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News From Monday, March 01, 2010
11:19:02 PM NASA Announces Changes at Major Centers
Space News

By Amy Klamper WASHINGTON — Patrick Scheuermann will take over as director of NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Miss., replacing Arthur E. ... [more]

11:18:41 PM No Bucks, No Buck Rogers
PoliticalLore.com (blog)

To get our observers there, we will have to hitch rides with the Russians, however, because after the space shuttle is retired, the US will have no launch ... [more]

10:57:32 PM TV critic's choice: Tuesday
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis,MN,USA

Host Neil deGrasse Tyson also travels to Disney World to ask the scientific puzzler: Just what connection does Mickey Mouse's dog have to astronomy? .... [more]

10:45:43 PM New Class of Variable Star Discovered
Discovery News

However, this new discovery comes as a surprise to astronomers (NASA). The Harvard College Observatory maintains more than 500000 glass photographic .... [more]

10:22:03 PM NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander: Still silent
United Press International

NASA said its Mars Odyssey Orbiter will make its next listening check of the lander early next month. "The solar-powered Phoenix lander operated for two ... [more]

9:52:47 PM UA astronomer discovers unusual black hole activity
NBC13.com

Today, astronomers around the world are making new discoveries studying the vastness of space. One such astronomer teaching at the University of Alabama has ... [more]

9:22:37 PM Astronomy selects 2010 Youth Essay Contest winner
Astronomy Magazine - USA

Astronomy magazine selected 11-year-old Adam Atanas from Houston as the winner of Astronomy's 2010 Youth Essay Contest. For his essay on what he loves best ... [more]

8:32:11 PM Hidden Treasures of the ROM Part II
Toronto Sun - Ontario, Canada

Sun photographer Craig Robertson and Evans hit it off immediately, ... the interior of the Earth is like because we think these early asteroid bodies formed ... [more]

8:05:36 PM NASA Struggles to End Constellation Lunar Program
DailyTech - Chicago,IL,USA

NASA has been plagued with financial issues and a continued lack of innovation, but now faces the equally daunting task of leaving behind the Constellation ... [more]

8:00:31 PM Mystery Kepler Objects: Planets or White Dwarfs?
Sky & Telescope - Cambridge,CA,USA

Last month, a group of visiting astronomers at the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at Peking University were talking about the latest “hot” ... [more]

7:23:55 PM 2010 Grote Reber Medal Awarded to Alan Rogers
Space Ref - USA

The 2010 Grote Reber Gold Medal for outstanding and innovative contributions to radio astronomy has been awarded to Dr. Alan Rogers, who is a Research ... [more]

6:28:31 PM A chronology of change: our space program, our future
The Space Review - Rockville,MD,USA

I soon entered the space industry as a part-time biomedical engineer supporting the Space Shuttle program, with six flights that year and a new shuttle ... [more]

6:22:58 PM Earthquake-Proofing the World's Largest Telescopes
FOX News - USA

Despite the remarkable escape from danger, ESO officials urged astronomers slated to visit Chile to use its three telescope facilities to put their plans on ... [more]

6:13:01 PM Acclaimed astronomer Vera Rubin to speak at Skidmore on Tuesday
The Saratogian - Saratoga,NY,USA

SARATOGA SPRINGS —“Rotating Galaxies and Dark Matter” is the title of an upcoming Skidmore College lecture to be presented by one of the scientists credited ... [more]

5:55:51 PM Astronomy announces 2009 Out-of-this-World Award winner!
Astronomy Magazine - USA

Linda Prince [View Larger Image] Activities Director Linda Prince credits the dedicated volunteers of AOS, seen here at an Astronomy Day event at the Cradle ... [more]

5:54:38 PM NASA 'Blue Marble' Series: The Best Images Of The Earth To Date (PHOTOS)
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has recently uploaded a stunning series of high-resolution photos to its Flickr account. The series, called 'Blue Marble ... [more]

5:30:05 PM Astronomically large lenses measure the age and size of the universe
Eureka! Science News - Quebec,QC,Canada

The measurement determines a value for the Hubble constant, which indicates the size of the universe, and confirms the age of the universe as 13.75 billion ... [more]

4:51:34 PM Discovery Crew Heads To Florida
WESH.com - Winter Park,FL,USA

The crew that will fly aboard Space Shuttle Discovery is scheduled to arrive at Kennedy Space Center at 7 pm EST. The astronauts will participate in a ... [more]

4:22:22 PM Street Officially Named After Lara Croft
Tom's Guide - Culver City,CA,USA

Lara Croft Way captured 89 percent of the votes, which was up against names after footballer Steve Bloomer, the astronomer John Flamsteed and the engineer ... [more]

4:00:36 PM UTSA's Football Gold
The Vista Voice

Other locals to join the team are OL Brady Brown, OL Robert Chapman, and Cole Hubble, the promising QB out of Bandera. Hubble has thrown 3197 yards while ... [more]

