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11:21:28 PM Chatter: What we're hearing
GlobalPost - USA

.... feet long and is about three times the size of a meteorite the likely caused the 1908 explosion in Siberia that knocked over an about 80 million trees. ... [more]

11:05:13 PM David Burstein, longtime ASU astronomy professor, dies
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA

His work contributed to a team of seven astronomers who spent nearly a decade researching how the universe was expanding. "It was a very careful study of ... [more]

11:03:57 PM Russia population up 'first since 1995'
Ninemsn - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia

Russia 'to save Earth from asteroid'Russian scientists will soon meet in secret to work on a plan for saving Earth from a possible catastrophic collision ... [more]

10:55:33 PM Speedy Spacecraft Now Halfway to Pluto
Space.com - USA

By SPACE.com Staff A speedy NASA spacecraft is halfway to Pluto and on track for a 2015 rendezvous with the distant, icy world. As of Tuesday, NASA's New ... [more]

10:05:02 PM AP Top News at 3:07 pm EST -Wednesday, December 30, 2009
KMPH Fox 26 - Fresno,CA,USA

MOSCOW (AP) - Russia's space agency chief said Wednesday a spacecraft may be dispatched to knock a large asteroid off course and reduce the chances of earth ... [more]

9:57:41 PM ScienceWorks seeks NASA funds for planetarium
Mail Tribune - Medford,OR,USA

Following a NASA request for proposals, ScienceWorks filed the application in September and should hear back between March and June, said Mark DiRienzo, ... [more]

9:47:06 PM Looking Back in Time 12 Billion Years With New Instruments on Herschel
Science Daily (press release) - USA

Science Daily (press release) The new images are being analyzed as part of the Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey, or HerMES, which involves more than 100 astronomers from six ... [more]

9:14:39 PM Space Shuttle pillow by BBC
Retro To Go - London,Greater London,UK

Not the cheapest 'pillow' on the planet (or should be cushion), but the Space Shuttle pillow by BBC is certainly one of the more distinctive. ... [more]

9:06:44 PM Russia Space Experts Concerned About Asteroid
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

Scientists originally thought the orbit of the asteroid gave it a 2.7 percent chance of hitting earth during its first approach in 2029, but after studying ... [more]

8:57:41 PM NASA trains WISE eye on the sky (photos)
CNET News - San Francisco,CA,USA

On Tuesday, NASA engineers aiming for new images of the stars did what every photographer needs to remember to do before taking snapshots--they removed the ... [more]

8:57:17 PM Aborigines may have been first astronomers
New Zealand Herald - Auckland,New Zealand

Based on Aboriginal tales he has unearthed about cosmic impacts and meteorite falls, particularly in the Arnhem Land region of the Northern Territory, ... [more]

8:34:13 PM New images of the Orion nebula
Examiner.com - San Francisco,CA,USA

The Hubble Space Telescope (HST) has captured 30 new images of embryonic planetary systems in the Orion Nebula that are part of the longest project the ... [more]

8:11:35 PM The Lovecraftian Meteorite
Escapist Magazine - Durham,NC,USA

Meteorites host the dual powers of creation and destruction; it was a meteorite that burst through the atmosphere and cleared an evolutionary path for ... [more]

7:36:09 PM "Blue Moon" to Shine on New Year's Eve
National Geographic

The widespread definition of a blue moon as the second full moon in a month stems from errors made in an astronomy magazine, when a writer misinterpreted ... [more]

6:52:03 PM NASA ISS On-Orbit Status 30 December 2009
Space Ref - USA

[MO-9 is conducted every 30 days (and also before and after EVAs) and is one of five nominal Russian medical tests adopted by NASA for US crewmembers for ... [more]

6:30:32 PM Kuiper Belt Reveals Its Smallest Space Object
Forbes

By Tudor Vieru, Science Editor While scanning our solar system's outer asteroid field, known as the Kuiper Belt, astronomers managed to make a very ... [more]

6:04:17 PM Dino-killer meteorite hit India coast: prof
Canada.com - Canada

An American professor says he has proof the massive meteorite that killed the dinosaurs actually crash-landed off India's west coast. ... [more]

4:10:28 PM Russia Plans to Save Planet from Killer Asteroid; 'No Nuclear Explosions ...
Wired News - USA

Astronomers initially guessed that Apophis had a reasonably good chance of smashing into Earth on its first flyby; NASA now reckons that the chances of that ... [more]

3:08:14 PM Russia plans space project to prevent asteroid collision
Motors ...

