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- 21 Mar 2010
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01:28 UTC
Astronomy.FM Skylog...
Sky Safari March 21 -
On March 21 at 2 pm EDT (1600 UT), Sky Safari travels back 400 years to meet Galileo Galilei.
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00:57 UTC
Space Politics
Houston’s delegation optimistic about Constellation
On Thursday morning eight members of the House from the greater Houston area held a press conference with Houston mayor Annise Parker (at the podium above, flanked by the House ...
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00:57 UTC
Spaceports
Commercial Human Launch by 2015
Orbital Sr. VP Frank Culbertson appearing before the Augustine Commission in 2009.Former NASA astronaut Frank Culbertson, now Senior Vice-President at Virginia-based Orbital Sciences Corporation, appeared before a Senate Commerce subcommittee ...
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00:00 UTC
NASA Watch
Nelson's Compromise Emerges
Sen. Nelson Floats Alternate Use for NASA Commercial Crew Money, Space News "As the Senate Commerce Committee begins work on a 2010 NASA authorization bill, science and space subcommittee chairman ...
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01:28 UTC
Astronomy.FM Skylog...
- 20 Mar 2010
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23:41 UTC
reevesAstronomy: As...
How to Install / Upgrade RAM and Hard Drives in a Desktop...
A video I made showing how to swap out RAM and hard drives.
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23:26 UTC
Universe Today
Astronomy Without A Telescope – How To Impress An Alien (...
It's about fifty years since Frank Drake sent out our first chat request to the wider universe. I say about as I think the official date is 11 April 1960 ...
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23:17 UTC
NASA: Earth Observa...
Rising Waters in St. Paul
Acquired on March 17, 2010 (top), and August 5, 2009 (bottom), these false-color images show differences in vegetation and river levels at different times of year. Vegetation appears bright green. ...
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23:05 UTC
Spaceports
Soyuz Plans April 2, 2010 Flight to ISS
Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov, fellow Russian Mikhail Korniyenko and American NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell-Dyson, will take off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in the desert steppes of Kazakhstan on April 2, 2010 ...
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22:34 UTC
Lunar Networks
Detailed view of a Solar Eclipse Corona
Astronomy Picture of the Day for March 16, 2010: "Only in the fleeting darkness of a total solar eclipse is the light of the solar corona easily visible. Normally overwhelmed ...
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22:15 UTC
NASA: Earth Observa...
Kelvin Wave Renews El Nino
A trio of globes of sea surface height anomalies shows a deep pulse of warm water—a Kelvin wave—crossing the Pacific Ocean in February 2010. Kelvin waves stregnthen and maintain El ...
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21:59 UTC
Music of the Sphere...
Fire-hose Rocket Pack
Jet-Lev Flyer is a water-driven "rocket pack." It's not that hard to explain, but watch the video. I don't think this is quite my style of personal flying machine (though ...
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21:48 UTC
EAAE News
Newly Discovered Planet Could Hold Water
Source: Space Daily The Corot satellite strikes again with another fascinating planet discovery. This time, the newly discovered gas giant planet may have an interior that closely resembles those of ...
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21:29 UTC
One-Minute Astronom...
Cluster Hunting with the “Big Dog”
As the weather moderates and northern observers emerge from hibernation this time of year, the constellation Canis Major, the Big Dog, is ideal for exploring an hour or two after ...
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20:31 UTC
The Night Sky Guy
New Night Sky Episode
Check out my new stargazing episode aired Friday on the Weather Network. Bookmark
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19:37 UTC
13.7
Quantum Mechanics And Experiences You Never Have (Unless ...
By Adam Frank So yesterday I had the pleasure of attending a seminar on The Measurement Problem in Quantum Mechanics at the University of Rochester. After an hour and half ...
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19:37 UTC
13.7
Quantum Mechanics And Experiences You Never Have (Unless ...
By Adam Frank So yesterday I had the pleasure of attending a seminar on The Measurement Problem in Quantum Mechanics at the University of Rochester. After an hour and half ...
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18:49 UTC
Spaceports
Back to the Future: Payloads to ISS
NanoRack is an exciting space payload firm being launched by commercial space pioneer Jeff Manber. His firm has two NanoRack payloads in association with Kentucky Space now at the Kennedy ...
