Good day.

If you live in the San Fransico Bay Area some interesting events this week end. Copied what Gerry Williams posted.
See below with other interesting links from SpaceRef.com
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NASA is continuing to organize for the Vision to go beyond LEO. See the account at SpaceRef.com or at NASA Legislative Affairs.
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Statement by Shana Dale before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation United States Senate November 1, 2005
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=18542

"If confirmed, my fundamental areas of expertise combined with the Administrator's technical expertise and leadership and the Associate Administrator's long-term agency experience will produce a powerful and complete skill set within the senior team to lead NASA into the future."

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http://legislative.nasa.gov/hearings/
November 1, 2005, 10:00 am, SD 562, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation (Chrm. Stevens, R-AK) Confirmation hearing -- NASA Deputy Administrator Nominee
Witness: Shana Dale

http://legislative.nasa.gov/hearings/Dale%20conf%2011-1-05.pdf (18 Kb PDF
file - LRK -)

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In the Return to the Moon Yahoo groups, Andrew asked the question about asteroids.
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http://groups.yahoo.com/group/return_to_the_moon/
>Subject: Asteroids

Hi all as you guys are very knowledgeable on the subject of the moon and so on, I thought I'd ask you about this.

Who owns the asteroids that are basically in the earths 'plane' around our sun?
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Will be interesting to see if someone changes the treaties now in existence that say no-one, everyone.
http://www.oosa.unvienna.org/SpaceLaw/outerspt.html
http://www.oosa.unvienna.org/SpaceLaw/moon.html
http://www.oosa.unvienna.org/SpaceLaw/lpos.html
http://www.oosa.unvienna.org/SpaceLaw/spacelaw.htm

I wonder who will own the dust that Hayabusa returns to Earth later in its mission?
http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news143.html
http://www.isas.ac.jp/e/snews/2005/1102.shtml
http://www.jaxa.jp/news_topics/vision_missions/solar/pages/hayabusa2_e.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayabusa
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Hayabusa image of Asteroid Itokawa
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=18541
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And if you were looking up Halloween night on the East Coast of USA.
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http://www.nbc4.com/news/5220916/detail.html
Possible Meteor Spotted Halloween Night Captured An Image? Send It To News4

POSTED: 8:43 am EST November 1, 2005
UPDATED: 6:57 pm EST November 1, 2005
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http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_Ba
sicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1128767871164
Flash seen in sky possibly a meteor?

Richmond Times-Dispatch Nov 1, 2005

What was that? Did you see the flash in the sky last night?

Dana Coleman was anxious to know what was behind the "extraordinary bright light" seen last night in Richmond and as far away as Goochland and Dinwiddie counties.
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Sooooh, are you looking up? Thanks.
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Larry Kellogg

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Gerry Williams passed for the Planetary Society - LRK -

[BAYspace] Planetary Society Event Calendar - November 2005
Planetary Society Event Calendar - November 2005

November 5 – Berkeley, California – You are invited to attend the Planetary Society's co-sponsored, Wonderfest, the San Francisco Bay Area Festival of Science. This two-day event
will be held on Saturday, November 5 at Pimentel Hall, on the U.C. Berkeley campus, and
on Sunday, November 6 at Stanford University (see below). Pairs of world-class researchers
will present public dialogues on some of the most provocative scientific questions of our
time. Come join them to absorb, to reflect, to question, and to challenge. Saturday's
program begins at 1:00 p.m., and culminates in the evening with the presentation of the
Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization, and the Mind Duel – between professors and
student champs. For a full description of the sessions, U.C. Berkeley campus map,
directions, ticket prices, and parking information, please check here.

Planetary Society Members receive a discount on admission at this event when they show their
Membership card.

