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News From Friday, December 18, 2009
11:57:14 PM White House says no decision yet on NASA's future
Spaceflight Now - Orlando,FL,USA

BY STEPHEN CLARK White House officials say President Obama has not yet made a decision on the fate of NASA's moon program, two days after an Oval Office ... [more]

11:19:16 PM First African-American in space among four joining Astronaut Hall of Fame
Collectspace.com - USA

The ninth class of space shuttle astronauts to be added to the Hall's Mercury, Gemini and Apollo ranks since 2001, the 2010 inductees will increase the ... [more]

11:06:46 PM AAAS Names Nine From UA to Fellows Program
University of Arizona News (press release) - Tucson,AZ,USA

Christopher Impey, University Distinguished Professor in astronomy, for distinguished contributions to astronomy education, research and outreach. .... [more]

10:35:13 PM New crew poised to launch to space station
Standard-Speaker - Hazleton,PA,USA

The trio will join space station Expedition 22 commander Jeff Williams, a NASA astronaut, and flight engineer Maxim Suraev, a Russian cosmonaut, ... [more]

10:18:45 PM Obama banks on NASA's big launcher
Register - London,England,UK

.... develop its next-generation Ares 1 crew launch vehicle and increase funds for the "simpler" Ares V heavy lift rocket to replace the space shuttle fleet. ... [more]

8:37:57 PM Light Friday: Amazing Astronomy Photos and Deep-Sea Eruptions
Industrial News Room - New York,NY,USA

Discover Magazine's Bad Astronomy blog has compiled its 2009 list of the top 10 astronomy pictures of the year. They are amazing images across the board, ... [more]

8:01:31 PM Video: The Asteroid That Will Almost Hit Earth
Wired News - USA

Calculations released on Christmas Eve 2004 appeared to show that there was a greater than two percent chance the asteroid would hit the Earth in 2029. .... [more]

7:59:20 PM Keep Your Trading On Course
Learning Markets - Redwood City,CA,USA

You may wonder what the space shuttle or driving a car down a straight road has to do with trading, but they are more similar than you might realize. .... [more]

7:28:35 PM Our World — 19 December 2009
Voice of America

University of California astronomer Gregory Laughlin, a member of the team that discovered the planets, says the two planets are composed largely of rock ... [more]

7:22:31 PM Pandora From 'Avatar' Just Waiting to Be Discovered
Tonic

The JWST is slated to launch in 2014 as a replacement for the Hubble Space Telescope, and will incorporate optics equipment of greater sensitivity and .... [more]

6:33:48 PM NASA's Cassini spacecraft spotted the first reflection off a northern lake
Popular Science - New York,NY,USA

Popular Science NASA/JPL/University of Arizona/DLR A haze of methane enshrouds Saturn's largest moon, Titan, and prevents scientists from seeing most sunlight reflections ... [more]

6:21:29 PM New Exoplanet; Kuiper Belt Object
AccuWeather.com

The smallest object seen in visible light within the Kuiper Belt has been viewed by the Hubble Space Telescope. The Kuiper Belt is a huge ring of icy debris ... [more]

5:18:21 PM Gates encourages graduates to serve missions "larger than yourself"
Red and Black - USA

There are jobs outside DC, from astronomy to zoology," Gates said. "It's a singular commitment to missions and themes larger than yourself. ... [more]

5:08:49 PM NASA Mars rover wheels bedevil latest extrication effort
NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USA

By Michael Cooney, Network World One step forward, two steps back may be the best way to describe NASA's latest attempts to save its stuck Mars rover Spirit ... [more]

4:43:46 PM NASA Names New Deputy Associate Administrator for Exploration
PR Newswire (press release) - USA

A primary part of the research involved using meteorites from Mars to assess the history of water and the potential for life on the Red Planet. .... [more]

4:02:20 PM How three wise men and a tube helped us find our place in the universe
Guardian - UK

But the new community of lens-grinding astronomers got on with the challenge. If the sun was the centre of our world, how far away was it? ... [more]

3:56:04 PM NASA and Maryland Researcher Recognized for Data That Provides Clues to ...
PR Newswire (press release) - USA

18 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A NASA-led team has been recognized with a prestigious award for helping scientists better understand our home planet. .... [more]

3:45:07 PM Fog Discovered on Saturn's Largest Moon, Titan
Science Daily (press release) - USA

According to planetary astronomer Mike Brown of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), Earth and Titan share yet another feature, ... [more]

3:14:47 PM See a UFO? Might Want to Check Here First
Discovery News

An amateur astronomer has launched a website for sky-watchers to report "unexplained aerospace phenomena." It's not little green men in warp-speed .... [more]

