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Space related activities and anniversaries for August 31 – September 6 2009. Fetched live every week from NASA JPL

August 31

• 3rd Astrophysics of Neutron Stars Workshop, Istanbul, Turkey

September 31

• 9th Ukrainian Conference on Space Research, Yevpatoria, Ukraine

September 01

• Comet 222P/LINEAR Perihelion (0.780 AU)
• Asteroid 327 Columbia Closest Approach To Earth (1.621 AU)
• Pioneer 11, Saturn Flyby
• 10th annual AMOS Conference, Maui, Hawaii

September 02

• Comet 217P/LINEAR Closest Approach To Earth (0.577 AU)
• Anniversary (1804), Karl Harding’s Discovery of Asteroid 3 Juno

September 03

• Comet 221P/LINEAR Closest Approach To Earth (1.625 AU)
• Asteroid 5697 Arrhenius Occults HIP 80840 (6.5 Magnitude Star)
• Asteroid 4911 Rosenzweig Occults HIP 25583 (5.8 Magnitude Star)

September 04

• Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #216 (OTM-216)
• Saturn’s Rings Edge-on From Earth

September 05

• Oceansat 2/UWE-2/BeeSat/SwissCube 1/ITU-pSat/Rubin 9.1 & 9.2 PSLV-C14 Launch
• Asteroid 2009 QJ9Near-Earth Flyby (0.063 AU)

September 06

• Asteroid 15845 Bambi Closest Approach To Earth (1.066 AU)
• Asteroid 26868 Misterrogers Closest Approach To Earth (1.604 AU)
• American Astronomical Society’s 110th Birthday (1899)
• COSPAR Capacity Building Workshop 2009: Lunar and Planetary Surface Science, Harbin, China

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Space related activities and anniversaries for August 24 – August 30 2009. Fetched live every week from NASA JPL

August 24

• Mercury At Its Greatest EasternElongation (27 Degrees)
• Asteroid 2009 QG2Near-Earth Flyby (0.024 AU)
• Asteroid 2009 KC3 Near-Earth Flyby (0.048 AU)
• Asteroid 2005 QQ87 Near-Earth Flyby (0.080 AU)
• International Conference on Space Technology, Thessaloniki, Greece
• 2009 International Kepler Conference, Prague, Czech Republic
• CALCON Technical Conference: Characterization and Radiometric Calibration for Remote Sensing, Logan, Utah
• Workshop: Microphysics in Computational Relativistic Astrophysics (MICRA 2009), Copenhagen, Denmark

August 25

• STS-128 Launch, Space Shuttle Discovery (International Space Station)
• Cassini, Titan Flyby
• Northern Iota Aquarids Meteor Shower Peak
• Comet P/2002 T1 (LINEAR) Perihelion (1.315 AU)
• Asteroid 1855 Korolev Closest Approach To Earth (1.404 AU)
• Voyager 2 Neptune Flyby

August 26

• Asteroid 10001 Palermo Closest Approach To Earth (1.233 AU)
• 1st IEEE GRSS Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing, Genoble, France

August 27

• Cassini, Telesto Flyby
• Comet 54P/de Vico-Swift-NEAT Closest Approach To Earth (1.286 AU)
• Asteroid 69230 Hermes Closest Approach To Earth (1.484 AU)
• Workshop on the Microstructure of the Martian Surface, Copenhagen, Denmark

August 28

• Comet 95P/Chiron Occults UCAC2 29201987 (13.1 Magnitude Star)
• Asteroid 2008 KT Near-Earth Flyby (0.087 AU)
• Asteroid 6135 Billowen Closest Approach To Earth (1.636 AU)
• William Herschel’s Discovery of Saturn Moon Enceladus

August 29

• Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #215 (OTM-215)
• Comet 104P/Kowal 2 Closest Approach To Earth (1.898 AU)

August 30

• Palapa D-1 CZ-3B Launch
• Conference: Natural Dynamos, Stara Lesna, Slovakia

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Space related activities and anniversaries for August 17 – August 23 2009. Fetched live every week from NASA JPL

August 17

• GPS 2RM F-8 Delta 2 Launch
• NeptuneAt Opposition
• Comet 89P/Russell 2 Perihelion (2.280 AU)
• Asteroid 163697 (2003 EF54) Near-Earth Flyby (0.053 AU)
• Conference: The Dynamics of Discs and Planets, Cambridge, United Kingdom
• Conference: Stellar Death and Supernovae, Santa Barbara, California
• Workshop: Reionization with Multi-frequency Datasets, Stockholm, Sweden
• Summer School on Stellar Collapse, Compact Objects, Supernovae, and Gamma-Ray Bursts, Copenhagen, Denmark

August 18

• Moon Occults Vesta
• Asteroid 955 Alstede Occults HIP 6334 (6.9 Magnitude Star)
• Asteroid 2002 RQ25 Near-Earth Flyby (0.077 AU)
• Asteroid 6373 Stern Closest Approach To Earth (1.846 AU)
• Cassini, Earth Flyby
• Astroblast 2009 Star Party, near Franklin, Pennsylvania

August 19

• STSat 2A/KSLV-1Naro-1 Launch (1st Test Flight, South Korea)
• MESSENGER, Trajectory Correction Maneuver #31 (TCM-31)
• Asteroid 433 Eros Occults TYC 0574-00456-1 (11.4 Magnitude Star)
• Oregon Star Party 2009, Indian Trail Spring, Oregon

