1. Space News Update - September 6, 2016 - In the News Departments
Story 1:
Philae Found!
Story 2:
Jupiter's North Pole Unlike Anything Encountered in Solar System
Story 3: SpaceX may shift Falcon 9 launches to KSC’s Pad 39A
Departments
The Night Sky
ISS Sighting Opportunities Space Calendar
NASA-TV Highlights
Food for Thought
Space Image of the Week

2. Philae Found!
In this computer graphic, NASA's Voyager 1 probe, moving toward upper left, nears the edge of the sun's influence, flying through a region of space dominated by a "magnetic highway" that helps mediate the flow of particles into and out of the solar system. The region includes particles from the sun's southern hemisphere that have been forced northward by the pressure of the interstellar wind. Voyager 1 is expected to cross the boundary into interstellar space sometime within the next few years if not sooner. (Credit: NASA)

3. Jupiter's North Pole Unlike Anything Encountered in Solar System

4. SpaceX may shift Falcon 9 launches to KSC’s Pad 39A

5. The Night Sky Sky & Telescope Tuesday, September 6
• As summer approaches its end, Vega becomes the zenith star around the end of twilight (for skywatchers at mid-northern latitudes). And Arcturus, its zero-magnitude equal for brightness, shines moderately low in the west.
Wednesday, September 7
• The asteroids 1 Ceres and 18 Melpomene, magnitudes 8 and 9, will both fit in a telescope's low-power eyepiece very late tonight and tomorrow night; they're 0.8° apart. See the September Sky & Telescope, page 51.
Moon, Saturn and Mars Sept 8-9, 2016
The first-quarter Moon stands over Saturn and Mars in twilight next Thursday and Friday, respectively.
Thursday, September 8
• The Moon this evening forms a roughly vertical lineup with Saturn and Antares below it, while brighter Mars glows yellow-orange to their left, as shown here.
Friday, September 9
• Now the Moon shines over Mars at dusk. The Saturn-Mars-Antares triangle, the emblem of this summer's evening sky, continues to morph. In the coming days and weeks Saturn and Antares will continue to move farther toward the lower right, while Mars hangs back and fades. By mid-autumn Saturn and Antares will be gone.
Sky & Telescope

6. ISS Sighting Opportunities
ISS For Denver:
Date
Visible
Max Height
Appears
Disappears
Tue Sep 6, 4:58 AM
2 min
42°
37° above SSE
25° above E
Wed Sep 7, 4:08 AM
1 min
16°
16° above E
11° above E
Wed Sep 7, 5:41 AM
4 min
39°
17° above W
16° above NNE
Thu Sep 8, 4:50 AM
71°
71° above N
23° above NE
Fri Sep 9, 4:00 AM
< 1 min
16° above ENE
Fri Sep 9, 5:33 AM
21°
16° above WNW
10° above NNE
Sighting information for other cities can be found at NASA’s Satellite Sighting Information

