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If you will need child or dependent care services at the 229th AAS meeting in Grapevine, Texas, options are available. Child/Dependent Care Grant applications for the meeting are due by 5 December.

Join an online hangout on Thursday, 10 November, at 3:00 pm ET, to learn about the investigation of an intriguing gamma ray binary star observed by NASA's Fermi satellite and the Swift Gamma Ray Burst Mission.

Proposals for Special Sessions, Town Halls, and Meetings-in-a-Meeting for the 230th AAS meeting next June in Austin, Texas, are due Thursday, 10 November.

The 229th AAS meeting will take place 3-7 January 2017 in Grapevine, Texas. The regular registration deadline is Monday, 14 November, so register soon to save!

Most AAS members receive the magazine Physics Today as a membership benefit. The latest issue is now en route to subscribers' mailboxes and can be accessed online.

We need your help! Sign up to review student posters as a judge for the Chambliss Astronomy Achievement Student Awards at the 229th AAS meeting in Grapevine, Texas, this January.

Each month as part of this series from HAD, an important discovery or memorable event in the history of astronomy will be highlighted. This month, we look at the launch of Sputnik 2 on 3 November 1957.

AAS Nova provides highlights of recent articles from AJ, ApJ, ApJ Letters, and ApJ Supplements to inform you about discoveries you might otherwise overlook.

The Spitzer Space Telescope has enter the "Beyond" phase of the mission. The Director’s Discretionary Time proposal handling process has been updated and proposals can be submitted at any time.

Apply to be a part of the US Delegation for the 6th IUPAP International Conference on Women in Physics (ICWIP), to be held 16-20 July 2017 in Birmingham, UK. Applications are due Saturday, 29 October.

NOAO would like to remind US astronomical community members to participate in the next round of key project proposals to Las Cumbres Observatory.

Join an online hangout today at 3:00 pm ET, to learn about research ballooning using high-altitude balloons. Tune in the following Thursday, 27 October, at 3:00 pm ET to hear the latest from the New Horizons mission.

We still have a few spaces left in our AAS 229 workshop on effective outreach for early-career scientists, and AGU is offering a communication workshop for space scientists at all levels in Washington, DC, on 31 October.

Contribute to any of the more than 50 Society and Division funds, prizes, programs, and activities that are important to you during the AAS Fall 2016 Campaign.

The National Science Foundation has issued a Notice of Intent to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for proposed changes to the Green Bank Observatory. Comments are being accepted through 19 November.