Just home from my talk at Bryce and as I was opening my observatory to a beautifully clear sky I saw Orion in its full glory rising in the east. The down side is its appearance at this time foretells the coming of winter but it sure is pretty up there. Totally unrelated but I just received the following notice from my PI at the OSIRIS-REx project. Just a few days left to get your name on the spacecraft. patrick LAST CHANCE! Campaigns end on September 30, 2014 Be part of the OSIRIS-REx team: Feature your name and send a message about Solar System exploration. This is the final week of NASA's OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission/The Planetary Society campaigns: Messages to Bennu and Asteroid Time Capsule. The final day to submit entries is September 30, 2014. The Asteroid Time Capsule campaign asks participants to tweet or post an image on Instagram (with hashtag#asteroidmission) to answer the question: Where are we now and where will we be in 2023 in Solar System exploration? Top tweets and images will be etched on the silicon wafer which will be placed in the OSIRIS-REx Sample Return Capsule (SRC). An identical wafer will be placed on the spacecraft. All entries will be archived in a virtual Time Capsule kept at the University of Arizona and opened in 2023. More information about the mission, ways to get involved, and the campaign is available on our website, asteroidmission.org. The time capsule campaign complements Messages to Bennu, which collects names to fly on the spacecraft. Participants can print a Certificate of Participation and their names will fly in the SRC and on the spacecraft. Direct links to submit your name are asteroidmission.org/get-involved/messages-to-bennu and planetary.org/bennu. Direct links for the Asteroid Time Capsule Campaign are: www.instagram.com/osiris_rex www.twitter.com/OSIRISREx