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News From Monday, December 21, 2009
11:29:36 PM IT Infrastructure - eWeek
eWeek - Woburn,MA,USA

From the refurbishing of the space telescope Hubble to the discovery of water on the moon to Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte's trip to the .... [more]

10:33:25 PM Family welcomes missing horse home
Hampshire Chronicle - Winchester,England,UK

Lily, a 15' 2” roan mare, is owned by the Hubble family and is usually kept at nearby Cheriton. Daisy Hubble, 14, went to ride the horse on the afternoon of ... [more]

9:51:02 PM Sunlight Glints off Liquid Lake on Titan
FOX News - USA

A flash of sunlight reflecting off a hydrocarbon lake on the surface of Saturn's moon Titan has been spotted by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, confirming the ... [more]

9:50:48 PM Winter Solstice brings more daylight to Alaska
Anchorage Daily News - Anchorage,AK,USA

University of Alaska astronomer Travis Rector says that at this time of year, the sun moves north in the sky, and it is also moving to the east. .... [more]

9:34:32 PM Police cite 14 at Irvine DUI checkpoint
OCRegister - Orange County,CA,USA

Authorities stopped 347 vehicles traveling through the checkpoint at Irvine Center Drive and Hubble, Irvine police Lt. Rick Handfield said. ... [more]

9:00:28 PM Winter Storm to remember across the Mid Atlantic & Northeast; NASA
Examiner.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

Examiner.com Monday December 21, 2009: The Winter Season is official as 1247 pm EST.................................................. Winter Storm Warning is in effect ... [more]

7:27:10 PM NASA Ponders Post-Shuttle Reorganization
Aviation Week - New York,NY,USA

.... and -- until its retirement after five more flights -- the space shuttle program are under the purview of the space operations mission directorate. ... [more]

6:33:29 PM NASA's Phoenix Mars lander could live again
Geek.com - USA

NASA's Phoenix Mars lander was named after the mythological fiery bird for a reason: the lander itself rose from the ahes of an earlier failed Mars landing ... [more]

6:08:12 PM Time to celebrate the winter solstice
Annapolis Capital - Annapolis,MD,USA

While the solstice is "not an exciting thing to look at" in the realm of astronomy, it is an important point in the annual cycle of the Earth's motion in ... [more]

5:54:27 PM Why Sigourney Weaver Turned Down Space Shuttle Invite
The Daily Blabber from iVillage

It's the hottest ticket on the planet -- but Sigourney Weaver turned down the opportunity to fly on the first commercial spaceship. ... [more]

5:30:46 PM Brown dwarf pair mystifies astronomers
Penn State Live - PA,USA

Seeing a pair of brown dwarfs around a K-type giant is a first for astronomers and offers a unique window into how they can be produced. ... [more]

4:49:44 PM Nikon D3S, 14-24mm f/2.8 headed into space
Rob Galbraith DPI - Herndon,VA,USA

Nikon Corporation (Michio Kariya, President) is pleased to announce that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has placed an order for ... [more]

4:43:37 PM Human Spaceflight – Let's Light the Candle!
True/Slant

But just what kind of candle will US astronauts be strapped onto in the post space shuttle era? NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden dropped into the White ... [more]

3:56:58 PM NASA Astronauts Launch Toward Space Station
FOX News - USA

20, carrying Expedition 22 NASA Flight Engineer Timothy J. Creamer of the US, Soyuz Commander Oleg Kotov of Russia and Flight Engineer Soichi Noguchi of ... [more]

3:49:10 PM 'Out of this world' - DCU student returns from NASA
Dublin City University - Dublin,Ireland

Three Irish students have just returned to Ireland after successfully launching a payload into space on Space Shuttle Atlantis. ... [more]

3:44:53 PM Museum of Astronomy opens in Tashkent
Trend News Agency

The Central Asian first Museum of Astronomy opened in the oldest scientific institution of the region - Mirzo Ulugbek Astronomical Institute of the ... [more]

3:37:10 PM This Week In Space, December 21st, 2009
Wired News - USA

By Brian McLaughlin This week, as there are no scheduled launches, I would like to highlight an image release from Hubble from this past week. ... [more]

2:43:55 PM NASA hunts for Avatar's moon Pandora
TG Daily - Westlake Village,CA,USA

NASA's Kepler mission looks for planets that cross in front of their host stars. Once they have found an alien Jupiter, astronomers can search for orbiting ... [more]

2:04:28 PM Soldier blasts off for mission on International Space Station
Army Public Affairs - Washington,DC,USA

Assigned to NASA's Johnson Space Center in 1995 as a space shuttle vehicle integration test engineer, he supported eight shuttle missions as vehicle .... [more]

