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11:40:29 PM NASA wants your Mars photo ideas
NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USA

NASA today said it would begin soliciting public photo shoot suggestions for the cutting edge camera onboard its Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. ... [more]

11:32:05 PM Immaculate V8 Vantage Coupe Offical Warranty
Pistonheads.com - UK

Meteorite grey with Obsidian black Leather, Comes with full Aston Martin official Extended Warranty up to July 2010 which is extendable. ... [more]

10:59:18 PM Massive Collision May Have Exhausted Stellar Building Blocks
US News - USA

But newly released images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, which resolves several hundred thousand individual stars in NGC 2976, provide the clearest ... [more]

10:40:43 PM Amateur astronomers set to converge on GWU for BoBfest
Shelby Star - Shelby,NC,USA

Puns aside, the Cleveland County Astronomical Society (CCAS) will host the 18th annual Regional Meeting of Amateur Astronomers on Saturday at the Ritch ... [more]

10:18:39 PM Space Photos This Week: Cat's Paw, Dwarf Galaxy, More
National Geographic

British astronomer John Herschel discovered the nebula, near the center of the Milky Way, in 1837. The Cat's Paw is one of the most active stellar nurseries ... [more]

10:18:22 PM NASA designs one-person hovercraft
United Press International

20 (UPI) -- NASA Wednesday unveiled its design for a one-person aircraft that would take off vertically, hover, and then cruise horizontally, US officials ... [more]

9:46:55 PM Florida officials brace for bad economic news
Florida Today - Melbourne,FL,USA

Baker said lawmakers should also remember the possibility of as many as 7000 layoffs at Kennedy Space Center later this year if the space shuttle makes its ... [more]

9:28:35 PM Viewer's Choice on Mars: NASA Takes Suggestions for Martian Photos
Space.com - USA

By SPACE.com Staff If you have an absolute favorite spot on Mars, NASA wants to know. The agency may even take a snapshot for you with its most powerful ... [more]

9:10:25 PM Astronomers Busy Witnessing "Remarkable" Collision of Two Asteroids
TopNews - Little Rock,Arkansas,USA

Astronomers are currently busy watching what they say is a "remarkable" collision which is happening between two asteroids far away and deep into space. ... [more]

9:06:49 PM UCSB's Tommaso Treu Awarded Prestigious Astronomy Prize
UC Santa Barbara (press release) - Santa Barbara,CA,USA

The Newton Lacy Pierce Prize in Astronomy is awarded annually for outstanding achievement in observational astronomical research, based on measurements of ... [more]

8:28:14 PM NASA believes in the free market
Dallas Morning News

That's what NASA has done. The agency has been looking to sell its fleet of shuttles that will be retired later this year. Original asking price:$42 million ... [more]

8:07:16 PM Rowan hosts observatory open house for Mars event
Cherry Hill Courier Post - Cherry Hill,NJ,USA

.... lectures and tours will be offered. For more information, contact Dr. Eddie Guerra, Department of Physics & Astronomy, at guerra@rowan.edu. [more]

7:16:16 PM FY2011 Budget Critical for NASA's Future
The Lipman Times

By Alec Rivera UPI reports that the 2011 Federal budget, whatever it ends up being, will greatly affect NASA's future plans, especially concerning human ... [more]

7:06:40 PM Sky Bar, Meteorite Men Premiere Party Tonight, and Oscar Monnig's Cufflinks
Tucson Citizen

Many years ago, when I started recovering and researching meteorites, and chronicling my adventures for various scientific publications, I never imagined ... [more]

6:47:27 PM Earth Causes Asteroid-Quakes
Space.com - USA

The researchers observed 95 asteroids in the vicinity of our planet, called near-Earth asteroids (NEAs). They used a process called spectroscopy to ... [more]

6:41:52 PM New research suggests that near-Earth encounters can 'shake' asteroids
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA

For decades, astronomers have analyzed the impact that asteroids could have on Earth. New research by MIT Professor of Planetary Science Richard Binzel .... [more]

6:41:01 PM Paul Frommer's Sounds Off on Avatar Language
USC News

By Susan Andrews on January 20, 2010 10:09 AM From the age of 8 until he was a junior in college, Paul Frommer thought astronomy was his destiny. .... [more]

5:45:11 PM Celebrate 20 Years of Astronomy at the Museum of Natural Sciences
Raleigh Chronicle

Raleigh -- Come see the big picture — of the Universe — as the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences hosts its 20th annual Astronomy Days event on ... [more]

4:41:53 PM NASA claims its quiet one-person electric aircraft is for real
DVICE - USA

NASA says yes, and shows us how it's done with Puffin, a single-passenger aircraft that's 10 times quieter than the most hushed helicopters. ... [more]

4:23:18 PM Haiti Earthquake: Fault Visible from Space
ABC News - United States

The Enriquillo-Plantain Garden fault, as it is known to geologists, appears as an almost straight cut in the earth in radar images from the space shuttle ... [more]

3:41:17 PM Watching the skies: Carthage native uses hand-built observatory to view
Carthage Press - Carthage,MO,USA

Carthage Press Backyard astronomy, Wagoner said, “is a blossoming art. The optics we now have available to us in the amateur field today is light years ahead of what we ... [more]

3:21:52 PM Endeavour's Mission
Central Florida News 13| - Orlando,FL,USA

By The Numbers STS-130 is the first of 5 planned shuttle missions in 2010, the last 5 ever in the space shuttle program. This mission is the United States' ... [more]

2:26:49 PM Louis Moinet Unveils Four Solar System-Inspired Tourbillon Watches, Each
EON - Everett,WA,USA

