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Space News Update - February 14, 2014 -

Space News Update - February 14, 2014 -. In the News Story 1: Mars Rover Heads Uphill After Solving 'Doughnut' Riddle Story 2: Prehistoric Cave Pigment to Shield ESA’s Solar Orbiter Story 3: MeerKAT Radio Telescope Foundations Complete Departments The Night Sky

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Space News Update - February 14, 2014 -

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  1. Space News Update - February 14, 2014 - In the News Story 1: Mars Rover Heads Uphill After Solving 'Doughnut' Riddle Story 2: Prehistoric Cave Pigment to Shield ESA’s Solar Orbiter Story 3: MeerKAT Radio Telescope Foundations Complete Departments The Night Sky ISS Sighting OpportunitiesSpace Calendar NASA-TV Highlights Food for Thought Space Image of the Week

  2. Mars Rover Heads Uphill After Solving 'Doughnut' Riddle

  3. Prehistoric Cave Pigment to Shield ESA’s Solar Orbiter

  4. MeerKAT Radio Telescope Foundations Complete

  5. The Night Sky • Friday, February 14 • Full Moon (exactly full at 6:53 p.m. EST). Look for Regulus in Leo to the Moon's left during evening, as shown here. A February full Moon is never far from Regulus. • Algol in Perseus should be at its minimum light, magnitude 3.4 instead of its usual 2.1, for a couple hours centered on about 10:30 p.m. EST (7:30 p.m. PST). Algol takes several additional hours to fade and to rebrighten. • Saturday, February 15 • This is the time of year when, soon after dark, skywatchers at mid-northern latitudes see bright Capella crossing near the zenith and Orion standing highest in the south. Orion's diagonal belt points lower left toward bright Sirius, and upper right more or less toward Aldebaran. Beyond Aldebaran lie the Pleiades. • Sunday, February 16 • The thick waning gibbous Moon rises in the east around the end of twilight. Look higher above it now for Regulus. Extending upper left from Regulus is the Sickle of Leo. • Monday, February 17 •  Sirius now shines at its highest in the south around 8 or 9 p.m. Use binoculars to look for the dim open star cluster M41 straight below it by 4° (a little less than the width of a typical binocular's field of view). • And with a moderate to large telescope on a night of good seeing, this is when to try to detect the white-dwarf companion of Sirius, now 10.2 arcseconds east of the bright primary. See last October's Sky & Telescope, page 30, for tips and tricks when attempting this challeging project. Sky & Telescope

  6. ISS Sighting Opportunities ISS For Denver: Sighting information for other cities can be found at NASA’s Satellite Sighting Information

  7. NASA-TV Highlights (all times Eastern Daylight Time) No Special Programming Watch NASA TV online by going to the NASA website

  8. Space Calendar Feb 14 - [Feb 14] TurkSat 4AProton M-Briz M Launch Feb 14 - Comet 107P/Wilson-HarringtonClosest Approach To Earth (1.817 AU) Feb 14 - Comet 111P/Helin-Roman-CrockettClosest Approach To Earth (2.874 AU) Feb 14 - Comet P/2011 R3 (Novichonok-Gerke)Closest Approach To Earth (3.623 AU) Feb 14 - Asteroid 2 Pallas Occults TYC 6045-00751-1 (10.2 Magnitude Star) Feb 14 - [Feb 12] Asteroid 2014 CG13Near-Earth Flyby (0.077 AU) Feb 14 - Asteroid 5450 Sokrates Closest Approach To Earth (1.553 AU) Feb 14 - Asteroid 1198 Atlantis Closest Approach To Earth (1.960 AU) Feb 14 - Asteroid 6469 Armstrong Closest Approach To Earth (1.668 AU) Feb 14 - Kuiper Belt Object 55565 (2002 AW197)At Opposition (44.996 AU) Feb 15 - Mars Summer Solstice Feb 15 - Comet 169P/NEATPerihelion (0.608 AU) Feb 15 - Comet 260P/McNaughtAt Opposition (3.284 AU) Feb 15 - [Feb 11] Asteroid 2014 CB13Near-Earth Flyby (0.053 AU) Feb 15 - Asteroid 2014 BQ43Near-Earth Flyby (0.055 AU) Feb 15 - Asteroid 132904 Notkin Closest Approach To Earth (3.547 AU) Feb 15 - 1st Anniversary (2013), Chelyabinsk Fireball Over Russia Feb 15 - 5th Anniversary (2009), Ash Creek Meteorite Fall (Hit Farm House in Texas) Feb 15 - Galileo Galilei's 450th Birthday (1564) Feb 16 - Comet 266P/ChristensenClosest Approach To Earth (1.590 AU) Feb 16 - Comet 111P/Helin-Roman-CrockettAt Opposition (2.875 AU) Feb 16 - Asteroid 2 Pallas Occults TYC 5487-00216-1 (10.3 Magnitude Star) Feb 16 - Asteroid 3533 Toyota Closest Approach To Earth (1.142 AU) Feb 16 - [Feb 10] Asteroid 23990 Springsteen Closest Approach To Earth (1.281 AU) Feb 16 - Asteroid 3018 Godiva Closest Approach To Earth (1.779 AU) Feb 16 - Asteroid 243097 Batavia Closest Approach To Earth (1.787 AU) Feb 16 - Asteroid 6128 Lasorda Closest Approach To Earth (1.926 AU) Feb 16 - Asteroid 1941 Wild Closest Approach To Earth (3.807 AU) Feb 17 - Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #372 (OTM-372) Feb 17 - Comet 86P/WildAt Opposition (2.433 AU) Feb 17 - Comet C/2013 P2 (PANSTARRS)Perihelion (2.835 AU) Feb 17 - Comet P/2004 FY140 (LINEAR)Closest Approach To Earth (3.436 AU) Feb 17 - Comet P/2011 N1 (ASH)At Opposition (4.235 AU) Feb 17 - Comet C/2012 T6 (Kowalski)At Opposition (4.677 AU) Feb 17 - Asteroid 3487 Edgeworth Closest Approach To Earth (2.071 AU) Feb 17 - [Feb 11] Asteroid 991 McDonalda Closest Approach To Earth (2.639 AU) JPL Space Calendar

  9. Food for Thought For Valentine’s Day, Enjoy These Hearts on Earth, Mars and Other Places

  10. Space Image of the Week

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