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News From Saturday, December 19, 2009
11:41:30 PM Inside Dope
New York Times (blog)

What's the difference between a meteorite and a meteorOID? A meteoroid is an extraterrestrial object as large as a grain of sand but considerably smaller ... [more]

8:54:23 PM StarPals "Tour of the Universe by Children of the World"
TransWorldNews (press release) - Monroe,GA,USA

From now until December 31, 2009, Astronomy.FM will host a web platform where interested kids 16 and under, parents and teachers can sign up for free points ... [more]

7:44:09 PM Tim Lee, the ex-scientist?
Times of India - India

One joke he tells is, "I used to be an astronomer, but then I got stuck on the day shift." "When I have a savvier audience," Malow said, "I have to point ... [more]

7:19:42 PM Astronauts set for Christmas space mission
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

NASA's Timothy J. Creamer, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov and Soichi Noguchi of Japan will blast off Monday at 3:52 am local time (4:52 pm EST Sunday, .... [more]

6:23:18 PM NASA Discovery: Moon Holds Water
Tampa Bay Informer

Recent NASA findings may have answered some of these questions, with instruments on three spacecraft detecting molecules of water near the lunar poles, ... [more]

5:45:55 PM Shera Carlson, Samuel Schreiber
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

He teaches propulsion, guidance and flight control systems to space shuttle astronauts. He graduated from the University of Maryland and received a master's ... [more]

5:34:47 PM Startling discovery: Explosions of light in Northern Lights
iTWire (press release) - Australia

by William Atkins NASA's THEMIS spacecraft, high in the sky, and a camera network, on the ground, has recorded an explosive phenomenon that caused the jaws ... [more]

5:16:55 PM EDITORIAL: Hubble still gives us new worlds to conquer
TMCnet (press release) - USA

Earlier this month, NASA announced that the Hubble Space Telescope has made the deepest image of the universe ever taken in near-infrared light. ... [more]

11:07:47 AM Solid future seen at NASA
AL.com - Birmingham,AL,USA

NASA is at a crossroads because of a new president and a report on the space agency's future by the White House-appointed Augustine Commission, .... [more]

11:03:59 AM Dashing the myths of doom predicted for 2012
Pasadena Star-News - Pasadena,CA,USA

So far, he said, there are no major comets or asteroids that will come dangerously close to Earth within the next 100 years, although small ones hit us all ... [more]

7:43:52 AM Skeptical about methane and Uranus
Glob smacked

There has even been renewed speculation concerning the Meteorite from Antarctica, that contains what appear to be fossilized microbial life, and that, ... [more]

5:47:19 AM YMCA plans Off School Camp
Youngstown Vindicator - Youngstown,OH,USA

Campers also will take a field trip to Youngstown State University's Planetarium for a special educational program in astronomy. The Off School Camp is open ... [more]

2:50:58 AM Czar Mike Holmgren would bring excitement, re-engergize fan base: Bill
Cleveland Plain Dealer - Cleveland,OH,USA

Plain Dealer It happens, not the meteorite thing, but the muffed snap. Holmgren's Seahawks beat Dallas in a playoff game when Tony Romo couldn't get the spot down. ... [more]

2:24:35 AM NASA Funds Target 13 K-12 STEM Education Programs
T.H.E. Journal

By David Nagel Thirteen K-12 STEM education initiatives will receive an infusion of more than $12 million through NASA's Nspires program. ... [more]

2:17:08 AM Decade of science highs and lows
MSNBC (press release) - USA

The Columbia tragedy also nearly led to the doom of the Hubble Space Telescope, which is one of the greatest scientific instruments to come around in the ... [more]



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