Young Astronomers Newsletter October 2019

By Bob Patsiga

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

India’s attempt to land the Chandrayaan-2 spacecraft on the moon.
British and Canadian groups have detected water in the atmosphere of a distant planet.
NASA has announced the go-ahead for planning a new mission to the Saturnian moon, Titan.
The Mars InSight lander has run into difficulty in drilling an exploratory hole into the crust of the red planet.
A July meeting of astronomers and physicists has not resolved the discrepancies in the values for the Hubble constant. A value that is used in the calculation of the age of the universe.
October astronomical birthdays.
Celestial happenings for the month.
Upcoming FAS events for the month.