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Global Space Show Highlights International Space Week As Space Explorers Meet In Prague

2 important international celebrations of science and technology will engage the global community this week in appreciating the benefits of space research and exploration. The United Nations is coordinating the 10th annual 'World Space Week' from October 4-10, with a multitude of events planned in 39 countries. Focused on the theme 'Space for Education,' this year's celebration includes an unprecedented live show from Earth orbit and the 2nd annual Galaxy Forum China. Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté (B) will conduct a 120-minute show from the International Space Station on Oct 9. Sponsored by Laliberté's charity, One Drop Foundation, the production will focus on the life sustaining force of water. It will involve shows broadcast from 14 cities, featuring several eco-conscious celebrities. Galaxy Forum China will take place at the Beijing Planetarium on Oct 8. The event will feature Antarctica astronomer Zhou Xu (CL), Steve Durst of ILOA, Hans Starlife of Cosmica and Jin Zhu from the Beijing Planetarium. Another prestigious celebration occurring this week is the Planetary Congress of Space Explorers. Over 50 astronauts, cosmonauts and taikonauts will come together in Prague, Czech Republic from 4-10 Oct for the 22nd Congress organized by the Association of Space Explorers. Unified by the motto 'Outer Space - Chance for Everybody,' the space explorers will promote international cooperation and inspire youth to study science, technology and popularize cosmonautics. (Credit: World Space Week, ASE, ILOA, One Drop Foundation, UNSW)

LCROSS Impact May Provide Conclusive Data of Polar Moon Water

On October 9, scientists, professional telescopes and amateur astronomers will partake in a worldwide observation campaign as the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) along with its upper stage Centaur Rocket are set to crash into the lunar surface at approximately 04:30 PDT. Developed by NASA Ames Research Center and launched on June 18, LCROSS main mission objective is to look for water ice at the lunar poles. The LCROSS mission team, led by Project Manager Daniel Andrews (TR), recently changed the target of impact from Cabeus A crater to the larger Cabeus crater. Located 84.9 degrees south, 35.5 degrees west of the Moon’s South Pole and having a diameter of over 98 km, Cabeus contains the highest concentration of hydrogen compared to other craters. The Centaur is set to crash into Cabeus first and will create a spray of ejecta. Approximately 4 minutes later, the LCROSS will fly through any leftover debris kicked up from Centaur and relay data back to Earth before impacting the lunar surface. The International lunar science community is already excited about recent ISRO Chandrayaan-1 data confirming the presence of water molecules across the lunar surface. On Oct 8-9, NASA Ames Research Center will be hosting 'LCROSS Impact Night,' an all-night event open to the public. Presentations will be given by Ames Center Director Pete Worden (BR), Apollo 16 Astronaut Charlie Duke and NASA Mission Directorate Victoria Friedensen. (Credit: NASA)
THIS WEEK
OCTOBER
NOVEMBER
DECEMBER
LEGEND
All times for terrestrial events in local time unless noted.
All times for international terrestrial events in local time unless noted.
All times for space events, and...
All times for international space / astro events in Hawaii Standard Time unless noted. Add 10 hours to obtain UT ('Universal Time;' Greenwich, England).
Weekly Planet Watch – Morning Planets: Mercury (E), Venus (E), Mars (E), Saturn (E) / Evening Planets: Jupiter (SE).
 

MONDAY
Oct 5 — 1% for NASA Ensures USA Multi World Civilization, Nationwide / Washington DC: Boldness, Vision of a Jefferson or JFK for the New 2010 Decade; http://www.spaceagepub.com/calendar/SCarchive/SC-20090831.html.
Oct 5 — International Space Station, LEO: Expedition 21 flight engineer Jeffrey Williams and flight engineer Maxim Suraev to replace E20 crew members Gennady Padalka and Michael Barratt who will depart the ISS with space tourist Guy Laliberté on Oct 10; http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html.
Oct 5 — NASA Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS), Lunar Orbit: LCROSS team refining exact point of Oct 9 impact within Cabeus crater to avoid rough spots and maximize solar illumination of debris plume for Earth-based observation; http://lcross.arc.nasa.gov/.