7. NASA-TV Highlights Watch NASA TV online by going to the NASA website
MAVEN Launch November 18, 2013
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MAVEN Launch November 18, 2013
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MAVEN Launch November 18, 2013
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NASA-TV Highlights
(all times Eastern Time Zone)
1 p.m., 4:30 p.m, Tuesday, September 6 - OSIRIS-Rex Pre Launch News Conference (all channels)
2 p.m., 3:30 p.m., Tuesday, September 6 - OSIRIS-Rex Science News Conference (NTV-3 (Media))
2 p.m., Tuesday, September 6 - ISS Expedition 48 Farewells and Hatch Closure Coverage (hatch closure scheduled at approximately 2:30 p.m. ET) (starts at 2:15 p.m.) (NTV-1 (Public))
5:30 p.m., Tuesday, September 6 - ISS Expedition 48/Soyuz TMA-20M Undocking Coverage (J. Williams, Ovchinin, Skripochka); undocking scheduled at 5:52 p.m. ET) (all channels)
6:30 p.m., Tuesday, September 6 - Replay of ISS Expedition 48 Farewells and Hatch Closure Coverage (all channels)
8 p.m., Tuesday, September 6 - ISS Expedition 48/Soyuz TMA-20M Deorbit Burn and Landing Coverage (J. Williams, Ovchinin, Skripochka); deorbit burn scheduled at 8:21 p.m. ET; landing near Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan scheduled at 9:13 p.m. ET) (all channels)
Midnight, Wednesday, September 7 - NASA Television Video File News Feed of the ISS Expedition 48/Soyuz TMA-20M Landing and Post-Landing Activities (J. Williams, Ovchinin, Skripochka) (all channels)
9 a.m., Wednesday, September 7 - Replay of the OSIRIS-Rex Pre Launch News Conference (all channels)
10 a.m., Wednesday, September 7 - Replay of the OSIRIS-Rex Science News Conference (all channels)
11 a.m., 2:00 p.m., 6 p.m., Wednesday, September 7 - NASA Television Video File News Feed of the ISS Expedition 48/Soyuz TMA-20M Post-Landing Activities in Kazakhstan and Interviews (scheduled to include a post-landing interview with ISS Expedition 48 Commander Jeff Williams of NASA and the return of cosmon (all channels)
12 p.m., Wednesday, September 7 - OSIRIS-Rex NASA Social (all channels)
1 p.m., 4 p.m., 8 p.m., Wednesday, September 7 - NASA Uncovering the Secrets of Asteroids (NUTS) Briefing (all channels)
11 a.m., Thursday, September 8 - Video File of the ISS Expedition Crew’s Departure from the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia for the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan (Kimbrough, Ryzhikov, Borisenko) (all channels)
3:30 p.m., Thursday, September 8 - NASA EDGE Prelaunch Coverage of OSIRIS-Rex (NTV-1 (Public))
5:30 p.m., Thursday, September 8 - Live Coverage and Commentary of the Launch of the OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft (Launch is scheduled for 7:05 p.m.) (all channels)
Watch NASA TV online by going to the NASA website

8. Space Calendar JPL Space Calendar
Sep 06 - Comet 90P/Gehrels At Opposition (2.565 AU)
Sep 06 - Apollo Asteroid 2016 PR39 Near-Earth Flyby (0.047 AU)
Sep 06 - Asteroid 67 Asia Closest Approach To Earth (1.044 AU)
Sep 06 - Asteroid 787 Moskva Closest Approach To Earth (1.258 AU)
Sep 06 - Asteroid Jocelynbell Closest Approach To Earth (1.285 AU)
Sep 06 - Kuiper Belt Object 2010 RF43 At Opposition ( AU)
Sep th Anniversary (1996), Galileo, Ganymede 2 Encounter
Sep 06 - Yrjo Vaisala's 125th Birthday (1891)
Sep 06 - James Gilliss' 205th Birthday (1811)
Sep 07 - [Aug 31] TMA-20M Soyuz Return to Earth (International Space Station)
Sep 07 - Comet C/2013 P3 (Palomar) Closest Approach To Earth (8.609 AU)
Sep 07 - Amor Asteroid 2016 PD1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.060 AU)
Sep 07 - Apollo Asteroid (2004 BO41) Near-Earth Flyby (0.100 AU)
Sep 07 - Asteroid Stephencolbert Closest Approach To Earth (2.017 AU)
Sep 07 - Asteroid 310 Margarita Closest Approach To Earth (2.028 AU)
Sep th Anniversary (1956), 1st Man to Reach 100,000 Feet Altitude (Kinch Kincheloe)
Sep 08 - [Sep 05] OSIRIS-REx Atlas 5 Launch (Asteroid Sample Return Mission)
Sep 08 - [Sep 01] 50th Anniversary (1966), 1st Star Trek Episode on TV
Sep 08 - Comet 62P/Tsuchinshan At Opposition (2.833 AU)
Sep 08 - Asteroid 224 Oceana Occults HIP 86404 (6.9 Magnitude Star)
Sep 08 - Asteroid 469 Argentina Closest Approach To Earth (2.660 AU)
Sep 09 - Asteroid 2 Pallas Occults TYC  (10.7 Magnitude Star)
Sep 09 - [Sep 03] Apollo Asteroid 2016 QN44 Near-Earth Flyby (0.073 AU)
Sep 09 - Asteroid 3473 Sapporo Closest Approach To Earth (1.705 AU)
Sep 09 - Asteroid Rikhill Closest Approach To Earth (2.339 AU)
Sep th Anniversary (2006), STS-115 Launch (Space Shuttle Atlantis, International Space Station)
Sep th Anniversary (1961), Bells Meteorite Fall (Hit Building in Texas)
JPL Space Calendar

9. First gravitational waves form after 10 million years
Food for Thought
First gravitational waves form after 10 million years

10. Space Image of the Week
Jupiter Down Under