<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><font size="4" class="">Good morning all,</font><div class=""><font size="4" class=""> I know most schools are winding down and getting ready for the summer break….so may sad teachers and kids….:-) :-) for sure the teachers need the break, it still amazes me what teachers do, day in and layout, year after year….yesterday I visited Winthrop Charter Elementary School to support their Science Day, spoke with the whole school, k-5, did a presentation to the whole school, one grade at a time….it was awesome, kids and teacher great…a little rushed for time but I think we made the best of it…..one of the few school I visit where the kids wear uniforms…it may seem strange as I believe it makes a difference in a positive way. I would like to thank my good friend Debra for making all the arrangements and her first graders for the special time I was able to spend in their classroom…they were adorable, all so friendly, so full of questions…if any of you are teaching summer school and would like me to visit your school, let me know….time is a blur right now as it seems I blink and a week goes bye… I love this time of the year when it is hot & sunny and the beach is calling :-) :-) </font><span style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 19px;" class="">wishing you a wonderful day...we have to always remember to do our best, enjoy everything we do, live in the present, be appreciative of the good in our lives, let those we care about most know, make each day special, smile & have fun! Gabe</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" class="">NASA Announces Coverage, Media Activities for Juno Mission Arrival at Jupiter</b></div><div class=""><table align="center" width="687" cellpadding="1" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 1px solid rgb(190, 191, 185); vertical-align: baseline; border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; width: 708px; font-size: 0.923em; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><tbody style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><tr style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><td style="margin: 0px; padding: 10px; border: 1px solid rgb(230, 230, 230); vertical-align: middle; font-size: 14px;" class=""><div class="dnd-drop-wrapper" style="margin: 0px 0px 9px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/images/418037main_image_1568_full.jpg" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 116, 189); text-decoration: none;" class=""><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/full_width/public/images/418037main_image_1568_full.jpg" width="687px" height="auto" alt="418037main_image_1568_full.jpg" title="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""></a></div><div class="dnd-legend-wrapper" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="caption" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 10px;">NASA’s solar-powered Juno spacecraft will arrive at Jupiter July 4, 2016.</div><b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><i style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><div class="credits" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-size: 10px;">Credits: NASA</div></i></b><div class="link" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="#" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 116, 189); font-size: 10px;" class=""></a></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" class="">This Fourth of July, NASA’s solar-powered Juno spacecraft will arrive at Jupiter after an almost five-year journey. News briefings, photo opportunities and other media events will be held at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, and air live on NASA Television and the agency’s website. In the evening of July 4, Juno will perform a suspenseful orbit insertion maneuver, a 35-minute burn of its main engine, to slow the spacecraft by about 1,212 miles per hour (542 meters per second) so it can be captured into the gas giant’s orbit. Once in Jupiter’s orbit, the spacecraft will circle the Jovian world 37 times during 20 months, skimming to within 3,100 miles (5,000 kilometers) above the cloud tops. This is the first time a spacecraft will orbit the poles of Jupiter, providing new answers to ongoing mysteries about the planet’s core, composition and magnetic fields. <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class="">NASA TV Events </strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><font color="#0074bd" class=""><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv" class="">http://www.nasa.gov/nasatv</a></font> </strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><font color="#0074bd" class=""><a href="http://www.ustream.tv/nasa" class="">http://www.ustream.tv/nasa</a></font> </strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><font color="#0074bd" class=""><a href="http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl" class="">http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl</a></font> </strong>Live coverage on orbit insertion day also will be available online via Facebook Live at: <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><font color="#0074bd" class=""><a href="http://www.facebook.com/nasa" class="">http://www.facebook.com/nasa</a></font> </strong><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" class=""><font color="#0074bd" class=""><a href="http://www.facebook.com/nasajpl" class="">http://www.facebook.com/nasajpl</a></font> </strong></p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="has-image has-tag article-banner-container" data-bindattr-927="927" style="box-sizing: border-box; min-height: 50px; width: 1041px; position: relative; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: 'Titillium Web', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><div class="article-banner" style="box-sizing: border-box; border-top-width: 8px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(93, 127, 185);"><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/fireball_from_mmt_observatory2.jpg" data-bindattr-953="953" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(42, 100, 150); outline: 0px; background-position: 0px 0px;" class=""><img alt="NASA Meteor Cam Video of June 2, 2016 Arizona Fireball" data-bindattr-954="954" style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" apple-inline="yes" id="195251BB-864E-4BB9-A54D-63355503DE6A" height="197" width="640" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:8C8ED535-BE96-448A-9681-6A736D2D51C3" class=""></a></div></div><div class="article-body" style="box-sizing: border-box; padding-left: 2em; padding-right: 2em; padding-top: 0px; position: relative; overflow: hidden; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><div class="title-bar" style="font-family: 'Titillium Web', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 2em 0px;"><div class="press-release-info" style="box-sizing: border-box; width: 985px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><div class="pr-promo-date-time" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 2.2em;" class="">Fireball Lights Pre-Dawn Sky over Arizona</span><span style="color: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-size: 2.2em;" class=""> </span></div></div></div><section id="ember947" class="opened collapsible ember-view" style="box-sizing: border-box; max-height: none; overflow-y: hidden;"><div class="text" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><p class="p1" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 15px; -webkit-font-smoothing: inherit; line-height: 1.4em;"><font size="4" class="">For a few seconds early Thursday, night turned into day as an extremely bright fireball lit the pre-dawn sky over much of Arizona, blinding all-sky meteor cameras as far away as western New Mexico. Based on the latest data, a small asteroid estimated at 5 feet (1-2 meters) in diameter - with a mass of a few tons and a kinetic energy of approximately half a kiloton - entered Earth's atmosphere above Arizona just before 4 a.m. local (MST) time. NASA estimates that the asteroid was moving at about 40,200 miles per hour (64,700 kilometers per hour). Eyewitness reports placed the object at an altitude of 57 miles above the Tonto National Forest east of the town of Payson, moving almost due south. It was last seen at an altitude of 22 miles above that same forest. “There are no reports of any damage or injuries—just a lot of light and few sonic booms,” said Bill Cooke in NASA's <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/offices/meo/home/index.