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11:53:55 PM Meteorite Crammed with 'Millions' of Organic Compounds
Discovery News

These organic compounds are known to exist on comets, asteroids and other planetary bodies, so what makes Earth the hothouse of life when everywhere else ... [more]

11:01:51 PM Astronomy For Kids: Bull Ridin' Taurus
Universe Today - USA

Now that we've discovered the easy constellation of Orion "The Hunter", it's time to take a look at what else is around! Instead of chasing down game with a ... [more]

10:50:36 PM Meteorite That Fell in 1969 Still Revealing Secrets of the Early Solar
Scientific American

Scientific American By John Matson SPACE ROCKS: A fragment of the Murchison meteorite, which boasts a diverse array of organic compounds. Fragments of a chemically primitive ... [more]

10:03:53 PM Astronauts in Tranquility: Observation deck provides unique view for ...
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA

By Corkey Siemaszko Astronauts from the space shuttle Endeavour have attached the Tranquility node to the International Space Station, adding a six-windowed ... [more]

9:40:57 PM NASA's Wrong Stuff
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

I have always been a firm supporter of NASA and its space exploration program; it is truly the stuff of dreams (including mine). Yet, for the first time, ... [more]

9:24:59 PM Space rock contains organic molecular feast
BBC News - E,UK

By Doreen Walton Scientists say they have confirmed that a meteorite that crashed into earth 40 years ago contains millions of different organic compounds. ... [more]

8:55:05 PM Astro Bob blog: Venus and Jupiter get together over dinner
Duluth News Tribune

To figure out what asteroids are made of astronomers use an instrument called a spectroscope that dissects light into very fine gradations of color. ... [more]

8:49:02 PM Decades-old meteorite gets holistic treatment
RSC - London,UK

A new technique used to analyse samples from a meteorite that hit Australia more than 40 years ago could help scientists understand more about the chemical ... [more]

6:21:39 PM NASA's new direction could lift local space assets
Virginian Pilot - Hampton Roads,VA,USA

By Michael Schwartz President Obama's proposed federal budget for fiscal year 2011 delivered both good and bad news for space- and NASA-related ... [more]

6:20:21 PM UCF Professor Working on One-of-a-kind Asteroid Space Mission
University of Central Florida - Orlando,FL,USA

The mission is unique because it aims to bring back to Earth a sample of a primitive, organic-rich asteroid that is not found in any meteorite collection. ... [more]

4:54:03 PM Pluto Simulation Takes You To The Dwarf Planet (VIDEO)
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA

Recent photos from the Hubble Telescope indicate that Pluto is much more than a 'ball of ice and rock,' but a 'dynamic world that undergoes dramatic .... [more]

4:13:25 PM NASA Extends Shuttle Mission One Day As Crew Installs New Section
All Headline News - USA

Cape Canaveral, FL, United States (AHN) - NASA will prolong the space shuttle Endeavour mission to give astronauts an extra day to work on the International ... [more]

3:24:34 PM The GeekDad Space Report for February 15, 2010
Wired News - USA

The Space Shuttle Endeavour rocketed skyward to the ISS, docking with the orbiting laboratory. The crews of Endeavour and the ISS worked together to install ... [more]

3:23:45 PM BGSU professor suspended, barred from campus
Toledo On The Move - Toledo,OH,USA

Bruno Ullrich, an associate professor of Physics and Astronomy, was arrested this month on charges of aggravated menacing and inducing panic, according to a ... [more]

3:05:59 PM Ken Croswell and a February 2010 vote on Pluto as a planet
Earth & Sky - Austin,TX,USA

In 2006, a vote of about 400 astronomers with the International Astronomical Union, or IAU, demoted Pluto from full planet to dwarf planet status. ... [more]

1:48:46 PM CAMPUS brief for Mon., Feb. 15
The BG News

By The BG News University police arrested Ullrich, a physics and astronomy professor, Feb. 5 for aggravated menacing and inducing panic, both first degree ... [more]

12:29:45 PM Delaware North has done well at KSC
Florida Today - Melbourne,FL,USA

Without the investment Delaware North made, there's no way Florida could realistically be considered a home for one of the retired space shuttle orbiters. ... [more]

11:30:35 AM Poem of the week: Twilight by Samuel Menashe
Guardian - UK

Photograph: Nasa/Esa/The Hubble Heritage/PA Samuel Menashe was born in New York in 1925. His parents were Russian-Jewish immigrants, and his first language ... [more]

10:40:30 AM BGSU suspends teacher named in threat case
Toledo Blade - Toledo,OH,USA

Bruno Ullrich, an associate professor of physics and astronomy, is barred from campus pending the results of an internal investigation, said spokesman Dave ... [more]

10:00:55 AM Louisiana Spotlight for Feb. 15
Baton Rouge Advocate - Baton Rouge,LA,USA

For 12 years he had worked to help build the huge fuel tanks for the space shuttle program, but the shuttle is being phased out. Jobs remaining at NASA's ... [more]

9:21:30 AM A gathering of young science talents
Express Buzz - Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: ''I want to be an astronomer. I want to be known all around the world like the famous Indian astronomer, Subramanyam Chandrasekhar,” ... [more]

7:57:20 AM Trying to stop the big smash
Diamondback Online - College Park,MD,USA

By Amy Hemmati The premise of a giant asteroid hitting the earth and ending civilization has become an increasingly popular threat in movies and video games ... [more]

7:41:29 AM Mission to save NASA uphill battle for Houston-area lawmaker
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA

By STEWART M. POWELL WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's plan to cancel NASA's cherished back-to-the-moon Constellation program puts freshman Texas ... [more]

6:08:25 AM At Age 7, WMAP Refines "Precision Cosmology"
Sky & Telescope - Cambridge,CA,USA

The Hubble parameter, the rate at which the universe is expanding, is 70.4 ± 1.4 kilometers per second per megaparsec in today's universe. ... [more]

5:47:33 AM NASA grant to boost science studies
TMCnet (press release) - USA

Starting this summer, 40 teachers will participate in summer institutes at NC A&T, where they will conduct research using NASA content and develop ... [more]

4:29:36 AM Space station observation deck being relocated
The Associated Press

NASA's part of space station construction will end with the retirement of the space shuttle fleet, scheduled for this fall. Endeavour and its crew of six ... [more]

4:27:07 AM While NASA needs to evolve, the universe still beckons
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA

FOR THE generations that witnessed the moon landings, sending Americans into space has always been NASA's job - and NASA's job alone. ... [more]

3:10:56 AM Astronomers Say Presence Of Water On Moon Will Lead To More Missions
Space Daily

Astronomers at NMSU were stationed at Apache Point Observatory in Sunspot, NM, and at Tortugas Mountain Observatory in Las Cruces, to observe the moment of ... [more]

1:19:00 AM Astronomy: In praise of planet Pluto, identified 80 years ago
Guardian - UK

Pictures from the Hubble telescope, released earlier this month, showed a quickly-changing, mottled surface, like the coat of a dapple-grey horse. .... [more]

1:13:26 AM NASA gets help from UCF students
Central Florida Future - Orlando,FL,USA

By Lea Anne Crittenden Three UCF mechanical engineering seniors are helping NASA space shuttles blast off without future problems. ... [more]

12:34:24 AM Gotham Gigs: A meteoric rise
Crain's New York Business - New York,NY,USA

If meteorites today are viewed as objects of art, Darryl Pitt is at least partly the reason why. He stumbled into the world of meteorite collecting in the ... [more]



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