Week of February 21 , 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
- Thirty-Meter Telescope officials reviewing sites outside of Hawaii
- Universal Science: Novel Calibration Tool Will Help Astronomers Look for Habitable Exoplanets
- DSFP: What If Galileo Had Fallen to Earth?
- Webb Update: Winter 2016
- SLS Highlights: January 2016
- NASA: The Many Faces of Pluto and Charon
- Archive.org: Usborne Book of the Future
- Universal Science: Rarity of Jupiter-like planets means planetary systems exactly like ours may be scarce
- Accessing the Kepler Mission data
- AstroBio: Volcanoes Light Up Atmospheres of Small Exoplanets
- BBC: What if cosmonauts were the first to walk on the Moon?
- Planetary Society: A new hope for a microphone on Mars - Enhancing Mars 2020 science with sound
- NASA Spaceflight: NASA moves to enforce early switch to EUS for SLS
- Hubble Space Telescope: First Detection of Super-Earth Atmosphere
- NASA / JAXA: New X-ray Space Observatory to Study Black Holes and History of Galaxy Clusters
- inverse: NASA Watch's Keith Cowing Is the Agency's Biggest Critic and Most Obsessive Fan
- ScienceNews: Support grows for a return to ice giants Uranus and Neptune
- NASA: Welding Wonder Delivers Confidence for SLS Core Stage
- Galaxy Monitor: China To Relocate Thousands For World’s Largest Telescope
- NASA: NASA Introduces New, Wider Set of Eyes on the Universe
- NASA: WFIRST Mission
- Centauri Dreams: WFIRST - Moving Closer to a Mission
- CosmosUp: Why Is It So Hard To Go To Europa?
- spaceREF: Measuring The Rotation of an Extrasolar Planet
- Nature: The truth about exoplanets
- NASA: NASA Engineer Awaits Launch of CubeSat Mission Demonstrating Virtual-Telescope Tech
- PopSci: Jack Northrop and the UFO-Lookin' Flying Wings
- Chandra: ew X-ray Observatory Comes Online
- How does misinformation spread online?
- Bob Gilruth, the Quiet Force Behind Apollo
- Popular Mechanics: How Mir Became Humanity's Foothold in Space
- Orbital ATK: Space Launch System Solid Rocket Booster QM-2 Test Update
- Library of Congress Magazine Vol. 5 No. 1: Jan.-Feb. 2016
Concepts & White Papers
- NTRS: OSIRIS-REx Orbit Determination Covariance Studies at Bennu
- NTRS: JWST Pathfinder Telescope Risk Reduction Cryo Test Program
- arxiv: Detection of an atmosphere around the super-Earth 55 Cancri e
- arxiv: The inner edge of the habitable zone for synchronously rotating planets around low-mass stars using general circulation models
- NTRS: Overview and Status of the Laser Communication Relay Demonstration
- NTRS: Apollo A-7L Spacesuit Development for Apollo 7 Through 14 Missions
- NTRS: Apollo Spacesuit Modifications for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (ASTP) Spacesuit
Events & Involvement
- Dec 8-13 2015: Division of Planetary Sciences meeting 2015
- Jan 4-8: AAS 227 Press Conference Webcasts
- Feb 9: Geology After Pluto
- Feb 11-15: AAAS 2016 Annual Meeting - Day 1 - Day 2 - Day 3 - Day 4 - Day 5
- Feb 21-26: 2016 Ocean Sciences Meeting
- Feb 23: The Breakthrough Initiative - Listen and Megastructures at KIC 8463
- Feb 24: Webinar - Explore, Discover, and Use Field Campaign and Related Data
@ 2:00PM-EST - Feb 26-27: Review of Progress Toward the Decadal Survey Vision in New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics - Meeting 4 - videos from previous meetings
Videos
- Planetary Society: S.O.F.I.A.
- Space Exploration | Our Universe
- ESA: ExoMars 2016 - launch to Mars
- ESA: How ESA is Preparing Astronauts for Missions to the Moon
- ESA: Uniting the Trace Gas Orbiter and Schiaparelli
- Oribtal ATK: QM-1 Static Test Fire
- Tokamak VS Stellarator
- NASA Goddard: WFIRST - The Best of Both Worlds
- NASA: Listening to the Stars
- SpaceRip: Giants on the Cosmic Frontier
- Equipment for an amateur [chemistry] lab - Part 1 - Part 2
- Feb 21, 1803: Pen-y-Darren Ironworks debuts the first self-propelling steam locomotive in Wales
- Feb 21, 1842: John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine
- Feb 22, 1996: Launch of Space Shuttle Columbia on mission STS-75 - Post flight press conference
- Feb 22, 1995: The Corona reconnaissance satellite program, active from 1959 to 1972, is declassified to the public - Corona program overview
- Feb 23, 1941: Element 94, Plutonium, is first isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg
- Feb 23, 1896: Invention of the Tootsie Roll
- Feb 23, 1987: Supernova 1987a is captured in the Large Megallanic Cloud
- Feb 23, 2011: Launch of Space Shuttle Discovery on mission STS-133 - Post launch press conference
- Feb 26, 1896: Discovery of the physical property, radioactivity
- Feb 26, 1966: Launch of unmanned Apollo CSM-009 on mission AS-201
- Feb 27, 1919: The Grand Canyon is declared a national park by President Woodrow Wilson and the sitting U.S. congress
- Feb 27, 1929: The Grand Teton range is declared a national park by President Calvin Coolidge and the sitting U.S. congress (partial video)
Data
Activities
Spacecraft Updates
- Feb 17: WFIRST entered phase A for design
- Feb 21: Juno - 798,714,000 km from Sol, 73,173,000 km to Jupiter
- Feb 21: New Horizons - 5,197,875,000 km from Sol, 278,199,000 km from Pluto, 1,289,488,000 km to KBO-JimGreene
- Feb 21: Voyager 1 - 20,060,250,000 km from Sol
- Feb 21: Voyager 2 - 16,521,621,000 km from Sol
Blog Entries
- Weekly Read & Watch List - Week of Feb 14, 2016
- New Horizons 2015-02-12 release
- LAMO 27
- SDO - 2016-02-16
- LAMO 28
- LAMO 29
- LAMO 30
- New Horizons 2015-02-19 release
- Saturday Morning Films - Feb 20
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