible strong meteor shower
may arrive in the early-morning hours of Saturday the 24th, timed for North America (perhaps peaking around 3 a.m. EDT, midnight PDT). For just a few hours we'll pass through the predicted debris trail of Comet 209P/LINEAR, which is making an unusually close flyby of Earth. There's even a (slim) possibility that the shower could approach "meteor storm" proportions. The comet itself is closest on May 29th, but it's very small and faint and may reach 11th magnitude at best.
• As dawn brightens on Saturday morning the 24th, look for Venus well to the lower left of the waning crescent Moon, as shown above.
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May 20, Tuesday7 - 8 a.m. - Live Interviews with Expedition 39 Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA - JSC (All Channels) 11:10 a.m. - ISS Expedition 40 In-Flight Interview with CNN’s Original Video Division - JSC (All Channels)11:30 a.m. - Space Station Live - JSC (All Channels)
May 21, Wednesday1 p.m. - Video File of the ISS Expedition 40/41 Crew Activities in Baikonur, Kazakhstan - JSC via Baikonur, Kazakhstan (All Channels) 2 p.m. - ISS Expedition 40 Mission Overview Briefing - JSC (All Channels) 3:30 p.m. - Destination Station: ISS Science Forum - JSC (All Channels)
May 23, Friday6 a.m. - 12 p.m. - Live Media Interviews on New Meteor Shower produced by comet 209P/LINEAR - GSFC (NTV-3)