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News From Sunday, February 07, 2010
11:19:31 PM Cloudy weather delays NASA shuttle launch
Christian Science Monitor - USA

NASA has rescheduled lift-off for early morning Monday. The Space Shuttle Endeavour sits on pad 39-A after the early morning launch was postponed because of ... [more]

11:04:43 PM Doctors and lawyers fight over ownership of meteorite from asteroid belt
The Times - London,England,UK

Late last month Marc Gallini got out of his chair in his medical examination room when a chunk of meteorite smashed through the roof and hit the spot where ... [more]

9:16:46 PM Mystery “X” Stand For “X-traterrestrial” to Some Believers
Discovery News

By Ray Villard | Sun Feb 7, 2010 10:50 AM ET When Hubble Space Telescope first photographed the strange comet-like object p/2010 a2 I just knew it would get ... [more]

9:16:20 PM Space Shuttle Endeavor Mission Postponed
Examiner.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

A row of brake lights flickered red just at that moment, and cars began backing out – the Endeavor Space Shuttle Mission was canceled a voice announced out ... [more]

8:46:42 PM Stars Over The Coast astronomy column Feb. 7-Feb. 13: No full moons for
The Birmingham News - al.com - Birmingham,AL,USA

Press-Register - al.com (blog) By Mark R. Kent View full size(Ancient Starlight/Drew Sullivan)PLANETS TO VIEW: Mars is up all night and is still almost as bright as Sirius. ... [more]

5:39:31 PM Where did today's spiral galaxies come from?
Science Centric - Sofia,Sofia Town,Bulgaria

Using data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have created a census of galaxy types and shapes from a time before Earth and the Sun ... [more]

5:30:11 PM Endeavour Scrub Disappoints Space View Park Crowd
WESH.com - Winter Park,FL,USA

The postponement of space shuttle Endeavor's launch left a largely disappointed crowd at Space View Park Sunday morning. The crowd had waited for hours in ... [more]

3:29:51 PM 2010 Super Bowl Coin used in toss came from Space Shuttle Atlantis
Gather.com - Boston,MA,USA

The Space Shuttle Atlantis delivered a coin that traveled into space on the last trip up for use as the official coin for the coin toss. ... [more]

3:14:12 PM NASA scraps Endeavour launch: STS- 130 delayed until Monday due to clouds
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA

NASA got slammed with heavy budget cuts from the Obama administration this past week. A proposed $3.8 trillion budget - with its $100 billion marked for ... [more]

2:25:11 PM Space rock worth thousands raises debate of ownership
Durango Herald - Durango,CO,USA

by Brett Zongker AP Writer A meteorite the size of a tennis ball is shown in Washington. The meteorite that plummeted through the roof of a Virginia .... [more]

2:01:34 PM SXSW: World Premieres in Documentaries Competition
Documentaries.About.com (blog)

Traveling in another direction, this year's SXSW festival also boasts the first-ever public showing of Hubble 3D, filmmaker Toni Myers' IMAX® 3D spectacular ... [more]

12:55:18 PM Moonstruck: Astronomy buff seizes rare opportunity after initial plans
The Coloradoan - Fort Collins,CO,USA

The Coloradoan BY MILES BLUMHARDT • MilesBlumhardt@coloradoan.com • February 7, 2010 Amateur photographer and astronomer Pat Gaines loves owls and the moon, ... [more]

12:55:15 PM Cloudy Weather Halts Shuttle Launch
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

The launching of the space shuttle Endeavour was postponed a day because of thick clouds that moved in during the last few hours of the countdown. ... [more]

11:56:19 AM Moon Base Alpha: If Not U.S., Then Who?
FOX News - USA

Aldrin, speaking to FoxNews.com, says the next step for NASA should be to create a long-term plan for more ambitious efforts -- visiting Mars or a nearby ... [more]

11:10:34 AM Could it happen again? Odds are against it
Pueblo Chieftain - Pueblo,CO,USA

