1. Space News Update - October 8, 2019 - In the News Departments Story 1:
Hayabusa 2 Has Sent its Last Rover to Ryugu
Story 2:
New Organic Compounds Found in Enceladus Ice Grains
Story 3:
NASA's Push to Save the Mars InSight Lander's Heat Probe
Departments
The Night Sky
ISS Sighting Opportunities
NASA-TV Highlights
Space Calendar
Food for Thought
Space Image of the Week

2. Hayabusa 2 Has Sent its Last Rover to Ryugu
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. New Organic Compounds Found in Enceladus Ice Grains

4. NASA's Push to Save the Mars InSight Lander's Heat Probe

5. The Night Sky Sky & Telescope Tuesday, Oct. 8
• Look lower left of the waxing gibbous Moon this evening, by about two fists at arm's length, and there will be Fomalhaut, the lonely Autumn Star twinkling away. It's particularly far from any other 1st-magnitude star, and the rest of its constellation — Piscis Austrinus, the Southern Fish — is extraordinarily dim.
Wednesday, Oct. 9
• Now Fomalhaut is nearly straight below the Moon after dark.
• Vega is the brightest star very high in the west at nightfall. Arcturus, equally bright, is getting quite low in the west-northwest. The brightest star in the vast expanse between them, about a third of the way from Arcturus up toward Vega, is Alphecca, magnitude 2.2 — the crown jewel of Corona Borealis. Alphecca is an eclipsing binary with a 17- day period, but its brightness dips are too slight for the eye to discern reliably.
Thursday, Oct. 10
• Look to the right of Vega by 14° (nearly a fist and a half at arm's length) for Eltanin, the nose of Draco the Dragon. The rest of Draco's fainter, lozenge-shaped head is a little farther behind. Draco is always eyeing Vega.
The main stars of Vega's own constellation Lyra, faint by comparison, now extend to Vega's left (by 7°).
Friday, Oct. 11
• Soon after dark, you'll find zero-magnitude Arcturus low in the west-northwest at the same height as zero-magnitude Capella in the northeast. When this happens, turn to the south-southeast, and there will be 1st-magnitude Fomalhaut at the same height — if you're at latitude 43° north. Seen from south of that latitude Fomalhaut will appear higher; from north of there it will be lower.

6. ISS Sighting Opportunities
ISS For Denver:
Date
Visible
Max Height
Appears
Disappears
Tue Oct 8, 7:32 PM
4 min
86°
19° above NW
20° above SE
Wed Oct 9, 8:21 PM
2 min
15°
14° above WSW
13° above SSW
Thu Oct 10, 7:33 PM
3 min
27°
25° above WSW
10° above SSE
Fri Oct 11, 6:47 PM
1 min
22°
22° above SSE
10° above SE
Sighting information for other cities can be found at NASA’s Satellite Sighting Information

7. NASA-TV Highlights (all times Eastern Time Zone)
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)
October 8, Tuesday
1 p.m. – Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) Mission Briefing (Public Channel)
1:05 p.m. - International Space Station Expedition 61 In-Flight Event for the European Space Agency with European Aerospace Universities and International Space Station Commander Luca Parmitano of ESA (Media Channel in native language)
3:20-3:30 p.m. – Live interview for KSN-TV, Wichita, Kansas,  with NASA astronaut Nick Hague (All Channels)
5 p.m., 9 p.m. – Replay of the Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) Mission Briefing (All Channels)
October 9, Wednesday
9:15 p.m. – Ionospheric Connection Explorer (ICON) launch coverage (All Channels)
October 11, Friday
6:30 a.m. – Coverage of International Space Station Expedition 61 U.S. Spacewalk #57 to install new batteries on the P6 truss (Koch and Morgan; spacewalk begins at 7:50 a.m. EDT and is slated to last 6 ½ hours) (All Channels)
Watch NASA TV online by going to the NASA website

8. Space Calendar Oct 10 - [Oct 08Near-Earth Flyby (0.029 AU)
JPL Space Calendar
Oct 08 - Apollo Asteroid 2019 TW1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.004 AU)
Oct 08 - Apollo Asteroid 2019 TC1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.009 AU)
Oct 08 - Apollo Asteroid 2019 TU Near-Earth Flyby (0.011 AU)
Oct 08 - Apollo Asteroid 2019 SB6 Near-Earth Flyby (0.020 AU)
Oct 08 - Apollo Asteroid 2019 TS Near-Earth Flyby (0.022 AU)
Oct 08 - Apollo Asteroid 2019 TM Near-Earth Flyby (0.024 AU)
Oct 08 - Apollo Asteroid 2019 RK Near-Earth Flyby (0.043 AU)
Oct 08 - Apollo Asteroid 2016 CW193 Near-Earth Flyby (0.088 AU)
Oct 08 - Apollo Asteroid (2016 HO3) Closest Approach To Earth (0.151 AU)
Oct 08 - Lecture: Living on the Moon: Why, When, Where, Who and How, London, United Kingdom
Oct 08 - Colloquium: Characterizing the Incision of Ancient Lake Outlet Canyons on Mars, Tucson, Arizona
Oct Conference: Satellite Innovation, Silicon Valley, California
Oct Astro2020 Meeting 2: Panel on Stars, the Sun, and Stellar Populations, Washington DC
Oct GRACE Follow-On Science Team Meeting, Pasadena, California
Oct 09 - ICON (MIDEX 8) Pegasus XL Launch
Oct 09 - Eutelsat 5 West B/ Mission Extension Vehicle (MEV-1) Proton-M/Briz-M P4 Launch
Oct 09 - Draconids Meteor Shower Peaks
Oct 09 - Apollo Asteroid 2019 SL7 Near-Earth Flyby (0.004 AU)
Oct 09 - Apollo Asteroid 2019 TZ Near-Earth Flyby (0.021 AU)
Oct 09 - Apollo Asteroid 2019 TV1 Near-Earth Flyby (0.044 AU)
Oct International Symposium for Personal and Commercial Spaceflight (ISPCS 2019), Las Cruces, New Mexico
Oct Workshop: Topics In Cosmic Neutrinos, Batavia, Illinois
Oct 10 - Jason-2/Ocean Surface Topography Mission (OSTM), End of Mission
Oct 10 - Comet P/2008 Y12 (SOHO) Perihelion (0.066 AU)
Oct 10 - Apollo Asteroid 2019 SX5 Near-Earth Flyby (0.045 AU)
Oct 10 - Event: Martian Feast 1010, Los Angeles, California
Oct 10 - Colloquium: The Mystery of Methane on Mars - Fact, Folly or Figment?, Ithaca, New York

9. Scientists Start Mapping the Hidden Web that Scaffolds the Universe
Food for Thought
Scientists Start Mapping the Hidden Web that Scaffolds the Universe

10. Image Credit & Copyright: José Jiménez Priego
Space Image of the Week
The Horsehead Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: José Jiménez Priego