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Jul 15, 2011

SPACE, Astronomy News, Jul 15, 2011

Space boffins headed for South Africa
South Africa.info
South Africa is no newcomer to major league astronomy. The country has been short-listed to host the Square Square Kilometre Array (SKA), an international €1.5-billion project to build the world's largest radio telescope. The Northern Cape is already ...
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Vic man's photos of space wins prize
Sky News Australia
... the 50th anniversary of man's first foray into outer space. Mr Cherney started snapping the skies about four years ago, after his daughter asked him to find aliens. 'It was my daughter who got me intoastronomy,' he told London's Daily Mail. ...
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SA's 50-year 'young' radio telescope in greater demand than ever
Creamer Media's Engineering News
“Space geodesy is applied radio astronomy,” sums up HartRAO acting MD Dr Mike Gaylard. South Africa first became involved with space geodesy in 1986. “It has grown from nothing to a very big area of research with practical effects. ...
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NASA: Extra money needed to launch JWST this decade
Spaceflight Now
Until then, scientists said, it will be difficult to persuade the astronomy and astrophysics communities JWST is still worth continued NASA investment, which is gobbling up the agency's dwindling space science budget and holding back the start of other ...
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Astronomy and physics will be discussed at free lecture July 27
Lincoln Journal Star
LIGO, short for the Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory, is the National Science Foundation-funded instrument designed to make the first detection of gravitational waves -- ripples created across space when violent astrophysical events ...
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PRINCETON AREA: Two local men at final launch of space shuttle
Packet Online
Dr. Ken Kremer of Lawrenceville is a research scientist who attended the launch to write and shoot photos for the space and astronomy news website Universe Today. ”I have been to all of them (the shuttle launches) since the launch in November of 2009 ...
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Dr. Pannuti, Staggs' paper published in 'The Astronomical Journal'
Morehead State University News
The journal is one of the premier scientific journals in the world for publications of scientific research findings in the fields of astronomy and astrophysics. Dr. Pannuti (the lead author for the paper) and his team conducted a study of NGC 7793, ...
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Tata Steel to organise Art Competition among the School children in Orissa
Orissadiary.com
Similarly, to popularize the excellent contributions of the legendary Pathani Samanta in the field ofastronomy and to spot and encourage the young talents in the field of astronomy and spacescience among the school going children, Tata Steel, ...
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Five things to do outdoors this weekend
Baltimore Sun (blog)
4) The Westminster Astronomy Club will lead a free star-gazing session Saturday at 8 pm at Patapsco Valley State Park's Avalon area. Club members will be talking about the Delta Aquarid meteor shower, which peaks the night of July 28 and 29. ...
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Out of town
Bend Bulletin
July 23 — Astronomy Day: Featuring local astronaut Michael Barratt; Oregon Museum of Science and Industry, Portland; www.omsi.edu or 503-797-4000. Aug. 4-6 — Doug Tracy: Featuring campaign and political songs from the westward expansion era; ...
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Dawn's day has finally come : Space and Astronomy news daily ...
By Jonathan Nally
Dawn is a project of the directorate's Discovery Program, which is managed by NASA's MarshallSpace Flight Centre in Huntsville, Ala. UCLA is responsible for overall Dawn mission science. Orbital Sciences Corp. designed and built the ...
Space and Astronomy news daily...
Space Debris Could Cripple Communications (ContributorNetwork ...
Science, Space, Astronomy and NASA News from off the planet! Home. « Atlantis crew unpacks, rocks out to “Rocket Man” (Reuters) ...
kepea.com/.../space-debris-could-cripple-communications-con...
RLV and Space Transport News » Briefs: Bad Astronomy on NASA ...
News on space transport and the entrepreneurial space industry. ... to NASA: Congress threatensAmerica's future in space - Bad Astronomy/Discover Magazine. ...
www.hobbyspace.com/nucleus/index.php?itemid=30956
Space: The Irish Frontier :Night Sky Observer
This bit of info was sent to me by John Flannery who runs the South Dublin Astronomical Society (SDAS): "Check out this documentary about space science.
www.nightskyobserver.com/astronomy.../space-the-irish-fronti...

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