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SPACE, Astronomy News, Sep 24, 2011

NASA predicts that medium-sized space junk falls down to Earth almost weekly (Reuters)
NASA satellite re-entry to Earth stalled
3News NZ
3 News.co.nz brings these questions and more to astronomer Dr Grant Christie, from Auckland's Stardome Observatory, who explains all the hype around NASA's latest piece of falling junk. NASA predicts that medium-sized space junk falls down to Earth...
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Our priceless supremacy in space
Philadelphia Inquirer
America's Hubble Space Telescope and its Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, for example, have led the world in discovery for years, and the genius that produced them didn't disappear with the last shuttle flight. ...
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Water, Water Everywhere… And A Few Drops For Saturn, Too!
Universe Today
NASA's Voyager and Hubble missions had given astronomers clues in the past. In 1997, the European Space Agency's Infrared Space Observatory cited water in Saturn's atmosphere and two years later NASA's Submillimeter Wave AstronomySatellite confirmed ...
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Universe Today
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CNN
She is also the director of the Yale Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics. (CNN) -- Did you hear about the 6-ton NASA satellite expected to fall to on Earth on Friday? Don't panic, Chicken Little! All kinds of space debris -- both man-made and natural ...
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New Views of an Ancient Asteroid
UA News (press release)
(Image: NASA/GSFC/The University of Arizona) By Lori Stiles, UA Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, September 23, 2011 Using the Herschel Space Telescope, astronomersare set to obtain the first-ever images of asteroid 1999 RQ36 in far infrared light, ...
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UA News (press release)
What Does NASA Sound Like?
Universe Today
NASA will update the collection as new sounds become available. Nancy Atkinson is Universe Today's Senior Editor. She also is the project manager for the 365 Days ofAstronomy podcast, works with Astronomy Cast and is host of the NASA Lunar Science ...
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Universe Today
Triangle residents gaze skywards waiting for falling satellite
NBC17.com
But, it's orbit has dropped slower than NASA expected, and the space agency says when it lands there's a good chance it'll do so over a northern hemisphere land mass. And part of the satellite's daily orbit takes it over North Carolina. UNC Astronomy ...
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Fertile frontiers Alien-life hunters focus on moons in outer solar system
Science News
From Top: D. Gleeson, NASA, JPL; NASA, JPL, Univ. of Arizona, Univ. of Colorado It wasn't until the appropriately named Huygens probe descended to Titan's surface in January 2005 that astronomerscould directly glimpse the veiled moon's surface. ...
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Still Cataloging The Skies, Long After 'Planet X'
NPR
How about astronomy? Because back in the 1890s, the mathematician and astronomer Percival Lowell sent a scout out West, away from the city lights of the East Coast, to find the perfect spot for a new observatory. His scout started down in Tombstone, ...
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Festival of Science one of Flagstaff's signature events
Arizona Daily Sun
Although NASA is in the world spotlight today because one of its old satellites is due to crash to Earth, Flagstaff has a different connection today to the space agency. NASA astronaut and physicist John Grunsfeld will open the 22nd Flagstaff Festival ...
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Skyteller to share stories at Prehistoric Indian Village
Daily Republic
She anticipates a large crowd, and in addition to Maroney's presentation, the Sioux EmpireAstronomy Club and Dakota Wesleyan University astronomy class will attend with telescopes to offer a closer look at the stars.
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From the comfort of home, Web users may have found new planets
Astronomy Magazine
Now, astronomers at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, have announced the discovery of the first two potential exoplanets discovered by Planet Hunters users in a new study. "This is the first time that the public has used data from a NASA space ...
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