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The Year in Pictures: 2010 - Planetary News | The Planetary Society Rosetta spied a large denizen of the asteroid belt, Lutetia, .... for International Space Station Expeditions 22 and 23, JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi ... The future of NASA's human space program remains murky, particularly how the .... team on Cassini, who detected its lightning emissions and alerted astronomers. ... www.planetary.org/.../1230_The_Year_in_Pictures_2010.html

Europe Asks If It Can Probe Uranus - Breaking Orbit But the European Space Agency (ESA) wants to change all that, according to a recent article on the ... The mission, which would be a joint effort between ESA and NASA, ... And that's just one of the planetary curiosities begging to be explored. ... Uranus has 27 known moons, some of which may be captured asteroids . ... blogs.nationalgeographic.com/.../europe-asks-to-probe-uranus...

Space Exploration Mattters - Jan 1 2011 - How Many Oceans Does ... Cassini continues to wow us with holiday imagery, not the least of which is this ... I make no claims for these bein... on December 30 From Planetary Society ... success of the Hayabusa mission, JAXA ... on December 27 From Planetary Society .... ESA highlights space activities of 2010 The European Space Agency ... space-exploration.mattters.com/.../how-many-oceans-does-plut...

Tom's Astronomy Blog » Blog Archive » Vesta Here We Come! Source: Max Planck Society. Hard to believe it's only 190 days until the Dawn ... Near-Earth asteroid 1999 AT10 fills this gap. Using the NASA IRTF, ... through space since 2007, will rendezvous with Vesta and orbit the asteroid for a year. ... Planetary Society, Research Topic, Reviews, Riddle, Scientific American ... tomsastroblog.com/?p=7762

Future Planetary Exploration: News from AGU and Elsewhere See Rising Costs Cloud Future of NASA Planetary Program for the complete article . ... asteroid missions (ultimately successful after near death experiences). The Japanese space agency JAXA apparently is rethinking its low cost approach .... Press Release: Bill Nye Congratulates SpaceX - On the Planetary Society web ... futureplanets.blogspot.com/.../news-from-agu-and-elsewhere.h...

European Association for Astronomy Education » Crab Nebula ... Image credits: NASA/ESA. The Crab Nebula, one of our best-known and most stable ... one of two primary instruments aboard NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space ... eaae-astronomy.org/blog/?p=2169

January 10-16, 2011 / Vol 30, No 2 / Hawai`i Island, USA - Space ... NASA astronauts Jeff Ashby (TL) and Scott Parazynski will give a dinner talk on ... Jan 10-14 — ESA, The Paris Observatory, et al, Paris, France: 'The ... Jan 10-15 — Center for Planetary Science, Kobe International Planetary School, Kobe, ... Jan 11 — Asteroid 8749 Beatles: Closest Approach to Earth; (0.878 AU). ... www.spacecalendar.com/january-10-16-2011-vol-30-no-2-ha...