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Jan 7, 2012

SPACE, Astronomy News, Jan 07, 2012


Amateur Astronomer Spots Failed Russian Mars Probe
Newser
The Phobos-Grunt's ambitious mission was to recover soil from the Mar's moon Phobos and then return that soil to Earth, a first for any space agency. Astronomer Legault similarly captured images of NASA's UARS satellite last year. ...
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Astronomical apocalypse not
CBC.ca (blog)
By Quirks The year 2012 is upon us and astronomers are not worried about a looming catastrophe from space. For more than a decade, authors, moviemakers and soothsayers have been predicting the end of the world this year, often based on the ancient ...
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Exoplanets, Supernovae, High-Energy Sky, New Images Among NASA News Highlights...
IEWY News
WASHINGTON — NASA researchers will present new findings on a wide range of spacescience topics during the 2012 winter meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS). Convention Center, 500 E. Cesar Chavez St., Austin, Texas. ...
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Image of the Day: 1st Kepler "Search for Extraterestrial Intelligence" (SETI ...
The Daily Galaxy (blog)
As Arthur C. Clarke, physicist and author of 2001: A Space Odyssey wrote, "The idea that we are the only intelligent creatures in a cosmos of a hundred billion galaxies is so preposterous that there are very few astronomers today who would take it ...
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James Webb Space Telescope Town Hall
Space Ref (press release)
The James Webb Space Telescope will be the most powerful telescope thatastronomers have ever constructed, and is essential to answering the top science questions outlined in the recent Astronomy 2010 - 2020 Decadal Survey. In 2011, the observatory ...
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New telescope to pin down polarization of X-rays
R & D Magazine
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has just funded Krawczynski and his colleague, assistant research professor Matthias Beilicke, PhD, to chase some of the most exotic astronomicalprey: black holes, those famously elusive quarry ...
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R & D Magazine
First four Exoplanets of 2012 discovered
TruthDive
This most recent discovery does not come from NASA's Kepler space telescope team or any other space telescope; it comes from a ground-based telescope system maintained by the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. The Hungarian-made Automated ...
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OVER A COFFEE: The Mayan 2012 in Pakistan —Dr Haider Shah
Pakistan Daily Times
All these stories are figments of popular science fiction and NASA astronomers laugh them away. But maybe not in Pakistan! The year 2012 here began under the lengthening dark shadows of the Memogate saga. We have time and again been warned of a tsunami...
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Earth's orbit just right, like Goldilocks
TheChronicleHerald.ca
Astronomers have yet to find an exoplanet that meets the Goldilocks litmus test. But they have come tantalizingly close. Before Christmas, NASA scientists announced that the Kepler spacecraft had detected two Earth-sized planets orbiting a star about ...
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Radio astronomy: connecting the visually-impaired to the cosmos ...
Radio astronomy: connecting the visually-impaired to the cosmos ... NASA'spartnership with the California School for the Blind and the National Federation ... Since the Earth and the Moon travel together through space, encountering streams ...
lunarscience.nasa.gov/articles/radio-meteor-counts
2011: Top Stories from the Best Year Ever for NASA Planetary ...
NASA successfully delivered astounding results on all fronts – On the Story of How We More... ... And what a year of excitement it was indeed for the planetary science community, amateur astronomers and the general ... Science and Space ...
www.bautforum.com/.../126256-2011-Top-Stories-from-the-...
As Seen From Space: Volcanic Eruption Creates ... - Universe Today
Nancy Atkinson is Universe Today's Senior Editor. She also is the host of the NASALunar Science Institute podcast and works with the Astronomy Cast and 365 ...
www.universetoday.com/.../as-seen-from-space-volcanic-erupt...
First of NASA's GRAIL spacecraft enters moon orbit - News Astronomy
Space / Astronomy News and Articles. Blog ... (GRAIL)-A spacecraft successfully completed its planned main engine burn at 2 p.m. PST (5 p.m. EST) today (Dec. ...
www.newsastronomy.com/.../13864-first-of-nasa-s-grail-space...
NASA sends GRAIL shaped beacon to the Moon | Bad Astronomy ...
Today, NASA successfully put a new mission into lunar orbit: GRAIL, ... My prediction for 2012: both probes will be drilled by space debris, and become Holey ...
blogs.discovermagazine.com/.../nasa-sends-grail-shaped-beaco...
Apocalypse Not Now: 2012 Doomsday Predictions Debunked by ...
By Charles Q. Choi, SPACE.com Contributor ... 21, 2012 as evidence of the coming apocalypse, but astronomers have been quick to stress that there is nothing to be concerned about. ... lack of evidence," astronomer Don Yeomans, manager of NASA'sNear-Earth .... I predict 2012 will end at midnight one year from today. ...
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SOUTH AFRICA Summer News, Jan 07, 2012

