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SPACE, Astronomy News, Sep 23, 2011


2 probable planets found by people like you
CNN (blog)
For the first time, new planet candidates have been identified with the help of the public's analysis ofNASA data. Anyone can join this effort, called Planet Hunters, for free and start helping realastronomers weed through data that might signal a ...
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Scientists Studying Asteroid to Prep for Sample-Return Mission
Space.com
The space rock is right in the middle of its latest close approach now, so astronomersare training a variety of instruments on it. This viewing window affords the last good look they can get at 1999 RQ36 from the ground before NASA's Osiris-Rex ...
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Space.com
Space junk to hit Earth, but where?
Chicago Tribune
Predicting the exact trajectory for a hunk of space junk that will crash into the planet is an inexact science, even for the experts at America's space agency, said Geza Gyuk, director of astronomy at Adler Planetarium. "There are a lot of different ...
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Questions remain about where the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs came from
AccuWeather.com (blog)
Please join the AccuWeather.com Astronomy fanpage by clicking here. You can leave your comments there, as well, and be part of a community where discussions on this or any otherastronomy subject take place. We are now approaching 1900 likes on ...
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Univ. of Arizona planet expert Michael Drake dies
Houston Chronicle
"Mike thought and spoke clearly so you always knew where he stood on an issue," said Professor Peter Strittmatter, who recently retired as director of the university's Steward Observatory and head of the astronomy department. A native of Bristol, ...
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Fort Worth Symphony to take concertgoers on a journey through space
Fort Worth Star Telegram
The reason is that Holst's inspiration to create this suite arose from his interest in astrology, not astronomy. Earth was, therefore, not part of his plan. The concert will also include a performance of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. ...
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Fort Worth Star Telegram
Tests needed for faster-than-light neutrino
Cosmos
Nicole Bell, a senior lecturer in theoretical particle physics at the University of Melbourne in Australia, pointed to an example from astronomy that seems to refute the latest results. It comes from a star that went supernova in 1987 within the Large ...
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Cosmos
Moon Bible goes on sale in auction
CNN (blog)
"Of course people who may be people of faith that are interested in astronomy, in aerospace exploration, it would be of great interest," he said. Several of the Apollo astronauts were just such men, RR Auction's Livingston said. ...
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Citizen scientists: finding distant planets, solving protein structures ...
OregonLive.com
About 40000 citizen scientists have logged on to the Planet Hunters web site and analyzed signals from 150000 stars collected by NASA's Kepler mission. Discover Magazine's Bad Astronomy blog noted: Remarkably, both stars in this case were flagged as ...
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OregonLive.com
The Real Science of Gears of War
GamePro.com
“NASA states that Hyperion is 'the largest known irregular [nonspherical] body in the solar system,'” says Dr. Harold Geller, a professor of astrobiology and astronomy at George Mason University. “That is, all moons larger than Hyperion are spherical ...
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GamePro.com
Satellite re-entry poses no danger : Space and Astronomy news ...
By Jonathan Nally
The satellite making news at the moment—the former Upper Atmospheric Research Satellite, better characterised as a decommissioned or defunct satellite rather than space junk—falls into the second category. In 2005, NASA decommissioned UARS and intentionally placed it into an orbit a couple of hundred kilometres lower than its operational orbit. This was done to accelerate is eventual demise, and means it is re-entering the atmosphere 20 years earlier than it otherwise would ...
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NASA's falling 5-ton satellite UARS caught on ... - BioScholar News
By BioNews
An amateur astronomer has recorded images of the six-tonne, 20-year-old NASA satellite that is falling to earth, and is expected to hit the planet on. ... News Section | Astronomy and Space ...
BioScholar News
Astronomers confirm first planet orbiting two stars - One News Page ...
NASA spots Star Wars-like planet orbiting two stars. The space agency's discovery of Kepler 16b marks the first planet astronomers have seen definitively with ...
www.onenewspage.com/.../Astronomers-confirm-first-planet-o...
UARS Update: NASA Refines Crashing ... - Astronomy News Room
Astronomy News Room. Introducing ... The 5900-kilogram satellite was deployed from SpaceShuttle Discovery during the STS-48 mission in September 1991. ...
www.astronnewsroom.com/?p=1330
NASA SPACE NEWS: Herschel Mission Finds Galactic Growth Slow ...
The results appear in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. ... more information visit http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/herschel/news/herschel20110913.html ...
spacestation-shuttle.blogspot.com/.../herschel-mission-finds-ga...
UARS update: Falling NASA satellite caught by astronomical ...
UARS update: Falling NASA satellite caught by astronomical telescope (Video). By Angel ... the video below. UARS-video-NASA-Thierry-Legault-space-satellite ...
www.batangastoday.com/uars-update-falling...by.../17239/

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