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News From Tuesday, January 12, 2010
11:44:19 PM Weird Object Zooming by Earth Wednesday is Likely an Asteroid
Space.com - USA

It may be visible to seasoned amateur astronomers as it passes harmlessly by the planet. The space rock won't hit the Earth, but it will make its closest ... [more]

11:43:33 PM Peter Sarsgaard Joins Green Lantern
Comic Book Movie - Orem,UT,USA

The next time he was seen, Hammond escaped prison and evolved himself through exposure to the same meteorite he previously discovered. ... [more]

11:24:14 PM Bredesen Urges Swift Passage Of Education Innovation Plan
The Chattanoogan - Chattanooga,TN,USA

He joined NASA's astronaut corps - and in November realized a lifelong dream by piloting the Space Shuttle. After the ceremonies and speeches in the gym, ... [more]

10:54:48 PM Medal for Hatfield astronomer
St Albans & Harpenden, Welwyn & Hatfield Review - St Albans,UK

By Alex Lewis » AN astronomer at Hatfield's University of Hertfordshire has been honoured by the Royal Society of Astronomy (RAS) for his work, ... [more]

10:52:48 PM NASA May Test Refueling Satellites On ISS
Aviation Week - New York,NY,USA

Preston Burch, the Hubble program manager, said Jan. 11 that the experiment would use the Canadian-built Special Purpose Dexterous Manipulator, ... [more]

10:40:18 PM Astronauts Urine Clogs Space Station Water Recycler
ABC News - United States

By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA is finding it is not just mechanical glitches that make the International Space Station a tough ... [more]

10:35:10 PM A space plane similar to what could soon be flying from Cecil Field
Orlando Sentinel

The license, which took four years to get, was welcomed as good news in year which the space shuttle is supposed to be retired and thousands of space jobs ... [more]

10:11:58 PM Mangalore: Astronomers Association Organizes Eclipse Viewing on Jan 15
Daijiworld.com - Mangalore,India

Mangalore, Jan 12: The Amateur Astronomers Association of the city will organize a viewing of the solar eclipse on Friday January 15, on the campus of St ... [more]

9:05:09 PM Mystery object to whizz close by Earth on Wednesday
The Associated Press

Astronomers say it may be space junk or it could be a tiny asteroid, too small to cause damage even if it hit. It is 33 to 50 feet (10 to 15 metres) wide at ... [more]

8:42:03 PM Spotting Betelgeuse
Glob smacked

Hubble's resolution is about 0.1 arcseconds, so Betelgeuse is unresolved even using that famous 'scope (though using some fancy tricks some features on the ... [more]

8:39:10 PM Close Approaching Object January 13th
AccuWeather.com

Astronomers, expert and amateur alike, with the larger telescopes are encouraged to study the object as it makes its close pass tomorrow; who knows, ... [more]

8:33:41 PM Nasa check for 'unlikely' survival of Mars lander
BBC News - E,UK

Nasa's Mars Odyssey orbiter is set to listen for possible radio transmissions from the Phoenix Mars lander, to check if it has survived the Martian winter. ... [more]

8:17:53 PM Mystery Object to Whizz by Earth Wednesday
ABC News - United States

It won't hit our planet, but scientists are stumped by what exactly it is. Astronomers say it may be space junk or it could be a tiny asteroid, ... [more]

7:26:28 PM Wednesday asteroid's to pass Earth two-thirds closer than the Moon
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer - Columbus,GA,USA

.... pass through Orion, Pisces and Taurus, where experienced stargazers should be able to track its path, reports the astronomy news service Spaceweather.com. [more]

6:04:01 PM NASA Helps Hartman Find Stories
CBS News - USA

Last November, the space shuttle Atlantis launched from the Kennedy Space Center with a very special stowaway. At the request of CBS News, NASA tucked a ... [more]

5:53:28 PM First light for Astronomy Magazine Observatory
Astronomy Magazine

Yesterday was a clear day at Rancho Hidalgo, and developer Gene Turner just acquired the first solar image at the Astronomy Magazine Observatory here. .... [more]

5:50:23 PM Britney Spears Pulling Ahead in Twitter Awards Contest
Wall Street Journal Blogs - New York,NY,USA

What do Britney Spears, NASA and a llama have in common? As of late Monday night, they were all the top vote getters in their categories for the Shorty ... [more]

4:56:36 PM Top 10 comic book moments of 2009
Creative Loafing Tampa - Tampa,FL,USA

(Ironically, the former base of Magneto raised from the depths: Asteroid M.) So what happens when the Master of Magnetism, the original X-Villain, .... [more]

4:42:10 PM NASA: January 2010
WDBO Radio - Orlando,Florida,USA

By WDBO Staff @ January 12, 2010 9:58 AM Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0) CAPE CANAVERAL -- NASA is still shooting for a shuttle launch next month, ... [more]

