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News From Wednesday, March 03, 2010
11:55:07 PM Shuttle flights would continue under new proposal
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando,FL,USA

WASHINGTON — The space shuttle era could get a new lease on life under a bill filed today by US Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas. ... [more]

11:34:13 PM Milky Way ate smaller galaxies, star confirms
CBC News - Canada

The star, found in the Sculptor galaxy 280000 light-years away, is very low in "metals," astronomers said. In astronomy, metals are any elements other than ... [more]

10:59:57 PM Boeing Statement on NASA's Win of 2009 Collier Trophy
Product Design & Development - Rockaway,NJ,USA

By Boeing HOUSTON, March 3, 2010 -- The National Aeronautic Association today named NASA's International Space Station (ISS) program the recipient of the ... [more]

10:36:15 PM Astronomy Class Takes A Look At The Myth Of 2012
Valley Star

The Valley College Astronomy Group invited the executive director of the Center for Inquiry, James Underdown, to speak to students under the planetarium ... [more]

10:17:27 PM How Black Holes Overcome Cetrifugal Force to Suck in Gas
Wired News - USA

By Ron Cowen, Science News Astronomers have finally gotten a firmer grip on how supermassive black holes in the centers of most galaxies gobble up gas from ... [more]

10:12:02 PM Dunhill Crushed Black Diamond and Meteorite Pen
Luxist - Santa Monica,CA,USA

The all-black Sentryman Meteorite Rollerball Pen for $1100 features an innovative lacquer finish containing authentic crushed black diamonds and meteorite ... [more]

10:07:12 PM Primary opponent tussles with Kosmas over shuttle
Central Florida Political Pulse - Orlando,FL,USA

.... New Smyrna Beach of ignoring aerospace workers after she skipped a Saturday rally for those who could lose their jobs when the space shuttle is retired. ... [more]

9:57:18 PM How Chile's quake could have shortened a day
BBC News - E,UK

Nasa scientists believe Chile's devastating earthquake may have speeded up the Earth's rotation and shortened the length of a day. ... [more]

8:51:49 PM Winds of Change: How Black Holes May Shape Galaxies
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA

X-ray data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory are shown in red, optical data from the Hubble Space Telescope in green and radio data from the Very Large ... [more]

8:09:11 PM ICAP Ocean Tomo to Auction Multiple NASA Patent Portfolios at Upcoming
MarketWatch - USA

MarketWatch (press release) L), will offer exclusive licenses to four patent portfolios owned by NASA Goddard and NASA Marshall Space Flight Centers at its upcoming Live Auction March ... [more]

8:04:40 PM Old star is 'missing link' in galactic evolution
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA

"It was a question of finding the right kind of star, and doing that required some new techniques," says Josh Simon , an astronomer at the Observatories of ... [more]

7:02:24 PM NASA moves space shuttle to launch pad
Standard-Speaker - Hazleton,PA,USA

By Tariq Malik NASA hauled the space shuttle Discovery out to its seaside launch pad in Florida early Wednesday to prepare for a planned April 5 blastoff. ... [more]

7:02:09 PM Astronomer gives lecture at WWCC next Wednesday
Little Chicago Review - Chicago,IL,USA

Astronomer and author Michael S. Brotherton will be giving a lecture called “Science and Science Fiction,” an entertaining look at how science is portrayed ... [more]

6:32:50 PM IMAX Offers Library Patrons Seats to Hubble 3D Movie
American Libraries

Hubble 3D opens in IMAX and IMAX 3D theaters across the country March 19. The contest is open to kids in kindergarten through 12th grade. ... [more]

6:14:58 PM Space shuttle Discovery transported to launch pad
The Associated Press

Space shuttle Discovery is at its launch pad for an Easter Monday flight to the International Space Station. NASA moved the shuttle out of its giant hangar ... [more]

5:41:19 PM A more vibrant-looking Earth
Toronto Sun - Ontario, Canada

Using the Terra satellite, circling high above us, astronomers assembled thousands of images shot over months by the remote sensing device MODIS. .... [more]

5:27:13 PM German scientists put Earth back on track!
Bild.de - Germany

“Unverifiable,” declared a top German scientist as he put the Earth back on ... the alleged discovery: “I hit my hand on my head as I read that yesterday. ... [more]

5:22:54 PM Proposed 2011 NASA budget cuts Moon/Mars program, favors commercial orbital
High Performance Composites - USA

High Performance Composites s (NASA) planned replacement for its Space Shuttle fleet, faces elimination if President Barack Obama's 2011 budget proposal is approved by the US Congress. ... [more]

4:27:08 PM SA telescope bid decision in 2012
MyADSL - Melville,South Africa

Astronomers and funding agencies will next year assess sites in South Africa and Australia and recommend which one be chosen as the place to build the ... [more]

3:54:54 PM First signal received by future telescope
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA

(Swinburne Astronomy Productions. Design data, CSIRO) An historic milestone was reached recently in Australia's bid to host the Square Kilometre Array .... [more]

