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News From Sunday, January 17, 2010
11:58:15 PM FREE: NASA Space Shuttle Engines
Gizmodo Australia - Sydney,NSW,Australia

By Jack Loftus on January 18, 2010 at 9:30 AM Since no one wanted to buy the space shuttles when NASA first offered them up for sale, the agency has decided ... [more]

9:38:31 PM AT&T Error Allowed Unauthorized Facebook Access
IndyPosted (blog)

An author of everything from yoga instruction to astronomy for kids, feminism to cryptozoology, soccer to travel & a fair bit in between, Dina also puts pen ... [more]

9:33:31 PM Star Gazer: Sun's long slumber a wake-up call to solar scientists
NRToday.com - Roseburg,OR,USA

Solar astronomers counted the number of dark spots on the disk of the sun to gauge the sun's activity. In 1843, a German amateur astronomer, ... [more]

9:08:09 PM Russian SU-27 Fighters, Space Shuttle For Sale
Hard OCP

Got a few million bucks burning a hole in your Swiss bank account? Maybe you're in the market for an alternative to your boring Lear jet? ... [more]

8:51:15 PM NASA listens for silent Mars lander; chances of callback slim
The Associated Press

Despite the odds, NASA on Monday will begin a three-day effort to listen for signs of life from the Phoenix lander, presumed frozen to death near Mars' ... [more]

8:41:17 PM Astronomers capture first direct exoplanet spectrum
Brahmand Defence and Aerospace News

HEIDELBERG, GERMANY (BNS): Astronomers have obtained the first direct spectrum - the "chemical fingerprint" of an exoplanet by studying a triple planetary ... [more]

7:25:37 PM Endeavour Crew Flies To Florida This Week For Training
Central Florida News 13| - Orlando,FL,USA

When it does blast off, the shuttle will take a new connecting module to the International Space Station on the first of the space shuttle program's five ... [more]

4:12:09 PM NASA listens for silent Mars lander
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

By ALICIA CHANG AP Despite the odds, NASA on Monday will begin a three-day effort to listen for signs of life from the Phoenix lander, presumed frozen to ... [more]

3:26:01 PM Observation 1.1 for iPhone Released
prMac (press release) - Lake Dallas,TX,USA

Observation is a tool to help amateur astronomers record observation logs in the field, providing the latest weather conditions, the NGC 2000.0 and .... [more]

1:45:31 PM NEVADAN AT WORK: IT exec says success about people, not wires
Las Vegas Review - Journal - Las Vegas,NV,USA

By HUBBLE SMITH Education: Bishop Timon High School (Buffalo, NY); State University of New York, Buffalo; Harvard Business School. Work history: Started as ... [more]

12:40:49 PM Wild blue yonder inspires artistic leaps
Denver Post

By Linda DuVal Mitchen Jamieson's "First Steps" is one of the works in an exhibition traveling from the Smithsonian, created with NASA's help. ... [more]

11:33:31 AM Sumter school boards to hold meetings Tuesday
Sumter Item - Sumter,SC,USA

By JASON WERMERS School uniforms and a student field trip to see the space shuttle launch are among the topics that will come up when Sumter County's two ... [more]

11:19:08 AM Stars Over Alabama astronomy column Jan. 16-23: Gemini includes distinctive
The Birmingham News - al.com - Birmingham,AL,USA

Press-Register - al.com (blog) Each of these three stars is in itself what astronomers call a spectroscopic binary, stars too close for ground-based instruments to detect as doubles. ... [more]

9:55:56 AM Plenty going on in Orion
Republican & Herald

It's difficult for astronomer's to measure its diameter but it's believed to vary in size from over 400 million miles in diameter to over a billion miles in ... [more]

9:10:42 AM NASA public relations flap follows official to TVA
The Tennessean - Nashville,TN,USA

Mould said the uproar at NASA began before he arrived in 2005 and was caused by a high volume of news releases and tension between scientists, who couldn't ... [more]

7:26:15 AM Regarding global warming, NASA is a weather terrorist
In-Forum

So, I began to dig into what was happening and came up with the conclusion about rocketry and NASA, the terrorist. Historically, the weather patterns .... [more]

6:29:00 AM Astronaut visits Prince William County middle school
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

He said he spent about 14 months in training for his mission aboard the space shuttle Atlantis. Potomac eighth-grade science teacher Pam Rheinlander began a ... [more]

4:57:50 AM When NASA Scientists Attack
Rright Side News - Kennesaw,GA,USA

Well this week, Judicial Watch released its own set of emails and documents obtained from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). ... [more]

4:55:18 AM Readers ask about snow days, county's blower
York News-Times - York,NE,USA

Q: In a Nebraska newspaper, where they recounted that day in history, I saw that in 1948, “scientists excavating a half-ton meteorite at Beaver Crossing ... [more]

3:59:51 AM LE Phillips Planetarium reopens with Tuesday and Saturday shows
WQOW - Eau Claire,WI,USA

It was written by UW-Eau Claire student Kelly Slowinski, Appleton, with solar system expert Dr. Paul Thomas, professor of physics and astronomy. .... [more]

3:39:44 AM Cocaine found in shuttle hanger at Kennedy Space Center
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

The worker gave it to NASA security, and about 200 workers were given drug tests. There was no indication that any of the workers were impaired, NASA said. ... [more]

2:22:45 AM Astronomers help people see stars
Hagerstown Morning Herald - Hagerstown,MD,USA

“It's a very serious hobby,” he said — a hobby he shares with fellow members of Tristate Astronomers, a local organization for night-sky buffs. ... [more]

1:02:07 AM Mars bid scientists examine meteorite
Edinburgh Evening News - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK

Representatives of Nasa and the European Space Agency, or ESA, landed in York on Thursday to examine a meteorite which hit North Yorkshire in 1881. ugh ... [more]



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