Oct 5 — International Lunar Observatory Association, Hawai`i Island HI / Global: ILOA preparing for Oct 13 presentation at IAC 2009 in Korea; http://www.iloa.org/.
Oct 5 — Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), Red Planet: Scientists continue to study images from HiRise camera on MRO that reveal spider shaped features (araneiform) on Martian surface caused by vaporizing dry ice during a dynamic seasonal process; http://www.marsdaily.com
Oct 5-7 — Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Hyderabad, India: 'Workshop on Interstellar Matter and Star Formation: A Multi-Wavelength Perspective;' http://www.tifr.res.in/~ismconf/.
Oct 5-9 — American Meteorological Society, Williamsburg VA: '34th Conference on Radar Meteorology;' http://www.ametsoc.org/Meet/fainst/200934radar.html.
Oct 5-9 — International Telecommunications Union, Geneva, Switzerland: 'ITU Telecom World 2009;' http://www.itu.int/WORLD2009/.
Oct 5-9 — International Conference on Advanced Technology and Particle Physics, Como, Italy: '11th ICATPP Conference on Astroparticle, Particle, Space Physics, Detectors and Medical Physics Applications;' http://villaolmo.mib.infn.it/Conference2009.html.
Oct 5 — Asteroid 2009 SR103: Near-Earth Flyby (0.053 AU).
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Jul 1 — NASA, X PRIZE Foundation, Open location USA: 'Lunar Lander Challenge Competition;' through October 31; http://space.xprize.org/.
Oct 1 — Astronaut Scholarship Foundation, Online: ASF Final Destination Online Auction of 20 uniquely designed fiberglass space shuttle statues, through Oct 8; http://www.astronautscholarship.org/sosc_auction.py.
Oct 4 — National Institute of Space Research (INPE), Ubatuba, SP, Brazil: 'International Living with a Star 2009: Influence of Solar Variability on Geophysical and Heliospheric Phenomena;' through Oct 9; http://www.dge.inpe.br/maghel/ilws/.
Oct 4 — American Astronomical Society, San Juan, Puerto Rico: '41st Meeting of the AAS Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting (DPS2009);' through Oct 9; http://dps09.naic.edu/.
Oct 4 — University of Southern California, University of Pisa, Tuscany, Italy: '6th Interdisciplinary Transport Phenomena Conference: Fluid, Thermal, Biological, Materials and Space Sciences;' through Oct 9; http://ame-www.usc.edu/cf/Volterra2009/.
Oct 4 — United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses for Outer Space (UNCOPUOS), World Space Week Association (WSWA), et al, Worldwide: 'World Space Week: Space for Education;' through Oct 10; http://www.worldspaceweek.org/organization.html.
Oct 4 — Association of Space Explorers, Prague, Czech Republic: '22nd ASE Planetary Congress of Space Explorers;' through Oct 10; http://www.tapmag.cz/asep/index_en.php#profil.
TUESDAY
Oct 6 — Gemini Observatory, State of Hawaii Department of Education, Hilo HI: 'Journey 2010 Teacher / Astronomy Workshop,' Tim and Stephanie Slater; http://www.mkooc.org/IYA/Journey_Gemini_Oct6_fixed.pdf.
Oct 6 — ESA, Noordwijk, The Netherlands: '23rd European Workshop on Thermal and ECLS Software;' http://www.congrex.nl/09c19/.
Oct 6-7 — NASA, Washington DC: '2009 NASA Executive Summit;' http://www.spaceref.com/calendar/calendar.html?pid=5633.
Oct 6 — Asteroid (Near-Earth Flyby): 2009 QZ34 (0.066 AU); 2009 QL8 (0.081 AU); 2009 SC100 (0.092 AU).
WEDNESDAY
Oct 7 — Masten Space Systems, Mojave CA: '2009 Lunar Lander Challenge' Masten Space Systems attempt to claim Level 2 purse; http://masten-space.com/blog/.
Oct 7 — California Space Authority, Boeing Satellite Systems, El Segundo CA: 'The 4th Annual Supplier Transformation Forum: Space and Aerospace Supplier Innovation;' http://www.californiaspaceauthority.org/Document-Review/Documents/091007_Boeing/091007_Boeing.pdf.