4:02:12 PM February shuttle launch still on despite bad hoses
CBC News - Canada

Space shuttle Endeavour, atop the crawler transporter, makes its way to launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Jan. 6. ... [more]

3:47:16 PM Review: Denzel saves the world in `Book of Eli'
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA

A meteorite and a subsequent war 30 years earlier has scorched the Earth and the population. The landscape (shot in New Mexico) is much like an old Western: ... [more]

3:42:36 PM What is flying past Earth? Don't know but it's called 2010 AL30
iTWire (press release) - Australia

by William Atkins Astronomers have shown keen interest in an object that will fly past Earth on Wednesday, January 13, 2010. What has peaked their interest ... [more]

2:38:28 PM Pick a Patch: Polls Under Way to Select End-of-Shuttle Emblem
Space.com - USA

By Robert Z. Pearlman NASA's space shuttle program held an in-house contest over the past few months to have its prior and present employees design a .... [more]

2:35:41 PM Amateur astronomer looking for observing site in western Chatham County
Chatham Journal Weekly - Pittsboro,NC,USA

By Matt McBee Siler City, NC - I am looking for an observing spot in western Chatham County. I'd like to find a location in the green zone on this light ... [more]

2:27:18 PM Mystery Behind Galaxy Shapes Solved
Space.com - USA

American astronomer Edwin Hubble first developed a classification system in the 1930s, known as the Hubble Sequence, which divides galaxies into two main ... [more]

12:33:38 PM John Cromwell Mather, co-winner of the Physics Nobel in 2006
Frontline - Chennai,Tamilnadu,India

At the Space Summit, Dr Mather told the audience about the history of the Big Bang – how the astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered in 1929 that the universe ... [more]

11:29:54 AM How Galaxies Came To Be
Space Daily - Rancho Palos Verdes,CA,USA

American astronomer Edwin Hubble first developed a taxonomy for galaxies in the 1930s that has since become known as the 'Hubble Sequence'. ... [more]

10:23:46 AM Science on Wheels to travel across Burlco
Cherry Hill Courier Post - Cherry Hill,NJ,USA

The college's first $900000 NASA grant financed a NASA Science Learning Center at the Mount Laurel campus and astronomy projects. [more]

9:36:26 AM 2010 AL30: An Asteroid or Man Made Object?
Discovery News

11, two days before its closest approach to Earth. It is worth noting however, even if 2010 AL30 did hit Earth, it would most likely explode high in the ... [more]

9:26:24 AM Goddard in running for Venus, asteroid missions
Baltimore Sun - Baltimore,MD,USA

By Frank D. Roylance With a little luck, scientists and engineers at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt will help to send a NASA spacecraft to ... [more]

8:26:33 AM Alcan Aluminium Low Density Alloys Selected as a Critical Material for
PR Newswire (press release) - USA

PR Newswire (press release) The material is well proven in space applications, having been used on the space shuttle external tanks to boost America's shuttle into orbit since 1998. ... [more]

8:11:31 AM Science Cafe - "From Fallen Stars to Media Stars: Meteorite Hunters ...
University of Arizona News (press release) - Tucson,AZ,USA

Geoffrey Notkin, meteorite hunter and co-host of "Meteorite Men" on the Science Channel will give a short talk entitled, “From Fallen Stars to Media Stars: ... [more]

6:08:41 AM Moon rocks from first and last Apollo missions turn up in locked cabinet in
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

Los Angeles Times The rocks were given to the people of Hawaii during the Nixon administration, but they were presumed lost when a noted moon rock tracker and former NASA ... [more]

5:11:12 AM NASA satellite to scan for signs of life from old Mars spacecraft
NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USA

By Michael Cooney, Network World NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter will next week make a number of passes over the presumed dead Phoenix Mars Lander on the .... [more]

3:41:57 AM Celebrating the International Year of Astronomy With Pamela Gay
The Planetary Society

2009 was the year fans of astronomy went all out to share the wonder of the universe. Astronomer and Astronomy Cast co-host Pamela Gay reports from the .... [more]

3:08:40 AM Steve Hartman, his Intern, and NASA
CBS News - USA

Because I was dead-set on having the astronauts randomly select the countries and wasted nine and a half years assuming NASA would never agree to it. ... [more]

1:46:06 AM As more planets emerge, astronomers are confident they'll find one like
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Washington Post By Joel Achenbach It seems increasingly likely that, as they stare at the heavens, astronomers are going to find an Earth out there, or at least something ... [more]

1:07:15 AM NASA to Check for Unlikely Winter Survival of Mars Lander
Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Pasadena,CA,USA

NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander, its backshell and its heatshield are visible within this enhanced-color image of the Phoenix landing site taken on Jan. .... [more]

1:01:38 AM NASA flies Boeing 747 with big telescope door open
Seattle Post Intelligencer

A German-built telescope is exposed during a flight of NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy 747SP on Dec. 18, 2009. ... [more]



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