August 20

• JC-Sat 12/Optus D-3 Ariane 5 Launch
• Asteroid 240 Vanadis Occults HIP 75848 (6.8 Magnitude Star)
• Asteroid 433 Eros Occults TYC 0574-00609-1 (12.1 Magnitude Star)
• Asteroid 217390 (2005 CW25) Near-Earth Flyby (0.087 AU)
• Asteroid 2006 SQ372Closest Approach To Earth (23.328 AU)
• Lecture: From Legs to Wheels, Pasadena, California
• 19th Annual Weekend Under the Stars, Foxpark, Wyoming
• 2nd Annual Earth Wind and Sky Star Party, Barry Illinois
• Julian Starfest II, Julian, California
• Iowa Star Party, Coon Rapids, Iowa
• 2nd Annual Earth Wind and Sky Star Party, Barry, Illinois

August 21

• Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #214 (OTM-214)
• Asteroid 88 Thisbe At Opposition (9.8 Magnitude)
• Asteroid 4151 Alanhale Closest Approach To Earth (2.578 AU)
• Kuiper Belt Object 2007 OR10 Closest Approach To Earth (84.893 AU)
• Lecture: From Legs to Wheels, Pasadena, California
• A Festival of Cosmic Explosions: Celebrating the Contributions and Accomplishments of Roger Chevalier, Pasadena, California
• Arunah Hill Days, Cummington, Massachusetts
• Nova East Star Party, Smileys Provincial Park, Nova Scotia, Canada

August 22

• Asteroid 1566 Icarus Closest Approach To Earth (0.404 AU)
• Asteroid 1886 Lowell Closest Approach To Earth (1.310 AU)
• Asteroid 55 Pandora Closest Approach To Earth (1.463 AU)
• Asteroid 3192 A’Hearn Closest Approach To Earth (1.767 AU)

August 23

• Asteroid 433 Eros Occults HIP 111724 (9.6 Magnitude Star)
• Asteroid 12426 Racquetball Closest Approach To Earth (1.282 AU)
• International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA) 11th Scientific Assembly, Sopron, Hungary

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Space related activities and anniversaries for August 10 – August 16 2009. Fetched live every week from NASA JPL

August 10

• Asiasat 5 Proton M Launch
• Asteroid 2000 SJ8 Near-Mars Flyby (0.026 AU)
• Asteroid 7934 Sinatra Closest Approach To Earth (1.943 AU)
• Kuiper Belt Object 2004 PG115Closest Approach To Earth (35.781 AU)
• Conference: Astronomy and Civilization, Budapest, Hungary
• IAU Symposium 265: Chemical Abundances in the Universe – Connecting First Stars to Planets, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• IAU Symposium 266: Star Clusters – Basic Galactic Building Blocks Throughout Time And Space, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• IAU Symposium 267: Evolution of Galaxies and Central Black Holes – Feeding and Feedback, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• 4th Heidelberg Summer School: Statistical Inferences from Astrophysical Data, Heidelberg, Germany

August 11

• STSat 2A/KSLV-1 Naro-1 Launch (1st Test Flight, South Korea)
• Comet 95P/Chiron Closest Approach To Earth (14.935 AU)
• Asteroid 12524 Conscience Closest Approach To Earth (0.871 AU)
• Asteroid 3255 Tholen Closest Approach To Earth (1.429 AU)
• 6th Annual Meeting and Exhibition of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS 2009), Suntec City, Singapore

August 12

• Perseids Meteor Shower Peak
• Comet 24P/Schaumasse Closest Approach To Earth (2.219 AU)
• Asteroid 2006 BM8 Near-Earth Flyby (0.069 AU)
• Asteroid 9253 Oberth Closest Approach To Earth (0.976 AU)
• Asteroid 13667 Samthurman Closest Approach To Earth (1.187 AU)

August 13

• Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #212 (OTM-212)
• Comet C/2006 W3 (Christensen) Closest Approach To Earth (2.312 AU)
• Lecture: W.M. Keck Observatory, Waimea, Hawaii
• 2009 Stellafane Convention, Springfield, Vermont
• Royal Astronomical Society of Canada (RASC) General Assembly, Cypress Hills, Canada
• Saskatchewan Summer Star Party, Cypress Hills, Canada

August 14

• Jupiter At Opposition
• Workshop on Modern Problems of Astrophysics and Cosmology, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
• Galileo, Callisto 22 Flyby
• Manitoulin Star Party, Manitoulin Island, Canada

August 15

• Asteroid 84225 Verish Closest Approach To Earth (1.638 AU)

August 16

• Cassini, Orbital Trim Maneuver #213 (OTM-213)
• Asteroid 434 Hungaria Closest Approach To Earth (0.854 AU)

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Looking almost 11 billion years into the past, astronomers have measured the motions of stars for the first time in a very distant galaxy and clocked speeds upwards of one million miles per hour, about twice the speed of our Sun through the Milky Way.

The fast-moving stars shed new light on how these distant galaxies, which are a fraction the size of our Milky Way, may have evolved into the full-grown galaxies seen around us today. The results will be published in the August 6, 2009 issue of the journal Nature, with a companion paper in the Astrophysical Journal.

[SOURCE: hubblesite.org]

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