November 5 – Oakland, California – You are invited to a lecture and book signing by Simon
Singh, author of "The Big Bang," on Saturday, November 5, at 7:00 p.m. at the Chabot
Space & Science Center, 10000 Skyline Blvd., Oakland, California. From early creation
myths to the orbiting of space telescopes, Dr. Simon Singh, best selling author and award-
winning documentary filmmaker, will give a historical overview of the scientific effort that
resulted in the theory of the Big Bang. Singh gives a colorful history of the people behind
the theory, where the ideas came from and how the theory developed over the years.

Tickets for this event are $7 Non-member/$6 Science Center Member, and are available at
the Chabot Space & Science Center Box Office. Please call 510-336-7373 to purchase
tickets and for further event details.

November 6 – Stanford, California – The Planetary Society invites you to attend, it's co-
sponsored Wonderfest, the San Francisco Bay Area Festival of Science. This two-day event
will be held on Saturday, November 5 on the U.C. Berkeley campus (see above), and on
Sunday, November 6, at the Hewlett Teaching Center, at Stanford University.

Enjoy sessions by Psychology, Linguistics, Chemistry and Physics professors at
Stanford, as well as a 3:00 p.m. session by Planetary Society Board Member, Chris McKay, a
Planetary Scientist at NASA's Ames Research Center, who will be debating "Should We
Ever Set Foot On Mars?" with Margaret Race, Principal Investigator at the SETI Institute.
For a full program of the sessions, Stanford campus map, directions, ticket prices, and
parking information, please check here. Planetary Society Members receive a discount
on admission at this event when they show their Membership card.

November 9 – Los Altos Hills, California – You are invited to attend a non-technical,
illustrated talk by Planetary Society Board Member, and astronomer Chris McKay, of NASA's
Ames Research Center on Wednesday, November 9 at 7 p.m. The lecture is entitled
"Revealing Titan: What the Cassini Mission Has Discovered about Saturn's Giant Moon." Dr.
McKay, co-investigator on the Cassini-Huygens mission to reveal Titan's surface for the
first time, will fill us in on what the probe and the orbiter are finding out about this cold
and alien world, which nevertheless has features that remind us of Earth.

The talk will be held in the Smithwick Theater, Foothill College, El Monte Road and Freeway
280, in Los Altos Hills, California. It is free and open to the public. Parking on campus costs $2. Call the series hot-line at 650-949-7888 for more information and driving directions.

More at:

http://www.planetary.org/participate/events.html

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[BAYspace] Planetary Society Event Calendar - November 2005 - More
Planetary Society Event Calendar - November 2005 - More

November 12 - Oakland, California – Come and enjoy a bi-lingual lecture on the "Skywatchers of Ancient Mexico," by Dr. Anthony Aveni. Dr. Aveni, one of the foremost authorities on Mayan archeoastronomy, will present a lecture and slideshow about the role Venus played in the Mayan culture, how the Mayans tracked the planet, their calendar system, what the hieroglyphs tell us, and the role of astronomical alignments in their architecture. The Mayan priest-astronomers were able to accurately predict solstices, solar eclipses, the path of the Sun, the transits of Venus and other celestial phenomena using very simple tools and their naked eye. The lecture will be simultaneously translated into Spanish. This event will be held on Saturday, November 12, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. at the Chabot Space & Science Center, 10000 Skyline Blvd., Oakland, California. Tickets are $8, and are available at the Chabot Space & Science Center Box Office. Please call 510-336-7373 to purchase tickets and for further event details.

More at:

http://www.planetary.org/participate/events.html

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http://legislative.nasa.gov/hearings/
Welcome to Office of Legislative Affairs

Congressional Hearing Calendar
109th Congress
First Session

November 1, 2005 12:04 PM
* * UPCOMING HEARINGS * *

November 3, 2005, 10:00 am, 2318 RHOB, House Committee on Science (Chrm. Boehlert (R-NY) -- Status of NASA activities including Exploration Architecture, Shuttle, International Space Station, and aeronautics and science missions


