1. Space News Update - October 10, 2014 - In the News Story 1: Story 1: Mars spacecraft poised for dramatic comet flyby Story 2: Story 2: NASA's Hubble Maps the Temperature and Water Vapor on an Extreme Exoplanet Story 3: Story 3: Partial Solar Eclipse, October 23, 2014 Departments The Night Sky ISS Sighting Opportunities Space Calendar NASA-TV Highlights Food for Thought Space Image of the Week

2. Mars spacecraft poised for dramatic comet flyby

3. NASA's Hubble Maps the Temperature and Water Vapor on an Extreme Exoplanet

4. Partial Solar Eclipse, October 23, 2014

5. Sunday, October 12 Orion preview: With fall well underway, the "winter" constellation Orion rises in the east by 11 or midnight, depending on how far east or west (respectively) you live in your time zone. It's well to the lower right of the waning Moon. Orion's Belt will be vertical, as it always is when Orion is rising for mid-northern skywatchers. Orion reaches its highest stand in the south well before the first light of dawn, with the Moon now above it (on the morning of the 13th). Monday, October 13 As twilight fades, look for Arcturus, the Spring Star, twinkling in the west to west-northwest. It's still pretty easy to see. But how much later into the fall, as it sinks away, will you be able to keep it in view? The Night Sky Sky & Telescope Friday, October 10 The waning gibbous Moon is up in the east by 9 or 10 p.m. Look left of it (by about a fist-width at arm's length) for the Pleiades. Much farther left, in the northeast, shines Capella in Auriga. High above the Moon and Capella, forming a big triangle with them, is the naked-eye eclipsing variable star Algol. It should be at its minimum light, magnitude 3.4 instead of its usual 2.1, for a couple hours centered on 12:36 a.m. tonight EDT; 9:36 p.m. PDT. Algol takes several additional hours to fade and to recover. Saturday, October 11 The Moon late this evening shines near Aldebaran amid the Hyades. Take a look with binoculars. This will be a challenging scene to photograph (use a long lens), what with the Moon's brilliance and the Hyades stars' faintness. By dawn they've moved over to high in the southwest.

6. ISS Sighting Opportunities Sighting information for other cities can be found at NASA’s Satellite Sighting InformationSatellite Sighting Information ISS For Denver: DateVisibleMax HeightAppearsDisappears Sat Sep 27, 5:11 AM3 min19°14 above NNW17 above NE Sun Sep 28, 4:24 AM< 1 min14°14 above NE13 above NE Sun Sep 28, 5:57 AM5 min62°10 above NW29 above ESE Mon Sep 29, 5:10 AM2 min36°28 above N25 above ENE Tue Sep 30, 4:24 AM< 1 min15°15 above ENE Tue Sep 30, 5:57 AM5 min43°17 above WNW12 above SSE

7. NASA-TV Highlights No Special Event programming. Watch NASA TV online by going to the NASA websiteNASA website

8. Space Calendar JPL Space Calendar Oct 10 - Comet 148P/Anderson-LINEAR Closest Approach To Earth (1.794 AU)Comet 148P/Anderson-LINEARClosest Approach To Earth Oct 10 - Comet C/2014 N3 (NEOWISE) Closest Approach To Earth (3.302 AU)Comet C/2014 N3 (NEOWISE)Closest Approach To Earth Oct 10 - Asteroid 37 Fides At Opposition (9.9 Magnitude)Asteroid 37 FidesAt Opposition Oct 10 - Asteroid 18399 (1992 WK1) Occults HIP 3056 (6.4 Magnitude Star)Asteroid 18399 (1992 WK1) Occults HIP 3056 Oct 10 - Asteroid 3 Juno Occults TYC 0206-00073-1 (11.3 Magnitude Star)Asteroid 3 Juno Occults TYC 0206-00073-1 Oct 10 - Asteroid 2012 KY3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.050 AU)Asteroid 2012 KY3Near-Earth Flyby Oct 10 - [Oct 04] Asteroid 2014 TT Near-Earth Flyby (0.090 AU)Asteroid 2014 TTNear-Earth Flyby Oct 10 - Asteroid 4783 Wasson Closest Approach To Earth (1.576 AU)Asteroid 4783 Wasson Oct 10 - Asteroid 82332 Las Vegas Closest Approach To Earth (1.578 AU)Asteroid 82332 Las Vegas Oct 10 - Kuiper Belt Object 19308 (1996 TO66) At Opposition (46.174 AU)Kuiper Belt Object 19308 (1996 TO66)At Opposition Oct 11 - Comet 309P/LINEAR Closest Approach To Earth (1.215 AU)Comet 309P/LINEARClosest Approach To Earth Oct 11 - Asteroid 2010 FV9 Near-Earth Flyby (0.022 AU)Asteroid 2010 FV9Near-Earth Flyby Oct 11 - [Oct 04] Asteroid 2014 TR Near-Earth Flyby (0.025 AU)Asteroid 2014 TRNear-Earth Flyby Oct 11 - Asteroid 498 Tokio Closest Approach To Earth (1.200 AU)Asteroid 498 Tokio Oct 11 - Asteroid 15131 Alanalda Closest Approach To Earth (1.617 AU)Asteroid 15131 Alanalda Oct 11 - 20th Anniversary (1994), Magellan Burnup in Venus' AtmosphereMagellan Oct 12 - Comet 150P/LONEOS At Opposition (3.770 AU)Comet 150P/LONEOSAt Opposition Oct 12 - [Oct 06] Asteroid 2014 TJ17 Near-Earth Flyby (0.038 AU)Asteroid 2014 TJ17Near-Earth Flyby Oct 12 - [Oct 02] Asteroid 2014 SD304 Near-Earth Flyby (0.074 AU)Asteroid 2014 SD304 Oct 12 - Asteroid 1814 Bach Closest Approach To Earth (1.102 AU)Asteroid 1814 Bach Oct 12 - Asteroid 44016 Jimmypage Closest Approach To Earth (1.543 AU)Asteroid 44016 Jimmypage Oct 12 - Asteroid 327 Columbia Closest Approach To Earth (1.740 AU)Asteroid 327 Columbia Oct 12 - Asteroid 234750 Amymainzer Closest Approach To Earth (1.773 AU)Asteroid 234750 Amymainzer Oct 12 - 50th Anniversary (1964), Voskhod 1 LaunchVoskhod 1 Oct 12-17 - 13th Quadrennial Symposium on Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Xi'an, China13th Quadrennial Symposium on Solar-Terrestrial Physics Oct 12-18 - [Oct 05] Earth Science WeekEarth Science Week Oct 13 - Comet 252P/LINEAR At Opposition (3.288 AU)Comet 252P/LINEARAt Opposition Oct 13 - 55th Anniversary (1959), Explorer 7 LaunchExplorer 7 Oct 13 - 55th Anniversary (1959), Hamlet Meteorite Fall (Hit House in Indiana)Hamlet Meteorite Fall (Hit House in Indiana)

9. Food for Thought NASA clears commercial crew contractors to resume work

10. Space Image of the Week Astronaut Reid Wiseman on the First Spacewalk of Expedition 41