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News From Thursday, February 18, 2010
11:30:06 PM Live Wire: Pluto is now a 'dwarf planet'
FayObserver.com - Fayetteville NC,USA

Pluto was discovered 80years ago today by 23-year-old astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, the only American citizen to discover a planet. ... [more]

11:29:19 PM Images of extrasolar planets win award for most outstanding papers in
UC Berkeley (press release) - Berkeley,CA,USA

UC Berkeley Kalas and his team used the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys to image the dust belt around Fomalhaut, which is 25 light years from Earth ... [more]

11:16:17 PM Obama Ponders Manned Mars Missions
Information Week Weblog - Manhasset,NY,USA

By Paul McDougall President Obama and a dozen middle school students from around the country had a live chat with astronauts aboard the space shuttle .... [more]

10:51:40 PM Engineer who built Arecibo Obervatory dies
Motors ...

... system to study the Earth's ionosphere in the late 1950s when he realized his designs could also incorporate a new area of study -- radio astronomy. ... [more]

10:41:18 PM GAO on NASA's management and program challenges
FederalNewsRadio.com - USA

NASA is also struggling with the fact that the International Space Station is almost complete -- but grossly underutilized. GAO recently looked at what NASA ... [more]

9:56:53 PM President Obama speaks with Astronauts
United Press International

Obama said he is proud and excited about the work being done on the space station and told the crews of space shuttle Endeavour and the ISS he is committed ... [more]

9:17:20 PM Bill Gordon, Arecibo Observatory designer, dies
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA

AP IMPACT: Haiti flight logs detail early chaos AP Texas News © 2010 AP ITHACA, NY — Engineer and astronomer Bill Gordon, who designed and managed the ... [more]

8:46:39 PM Winner (and Losers) of NASA Contest to Design Final Shuttle Patch Contest
Wired News - USA

By Alexis Madrigal The final patch for the Space Shuttle Program has been selected by a NASA committee from a pool of entries created by NASA employees and ... [more]

8:19:11 PM Science Olympiad team aims for 9th straight state win
Pioneer Press Online - Glenview,IL,USA

Students will be tested in their knowledge of areas that might seem expected, such as cell biology, astronomy, ecology and ornithology. ... [more]

8:02:18 PM Meteorite hunters descend on Va. town
United Press International

22 (UPI) -- A meteorite that plummeted through the roof of a doctor's office is drawing meteor hunters from across the country to Washington's Virginia ... [more]

7:09:57 PM Shuttle, Space Station Fly-by in Minn. Sky
FOX 9 News - Minneapolis,MN,USA

Remember, the end of the Space Shuttle missions is quickly drawing near. Even though it will only look like a star in motion you might want to take ... [more]

6:39:20 PM Climate Change Non-Science and The Texas Black Swan
The Market Oracle - London,UK

Translating that into English what that means is there is an asteroid approaching Planet Earth at great speed, but it's going to miss. ... [more]

6:17:20 PM NASA Releases First Images From WISE Satellite
Information Week Weblog - Manhasset,NY,USA

By J. Nicholas Hoover Infrared image of a comet taken by NASA's WISE. Outer space became a bit clearer Wednesday as NASA released the first set of public ... [more]

6:16:05 PM Fort Worth Museum of Science & History Showcases New Planetarium
Contract Magazine

This part of the museum also has an official Sputnik satellite and a 400-pound pallasite meteorite from the Brenham meteorite field in Kansas. .... [more]

6:01:48 PM 20 Sad Moments in Pluto History
The L Magazine

Pluto's fall from grace was extensively, embarrassingly covered in the astronomy tabloids. Michael Moore made a more-or-less manipulative documentary about ... [more]

6:00:55 PM Scientists discover youngest planet orbiting solar-type star
Ireland Online

University of Hertfordshire astronomer Dr Maria-Cruz Galvez-Ortiz, who was among the international team which identified the planet, described it as “an ... [more]

5:33:39 PM Jurassic Space: Ancient Galaxies Come Together After Billions of Years
Science Daily (press release) - USA

New images of this foursome by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope offer a window into the universe's formative years when the buildup of large galaxies from .... [more]

5:11:30 PM Obama's Call to Astronauts Gets Awkward
AOL News

President Barack Obama used his chat with the crews of the space shuttle Endeavour and the International Space Station to declare that he sees space .... [more]

2:38:25 PM Listen to VV Brown "Shark In The Water" (Space Shuttle Remix)
ArjanWrites.com (blog)

.... happy and well put together. Check out an exclusive remix of the Space Shuttle remix of the song. Keep your eye on VV Brown. Big things will happen. [more]

2:13:30 PM Hertfordshire astronomers discover youngest planet
Watford Observer - Watford,England,UK

By Adam Binnie » An international team of astronomers, including two from Hertfordshire, has discovered the youngest planet outside the solar system. ... [more]

2:12:31 PM Astronomers find small, ancient, late-blooming galaxies
Staunton News Leader - Staunton,VA,USA

New Hubble Space Telescope images of these galaxies offer a window into the universe's early years, when the buildup of large galaxies from smaller building ... [more]

1:49:15 PM NASA STS-130 Report #20 Wednesday, February 17, 2010 - 6 pm CST
Space Ref - USA

HOUSTON - The astronauts and cosmonauts on space shuttle Endeavour and the International Space Station have started an extra day of joint docked operations ... [more]

