Weekly Read & Watch List - Week of Feb 28

Week of February 28, 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

• NASA: NASA Aeronautics Budget Proposes Return of X-Planes
• ESA: Schiaparelli: the ExoMars Entry, Descent and Landing Demonstrator Module
• Centauri Dreams: An Exoplanet Changing Over Time 
• Elsevier: Why Science Needs to Publish Negative Results 
• BBC: What would happen if aliens contacted Earth 
• In a Hubble first, UA astronomers take images of an exoplanet changing over time 
• NASA: Pulsar Web Could Detect Low-Frequency Gravitational Waves
• NASA: Tools and Talent at Michoud to Complete SLS Core Stage Welding in 2016
• SKA: New Fast Radio Burst discovery finds ‘missing matter’ in the Universe
• AstroSociety: Science Fiction Stories with Good Astronomy & Physics - A Topical Index
• ESA: Fuelling the Trace Gas Orbiter
• NASA: Orion Test Hardware in Position for Solar Array Test
• ESO: ATLASGAL Survey of Milky Way Completed
• Discovery: 'Space Men' - Ascending to Earth's Deadliest Frontier
• Slate: Astronomers Find Another Small Icy Body Out Past Pluto
• Space Policy Online: House SS&T Lays Out Work Plan for 2016, Including NASA and NOAA
• PRD: The Hunt for Free Floating Planets in Our Galaxy
• NASA: Where’s My Data? Keeping Track of New Horizons’ Treasure of Information

Concepts & White Papers

• arxiv: Constraints on the location of a possible 9th planet derived from the Cassini data
• arxiv: Cosmologists in Search of Planet Nine: the Case for CMB Experiments 
• arxiv: Discovery of Rotational Modulations in the Planetary-Mass Companion 2M1207b: Intermediate Rotation Period and Heterogeneous Clouds in a Low Gravity Atmosphere 
• NASA: Project Mercury Drawings and Technical Diagrams
• arxiv: Neptune's Orbital Migration Was Grainy, Not Smooth
• NTRS: The Pioneer mission to Jupiter
• NTRS: Objectives and goals in space science and applications 1968
• NTRS: Planetary exploration: Space in the seventies
• JGR: Cryovolcanism on Titan - New results from Cassini RADAR and VIMS (sci-hub)
• arxiv: Evolution and Magnitudes of Candidate Planet Nine
• arxiv: Transiting Planet Candidates Beyond the Snow Line Detected by Visual Inspection of 7557 Kepler Objects of Interest

Events & Involvement

• Mar 1 - PBS: Space Men @ 9PM-EST

Videos

• James Webb Space Telescope Deployment In Detail
• Discovery: Telescope 
• NASA: Preparing America for Deep Space Exploration Episode 12 - Built for Exploration 
• USGov Hearing: Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe - Gravitational Waves
• USGov Hearing: The Space Leadership Preservation Act and the Need for Stability at NASA 
• ESO: ESOcast 81 - Red Sprites
• SETI: Exoplanets spectroscopy with diffraction primary objective telescopes 
• Feb 28, 1885: The American Telephone and Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York as the subsidiary of American Bell Telephone.
• Feb 28, 1935: Nylon invented by Wallace Carothers of Dupont
• Feb 28, 1953: The chemical structure of DNA is determined in a laboratory by James Watson and Francis Crick
• Feb 28, 1959: Launch of Discoverer 1, a Corona Key Hole class spy satellite prototype, failing to enter the intended polar orbit, crashing near the south pole
• Mar 1, 1872: Yellowstone National Park is established as the world's first national park by President Ulysses S. Grant and the sitting U.S. congress 
• Mar 1, 1936: Hoover Dam is completed 
• Mar 1, 1954: Detonation of Castle Bravo dry hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination zone caused by the U.S.
• Mar 1, 1961: President John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps
• Mar 3, 1915: NACA, predecessor to NASA, established after William Howard Taft and the sitting U.S. congress passed the act
• Mar 3, 1938: LNER A4 locomotive, 'The Mallard', becomes fastest steam locomotive in production, capable of speeds greater than 120mph
• Mar 3, 1969: Launch of Apollo CSM-104 & Apollo LM-3 aboard a Saturn V on mission Apollo 9 to perform an inflight test in docking the CSM with the LM
• Mar 4, 1890: The Forth Bridge in Scotland becomes the longest in Great Britain, measuring 520-meters long
• Mar 4, 1913: The U.S. Department of Labor is established by President William Howard Taft and the sitting U.S. congress
• Mar 4, 1986: USSR Vega 1 begins returning image from Halley's Comet
• Mar 5, 1943: UK jet fighter, Gloster Meteor, takes first flight
• Mar 5, 1979: Voyager 1 encounters Jupiter at nearest distance of 276,800-kilometers
• Mar 5, 1981: Sinclair Research launches ZX81, later selling 1.5 million units

Data

• Mar 1: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) Release #36

Activities

• OSIRIS-REx paper model

Spacecraft Updates

• Feb 28: Juno - 799,917,000 km from Sol, 69,939,000 km to Jupiter @ 26,044-km/h
• Feb 28: New Horizons - 5,206,153,000 km from Sol, 286,555,000 km from Pluto, 1,281,132,000 km to KBO-JimGreene @ 51,998-km/h
  
• Feb 28: Voyager 1 - 20,070,061,000 km from Sol @ 61,233-km/h
  
• Feb 28: Voyager 2 - 16,530,316,000 km from Sol @ 55,419-km/h

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