1. Space News Update - March 4, 2013 - 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

2. Dragon cargo ship reaches destination after shaky start

3. What Lies Beneath: NASA Antarctic Sub Goes Sub-glacial

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

5. 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.

6. 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

7. 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) 6 - 7 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

8. 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 19823 (6.1 Magnitude Star)Asteroid 1508 Kemi Occults HIP 19823 Mar 05 - Asteroid 38086 Beowolf Closest Approach To Earth (1.596 AU)Asteroid 38086 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 39659 (6.0 Magnitude Star)Asteroid 5923 Liedeke Occults HIP 39659 Mar 07 - Asteroid 10051 Albee Closest Approach To Earth (1.679 AU)Asteroid 10051 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

9. Food for Thought Black Hole Caught Spinning?

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