The Young Astronomers Newsletter

The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 25 Number 6 June 2017

By Bob Patsiga

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

• NASA’s early stage planning for its mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa.
• Progress of the multinational World-Wide Radio Telescope array.
• Results from research done at University of Southampton, England concerning fatality statistics for asteroid impacts.
• Results from the time analysis done for a round trip mission to Mars,
• Some interesting finding from NASA’s Van Allen probes concerning the effects of man made  VLF, very low frequency, radiation.
• June’s astronomical birthdays.
• Celestial happenings form the month of June.
• This month’s edition also includes a summer sky map and a map of the path of totality for the total eclipse happening in August.