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Mar 9, 2011

Christchurch earthquake: Pain and misery for forgotten victims

The death toll in the Christchurch earthquake is getting the publicity, but many forgotten victims are facing permanent disability or life-long effects from injuries.
The February 22 disaster killed more than 166 people, but many others have serious head or spinal injuries or have lost limbs after being crushed or struck by collapsing buildings or falling debris.
The number of injured is still being tallied, but of the 300 to 400 people who went through Christchurch

Senior Labor figures attack Prime Minister Julia Gillard's dealings with carbon price, Greens | News.com.au

PM Julia Gillard is coming under growing pressure from within her own party over her handling of key issues / File Source: The Daily Telegraph
* Labor heavyweights list grievances with PM
* Newspoll: Gillard punished over carbon tax
* Talk to Malcolm on Twitter: @farrm51
JULIA Gillard's handling of the carbon price and the Greens partnership is being attacked by

Gaddafi blames unrest on foreigners

TRIPOLI, March 9 (Xinhua) -- Libya's leader Muammar Gaddafi has once again alleged involvement of foreigners in the rebellion against his nearly 42-year grip on power, Al-Jazeera TV reported Wednesday.
In an address on state TV in the early hours of Wednesday morning, Gaddafi warned of a plot to colonise Libya, noting his security forces had captured several foreigners during a raid on Monday.

Tsunami warning after Japan earthquake, but China safe

Video image shows the general view of the area which is affected by the quake in northeast Japan, March 9, 2011. An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.2 on the Richter Scale hit Japan's northeastern region Wednesday, said the Japan Meteorological Agency, which issued a tsunami warning. (Xinhua)

Libyan plane lands in Cairo carrying Libyan official

CAIRO, March 9 (Xinhua) -- Major General Abdul-Rahman al-Zawi, head of Libya's logistics and supply authority, arrived on a private jet in Egyptian capital Cairo Wednesday, according to a source at the airport.

NPR chief executive quits over hidden camera video - Yahoo! News

** FILE ** This 2008 file photo provided by National Public Radio shows Vivian Schiller. NPR says CEO Vivian Schiller resigns in aftermath of fundrais

WASHINGTON – NPR president and CEO Vivian Schiller resigned Wednesday under pressure from the news organization's board, a day after an undercover video showed one of her executives on a hidden camera calling the tea party racist and saying NPR would be better off without federal funding.
AP – ** FILE ** This 2008 file photo provided by National Public Radio shows Vivian Schiller. NPR says CEO …
By BEN NUCKOLS, Associated Press Ben Nuckols, Associated Press – 20 mins ago
WASHINGTON – NPR president and CEO Vivian Schiller resigned Wednesday under pressure from the news organization's board, a day after an undercover video showed one of her executives on a hidden camera calling the tea party racist and saying NPR would be better off without federal funding.

SPACE News, NASA, ESA, JAXA, Planetary Society

Astronomy 2012: Watch a Planet Transit With Your Own Eyes ...
In the original studies, Edmond Halley [of Halley's comet fame] figured out a way of ... black-sand beaches to "follow in Cook's footsteps" during the celestial event . ... It's also helpful for the [Kepler] people doing those exoplanet transit ... From dwarf planets to hot Jupiters, join NatGeo News space editor ...
blogs.nationalgeographic.com/.../watch-planet-transit-2012-ve...
Baby exoplanets photographed during formation - Worldnews.com
From Spitzer Space Telescope. Even without pictures of these exoplanets, astronomers have .... Hubble astronomer Paul Kalas, of the University of California at .... system is populated by thousands of small bodies such as asteroids and comets. .... The other half of the planet, which was struck by a smaller moon of ...
article.wn.com/.../Baby_exoplanets_photographed_during_for...
On Meteorites and Budgets
Space News notes the threat to all three missions, citing remarks by Jim Green, ... Possibilities include a Jupiter mission to Io and a trojan asteroid rendezvous. ... Automated Planet Finder; Berlin Exoplanet Search Telescope ... Captain Interstellar (Paul Titze) · Celestial Matters · Cheap Astronomy ...
www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=17076
Video: What's Up for March - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Scanning for Asteroids and Comets, 04.07.10. Meteors Over Huntsville, 11.13.09 .... Galileo's Dream: The International Year of Astronomy 2009, What's Up for March? 03.16.09 ... Take a look at Earth's sister planet, Venus, Astronaut on the moon 12.23.08 ... Exoplanet Discoveries from the Spitzer Space Telescope ...
www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/index.cfm?id=972
Breaking News. - Planet X, Hercolubus or Nibiru.
Hercolubus (Planet X) Breaking News. Comet C/2010 X1 (Elenin) is not Hercolubus. March 5, 2011. Currently there are a lot of information sources telling ...
planetx-hercolubus-nibiru.blogspot.com/.../hercolubus-planet-...
Signature of a Carbon-Rich Planet - Telescopes - redOrbit Image ...
This plot of data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope indicates the presence of ... Nebula · NASA's Great Observatories Celebrate the International Year of Astronomy ... The Spirit of Halloween Lives On as a Dead Star Creates Celestial Havoc ... Spitzer and Hubble Team Up To Find 'Big Baby' Galaxies in the Newborn ...
www.redorbit.com/images/gallery/spitzer.../index.html
Sky & Telescope - January 2009 (Malestrom)
The gallery is opposite a new “Best of Hubble” exhibit. ... Meteor Heights “A study of the heights of meteors observed visually, ... January 1984 Cool Spacecraft “For several years, the astronomical news ... Is This an Alien Planet ? Most methods for ﬁnding extrasolar planets favor worlds very close to their stars. ...
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2011 March 03 « Mannaismayaadventure's Blog
Its Google Lunar X Prize is staging a privately funded race to the moon, ... Pluto and its three known moons, as well as other icy bodies in the frigid, faraway Kuiper Belt. ... astronomers had confirmed just 520 planets beyond our solar system. The Kepler space telescope finds exoplanets using a technique called ...
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But it's possible, and we have several images of such exoplanets. ... as well as the trails of stars as they circle the southern celestial pole. ... There have been several reports of supposed bacteria in meteors before with ..... That's not the case for the moons that orbit the brilliant planet Jupiter, ...
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