Cummins needs to be put on ice, says Gilbert
Sydney Morning Herald
''He went to the Champions League and straight to South Africa, where he made his Test debut at Wanderers against South Africa. ''It does worry you that when he's had big spells that we've had the back issue in the Shield final and the heel issue in ...
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MUSIC, Singers, Concerts News, Jan 07, 2012

3 Divas to serenade opera lovers
Times of India
Singer Jose Carreras, with his friends Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti, performed as the Three Tenors at the concert, creating a concept that truly opened the gates of opera to the world. The magic will be recreated in the city on Monday evening ...
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GREECE News, Jan 07, 2012

IMF losing confidence in Greece's ability to reform: report
Reuters
Earlier on Saturday, an adviser to Germany's finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble told aGreek newspaper that a 50 percent write-down on Greek debt holdings, part ofGreece's debt swap deal, is not enough to put the country on a viable path. ...
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Greece to monitor disabled over mass fraud fears: report
The Daily Star
Following the new census to be carried out in February and March, authorities are hoping to trim at least 250 million euros from a total 6.2 billion euros ($7.9 billion) spent annually on social welfare benefits, Kathimerini said. The Greek government ...
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Unelected prime minister demands more sacrifices from Greek workers
World Socialist Web Site
The latest figures available for the growth of poverty released by the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) deal only with the year 2009. Nevertheless the report reveals that at the end of that year more than 3 million Greeks (27.7 percent) were ...
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Greece to 'sell bonds backed by state property'
AFP
ATHENS — Crisis-hit Greece plans to sell bonds with state property as collateral to buy back sovereign debt and postpone a privatisation drive under unfavourable market conditions, a report said on Saturday. To Vima weekly said the Hellenic state ...
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AFP
Greece Pays Pensions to the Dead and Gives Disabled Benefits to the Healthy
Greek Reporter
Following the new census to be carried out in February and March, authorities are hoping to trim at least 250 million euros from a total 6.2 billion euros ($7.9 billion) spent annually on social welfare benefits, Kathimerini said. The Greek government ...
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Greek Deficit Worsens, More Austerity and Pain Looms in the Future
Greek Reporter
The report means that the government, made up of holdover ministers from the former ruling PASOK Socialists, including Venizelos, along with their bitter rival New Democracy conservatives and the far Right-Wing LAOS party, may now have to slash the ...
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Greek Reporter
Greeks Come To NY In Search Of Better Life Prospects
Greek Reporter
The collapsing economic situation in Greece has led many Greeks to either return to the US or simply make a whole new start in the US and search for new prospects. According to the WNYC report, NY and especially Astoria are the main poles of attraction ...
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Greek Reporter
Iran oil ban could herald economic disaster for Europe: energy experts
Tehran Times
“But the impact that would have on countries like Italy and Greece would be enormous, and the Greeks are not going to slit their own throats for the sake of an EU sanction when Iran is the only country willing to offer them oil on favorable terms. ...
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Greece bonds 'backed by state property'
MSN NZ News
By AAP Crisis-hit Greece plans to sell bonds with state property as collateral to buy back sovereign debt and postpone a privatisation drive under unfavourable market conditions, a report says. To Vima weekly said the Hellenic state asset development ...
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What Financial Meltdowns Teach Us About the IPCC
Men's News Daily
In Greece, the lunacy differs only in the details. The Greek banking sector was apparently solid and sensible, but the 11 million people who reside in that nation are apparently collectively incapable of doing basic math. According to Lewis, two-thirds ...
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The Dismal Economic Outlook For The New Year
Foreign Policy Journal
Financial institutions, such as US banks, which sold “swaps” on Greek bonds were gambling that Greece would be bailed out and would not default. The financial institutions regarded as gravy the fees paid to them for “guarantees” on which they cannot ...
