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SOUTH AFRICA Summer News, Jan 21, 2012



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Did South Africa snub IMF's Christine Lagarde?
CNN International (blog)
South Africa (CNN) –It was a hot summer day when Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund visited South Africa in early January. However, it appeared that she received a rather chilly welcome from the South African government. ...

ARGENTINA Summer News, Jan 21, 2012


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A summertime Christmas
Mabel Harmony News-Record
Essentially, spending the holidays in Argentina was like celebrating New Year's twice, except the second time had about five times more fireworks. The difference between the two holidays was remarkably small, because Christmas here is significantly ...
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Straight into Argentina furnace for Black Sticks
Stuff.co.nz
New Zealand have had a couple of days to acclimatise, though the late start (10pm local time) for theArgentina match should help ease them into conditions, which Hager said were a welcome change from a wet summer back home. ...
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Little rain this week for parched Argentine corn
Reuters Africa
Weeks of unforgiving Southern Hemisphere summer sun have toasted grains fields in the world's No. 2 corn-exporting country, killing expectations that Argentina might replenish global corn supplies depleted by a lackluster US harvest. ...
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Expected Trends For Corn, Soybeans, Oil And Gas
Seeking Alpha
Several weeks ago, we began forecasting a developing drought in Argentina and that corn and potentially soybean prices would likely bottom heading into the key pollination and pod-setting timeof the year for crops in Argentina and southern Brazil. ...
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French Corn Farmers Plant Earlier, Lift Yields as Climate Warms
Bloomberg
Enlarge image Argentine Corn Farmers Prepare for Heatwave Argentine Corn Farmers Prepare for Heatwave Diego Guidice/Bloomberg Parched corn grows in a field in Coronel Isleno, Argentina. Corn farmers in France, the European Union's largest producer, ...
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Bloomberg
Cristina Fernandez rests in the Atlantic coast; medical leave ends next Tuesday
MercoPress
Also, it's the first time the Argentine president has been to the seaside resort to stay at the presidential residence since becoming Head of State. The last visit was with the late NĂ©stor Kirchner in January 2004, when she was still a national senator ...
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MercoPress
Falklands war pilot comes face to face with the man he thought he had killed
Daily Mail
'We were relaxing, stood down from our weapons,' he remembers, 'It was a nice, sunny day – like an English summer's day, but a bit colder, and the visibility was quite good.' At that same moment, First Lieutenant Mariano Velasco, 33, one of Argentina's ...
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Daily Mail
Indian summer goes on for Fowler and Co
Irish Independent
The former Liverpool star, last seen on the fields of Thailand, is to be joined in the Indian summer of his career by six other iconic players in Fernando Morientes, Robert Pires, Fabio Cannavaro, Jay-Jay Okocha and Argentina internationals Hernan ...
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Loan spell memories key to Casalinuovo return
Fife Today
Casalinuovo joined United on a free transfer from Platense in the summer of 2009, and after his loan spell at Raith he went on to start 18 games for the Tannadice club that season, scoring eight times. His form attracted the interest of Hamilton Accies ...
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U-S-Ache!
FOXSports.com
And Manu Ginobili and Luis Scola will make sure that playing Argentina will be no picnic. Dwyane Wade pondered making 2008 his last Olympics, but he's on the list of 20 finalists for Team USA in 2012. Wade could join Miami Heat teammate LeBron James ...
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FOXSports.com
'Trio can be Wales stars'
South Wales Evening Post
"What he lacks in genuine gas he makes up for because he has time on the ball. And he is a really good lad." Unlike the other two, Tipuric has already been capped, making appearances off the bench against Argentina last summer and Australia in December ...
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Olympics: Hockey Test event line-up confirmed
WalesOnline
Australia and Germany, the top two in the men's game, will be joined by eight-time gold medal winners India for a four-nations event to be held at the 16000-seater Riverbank Arena in the Olympic Park. World champions Argentina are the top draw in the ...
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David Silva back from a break to freshen Manchester City's title run
The Guardian (blog)
An extravagantly gifted talent flew home instead of assisting Manchester City's pursuit of silverware last week but none of the acrimony that accompanied Carlos Tevez back to Argentina in October was present when David Silva headed for Spain. ...
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The Guardian (blog)
SEC-SIPA Suit, Apple-Samsung, Russian Oligarch, TD in Court News
Bloomberg
Dart's Fund May Get Top Court Review on Argentine Judgment Two funds, one controlled by billionaire Kenneth Dart, may get a US Supreme Court (1000L) hearing in their legal fight to collect at least $2 billion owed by the government of Argentina. ...
