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Sep 15, 2011

SPACE, Astronomy News, Sep 15, 2011


Astronomers locate planet blasted away by violent star
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
Using a telescope at NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers located the shredded planet orbiting relatively close to star CoRoT-2a — only about 2.8 million miles away. What they saw was surprising, but not only because of what's happening to ...
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Touch the Moon in Virginia
Sacramento Bee
In addition, NASA personnel will be around the state raising awareness about the space program and the fascinating world of science. From 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm Friday, Sept. 23, astronaut Chris Ferguson, the commander of NASA's final space shuttle mission ...
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An Invisible Planet Discovered by Harvard Scientists
Siliconindia.com
Sara is a graduate in astronomy, found the planet during a routine examination of data collected from a NASA mission, found the planet, named Kepler-19c and located 650 light-years from Earth in the constellation Lyra. She observed that the orbit of ...
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6 Tools To Get Up And Running As An Amateur Astronomer
Gizmodo Australia
By Kyle Wagner on September 15, 2011 at 10:00 am NASA's getting back in the swing of mannedspace exploration, but chances are it won't be your butt strapped to the newly unveiled SpaceLaunch System whenever it takes off. So how's a spacefan nerdboy ...
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Potentially habitable planet found
CBC.ca
"These planets will be among the best targets for future space telescopes to look for signs of life in the planet's atmosphere by looking for chemical signatures such as oxygen," said Francesco Pepe, an astronomer at the Geneva Observatory in ...
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first "Friday Nights, Celestial Lights" of the semester on Sept. 16
UTSA Today
The lecture will be given by Eric Schlegel, the Vaughan Family Endowed Professor in Physics in the UTSA Department of Physics and Astronomy. NASA has designated 2011-2012 as the Year of the Solar System, given the number of missions within our solar ...
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UTSA Today
Scoring big: Two Fairport students ace the ACT
Fairport-E.Rochester Post
Baretsky, who plans to study astronomy and astrophysics in college, says her dream job is to work for NASA someday and Zheng is considering a career in the medical field. For many high school juniors looking ahead toward college applications and SAT's ...
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NotJustTelescopes.com Expands Efforts Into the Blogosphere
PR Web (press release) (blog)
In the past year or so, there has even been a strong political bent what with the end of the NASA shuttle program, the question of the future of US domestic space programs, telescopic exploration of the universe with the potential end to the James Webb ...
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PR Web (press release) (blog)
Teachers soar in one of final 'weightless' flights; As Northrop Grumman ...
Military & Aerospace Electronics
... Mission to the Stars elective, in which students use NASA resources to plan their own spaceexpedition. Bieber said his participation in the flight would help him to explain certain concepts about physics and astronomy to students in both classes. ...
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Eastvalley Teacher is Classroom 'Hero'
Patch.com
For a space and astronomy study unit, she dressed in a full NASA flight suit, staying in character throughout multiple lessons taught from a specially created classroom space station. Hestad engages local business and civic leaders for an annual “City ...
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Astronomers plan last look at asteroid before OSIRIS-REx launch
PhysOrg.com
The next chance for ground-based astronomy is 2023, the year the spacecraft returns a sample of the asteroid to Earth." The target asteroid is about a third of a mile in diameter (575 meters). Credit: NASA/GSFC/UA 1999 RQ36 last attractedastronomers' ...
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PhysOrg.com
A Computer program to detect pain?
The Asian Age
It orbits its parent star at a distance roughly 10 times more than that between the earth and the moon, the journal Astronomy and Astrophysics reports. “This planet is being absolutely fried by its star,” says study co-author Sebastian Schroeter.
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NASA goes back to the future…again : Space and Astronomy news ...
By Jonathan Nally
NASA HAS SELECTED THE DESIGN of a new Space Launch System that will take the agency's astronauts farther into space than ever before, create high-quality jobs here at home, and provide the cornerstone for America's future human ...
Space and Astronomy news daily...
NASA launches mission to study Moon from ... - Astronomy Magazine
Home » News & Observing » Astronomy News » NASA launches mission to study ... “If there was ever any doubt that Florida's Space Coast would continue to be ...
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NASA satellite rainmap shows extent of ... - Telescopes Astronomy
NASA satellite rainmap shows extent of Tropical Storm Lee's heavy rainfall. Written by Administrator. Posted in News - Astronomy News. (NASA/Goddard Space ...
www.telescopesastronomy.com/.../nasa-satellite-rainmap-show...
NASA Solicitation: Concepts for the Next NASA X-Ray Astronomy ...
NASA Solicitation: Concepts for the Next NASA X-Ray Astronomy Mission - SpaceRef.
www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.rss.spacewire.html?pid=38377
NASA - Herschel Mission Finds Galactic Growth Slow and Steady
New findings from the Herschel Space Observatory paint a more tranquil picture of ... The newresults are based on Herschel's observations of two patches of sky, each about ... The results appear in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. ...