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18:05 UTC
NASASpaceFlight.com
LIVE: ILS Proton M set to launch EchoStar XIV satellite
International Launch Services (ILS) are set to launch the EchoStar XIV telecommunications satellite via their veteran Proton-M launch vehicle and Breeze-M upper stage on Saturday. Lift-off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome ...
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18:02 UTC
NASA Watch
Where Are NASA's Social Media Guidelines/Policies?
How to Devise a Stellar Social Media Policy: NASA's Tips, Network World "NASA has been exploring social media--a territory still foreign to many businesses--for years now. But back in 2007, ...
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17:55 UTC
Skymania News
Alien world is like one of ours
A European probe has discovered the first planet orbiting another star that resembles one in our own solar system. The distant world is a similar size to Jupiter and is ...
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17:38 UTC
Spaceports
2010 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: Where, If Anywhere, Is...
The Scientific American covered the five space policy experts as they debated at the 2010 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate of where NASA is going in the Obama Administration lead space ...
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17:06 UTC
Tom's Astronomy Blo...
A New Riddle Cycle Begins
Happy Saturday, and welcome to a new cycle of riddles. We all start over with a blank slate to build up a list of “riddle champions” for the next bonus ...
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16:34 UTC
Alien Life
Titan’s liquid cycles and what alien astronomers would kn...
Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation. Here's today's news:g Stars - Astronomers have come across what appear to ...
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16:30 UTC
Bad Astronomy
Fakequinox
Today, March 20, at 17:32 GMT (1:32 p.m. EST) — after three months of crawling northward — the center of the Sun will lie on the celestial equator, heralding the ...
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16:23 UTC
My Dark Sky
Spring is here…
I mean in the northern hemisphere… there’s no different in Malaysia, it’s summer all the times… Today is the vernal equinox, the time when our Sun shines directly on the ...
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15:08 UTC
Universe Today
The Periodic Table of Science Bloggers
David Bradley is a first-class science writer from the UK, who writes with a chemistry slant at his blog Sciencebase. He's also an interesting guy to follow on Twitter, and ...
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15:07 UTC
Spaceports
Nelson Pushes Large NASA Booster Rocket
The U.S. Senate will direct NASA to develop a super-size rocket and a spacecraft for missions beyond Earth orbit, the senior senator from Florida, Bill Nelson, said Friday to 200 ...
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14:58 UTC
Young Astronomers
Spectacular Saturn: – Part 1
Saturn is the sixth planet out from the sun and is the second of the gas giants, it is also the second largest planet after Jupiter. It has been a ...
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14:49 UTC
Bad Astronomy
Sean Carroll on Colbert
My friend and Hive Overmind co-blogger Sean Carroll is a theoretical cosmologist, which means he thinks about why the Universe is the way it is, and applies what we know ...
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14:14 UTC
Space Fellowship
Maintenance for Station Crew
(NASA) - The Expedition 23 crew members aboard the International Space Station were busy Friday with a variety of maintenance activities after the departure and landing of Expedition 22 crew ...
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14:11 UTC
Space Fellowship
NASA and NOAA's Environmental Satellite Now GOES-15
GREENBELT, Md., (NASA) -- Twelve days after a flawless launch, NASA and NOAA's Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite-P (GOES-P) reached its proper orbit and was renamed GOES-15. The latest weather satellite ...
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14:09 UTC
Space Fellowship
New launch date for CryoSat-2 confirmed
(ESA) - The technical issue with the second stage of the Dnepr rocket that delayed the launch of ESA's Earth Explorer CryoSat-2 satellite in February has now been resolved – ...
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14:04 UTC
Space Fellowship
ESA and Thales Alenia Space enter negotiations for MTG
(ESA) - The tendering process that will result in the supply of Europe's next series of meteorological satellites, Meteosat Third Generation, has reached an advanced stage as ESA invites Thales ...
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13:57 UTC
Space Fellowship
ATK Successfully Tests Attitude Control Motor for Orion L...
