The Sky This Week, 2013 February 12 - 19 http://goo.gl/rMcC1 http://tiny.cc/b1mcsw

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The Moon waxes in the evening sky this week, with First Quarter
fallingon the 17th at 3:31 pm Eastern Standard Time. By the end of the
week she rides high along the ecliptic, passing near bright Jupiteron
the evenings of the 17th and 18th. On the evening of the 19th she lies
less than a degree south ofthe third-magnitude star Zeta Tauri, the
southern "horn" of Taurus, the Bull.
All eyes are currently focused on a small chunk of solar system debris
known as 2012 DA14, which will whiz past the Earth on the afternoon of
the 15th. At the time of its closest approach, at 2:25 pmEST, the rock
will be about 27,000 kilometers (17,000 miles) above the Earth's
surface. This distance is well within the belt of geostationary
communications satellites, but there is no danger ofa collision with
the planet or any of the expensive hardware parked out there over the
Earth's equator. 2012 DA14 is estimated to range in size from the
Space Shuttle to perhaps 50 meters across, but it has considerably
more heft than a Shuttle. No object of this size has ever been seen to
pass this close tothe home planet, so astronomers around the world
will be monitoring it as it glides by. Its orbit has brought it within
hailing distance in 2004 and 1918, and this will be itslast and
closest approach for at least the next 75 years. Amateur astronomers
in the eastern Northern Hemisphere will have a chance to see the
speedy asteroid zip through the northern circumpolar constellations as
it makes its brush with Earth. By the time darkness falls in the
Washington, DC area 2012 DA14 will be rapidly retreating from us and
lost to visibility in all but the largest telescopes. It is a bit
ironic that the best place to watch the flyby from is Siberia; in 1908
an object of similar size exploded in the air over the Tunguska River
withthe destructive power of a two-megaton atomic bomb, flattening
trees for hundreds of kilometers in all directions. Thankfully this
will not be on the schedule for this event!
From near-earth asteroids we can focus the rest of the week on
tracking down the elusive planet Mercury. The innermost of the
Sun'sfamily reaches greatest elongation east of Old Sol on the 16th.
This is the peak time to track him down forthe year's best evening
showing of this shy world. You should be able to spot him fairly
easily in the west-southwest sky about 45 minutes after sunset, where
he will be between five and ten degrees above the horizon. Use
binoculars to start looking for him at this time; once you've spotted
him in theglasses you will probably be able to see him with the naked
eye. He gains altitude during the course of the week, but he also
fades by over half a magnitude as the nights pass. However, once
you've spottedhim he should be fairly easy to find until well into
next week.
Bright Jupiter is the bright object that you'll see high in the south
as evening twilight deepens. The giant planet leads the bright stars
of the Great Winter Circle across the meridian during the early
evening hours. He has begun to move in direct eastward motion against
the stars again, and you should soon beable to notice him gradually
nearing the bright star Aldebaran. Jupiter's apparent disc is
shrinking as Earth increases the distance from him. Athis best during
opposition he gave us a generous 48 arcsecond disc tostudy; that has
now waned to 41 arcseconds. This is still much largerthan any other
object except the Moon, so it's still worth casting a glimpse his way
to keep tabs on his constantly turbulent cloud belts.
In the meantime, Saturn is steadily working his way into the evening
sky. As the week opens he rises just before midnight in the southeast.
By the end of the month he'll be up before 11:00 pm. The best time to
observe him is still during the pre-dawn hours when he is near the
meridian. The view of hismagnificent rings and dancing icy moons is
well worth the effort to rise before the Sun.

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