1:19:50 PM First images from Nasa's Wise infrared sky probe
BBC News - E,UK

Nasa has published the first images from its Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or Wise, which has been scanning the skies since January. ... [more]

1:16:21 PM 'Australian' comet captured by NASA
ABC Online - Australia

In 2007, astronomer Donna Burton became the first Australian woman to discover a comet, naming it "Siding Spring" after the NSW observatory where she worked ... [more]

12:11:01 PM Astronomers discover the secret of supernova
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK

Astronomers may have finally discovered what initially sparks a cosmic explosion, according to new research. By Laura Roberts Scientists used Nasa's Chandra ... [more]

10:24:25 AM Does this meteorite hold the secret to life?
Bild.de - Germany

During their evaluation of the Murchison meteorite, the scientists found a variety of organic substances – the diversity of which significantly exceeds that ... [more]

9:42:44 AM Copernicus re-burial
thenews.pl

Preparations are in their final stage at Copernicus' birthplace in Torun for the astronomer's re-burial, 467 years after his death. ... [more]

9:42:22 AM Pendleton Heights takes sectional title in OT
Indianapolis Star - Indianapolis,IN,USA

3-pointers: K. Hubble 3, Douglas 2, J.Hubble 2, Gustin 2. Totals: 14 11-22 48. The Class A No. 7 Mohawks (20-3) defeated the Cougars in the Sectional 58 ... [more]

9:18:35 AM Trans Tasman bid for radio telescope
Sydney Morning Herald

.... scientists are meeting in Auckland this week to work on a joint bid to host a $NZ3.1 billion ($A2.43 billion) international radio astronomy project. ... [more]

8:27:18 AM Barack Obama places call to International Space Station
The Tech Herald - Indianapolis,IN,USA

The space shuttle Endeavour and her crew are due to uncouple from the ISS this coming Friday, with a return to Earth pencilled in for Sunday. [more]

8:16:48 AM Pandor sees stars in NRF's Charles dispute
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa

Astronomer Peter Martinez is standing in as director in charge of the Saao's telescope facilities, including the SA Large Telescope in Sutherland. ... [more]

8:14:38 AM Murchison Meteorite's Chemical Bonanza
Scientific American

The 1969 Murchison meteorite was known to harbor complex organic compounds, but a new analysis in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that ... [more]

7:57:56 AM JUST IN - NASA Plumbrook runway project denied funding
Norwalk Reflector - Norwalk,OH,USA

It does not appear the NASA Plumbrook airstrip project will be awarded a federal Tiger grant. In an announcement today, only two Ohio projects received the ... [more]

6:49:11 AM Space shuttle payload includes Yellowstone items
The Bozeman Daily Chronicle - Bozeman,MT,USA

By Chronicle Staff Several small items representing the world's first national park are orbiting Earth, Yellowstone National Park announced Tuesday. ... [more]

6:15:53 AM PH rallies to win sectional
Anderson Herald Bulletin - Anderson,IN,USA

Junior Jamie Hubble, who recently set the school's single-season 3-point record, also attributed her teammates' strong rallying cry during halftime behind ... [more]

5:32:03 AM NASA Brings the Dark Side of the Sun to Your iPhone
Wired News - USA

“This is more than cool,” Dick Fisher, director of NASA's Heliophysics Division, said in a press release. “It's transformative. For the first time ever, ... [more]

4:53:25 AM NASA mission searches for planets that could sustain life
Medill Reports - DC,USA

“One of the great aspects of the work that many teams are doing right now is to hunt for other earths,” said Geoff Marcy, astronomer at the University of ... [more]

4:33:39 AM Obama calls space station from White House
The Associated Press

Space shuttle Endeavour and its crew of six delivered the European compartments for the deck last week and will depart the space station Friday. ... [more]

3:22:42 AM 'The truth is we're still struggling to understand what this means'
WND.com - Grants Pass,OR,USA

The Hubble Space Telescope has observed a mysterious, X-shaped debris pattern and trailing streamers of dust that may have been the result of a head-on ... [more]

2:07:48 AM Obama says his commitment to NASA is "unwavering"
Reuters - NY,USA

HOUSTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday said his commitment to NASA was "unwavering" after his administration's 2011 budget slashed funding ... [more]

1:14:07 AM What makes a supernova? Scientists thought they knew.
Christian Science Monitor - USA

New X-ray research questions the origins of a key type of supernova, and may bend one of astronomy's go-to rulers. This composite file image of infrared and ... [more]

1:00:12 AM Supernova explosions triggered by star collisions
Motors ...

In a Nature journal study of X-ray releases from six nearby galaxies, German astronomer Marat Gilfanov of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics and ... [more]

12:54:08 AM Obama and students talk to astronauts in orbit
Motors ...

The orbiting astronauts, from the International Space Station and Space Shuttle Endeavor, took turns answering questions from the president and the students ... [more]

12:49:21 AM Scientists shed light on supernova origins
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

Astronomers find evidence that they're formed by the collision of two white dwarfs. By Thomas H. Maugh II German astronomers using a US telescope have .... [more]

12:21:03 AM The Ethics of Planetary Exploration and Colonization
Discovery News

Many of these pass as near to the Earth as our own moon -- close enough to reach via spacecraft. As a typical asteroid is 10 percent metal, ... [more]



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