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News From Tuesday, December 15, 2009
11:57:26 PM Stephen Colbert skates onto a Sports Illustrated cover
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

Apparently not satisfied with that NASA treadmill, the devoted fans in Colbert Nation set their sights on something larger (albeit not higher) than exercise ... [more]

11:03:31 PM Longest night ski/hike
South Washington County Bulletin - Cottage Grove,MN,USA

Other activities will include a visit from Santa, a chance to take a look at the stars with an astronomer and his telescope, and plenty of warm beverages ... [more]

10:57:30 PM NASA gives HU $10.2 million to continue cloud study
Hampton Roads Daily Press - Newport,VA,USA

By Samieh Shalash 247-4537 HAMPTON — NASA is giving Hampton University an extra $10.2 million to research mysterious clouds formed by ice that shine ... [more]

10:18:04 PM Black Soot Choking Tibetan Glaciers
US News - USA

By NASA On the Tibetan Plateau, temperatures are rising and glaciers are melting faster than climate scientists would expect based on global warming alone. ... [more]

10:01:40 PM NASA Buys Additional Space Shuttle Reusable Solid Rocket Motors
PR Newswire (press release) - USA

.... Inc. of Brigham City, Utah, to provide a "launch on need" rescue capability for the final planned space shuttle mission, targeted for September 2010. ... [more]

9:54:51 PM Prince Charles welcomes more than 100 world leaders after their minions get
The Coast.ca - Halifax,NS,Canada

The Coast Halifax (blog) Or will they waste three days arguing and leave us vulnerable to the political meteorite scheduled for impact when they jet home Friday night? Stay tuned. [more]

8:47:18 PM Bethesda publishing Rage
GameSpot - USA

Rage is set on a postapocalyptic Earth in the midst of recovering from an .... of a survivor who was stashed away inside an ark prior to the asteroid hit, ... [more]

8:46:58 PM NASA Partners with Saudi Arabia on Moon and Asteroid Research
PR Newswire (press release) - USA

15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) have signed a joint statement ... [more]

8:26:40 PM Dinosaur at home in Devon Meadows
Berwick Leader

DEVON Meadows meteorite hunter and natural history enthusiast, Tom Kapitany, has a special American visitor at his place this Christmas. ... [more]

8:24:52 PM Cree lands exhibit in Smithsonian
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA

The “Moving Beyond Earth” exhibition explores human space flight in the United States during the space shuttle and space station era. ... [more]

7:27:26 PM Kottkamp, lawmakers push for space jobs
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando,FL,USA

With the Space Shuttle program coming to an end, lawmakers must focus on keeping the state's space industry alive, he said. “Whatever direction they decide ... [more]

6:57:20 PM NASA Data Brings Bad News For Valley Farmers
KMPH Fox 26 - Fresno,CA,USA

New data from NASA is giving valley farmers a harsh reality check on the future of underground water supplies. NASA scientists and researchers from UC ... [more]

6:01:25 PM Dying Star Show Our Sun's Fate
Science Daily (press release) - USA

For the first time, astronomers have photographed these dramatic changes in detail. They reported their work in the December 10 issue of The Astrophysical ... [more]

5:46:42 PM Pollution May Be Melting the Himalayas
FOX News - USA

"Tibet's glaciers are retreating at an alarming rate," said James Hansen, a member of one of the study teams and the director of NASA's Goddard Institute ... [more]

5:44:12 PM Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Receives NASA's 2009 Large Business Prime ...
CNN/Money - USA

The company was recognized for exemplary support of the center's subcontracting programs under the J-2X upper stage engine and Space Shuttle Main Engine ... [more]

4:46:16 PM New planets found around sun-like stars
CBC News - Canada

Astronomers have found as many as six new planets orbiting nearby stars that are very similar to our sun. Two of the planets are "super-Earths," rocky ... [more]

4:05:56 PM How to get a planetoid named after you
NRC International - Rotterdam,Netherlands

But one can also try to persuade an astronomer who has made such a discovery. Loes Timmermans, a book collector from Haarlem, lobbied planetoid hunter Tom ... [more]

3:53:04 PM The Top Ten Astronomy Photos of 2009
Wired News - USA

By Jenny Williams Today, my favorite astronomer, Phil Plait, has put up his ten favorite astronomy photos of 2009. He says that it is always hard narrowing ... [more]

2:47:37 PM Hubble's Festive View of a Grand Star-Forming Region
Newswise (press release) - USA

Newswise — Just in time for the holidays: a Hubble Space Telescope picture postcard of hundreds of brilliant blue stars wreathed by warm, glowing clouds. ... [more]

2:41:02 PM NASA sees major Calif. ground water loss
United Press International

NASA officials said the data reveal that since October 2003, California's Central Valley aquifers -- and the state's major mountain water source, ... [more]

1:46:58 PM Meteor shower over church in Carmarthenshire
BBC Sport - UK

However, the Geminids originate from an asteroid 3200 Phaethon. Phaethon is an extinct comet which has a cloud of dust trailing it. The Earth moves through ... [more]

12:52:40 PM Pumping depletes Central Valley water, data show
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA

In addition to monitoring decreasing water supplies in the Central Valley, NASA satellites are being used to study droughts in India, Australia, ... [more]

12:47:35 PM Kennedy Space Center workers make fuel transfer from launch pads signaling
The Birmingham News - al.com - Birmingham,AL,USA

al.com (blog) The pad is transitioning away from space shuttle use to a different rocket program. Ground crews at Kennedy Space Center, in Florida, have completed the ... [more]

11:11:10 AM Cisco, NASA Launch Climate Monitoring Venture
ABC News - United States

