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3:15:16 AM	Farmer finds rare meteorite on field in Sibley County Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis,MN,USA It's a rare meteorite, 4.6 billion years old and one of only nine or 10 that have been confirmed in Minnesota since European settlement. “We've done enough tests to be sure it's a meteorite,” said University of Minnesota earth sciences Prof. Calvin . [more]
3:15:16 AM	Another asteroid flyby- 'Awesome!' (3) The Guardian - Nigeria - Lagos,Nigeria Within hand reach of me, for example, is a specimen from an iron meteorite that exploded in 2008, over the Sokoto South Local Government Area of Sokoto State. Residents of Mana village reportedly saw a bright streak in the sky and then heard a loud n [more]
3:03:45 AM	Sunday Brings the Year's Biggest Full Moon Chosun Ilbo - Seoul,South Korea This year's biggest full moon will rise at 7:37 p.m. on Sunday and become fully visible 55 minutes later at 8:32 p.m., the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute said Wednesday. The reason the moon looks bigger is that it revolves around the ear [more]
2:10:12 AM	Deborah Zabarenko, Reuters London Free Press The passage of asteroid 2012 DA14 through the Earth-moon system, is depicted in this handout image from NASA. The asteroid, 150 feet (45 metres) in diameter passed close, but safely, by Earth on February 15, 2013. (REUTERS/NASA/JPL-Caltech/ ... [more]
12:38:21 AM	NASA: Humans Could Visit Asteroid in 2021 Voice of America - USA The U.S. space agency says its proposed asteroid capture mission takes several of NASA's ongoing initiatives and aligns them for one major mission. These chunks of ancient space rocks hold clues about the formation of the universe, pose threats to ou [more]
12:38:21 AM	Congress looks to kill NASA's plan to capture an asteroid ComputerWorld - USA Computerworld - House Republican leaders are shooting to get astronauts on the moon and Mars, but they're trying to nix the president's asteroid plans. In April, NASA announced that President Barack Obama's Fiscal Year 2014 budget request for NASA .. [more]
12:38:21 AM	NASA Wants You To Stop Asteroids Information Week Weblog - Manhasset,NY,USA (click image for slideshow). Uncle Sam needs you to stop asteroids. Or at least toss some ideas its way on how earth can avoid them. NASA is asking for help from academia, citizens and other agencies in identifying asteroids that might endanger the p [more]
12:38:21 AM	NASA wants your help lassoing an asteroid Christian Science Monitor - USA NASA wants our help snagging an asteroid. Skip to next paragraph. Related stories. Are you scientifically literate? Take our quiz · Moon explosion as humongous rock strikes lunar surface · Fireballs! 'Tis the season for massive meteors. Subscribe Tod [more]
12:26:31 AM	Einasto Donates Part of Astrophysics Prize Proceeds to Research ERR News Astronomer Jaan Einasto is donating a portion of an international prize to fund research grants for the post-ESTCube generation. Einasto, who won the Viktor Ambartsumian award last summer along with a Russian professor, Igor Novikov, said he will use [more]
12:26:31 AM	Dark Sky Park: Super Moon Interlochen Public Radio As astronomer, Endymion would be regarded as one who could apply clear thinking to the phenomena of the natural, albeit intangible worlds of moon and stars. The application of “right thinking” about the phenomena of the world can keep one eternally . [more]
12:26:31 AM	Weather not a stargazing obstacle Stuff.co.nz - New Zealand ... stargazing obstacle. ESTHER ASHBY-COVENTRY. Last updated 05:00 20/06/2013. peter aldous. SUPPLIED. STARGAZER: Amateur astronomer Peter Aldous at the Geraldine Observatory with his Schmidt Casseegrain roll off roofed observatory telescope. [more]

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3:15:16 AM

Farmer finds rare meteorite on field in Sibley County
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis,MN,USA

It's a rare meteorite, 4.6 billion years old and one of only nine or 10 that have been confirmed in Minnesota since European settlement. “We've done enough tests to be sure it's a meteorite,” said University of Minnesota earth sciences Prof. Calvin . [more]

3:15:16 AM

Another asteroid flyby- 'Awesome!' (3)
The Guardian - Nigeria - Lagos,Nigeria

Within hand reach of me, for example, is a specimen from an iron meteorite that exploded in 2008, over the Sokoto South Local Government Area of Sokoto State. Residents of Mana village reportedly saw a bright streak in the sky and then heard a loud n [more]

3:03:45 AM

Sunday Brings the Year's Biggest Full Moon
Chosun Ilbo - Seoul,South Korea

This year's biggest full moon will rise at 7:37 p.m. on Sunday and become fully visible 55 minutes later at 8:32 p.m., the Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute said Wednesday. The reason the moon looks bigger is that it revolves around the ear [more]

2:10:12 AM

Deborah Zabarenko, Reuters
London Free Press

The passage of asteroid 2012 DA14 through the Earth-moon system, is depicted in this handout image from NASA. The asteroid, 150 feet (45 metres) in diameter passed close, but safely, by Earth on February 15, 2013. (REUTERS/NASA/JPL-Caltech/ ... [more]

12:38:21 AM

NASA: Humans Could Visit Asteroid in 2021
Voice of America - USA

The U.S. space agency says its proposed asteroid capture mission takes several of NASA's ongoing initiatives and aligns them for one major mission. These chunks of ancient space rocks hold clues about the formation of the universe, pose threats to ou [more]

12:38:21 AM

Congress looks to kill NASA's plan to capture an asteroid
ComputerWorld - USA

Computerworld - House Republican leaders are shooting to get astronauts on the moon and Mars, but they're trying to nix the president's asteroid plans. In April, NASA announced that President Barack Obama's Fiscal Year 2014 budget request for NASA .. [more]

12:38:21 AM

NASA Wants You To Stop Asteroids
Information Week Weblog - Manhasset,NY,USA

(click image for slideshow). Uncle Sam needs you to stop asteroids. Or at least toss some ideas its way on how earth can avoid them. NASA is asking for help from academia, citizens and other agencies in identifying asteroids that might endanger the p [more]

12:38:21 AM

NASA wants your help lassoing an asteroid
Christian Science Monitor - USA

NASA wants our help snagging an asteroid. Skip to next paragraph. Related stories. Are you scientifically literate? Take our quiz · Moon explosion as humongous rock strikes lunar surface · Fireballs! 'Tis the season for massive meteors. Subscribe Tod [more]

12:26:31 AM

Einasto Donates Part of Astrophysics Prize Proceeds to Research
ERR News

Astronomer Jaan Einasto is donating a portion of an international prize to fund research grants for the post-ESTCube generation. Einasto, who won the Viktor Ambartsumian award last summer along with a Russian professor, Igor Novikov, said he will use [more]

12:26:31 AM

Dark Sky Park: Super Moon
Interlochen Public Radio

As astronomer, Endymion would be regarded as one who could apply clear thinking to the phenomena of the natural, albeit intangible worlds of moon and stars. The application of “right thinking” about the phenomena of the world can keep one eternally . [more]

12:26:31 AM

Weather not a stargazing obstacle
Stuff.co.nz - New Zealand

... stargazing obstacle. ESTHER ASHBY-COVENTRY. Last updated 05:00 20/06/2013. peter aldous. SUPPLIED. STARGAZER: Amateur astronomer Peter Aldous at the Geraldine Observatory with his Schmidt Casseegrain roll off roofed observatory telescope. [more]