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| What's Up This Week - November 14 - November 20, 2005 |
Nov 14, 2005 - Greetings, fellow SkyWatchers! With plenty of Moon and Mars to go around this week, let's see what else we can find as we begin by honoring the Southern Hemisphere and 47 Tucanae. We'll explore in Cassiopeia, watch for the Leonid meteor shower, capture double stars and look at both northern - and southern - spiral galaxies. So keep your eye on the sky...
Because here's what's up! (Full Story) |
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| Hayabusa captured its shadow on the surface of Itokawa. Image credit: JAXA |
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| Japanese Probe Seems Lost in Space |
| Nov 14, 2005 - It appears that the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA) has lost contact with a small probe released from its mothership Hayabusa on Saturday. After its release, the Minerva probe failed to make contact with the asteroid Itokawa's surface, and controllers have no idea where it went. Hayabusa has been having problems with its positioning control system, so it's possible that it put Minerva on an incorrect vector to reach the asteroid's surface. Hayabusa is still scheduled to dip down and scoop some material off Hayabusa's surface to return to Earth for analysis. (Full Story) |
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