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News From Tuesday, December 29, 2009
11:54:27 PM Obama to chart new course for NASA
WKYC-TV - Cleveland,OH,USA

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will chart a course for NASA within weeks, based on the advice of a handful of key advisers in the administration and ... [more]

11:50:22 PM Smallest object in outer solar system spotted
Florida Today - Melbourne,FL,USA

In a cosmic version of the old needle-in-a-haystack finding, astronomers have spotted an object less than a mile wide that is 4.2 billion miles away, ... [more]

11:14:35 PM Future of two telescopes on Mauna Kea uncertain
Honolulu Advertiser

With its 12.4-foot diameter primary mirror, the 30-year-old UKIRT is the world's largest telescope dedicated to infrared astronomy. ... [more]

10:59:15 PM NASA Awards CU-Boulder $3.3 Million for Concept Study for Upcoming Mission
CU Boulder News & Events - Boulder,Colorado,USA

CU Boulder News & Events NASA has awarded the University of Colorado at Boulder $3.3 million for a detailed, one-year concept study for a lander mission to Venus to study the .... [more]

10:28:44 PM Keck Telescopes Gaze into Young Star's 'Life Zone'
Space Ref - USA

Using the Keck Interferometer in Hawaii, astronomers have probed the structure of a dust disk around MWC 419 to within 50 million miles of the star. ... [more]

10:02:14 PM Wolfram Alpha – A Handy Tool for the Casual Astronomer.
Universe Today - USA

As well as the basic search engine, there's a wiki sideline to all this, notably a set of Wolfram Astronomy demonstration projects here, ... [more]

9:22:22 PM NASA Chooses Three Finalists for Future Space Science Mission to Venus,
PR Newswire (press release) - USA

PR Newswire (press release) 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NASA has selected three proposals as candidates for the agency's next space venture to another celestial body in our solar ... [more]

9:04:39 PM Astronomy program to zero in on the moon
Newark Advocate - Newark,OH,USA

GRANVILLE — The final hands-on astronomy program at Infirmary Mound Park will kick off 2010 with a focus on the moon. “Heavenly Bodies III,” presented by ... [more]

7:07:09 PM Shuttle flights down to final five
Standard-Speaker - Hazleton,PA,USA

By Irene Klotz After 29 years of space shuttle flights, NASA plans to wrap up the program with five missions to complete construction of the International ... [more]

5:25:39 PM New Year Eve to coincide with lunar eclipse
Times of India - India

The eve will witness a lunar eclipse that will begin when parties would be at their peak and shall continue till 2010 sets in, helping amateur astronomers ... [more]

3:43:36 PM Meteorite falls over Wisbech
Fenland Today - Wisbech,England,UK

By Unknown UPWELL man Jimmy Greenwood had a close encounter of the third kind recently when a meteorite sped past him as he drove along the A47. ... [more]

3:31:34 PM The Post-Space Shuttle Trough
Florida Trend - St. Petersburg,FL,USA

by Mark R. Howard For years, the most significant business-related headline from Florida's Space Coast has remained the same: Shuttle to End in 2010, .... [more]

3:18:26 PM Blue Moon Rumors Dismissed By Astronomers
Thaindian.com - Bangkok,Bangkok,Thailand

The possibility has been ruled out by the leading astronomers. Probably it started when some enthusiastic people misinterpreted the occurrence of a .... [more]

2:22:21 PM Look, a blue moon. And there, an asterisk
Boston Herald

The most common explanation, accepted by both NASA and the American Heritage Dictionary, defines a blue moon as two full moons in a single month — a ... [more]

1:40:15 PM 'Once In A Blue Moon' This New Year's Eve
RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA

Apparently, it's name, "blue moon", does not have anything to do with its color, explained Conrad Jung, a staff astronomer at the Chabot Space & Science ... [more]

1:01:46 PM The dedicated scientists securing the final frontier
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia

Each year, 500 objects the size of marbles or larger hit Earth. Not until last year did we detect, for the first time, an asteroid before it hit the Earth. ... [more]

11:11:25 AM World Record Set for (Paper) Plane Flight
Treehugger - New York,NY,USA

They were to be made from heat-resistant treated paper and were 8 inches long and shaped like the Space Shuttle. They would have enabled scientists to learn ... [more]

11:04:42 AM Astronomer joins stars for campaign
Portsmouth News

By Unknown Astronomer Sir Patrick Moore gave up looking at stars over Christmas and joined a host of them instead, in the name of charity. ... [more]

10:35:42 AM New Horizons Crosses Halfway Point To Pluto
Discovery News

By Ray Villard | Tue Dec 29, 2009 02:38 AM ET The half-ton NASA New Horizons probe, the fasted manmade object ever built, today crosses the halfway mark on ... [more]

10:08:59 AM We can learn compassion from animals
BCLocalNews - Victoria,BC,Canada

You might, however, find some rocky fragment of a meteoroid that makes it all the way through the atmosphere to the ground, becoming a “meteorite. ... [more]

9:24:57 AM A stellar recount
Foster's Daily Democrat - Dover,NH,USA

That's one of the big questions astronomers ask. For even with all their high-tech telescopes, they can't see every single star. Like the light from the big ... [more]

8:41:23 AM Cicoil Cables Help NASA Flex Some Muscle on the Red Planet
Earthtimes.org - USA

Cicoil High-Flex Cables are allowing NASA to perform critical, extreme environment robotic tests, in preparation for the Mars Exploration Program. .... [more]

7:39:13 AM Pluto: Better than a planet?
Helena Independent Record - Helena,MT,USA

However, the planet Uranus was discovered by the British astronomer William Herschel with a telescope in 1781. This was a huge and amazing discovery. .... [more]

6:58:54 AM Hubble Detects Oldest Galaxy Other teams claim the same finding
Forbes

By Tudor Vieru, Science Editor Ever since Hubble got its new set of eyes, the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3), astronomers have been treated to a wealth of new ... [more]

5:52:23 AM NASA's Shuttle, Satellite, and Space Telescope fleet triumph in 2009
NASASpaceflight.com - York,Yorkshire,UK

For NASA, 2009 proved to be a stellar year, one filled with five extremely successful Space Shuttle missions (one of which repaired the Hubble Space .... [more]

5:34:42 AM December will close out with a blue moon
San Antonio Express - San Antonio,TX,USA

The Hubble Space Telescope makes a pass over South Texas at 6:50 pm Tuesday evening. Gaze toward the west for a moving pinpoint light. ... [more]

5:12:00 AM Should Old Articles Be Forgot
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

TEEMING WITH PLANETS Astronomers are closing in on identifying distant worlds that may have the right conditions to support life. ... [more]

4:24:28 AM Picture of the Day - Glittering Metropolis
Space Fellowship - UK

Like a whirl of shiny flakes sparkling in a snow globe, Hubble caught this glimpse of many hundreds of thousands of stars moving about in the globular .... [more]

4:14:37 AM BC astronomy buffs trying to curb nighttime glare
CTV.ca

Amateur astronomers are trying to persuade municipal officials in BC's southern Interior to cut out nighttime glare from city lights and turn 1700 hectares ... [more]

3:01:07 AM Full moon party? Not this New Year's Eve
Digital Life - Sydney,NSW,Australia

Reports of Australians celebrating New Year's Eve under a rare blue moon have been shot down by astronomers. News websites, including this one, ... [more]



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