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Technology firm Cisco Systems and the NASA space agency launched a $100 million plan on Tuesday to monitor the earth's resources, ... [more]

8:56:40 AM Brian H. Mason dies at 92; scientist known for study of meteorites, moon
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

Los Angeles Times By Patricia Sullivan Brian H. Mason, a Smithsonian scientist internationally known for his study of meteorites and moon rocks and who was the first to ... [more]

8:34:35 AM Satellites eye dwindling water in central Calif.
The Associated Press

NASA scientists and researchers from UC Irvine presented their findings at a conference on Monday, showcasing data from twin satellites that pick up changes ... [more]

8:23:45 AM Astronomers seek fireball witnesses
The Associated Press

Astronomy experts are appealing for witnesses to an extremely rare fireball believed to have blazed across the morning sky. ... [more]

7:51:28 AM Altman represents NASA during appearances in Europe
Pekin Daily Times - Pekin,IL,USA

By Valari Hyatt Scott Altman and one of his crew members from the STS-125 mission to repair the Hubble space telescope are making appearances in Europe this ... [more]

7:34:13 AM 'On the new and never previously seen star'
Inquirer.net

The main hall is named after Tycho Brahe, a key figure in the history of astronomy. Brahe, too, is a crucial link in the history of science itself—if we ... [more]

7:27:49 AM Large Antarctic iceberg drifting north toward Australia
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

-- In what scientists are calling a once-in-a-century event, an iceberg about the size of Washington, DC, is drifting toward Australia. ... [more]

7:20:53 AM Alabama Astronaut to Fly on Next Space Shuttle Mission Available for
Space Ref - USA

Space Ref (press release) Kay Hire, from Mobile, Ala., will make her second journey into orbit on space shuttle Endeavour's next mission to the International Space Station. .... [more]

7:01:45 AM Detecting Past Comet Impacts on Earth New tool developed at the ...
Forbes

There's a lot of interest in the rate of impact events upon the Earth. ... And any Younger Dryas comet presumably hit an ice sheet, or at least part of it ... [more]

6:42:32 AM Contest to mark year of astronomy
Times of India - India

NAGPUR: Raman Science Centre will be conducting 'Snap the vibrant universe', a contest to mark the international year of astronomy, for astrophotography ... [more]

5:42:10 AM NASA Astronaut, Food Scientist Available for Interviews about Holiday
Space Ref - USA

Space Ref (press release) HOUSTON -- Irradiated smoked turkey, thermostabilized yams and NASA's own special stuffing recipe can mean only one thing -- holiday season aboard the ... [more]

4:29:35 AM Hubble Telescope Captures 'Space Jellyfish', Infant Solar Systems (PHOTOS)
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

New images from the Hubble Space Telescope capture infant solar systems and 'embryonic' planetary systems located in the Orion Nebula. ... [more]

4:16:07 AM ULA Caps Banner Launch Year With Successful NASA WISE Launch
PR Newswire (press release) - USA

"I congratulate NASA, the 30th Space Wing, and all of our mission partners on a successful launch campaign, which culminated in today's picture perfect ... [more]

4:14:06 AM A Deluge of Data Shapes a New Era in Computing
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

He was instrumental in making this a reality, particularly for astronomy, for which he helped build vast databases that wove much of the world's data into ... [more]

3:00:48 AM Super-Earths found orbiting nearby stars
ABC Online - Australia

Two sibling planets may orbit this same star, though confirmation is still pending, says astronomer Dr Gregory Laughlin of the University of California's ... [more]

2:55:00 AM Phaeton Place… Inside the Geminid Meteor Shower
Universe Today - USA

But this was no comet, it was an asteroid. Originally designated as 1983 TB, ... The speed at which them Geminids hit our atmosphere is around 80000 mph, ... [more]

2:49:22 AM Australian Iceberg Breaking Up
RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA

Australian Antarctic Division glaciologist, Dr Neal Young, has been tracking the iceberg's progress using satellite images from NASA and the European Space ... [more]

2:35:18 AM Dallastown grad part of major astronomy discovery
York Daily Record

There, he got involved in a cooperative effort involving Princeton, the University of Hawaii, the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg and the ... [more]

2:34:51 AM Missouri Astronaut to Make Three Spacewalks During Next Space Shuttle
Space Ref - USA

Space Ref (press release) Bob Behnken, from St. Ann, Mo., will make his second journey into orbit on space shuttle Endeavour's next mission to the International Space Station. .... [more]

1:39:51 AM Black Soot Might Be Main Culprit of Melting Himalayas
LiveScience.com - New York,NY,USA

Credit: NASA. A satellite image shows debris-covered glacial tongues melting in North Bhutan (in the Himalaya Mountains) as blue glacial lakes form in ... [more]

1:03:36 AM 50 years of science sagas
MSNBC (press release) - USA

Quasars: The first quasar - quasi-stellar radio source - is discovered by Dutch astronomer Maarten Schmidt. Scientists eventually determine that quasars are ... [more]

1:02:51 AM Alaska Observatory Closes
UC Los Angeles - Los Angeles,CA,USA

Glen Fichman, UCLA senior campus counsel, was quoted in the coverage; Alfred Wong, UCLA professor emeritus of physics and astronomy and former director of ... [more]

12:48:21 AM NASA Craft To Photograph Entire Universe
Voice of America

"If we found out with enough warning, then it would be possible to launch a space mission and deflect the asteroid so it would not hit the earth, ... [more]

12:02:41 AM NASA App Is a Must-Have Tool for Armchair Astronomers
Lifehacker - San Diego,CA,USA

Space junkies with an iPhone or iPod touch, listen up: NASA released an app compiling pretty much everything going on in the space program to give you .... [more]



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