Space News Update - March 4, In the News Story 1: Story 1: Dragon cargo ship reaches destination after shaky start Story 2: Story 2: What Lies Beneath: NASA Antarctic Sub Goes Sub-glacial Story 3: Story 3: Newly Found Asteroid to Pass within Moon’s Orbit on March 4, 2013 Departments The Night Sky ISS Sighting Opportunities NASA-TV Highlights Space Calendar Food for Thought Space Image of the Week

Dragon cargo ship reaches destination after shaky start

What Lies Beneath: NASA Antarctic Sub Goes Sub-glacial

Newly Found Asteroid to Pass within Moon’s Orbit on March 4, 2013

The Night Sky Monday, March 4 With Sirius on the meridian after dinnertime, so is the Winter Triangle — since Sirius is its bottom corner. The other two are Procyon to its upper left and Betelgeuse to its upper right. The Winter Triangle is almost perfectly equilateral: all three stars are 26° from each other within about 1° accuracy. Last-quarter Moon (4:53 p.m. EST). Tuesday, March 5 On the traditional divide between the winter and spring sky is the dim constellation Cancer. It's between Gemini to its west and Leo to its east. Cancer has a unique feature: the Beehive Star Cluster, M44, in its middle. The Beehive shows to the naked eye only if your light pollution is slight. Look for it a little less than halfway from Pollux to Regulus. With binoculars it's a snap. Wednesday, March 6 Following behind Sirius and Canis Major across the sky is Milky-Way-rich Puppis. Thursday, March 7 Algol in Perseus should be at minimum light, magnitude 3.4 instead of its usual 2.1, for a couple hours centered on 9:58 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Algol takes several additional hours to fade and to rebrighten. Friday, March 8 Jupiter is 5° from Aldebaran high in the west after dark. But it's now passing only 2° from fainter (3.5- magnitude) Epsilon Tauri, the other tip of the Hyades V pattern, located almost between them.

ISS Sighting Opportunities Sighting information for other cities can be found at NASA’s Satellite Sighting InformationSatellite Sighting Information ISS For Denver: No Sighting Opportunities

NASA-TV Highlights (all times Eastern Daylight Time) March 5, Tuesday 12 p.m. - Video File of the ISS Expedition 35/36 Qualification Training Simulation Runs at Star City, Russia - JSC (All Channels) 1:25 p.m. - ISS Expedition 34 Educational In-Flight Event with the Monrovia Unified School District in Monrovia, CA - JSC (All Channels) March 7, Thursday 1:05 p.m. - ISS Mission Control Console Interview with the Digital Learning Network - JSC (All Channels) 3 p.m. - Video File of the ISS Expedition 35/36 Crew News Conference at Star City, Russia and Visit to Red Square in Moscow - JSC (All Channels) March 8, Friday 5:30 a.m. - Video B-Roll Feed of NASA Expedition 35/36 Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy - JSC (Public and Media Channels) a.m. - Live Shots Interviews with NASA Expedition 35/36 Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy from the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia – JSC via Star City, Russia (Public and Media Channels) 9 a.m. - Live Interviews with Expedition 36/37 Flight Engineer Luca Parmitano for the European Space Agency - JSC (in native language; Media Channel only) Watch NASA TV online by going to the NASA websiteNASA website

Space Calendar JPL Space Calendar Mar 04 - Patrick Moore's 90th Birthday (1923)Patrick Moore's Mar 05 - [Feb 25] Comet C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS) Closest Approach To Earth (1.097 AU)Comet C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS)Closest Approach To Earth Mar 05 - Asteroid 1508 Kemi Occults HIP (6.1 Magnitude Star)Asteroid 1508 Kemi Occults HIP Mar 05 - Asteroid Beowolf Closest Approach To Earth (1.596 AU)Asteroid BeowolfClosest Approach To Earth Mar 05 - Asteroid 1071 Brita Closest Approach To Earth (1.771 AU)Asteroid 1071 Brita Mar 05 - Asteroid 697 Galilea Closest Approach To Earth (2.352 AU)Asteroid 697 Galilea Mar 05 - Asteroid 2041 Lancelot Closest Approach To Earth (2.387 AU)Asteroid 2041 Lancelot Mar 05 - Asteroid 4321 Zero Closest Approach To Earth (2.728 AU)Asteroid 4321 Zero Mar 06 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #343 (OTM-343)Cassini Mar 06 - Moon Occults PlutoMoon Occults Pluto Mar 06 - Mercury Passes 5.3 Degrees From VenusMercuryVenus Mar 06 - Asteroid 5923 Liedeke Occults HIP (6.0 Magnitude Star)Asteroid 5923 Liedeke Occults HIP Mar 07 - Asteroid Albee Closest Approach To Earth (1.679 AU)Asteroid Albee Mar 07 - Asteroid 1432 Ethiopia Closest Approach To Earth (1.936 AU)Asteroid 1432 Ethiopia Mar 07 - Asteroid 1940 Whipple Closest Approach To Earth (2.045 AU)Asteroid 1940 Whipple Mar 08 - Asteroid 4319 Jackierobinson Closest Approach To Earth (1.713 AU)Asteroid 4319 Jackierobinson

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Space Image of the Week Grand Canyon Star Trails Image Credit & Copyright: Babak Tafreshi (TWAN)