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Oct 8, 2011

SPACE, Astronomy News, Oct 08, 2011


Shooting star shower to pass over Britain
Telegraph.co.uk
Robin Scagell, of the Society for Popular Astronomy, said: "The UK is perfectly placed to witness this rare spectacle. Stargazers will have their fingers crossed for clear skies so that we can see just what happens." NASA experts mapped the cloud of ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
UNH hosts first astronomy festival
Boston Globe
October 07, 2011|AP NASA astronaut and University of New Hampshire alumnus Lee Morin will be among the participants at UNH's first New England Fall Astronomy Festival. The festival, which is being held Friday and Saturday at the UNH Observatory in ...
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Night Sky News: Celebrate our Moon this Saturday
National Geographic
NASA along with hundreds of astronomy clubs, schools, observatories and planetariums worldwide will be hosting public events designed to engage and educate people of all ages about the Moon and its role in science, exploration and culture. ...
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National Geographic
Taking introductory astronomy beyond Jeopardy and Trivial Pursuit
Vanderbilt University News
(NASA Hubble Space Telescope) One method involves the expansion of the universe. For some time, astronomers have realized that the universe is expanding: All the galaxies surrounding the Milky Way are moving away at a significant clip. ...
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Postdoctoral Positions in Astronomy/Astrochemistry: New York Center for ...
Space Ref (press release)
The project represents a collaboration between researchers in the New York Center for Astrobiology (NYCA), based at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY, and the NASA Ames Research Center (ARC) in Mountain View, CA, led by Doug Whittet and ...
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Charles Sonett, pioneer space scientist, dies at 87
Arizona Daily Star
Sonett joined the space race after graduation, eventually working as NASA's chief of sciences for lunar and planetary programs in Washington, DC, then heading the space sciences division at theNASA Ames Research Center in California, ...
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Astronomy Day includes evening star-gazing at HMNS George Observatory Oct. 8
Your Houston News
NASA Johnson Space Center, Lunar Planetary Institute, NASA's Night Sky Network, and many others. Astronomy Day is free to the public with admission to Brazos Bend State Park, which costs $7 per person (and free for children under 12).
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Star gazing party set for Saturday
Crossville Chronicle
Lloyd Watkins will be the host. This is an informal gathering of amateur astronomers from the region. Special guests will be the Fisk-Vanderbilt NASA Road Show Planetarium. There will be a solar program to observe the sun through a solar scope. ...
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Africa Becomes More Involved In Space Technology
Coastweek
NigeriaSat-X and NigeriaSat-2 are the country's first satellites to be designed and built for standard flights by local engineers, said Dr Seidu Onailo Mohammed, the director-general of Nigeria's version of NASA, the 12-year-old National Space Research ...
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Coastweek
Complex telescope takes fascinating pics of colliding galaxies
DigitalJournal.com
(NRAO/AUI/NSF); ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO); HST (NASA, ESA, and B. Whitmore (STScI)); J. Hibbard, (NRAO/AU ALMA's first millimeter/submillimeter test views are inset within this multiwavelength composite image of the interacting galaxies NGC 4038/4039, ...
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DigitalJournal.com
Fire and water at Pasadena's AxS Festival
Los Angeles Times
“I think the most compelling intellectual ideas of our time,” Nowlin said in an email, “are originating in science — in biology, bio-engineering, theoretical physics, astronomy — ideas that challenge and affect our concept of ourselves, our world and ...
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Los Angeles Times
Celestial encounter with comet's tail will bring shooting stars to our skies ...
Mirror.co.uk
The shower is from dust ejected by the comet Giacobini-Zinner in 1900. But there are fears it could damage space satellites. Robin Scagell, of the Society for Popular Astronomy, said: “The UK is perfectly placed to witness this spectacle.”
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Foothill College Astronomy Program
Foothill Astronomy Instructor Andrew Fraknoi has a Facebook page for astronomy news called "Andrew Fraknoi (The AstroProf)": ... Astronomy Picture of the Day: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html (Two space scientists scour the ...
www.foothill.edu/ast/astrolnk.php
Doug Patterson - NASA
If you're not in my class, check out the latest in Physics and Astronomy news from ... Posts Tagged 'NASA' ... The Radio Beacon That Started the Space Age ...
blogs.jccc.edu/dpatter/tag/nasa/
Want to be an Astronaut? Try Learning Russian. - Space / Astronomy
Free Space / Astronomy Newsletter! ... That has left NASA a bit short in terms of qualified staff to meet our space obligations, so this fall NASA will begin taking ...
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Twitter / Astronomy Magazine: News: NASA space telescope ...
News: NASA space telescope finds fewer mid-size range asteroids near Earth, http://t.co/Xty4Kiiz.
twitter.com/AstronomyMag/status/119831788897058816
NASA's flying telescope SOFIA in search of ... - World News Network
However, unlike most of the space agency's telescopes, the Stratospheric ... 2011 --> A new and powerful telescope is being used by NASA astronomers for ...
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SWITZERLAND Ski, Snow News, Oct 08, 2011


Traveller's Guide: The 2011/12 ski season
The Independent
And Switzerland's prospects are being much-discussed: with other European currencies falling away from the sturdy Swiss franc, the country has been left with a punishing exchange rate for foreign visitors. While we're on the subject of bad news, ...
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Top 10 reasons to love Switzerland
The Guardian
Andermatt – where Elvis learned to ski, fact fans – recently caught the eye of Egyptian tycoon Samih Sawiris. He has very commercial plans for its future, so don't delay – get there while it's, er, cold. For all their yodelling, alpenhorns and cowbells ...
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The Guardian
W Hotels Worldwide announce the residences at Verbier
ITCM
Scheduled to open in December 2013, it will be W's first alpine and ski retreat in the world and will mark the brand's entrance into Switzerland, further strengthening W's position as a global lifestyle brand. The Residences at W Verbier will be ...
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Base-jumper Karina Hollekim tells of surviving fall
BBC News
... three litres of blood after the jump in Switzerland. But she survived and will address the festival, which runs until Sunday. Ms Hollekim, who was told by doctors she would never walk again, told BBC Scotland how she can now walk and ski again. ...
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BBC News
Minnows, minnows on the ball: Ireland's record against the little guys
The Score
That and, very occasionally, results like the Faroe Islands' 1-0 win over Austria in 1990, Luxembourg's over Switzerland's in 2008 and – lest we forget – that draw with the mountaintop in 1995. Against a ski resort tonight, expect more a snow-storm ...
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Best ski resorts for non skiers? Austria, Switzerland preferably! Help ...
Best ski resorts for non skiers? Austria, Switzerland preferably! Help, discussing Chamonix, Grän, Mürren and Zermatt in the Austria Forum.
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Ski, snowboard rental in Geneva - Switzerland forums - Ski ...
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Switzerland - Davos Ski Resort : Hotel Strela
Holiday Type: Ski. Departs: O.R. Tambo International AirportJohannesburg. Arrives: ZurichZurich,Switzerland. Deal Ends: 31 Dec 11. No. of Nights: 7 ...
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What is the vertical for the Little Switzerland ski resort?
What is the vertical for the Little Switzerland ski resort? The maximum vertical drop for Little Switzerland is 200 feet. The base elevation at.
ski-resorts.findthebest.com/.../What-is-the-vertical-for-the-Littl...

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