Russia is particularly sensitive to the threat from outer space because of a meteorite that struck a remote region of Siberia in 1908, leveling 80 million ... [more]

2:53:57 PM Nightshade Open Source Planetarium Project Launched
PR Newswire (press release) - USA

Nightshade renders over 100000 stars in stunning realism and in situ images of deep sky objects of note, including many Hubble Space Telescope images. .... [more]

2:45:13 PM Nasa picks three in space contest
BBC News - E,UK

The US space agency Nasa has selected three projects as finalists for its next celestial mission. The projects aim to either probe the atmosphere and .... [more]

2:26:44 PM NASA committed $320M to the WISE project
DailyTech - Chicago,IL,USA

Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) represent an extinction level threat to the entire human race. The odds are extremely low that an undetected asteroid or comet ... [more]

1:54:57 PM Russia may send spacecraft to knock away asteroid
Town Hall

When the 270-meter (885-foot) asteroid was first discovered in 2004, ... In October, NASA lowered the odds that Apophis could hit Earth in 2036 from a .... [more]

1:52:26 PM Top Local Stories Of The Decade: #2 Columbia Disaster
Central Florida News 13| - Orlando,FL,USA

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER -- Space Shuttle Columbia launched from Kennedy Space Center on Jan. 17, 2003 at 10:39 am The mission was a 16-day science research ... [more]

1:46:03 PM China building large radio telescope for space observation
China View, Beijing, China

The telescope, a form of directional radio antenna used in radio astronomy, will be used in tracking and collecting data from satellites and space probes ... [more]

1:44:38 PM Russia considers sending spacecraft to asteroid to avoid possible ...
Asbury Park Press - Asbury Park,NJ,USA

Scientists have long theorized about asteroid deflection strategies. ... "I don't remember exactly, but it seems to me it could hit the Earth by 2032," .... [more]

1:15:57 PM Infrared eye in sky to probe remotest reaches of space
Thaindian.com - Bangkok,Bangkok,Thailand

Washington, Dec 30 (IANS) Seeing into the remotest reaches of space, way beyond the capacity of the most powerful existing (Hubble) telescope, ... [more]

11:42:12 AM NASA Hubble picture reveals globular cluster
NEWS.com.au - Australia

This composite image of archival NASA Hubble Space Telescope data makes the globular star cluster M13 look like a glittering metropolis. ... [more]

11:40:02 AM Russian space chief says his agency will consider sending ...
CanadaEast.com - Moncton,New Brunswick,Canada

In October, NASA lowered the odds that Apophis could hit Earth in 2036 to a 1-in-250000 chance after researchers recalculated the asteroid's path. [more]

11:33:26 AM Blue moon to occur on New Year's Eve
Lake County News - Lakeport,CA,USA

Although the moon will not appear to be blue, the modern definition a blue moon is relatively new, and began in the 1940s, according to NASA. ... [more]

11:32:16 AM Roscosmos mulls project to destroy asteroid Apophis
Brahmand Defence and Aerospace News

According to scientists' estimation, the 270-meter Apophis is expected to hit Earth in 2036. Approximately the size of two-and-a-half football fields, ... [more]

11:15:14 AM Roscosmos to consider project to save Earth from asteroid
RIA Novosti - Moscow,Russia

He referred to Apophis, an asteroid that he said was almost three times as large as the Tunguska meteorite. On June 30, 1908, an explosion equivalent to ... [more]

10:57:03 AM Russia to save the world
Straits Times

The Apophis asteroid measures approximately 350 metres (1150 feet) in diameter and RIA Novosti news agency said that if it were to hit Earth when it passes ... [more]