EON: Enhanced Online News (press release) This meteorite was discovered in the Sultanate of Oman in 2008, and has been authenticated by the Russian Academy of Science, Moscow. ... [more]

2:16:58 PM Ford, United Space Alliance Share Virtual Reality Expertise to Build
PR Newswire (press release) - USA

PR Newswire (press release) Engineers for USA, the prime Space Shuttle contractor, are using the same technology at the Kennedy Space Center to help build future space vehicles safer ... [more]

1:39:01 PM Comet may be colliding asteroids
Scientific American

LINEAR - the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research project - was set up as a robotic telescope to help find space rocks that threaten to hit our planet. .... [more]

12:23:44 PM NASA giving away space artifacts through Web site
The State - Columbia,SC,USA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration launched the Web site to showcase some 2500 artifacts from the space shuttle, Hubble telescope, Apollo, ... [more]

10:54:33 AM NASA, energy, R&D top House committee's to do list this session
FederalNewsRadio.com - USA

We'll be doing a NASA reauthorization. We need to look into nuclear energy, to see if there are any areas of research there. We'll be looking at other types ... [more]

10:47:17 AM Trailer for upcoming IMAX film 'Hubble 3D'
The Post-Standard - Syracuse.com - Syracuse,NY,USA

By The Post-Standard A trailer for a new IMAX movie "Hubble 3D" posted at YouTube offers some awe-inspiring scenes from the upcoming film that promises to ... [more]

10:30:27 AM STS-130 Astronauts Begin Training At the KSC, in Florida
Forbes

By Tudor Vieru, Science Editor Yesterday, the six astronauts that will make up the crew of space shuttle Endeavor during the February STS-130 mission to the ... [more]

9:34:40 AM Latvia wants fine of $10000 for emergencies services false calls
The FINANCIAL - Tbilisi,Georgia

The Interior Ministry decided to increase the fine after the hoax meteorite strike staged in the Baltic state by a Latvian mobile operator, Tele2, ... [more]

7:38:28 AM Reach for the moon at NASA exhibit
Las Cruces Sun-News - Las Cruces,NM,USA

And while you're doing that, you can learn about NASA's Constellation Program when the College of Engineering hosts NASA's Driven to Explore mobile ... [more]

6:29:25 AM Health fears over Chinese villagers clearing up toxic rocket debris
Guardian - UK

Concerns about similar chemicals were one of the reasons why people were warned not to approach debris from the space shuttle Columbia after it exploded ... [more]

6:00:00 AM An amateur astronomer's guide to winter stargazing
Ball State Daily News - Muncie,IN,USA

By Andrea Zeek Depending on the weather, winter can provide some of the best stargazing conditions of the year. Thomas Robertson, chairman of the Department ... [more]

5:47:50 AM Trail of dust may point to fresh violence in asteroid belt
New Scientist - London,England,UK

Using a telescope in New Mexico, an asteroid survey called LINEAR (Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research), spotted a long dust trail on 6 January. ... [more]

5:34:14 AM NASA Offers Tranquility Node Satellite Interviews
RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA

Dowdell will conduct the interviews from Launch Pad 39A, just outside space shuttle Endeavour's payload bay. Tranquility, the next pressurized element bound ... [more]

5:30:23 AM South Africa leaves legacy of astronomy
The Republican - Springfield,MA,USA

South Africa's astronomy legacy includes British astronomer John Herschel, who arrived in Cape Town in 1834 to catalogue the stars, nebulae and other .... [more]

5:22:29 AM Asteroid Collision May Have Created Comet-like Object
Universe Today - USA

Other comet/asteroid crossbreeds have been seen previously, such as the Comet P/1996 N2 discovered in 1996, but astronomers are keeping a close eye on this ... [more]

4:40:43 AM Google founder Sergey Brin: Engine driver
New Zealand Herald - Auckland,New Zealand

His father, Michael, was an aspiring astronomer - but the communist party barred Jews from studying physics or astronomy. He became a mathematician, .... [more]

3:55:18 AM NASA to find out if Phoenix Lander still working
China View, Beijing, China

20 (Xinhuanet) -- NASA is to find out whether its Mars exploration spacecraft, the Phoenix Lander, is still working or not, according to news reports on ... [more]

3:19:42 AM Builders show won't feature model home after funding withdrawn
Las Vegas Review - Journal - Las Vegas,NV,USA

By HUBBLE SMITH For the first time in 27 years, the International Builders Show won't feature The New American Home, a showcase of the latest home-building ... [more]

3:16:44 AM Space shuttle keepsakes up for grabs
89.3 KPCC - CA,USA

So you can imagine NASA's predicament — the agency is just months away from ending its nearly 30-year-old space shuttle program and is now having to sort ... [more]

3:09:40 AM NASA Advisory Council Science Committee Meeting 16-17 Feb 2010
Space Ref - USA

SUMMARY: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announces a meeting of the Science Committee of the NASA Advisory Council (NAC). ... [more]

2:09:28 AM On TV Wednesday, Jan. 20
Tampabay.com - St. Petersburg,FL,USA

SERIES PREMIERE Meteorite Men, 9 pm, Science A couple of guys scour the Earth for really old rocks that hit the ground from outer space. ... [more]

1:33:09 AM A space object with an identity crises
Digital Silence - PA,USA

Astronomers think they may be witnessing a never-before-seen collision between two asteroids...250 million miles away. The puzzle centers on a newly ... [more]

12:25:25 AM Space rocks land foreigners in the dock
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa

Khartoum - Three European tourists have been detained in Sudan for acquiring the remnants of a rare meteorite that hit a remote region in 2008, their lawyer ... [more]



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