3:14:41 PM Dark side of the Moon
NST Group

Astronomers have calculated that it would be necessary to travel to a distance beyond the Kuiper Belt outside the orbit of Neptune to find other cosmic ... [more]

2:54:01 PM Jacobs Engineering acquires services firm Tybrin
The Associated Press

.... Group Inc. said Friday it bought Tybrin Corp., a supplier of engineering services to the Defense Department, NASA and other government clients. ... [more]

1:48:55 PM Pelosi flat-out wrong when it comes to NASA's job-creation role
Florida Today - Melbourne,FL,USA

NASA administrator Charles Bolden sat down Wednesday with President Obama to discuss the Augustine panel's report and its options for the agency's future. ... [more]

1:24:01 PM Offline as it happens, continued…
Nokia Conversations

The hapless fella who didn't realise the wedding venue had changed, slept through the passing of a meteorite whilst out fishing and then watched helplessly ... [more]

1:20:14 PM Oli Usher: No Christmas cheer for climate science
Tribune - London,UK

Do we think any less of Isaac Newton's theories because of his relentless bullying of the astronomer John Flamsteed? Newton went as far as publishing an ... [more]

1:18:34 PM German astronomers find giant lake on Saturn's moon Titan
Bild.de - Germany

Dubbed the Kraken Mare, the giant body of liquid has a surface area of 400000 square kilometres, according to the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Berlin. ... [more]

1:12:13 PM US Census Bureau Daily Feature for Dec. 18
SYS-CON Media (press release)

Many of these satellites were placed in orbit by the space shuttle. NASA's budget for next year -- the last full year of shuttle operations -- is nearly $3 ... [more]

9:25:32 AM California Loses Groundwater Fast NASA reveals new measurements of the
Forbes

Softpedia The new assessments are based on data collected over the past six years by the NASA/German Aerospace Center Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (Grace). ... [more]

7:30:08 AM More possible details of Obama space plan for NASA emerges
Examiner.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

NASA will concentrate on the development of a “simpler” heavy lift lancher, possibly the Ares V Lite or a shuttle derived vehicle. ... [more]

6:36:56 AM UND Aerospace gives first doctorate
Grand Forks Herald

In the movies, when the big bad asteroid of doom heads for Earth, ... Shoemaker-Levy 9 is estimated to have hit Jupiter with about as much oomph as all the ... [more]

6:06:34 AM Obama to give NASA an extra $1B?
Glob smacked

The Science magazine blog is quoting unnamed sources who say that Obama, after a meeting with NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, has pledged $1 billion to ... [more]

5:01:04 AM KACST, NASA join forces for research
Arab News - Jeddah,Saudi Arabia

RIYADH: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) are joining forces in lunar and ... [more]

4:14:36 AM Russian storage module arrives in Florida for launch
Spaceflight Now - Orlando,FL,USA

.... Space Station flew into the Kennedy Space Center on a cargo plane Thursday, five months before the module is set to launch on a space shuttle mission. ... [more]

3:24:17 AM New Results from the CDMS II Experiment
Universe Today - USA

Astronomer turned writer, Phil Plait put it slightly more succinctly in a tweet; "The CDMS dark matter talk indicates two signals, but they are not .... [more]

3:19:44 AM Ohio lawmakers pushing to keep NASA Glenn Research Center relevant
The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com - Cleveland,OH,USA

The prototype rocket's simulated upper stage was designed and built at Cleveland's Glenn Research Center as part of the facility's work for NASA's .... [more]

2:01:04 AM At a Mine's Bottom, Tantalizing Hints of Dark Matter
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

The stakes for astronomy and physics could hardly be greater. If the particles are confirmed by tests at other detectors, it would mean that, .... [more]

1:45:13 AM Dying star photos show the fate of our own Sun
Examiner.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

Astronomers led by Sylvestre Lacour of the Observatoire de Paris say that this sheds light as to what will happen to our own Sun in about 5 billion years ... [more]

1:38:09 AM Exclusive:Obama Backs New Launcher and Bigger NASA Budget
Origins - Washington,DC,USA

The president chose the new direction for the US human space flight program Wednesday at a White House meeting with NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, .... [more]

12:40:39 AM Hubble Space Telescope Images Add Realism to AstroZapper App for iPhone
TechWhack (press release) - New Delhi,India

The incorporation of real Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra X-Ray Telescope, and other NASA source images into the app adds a heightened sense of realism and ... [more]

12:39:00 AM Moon poses radiation risk to future travelers
Standard-Speaker - Hazleton,PA,USA

Measurements taken by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter show that the number of high energy particles streaming in from space did not tail off closer to ... [more]

12:22:50 AM How water forms where Earth-like planets are born
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA

Bergin and Thomas Bethell, a postdoctoral astronomy researcher, conducted a computational analysis to come to this conclusion. They determined that the .... [more]



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