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/.../herschel20110913.html

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CNN World News, Sep 15, 2011


The New Battle for Blair Mountain
CNN
News from around the world from CNN. Go beyond borders. CNN's Max Foster talks about celibacy in the Catholic Church between William Donohue, President of the Catholic League and Richard Sipe, author of "Sex, Priests and Secret Codes. ...
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CNN's Soledad O'Brien spotlights women in combat sports
Yahoo! Sports
CNN Anchor and Special Correspondent, Soledad O'Brien, spotlights one of the female boxers representing the US in an upcoming one hour documentary. Ring Girl Kristy Nelson (left) with Linda Shields, CageFX Fight Promoter at the Beantown Brawl in ...
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CNN Tea Party GOP Presidential Debate on September 12, 2011
Texas GOP Vote
We should, but we do not live in a 'perfect world'. His website touts that the 9/11 attacks were caused because we 'occupy' their land (Middle East). “Though it is hard for many to believe, honest studies show that the real motivation behind the ...
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Texas GOP Vote
Republicans Chant to Let Uninsureds Die!
The Nevada View
At the CNN hosted Tea Party Debate, conservative Republicans gave us a glimpse of their true colors. As Wolf Blitzer asked Ron Paul if we should just let an uninsured patient die, the crowd chanted “Yeah, let him die!” See the video below. ...
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Video! End Of World? Snooki Takes Anderson Cooper Spray Tanning
Student Operated Press
By Robert Paul Reyes In this YouTube video orange-hued reality star Snooki takes Anderson (The Friendly Ghost) Cooper spray tanning. I should stop making fun of Snooki, she`sa great sport for appearing on Cooper`s new talk show. The CNN anchor has made ...
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Student Operated Press
Frankfurt shooter radicalized long before attack
Boston Globe
President Barack Obama said in a CNN interview on Aug. 16 that a "lone wolf" terror attack in the US is more likely than a major coordinated effort like the Sept. 11 attacks. In around a dozen pages of Internet chats collected by investigators, ...
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'Piers Morgan Tonight:' Jermaine Jackson to discuss Michael, Murray (video)
Examiner.com
As piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com reports, Jermaine Jackson had the following to say about his brother Michael Jackson's doctor, Conrad Murray: "The first time I saw Conrad Murray was in the hospital when my brother was dead. ...
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US HOT STOCKS: Clarcor, Teradyne Shares Active In Late Trading
Wall Street Journal
Turner Networks include CNN, CNN Headline News, TNT, TBS SuperStation, Cartoon Network and truTV. For the last two years, Time Warner has been trying to urge cable companies to adopt TV Everywhere, its initiative that ties online video viewing to some ...
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9/11: The day the movie theaters were closed
Shoreline Times
He'd been dropping off his dry cleaning before heading out of the city and the clerk had told him that a plane had flown into the World Trade Center. I turned on CNN and there they were – the twin towers – one of them belching smoke. ...
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VIDEO: Drew Brees revamps pregame chant
WWL First News
Read more Returning from a commercial break during the CNN/Tea Party Express Republican debate, moderator Wolf Blitzer casually said “the 8 Republican Presidential candidates.” It was a seemingly innocuous line and for the most part just something ...
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The Two-Way : NPR
NPR
Ron Paul speaks during the presidential debate sponsored by CNN and The Tea Party Express at the Florida State fairgrounds on September 12, 2011 in Tampa, Florida. Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul speaks during the presidential debate ...
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Anderson Cooper joins 'Jersey Shore's' Snooki for tanning session (video)
Examiner.com
After routinely mocking the entire "Jersey Shore" cast during his CNN show over the course of the past several months, the newest addition to the daytime world actually decided to team up with Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi in order to engage in a little bit ...
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VIDEO: Anderson Cooper Gets Spray Tanned With Snooki
Newser
The CNN host called out "every news station in the world" last night on the Ridiculist for missing out on the opportunity to put Snooki behind the anchor desk. "I have always known that Snooki is a Renaissance woman," says Cooper (who calls her, ...
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Computers designed like brains
The Manitoban
Recently, IBM announced that two of its computer chip prototypes are able to gain experiences and learn from those experiences, according to CNN.com. This cognitive computing ability contrasts computers that have existed for decades. ...
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The Manitoban
After Years Of Smearing Obama, Right-Wing Media Mock Obama For Anti-Smear Site
Media Matters for America
By January 19, 2007, the story had been picked up by conservative media figures and given prominent play on CNN Headline News and Fox News. [Media Matters, 1/30/07] Doocy Picked Up InSight Attack: "Why Didn't Anybody Ever Mention That [Obama] Was ...
