Weekly news: OSIRIS-REx sample sites have been selected. Annular solar eclipse in Indonesia. Ursids meteor shower, and UV Auroras on Mars

Weekly news: OSIRIS-REx sample sites have been selected. Annular solar eclipse in Indonesia. Ursids meteor shower, and UV Auroras on Mars
HAMMER, (still) hypothetical spacecraft to deflect asteroid and a story of the Earth passing by asteroid and comet dust that give us meteor shower.
The holidays are upon us, and we have a great Geminid Meteor Shower, the winter constellations appearing, 2 or 3 morning planets, and a year-end occultation of Aldebaran by the Moon.