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 comet explorer as it crash lands on comet 67P.
• Strange signals from distant stars and what they might mean.
• The passing of Apollo era NASA engineer, Jack Garman.
• A planet has been discovered orbiting our nearest star, Proxima Centauri!
• Astronomical birthdays for October.
• Celestial happenings for October including a prominent meteor shower.
• Astronomy questions facts and fun.