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11:26:15 PM Space Shuttle Payload Includes Items From Yellowstone National Park
Sheridan Media (press release)

By Ron Richter on Wed 02/17/2010 15:55 A little piece of Yellowstone is currently orbiting the earth aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour. ... [more]

10:50:41 PM NASA: Astronauts raise curtain on space station's new view
ComputerWorld - USA

By Sharon Gaudin Computerworld - Early this morning, NASA astronauts "raised the curtain" on a set of windows with the best view of the world the ... [more]

10:46:39 PM Astronomy institute: Prep now for March 14 switch to daylight savings time
Mountain Xpress - Asheville,NC,USA

(February 17, 2010) – Astronomers at the Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (PARI) in Rosman remind the public that at 2 am on Sunday, March 14 Daylight ... [more]

9:55:22 PM Meteorite, Maybe Older Than the Sun, Shows Chemistry of Ancient Solar System
Glob smacked

Four decades later, the Murchison meteorite is still full of surprises. When this extraterrestrial hunk fell to Earth near its namesake town in Australia in ... [more]

9:14:58 PM Is This The Genesis Rock?
The Westender - Brisbane,Queensland,Australia

New analysis of the famous Murchison meteorite that crash-landed in Australia over 40 years ago has turned up a surprise for astronomers. ... [more]

8:50:15 PM Just How Secular Can an Education Be?
Christian Post - San Francisco,CA,USA

Imagine if we had a requirement for “Astronomy and Astrology” or “Psychology and Parapsychology.” It may be true that more people are knowledgeable about ... [more]

8:42:23 PM What Makes Supernovas Go Boom
Space.com - USA

"This is probably not what many astronomers would expect." The unexpectedness stems partly from the fact that few double white dwarf systems seemed to exist ... [more]

8:28:39 PM Items from Yellowstone in orbit with Endeavour
Fox12Idaho - Nampa-Boise,Idaho,USA

(AP) - Officials say several items from Yellowstone National Park are now orbiting the Earth aboard the space shuttle Endeavour. ... [more]

7:58:53 PM NASA announces winning patch design in end-of-shuttle contest
Collectspace.com - USA

February 17, 2010 — A launching space shuttle flanked by an American flag and stars hailing both NASA's orbiter fleet and the astronauts whose lives were ... [more]

6:40:53 PM NASA unveils first space images from WISE telescope
Motors ...

NASA astronomers unveiled images Wednesday from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), launched in December. The $320 million space telescope ... [more]

6:22:50 PM Astronomy Night at The Peak serves up constellations
TriValley Central

Friday when Astronomy Night at The Peak returns to the Signal Peak Campus, Sodexo will offer convenient dining for families planning to attend the celestial ... [more]

6:12:53 PM Nasa astronauts unveil phenomenal new window on world
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK

Nasa stronauts opened the shutters on the International Space Station's new observation deck and were humbled by "absolutely spectacular" views of Earth ... [more]

5:50:45 PM Saturn's Aurorae Offer Stunning Double Show
Space Daily - Rancho Palos Verdes,CA,USA

by Staff Writers Researchers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope recently took advantage of a rare opportunity to record Saturn when its rings are ... [more]

5:50:04 PM Sahara from Space: The world beneath your feet Soichi Noguchi
Popular Science - New York,NY,USA

Noguchi's new observation view comes courtesy of the space shuttle Endeavour. The shuttle crew installed the window during an overnight spacewalk, ... [more]

5:28:08 PM Meteorite Carries Millions of Organic Compounds It landed on Earth some
Forbes

Softpedia By Tudor Vieru, Science Editor Some four decades ago, a large meteorite made its way to the Earth, in one of the rare instances in which such a descent was ... [more]

5:15:28 PM No Place to Hide: Missing Primitive Stars Outside Milky Way Uncovered
Science Daily (press release) - USA

The team of astronomers around Starkenburg has now shed new light on the problem through careful comparison of spectra to computer-based models. ... [more]

4:38:29 PM Clark Planetarium
University Chronicle - Portsmouth,OH,USA

In general, shows include what you can see in the sky tonight as well as educational entertainment about black holes, the space race and the Hubble Space ... [more]

4:10:20 PM Chemical snapshot: Murchison meteorite reveals diversity of early Solar
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA

PhysOrg.com (PhysOrg.com) -- New studies of a meteorite that crashed to Earth four decades ago have found it probably contains millions of organic compounds. .... [more]

3:40:32 PM Viewing Vesta
Space.com - USA

An active German astronomer, he also discovered the asteroid Pallas and a comet named after him, but is most famous today for stating Olbers' paradox: the ... [more]

2:24:08 PM Missing Early Stars Found, With No Place Left to Hide
Universe Today - USA

Credit: ESO Astronomer sleuths have solved a cosmic mystery by finding primitive stars that have been stealthily concealed. Using ESO's Very Large Telescope ... [more]

2:22:00 PM Lacis at NASA on Role of CO2 in Warming
New York Times (blog)