Oct 7 — American Museum of Natural History Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth, New York NY: 'SciCafe: Exoplanets and the Search for Life in the Universe,' Ben Oppenheimer; http://www.amnh.org/programs/scicafe/.
Oct 7 — British Interplanetary Society, Atrium Space Insurance Consortium, London, United Kingdom: 'Methodology and Hazards of Space Insurance' David Todd, David Wade; http://www.bis-spaceflight.com/sitesia.aspx/page/196/id/2070/l/en-us.
Oct 7-9 — Institute of Nuclear Physics, University of Perugia, et al, Assisi, Italy: '7th Workshop on Science With the New Generation of High Energy Gamma Ray Experiments: Gamma Ray Physics in the LHC Era;' http://www.fisica.unipg.it/.
Oct 7-15 — Erlangen Center for Astroparticle Physics, Obertrubach-Baernfels, Germany: 'School on Astroparticle Physics;' http://www.astroteilchenschule.physik.uni-erlangen.de/schule2009/.
Oct 7 — Moon: 0.24° NE of Center of the Pleiades; 12:00.
Oct 7 — Mercury: 0.32° SW of Saturn, 19:00; 5.8° ESE of Venus, 20:00.
THURSDAY
Oct 8 — Beijing Planetarium, National Astronomical Observatories, China Academy of Sciences (NAOC), International Lunar Observatory Association, Beijing, China: 'Galaxy Forum China: Galaxy Education in the 21st Century;' http://www.iloa.org/galaxyforum.html.
Oct 8 — ESA, Frascati, Italy: '2nd Dual-use European Security Infra Red Element Workshop;' http://www.congrex.nl/09M27/.
Oct 8-9 — NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field CA: 'LCROSS Impact night,' presentations by Pete Worden, Charlie Duke and Victoria Friedensen; http://nnn09.colostate.edu/.
Oct 8-9 — NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville AL: 'LCROSS Impact Events At MSFC;' http://www.nasa.gov/centers/marshall/home/index.html.
Oct 8-9 — Imiloa Astronomy Center, Hilo HI: '`Imiloa's First Sleepover at the Museum: Take Me to the Moon;' http://www.imiloahawaii.org/events.php.
Oct 8-9 — Sci-Quest Museum, Huntsville AL: Overnight event featuring LCROSS programs, live coverage of impact events and telescope viewing provided by Von Braun Astronomical Society; http://www.sci-quest.org/home/.
Oct 8-9 — NASA Advisory Council, Washington DC: 'Science Committee Astrophysics Subcommittee Meeting;' http://www.nasa.gov/offices/nac/meetings/index.html.
Oct 8-9 — Albert Einstein Institute, Pots, Germany: 'Conference: Space, Time and Beyond;' http://spacetimebeyond.aei.mpg.de/.
Oct 8-10 — US Department of Energy, Fermilab, Batavia IL: 'Workshop: Science with Fast Radio Telescopes;' http://www-astro-theory.fnal.gov/Conferences/SwFRT09/.
Oct 8-10 — Colorado State University, Estes CO: '10th Workshop on Next Generation Nucleon Decay and Neutrino Detectors;' http://nnn09.colostate.edu/.
Oct 8 — Moon: 9.1° N of Aldebaran; 06:00.
Oct 8 — Asteroid 68216: Near-Earth Flyby (0.025 AU).
FRIDAY
Oct 9 — Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS), South Pole, Moon: LCROSS and its attached Centaur upper stage rocket will collide in Cabeus crater, in a permanently shadowed crater near the Moon's South Pole at approximately 07:30 EDT, debris plumes will be analyzed for presence of water ice / water vapor, hydrocarbons and hydrated materials; http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/jun/HQ_09-143_LCROSS_Launch_Success.html.
Oct 9 — One Drop Foundation, ISS / Worldwide: Guy Laliberté to present global show 'Moving Stars and Earth for Water' from ISS, 14 cities and 5 continents to raise awareness of water issues and to promote space travel; http://www.onedrop.org/en/.