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Derby of Broken Dreams
ESPN (blog)
And I use the term 'Milan sides' loosely, considering one of the teams is based out of Buenos Aires,Argentina. Bragging rights are given to the victor for the next few months, where the person will ridicule/mock/physically assault the fan of the other ...
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The original Dream Team
ESPN.co.uk
With less than 200 days to go until the start of the London Olympics, the countdown to the 2012 Games has begun and the clock is ticking for those athletes who harbour medal aspirations this summer. This week saw USA Basketball announce what was...
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ESPN.co.uk
Cattle-Price Plunge Just Start of Pressure on Korean Farmers
Wall Street Journal (blog)
Now, at a time when US farmers are watching Argentina's hot summer days and Brazil's cattle output for the effect on their own planting and selling plans, South Korean farmers remain mostly locked in their own centrifugal force. ...
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Three Medals at Pan American Championships
CTV.ca
The Canadian trail to the podium continued in the men's race as Brent McMahon and Kyle Jones continued their quest to qualify themselves, and three Canadian men, for the 2012 Olympic Summer Games. Victoria's Brent McMahon perfected his race strategy ...
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CTV.ca
Enzo Perez training alone at Benfica
bettor.com (blog)
According to reports, Benfica, have also convinced the player that he needs to change his agent, while they will take the blame of his time spent in Argentina. Enzo Perez will be keen to move on from his episode and hopefully get his career back on ...
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US youngsters looking to impress
SI.com
Venezuela has started strong in South American qualifying for 2014, tied for first (along withArgentina and Uruguay) atop the group with a 2-1-1 record. But the team that beat Argentina back in November won't look much like Saturday's side. ...
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PuSh comes to shove
North Shore News
One would have been May/June that's sort of the summertime cycle of festivals - back east you've got Festival TransAmĂ©riques in Montreal, the Carrefour festival in Quebec City, you've got the Magnetic North Theatre Festival, which moves around but ...
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President Petroleum announces well PEE-1001 success - significant additional ...
OilVoice (press release)
President Petroleum has announced an operational update relating to its various fields within the Puesto Guardian Concession (PG) in Argentina. 'Having achieved success at President's first well inArgentina, we now move on applying the learnings to ...
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Djokovic up and running but Stosur wilts
Irish Times
“I really, really wanted to do well here and over the [Australian] summer,” sixth seed Stosur said of becoming the biggest casualty of the first round. “I did everything I could to try and give myself a good opportunity. “It obviously didn't happen ...
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Guarin, Nainggolan & the Juventus centre-midfield targets for January & the ...
Goal.com
He then started every game as his national side reached the quarter-finals of the Copa America after topping Argentina's group. Much of his 2011-12 campaign has been taken up by transfer talk, with Juve by far and away the most interested club, ...
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Hockey ace Walton hopes for hot form
Manchester Evening News
The hockey ace, who plays for Bowdon Hightown, is preparing with the rest of the Great Britain squad for the Champions Trophy which is being held in Argentina at the end of this month. And while the thermometers here are plunging below zero, ...
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SPACE, Astronomy News, Jan 21, 2012

Funding Drought Jeopardizes Future NASA Astronomy Missions
Space.com
by Denise Chow, SPACE.com Staff Writer AUSTIN, Texas — With NASA operating on an increasingly tight budget, the agency's ability to launch future large astronomy missions is at risk, scientists said. And this quandary has no simple solution. ...
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope Solves Mystery on Source of Supernova in Nearby ...
Clarksville Online
Baltimore, MD – Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have solved a longstanding mystery on the type of star, or so-called progenitor, which caused a supernova seen in a nearby galaxy. The finding yields new observational data for ...
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Scientists confirm rocks fell from Mars
The Associated Press
But Cornell University astronomer Steve Squyres, who is the principal investigator forNASA's Mars Exploration Rover Program and the space agency's go-to guy on Mars, said unfortunately this type of rock is not the kind scientists are most hoping for. ...
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The Associated Press
Astronomy Update 01/21/12
Leader-Telegram
Out of 1200 planet candidates that have been found by NASA's Kepler mission, one may be able to support life and vegetation. Kepler-22b orbits the star Kepler-22. It is 600 light-years away, so we will not be hopping on a space shuttle and flying there ...
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Pine Ridge students in Deltona take to the skies in NASA study on undiscovered ...
Daytona Beach News-Journal
"This is real science," said Sartore, who teaches physics and astronomy. "We were able to find stars that were never seen before. It's kind of astounding," said Kaelyn, who hopes to work for NASAsome day as an aerospace engineer. ...
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UF astronomer on Kepler research team helps discover planets
The Independent Florida Alligator
The Kepler space telescope, which made the new developments possible, was launched by NASAand measures the brightness of about 160000 stars every 29.4 minutes. A planet is discovered when it passes in front of its star, blocking the star's light. ...
