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Young Astronomers Newsletter November 2016
The Young Astronomers Newsletter The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 24 Number 11 November 2016 By Bob Patsiga In this month’s edition of the newsletter Bob discusses: The re-programmed WISE space telescope has a renewed mission as NEOWISE. How does its new mission affect you? The article “Cosmic Rays” in the November issue of…
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Young Astronomers Newsletter October 2016
The Young Astronomers Newsletter The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 24 Number 10 October 2016 By Bob Patsiga In this month’s edition of the newsletter Bob discusses: Juno’s first few days at Jupiter. Latest on New Horizons mission to Pluto and beyond. Happenings with current and upcoming Mars missions. The end of the Rosetta…
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Young Astronomers Newsletter September 2016
The Young Astronomers Newsletter The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 24 Number 9 September 2016 By Bob Patsiga In this month’s edition of the newsletter Bob discusses: Updates on the Jupiter Juno mission Issues with the Kepler Space Telescope leads to a reassignment of study targets Discrepancies within the Hubble constant used to calculate…
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Young Astronomers Newsletter August 2016
The Young Astronomers Newsletter The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 24 Number 8 August 2016 By Bob Patsiga In this month’s edition of the newsletter Bob discusses: Update on New Horizons and JUNO missions. New Horizons is now well beyond Pluto and NASA has already identified its next Kuiper Belt object for exploration. JUNO…
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Young Astronomers Newsletter July 2016
The Young Astronomers Newsletter The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 24 Number 7 July 2016 By Bob Patsiga In this month’s edition of the newsletter Bob discusses: Description of NASA’s JUNO mission to Jupiter, which reaches its destination on July 1. Article describes JUNO’s objectives and its timetable of study of the gas giant.…
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Young Astronomers Newsletter June 2016
The Young Astronomers Newsletter The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 24 Number 6 June 2016 By Bob Patsiga In this month’s edition of the newsletter Bob discusses: Summary of what we know about Planet Nine. Article by Michael Brown of Caltech in Astronomy magazine. New concept about the location of the Milky Way in…
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Young Astronomers Newsletter May 2016
The Young Astronomers Newsletter The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 24 Number 5 May 2016 By Bob Patsiga In this month’s edition of the newsletter Bob discusses: * The last four of the heavy elements in the seventh row of the periodic table have been created/discovered. Now it is time to give them names. Possibilities have…
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Young Astronomers Newsletter April 2016
The Young Astronomers Newsletter The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 24 Number 4 April 2016 By Bob Patsiga
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Young Astronomers Newsletter March 2016
The Young Astronomers Newsletter The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 24 Number 3 March 2016 By Bob Patsiga
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