Space News Update - November 4, In the News Story 1: Chinese Probe Returns from Flight Around the Moon Story 2: NTSB Provides Timeline of SpaceShipTwo Mishap Story 3: Story 3: NASA’S Chandra Observatory Identifies Impact of Cosmic Chaos on Star Birth Departments The Night Sky ISS Sighting Opportunities Space Calendar NASA-TV Highlights Food for Thought Space Image of the Week

Chinese Probe Returns from Flight Around the Moon

NTSB Provides Timeline of SpaceShipTwo Mishap

NASA’S Chandra Observatory Identifies Impact of Cosmic Chaos on Star Birth

The Night Sky Sky & Telescope Tuesday, November 4 As the stars come out, look high above the waxing gibbous Moon for the Great Square of Pegasus. It's standing on one corner. Wednesday, November 5 Algol is at minimum light for a couple hours centered on 6:56 p.m. EST. Thursday, November 6 Full Moon (exactly full at 5:23 p.m. Eastern Standard Time). The Moon shines far below the two or three brightest stars of Aries during the evening. Can you see the Pleiades through the moonlight? The delicate little cluster is well to the Moon's left. Friday, November 7 The Moon, just past full, rises in the east at dusk. Once it climbs high, look for orange Aldebaran to its lower left and the Pleiades to its upper left. Saturday, November 8 The waning gibbous Moon rises around the end of twilight. Look for Aldebaran not very far to its upper left. Higher above Aldebaran are the Pleiades.

ISS Sighting Opportunities Sighting information for other cities can be found at NASA’s Satellite Sighting InformationSatellite Sighting Information ISS For Denver : DateVisibleMax HeightAppearsDisappears Thu Nov 6, 5:55 AM< 1 min12°10 above SSE12 above SSE Sat Nov 8, 5:51 AM3 min38°10 above SSW36 above ESE

NASA-TV Highlights (all times Eastern Time Zone) Watch NASA TV online by going to the NASA websiteNASA website MAVEN Launch November 18, 2013 NASA MAVEN Launch November 18, 2013 NASA MAVEN Launch November 18, 2013 NASA Tuesday, November 4 12:25 p.m. - ISS Expedition 41 In-Flight Event for Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency with the German Parliament in Berlin (With English translation) (all channels) Wednesday, November 5 5:30 a.m. - Video B-roll of ISS Expedition 42 Flight Engineer/Expedition 43 Commander Terry Virts of NASA (all channels) 6 a.m. - Live Interviews with ISS Expedition 42 Flight Engineer/Expedition 43 Commander Terry Virts of NASA - JSC (all channels) Thursday, November 6 10 a.m. - Space Station Live (all channels) 11 a.m. - Orion First Flight Pre-Mission Briefing (all channels) 3 p.m. - Video File of the ISS Expedition 42/43 Crew News Conference at Star City, Russia and Ceremonial Visit to Red Square in Moscow- JSC (all channels) 10 p.m. - The Theodore von Kármán Lecture Series: Brian Muirhead on JPL's Role and the Technologies Involved in the Asteroid Redirect Mission (all channels)

Space Calendar JPL Space Calendar  Nov 04 - Moon Occults UranusMoon Occults Uranus  Nov 04 - Comet P/2011 CR42 (Catalina) At Opposition (3.465 AU)Comet P/2011 CR42 (Catalina)  Nov 04 - Asteroid 2014 UZ57 Near-Earth Flyby (0.088 AU)Asteroid 2014 UZ57Near-Earth Flyby  Nov 04 - Asteroid 3362 Khufu Closest Approach To Earth (1.089 AU)Asteroid 3362 Khufu  Nov 04 - Asteroid 2620 Santana Closest Approach To Earth (1.673 AU)Asteroid 2620 Santana  Nov 04 - Asteroid 4523 MIT Closest Approach To Earth (1.886 AU)Asteroid 4523 MIT  Nov 04 - Asteroid 416 Vaticana Closest Approach To Earth (2.281 AU)Asteroid 416 Vaticana  Nov 04 - Asteroid Tahiti Closest Approach To Earth (2.587 AU)Asteroid Tahiti  Nov 05 - Asteroid 2014 US115 Near-Eart h Flyby (0.040 AU)Asteroid 2014 US115  Nov 05 - Asteroid 1103 Sequoia Closest Approach To Earth (0.883 AU)Asteroid 1103 Sequoia  Nov 05 - Asteroid 5249 Giza Closest Approach To Earth (2.494 AU)Asteroid 5249 Giza  Nov 05 - Asteroid 2212 Hephaistos Closest Approach To Earth (2.839 AU)Asteroid 2212 Hephaistos  Nov 06 - Asteroid 2014 UX57 Near-Earth Flyby (0.009 AU)Asteroid 2014 UX57Near-Earth Flyby  Nov 06 - Asteroid 2014 UA176 Near-Earth Flyby (0.012 AU)Asteroid 2014 UA176  Nov 06 - Asteroid 3763 Quianxuesen Closest Approach To Earth (1.462 AU)Asteroid 3763 Quianxuesen  Nov 06 - Asteroid 1322 Coppernicus Closest Approach To Earth (1.680 AU)Asteroid 1322 Coppernicus  Nov 06 - Asteroid 2829 Bobhope Closest Approach To Earth (2.202 AU)Asteroid 2829 Bobhope  Nov 07 - Asteroid 2014 UT56 Near-Earth Flyby (0.039 AU)Asteroid 2014 UT56  Nov 07 - Asteroid 2014 TJ33 Near-Earth Flyby (0.040 AU)Asteroid 2014 TJ33  Nov 07 - Asteroid 2014 UV115 Near-Earth Flyby (0.055 AU)Asteroid 2014 UV115  Nov 07 - Asteroid 2014 US56 Near-Earth Flyby (0.064 AU)Asteroid 2014 US56  Nov 07 - Asteroid 4148 McCartney Closest Approach To Earth (1.414 AU)Asteroid 4148 McCartney  Nov 07 - Asteroid Haiku Closest Approach To Earth (1.762 AU)Asteroid Haiku  Nov 07 - Asteroid 5760 Mittlefehldt Closest Approach To Earth (1.984 AU)Asteroid 5760 Mittlefehldt

Food for Thought The World is Not Enough: A New Theory of Parallel Universes is Proposed New Technique Puts Exoplanets on the Scale

Space Image of the Week AR 2192: Giant on the Sun Image Credit & Copyright: Randall Shivak and Alan Friedman (Averted Imagination)