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Space News Update - December 7, 2012 -

Space News Update - December 7, 2012 -. In the News Story 1: Apollo 17, 40 Years Later: An Astronaut Reflects Story 2: What is Creating Gullies on Vesta? Story 3: SpaceX books first two launches with U.S. military Departments The Night Sky ISS Sighting Opportunities NASA-TV Highlights

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Space News Update - December 7, 2012 -

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  1. Space News Update - December 7, 2012 - In the News Story 1: Apollo 17, 40 Years Later: An Astronaut Reflects Story 2: What is Creating Gullies on Vesta? Story 3: SpaceX books first two launches with U.S. military Departments The Night Sky ISS Sighting Opportunities NASA-TV Highlights Space Calendar Food for Thought Space Image of the Week

  2. Apollo 17, 40 Years Later: An Astronaut Reflects

  3. > What is Creating Gullies on Vesta?

  4. SpaceX books first two launches with U.S. military

  5. The Night Sky Friday, December 7 · This is the time of year when the Andromeda Galaxy, M31, passes the zenith in early evening for skywatchers at mid-northern latitudes. It goes exactly through your zenith if you're at 41° north latitude (New York, Denver). When this happens depends on your location. Saturday, December 8 · Since Jupiter is just past opposition, the asteroids Ceres and Vesta in Jupiter's vicinity are near their oppositions too. Vesta's opposition is tonight. It is magnitude 6.4, and Ceres is 6.9. Spot them in binoculars this month using our finder chart in the December Sky & Telescope, page 50, or online. They're near the horns of Taurus. · Algol in Perseus, the prototype eclipsing binary star, should be in one of its periodic dimmings, magnitude 3.4 instead of its usual 2.1, for a couple hours centered on 12:29 a.m. Sunday morning EST; 9:29 p.m. Saturday evening PST. Algol takes several additional hours to fade and to rebrighten. · Jupiter's moon Io reappears out of eclipse from Jupiter's shadow at 11:49 p.m. EST; 8:49 p.m. PST. For all of Jupiter's satellite events, as well as all of the Great Red Spot's transit times, get our handy new JupiterMoons app!

  6. The Night Sky Sunday, December 9 · Jupiter's Great Red Spot should transit the planet's central meridian around 9:15 p.m. EST. · At dawn Monday morning, look upper left of the Moon for Saturn, and lower left of the Moon for little Alpha Librae partway down to Venus and Mercury, as shown at right. If you catch Alpha Lib before dawn becomes too bright, binoculars will show it to be a wide double star. Monday, December 10 · Low in the southeast in early dawn Tuesday morning, the waning crescent Moon is beautifully paired with Venus, as shown at right.

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

  8. NASA-TV Highlights No Special Programming. Watch regular daily programming on NASA-TV Watch NASA TV on the Net by going to NASA website.

  9. Space Calendar · Dec 07 - Cosmos 2482-2484 (Rodnik-S N1, N2 & N3) Rokot KM Launch · Dec 07 - Comet C/2012 J1 (Catalina) Perihelion (3.159 AU) · Dec 07 - Asteroid 3720 Hokkaido Closest Approach To Earth (1.525 AU) · Dec 07 - Kuiper Belt Object 19521 Chaos At Opposition (40.592 AU) · Dec 07 - Kuiper Belt Object 2004 XR190 At Opposition (56.754 AU) · Dec 07 - Lecture: GRAIL Unwraps the Moon, Pasadena, California · Dec 07 - 40th Anniversary (1972), Apollo 17 Launch (Last Manned Mission to the Moon) · Dec 08 - Yamal 402 Proton M-Briz M Launch · Dec 08 - Asteroid 2062 Aten Closest Approach To Earth (0.211 AU) · Dec 08 - Asteroid 294727 Dennisritchie Closest Approach To Earth (1.763 AU) · Dec 08 - 20th Anniversary (1992), Galileo, 2nd Earth Flyby · Dec 09 - Cassini, Distant Flyby of Titan · Dec 09 - Asteroid 4 Vesta At Opposition (6.7 Magnitude) · Dec 09 - Asteroid 9000 Hal Closest Approach To Earth (1.532 AU) · Dec 09 - Asteroid 4 Vesta Closest Approach To Earth (1.588 AU) · Dec 09 - Asteroid 10957 Alps Closest Approach To Earth (1.701 AU) · Dec 10 - 20th Anniversary (1992), Mihonoseki Meteorite Fall (Fell Through Roof Of A House In Japan) JPL Space Calendar

  10. Food for Thought Golden Spike to Offer Commercial Human Missions to the Moon

  11. Space Image of the Week Credit: NASA Earth Observatory/NOAA NGDC

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