1:16:54 PM CSC Supports Successful NASA Test Launch
PR Newswire (press release) - USA

21 /PRNewswire/ -- CSC (NYSE: CSC) recently played an integral part in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) successful launch of the ... [more]

12:20:55 PM Reality: A Mere Illusion (Part 2)
Epoch Times - New York,NY,USA

By Leonardo Vintiρi A view of the visible universe as seen in a Hubble Telescope composite photograph. Is our universe just a hologram? ... [more]

11:21:51 AM Mock and Roll! NASA'S Shuttle Endeavour Moves to Launch Pad, Liftoff
PR-CANADA.net (press release) - Murino,Montenegro

PR-CANADA.net (press release) Journalists are invited to cover space shuttle Endeavour's move from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39A on Jan. 6 and observe the STS-130 ... [more]

10:29:05 AM Hubble Sees an Asteroid Occultation by Accident?
Sky & Telescope - Cambridge,CA,USA

This comes to mind because researchers mining Hubble Space Telescope data have announced — by relying heavily on bit-by-bit statistics — that they have ... [more]

7:58:03 AM EYE ON RESEARCH: NMSU astronomy grant helps students complete lab work from
Las Cruces Sun-News - Las Cruces,NM,USA

Las Cruces Sun-News By Audry Olmsted/For the Sun-News Nicole Vogt, an associate professor of astronomy, reviews test questions on a database for students that will enhance ... [more]

7:55:09 AM Tiniest object in Kuiper Belt detected
Brahmand Defence and Aerospace News

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope recorded this brief event and allowed astronomers to determine that the KBO was only one-half of a mile across, setting a new ... [more]

7:51:41 AM Astronomical Solstice
Brahmand Defence and Aerospace News

Image Credit: NASA/Takmeng Wong/CERES Science Team at NASA Langley Research Center. A solstice is an astronomical phenomenon which occurs twice a year and ... [more]

7:44:14 AM Countdown to ... doomsday
London Free Press

Always a popular way to end the world, it's clear all you have to do to survive is either a) run or b) hit them hard on the head. ... [more]

7:24:56 AM Shining a light on dark matter
iTWire (press release) - Australia

First postulated in the 1930s by Astronomer Fritz Zwicky, dark matter was simply a description for matter, the existence of which could only be inferred by ... [more]

7:14:04 AM Edinburg students study butterflies in space
Monitor - McAllen,TX,USA

16, Space Shuttle Atlantis launched with butterfly eggs on board to see how they would fare in zero gravity. The academy's students began their concurrent ... [more]

6:59:31 AM World's top super projects (2)
Tempo - Manila,Philippines

.... aware of the ways in which their future may be impacted by the exploration of other planets and the images brought back by the Hubble Space Telescope. ... [more]

6:44:22 AM Marshalltown native helps discover 'super Earth'
Marshalltown Times Republican - Marshalltown,IA,USA

Growing up locally, Burke was intrigued by science and astronomy, participating in numerous science fairs. A 1995 graduate of Marshalltown High School, ... [more]

6:33:17 AM NASA | Cassini — A View Of The Lake... On Titan
SatNews Publishers - Sonoma,CA,USA

NASA's Cassini spacecraft has photographed a flash of sunlight reflecting from a lake on Saturn's moon, Titan, confirming the presence of liquid ... [more]

4:46:16 AM Dec. 12, 2012: End of the world, or another Y2K scare?
Canton Repository - Canton,OH,USA

“But every week, more and more people are coming to believe such things will happen — thanks to a spectacular blend of bad astronomy, bad Maya ethnography, ... [more]

3:58:59 AM A Star Erupts
Deseret News

Even though this nova isn't an impressive one, it is yielding scientific information that can help astronomers better understand the demise of stars. ... [more]

3:15:08 AM WISE telescope could help keep tabs on nearby asteroids
San Gabriel Valley Tribune - West Covina,CA,USA

An infrared camera aboard NASA's latest space telescope will allow astronomers to detect hundreds of undiscovered asteroids close to Earth's orbit - and 80 ... [more]

1:24:17 AM Faster, NASA, Faster
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

In the 12 years before I left NASA in 2007, we averaged about four space shuttle launchings per year. We had periods when the rate was even lower: in the ... [more]

12:35:34 AM XCOR Aerospace Selected Preferred Supplier of Suborbital Space Launch
Student Operated Press

Student Operated Press Yecheon Astro Space Center is a non-profit entity that operates multiple space related activities including: aerospace training center; astronomy research ... [more]

12:23:51 AM Meteor hunt in Beijing continues
China Daily

Astronomers from the Beijing Planetarium said the witness was telling the truth and researchers said they have already reported the witness to the .... [more]



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