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NASA's Fermi reveals new portrait of the sky
Astronomy Now Online
by Chloe Partridge A new catalogue of high-energy sources has been published from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope allowing astronomers to paint a better picture of a previously unexplored region of the night sky. The telescope, which was launched...
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Astronomy Now Online
Astronomers capture comet's dive into Sun
Astronomy Now Online
Comet C/2011 N3 was first discovered by the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) on 4 July 2011, and an alert was sent to Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory (LMSAL) scientists to watch with NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) as ...
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Astronomy Now Online
NASA's Amazing New Photo of the Eagle Nebula Reveals Surprising Facts
Gizmodo
NASA believes the root beer is too cold to be used by future space travelers. You can see it by pointing your telescope to the constellation of the Centurion Spear, about 51 light years from the heart of the Romulan Empire. ...
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Glencoe High School students, teacher present NASA findings at American ...
OregonLive.com
... Nishida and Tommy Nuthmann have worked with physics and astronomy teacher John Gibbs this school year to research young stellar objects (think baby stars). They used data collected by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope to study potential new stars....
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OregonLive.com
NASA Astronaut Captivates Chamlian Students
Asbarez Armenian News
BY NANE AVAGYAN GLENDALE—NASA astronaut Gregory Chamitoff visited the Chamlian Armenian School on January 13 and his first-hand accounts of space travel and work in the space program captivated the 4th to 8th grade students who had gathered at the ...
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Asbarez Armenian News
AAS Honors Distinguished Astronomers with 2012 Prizes
Space Ref (press release)
The Dannie Heineman Prize in Astrophysics, awarded in partnership with the American Institute of Physics, recognizes outstanding work by mid-career astronomers. The 2012 Heineman Prize goes to Chryssa Kouveliotou (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center) ...
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Carmel Catholic Students Participate In Fascinating NASA Project
TribLocal
... along with Linahan will travel to the American Astronomical Society Convention in Austin, TX to present their research findings. The primary goals of the NITARP program are closely aligned with the fundamental NASA goals of inspiring and motivating ...
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ESA Official Says NASA Decision on Euclid Needed Before May
Space News
Joining ESA on Euclid would allow NASA to get an early start on addressing some of the scientific questions the National Research Council identified as high priorities in the 10-year-plan for astronomy and astrophysics it sent NASA in 2010. ...
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Space News
Celestial Surprise
Pasadena Weekly
By Carl Kozlowski 01/19/2012 Even amid a federal budgetary crisis that has brought an end to the US space shuttle program, American astronomers continue making astonishing discoveries. The latest and perhaps greatest of those — revealing that there ...
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Pasadena Weekly
Astronomers aim to take first picture of black hole
Fox News
"But even if we find no deviation from general relativity, all these processes will help us understand the fundamental aspects of the theory much better." I'd just like to see what one looks like. CGI Black Hole NASA . jpg.
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Fox News
NASA Live Video Chat: Let's Talk About Meteors, Meteorites and Comets
Space Ref (press release)
Cooke, the lead for NASA's Meteoroid Environmental Office, and Blaauw, a meteor physicist, both have astronomy degrees and work in the Meteoroid Environment Office at NASA's Marshall SpaceFlight Center in Huntsville, Ala. They provide NASA with models ...
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Window on the universe: The view from La Palma's space volcano
The Guardian (blog)
Photons are like precious raindrops from space and astronomers want the biggest possible buckets in which to catch them. The domes that house these mirrors – and swivel them with the grace and silence of a ballerina – are extraordinary. ...
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The Guardian (blog)
Astronomy Day Held in Clarksburg
WBOY-TV
Astronomy Day also brought in three of the top astronomical researchers in the country. Mark Kochte is a payload specialist with NASA's Mercury Messenger Spacecraft Program. Its currently orbiting the planet of Mercury with new discoveries. ...
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Neptune-size exoplanet discovered by an amateur astronomer
Tecca
Stargazing Live encouraged people to volunteer at Planet Hunters — a website that houses data from NASA's Kepler telescope. Scientists still have to confirm the discovery, but Chris Lintott of Planet Hunters said the evidence is quite strong. ...
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Tecca
Like two shining stars
Korea Times
It traveled more than 1.2 billion kilometers in space, an astronomical distance the human brain finds hard to measure. The diameter of the Solar System where the Earth belongs is known to be 12 billion kilometers, ten times of the distance ...
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Korea Times
Gaseous ring around young star raises questions
U of M News Service (press release)
An international team of astronomers has just discovered a tight ring of carbon monoxide in the planet-forming disk around V1052 Cen, a star about 700 light years away in the southern constellation Centaurus. Credit: NASA/JPL-CaltechANN ARBOR, Mich. ...
