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  1. Join us on Saturday (Nov 21) in Copernicus Hall for a planetarium show (8pm), observing on roof after if clear weather.
  2. Will the world end on December 21, 2012? Of course not! Separate fact from fiction at 7 PM on November 19 in the Copernican Planetarium
  3. Leonids meteor shower peaks tonight 2-4am EST (best seen away from the city; expecting 30 meteors per hour in constellation Leo)
  4. NASA's LCROSS announced finding water ice in lunar crater based on last months impact. http://tinyurl.com/yapys74 (via @RandomSpaceFact)
  5. Will the world end on December 21, 2012? Of course not! Separate fact from fiction at 7 PM on November 19 in the Copernican Planetarium
  6. Today is 1st annual Carl Sagan Day [http://bit.ly/2ZMl9w] - celebrate the cosmos with us tonight at the planetarium (8pm)
  7. Will the world end on December 21, 2012? Of course not! Separate fact from fiction at 7 PM on November 19 in the Copernican Planetarium
  8. Did aliens land in New Mexico? Join us for "The Roswell Incident" at the Copernican Planetarium, 4 PM on November 4.
  9. Clear skies permitting, join us as we view Jupiter and the moon through our telescopes this Monday through Friday, 7:30-8:30 PM
  10. Iapetus, Saturn's weird 'yin-yang' satellite, was discovered on 25 October 1671, 338 years ago today http://bit.ly/1af9vH (RT @elakdawalla)
  11. November events celebrating the International Year of Astronomy at CCSU: http://www.ccsu.edu/astrono...
  12. RT @plutokiller I forgot it was today. RT @astrodilettante: Dwarf planet Eris, disc. Jan. 2005, was found in pix from Oct 21, 2003.
  13. "Mercury is a neglected planet" - R. Strom, 2009 G.K. Gilbert Award winner (#GeoPort) - only 2 missions for it (5x more went to comets)
  14. Planetarium show this Saturday (Oct 17) at 8 pm. Observing afterwards only if clear (weather forecast not looking good, however)
  15. RT @astronomy2009: The Galilean Nights LiveBlog is up! Comments very welcome indeed: http://cosmicdiary.org/gali... #IYA2009
  16. Happy Launch Day anniversary to @CassiniSaturn (launched October 15, 1997 - and still going strong at Saturn!)
  17. What do the tracks of every space mission of the last 50 years look like? http://tinyurl.com/ygh765k (National Geographic, via PopSci)
  18. Venus-Saturn conjunction viewing canceled for the morning due to weather.
  19. Curious about @LCROSS_NASA results from today's impact? RT @elakdawalla: #LCROSS "morning after" wrapup http://bit.ly/33MvDt
  20. "We have a tremendous amount of data" - Jennifer Heldmann, #LCROSS press briefing