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News From Thursday, December 31, 2009
11:40:03 PM City greets 2010 with blue moon
Times of India - India

Also, it was a blue moon (second full moon in a calender month) that braved the eclipse,” said Anupam Kumar, an amateur astronomer. [more]

11:25:47 PM Top 10 science stories of 2009 -- #2: Hubble turns back on
Examiner.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

Enjoy that below, and be sure to check out a slideshow of some brilliant images from Hubble. Hubble is finally awake once again. And already the images it ... [more]

10:17:22 PM NASA Extends Chandra Science and Operations Support Contract
PR Newswire (press release) - USA

31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA has extended a contract with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass., to provide science and ... [more]

9:44:26 PM Russia to push asteroid away
The Hindu

Russian Astronomy Institute head Boris Shustov said latest calculations showed a very low risk of Apophis colliding with Earth, but there were many other ... [more]

9:02:28 PM WUSTL-led Moon mission is finalist for NASA's next big space venture
News from Washington University in St. Louis (press release) - Saint Louis,Washington,USA

Known as MoonRise, the proposed Moon mission is one of three finalists now bidding to become NASA's next big space science venture, a $650 million mission ... [more]

8:54:10 PM Decade in reverse
Sacramento News and Review - Sacramento,CA,USA

It's enough to make any rational person pray for an asteroid strike. But as the recently concluded climate-change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, .... [more]

8:42:21 PM A Look Back At 2009
Sidney Sun Telegraph - Sidney,NE,USA

Dr. Carl Sagan, an astronomer, once said, “You have to know the past to understand the present.” The newspaper industry is all about recording today's ... [more]

8:34:19 PM 238 U/ 235 U Variations in Meteorites: Extant 247 Cm and Implications for
Science Magazine (blog)

Science Magazine (blog) Calcium-aluminum-rich inclusions of the Allende meteorite display variable 238 U/ 235 U ratios, ranging between 137.409±0.039 and 137.885±0.009. ... [more]

7:46:03 PM Lunar Eclipse, Blue Moon Mark New Year's Eve
eWeek - Woburn,MA,USA

Once in a blue moon, as the saying goes, there are two full moons in a single calendar month, which NASA says actually happens every 2.5 years. .... [more]

7:21:50 PM The key to astronomy has often been serendipity
Ars Technica - USA

But a perspective published today in Science brings the year of astronomy to a nice end by discussing just how often luck has played a role in the progress ... [more]

6:44:34 PM NASA's Next Mission May Visit Venus, Asteroid or the Moon
Space.com - USA

By SPACE.com Staff NASA has narrowed the choices for its next unmanned space mission down to three potential expeditions: one aimed at Venus and the others ... [more]

5:45:32 PM Speedy NASA Spacecraft Now Halfway to Pluto
FOX News - USA

A speedy NASA spacecraft is halfway to Pluto and on track for a 2015 rendezvous with the distant, icy world. Launched in 2006, NASA's New Horizons mission ... [more]

5:06:22 PM Hubble finds 'never-seen' galaxies
Pakistan Observer - Islamabad,ISB,Pakistan

London—The Hubble telescope has captured some of the oldest galaxies never seen in the universe using a new infared camera, scientists in Britain said ... [more]

4:57:12 PM Mississippi programs focus on 'Backyard Astronomy'
Jackson Clarion Ledger - Jackson,MS,USA

Stargazers can feast on the winter skies next week when the Rainwater Observatory begins a series of four “Backyard Astronomy” programs. ... [more]

4:16:18 PM Russian Scientists Working on Plan to Deflect Asteroids
DailyTech - Chicago,IL,USA

NASA announced in October 2009 that the asteroid is expected to pass within 18000 miles of Earth in 2029. NASA later said that it has "all but ruled out" ... [more]

3:40:43 PM Russian Scientists Prepare For Asteroid Attack
MyStateline.com - Rockford,IL,USA

Since it's three times the size of a 1908 meteorite that took out 80-million trees in Siberia, the Russians are understandably nervous. ... [more]

3:01:16 PM Takeouts: Wall Street, Mike Leach, A Blue Moon
The Takeaway - New York City,New York,USA

Astronomy Taketout: Jack Horkheimer is the writer and host of PBS' "StarGazer," as well as the director emeritus of the Miami Planetarium; he joins us to ... [more]

2:49:45 PM NTK (Need to Know)
Omaha World Herald - Omaha,NE,USA

Mission Control to spacecraft: Knock that asteroid off course before it can hit Earth. Russia is considering just such a mission, but US scientists say it's ... [more]

2:10:34 PM Tonight's Blue Moon: All a Big Mistake
Space.com - USA

Then in 1946, amateur astronomer James Hugh Pruett (1886-1955), writing in Sky & Telescope magazine, "made an incorrect assumption about how the term had ... [more]

1:05:37 PM Russian Space Agency's Armageddon Plan
Popular Fidelity - Culver City,CA,USA

The Russian Space Agency's head man, Anatoly Perminov, has already started preparing plans to sent a space shuttle into space to blow up the offending .... [more]

12:43:06 PM NASA Plans Backup Astronaut Escape System
Discovery News

With NASA retiring the shuttle fleet in 2010, next generation spaceships are being developed with a renewed focus on safety. By Irene Klotz | Thu Dec 31, ... [more]

