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News From Thursday, February 04, 2010
10:56:45 PM Best View Yet of Pluto Shows Rapidly Changing Surface
Wired News - USA

Working from 384 images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope in which the image of Pluto itself was just a few pixels across, astronomer Marc Buie and his ... [more]

10:45:07 PM The right way forward on space exploration
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

So it was with some trepidation that I waited for the NASA budget to be unveiled this week. I was concerned that amid the nation's fiscal crises, .... [more]

9:33:54 PM Pluto images show a dynamic world
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

The dwarf planet looks icy and dark molasses-colored and shows dramatic seasonal atmospheric changes, astronomers say. By Thomas H. Maugh II Newly .... [more]

8:21:52 PM New Views of Pluto Reveal Weird Bright Spot
Space.com - USA

Scientist Mike Brown, professor of planetary astronomy at Caltech in Pasadena, Calif., who as discoverer of Eris was partly responsible for this demotion, ... [more]

8:19:45 PM Hubble sees Pluto changing color, ice sheet cover
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA

AP WASHINGTON -- Newly released Hubble Space Telescope photos show Pluto is changing color and its ice sheets are shifting. That's got astronomers surprised ... [more]

8:16:01 PM Countdown Clock on for Shuttle Endeavour's Launch
FOX News - USA

NASA has begun counting down toward the planned predawn launch of the space shuttle Endeavour on Sunday. A transportation canister containing Tranquility, ... [more]

7:19:01 PM Astronomers using web find valuable meteor
Siliconrepublic.com - Dublin,Ireland

04.02.2010 The search is on in Ireland for a meteor that crashed from the heavens last night and that could be worth a small fortune. ... [more]

6:55:14 PM Will Robonaut Boldly Go Where NASA Won't?
FOX News - USA

NASA's humans-in-space program may be on life-support following dramatic recent budget cuts, but the agencies robots-in-space program is alive and well. ... [more]

4:38:28 PM Race on to find valuable space rock
Irish Times - Dublin,Ireland

The last time a meteorite hit Ireland was in 1999 and parts of the rock were retrieved in Co Carlow. It sold for $500 dollars per gram, and Astronomy ... [more]

4:34:03 PM NASA puzzled by spaceship-like object
Toronto Star - Toronto,Ontario,Canada

The first sign of worry comes when NASA takes a look and collectively shrugs its shoulders. About a month ago, the celestial object pictured above streaked ... [more]

2:58:55 PM Vatican Astronomer To Speak At Emory, Agnes Scott
Georgia Bulletin - Georgia

ATLANTA—The Aquinas Center of Theology has announced that Society of Jesus Brother Guy Consolmagno, an astronomer with the Vatican Observatory, ... [more]

2:52:47 PM Search for meteorite in midlands
RTE Interactive - Ireland

People throughout the midlands are searching for the meteorite that fell to Earth last night. Astronomy Ireland says a major fireball was spotted over ... [more]

2:03:11 PM GM, NASA team up for robot
Detroit Free Press - Detroit,MI,USA

By TIM HIGGINS After about three years of work, General Motors and NASA today are showing off the next generation of an advanced robot that is said to be ... [more]

12:26:27 PM Challenger space shuttle disaster amateur video discovered
Guardian - UK

Never-before-seen video of the Challenger space shuttle disaster has surfaced after almost a quarter-century locked away in a Florida basement. ... [more]

11:42:49 AM Astronomy On The Rails
Space Daily - Rancho Palos Verdes,CA,USA

Well you can and last month well known mid north coast astronomer Dave Reneke from Australasian Science magazine did just that, on board the new Southern ... [more]

10:42:03 AM Did this asteroid's brother KILL the dinosaurs?
The Mirror - UK

Scientists say it may have been formed from the collision of two asteroids from the Flora group - "siblings" of the massive rock that hit Earth 100 million ... [more]

