1. ISS Sighting Opportunities
Space News Update
- November 9,
In the News
Story 1:
Multimessenger Links to NASA’s Fermi Mission Show How Luck Favors the Prepared
Story 2:
Galaxy-Scale Fountain Seen in Full Glory with Infalling And Outflowing Gas
Story 3: Scientists Push Back Against Harvard 'Alien Spacecraft' Theory
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Food for Thought
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2. Multimessenger Links to NASA’s Fermi Mission Show How Luck Favors the Prepared
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. Galaxy-Scale Fountain Seen in Full Glory with Infalling And Outflowing Gas

4. Scientists Push Back Against Harvard 'Alien Spacecraft' Theory

5. The Night Sky Sky & Telescope Friday, November 9
• As twilight fades, the crescent Moon in the southwest directs you down to Mercury and fainter Antares, as shown above. Too early the sky will still be too bright; look too late and they'll be too low or setting! Your best chance will probably be 20 to 30 minutes after sunset. Bring binoculars.
• Algol should be at its minimum brightness, magnitude 3.4 instead of its usual 2.1, for a couple hours centered on 11:21 p.m. EST (8:21 p.m. PST).
• Happy 84th birthday, Carl Sagan (November 9, 1934 – December 20, 1996). If only.
Saturday, November 10
• The "star" glowing upper left of the crescent Moon during and just after dusk is Saturn, as shown here. It's currently 4,075 times more distant than the Moon.
Sunday, November 11
• These evenings Capella is the brightest star in the northeast, climbing the sky as winter approaches. It's the equal of Vega, which is descending in the northwest as summer fades into the past.
Look for the Pleiades to Capella's right by three fists at arm's length. As evening grows later, orange Aldebaran climbs up below the Pleiades. By about 8:30 (depending on your location), Orion is clearing the horizon below Aldebaran.
Monday, November 12
• Vega is the brightest star in the west in early evening. Its little constellation Lyra extends to its left. Somewhat farther left, about a fist and a half at arm's length from Vega, is 3rd-magnitude Albireo, the beak of Cygnus the Swan. Albireo is one of the finest and most colorful double stars for small telescopes.
• Algol should be at its minimum brightness for a couple hours centered on 8:10 p.m. EST. If you glance up at Algol at any random time, you have only a 1 in 30 chance of catching it at least a magnitude fainter than normal.
Sky & Telescope

6. ISS Sighting Opportunities
ISS For Denver:
Date
Visible
Max Height
Appears
Disappears
Sat Nov 10, 5:42 AM
4 min
31°
12° above NNW
25° above ENE
Sun Nov 11, 4:52 AM
2 min
21°
20° above NNE
15° above ENE
Mon Nov 12, 5:35 AM
3 min
70°
19° above NW
35° above ESE
Tue Nov 13, 4:45 AM
1 min
37°
37° above NE
25° above E
Tue Nov 13, 6:19 AM
16°
11° above W
16° above W
Sighting information for other cities can be found at NASA’s Satellite Sighting Information

7. NASA-TV Highlights (all times Eastern Time Zone) Friday, November 9
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)
Friday, November 9 
9:30 a.m., Live Interviews with ISS Expedition 58 Flight Engineer Anne McClain of NASA from the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia (all channels)
Tuesday, November 13 
2 p.m., “What’s on Board?” Briefing for Northrup Grumman Cygnus CRS-10 Cargo Flight to the International Space Station (all channels)
Watch NASA TV online by going to the NASA website

8. Space Calendar JPL Space Calendar Nov 09 - Carl Sagan Day
Nov 09 - Comet 373P/Rinner At Opposition (1.550 AU)
Nov 09 - Comet C/2017 S7 (Lemmon) Closest Approach To Earth (7.495 AU)
Nov 09 - [Nov 07] Apollo Asteroid 2018 VA2 Near-Earth Flyby (0.005 AU)
Nov 09 - Apollo Asteroid 2015 TL178 Near-Earth Flyby (0.055 AU)
Nov 09 - Asteroid 376 Geometria Closest Approach To Earth (1.631 AU)
Nov th Anniversary (1968), Zond 6 Launch (USSR Moon Orbit & Return)
Nov 10 - [Nov 04] CICERO/ Outernet 1/ Lemur-2 Electron Launch
Nov 10 - Comet 38P/Stephan-Oterma Perihelion (1.583 AU)
Nov 10 - Comet 71P/Clark At Opposition (2.782 AU)
Nov 10 - Comet P/2016 J1-A (PANSTARRS) At Opposition (2.858 AU)
Nov 10 - Comet P/2016 J1-B (PANSTARRS) At Opposition (2.858 AU)
Nov 10 - Comet P/2017 R1 (PANSTARRS) Closest Approach To Earth (2.997 AU)
Nov 10 - Comet 83D/Russell At Opposition (4.120 AU)
Nov 10 - Comet C/2017 F1 (Lemmon) At Opposition (4.461 AU)
Nov 10 - [Nov 07] Apollo Asteroid 2018 VX1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.003 AU)
Nov 10 - [Nov 06] Apollo Asteroid 2018 VS1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.009 AU)
Nov 10 - [Nov 06] Apollo Asteroid 2018 VR1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.034 AU)
Nov 10 - [Nov 04] Apollo Asteroid 2018 UE3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.089 AU)
Nov 10 - Asteroid 1756 Giacobini Occults HIP 7358 (6.7 Magnitude Star)
Nov 10 - Asteroid Babylon Closest Approach To Earth (3.101 AU)
Nov 10 - Andrei Tupolev's 130th Birthday (1888)
Nov th Anniversary (1823), Waseda Meteorite Fall (Hit House in Japan)
Nov 11 - Asteroid 4370 Dickens Closest Approach To Earth (0.850 AU)
Nov 11 - Asteroid Madrid Closest Approach To Earth (1.306 AU)
Nov 11 - Asteroid 3259 Brownlee Closest Approach To Earth (2.508 AU)
Nov 12 - Moon Occults Pluto
Nov 12 - Comet P/2018 L1 (PANSTARRS) Perihelion (1.886 AU)
Nov 12 - Apollo Asteroid 2018 QN1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.055 AU)
Nov 12 - Aten Asteroid 2011 WA Near-Earth Fyby (0.067 AU)
Nov 12 - Asteroid Hawaii Closest Approach To Earth (1.860 AU)
Nov 12 - Asteroid 6639 Marchis Closest Approach To Earth (2.382 AU)
Nov 12 - Centaur Object 2015 KJ153 At Opposition (6.337 AU)
Nov 12 - Irving Reed's 95th Birthday (1923)
Nov th Anniversary (1833), Great Leonids Meteor Shower of 1833
JPL Space Calendar

9. That Rectangular Iceberg Took a Long, Hazardous Journey
Food for Thought
That Rectangular Iceberg Took a Long, Hazardous Journey

10. Little Planet Lookout Image Credit & Copyright: Gyorgy Soponyai
Space Image of the Week
Little Planet Lookout  Image Credit & Copyright: Gyorgy Soponyai