(ATK) - Key Milestone Test Performed at ATK's Elkton, Maryland Facility MINNEAPOLIS -- Alliant Techsystems (NYSE: ATK) announced that it successfully completed the second of two ground tests of a ...
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13:42 UTC
In the Dark
Cantaloupe Island(s)
It’s been a pretty exhausting few weeks, but now we’ve reached the end of teaching term. Not that I’ve got nothing to do, but I should be able to concentrate ...
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13:20 UTC
Cumbrian Sky
New Dr Who trailer…!!
If you have any emails to send, videos to download or blogs to catch up, do it as soon as you can, because the internet is about to melt: the ...
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11:00 UTC
Professor Astronomy
Science bloggers lay claim to the periodic table
David Bradley is a British science writer. Among other things, he authors and maintains the Sciencebase website and blog, he twitters, and he maintains a list of several hundred scientists ...
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09:46 UTC
IYA2009 Updates
Could you name a planet?
2010 celebrates the 80th anniversary of the discovery of Pluto and marks the 1st year death anniversary of Venetia Burney Phair, the most influential 11 year-old in the history of ...
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09:27 UTC
IYA2009 Updates
Explore the Universe Through Remote Observing During GAM2...
One of the Global Programs taking place during Global Astronomy Month this April is the Remote Observing Program of Bellatrix Astronomical Observatory in Italy, with participants from around the world ...
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08:09 UTC
astropixie
the fairy scientist
the fairy scientist is an interesting four and a half minute video created by skeptical bob for the project reason video contest. "Children are natural scientists - filled with wonder ...
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07:05 UTC
The Discovery Enter...
A Traveler's Guide to the Planets Episode 4
Today on Discovery Enterprise we present the fourth installment of the highly acclaimed documentary series “A Traveler's Guide to the Planets” to continue our grand tour of the solar system ...
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06:14 UTC
NASA: Earth Observa...
Massive Dust Storm Sweeps Across Africa
Pale tan dust blurs the southern edge of the Sahara Desert across the entire African continent in this natural color satellite image from March 19, 2010.
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06:14 UTC
NASA: Earth Observa...
Solar Flare and Coronal Mass Ejection
This ultraviolet image, captured by NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO) Ahead spacecraft on February 12, 2010, shows a solar storm brewing in an active two areas of the Sun.
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05:10 UTC
Colony Worlds
Carnival Of The Space Geeks (Crowlspace)
Last week the 145th Carnival of Space was hosted by Adam Crowl upon Crowlspace. Posts ranged from close encounters with moon rocks and Martian valleys to future space vacations under ...
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04:45 UTC
Lunar Networks
LRO/LROC/LOLA: Marius Hills
Large Scale - The prominent Marius Dome field is a familiar target in amateur telescopes, changing almost from minute to minute 5 days after First Quarter or 4 days after ...
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04:12 UTC
Luna C/I: Moon Colo...
NASA Images Lunokhod 2 Rover
NASA’s busy Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has solved a longstanding mystery: it has found the final resting place of the russian Lunokhod 2 rover. The Lunokhod 2’s 37-kilometer journey ended after ...
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04:12 UTC
A Sky Full of Stars
Quantum Leap: Charge!
[tweetmeme]Guest author, Thomas Kennedy, features a twice-monthly series, Quantum Leap, wherein he guides readers through the fascinating world of quantum mechanics. This is issue 010. ======================================================================= In 1896, Henri Becquerel ...
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04:06 UTC
Lunar Networks
LROC: Luna 21
Luna 21 lander delivered the Lunokhod 2 rover to the floor of Le Monnier crater in January 1973, LROC NAC Image M122007650LE [NASA/GSFC/ Arizona State University].The Luna 21 spacecraft landed ...
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04:03 UTC
Universe Today
Will Discovery Be 'Go for Launch' or Forced to Roll Back?
Over the weekend, NASA engineers will conduct additional tests to determine if Discovery can launch "as is" or have to be rolled back for repairs — which would mean a ...
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03:59 UTC
Observing the Sky
Moon: Day 4 - “Invading Nectaris”
I could not get to see the Sun today, as it was only in and out of snow showers which cleared in the evening (and me and brother were on ...
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23:41 UTC
reevesAstronomy: As...