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Enhanced images of galaxy offer insight into universe
RU Daily Targum
... they studied it through European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope and NASA'sChandra X-ray Observatory to understand it better, said Felipe Menanteau, study leader and postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. ...
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Pluto mission excites Nevada scientists
Las Vegas Review - Journal
"In astronomy, the controversies don't make it out into public that often. It is kind of unusual." It's also just the sort of dispute that is bound to occur in an unprecedented age of discovery such as the one in which we're living, he said. ...
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LJMU astronomers get involved with BBC Stargazing Live
Liverpool John Moores University
These are the most energetic explosions since the big bang and very important in modern astronomy. The alert from the NASA swift satellite automatically triggered our telescope to observe this burst which was situated in the constellation of Andromeda ...
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Liverpool John Moores University
British TV Audience Discovers New Planet
Universe Today
The website hosts data gathered by NASA's Kepler space telescope, and asks volunteers to sift the information for anything unusual that might have been missed in a computer search. People are especially adept at seeing things that computers do not and ...
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Universe Today
10:50 AM Wisconsin isn't a 'flyover' state when it comes to the aerospace industry
Wisbusiness.com
The UW-Madison College of Engineering has longstanding ties into NASA and space exploration, including its Wisconsin Center for Space Automation and Robotics and its work around development of Helium-3 energy technologies. The campus also has a Space ...
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ALMA Early Science Result Reveals Starving Galaxies
Space Daily
Lonsdale presented the findings at the American Astronomical Society's meeting in Austin, Texas on behalf of an international team of astronomers. For these observations, ALMA was tuned to look for dust warmed by active star-forming regions. ...
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EARTH TO COLLIDE WITH NIBIRU ON JULY 21, 2012!
Weekly World News (satire)
By Frank Lake NASA scientists reportedly have confirmed that the planet Nibiru will collide with Earth in July of 2012. The Nibiru collision with Earth in 2012 had been predicted for a while, but astrophysicists, cosmologists and astronomers around the...
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Weekly World News (satire)
Russia Considering Moon Base With NASA | David Reneke | Space ...
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David Reneke | Space and Astronomy News ... Roscosmos is discussing the possibilities for a permanent moon base with officials from NASA and the European Space Agency, the agency's chief, Vladimir Popovkin said. “We don't want man ...
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FLORIDA SPACErePORT: January 21, 2012
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Once again, alien conspiracy theorists have attempted to use publicly available NASA images to prove that the space agency must be engaging in an elaborate UFO cover-up. And, once again, they've been foiled by the laws of physics. This time , they called attention to peculiar new ... Florida Students Participate in NASA Astronomy Program (Source: Daytona Beach News-Journal) Kaelyn Badura and Colleen Tilley have sky-high career ambitions and now both girls are looking at the ...
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Communications and Public Outreach Head at Space Telescope ...
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NASA Debunks Mysterious Triangular 'UFO' - Yahoo! News
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Funding Drought Jeopardizes Future NASA ... - e! Science News
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Comet's Death Dive Into Sun Seen in Detail for 1st ... - Yahoo! News
Using NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), Solar Heliospheric Observatory ... FollowSPACE.com for the latest in space science and exploration news on ...
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NASA sees Tropical Cyclone Funso develop, threaten Mozambique ...
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Russian space probe crashes into Pacific (AP) | Space, Astronomy ...
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Astronomy news: NASA'S RXTE Helps Pinpoint Launch of 'Bullets' in ...
Astronomy news: NASA'S RXTE Helps Pinpoint Launch of 'Bullets' in a Black ... when a black hole in our galaxy launched super-fast knots of gas into space.
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Today's NASA Breaking News :ScienceLine
Media representatives are invited to NASA's Stennis Space Center in Mississippi on Jan. 25 for a behind-the-scenes look at the facilities used for testing the J-2X ...
www.scienceline.eu/...space/todays-nasa-breaking-news-206/
NASA's Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer completes mission operations
(PhysOrg.com) -- After 16 years in space, NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer ( RXTE) has ...Science and technology news ... RXTE far exceeded its original science goals and leavesastronomers with a scientific bounty for years to come.
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Funding Drought Jeopardizes Future NASA Astronomy Missions ...
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America's Youth Christen NASA's Twin New Lunar Craft – Ebb Flow
4th Grade Students from Montana win NASA's contest to rename the GRAIL A and GRAIL B spacecraft. ... Breaking news and articles on Space and Astronomy.
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NASA sees Tropical Cyclone Funso develop, threaten ... - Astronomy
Posted in News - Astronomy News. (NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center) Residents of Mozambique are still recovering from the flooding caused by Tropical ...
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