2:54:18 PM Space Shuttle Discovery at launch pad
ABC Action News - Tampa,FL,USA

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL - Space Shuttle Discovery completed a nearly seven hour journey to the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center this morning. .... [more]

2:51:06 PM Thick masses of buried ice found on Mars
United Press International

NASA said the subsurface ice deposits extend for hundreds of miles in a region about halfway from the equator to the Martian north pole. ... [more]

1:55:29 PM Teledyne Infrared Sensors Survey the Universe
MarketWatch - USA

Teledyne's substrate-removed HgCdTe focal plane array is the baseline technology for several future space astronomy and Earth observation missions, ... [more]

1:37:37 PM Last Space Shuttle Tank Built At Michoud Reaches Milestone
WDSU - New Orleans,LA,USA

NEW ORLEANS -- Work on the last external fuel tank for the space shuttle to be built in New Orleans has reached a major milestone, according to Lockheed ... [more]

12:26:06 PM Space shuttle Discovery begins move to launch pad
The News-Press - Fort Myers,FL,USA

6:27 AM — CAPE CANAVERAL — Shuttle Discovery is on its way to its Kennedy Space Center launch pad today after rolling out of its assembly building in ... [more]

12:11:28 PM $4.7 million will make local centers better click
Las Vegas Review - Journal - Las Vegas,NV,USA

By HUBBLE SMITH The federal government is sending nearly $4.7 million in economic stimulus money to Southern Nevada for computer training centers, .... [more]

11:47:34 AM Nasa to launch weather Goes
News24 - South Africa

It will be launched for Nasa and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), which oversees the US National Weather Service, ... [more]

10:15:07 AM Discovery Rolls Out To Launch Pad
Central Florida News 13| - Orlando,FL,USA

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER -- Space shuttle Discovery is making the slow roll from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39A for the next to last time. ... [more]

9:50:44 AM New era of planet discovery on horizon
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK

British astronomers are in the vanguard of the search, which could transform humanity's view of its place in the universe. More than 400 ''exoplanets'' ... [more]

8:54:17 AM Gallery: Midnight Shuttle Rollout
Universe Today - USA

But then the Xenon spotlights hit space shuttle Discovery as it inched out of the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center, lighting up the .... [more]

8:28:29 AM Toxic Shock
Astrobiology Magazine - USA

A study in 2007 revealed the origin of the asteroid (dubbed 298 Baptistina) that created the Chicxulub crater on Earth 65 million years ago. ... [more]

8:18:08 AM North science teacher selected to conduct NASA research
Frankfort Station - Frankfort,IL,USA

As a member, her classes will conduct sophisticated astronomy research, make a presentation at an internationally renowned astronomy conference and may ... [more]

7:29:01 AM Final Farewell
Tremonton Leader

The test was the 52nd performed at the location since the birth of NASA's Space Shuttle program 30 years ago. “This is definitely the end of an amazing ... [more]

6:38:01 AM Windsor astronaut returning to space
Press & Sun-Bulletin - Binghamton,NY,USA

By George Basler •gbasler@gannett.com • March 2, 2010, 9:30 pm Nearly three years after being part of what was one of the most harrowing space shuttle ... [more]

6:19:09 AM How the stars helped to map the west
Vulcan Advocate

It wasn't that he was a starry-eyed dreamer, but rather a dedicated astronomer using the best mapping technology of his day fuelled by determination — so no ... [more]

5:47:02 AM Quake slows ef fort on Va.-led telescope
Charlottesville Daily Progress

By Katherine Calos Media General News Service RICHMOND — A Virginia-led international astronomy project in Chile was not damaged by the country's ... [more]

5:39:53 AM Another NASA first: Native Houstonian goes into space
KENS 5 TV

by Brad Woodard / 11 News In NASA's storied history, there have been many firsts, from man's first steps on the moon to the launch of the very first space ... [more]

2:30:06 AM BEACON center should not take place of science library
MSU State News - East Lansing,MI,USA

The decision was taken so fast that even the professors of the Department of Physics and Astronomy learned about that news at the faculty meeting, .... [more]

12:44:52 AM Opinion: Mars Is Within Our Reach -- Here's How
AOL News

Brought up as cargo aboard the space shuttle -- which I also propose we keep flying for several additional missions and not retire it as NASA is planning to ... [more]

12:19:09 AM That Whole Internet Thing's Not Going To Work Out
Slate

By Farhad ManjooPosted Tuesday, March 2, 2010, at 5:26 PM ET In 1995, Clifford Stoll, an astronomer, author, and mad-scientist type, published a column in ... [more]

12:18:47 AM Popular Artist Had Extensive Ties to UA
University of Arizona News (press release) - Tucson,AZ,USA

Peter Wierenga, an emeritus professor of astronomy at the UA Steward Observatory, said McCall followed in the footsteps of Chesley Bonestell, .... [more]

12:11:45 AM First Mirrors Polished for Next-Gen Space Telescope
Wired News - USA

Recall that an erroneously polished mirror fouled up Hubble's launch. The telescope got into orbit before researchers realized that things weren't working ... [more]



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