Skynet 9-21-19 “Water in All the Right Places!” & “Einstein’s Blunder Resolved” 9PM CT

190510-mars-prSKYNET!!!! 9PM CT – 10:30PM CT

Saturday’s Topic: “Looking for Water in All the Right Places” & “Einstein’s Biggest Blunder: Resolved (Part 2)”

Net Control: Brenda WB5OZL

Afterglow Movie 10:30PM:
“Ad Astra” (2019)

2-Meter Repeater W5FC: 146.880MHz, PL 110.9, –
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Discussion Topic of the Evening.

“Looking for Water in All the Right Places”

Brenda WB5OZL

Ganymede Saltwater Ocean
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/43/Ganymede_diagram.svg/1920px-Ganymede_diagram.svg.png

Enceladus Geysers
https://scitechdaily.com/images/Cassini-Reveals-101-Geysers-on-Enceladus.jpg

Stream/Lakebeds on Mars
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_feature/public/thumbnails/image/pia19840.jpeg

MAVEN Spacecraft
https://s1.ibtimes.com/sites/www.ibtimes.com/files/styles/tablet/public/2014/09/22/nasa-maven-mars-probe.jpg

Comet Hartley 2
https://en.es-static.us/upl/2011/10/Comet_Hartley-1024×768.jpg

Juno 2 Mission
https://mk0spaceflightnoa02a.kinstacdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/PIA19639-16.jpg

Kepler Habitable Zone Planets
https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width_feature/public/thumbnails/image/press-web15_kepler_hz_planets_edit.jpg

K2 Spacecraft
https://regmedia.co.uk/2016/05/04/kepler1.jpg

Space Exploration and Space History

Space Exploration News

Attempts to contact Vikram lander ended yesterday with the coming of lunar night, but the Chandrayaan-2 orbiter is doing fine.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d9/GSLV_Mk_III_M1%2C_Chandrayaan-2_-_Pragyan_rover_mounted_on_the_ramp_of_Vikram_lander.jpg
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/crashing-at-great-speed-vikram-has-long-been-dead/articleshow/71209960.cms

The Mars INSIGHT lander has observed strange magnetic field variations on mars…but only at local midnight.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/PIA22320_%E2%80%93_Cutaway_of_SEIS_%28Artist%27s_Concept%29.jpg

Space-Related Birthdays

There are two astronaut birthdays that you might have celebrated this week…

Astronaut “Ed” Mitchell – Sept. 17th, 1930
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2b/Edgar_Mitchell_%281971_portrait%29.jpg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Mitchell

Astronaut Tom Stafford – Sept. 17th 1930
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Thomas_Stafford.jpg

This Week in Space History

September 16th, 2016: Launch of Tiangong 2
http://spaceflight101.com/tiangong-2/wp-content/uploads/sites/106/2017/09/1709221851203764718.jpg
September 18, 1959 : Vanguard 3C doesn’t explode!
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Launch_of_Vanguard.jpg
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Vanguard_3_satellite_sketch.jpg

September 19th, 1961: Houston, we have a winner
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/bc/Johnson_Space_Center_Composite_Areas.jpg

September 19th, 1980: Kaboom! A Titan 2 explodes in its silo
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/MK6_TITAN_II.jpg

September 20th-21st, 1970: Luna 16 lands on the Moon, and then lifts off for the Earth
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/The_Soviet_Union_1970_CPA_3952_stamp_%28Luna_16_Leaving_Moon_%281970.09.20%29%29.jpg

Waz Up?

Chaz KF5JHA

Miss Carolyn’s Constellation of the Month/Topic of the Week

Einstein’s Biggest Blunder Part 2: Resolved

Recent Astronomical Discoveries

Most Massive Neutron Star Ever Detected, Almost Too Massive to Exist
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/09/190916114030.htm?fbclid=IwAR0Sdnbrsvbi8_MRXAKBjPM2KR48h_5GONSyTcyovnCqLyWMtKOjoc1DE0A

Visible satellite passages over the next couple of days.
All times are “local” (Dallas) time.

Envisat
https://www.heavens-above.com/PassSummary.aspx?satid=27386&lat=33.0462&lng=-96.9942&loc=Lewisville&alt=0&tz=CST

Sept 22
https://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx?lat=33.0462&lng=-96.9942&loc=Lewisville&alt=0&tz=CST&satid=27386&mjd=58749.036832342&type=V

Sept 24
https://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx?lat=33.0462&lng=-96.9942&loc=Lewisville&alt=0&tz=CST&satid=27386&mjd=58751.054562526&type=V

Sept 27
https://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx?lat=33.0462&lng=-96.9942&loc=Lewisville&alt=0&tz=CST&satid=27386&mjd=58754.0467258689&type=V

Sept 30
https://www.heavens-above.com/passdetails.aspx?lat=33.0462&lng=-96.9942&loc=Lewisville&alt=0&tz=CST&satid=27386&mjd=58757.0389066306&type=V