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News From Saturday, January 23, 2010
10:41:27 PM Get a closer look at Mars this week
Old Colony Memorial and Plymouth Bulletin - Plymouth,MA,USA

Participants will also be looking at other objects in the night sky, and knowledgeable astronomers will be on hand to guide visitors and answer questions. ... [more]

8:06:55 PM Medical faculties to be upgraded
Sunday Observer - Columbo,Sri Lanka

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured the earliest image yet of the universe just 600 million years after the Big Bang, when the universe was just a ... [more]

7:51:19 PM Astronomy Without A Telescope – More Than Meets The Eye
Universe Today - USA

Astronomy advocacy in sixty seconds. Betelgeuse image reconstructed from interferometry measurements in infra red. Credit: Xavier Haubois (Observatoire de ... [more]

7:24:39 PM Treasures make pilgrimage for Hajj exhibition
Independent

Yes, it is a meteorite. This whole thing is meteorite worship. Complete oversimplification about one small fact that has almost nothing to do with this ... [more]

7:09:01 PM Report - Obama to Propose NASA Budget with Smaller Than Expected Increase
Associated Content - Denver,CO,USA

The FY 2011 budget request for NASA will contain a small increase, but far less than the billion dollars that had been anticipated. ... [more]

5:45:58 PM NASA: Last decade is warmest on record
Examiner.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

NASA also revealed that 2009 was the second warmest year since temperature records began in 1880. It joins the other warmest years of 1998, 2005, ... [more]

5:34:52 PM NOVA Astronomy Course
Prince George Citizen - Prince George,British Columbia,Canada

The Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Prince George Centre NOVA Workshop course (New Observers to Visual Astronomy). Starts Jan. ... [more]

4:42:09 PM How will NASA defend Earth against killer asteroids and comets?
ComputerWorld - USA

By Michael Cooney Network World - Combinations of space- and ground-based telescopes may be the most economically palpable defenses NASA can mount against ... [more]

4:41:03 PM Displaying body parts: 'Ick' factor
Dubuque Telegraph Herald - Dubuque,IA,USA

BY KURT ULLRICH FOR THE TH In 1737, the nearly 100 year-old corpse of astronomer/physicist/philosopher Galileo Galilei was being transferred to Santa Croce ... [more]

2:22:20 PM Asteroids Pale After Close Encounters
Sky & Telescope - Cambridge,CA,USA

Furthermore, this intriguing result helps resolve a decades-long meteorite mystery. The news follows from a study published this week in the journal Nature, ... [more]

2:10:56 PM Mars at closest approcah to Earth on Jan 27.
WAM - Emirates News Agency

Professional and amateur astronomers get excited about planetary oppositions because this is when that particular planet is closest to Earth, ... [more]

1:02:05 PM Death from space - what an asteroid could do
Reuters India

Here are some facts about things that can hit the planet: * Near-Earth Objects are asteroids, comets or really big pieces of them that may wander close to ... [more]

12:59:46 PM Meteorite Crashes Into Dentist Office
WBAL - Baltimore,MD,USA

BALTIMORE -- A meteorite that was reported by 11 News viewers and people in other states ended up falling through the ceiling of a Virginia dentist office. ... [more]

11:49:23 AM NASA astronaut sends first 'tweet' from space
Economic Times - India

NASA said a software upgrade this week now allows its station crew personal Internet access and the ability to surf the Web through a wireless connection. ... [more]

10:32:43 AM Meteorites reported around Delmarva
Delaware Coast Press - Rehoboth Beach,DE,USA

Television station WUSA took it to the Smithsonian Institution's Museum of Natural History, and experts confirmed it was a meteorite. They estimated it was ... [more]

10:32:25 AM Local NASA Astronauts to Help Deliver Super Bowl Coin to Football HOF
Cleveland Leader - Cleveland,OH,USA

The crew of the space shuttle Atlantis' STS-129 mission will deliver a specially minted silver medallion to National Football League officials at 10 am EST ... [more]

7:28:38 AM Stars Over the Coast astronomy Jan. 24-30: Why no Dipper this time of year?
The Birmingham News - al.com - Birmingham,AL,USA

By Mark R. Kent PLANETS TO VIEW: Jupiter spends less and less time up after sunset, and soon it will be out of the evening sky. Venus is still out of sight ... [more]

7:26:16 AM Readers ask about elections, articles
York News-Times - York,NE,USA

Q: Does anyone have any information about the Beaver Crossing meteorite in 1948? A: A reader contacted the Wonderline after a version of this question ran ... [more]

6:44:47 AM Slow-moving Hubble good news for Wheaton Park District
Chicago Daily Herald - Chicago,IL,USA

By Robert Sanchez | Daily Herald Staff Due to the sluggish economy and slumping real estate market, it could be years before the former Hubble Middle School ... [more]

5:48:38 AM NASA Announces ISS EarthKAM Winter 2010 Mission
Space Ref - USA

NASA has exciting news! EarthKAM has just launched a new beta version of its Web site. Middle school educators are invited to join NASA for the ... [more]

4:21:08 AM Mike Pound: Add meteors to your worry list
Joplin Globe - Joplin,MO,USA

The “it” I'm talking about, of course, is the meteorite that fell out of the sky and hit a doctor's office in Lorton, Va. It seems to me that if a meteorite ... [more]

3:51:11 AM Lesson Astronomy ADVANCED Class
SnitchSeeker.com - Los Angeles,CA,USA

Maidee entered the room, still grading the beginner's homework. With a worried frown, she noticed that not everyone had followed her rules concerning ... [more]

1:35:35 AM Tweetup at NASA
Seattle Post Intelligencer

Following up on Friday's first-ever tweet from space, NASA announced it will randomly choose 100 people to attend a Tweetup at the Johnson Space Center in ... [more]

1:11:33 AM Bigger, Better Telescopes Needed to Find Near-Earth Asteroids
Wired News - USA

And that's to say nothing of the smaller asteroids, those in the 30- and 50-meter (90 to 165 foot) range, which hit Earth far more often than larger objects ... [more]

12:49:38 AM No $1B Budget Increase for NASA; Fate of Ares 1 Rocket Still Unclear
Space News

By Amy Klamper WASHINGTON — NASA will not be getting the $1 billion budget boost civil space advocates had hoped to see when President Barack Obama sends ... [more]

12:36:20 AM NASA Tweetup Gives Public Birds-Eye View of Space Shuttle Mission
PR Newswire (press release) - USA

22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For the first time, NASA Twitter followers can personally go inside the heart of a space shuttle mission at the agency's ... [more]



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