Space News Update

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Space News Update
January 9-12, 2007
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News Content This Week

• X-ray Evidence Supports Possible New Class of
  Supernova
• Mars Mission Missed Microbes, Report Claims
• JPL Rover Stretches Its Legs
• Space Calendar NASA TV
• Upcoming Launch Schedule
• Popular Space
• Space Image of the Week
• (click on the images for more information)

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X-ray Evidence Supports Possible New Class of
Supernova
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Mars Mission Missed Microbes, Report Claims
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JPL Rover Stretches Its Legs
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Space Calendar

• Jan 09 - Asteroid 2006 XP4 Near-Earth Flyby
  (0.074 AU)
• Jan 09 - Asteroid 1940 Whipple Closest
  Approach To Earth (1.878 AU)
• Jan 09 - Asteroid 9250 Chamberlin Closest
  Approach To Earth (2.577 AU)
• Jan 10 - Asteroid 2006 QQ56 Near-Earth Flyby
  (0.052 AU)
• Jan 10 - Asteroid 2865 Laurel Closest Approach
  To Earth (1.746 AU)
• Jan 10 - Asteroid 12104 Chesley Closest
  Approach To Earth (2.084 AU)
• Jan 11 - Asteroid 5703 Hevelius Closest
  Approach To Earth (1.407 AU)
• Jan 11 - 220th Anniversary (1787), William
  Herschell's Discovery of Uranus Moons Titania and
  Oberon
• Jan 12 -Jan 06 Comet C/2006 P1 (McNaught)
  Perihelion (0.171 AU)
• Jan 12 - Asteroid 684 Hildburg Occults HIP
  70078 (7.8 Magnitude Star)
• Jan 12 - Asteroid 2874 Jim Young Closest
  Approach To Earth (1.145 AU)
• http//www2.jpl.nasa.gov/calendar/

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NASA TV

• January 10, Wednesday1140 a.m. - 12 p.m. - ISS
  Expedition 14 Interviews with Reporters in Madrid
  and New Delhi - JSC (Public and Media Channels)6
  - 8 p.m. - Live Shot Interviews with STS-117
  Mission Specialist Danny Olivas - JSC (Public and
  Media Channels)January 11, Thursday6 - 8 p.m.
  - Live Shot Interviews with STS-117 Mission
  Specialist Steve Swanson - JSC (Public and Media
  Channels)January 12, Friday7 - 9 a.m. - Live
  Shot Interviews with STS-117 Pilot Lee
  Archambault - JSC (Public and Media Channels)
  http//www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Break
  ing.html

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Upcoming Launch Schedule

• January 16 An ISC Kosmotras Dnepr booster to
  orbit a clutch of small satellites and payloads
  from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. 14635
  a.m. EST (064635 GMT).
• January 17A Russian-built Soyuz rocket is set to
  launch the automated supply ship Progress 24 to
  the restock the International Space Station in a
  flight to begin at Kazakhstan's Baikonur
  Cosmodrome. 912 p.m. EST (0212 Jan. 18 GMT).
• ttp//www.space.com/missionlaunches/launches/launc
  h_schedule.html

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POPULAR SPACE
Google has joined a group of nineteen
universities and national labs that are building
the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST)
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Space Image of the Week
NGC 6960 The Witch's Broom Nebula
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New from the Newsroom
A presentation on Space Junk and how some of it
is still in orbit around the Earth and how some
of it comes back down, like Thursdays SL-4
rocket body that re-entered the atmosphere at
613 a.m. http//spaceodyssey/GalaxyGuide/TopicRes
ources/Resources/SolarSystem.htm