On the morning of June 30, 1908, an asteroid weighing approximately 220 million pounds entered Earth's atmosphere and exploded above Siberia's Tunguska ... [more]

10:39:10 AM Hubble shows that Pluto 'turning red'
Modern Ghana - Ghana

Images taken by the Hubble space telescope show that the planet is some 20% redder than it used to be. Experts say they believe this is because of changes ... [more]

9:01:33 AM South Jersey Skies: Amateur astronomer catches exploding star
Bridgeton News - Bridgeton,NJ,USA

Last year, professional astronomer Bradley Schaefer predicted that the star U Scorpii would suffer its next explosion in late 2009 or early 2010, ... [more]

8:55:43 AM What's New In Children's Books
Calgary Herald - Calgary,AB,Canada

.... with one computer that runs Windows 98) plots to take over the American government by using the Hubble Middle School Annual Science Fair as a cover. ... [more]

8:39:40 AM SOUTH AFRICA: Top UK astronomer suspended
University World News - Durban,KwaZulu-Natal,South Africa

The suspension in South Africa of internationally recognised British astronomer Professor Phil Charles has stunned the astronomy community and raised ... [more]

8:16:29 AM The Global Nuclear Future
WBEZ - Chicago Public Radio

Robert Rosner is the William E. Wrather Distinguished Service Professor in the departments of astronomy and astrophysics, and physics at the University of ... [more]

8:13:43 AM Obama changes course on NASA's mission
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA

Top NASA officials claimed Monday that Houston's Johnson Center will remain at the heart of manned space operations for the coming decade despite President ... [more]

8:05:07 AM Shuttle Endeavour Aims for Pre-Dawn Launch as Clouds Move In
Obama Accuses McCain of Same Old Republican Campaign Tactics

7: Astronauts of space shuttle Endeavour leave the Operations and Checkout Building to be transported to launch pad 39a at Kennedy Space Center in Cape ... [more]

5:56:38 AM Geologists stumble upon meteorite-hit site in Rajasthan
Press Trust of India - New Delhi,India

"Such magnetic spherules, with 57 per cent of magnetite and 37 per cent haematite and with insignificant rare earth element (REE) content have been reported ... [more]

5:50:24 AM Weinberg: Ending manned space flight is the right thing for science
Austin American-Statesman - Austin,TX,USA

All of the brilliant discoveries in astronomy for which NASA can take credit have been made by unmanned satellite-borne observatories, and there is much ... [more]

5:43:17 AM Geoffrey Burbidge, Who Traced Life to Stardust, Is Dead at 84
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

As the director of Kitt Peak National Observatory in Arizona, Dr. Burbidge pushed to open big telescopes to a larger community of astronomers. ... [more]

4:51:01 AM Orion can Launch Safely in 2013 says Lockheed
Universe Today - USA

President Obama has proposed to completely cancel NASA's Project Constellation to send humans to the Moon, Mars and Beyond, thus calling into question ... [more]

4:33:23 AM Matilda Pfeiffer Museum Presents Program on the Paragould Meteorite
Piggot Times - Piggot,AR,USA

That day will also be the 80th anniversary of the meteorite fall, which, at 820 pounds, was, at that time, the largest stone meteorite in the world to be ... [more]

4:10:45 AM Shuttle viewers dig in for last nighttime launch
Florida Today - Melbourne,FL,USA

Endeavour's flight is one of the last five of the space shuttle program and, based upon the scheduled dates of the remaining four flights, this would be the ... [more]

2:35:38 AM First contact: will we ever hear from aliens?
Guardian - UK

In fact, it is becoming clear that astronomers may have to search through the radio spectrums of millions of stars before we stumble on an artificial signal ... [more]

1:05:00 AM Astronomy at Tufts attempts to redefine itself
The Tufts Daily - Boston,MA,USA

By Mary Beth Griggs Students might be inclined to open up a few more astronomy textbooks in the near future. Those Jumbos who loved Concepts of the Cosmos ... [more]



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