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ExactTarget Unveils SocialPages(TM) with Real-Time Facebook Analytics, Cross ...
MarketWatch (press release)
... one technology to change an industry and one person to change the world. The conference features addresses from Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, CNN's Soledad O'Brien, author Aron Ralston and executives from Facebook, Adobe, Yahoo!, Best Buy, ...
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'H8R': This alleged antidote for celeb snarkery only incites more rage
Washington Post (blog)
Anderson Cooper has said worse things about Snooki during his CNN RidicuList segment, and she happily appeared on his new talk show without screaming in his face for calling her names. In further proof that nothing about “H8R” is truly spontaneous, ...
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Jon Stewart Rips Apart CNN For Its Broadcast Of The Tea Party Debate -Media ...
Forbes
In 2009, Walker set the Guinness Book of World Records for most talk show appearances ever in a 24 hour period. Based, in New York City, Walker trains and gives speeches all over the world. The author is a Forbes contributor. The opinions expressed are ...
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Managing the Information: Preemergency Networking Through Postincident Hotwash
FireEngineering.com
The 1993 World Trade Center (WTC) bombing in New York City that killed six and the September 11, 2001, attacks that took the lives of nearly 3000 people at the WTC in New York City; in Arlington County, Virginia; and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. ...
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Huffington Post
... beat flying around the world to give talks about climate change. I can justify my carbon footprint if I have to -- with myself as the main moving part, we've managed to build 350.org into the first big global climate campaign, organizing what CNN ...
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VIDEO: A Big Bite of Publicity
Kayak Angler - The Kayak Fishing Magazine (blog)
The pair were everywhere: CNN, Good Morning America, and local Texas stations such as KHOU Houston, which introduced its story with a lurid and "Shark Scare" graphic. If you're looking for more evidence the mainstream media doesn't get either kayak ...
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Most Successful Entrepreneurs under the Age of 30
Siliconindia.com
He writes a weekly column on technology and social media at CNN. His twitter is one of Twitter's 40 most-followed pages, and was crowned as the most influential Twitter user in the world in 2009. With a reported monthly page views of more than 50 ...
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AMERICA'S GOT TALENT Recap: September 13th
The Daily BLAM
America's Got Talent airs tonight, Wednesday, September 14th when this season's winner is finally crowned. The three judges are comedian Howie Mandel , music manager Sharon Osbourne andCNN's Piers Morgan. The show is hosted by radio personality and ...
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GOP congresswoman cancels 9/11 events over Iranian "threat"
Salon
A CNN poll recently showed that Republicans think Rick Perry is more electable than Mitt Romney. I pointed out that conservative voters might be blinded by their own enthusiasm for the Texas governor, who is decidedly more exciting to right-wingers ...
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Salon
Google+ Gets More Sign-Language Friendly
WDIV Detroit
By SportsDirect (CNN) -- A video-chat feature called Hangouts is one thing that sets Google+ apart from Facebook and Twitter. When lots of people are chatting together in a Hangout, only one person "has the floor" at a time -- and you can tell who this ...
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Is Anderson Cooper The New Oprah?
PSFK
Heck, Oprah made the shift from local news reporter and a brief but celebrated acting career to becoming the behemoth of soapy, slushy talkshows; surely Cooper – the chic-ly grizzled, frequently flak-jacketed but never flustered, CNN reporter – could ...
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Police: Alleged Gumby bandit turns self in – This Just In - CNN.com ...
By lendonsan
Surveillance video shows Gumby at the counter of a San Diego-area 7-Eleven on September 5. September .... This is where you will find the latest news and information from CNN's correspondents and sources around the world. We'll cover ...
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King Crabs invade Antarctica – Global Public Square - CNN.com ...
By amarcnn
Editor's Note: The following text is from GlobalPost, which provides excellent coverage of world news– important, moving and just odd. King crabs — three-feet-wide red monsters ... The video footage also shows that the crabs "prod, gash and puncture" the sediment, altering natural processes such as how organic matter is buried. The implications are terrifying, as Jen ... Post by: CNN Editors ....I'm here to read about the crabs, not what you consider to be news. September 14, 2011 at ...
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President Obama: 'This Isn't About Me' (VIDEO) | Roland S. Martin Blog
President Obama To Submit His Jobs Plan To Congress Monday (VIDEO) ... Visit msnbc.com for breaking newsworld news, and news about the economy Source: CNN Washington - President Barack Obama requested time Wednesday . ...
Roland S. Martin Blog
Travel News - Headlines, Stories and Video from CNN.com ...
Beijing is set to beat London and Atlanta as the world's busiest aviation hub, with a new airport the size of Bermuda. FULL STORY · Road-tripping around Costa ...
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Switch to standard CNN Video. Help. Search videos ... IN THE NEWS. Bystanders lift burning ...World's heaviest woman takes the blame. 92. Airmen surprise ...
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