Oct 9 — Sea Launch Company LLC., Long Beach CA: 10th Anniversary of 1st commercial mission of Boeing 601 / DirecTV 1-R broadcast satellite, launched successfully to geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO);' http://www.boeing.com/special/sea-launch/history.htm.
Oct 9 — TELUS World of Science, Edmonton, Canada: LCROSS impact viewing at TELUS World of Science Observatory from 04:30 - 06:30 MDT; http://www.edmontonscience.com/pages/WhatsOn/EventCalendar.aspx?id=413.
Oct 9 — Cronyn Observatory, London, Ontario, Canada: 'LCROSS for Breakfast,' Eat breakfast and watch live coverage of impact from NASA TV; http://www1.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/impact/event_index.html.
Oct 9 — Adler Planetarium, Cocoa FL: 'LCROSS Hits the Moon;' http://www.adlerplanetarium.org/special/index.shtml#lcross.
Oct 9 — Brevard Community College Space and Astronomy Department, Cocoa FL: LCROSS Impact to be shown from the Planetarium; http://www.brevardcc.edu/planet/.
Oct 9 — Chabot Space and Science Center, Oakland CA: 'LCROSS Lunar Impact Viewing;' http://www.chabotspace.org/.
Oct 9 — Fremont Peak Observatory, San Juan Bautista CA: Fremont Peak Observatory to conduct NIR imaging of LCROSS impact led by Landon Noll; http://www.fpoa.net/.
Oct 9 — Herrett Center for Arts and Sciences, Twin Falls ID: 'Live From The Moon: LCROSS Lunar Impact Breakfast;' http://herrett.csi.edu/calendar.asp.
Oct 9 — Lewis Center for Educational Research, Apple Valley: 'LCROSS Mission to the Moon Impact Event;' http://www.lewiscenter.org/aae/aaetoday_details.php?item_id=401.
Oct 9 — San Angelo Astronomy Association, San Angelo TX: 'LCROSS Impact Party at Nova Hill Observatory;' http://www.angeloastronomy.com/.
Oct 9 — Brevard Community College Space and Astronomy Department, Cocoa FL: Lecture Series: 'What Lurks in the Hearts of Galaxies?,' Eric Perlman; http://www.californiaspaceauthority.org/Document-Review/Documents/091007_Boeing/091007_Boeing.pdf.
Oct 9 — Hawaii Preparatory Academy, Kamuela HI: 'Vacation on Mars,' musical presentation by 4th and 5th graders in conjunction with the students’ unit on the solar system' http://www.hpa.edu/node/5850.
Oct 9 — Hampshire Astronomical Group, Clanfield, United Kingdom: 'Cosmic Quest: The History of Astronomy,' Heather Couper and Nigel Henbest; http://www.hantsastro.org.uk/seminars/index.php?eventid=126.
Oct 9 — Cassini OTM-217, Saturn Orbit: Spacecraft conducts Orbital Trim Maneuver #217 today; http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/.
Oct 9 — Draconids Meteor Shower Peak: The Draconids shower active through the week, radiates from constellation Draco; http://meteorshowersonline.com/showers/draconids.html.
Oct 9 — Asteroid 5261 Eureka: Closest Approach to Earth (0.559 AU).
SATURDAY
Oct 10 — Clark Planetarium, West Salt Lake City UT: 'Searching for Water on the Moon: The LCROSS Impact;' http://www.clarkplanetarium.org/news.php
Oct 10 — Moon: At Last Quarter; 22:56.
Oct 10 — Asteroid 2008 TF2: Near-Earth Flyby (0.057 AU).
SUNDAY
Oct 11 — International Academy of Astronautics, Daejeon, South Korea: 'IAA Academy Day;' http://iaaweb.org/content/view/171/287/.
Oct 11 — Quasarchile, Santiago, Chile: Amateur astronomy adventure tour departure date; http://www.quasarchile.cl/fixed_departure_date_option.htm.
Oct 11 — Moon: 6.4° SSW of Pollux, 07:00; 1.1° SSW of Mars, 15:00.
 
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