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October 27, 2010
SOLAR SCIENCE
Can Solar Shield Protect The North American Power Grid
Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 27, 2010
Every hundred years or so, a solar storm comes along so potent it fills the skies of Earth with blood-red auroras, makes compass needles point in the wrong direction, and sends electric currents coursing through the planet's topsoil. The most famous such storm, the Carrington Event of 1859, actually shocked telegraph operators and set some of their offices on fire. A 2008 report by the National Academy of Sciences warns that if such a storm occurred today, we could experience widespread power blac ... read more

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SPACE WORLD 2010: Successful Premiere at the Exhibition Centre Frankfurt/Main
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IRON AND ICE

Countdown To Comet Flyby Down To Nine Days
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Space Telescopes Reveal Previously Unknown X-Ray Nova
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TECH SPACE

Secure World Foundation Holds Space Debris Workshop
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Satellite Services supplies on-board sub-systems for smallsats and microsats.
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MOON DAILY

Collision Spills New Moon Secrets
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MOON DAILY

NASA Awards Contract To Team FREDNET Google Lunar X PRIZE Contender
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EXO LIFE

Microbes And Molecules Get A Space-Stress Test
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EXO WORLDS

Planets Discovered Around Elderly Binary Star
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IRON AND ICE

New Cometary Phenomenon Greets Approaching Spacecraft
Recent observations of comet Hartley 2 have scientists scratching their heads, while they anticipate a flyby of the small, icy world on Nov. 4. A phenomenon was recorded by imagers aboard NASA ... more
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MOON DAILY

LRO Supports Historic Lunar Impact Mission
The lunar rocks brought back to the Earth by the Apollo astronauts were found to have very little water, and to be much drier than rocks on Earth. An explanation for this was that the Moon formed bi ... more
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MOON DAILY

LRO Detects Surprising Gases In LCROSS Lunar Impact Plume
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) and its sophisticated suite of instruments have determined that hydrogen, mercury and other volatile substances are present in permanently shaded soils on t ... more
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PHYSICS NEWS

Picometre Precision Demonstrated By LISA Pathfinder Tests
A European team working on the LISA Pathfinder mission has completed an extensive series of ground tests on the spacecraft's optical payload. The tests successfully achieved - for the first time on ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

New Research Settles Years Debate Over Diffuse Aurora
New space research published this week (Thursday 21 October) in the journal Nature, has settled decades of scientific debate. Researchers from the University of California (UCLA) and British Antarct ... more
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TECH SPACE
NASA Open Government Summit Emphasized Data Exchange
Washington DC (SPX) Oct 22, 2010
NASA is working to publish more of its data sets online and create more opportunities to engage with the public using digital tools. This was a major part of the discussion during the monthly Open Government Community Summit at NASA Headquarters in Washington last week. NASA's Office of the Chief Information Officer and Office of the Chief Financial Officer hosted the meeting. The event br ... more

SATURN DAILY
Spring Has Sprung ... On Titan
Pasadena CA (SPX) Oct 22, 2010
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has sent back dreamy raw images of Saturn's moon Titan that show the appearance of clouds around the moon's midsection. These bright clouds likely appeared because the moon is changing seasons and spring has arrived in Titan's northern hemisphere. The images were taken from about 2.5 million kilometers (1.5 million miles) away from Titan on Oct. 18, 2010, an ... more

MOON DAILY
Moon's 'treasure chest' includes silver : study
Washington (AFP) Oct 21, 2010
Lunar soil is richer than previously thought, with traces of silver among the complex mix of elements and compounds found within one of the moon's craters, according to a study published Thursday. Researchers at Brown University who analyzed particles of lunar dust kicked up by a NASA-engineered collision last year found a surprisingly rich mixture that, in addition to the silver, included w ... more

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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Are Most Pulsars Really Magnetars In Disguise

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SPACE TRAVEL
Planets Discovered Around Elderly Binary Star

Astronomers Find Weird, Warm Spot On An Exoplanet

New techniqe aiding planet searches

SPACE TRAVEL
Secure World Foundation Holds Space Debris Workshop

Amazon says e-book sales of best-sellers double print

ARTEMIS Spacecraft Believed Stuck By Object

SPACE TRAVEL
'Exorbitant' price talk for Galileo maps way off beam: EU

Russia To Launch 8 Glonass Navigation Satellites In 2011-2013

S.Africa implants GPS chips in rhino horns to fight poaching

SPACE TRAVEL
NASA chief says pleased with 'comprehensive' China visit

The International Future In Space

International Crews for Shenzhou

SPACE TRAVEL
Ocean asteroid impact could deplete ozone

NASA Cameras Spot Meteors From Obscure Camelopardalis Shower

No Evidence Found Of Catastrophic Impact In Pleistocene

SPACE TRAVEL
Contract Signing Gives Galileo System Its Operators

Countdown To Comet Flyby Down To Nine Days

New Cometary Phenomenon Greets Approaching Spacecraft

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IRON AND ICE
Comet Hartley 2 Visible In Morning Sky This Week
Austin TX (SPX) Oct 21, 2010
The small comet Hartley 2 makes its closest approach to Earth today and should be visible to the unaided eye for several days under dark skies in the hours before dawn, according to the editors of StarDate magazine. Early risers can take a look at the comet in anticipation of its November 4 encounter with NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft. For help in finding the comet, download a sky chart from StarDate Media: http://stardate.org/mediacenter While you're there, sign up to receive notices of fut ... read more

IRON AND ICE
Reaching The Mid-Mission Milestone On The Way To Pluto

New Horizons Student Dust Counter Instrument Breaks Distance Record

Nitrogen Methane Dominate Icy Surface Of Eris

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IRON AND ICE
Microbes And Molecules Get A Space-Stress Test

Powerful Supercomputer Peers Into The Origin Of Life

'Hot water' life found in Wyoming lake

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IRON AND ICE
Planets Discovered Around Elderly Binary Star

Astronomers Find Weird, Warm Spot On An Exoplanet

New techniqe aiding planet searches

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IRON AND ICE
2013 Earliest Launch Date For China Mars Mission

A One-Way Trip To Mars Would Be Affordable

Curiosity Builds A New Mars Rover

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IRON AND ICE
NASA Awards Contract To Team FREDNET Google Lunar X PRIZE Contender

Collision Spills New Moon Secrets

LRO Detects Surprising Gases In LCROSS Lunar Impact Plume

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