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px 0px;" class="">Meteoroid Environment Office</a> at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. “If Doppler radar is any indication, there are almost certainly meteorites scattered on the ground north of Tucson.” The NASA Meteoroid Environments Office (MEO) monitors the small rock (meteoroid) environment near Earth in order to assess the risks posed to spacecraft by these bits of tiny space debris. As part of this effort, it operates a network of meteor cameras within the U.S. that are capable of detecting meteors brighter than the planet Jupiter. Three of these cameras are in southern Arizona. Cooke notes that he and other meteor experts are having difficulty obtaining data on the June 2 fireball from meteor camera videos, since many of the cameras were almost completely saturated by the bright event. The event did leave smoke trails that were caught on video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN--uCY0LUY" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px 0px;" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN--uCY0LUY</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sOqPOL1gIM" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px 0px;" class="">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sOqPOL1gIM</a>. Meteoroid impacts are a continuously occurring natural process. Every day, about 80 to 100 tons of material falls upon the Earth from space in the form of dust and meteorites. Over the past 20 years, U.S. government sensors have detected nearly 600 small asteroids, a few meters in size, which have entered the Earth’s atmosphere and created spectacular bolides. The superbolide that impacted over Chelyabinsk, Russia in 2013 is estimated to have been 65 feet (20 meters) in size and released over 800 times the energy of the Arizona fireball. Impacts of that size take place a few times a century, and impacts of larger asteroids are expected to be far less frequent (on the scale of centuries to millennia) but can happen on any day. NASA’s <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/planetarydefense" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; background-position: 0px 0px;" class="">Planetary Defense Coordination Office</a> is responsible for finding, tracking, and characterizing near-Earth asteroids, identifying potentially hazardous objects, and planning for the mitigation of potential impacts to Earth that could do damage at ground level. More than 14,000 near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) have been discovered since NASA-sponsored efforts began in 1998 to detect, track and catalogue asteroids and comets.</font></p><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><table width="2335" style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; width: 1401pt; margin-left: 5.4pt;" class=""><tbody class=""><tr class=""><td class=""><font face="Arial" size="4" class=""><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;" class=""><div style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;" class=""><b class="">A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY </b><font face="Wingdings" size="3" class=""><span style="font-size: 13pt;" class="">J</span></font><b class=""></b></div><div style="margin-top: 12pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;" class=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="3" class=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;" class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="519E2227-D854-4731-AF92-C4CF6143E2AB" height="480" width="551" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:4D8CA71F3E211D4B836A0C6DEA20A409@mail.nasa.gov" class=""><font face="Arial" size="4" class=""><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;" class=""></span></font></span></font></div></span></font></td></tr></tbody></table><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><a href="http://links.govdelivery.com:80/track?type=click&enid=bWFpbGluZ2lkPTQzOTQyNCZtZXNzYWdlaWQ9UFJELUJVTC00Mzk0MjQmZGF0YWJhc2VpZD0xMDAxJnNlcmlhbD0xMjE1NDgwMTc5JmVtYWlsaWQ9Z2VvcmdlLmdhYnJpZWxsZS0xQGtzYy5uYXNhLmdvdiZ1c2VyaWQ9Z2VvcmdlLmdhYnJpZWxsZS0xQGtzYy5uYXNhLmdvdiZleHRyYT0mJiY=&&&100&&&http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/sts119/news/STS-119-05.html" class=""><font color="#0563C1" class=""><u class="">STS-119 MCC Status Report #05</u></font></a> The space shuttle Discovery docked with the International Space Station at 4:20 p.m. CDT, delivering the final truss segment and pair of U.S. solar arrays and a new crew member to take up residence aboard the growing orbital scientific complex.</font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><font size="2" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><div class=""><font class=""><b style="font-size: 19px;" class="">NASA's New Horizons Detects Pluto Surface Features, Including Possible Polar Cap</b></font></div><div class=""><b style="font-size: 19px;" class="">Features from Deep Space</b></div><div class=""><font style="font-size: 19px;" class=""> </font></div><div style="font-size: 14pt;" class=""><font size="2" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="7A744D63-450D-4C8B-AC9F-0C109F3E4389" height="344" width="640" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:C1F5CEF04B7EDC459A5A65FFDD8B7403@mail.nasa.gov" class=""> <br class=""> </span></font></div><div style="font-size: 14pt;" class=""><font size="2" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><a href="http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/nh-stern_1.jpg" class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="A685495C-432F-4AF8-81D5-F9A966D45653" height="361" width="640" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:FCF75EC139C1D744B31A9F4263709B83@mail.nasa.gov" class=""></a></span></font></div><div style="font-size: 14pt;" class=""><font size="2" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span></font></div><div style="font-size: 14pt;" class=""><font size="2" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span></font></div></div><div style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><font size="2" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span></font></div><div style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><font size="2" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span></font></div><div style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><font size="2" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><span style="font-family: Helvetica;" class=""></span></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""></div></div></section></div></div><div style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" class=""><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" class=""><br class=""></p></div></body></html>