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SA student's passion for astronomy rewardedBy John Yeld Environment & Science Writer At the tender age of six, when most young girls her age were probably still playing with Barbie dolls and skipping ropes, Michelle Knights, of Joburg, had already turned her head to the stars.
Topix.net Sunday, October 18, 2009US Air Force spying hinders astronomyLIGO's exquisitely sensitive instruments may ultimately take us farther back in time than we've ever been, catching, perhaps, the first murmurs of the universe in formation.
Topix.net Sunday, October 18, 2009Russian cargo ship docks with ISSA Russian cargo ship, launched from the Baikonur space station in Kazakhstan, docked successfully with the International Space Station, Russia's space command centre said.
iol.co.za Sunday, October 18, 2009Smart GPS tags track sunfishThe fish towed new low-power, depth-sensitive tags that allowed them to be tracked across the ocean for the first time
NewScientist.com Sunday, October 18, 2009Geologists point to outer space as source of the Earth's mineral riches(University of Toronto) According to a new study by geologists at the University of Toronto and the University of Maryland, the wealth of some minerals that lie in the rock beneath the Earth's surface may be extraterrestrial in origin.
Eurekalert.org Sunday, October 18, 2009NASA Discovers A Ring Around The Solar SystemAt the very edge of our solar system, NASA scientists have discovered a mysterious stripe of hydrogen that defies all current expectations about what we thought it might look like.
NPR Sunday, October 18, 2009Ex-Albion student studies stars from Andes perchA 2009 physics graduate of Michigan's Albion College is hard at work crunching data from a summer spent studying the stars by telescope high in the Andes.
Topix.net Sunday, October 18, 2009Opportunity Discovers Still Another Meteorite! Find It on Google MarsMackinac on Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL/ colorization by Stuart Atkinson Opportunity must be driving down Meteorite Alley on Mars. The rover has come across still another meteorite, the third space rock it has found the past few months, and fourth overall since 2005. This one is called Mackinac, which continues the "island" theme by [...]
Universe Today Sunday, October 18, 2009NASA: World Will Not End In 2012Sunday, October 18, 2009 From http://www.roguegovernment.com/NASA%3A_World_Will_Not_End_In_2012/17729/0/9/9/Y/M.html NASA: World Will Not End In 2012 Published on 10-17-2009 Email To Friend Print Version Source: London Telegraph Sony Pictures set up a website for an organisation called the Institute for Human Continuity which predicts a cataclysmic ...
Topix.net Sunday, October 18, 2009Ares I-X Secured At Launch PadCape Canaveral FL (SPX) Oct 21, 2009 - The Ares I-X now is secured on Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The test rocket, sitting on a mobile launcher platform, was "hard down" on the pad's pedestals at 9:17 a.m. EDT. The rotating service structure is expected to be rolled into place at about 12:30 p.m.
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