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Star Party set for Friday at MTSUDr. Eric Klumpe will discuss a oe400 Years after Galileo: How Our View of the Universe Changeda during the Friday, Nov.
Topix.net Wednesday, November 04, 2009Pentagon eyes crash analysis from satellitesThe United States Air Force has started upgrading its ability to predict possible collisions between satellites in space.
iol.co.za Wednesday, November 04, 2009Lunar Lander prize scooped by California firmMasten Space Systems has designed a craft capable of a lunar landing - and secured a $1-million prize in the process.
iol.co.za Wednesday, November 04, 2009Follow Rosetta's final Earth boost(European Space Agency) ESA's comet chaser Rosetta will swing by Earth for the last time on Nov. 13 to pick up energy and begin the final leg of its 10-year journey to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. ESA's European Space Operations Center will host a media briefing on that day.
Eurekalert.org Wednesday, November 04, 2009University of Utah celebrates telescope's 'first light'(University of Utah) The University of Utah will celebrate the initial observations or "first light" of its new $860,000 research telescope in southwest Utah during a Wednesday, Nov. 11 symposium and reception on the Salt Lake City campus. The new Willard L. Eccles Observatory's 32-inch reflecting telescope took its first pictures the night of Oct. 15 from the 9,600-foot level on Frisco Peak in southern Utah.
Eurekalert.org Wednesday, November 04, 2009Terry Pratchett: Fighting to keep the fantasy aliveThe prolific author discusses tinkering with science, his battle with Alzheimer's, and the odds of escaping from a crab bucket
Newscientist.com Wednesday, November 04, 2009Water Geysers on Saturn Moon Take Center StageNew striking photos of water-vapor geysers shooting off of Saturn's moon Enceladus were taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in orbit around the planet.
SPACE.com Wednesday, November 04, 2009Planet hunt delayedNASA's Kepler mission is unlikely to detect any Earth-like exoplanets before 2011 due to an electronic glitch Kepler, NASA's mission to search for planets around other stars, will not be able to spot an Earth-sized planet until 2011, according to the mission's team.
Topix.net Wednesday, November 04, 2009Texas A&M prof to predict weather on Mars(Texas A&M University) Is there such a thing as "weather" on Mars? There are some doubts, considering the planet's atmosphere is only 1 percent as dense as that of the Earth. Mars, however, definitely has clouds, drastically low temperatures and out-of-this-world dust storms, and Istvan Szunyogh, a Texas A&M professor of atmospheric sciences, has been awarded a NASA grant to analyze and forecast Martian weather.
Eurekalert.org Wednesday, November 04, 2009Crabs trade sex for protectionThis helps to explain how females defend their territory just as successfully as males despite their smaller claws
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