10:13:53 AM Tycho Brahe to be exhumed
The Copenhagen Post - Copenhagen,Sealand,Denmark

A group of Danish and Czech experts will therefore soon be able to carry out detailed analyses of the astronomer's bone, hair and clothing remains to find ... [more]

9:54:12 AM Bolden Appoints NASA Chief Technologist
Space News

By Brian Berger WASHINGTON — NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said Feb. 3 that Georgia Institute of Technology researcher Robert Braun had joined the US ... [more]

9:43:40 AM 'Fireball' lights up Irish sky
BBC News - E,UK

A fireball, thought to be a meteorite, has been spotted in the night sky by people from all over the island of Ireland at about 1800 GMT on Wednesday. .... [more]

9:42:24 AM Saiful: "Anwar: 'Can I **** you?' "; Miley Cyrus's 9-year-old sis poses
Klue - Malaysia

Klue The interplanetary Hubble Space Telescope recently spotted a "comet-like" object with odd traits. [Newser] Ooh, pretty: illustrations from a Soviet-era ... [more]

8:02:00 AM NASA Plan Faces Turbulence in House
Wall Street Journal - USA

NASA's proposed budget for the fiscal year starting Oct. 1 seeks to cancel the current Constellation program intended to blast astronauts into orbit and ... [more]

7:59:26 AM March Field Air Museum to get six space shuttle items
Press-Enterprise - Riverside,CA,USA

By LAURIE LUCAS March Field Air Museum will receive six space-shuttle artifacts next year, future exhibits that will help launch the Inland facility into ... [more]

7:37:59 AM Meteorite 'probably came down on land'
Ireland Online

He said the last time a meteorite hit Ireland was in 1999 and that rock sold online for up to $500 per gram. [more]

7:23:49 AM Mars is orange beacon in February night
Seattle Times - Seattle,WA,USA

February is an excellent time to visit your local astronomy club so you can learn more and get prepped for the clearer, warmer months to come. ... [more]

7:12:12 AM University of Hawai'i Astronomer Reveals The Dark Side of the Sun
Maui Weekly - Kihei Maui,Hawaii,USA

UH Institute for Astronomy public lecture sheds light on the correlation between solar cycles and climate change. “This connection is something we really ... [more]

5:52:27 AM The Hubble Space Telescope has spotted an X of debris that may have come
Popular Science - New York,NY,USA

Popular Science Cooking meat at a low temperature for three days brings amazing results. Here's how to do it on the cheap (but every bit as delicious) In the State of the ... [more]

4:15:44 AM Lanlord, tenant battle over meteorite
KABC - Los Angeles,CA,USA

A Virginia doctor and the landlord of his office building are fighting over who owns a meteorite that landed in the doctor's office last month. ... [more]

2:25:29 AM House Panel Sees Pros and Cons in NASA Plan
New York Times - New York,NY,USA

By KENNETH CHANG WASHINGTON — Congressional reaction to President Obama's budget for NASA was divided more along geographical than political lines Wednesday ... [more]

2:10:55 AM Meteorites: Who owns what now?
Discovery News

By Robert Lamb | Wed Feb 3, 2010 04:53 PM ET Behold the mighty Lorton meteorite! (AP Photo/Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History, ... [more]

2:03:43 AM Obama Gets Space Funding Right
Wall Street Journal - USA

It is true that astronauts made a large contribution to astronomy by servicing the Hubble Space Telescope. But if Hubble had been put into orbit by unmanned ... [more]

1:38:38 AM Proposed NASA budget plots entrepreneur-friendly course
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA

The potentially seismic shift for the aerospace industry was announced Monday, the seventh anniversary of the loss of the space shuttle Columbia, .... [more]

12:14:10 AM Fireball seen over Ireland
Irish Times - Dublin,Ireland

Tommy Moore from Astronomy Ireland said a space rock collided with the earth's atmosphere at about 6pm, showering debris over many parts of the country. ... [more]



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