The Young Astronomers Newsletter

The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 27 Number 1 January 2019

By Bob Patsiga

In this month’s edition of the newsletter Bob discusses:

• The international committee that governs weights and measures have re-established the standard for the kilogram. What are they goign to use now?
• The Voyager 2 spacecraft, launched in 1977 has now passed out of the heliosphere, the limit of reach of the Sun’s energetic particles.
• The time for the asteroid impact in Arizona has been set back from 50,000 years to 60,000 years. The impact produced the three-quarter mile wide Meteor Crater.
• The European Space Agency’s Mars Express Orbiter has obtained historical photos of a bed of water ice in the Korolev crater.
• Astronomical Birthdays in January.
• Celestial happenings for the month including a meteor shower and lunar eclipse.
• Events hosts by The Forsyth Astronomical Society for the month
• Folklore names for the full moons of the year are listed.