[Launch Alert] Vandenberg Launch Delayed

[Brian Webb]

                            LAUNCH ALERT

			           Brian Webb
		         Ventura County, California
		        E-mail: kd6nrp at earthlink.net
	          Web Site: http://www.spacearchive.info

			               2004 November 3 (Wednesday) 19:23 PST
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                NASA'S DART LAUNCH TO BE RESCHEDULED
                         NASA Media Advisory

The launch of NASA's DART spacecraft aboard an Orbital Sciences
Pegasus XL rocket, targeted for Thursday, Nov. 4, is being postponed.
Availability of the Western Range and the lingering effects of solar
activity are the primary reasons for the postponement. A new launch
date is under review.

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                      VENUS-JUPITER CONJUNCTION

Weather permitting, sky watchers can view a close planetary encounter
before sunrise Thursday morning November 4. As seen from the
Southwest, Venus and Jupiter will be separated by less than a degree
when they rise in the east about three hours before sunrise.

The two planets will gradually move closer until 12:41 PST (20:41 UTC)
tomorrow when they are just 0.6 degrees apart.

To see the encounter, look in the east just before dawn. Venus will
look like a dazzling silver-white "star" while nearby Jupiter will
resemble a fainter, ivory-colored speck.

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