By ANDREW C. REVKIN I'm posting them sequentially here. I'm offline for the most part through the rest of the week, so this is all for now on this issue. ... [more]

12:11:17 PM Obama to note anniversary of Recovery Act
The Associated Press

.... the president, congressional leaders and middle school students congratulate the astronauts on the International Space Station and space shuttle Endeavour. [more]

11:42:26 AM Nasa rides 'bucking bronco' to Mars
BBC News - E,UK

The Mars Science Laboratory will "revolutionise investigations in science on other planets", says Doug McCuistion, director of Nasa's Mars exploration ... [more]

10:42:16 AM A last gift among friends in Middleboro
Enterprise News - Brockton,MA,USA

Tinkham said Sgro was accomplished in astronomy, active in Boy Scouts, a member of the town's Emergency Response Team and a past auxiliary police officer. ... [more]

9:55:51 AM Cold Weather Forces NASA to Delay Next Shuttle Launch
Space.com - USA

By Tariq Malik Cold weather in Florida has forced NASA to delay its next space shuttle launch to no earlier than April 5, even as its current shuttle ... [more]

9:11:06 AM Phobos Flybys Begin Today The announcement was made by ESA
Forbes

By Tudor Vieru, Science Editor Astronomers at the European Space Agency (ESA) announce that their orbiter, Mars Express, is about to begin its new campaign ... [more]

8:20:31 AM Keeping the US in the space race
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

Despite valiant efforts by NASA and its contractors, President George W. Bush's Constellation program would not have been able to send astronauts to the ... [more]

8:09:44 AM Ocean Explorium "Cosmic Voice" series begins
Old Colony Memorial and Plymouth Bulletin - Plymouth,MA,USA

Beatty has been explaining the science and wonder of astronomy since 1974. He is on the astronomy faculty of the Clay Center Observatory in Brookline, .... [more]

8:06:05 AM NASA delays next shuttle launch until April
RIA Novosti - Moscow,Russia

MOSCOW, February 17 (RIA Novosti) - The launch of the next space shuttle to the International Space Station was postponed until April 5 due to cold weather, ... [more]

7:07:22 AM Daily guide to television and radio
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA

R (2008) Armageddon 7 pm (FX) Predictable disaster epic about a massive asteroid hurtling toward Earth. Bruce Willis. PG-13 (1998) The Black List: Volume ... [more]

5:44:47 AM Space travel unattainable for now
The Republican - Springfield,MA,USA

23 at 7:30 pm at the Springfield Science Museum will feature a talk by Glenn Chaple on Small Telescope Astronomy. An amateur astronomer, Chaple writes a ... [more]

5:13:36 AM Astronauts take shutter-raising spacewalk
The Associated Press

Space shuttle Endeavour delivered the European compartments last week. The Italian-built dome — 5 feet tall and nearly 10 feet in diameter — is designed to ... [more]

5:11:31 AM LOOKING GOOD AT ALL COSTS
Las Vegas Review - Journal - Las Vegas,NV,USA

By HUBBLE SMITH • LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL Rachel Wolfe, who works for Blue Jeans and Bikinis in El Cajon, Calif., looks through clothes at the Anama booth ... [more]

3:27:13 AM Get Set for a Possible Glimpse of an Asteroid
Jet Propulsion Laboratory - Pasadena,CA,USA

Asteroid Vesta as seen by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Image credit: NASA/ESA/U of Md./STSci/Cornell/SWRI/UCLA The most prominent asteroid in the sky is ... [more]

3:12:09 AM Caraway Elementary School holds family science night; Austin campuses host
Austin American-Statesman - Austin,TX,USA

The next event will be from 6 to 7:30 pm Thursday and will include roughly eight hands-on experiments and displays featuring different aspects of astronomy ... [more]

2:14:58 AM NASA sees sixteenth South Pacific cyclone form
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA

NASA's Aqua satellite flew over Tropical Storm 16S on February 15 at 5:05 am ET (10:05 UTC) when it was still coming together and noticed that some strong ... [more]

2:12:36 AM Scenes from Space: Best Images from STS-130 (so far…)
Universe Today - USA

The STS-130 mission has provided some of the most spectacular images of any space shuttle mission to date — from a stunning shot of space shuttle Endeavour ... [more]

12:42:18 AM GMV Conducts Successful First Satellite Ground Systems Testing for
Space Ref - USA

Space Ref (press release) The Hubble telescope, launched in 1990 and orbiting 593 kilometers above the earth, has been kept going all these years by service missions sent out on ... [more]

12:40:00 AM Did human DNA hitch a ride to Mars?
Standard-Speaker - Hazleton,PA,USA

And we know that around 3.5 billion years ago, meteorite impacts often kicked up rocks from the Earth's surface and launched them into space. ... [more]

12:12:11 AM Organized labor attacks Obama's space plan
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando,FL,USA

.... companies will offset losses from the retirement of the space shuttle later this year and now the possible end of NASA's Constellation moon program. ... [more]



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