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How SA ranks in the debt risk stakes
BusinessLIVE
Greece topped the rankings with a cumulative probability of default of 93.8%. CMA said in its report: "A restructuring and write-off of Greek debt remains an almost certain event. "However, the debate continues as to whether a default will be triggered ...
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Huffington Post UK
News teams around the world suddenly had to sit glued to the newswires and try to understand voting systems in Greek parliamentary democracy. Staff tell of numerous pressures to produce or inflate, of pulling stories at the last minute on the discovery ...
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Orthodox Christians celebrate Epiphany
Lewiston Morning Tribune (subscription)
Hundreds of members of Istanbul's tiny Greek Orthodox community and tourists from neighboring Greece attended the Epiphany ceremony of the Blessing of the Waters. About 20 faithful leaped into the wintry waters of the Golden Horn inlet to retrieve a ...
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Euro tumbles under $US1.27
Sydney Morning Herald
The euro was also slammed this week after the Greek government warned on Wednesday that it faced an "uncontrolled default" in March - unless unions and employers can quickly agree on labour cost cuts to boost competitiveness.
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Greek Deficit Worsens, More Austerity and Pain Looms in the Future ...
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Report: former Dutch central banker doubts Greece - Yahoo! News
News: Greece probably won't repay all of its loans to the Dutch state, the former ...story. Discuss: New Pentagon strategy · Harbin slideshow. China's Snow and .... Those in Washington now want to continue the debt and raise the 'limit' again. ...
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BBC News - Greece sees first strike of 2012 as doctors protest
Continue reading the main story ... A government spokesman warned on Monday thatGreece needed more reforms to meet the terms of an international bailout. ... The latestrequires Athens to reach an agreement with private creditors to write ...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16381729
Greek Tax Officials Strike over Salary Cuts - World - CBN News ...
Tax officials in Greece walked off the job Thursday morning, starting a 48-hour ... Please click on the link below to download the latest version. ... Sign up for the CBN NewsDispatch and receive CBN News Reports in your ... Subscribe Now > > ...
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Yilmaz Denies Greece Forest Fire Report | Greece.GreekReporter ...
Greece.GreekReporter.com Latest News from Greece Greek News on Politics, ...reports that Greek agents set forest fires in Turkey, not the other way around. ...
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Greek tax officials on strike - CBS News
(AP) ATHENS, Greece — Greek tax officials walked off the job Thursday at the start of a 48-hour strike to ... and get rid of" them with a new draft law that would appoint a high court prosecutor in their stead. ... Terms of Use, you can report it below (this will not automatically remove the comment). ... Latest Now in MoneyWatch ...
www.cbsnews.com/.../greek-pm-pledges-150000-new-jobs-in-...
The noose around the neck of the Greeks - Video - Business News
CNN's Diana Magnay looks back at the struggle of the Greek people through a year of economic ... As tough times in the U.K. persist, discount retailers are opening newstores to ... All airlines that fly through European skies, including American carriers, arenow subject to ... CNN's Deb Feyerick reports on the EB5 program. ...
money.cnn.com/video/.../n_greece_end_of_year.cnnmoney/
Will Greece lead the way in 2012? | Canada | News | Toronto Sun
The debt crisis that's left the Greek state on the brink of collapse and dependent on ...Now, she says, that's changing. ... Another poll reported in Greece's Ethnosnewspaper found 40% want the current ... RIM close to picking new chair: Report ...
www.torontosun.com/2011/.../will-greece-lead-the-way-in-20...
Eurozone Roundup: Despite Greek Doom, Some Positive ...
According to a Greek news outlet, the latest reports coming out of the Greek ...Personally, I am of the mindset that right now, Greece is simply too volatile to ...
seekingalpha.com/.../316718-eurozone-roundup-despite-greek
  
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FINANCIAL News, Money, Banks, Economic and Financial Crisis, Jan 07, 2012


The great economic meltdown
Daily Pioneer
What began as a crisis in the financial sector became an economic crisis, also a social crisis: Millions of households faced with the threat of losing their homes, their jobs, and access to healthcare. The financial crisis, which began in the United ...
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