[Launch Alert] Vandenberg AFB Launch Schedule (Resend)

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                             LAUNCH ALERT
 				  
                              Brian Webb
                     Ventura County, California
                  launch-alert-editor at earthlink.net
                        www.spacearchive.info
		       
                               2016 March 16 (Wednesday) 20:06 PST
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                   VANDENBERG AFB LAUNCH SCHEDULE

                     Launch
                   Time/Window
  Date              (PST/PDT)               Vehicle          Pad/Silo
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JUL             To be announced          Falcon 9            SLC-4E
Vehicle will launch 10 Iridium Next commercial communications
satellites

Mid-2016        To be announced          Minotaur C          SLC-576E
Vehicle will launch multiple SkySat earth observation satellites

SEP 15          To be announced          Atlas V             SLC-3E
Vehicle will launch the WoldView 4 earth observation satellite for
DigitalGlobe  

The above schedule is a composite of unclassified information
approved for public release from government, industry, and other
sources. It represents the Editor's best effort to produce a schedule,
but may disagree with other sources. Details on military launches are
withheld until they are approved for public release. For official
information regarding Vandenberg AFB activities, go to
http://www.vandenberg.af.mil.

All launch dates and times are given in Pacific Time using a 24-hour
format similar to military time (midnight = 00:00, 1:00 p.m. = 13:00,
11:00 p.m. = 23:00, etc.). 

The dates and times in this schedule may not agree with those on other
online launch schedules, including the official Vandenberg AFB
schedule because different sources were used, the information was
interpreted differently, and the schedules were updated at different
times.

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               JUPITER JUMPS INTO VIEWING OF MARCH SKY
                  Westmont College Press Release
                           2016 March 15

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - Jupiter returns to the night sky for
stargazers at this month's free public viewing of the stars with
Westmont's powerful Keck Telescope on Friday, March 18, beginning at
7:30 p.m. and lasting several hours at the Westmont Observatory. 

"At long last Jupiter will be high in the sky during viewing time,"
says Tom Whittemore, Westmont physics instructor. "If the seeing is
good, we should be able bring out some of the details in the surface
structure of Jupiter." 

Earlier in the evening, Whittemore will point the college's 8-inch
refractor telescope at the 11-day-old moon. "The moon will lie very
high in the sky in the early evening," he says. "If the seeing is
particularly good, we should be able to make out considerable detail
in the large crater, Copernicus. Particularly interesting will be the
terracing on the crater's walls as well as the mountain peaks in the
middle of Copernicus. These peaks were left behind as the result of a
large impact in the early history of the Moon. Some of the ray
structure surrounding the crater, Tycho, should also be evident." 

Finally, the viewing will include several of the brighter open
clusters near the top of the sky, such as Messier 35 in Gemini, and
Messiers 36, 37 and 38, a wonderful trio of open clusters in Auriga,
the Charioteer. 

The observatory opens its doors to the public every third Friday of
the month in conjunction with the Santa Barbara Astronomical Unit,
whose members bring their own telescopes to Westmont for the public to
gaze through. The Keck Telescope is housed in the observatory between
Russell Carr Field and the track and field/soccer complex. Free
parking is available near the baseball field. 

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