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11:54:25 PM Meteorite lands on doctor's office in Fairfax
Richmond Times Dispatch

By Staff Reports A meteorite that landed on a doctor's office in Fairfax County on Monday may have been the source of the bright light Richmonders saw in ... [more]

11:23:37 PM NASA Gives Away Space Shuttle Engines -- Asylum Tries To Claim One
Asylum (blog)

So we were really excited when we learned that NASA was just giving away the engines from the discontinued space shuttle program at the end of the year, ... [more]

10:56:23 PM NASA Announces Designs for Personal Flying Suit
New York Times (blog)

NASA is working on a personal flying suit. Conceptual designs for the experimental vehicle, called Puffin, were introduced by Mark D. Moore, an aerospace ... [more]

10:45:17 PM 'Ask a Scientist for Kids' program set for Jan. 23
WQOW - Eau Claire,WI,USA

Dr. Erik Hendrickson, chair of the physics and astronomy department, and Dr. David Lonzarich, professor of biology department, will present the program. ... [more]

10:44:42 PM Rover Gives NASA An "Opportunity" To View Interior Of Mars
OfficialWire - New York,NY,USA

"Marquette Island is different in composition and character from any known rock on Mars or meteorite from Mars," said Steve Squyres of Cornell University in ... [more]

9:58:49 PM Fashion Designer
Ecommerce Journal

.... that enables GPS phones Doctors at a small practice in Virginia got a big surprise when a tennis ball-sized meteorite punched a hole through their roof. ... [more]

9:29:37 PM CANCELLATION: Astronomy Club calls off Thursday Star Talk
Sun Shopper - Prescott,AZ,USA

Due to the area's inclement weather, the Prescott Astronomy Club is canceling its Third Thursday Star Talk originally scheduled for 6:30 pm in the Founders ... [more]

9:29:11 PM Analyst predicts local home prices to remain near bottom in 2010
Las Vegas Review - Journal - Las Vegas,NV,USA

By HUBBLE SMITH Look for this year to mirror 2006 with zero percent appreciation and home prices skipping along the bottom, housing analyst Larry Murphy ... [more]

9:14:03 PM MSU contributes to new research on star formation
MSU Today

“Crazy” and “cool” are two of the words Michigan State University astronomer Megan Donahue uses to describe the two distinct “tails” found on a long tail of ... [more]

8:34:50 PM Adjusting the Solar System's Absolute Clock
Science Magazine (blog)

A single undifferentiated meteorite—a chondrite—typically contains matrix and inclusions formed over a wide range of conditions and time before eventually ... [more]

8:34:19 PM Report: 6000+ Jobs Could Be Lost When Shuttle Retires
Central Florida News 13| - Orlando,FL,USA

The report states 88 percent of space shuttle workers live in Brevard County and 58 percent live in Central Brevard County, and many have already lost their ... [more]

8:17:18 PM NASA Wants To Know Where To Point Its Mars Camera; We've Got Ideas
Houston Press

By Pete Vonder Haar in NASA So NASA is apparently taking public suggestions for where to point the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) ... [more]

7:14:02 PM Posey presses Obama to keep shuttle flying
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando,FL,USA

Even though he confessed recently to our Mark K. Matthews and Robert Block that his quest to keep the space shuttle flying is “a fairly lonely crusade,” he ... [more]

6:55:35 PM Stuck Rover on Mars Climbs Slightly in Escape Attempt
Space.com - USA

By Tariq Malik NASA's embattled Mars rover Spirit has managed its first successful, but ever-so-small, climb as it drives in reverse to escape a Martian ... [more]

4:40:43 PM Far out! NASA slashes price of spaceships like Atlantis and Endeavour - by
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA

New York Daily News NASA is selling many of its spaceships - at a 50% discount. (OK, so you won't actually get to fly these spaceships, but you can still look at them and dream ... [more]

4:39:01 PM Clearwater astromom recounts shooting into space
Suncoast News - Clearwater,FL,USA

By JEFF HOUCK | The Tampa Tribune Nicole Passonno Stott watched plenty of space shuttle launches. As an astronaut in training, she had a close-up view. ... [more]

2:26:38 PM NASA's Puffin: One Crazy Personal Aircraft
FOX News - USA

By Clay Dillow NASA just unveiled its Puffin aircraft design, showing just how completely personal, electrically propelled flight could change the ways we ... [more]

9:32:12 AM NASA Names New Wallops Flight Facility Director
RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has named William Wrobel as director of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, ... [more]

8:37:12 AM RETRO - January 1986: Space Shuttle explodes
Yorkshire Evening Post - Leeds,Yorkshire,UK

