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News From Tuesday, February 16, 2010
10:56:33 PM NASA: Space station getting room with a view
ComputerWorld - USA

By Sharon Gaudin Computerworld - NASA's Endeavour astronauts are in the process of adding a room with a view to the International Space Station. ... [more]

10:33:03 PM 'Music of the Sphere' - An Afternoon With Stars and Music at Biosphere
Arizona Reporter - Winslow,AZ,USA

Holbrook, a past chair of the Cultural Astronomy & Storytelling group for the United States, is an internationally recognized research scientist at the ... [more]

8:46:59 PM Tulsa Air and Space Museum to host air show
Tulsa World - Tulsa,OK,USA

The event is also a way to put a spotlight on Tulsa as a potential site for a retired NASA space shuttle, said Jim Bridenstine, the museum's executive .... [more]

8:31:16 PM Stolen telescope recovered
San Antonio Express - San Antonio,TX,USA

By Eva Ruth Moravec - Express-News Authorities have recovered an astronomer's $30000 telescope, which was stolen from his Northeast Side home in October. ... [more]

7:04:55 PM New Chemical Diversity Discovered in Old Meteorite
Wired News - USA

By Brandon Keim A new analysis of an ancient meteorite that fell to Earth in 1969 reveals millions of complex compounds, underscoring the richness of our ... [more]

6:56:15 PM NASA shuttle safe for re-entry
Plastics News - Akron,OH,USA

16, 12:30 pm ET) -- The space shuttle Endeavour is safe to return to earth despite three small defects, according to press reports citing NASA's deputy ... [more]

6:55:56 PM NFL season has come to a close -- time to look back at all the awful
ESPN - USA

ESPN If Two Personal Aircraft Are Built, They Will Manage to Collide: NASA still won't do anything to prepare to prevent an asteroid from striking Earth and .... [more]

5:57:17 PM Planetarium Shows Coming to Williams
iBerkshires.com

Williams astronomy students senior Emma Lehman, senior Ana Inoa, junior Sara Dwyer and sophomore Matt Hosek will host 50-minute shows on Friday at 7:30 pm ... [more]

3:56:58 PM The Shared Experience: Big Events on Radio and TV
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

So believable was the reporting about a crash of something--perhaps a meteorite--near Grovers Mill, New Jersey that geologists at Princeton set out to ... [more]

3:14:08 PM Space start-ups see dollar signs in Obama's NASA overhaul
Lobbying World

By Kim Hart - 02/16/10 08:09 AM ET Space entrepreneurs see President Barack Obama's proposal to cancel NASA's manned space flight program as the perfect ... [more]

2:52:54 PM Space tourism and supermassive black holes discussed
stv.tv

Astronomer Royal for Scotland Professor John Brown will host a lecture in Aberdeen on Tuesday. The future of space tourism and supermassive black holes will ... [more]

2:37:23 PM Astronauts Move Space Station Docking Port to New Home
FOX News - USA

This view of the aft portion of the space shuttle Endeavour, including the three main engines, was provided by an Expedition 22 crew member during a survey ... [more]

2:37:05 PM Businesses reach for the stars in the Brecon Beacons
BBC News - E,UK

People working in the tourist industry are taking part in astronomy workshops so they can attract some of the 250000 stargazers in the UK. ... [more]

12:52:49 PM The Future Of NASA and A "Moon Shot" At The Economy
Rright Side News - Kennesaw,GA,USA

One of the victims of Obama's miniscule cuts to his multi-trillion dollar budget is NASA's Constellation program. NASA had big plans to go back to the moon ... [more]

11:55:24 AM GM, NASA build advanced dextrous robot
Engineering News - Garden View,Eastern Cape,South Africa

Using control, sensor and vision technologies, the US' National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and vehicle manufacturer General Motors (GM) ... [more]

11:39:43 AM Season Of The Witch Moves From March
Empire Online

Hubble bubble, toil and trouble, Season Of The Witch – the medieval action movie we're calling Nic Cage Vs Grotbags – has moved away from its March 19 ... [more]

11:15:28 AM Jimmy Westlake: The return of the sunspots
Steamboat Pilot - Steamboat Springs,CO,USA

Westlake teaches astronomy and physics at Colorado Mountain College's Alpine Campus. He is an avid astronomer whose photographs and articles have been ... [more]

9:41:56 AM Astronomy-based endeavors have more importance than is given in our society
The BG News

Such a program is not insignificant, but it also doesn't come close to matching the scope of the questions the science of astronomy and NASA try to address. ... [more]

8:10:17 AM Budget may scrap Ares I motors
Deseret News

.... in November and December across the network of Utah-area astronomers, astronauts, engineers and every space enthusiast didn't even need the Web to feel. ... [more]

8:06:35 AM Cassini probe zips past Saturn's "Death Star" moon
Motors ...

The international Cassini spacecraft's weekend plunge past Saturn's moon Mimas has returned intriguing images of the "Death Star"-lookalike orb, NASA says. ... [more]

6:50:03 AM Goal for NASA: To Mars, or Not Quite?
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

Your editorial calling for a new goal for NASA and suggesting Mars is right in spirit, wrong in particulars. Mars is not yet a feasible goal. ... [more]

6:21:46 AM Library conference gets under way
Indian Express

The sixth Library and Information Services in Astronomy (LISA) conference was inaugurated at the Inter-university Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics( ... [more]

6:06:35 AM Hubble Telescope Captures Saturn's Twin Aurorae
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

The aurora images captured by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) were made possible by a rare chance to see the planet with its rings edge-on and both poles ... [more]

5:16:10 AM Professor to offer sunspot lecture
The State News - East Lansing,MI,USA

.... what implications the sun's activity have for life on Earth. The free event is sponsored by the Department of Physics and Astronomy and Abrams Planetarium. [more]

3:49:58 AM How Digital Cameras Conceal the Fundamental Principles of Photography
The Faster Times - New York,NY,USA

In 1839, the British astronomer John Herschel coined the term “photography” in a paper given to the Royal Society, describing the practice as, ... [more]

2:16:25 AM Letters: Nursing, presidents and NASA
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA

George F. Will, in his Outlook column titled “The dependency agenda, reaching ever further” (Page B12, Sunday), is in love with the word “dependency,” which ... [more]

2:03:33 AM Pluto, the red-faced demoted planet
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Recent computer-processed images of Pluto taken by the Hubble Space Telescope show that it is not simply a ball of ice and rock, but a dynamic world that ... [more]

1:57:02 AM Cold weather may push Discovery launch into April
Spaceflight Now - Orlando,FL,USA

NASA does not want a space shuttle present at the station when other spacecraft dock to the outpost. Discovery's liftoff is still officially set for March ... [more]

1:20:23 AM Steve Connor: Gain height and you might lose weight
Independent

Lord Rees is probably better known as Martin Rees, the popular science writer, master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and Astronomer Royal. ... [more]

12:32:54 AM Amateur Astronomers Inc., explore the mystery of Mars
Bridgeton News - Bridgeton,NJ,USA

22, Amateur Astronomers, Inc. of Cranford, sponsored a public open house and program, “Mars Madness.” The mystery surrounding Mars has captivated our ... [more]

12:26:30 AM Hubble Captures Saturn's Double Light Show
HubbleSite - Baltimore,MD,USA

February 15, 2010: In January and March 2009, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope took advantage of a rare opportunity to record Saturn when its ... [more]



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