The Young Astronomers Newsletter Volume 27 Number 10 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.
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