9:28:38 AM Nashville fires burn Red Cross disaster relief budget
The Tennessean - Nashville,TN,USA

It was the autographed picture of the shuttle crew that fixed the Hubble Space Telescope. He was in his senior year of high school when he wrote an essay ... [more]

9:03:13 AM Space telescope will get its first glimpse at the sky
Pasadena Star-News - Pasadena,CA,USA

By Emma Gallegos Staff Writer LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE - NASA's latest space telescope opened its eyes to the sky Tuesday afternoon for the first time since it ... [more]

8:50:12 AM Blue moon to rise above New Year's Eve
Denver Post

Andrea Schweitzer, project manager for the International Year of Astronomy, observes that the New Year's Eve full moon falls at the end of the International ... [more]

7:59:06 AM Swirling Clouds of Carina Nebula
The Future of Things - USA

Hubble's Wide Field Camera 3 observed the Carina Nebula on 24-30 July 2009. WFC3 was installed aboard Hubble in May 2009 during Servicing Mission 4. .... [more]

7:33:05 AM Astronomers discover distant planet using off-the-shelf tech
Gizmag - Victoria,Australia

The super-Earth has an estimated temperature of approximately 400 degrees Farenheit but surprisingly astronomers predict that it is composed of about .... [more]

7:22:19 AM Obama set to launch vision for NASA
USA Today - McLean,VA,United States

By Bill Ingalls, AFP/Getty Images By Bart Jansen, USA TODAY WASHINGTON — President Obama will chart a course for NASA within weeks, based on the advice of a ... [more]

6:47:59 AM Shuttle replica still needs a home
Florida Today - Melbourne,FL,USA

Resolution! was relocated from California to Kennedy Space Center in 2005, but with the end of the space shuttle program looming, there was no longer a need ... [more]

6:46:56 AM NASA marks year of triumph, tension
Florida Today - Melbourne,FL,USA

Astronauts equip Hubble for long haulNASA astronauts equipped the Hubble Space Telescope with two new science instruments, fixed two others and outfitted ... [more]

5:12:44 AM 2009: A Year of Discovery and Promise in Space
Voice of America - USA

We also talk to a NASA expert about the discovery of methane gas on Mars. And we hear about the test flight of NASA's newest rocket. ... [more]

3:46:14 AM WISE observatory sheds lens cap and soaks up starlight
Spaceflight Now - Orlando,FL,USA

BY JUSTIN RAY NASA's new cosmic mapper successfully jettisoned a protective lens cover Tuesday, opening its infrared eyes to Universe for an unprecedented ... [more]

2:06:37 AM Proposed NASA missions shoot for Venus, nearby asteroid, moon
Pasadena Star-News - Pasadena,CA,USA

LA CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE - NASA officials announced Tuesday the three finalists contending to be the third mission in its New Frontiers Program. ... [more]

1:10:20 AM Google Earth confirms Dreamtime meteor legend
Herald Sun - Melbourne City,Victoria,Australia

By Annie Sanson INDIGENOUS Australians might have been some of the earliest astronomers, a Sydney-based scientist has found. Duane Hamacher, a PhD candidate ... [more]

12:52:16 AM NASA Orders Nikon Cameras For Use at ISS
Techie Buzz

by Keshav | Translate | Print The folks at Nikon were apparently very happy last week, because NASA had ordered some photographic equipment from them for ... [more]

12:43:55 AM Greensburg meteorite returns to its home
Pratt Tribune - Pratt,KS,USA

GREENSBURG — The 1000 pound Space Wanderer Pallasite Meteorite recently returned to its home in Greensburg. The meteorite will be placed on display in the ... [more]

12:40:08 AM 9 astronomy milestones in 2009
Standard-Speaker - Hazleton,PA,USA

By Jeremy Hsu This year provided plenty of cosmic eye-openers for astronomers and casual stargazers alike. Neighborhood planets such as Mercury and Jupiter ... [more]



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