12:35:15 PM Blitz brightens a recession and pandemic
St. Catharines Standard - St. Catharines,Ontario,Canada

Meteorite hunters dug up several space rocks from a September fireball that put Grimsby on the astronomical map. The main rock -- a piece of a ... [more]

11:43:44 AM China's Antarctic expedition team finds first meteorite at Glove Mountain
China View, Beijing, China

30 (Xinhua) -- China's 26th Antarctic expedition team discovered its first meteorite at Antarctica's Glove Mountain Wednesday afternoon. ... [more]

10:12:41 AM FEELING BUBBLY
Las Vegas Review - Journal - Las Vegas,NV,USA

By HUBBLE SMITH Ken Rutledge, known as "The Wine Guy," stocks champagne Wednesday at a Lee's Discount Liquor store. Champagne and sparkling wine fill one ... [more]

9:45:17 AM Police say Redding chiropractor admitted molestations
Record-Searchlight - Redding,CA,USA

In addition, the Web site said that Roberts once worked as an engineer for NASA, manufacturing, supporting and testing the Space Shuttle main engine. [more]

9:13:42 AM The Frame's Top Ten
Sacramento Bee - Sacramento,CA,USA

1 - Hubble telescope's latest images, Nov. 9 -- This image shows the planetary nebula, catalogued as NGC 6302, but more popularly called the Bug Nebula or ... [more]

7:48:42 AM Water on the Moon, Ares IX, Logistics on ISS – Future Aspirations Mark 2009
NASASpaceflight.com - York,Yorkshire,UK

Ultimately, through cooperation between the Space Shuttle Program, the LRO/LCROSS team, and the Eastern Range, a compromise was reached in which Endeavour ... [more]

7:07:02 AM China's Antarctic Expedition Team Finds First Meteorite
Bernama

GLOVE MOUNTAIN, Antarctica, Dec 31 (Bernama) -- China's 26th Antarctic expedition team discovered its first meteorite at Antarctica's Glove Mountain ... [more]

6:49:59 AM Meteors may, or may not, light skies
The News-Press - Fort Myers,FL,USA

Most constellations were named by the Romans, but Quadrans muralis was named by 18th-century French astronomer Joseph de Lelande. ... [more]

5:57:41 AM Midlanders can ring in 2010 with even rarer blue moon
MyWestTexas.com - Midland,TX,USA

By Kathleen Thurber Though the astronomy community admits there likely won't be any blue haze to speak of, Midlanders will have a chance to close out the ... [more]

5:45:59 AM Lunar eclipse to welcome New Year 2010
SamayLive - Noida,Uttar Pradesh,India

The partial lunar eclipse will be clearly visible in India, astronomers said. Apart from the myth behind the lunar eclipse, the astronomers and scientists ... [more]

5:07:09 AM NASA mulls three mission proposals
TG Daily - Westlake Village,CA,USA

NASA will select one proposal for full development after detailed studies are completed and reviewed in 2011. The selected mission must be ready for launch ... [more]

4:34:14 AM Russia wants to be sure asteroid Apophis won't hit the Earth in 2036
iTWire (press release) - Australia

by David Heath After being discovered in 2004, Apophis continues to worry astronomers that it may collide with the Earth in the near future. ... [more]

4:16:58 AM Russian space chief makes vague threat to vaguely threatening asteroid
Scientific American

"The objects that people who have studied the risk from this sort of thing are worried about are the 300-meter class of objects," astronomer Edward Beshore ... [more]

2:50:29 AM Local Business Brief
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA

Hampton - NASA has selected Science and Technology Corp. of Hampton for a five-year, $35 million contract to provide fabrication support services to Langley ... [more]

2:20:40 AM Russia's Armageddon plan to save Earth from collision with asteroid
Guardian - UK

"I don't remember exactly, but it seems to me it could hit the Earth by 2032," he said. Nasa has estimated that if the asteroid hit the Earth, ... [more]

2:01:01 AM Astronomer hopes to raise Austin's eyes to the skies
News 8 Austin - Austin,TX,USA

This weekend is the last chance to study some of the origins of modern science in the form of the exhibit "Other Worlds" at the Harry Ransom Center, ... [more]

12:58:36 AM Russians plot collision course with asteroid to save mankind
Edinburgh Evening News - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK

Boris Shustov, the director of the Russian Institute of Astronomy, hailed Mr Perminov's statement as a signal that officials had come to recognise the ... [more]

12:26:38 AM A future cataclysmic show set for a giant planet
Examiner.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

A Chinese astronomer team has discovered a giant planet close to QS Virginis, the exotic binary star system some 157 light years away from the Sun in the ... [more]

12:07:26 AM Two eclipses to make January spectacular
Times of India - India

CHANDIGARH: As the International Year of Astronomy bids us adieu, the sun-moon-earth combination has something special in store for us — a partial lunar ... [more]

12:02:52 AM GEORGE WILL: Out of catastrophe, renewal
San Angelo Standard Times - san angelo,tx,USA

He thinks it possible that Shiva and Chicxulub were created by portions of different asteroids that fragmented when they hit the atmosphere. ... [more]



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