By Claire Thompson The spacecraft disintegrated above the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Florida, after being launched from the Kennedy Space Centre. ... [more]

8:32:32 AM Space pictures taken from garden shed
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK

Office worker Mr Shah, who lives in a hillside bungalow at Meifod, near Welshpool, Powys, has been an avid astronomer since his mother bought him a £5 ... [more]

8:10:43 AM The Bell Curve: Sports lost a great man
Daily Pilot - Costa Mesa,CA,USA

It seems there is a massive asteroid tumbling our way in space that Russian scientists fear might hit Earth with a blast the equivalent of 880 megatons of ... [more]

7:45:39 AM KUSI-TV: NASA Manipulated Climate Change Data
Personal Liberty Digest - Hueytown,Alabama,USA

A major embarrassment may be brewing for the US government as researchers have allegedly found evidence that NASA scientists manipulated data in order to ... [more]

6:16:25 AM NASA Langley engineer unveils hovercraft design
Hampton Roads Daily Press - Newport,VA,USA

The Puffin, a newly developed hovercraft designed by an aerospace engineer at NASA Langley Research Center in Hampton, was given its preliminary public ... [more]

6:03:10 AM Almost-close encounter: Meteorite hits Lorton doctor's office
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

What are the chances, as he goes about his routine, that he'll get hit by a meteorite? "I was in my office doing charts," Ciampi recalled. ... [more]

5:21:22 AM Sisters spark Pendleton Heights
Anderson Herald Bulletin - Anderson,IN,USA

By Julia Cline, For The Herald Bulletin Kelsey and Jamie Hubble share more than a last name. They share a passion for basketball, an inherited work ethic, ... [more]

4:42:22 AM Space Shuttle for Sale -- Cheap
Discovery News

.... strapped homeowners, but the US government sweetened the pot for museums and institutions hoping to snare a space shuttle for their collections. ... [more]

3:55:58 AM Monday's meteor fell on Lorton, Va. dental office
Baltimore Sun

A Washington DC television station is reporting an apparent meteorite fall in Lorton, Va. The space rock, which has been taken to the Smithsonian ... [more]

3:29:17 AM Approaching Earth makes asteroids go pale
New Scientist - London,England,UK

We already know that asteroid impacts can cause cataclysms on Earth – now it seems that Earth can hit back. Close encounters with our planet appear to shake ... [more]

2:34:40 AM Orlando auditions begin: Oh, Theo!
Motors ...

American Idol begins tonight with a shot of the space shuttle -- implying that some young star's career could launch from right here. ... [more]

2:03:15 AM Las Vegas housing market still looks gloomy, analyst says
Las Vegas Review - Journal - Las Vegas,NV,USA

By HUBBLE SMITH Driven mainly by investors buying foreclosed homes, sales of existing homes in Las Vegas jumped 47.2 percent in 2009 to 44885 closings, ... [more]

1:51:14 AM 'Extraordinary Measures' asks Ford to channel a different sort of hero
Fort Worth Star Telegram

Working Girl (1988) Proof that, had Ford not hit it big making adventure flicks, there would have been a place for him doing romantic comedies. ... [more]

1:16:19 AM UNK's new planetarium offers new academic, public opportunities
Grand Island Independent - Grand Island,NE,USA

Mena-Werth said the planetarium plays a vital role in classes in a variety of subjects, including astronomy, meteorology, geology and physics. ... [more]

1:06:49 AM Ohio lawmakers encouraged by meeting with NASA boss about the future of ...
Cleveland Plain Dealer - Cleveland,OH,USA

By John Mangels, The Plain Dealer NASAEmployees at Cleveland's NASA Glenn Research Center are awaiting President Barack Obama's decision about the direction ... [more]

12:41:20 AM Snowflake-Shaped Galaxy From Hubble Helps Ring In New Year
Space Daily - Rancho Palos Verdes,CA,USA

by Staff Writers As part of its Hubble Heritage program, NASA has released an image, taken by a team led by University of Arizona astronomer Rodger Thompson ... [more]

12:19:44 AM Ford Goes To Cyberspace To Help Astronauts
Wired News - USA

The automaker and the aerospace company — a lead contractor for the space shuttle — are sharing their experience with animation software to create ... [more]

12:14:38 AM Amateur astronomer takes awesome images from his garden shed
The Mirror - UK

And the vivid photos taken with £20000 equipment have stunned astronomers and been compared to those captured by the £2.5billion Hubble space telescope. ... [more]

12:03:52 AM Around Your Town
Sierra Vista Herald - Sierra Vista,AZ,USA

Patterson Observatory at University of Arizona South in Sierra Vista will join Huachuca Astronomy Club on Thursday evening for an astronomy night starting ... [more]



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