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Space News Update - November 22, 2013 -

Space News Update - November 22, 2013 -. In the News Story 1: NASA Halts Work on its New Nuclear Generator for Deep Space Exploration Story 2: Trio of Satellites See 'Watershed' Cosmic Blast in Unique Detail Story 3: Rover engineers troubleshoot possible 'soft short' Departments

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Space News Update - November 22, 2013 -

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  1. Space News Update - November 22, 2013 - In the News Story 1: NASA Halts Work on its New Nuclear Generator for Deep Space Exploration Story 2: Trio of Satellites See 'Watershed' Cosmic Blast in Unique Detail Story 3: Rover engineers troubleshoot possible 'soft short' Departments The Night Sky ISS Sighting OpportunitiesSpace Calendar NASA-TV Highlights Food for Thought Space Image of the Week

  2. NASA Halts Work on its New Nuclear Generator for Deep Space Exploration

  3. Trio of Satellites See 'Watershed' Cosmic Blast in Unique Detail

  4. Rover engineers troubleshoot possible 'soft short'

  5. The Night Sky Friday, November 22  The waning gibbous Moon is up in the east by about 10 p.m. tonight (depending on where you live). Look above it for bright Jupiter and, to Jupiter's left, Pollux and Castor. To the Moon's right twinkles Procyon. Much farther to the right, brighter Sirius is rising or soon to rise. Saturday, November 23  The eclipsing binary star Algol should be at minimum light, magnitude 3.4 instead of its usual 2.3, for a couple hours centered on 9:06 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. It takes several more hours to fade and to rebrighten. Sunday, November 24  During dawn Monday and Tuesday mornings, when you're preparing to use binoculars or a telescope to make one last pre-perihelion try for Comet ISON barely above the horizon, you'll find Mercury and fainter Saturn shining to the naked eye just 3/4° apart (at the times of dawn in North America). They're well above the spot to look for the comet: by 7° on Monday, 9° on Tuesday. In a telescope, Mercury will be a tiny, slightly gibbous disk 5.6 arcseconds in diameter (no bigger than Mars, high in the southeast), while Saturn is dimmer but much larger: 34″ across its rings. They're a nice consolation prize! Monday, November 25  Last-quarter Moon (exact at 2:28 p.m. EST). The Moon rises around 1 a.m. tonight. By dawn Tuesday morning it's high in the south, with Regulus to its right and Mars to its lower left. Sky & Telescope

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

  7. NASA-TV Highlights (all times Eastern Daylight Time) November 22, Friday9 - 11 a.m. - Asteroid Initiative Ideas Synthesis Workshop -- Grand Challenge Panel – Next Generation Engagement - HQ/LPI - (All Channels)11 a.m. - Space Station Live - JSC (Media Channel) 11:15 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. - Asteroid Initiative Ideas Synthesis Workshop -- Summary Plenary Session - HQ/LPI - (All Channels) November 25, Monday3:30 p.m. - Coverage of the Launch of the ISS Progress 53 Cargo Craft (Launch scheduled at 3:53 p.m. ET) - JSC viaBaikonur, Kazakhstan (All Channels) Watch NASA TV online by going to the NASA website

  8. Space Calendar Nov 22 - [Nov 22] Swarm A, B & CRokot KM Launch Nov 22 - Comet P/2013 T2 (Schwartz)At Opposition (1.181 AU) Nov 22 - Comet 271P/van Houten-LemmonClosest Approach To Earth (3.331 AU) Nov 22 - Asteroid 8553 Bradsmith Closest Approach To Earth (1.443 AU) Nov 22 - 15th Anniversary (1998), Galileo, Europa 18 Flyby Nov 23 - Comet P/2012 T3 (PANSTARRS)At Opposition (3.914 AU) Nov 23 - Comet 251P/LINEARAt Opposition (4.254 AU) Nov 23 - Comet C/2012 U1 (PANSTARRS)Closest Approach To Earth (4.763 AU) Nov 23 - Asteroid 4547 Massachusetts Closest Approach To Earth (1.531 AU) Nov 23 - Asteroid 51826 Kalpanachawla Closest Approach To Earth (1.845 AU) Nov 24 - Comet P/2005 L1 (McNaught)Perihelion (3.159 AU) Nov 24 - Asteroid 21 Lutetia Occults TYC 0276-00869-1 (10.5 Magnitude Star) Nov 24 - Asteroid 12923 Zephyr Closest Approach To Earth (1.096 AU) Nov 24 - Asteroid 2712 Keaton Closest Approach To Earth (1.164 AU) Nov 24 - Asteroid 54439 Topeka Closest Approach To Earth (2.096 AU) Nov 25 - [Nov 18] Progress M-21MSoyuz U Launch (International Space Station 53P) Nov 25 - Comet P/2005 T2 (Christensen)At Opposition (2.508 AU) Nov 25 - Comet 271P/van Houten-LemmonAt Opposition (3.332 AU) Nov 25 - Asteroid 2010 CL19Near-Earth Flyby (0.097 AU) Nov 25 - Asteroid 3306 Byron Closest Approach To Earth (1.525 AU) JPL Space Calendar

  9. Food for Thought JFK's legacy: Setting America on course for the moon

  10. Space Image of the Week NASA Releases Comet ISON Images from STEREO Image Credit:  Karl Battams/NASA/STEREO/CIOC

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