Witness:
Administrator Michael Griffin


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November 1, 2005, 10:00 am, SD 562, Senate Committee on Commerce, Science
and Transportation (Chrm. Stevens, R-AK) Confirmation hearing -- NASA Deputy
Administrator Nominee
Witness:
Shana Dale
http://legislative.nasa.gov/hearings/Dale%20conf%2011-1-05.pdf (18 Kb PDF
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October 27, 2005, 10:00 am, 2318 RHOB, Joint hearing before the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics (Chrm. Calvert, R-CA); Committee on Science and the Subcommittee on Government Management, Finance and Accountability (Chrm. Todd Platts, R-PA); Committee on Government Reform -- Financial Management at NASA: Challenges and Next Steps

Witnesses:

NASA/Chief Financial Officer Gwendolyn Sykes
NASA/Program Executive Officer (IEMP) Patrick Ciganer
NASA/Inspector General Robert W. Cobb
Government Accountability Office/Greg Kutz, Director, Forensic Audit and
Special Investigations


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THE DAY IN SPACE
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In today's space news from SpaceRef:


-- Text of NASA Administrator Michael Griffin's Comments at the Workshop on Space Exploration and International Cooperation
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=18543

"But if we focus too much on the hardware, we run the risk of forgetting that the real excitement lies not in the trip, but at the destination. So let's think for a moment about what we will need at our first destination, the lunar surface. The plan we have developed offers, even on the first lunar return mission, four times the lunar surface exploration capability of the last and most ambitious Apollo mission, Apollo 17. It does so at 55 percent of the cost expended through the first lunar landing mission, Apollo 11."

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-- Statement by Shana Dale before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation United States Senate November 1, 2005
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=18542

"If confirmed, my fundamental areas of expertise combined with the Administrator's technical expertise and leadership and the Associate Administrator's long-term agency experience will produce a powerful and complete skill set within the senior team to lead NASA into the future."


-- NASA Marks Five Years of a Unique 'Room With A View'
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=18159

"There have been 97 visitors onboard the station from 10 countries in the past five years. Twenty-nine have lived aboard as members of the 12 station expedition crews. Russian cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev is the only one to serve as a member of two resident crews, Expedition 1 in November 2000 and Expedition 11 this year."

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Happy Anniversary, ISS - From TSS (The Space Store)!

November 2, 2005 marks the fifth anniversary of humans living on the International Space Station. The Space Store proudly marks this event by marking down all Station patches. Use coupon code CongratsISS to get 10% off and start your collection today!

http://www.thespacestore.com/spacestation2.html
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THE DAY IN SPACE
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In today's space news from SpaceRef:


-- NASA's Hubble Reveals Possible New Moons Around Pluto
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=18150

"Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope to view the ninth planet in our solar system, astronomers discovered Pluto may have not one, but three moons. If confirmed, the discovery of the two new moons could offer insights into the nature and evolution of the Pluto system; Kuiper Belt Objects with satellite systems; and the early Kuiper Belt."


-- Cutting edge microsatellite achieves milestones
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=18152

"A 220-pound microsatellite developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory, Space Vehicles Directorate, Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., recently accomplished significant mission milestones by rendezvousing three to fours times with the upper stage of the Minotaur I launch vehicle at distances between 1.5 kilometers and 500 meters. The Air Force has employed the Experimental Satellite System-11, commonly referred to as XSS-11, to investigate a variety of prospective space applications including servicing, repair, and resupply."


-- Hayabusa image of Asteroid Itokawa
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=18541

"After reaching the sub-solar point, Hayabusa started to travel out of the ecliptic plane to observe the polar regions of Itokawa. The image below shows the southern hemisphere of Itokawa."


-- NASA Space Station On-Orbit Status 31 October 2005
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=18537

"Saturday's troubleshooting on the Elektron oxygen generator has not restored the system's primary micropump circuit to nominal operation as yet. The Elektron continues to work satisfactorily on the backup pump in 24A mode."

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Thanks for looking up with me.
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WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK

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