3:57:11 PM Cosmic revelations
Shepparton News - Australia

A new scientific analysis of a meteorite that fell to earth over Murchison in 1969 suggests it is far more important than first thought and could unlock the ... [more]

3:12:48 PM Tiny shelled creatures shed light on extinction and recovery 65 ...
EurekAlert - Washington,DC,USA

An asteroid strike may not only account for the demise of ocean and land life 65 ... colliding with Earth on the tip of the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. ... [more]

3:12:13 PM Website of the Week: NASA's Warming World
Government Video - Alexandria,VA,USA

Scientists at NASA may have about as good a view of the planet as anyone. And to help spread their knowledge about the Earth's warming temperatures and the ... [more]

2:24:55 PM Risk and Natural Catastrophes
Media Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA

He obtained a PhD in Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh in 1978. The minor planet discovered in 1976 by CI Lagerkvist was named 'Mebailey' in March ... [more]

2:20:44 PM Road to be renamed for game character
kjrh.com - Tulsa,OK,USA

The names of a soccer player, an astronomer and an engineer were also on the ballot for voters to consider. Angelina Jolie played the heroine in 2001's Lara ... [more]

10:43:39 AM NASA's wrap-up of Constellation program to be no mean feat!
TopNews - Little Rock,Arkansas,USA

With NASA's ambitious Constellation program apparently on the verge of termination, the US space agency - anticipating that the wrapping up of the program ... [more]

10:14:18 AM Religion: a new conversation
The Spartan Daily - San Jose,CA,USA

Take any image from the Hubble Space Telescope. Whether it is the rings of Saturn or the Eagle Nebula, scientific exploration has given us a look into our ... [more]

9:48:14 AM Agencies named 'best to work for' by Sunday Times
CampaignLive

by Matt Williams, campaignlive.co.uk, 01 March 2010, 08:00am LONDON - Glue London, Brand Learning, Meteorite and Elvis have all been named by the Sunday ... [more]

9:47:50 AM With Hubble Aid, Astronomers Discover Ancient and Converging Galaxies
Gant Daily

Astronomers have known for decades that the HCG 31 galaxies are tugging on each other through gravitational pulls, but new observations by the Hubble .... [more]

9:17:43 AM NASA — In Memoriam... Aaron Cohen...
SatNews Publishers - Sonoma,CA,USA

Spaceflight pioneer Aaron Cohen, a former director of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, died Thursday, February 25, after a lengthy illness at 79 ... [more]

8:06:14 AM Explaining Blue Stragglers' Youthful Appearance
The Future of Things - USA

TFOT has covered other astronomy-related stories, such as the Baffling Supernova, observed by scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel ... [more]

7:53:24 AM Astronaut urges Scouts to strive for excellence
Henderson Gleaner - Henderson,KY,USA

By Mark Wilson Six-time space shuttle astronaut Story Musgrave spoke to the 2009 Eagle Scout Class and Silver Beaver Award recipients in Evansvile on Sunday ... [more]

7:44:56 AM NASA engineer has really cool idea for his runs
Florida Today - Melbourne,FL,USA

"It's a long expedition to even reach the white continent," said Haddad, a NASA senior engineer. Haddad, who has coached many local runners, had a gradual ... [more]

6:30:20 AM Eastern kicks off Women's History and Awareness Month
Daily Eastern News - Charleston,IL,USA

Heidi Hammel, a professor of physics and astronomy at the Space Science Institute, presented her lecture "Cosmic Collisions" at an astronomy colloquium on ... [more]

5:20:14 AM Stranded on the Undulating Curve of Shifting Expectations!
New York Magazine - New York,NY,USA

Until then, we're consoled by simpler entertainments: the return of AMC's other great series, Breaking Bad; the nasa-meets-Imax documentary Hubble 3-D, ... [more]

5:07:05 AM First Woman NASA Mission Operations Manager – Angelita Castro-Kelly
Asianjournal.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA

Ms. Kelly also holds the distinction of being the first woman and first Filipino NASA Mission Operations Manager (MOM) for a major flight project. ... [more]

3:24:25 AM Halfway to Pluto
Sky & Telescope - Cambridge,CA,USA

First came the unveiling, on February 4th, of a new surface map painstakingly constructed from Hubble Space Telescope images. Then, on the 18th, ... [more]

2:48:14 AM Acclaimed astronaut speaks to local Boy Scouts
WFIE-TV - Evansville,IN,USA

Story Musgrave has flown six space shuttle missions. Sunday, he spoke to local Eagle Scouts to help honor the 99 young men who achieved the new rank. ... [more]

2:40:36 AM Physical Sciences roof is destination for ASU stargazers
Web Devil - USA

By Rheyanne Weaver February 28, 2010 at 7:09 pm Clouds took over most of the Friday night sky, but that didn't stop ASU's monthly Astronomy Open House from ... [more]

12:48:48 AM NASA Gets Flak on New Course
Wall Street Journal - USA

By ANDY PASZTOR NASA chief Charles Bolden is running into strong political headwinds, including escalating criticism of his leadership, as the space agency ... [more]



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