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News From Sunday, January 31, 2010
11:20:15 PM NASA's weather: sunny, with a chance of flares
TMCnet (press release) - USA

It is hoped that NASA's Observatory will ultimately assist in the production of reliable forecasts of "space weather". The Observatory will orbit the Earth ... [more]

10:24:20 PM World's first radio astronomer Grote Reber's ashes to be presented to NCRA
Times of India - India

PUNE: The ashes of Grote Reber, the world's first radio astronomer, will be presented to the National Centre for Radio Astrophysics (NCRA) to be placed at ... [more]

9:58:08 PM IRAN: Tehran staging of 'Galileo' reflects a nation's struggle against ...
Did White House fake link between Saddam and Al Qaeda?

That was the question hovering in a Tehran theater Sunday afternoon as 14 men and women in black clothes circled around the astronomer Galileo Galilei in ... [more]

9:45:47 PM NASA sets launch of Endeavour for next Sunday morning
Examiner.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

NASA has given a green light for the launch of the space shuttle Endeavour at 4:39 am (EDT) on February 7, 2009. The crew is set to bring a new room, .... [more]

7:32:55 PM NASA facing game-changing times
NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USA

By Michael Cooney, Network World When NASA Administrator Charles Bolden releases the space agency's fiscal year 2011 budget this week it will likely the ... [more]

6:53:09 PM Narayangaon to receive ashes of first radio astronomer
Indian Express

“Grote Reber was a pioneer in radio astronomy. He was at least a decade ahead of his time and worked on his own without worrying about academic positions. ... [more]

6:32:23 PM Endeavour Kicks Off Farewell Tour of Space Shuttles
eWeek - Woburn,MA,USA

The space shuttle program will begin marking off milestones as the fleet prepares for its final year before hitting the mothballs. The first of five flights ... [more]

6:13:45 PM Hopes for NASA's moon mission fade
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

By Joel Achenbach NASA's grand plan to return to the moon, built on President George W. Bush's vision of an ambitious new chapter in space exploration, ... [more]

5:16:05 PM Speaking of Stuff Falling From the Sky
DCist.com

So in one of those freak occurrences involving a meteorite striking a doctor's office in Lorton, Virginia, a meteorite struck a doctor's office in Lorton ... [more]

4:06:04 PM Attack Of The SW Opening Crawl
TheForce.net - USA

I took two astronomy classes in college, and one of the few things I retained is that in space stuff just keeps floating. Thus, the Star Wars opening text, ... [more]

2:58:10 PM Change in Space for NASA: Renting the Right Stuff
ABC News - United States

The idea is that getting astronauts into orbit, which NASA has been doing for 49 years, is getting to be so old hat that someone other than the government ... [more]

10:43:25 AM NASA to launch mission to unravel sun's secrets
Times of India - India

LONDON: NASA is embarking a new ambitious mission to unravel the sun's interior mechanisms that may help predict solar storms that cause chaos on Earth. ... [more]

10:09:04 AM Geoffrey Burbidge dies at 84; astrophysicist co-discovered how elements
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

Los Angeles Times He had no interest in astronomy, he said, but in a graduate seminar met astronomer Margaret Peachy. They were married in 1948 "and that is how I got into ... [more]

9:55:46 AM Ownership of Meteorite in Question
MyFox Washington DC - Washington,DC,USA

Who's really the owner of a meteorite that crashed into a doctor's office in Lorton, Va.? The doctor's, not surprisingly, said they are and they handed it ... [more]

9:11:47 AM Stars Over the Coast astronomy column Jan. 31-Feb. 6: Look at a galaxy
The Birmingham News - al.com - Birmingham,AL,USA

Press-Register - al.com (blog) By Mark R. Kent View full sizePLANETS TO WATCH: Only three planets are easily spotted this week. Mars is up almost all night and is high in the east by 8:30 ... [more]

9:03:42 AM Texans balk at cutting manned spaceflight
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA

Case in point: NASA. Texas lawmakers in both parties are girding for battle with the Obama administration over the future of human spaceflight. ... [more]

8:13:58 AM Endeavour's Liftoff Will Be Last Night Launch Ever
Central Florida News 13| - Orlando,FL,USA

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER -- Space shuttle Endeavour's six astronauts said they are ready for their planned mission to the International Space Station just a ... [more]

7:07:34 AM With Valentine's Day ahead, Venus can't be far away
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

5: Learn how planets beyond our solar system are made as astronomer Hannah Jang-Condell explains "Forming Exoplanets" at an open house, University of .... [more]

6:59:47 AM Motivated Moccasins Blow Out Buccaneers
The Ledger - Lakeland,FL,USA

FSC had a 90-60 lead with 5:51 remaining and it hit the century mark with 2:01 left when 5-foot-8-inch reserve guard Jay Hubble pulled up for a 3-pointer. ... [more]

5:55:26 AM Light pollution robbing the night sky, Redlands astronomer/professor says
InlandSoCal.com

Now Nordgren, 40 years old and an astronomer and associate physics professor at the University of Redlands, is realizing his childhood wish of spending his ... [more]

5:29:31 AM Congress must show NASA its backbone
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA

In late 2007, candidate Obama went on record as saying he planned to pay for his $18 billion education plan by taking it out of the hide of NASA. .... [more]

3:34:37 AM Obama trims space ambitions
Straits Times

The Constellation program was launched in 2004 by then-president George W. Bush after the Columbia space shuttle mission ended in disaster with the death of ... [more]

3:12:54 AM Judges needed for Science Fair
Ventura ...

.... engineering and bioengineering; energy and transportation; environmental sciences and management; mathematical sciences; and physics and astronomy. ... [more]

12:22:13 AM Ben Bova: Global warming on earth; politics in space
Naples Daily News - Naples,FL,USA

The Nixon White House killed the Apollo program and pushed the development of the space shuttle — but refused to fund construction of the permanent space ... [more]



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