Weekly Read & Watch List - Week of Feb 14, 2016

Week of February 14, 2016

This section is a curated list of articles, white papers, concepts, events, videos, and data releases. Some listed items may not be current but are nonetheless quite interesting.

Articles & Sites of Interest

• Judge sends [Thirty Meter Telescope] back to Land Board 
• Astronomy Now: ASTRO-H satellite poised to enhance views of X-ray sky 
• NASA: New X-ray Space Observatory [Astro-H] to Study Black Holes and History of Galaxy Clusters 
• NOVA: Flying the Electric Skies
• Earth-like Planets Have Earth-like Interiors (paper below - [1])
• NASA: Studying the Solar System with NASA’s Webb Telescope
• SpaceRef: Antarctic Ice Safety Band Is At Risk
• ALL-AMERICAN TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE
• Planetary Society: What Does a 'Good' Budget for Planetary Science Look Like?
• PRD: The Signal
• PRD: Living in Twilight - An Overview of our Closest and Smallest Stellar Neighbors
• Archive.org: Popular Mechanics historic collection
• Centauri Dreams: A Future We Can Choose
• NASA: The Making of a Mockup - Work Begins on NASA SLS Core Stage Pathfinder 
• NASA: NSF’s LIGO Has Detected Gravitational Waves 
• NASA: What’s A Spacecraft Factory Like? Think Big! 

Concepts & White Papers

• PLUTO’S PUTATIVE CYROVOLCANIC CONSTRUCTS
• SURFACE COMPOSITIONS ON PLUTO AND CHARON 
• HIGHEST SPATIAL RESOLUTION NEW HORIZONS LEISA SPECTRAL-IMAGING SCAN OF PLUTO
• DIFFERENTIATION AND CRYOVOLCANISM IN THE PLUTO-CHARON SYSTEM 
• arxiv: [1] Mass-Radius Relation for Rocky Planets based on PREM
• SpaceRef: ESA's Asteroid Micro-Lander 
• APS: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger 
• Popular Mechanics: The Soviet Union's Secret Moon Base That Never Was 

Events & Involvement

• Feb 17 @ 3h45AM-EST: Live launch of Astro-H
• Feb 17-19: Consequences of Internal Planet Evolution for the Habitability and Detectability of Life on Extrasolar Planets (Remote Breakout Session Attendance)
• Feb 19 @ 7h30PM-PST: The Evolution of Planetary Landscapes from Callisto to Helene - by Orkan M. Umurhan - (recording will be posted next week)

Videos

• State of NASA - FY17 Budget Request
• NSF FY17 Budget Request
• Destination Europa
• LIGO Press Briefing
• HubbleCast 80 
• APOD: The Rise and Fall of Supernova 2015F 
• Asteroid Day 2016 - Press Conference 
• The Choice is Ours (critical appraisals of author)
• CBS: Exclusive first look at assembly of Mars 2020 spacecraft
• AIAA Scitech 2016 
• New Horizons & the Exploration of the Pluto System 
• Making Mercury Whole 
• NOVA: Memory Hackers 
• Brian Greene Explains The Discovery Of Gravitational Waves 
• Feb 8, 1992: Ulysses Encounter with Jupiter
• Feb 14, 1961: Discovery of element 103, Lawrencium 
• Feb 14, 1990: Voyager 1 captures 'Solay System Family Portrait' 
• Feb 14, 2011: Stardust flyby of comet Tempel 1 
• Feb 15, 2013: Meteor explodes over Russia
• Feb 15, 1946: Dedication of ENIAC computer 
• Feb 16, 1923: Howard Carter unseals the tomb of Egyptian Pharoh, Tutankhamun
• Feb 16, 1961: Dusable Museum of African American History is established
• Feb 16, 1978: First Bulletin Board System computer goes active - CBBS
• Feb 17, 1956: Launch of Vanguard 2 - the first weather satellite, able to measure cloud cover distribution
• Feb 17, 1965: Launch of Ranger 8 to the moon for reconnaissance of landing sites in the Sea of Tranquility for the Apollo 11 mission
• Feb 18,  1930: Discovery of Pluto by Clyde Tombaugh
• Feb 19, 1877: Thomas Edison patents the phonograph
• Feb 19, 2002: 2001 Mars Odyssey begins primary missions at Mars, measuring mineralogy distribution on the surface of Mars 
• Feb 20, 1792: The Postal Service Act is passed, establishing the US Post Office Department 
• Feb 20, 1872: The Museum of Metropolitan Art opens in New York City, New York
• Feb 20, 1962: Mercury-Atlas 6 / MA-6 mission launched with John Glenn aboard the Friendship 7 Mercury capsule, becoming the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth
• Feb 20,  1986: Launch of Mir Core Module

Data

• Feb 12: Mars Express/HRSC - New radiometrically calibrated (version 3) data have been added, with coverage through May 24, 2015

Activities

• Feb 15: Galileo Day - Celebrate Galileo

Spacecraft Updates

• Feb 14: Cassini - Distant Flyby of Polydeuces
• Feb 14: Juno - 76,646,000 km to Jupiter
  
• Feb 14: New Horizons - 5,188,945,000 km from Sol, 1,310,707,000 km to KBO-JimGreene
• Feb 14: Voyager 1 - 20,049,663,000 km from Sol
• Feb 14: Voyager 2 - 16,512,235,000 km from Sol
• Feb 15: Cassini - Distant Flyby of Telesto, Epimetheus & Titan 
• Feb 16: Cassini - Titan Flyby
• Feb 19: Cassini - Orbital Trim Maneuver #443 (OTM-443)

Blog Entries

• Weekly Reading List - Feb 7 
• P_DEP_SOONEST Partial Mosaic 
• Dawn Animations 
• LAMO 22 
• State of NASA Address today  
• State of NASA: UPDATE  
• LAMO 23  
• Drexel: New Horizons & the Exploration of the Pluto System  
• LAMO 24  
• Advanced LIGO Press Briefing  
• LAMO 25  
• First Detailed Geologic Map of Pluto Released  
• Destination Europa  
• Saturday Morning Films - Feb 13