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Apr. 21, 2009 | 16:24 PDT | 23:24 UTC
Tonight - Lyrids meteor shower and the moon occults venus
by Bruce Betts
Heads up! The Lyrids meteor shower peaks on April 21/22, depending on your time zone, and provides extra meteors for a couple days before and after. The Lyrids is usually an average meteor shower, with 10 to 20 meteors per hour. The... More»
Apr. 21, 2009 | 13:28 PDT | 20:28 UTC
Big Picture and other good links for today
This week, the Boston Globe's "Big Picture" feature is on Cassini images, and the selections are marvelous choices (though I'll note the guy who's selecting the images seems to be particularly fascinated by the weird shots where you see rings appear... More»
Apr. 21, 2009 | 09:26 PDT | 16:26 UTC
Spirit Update: Generally healthy, but "amnesiac?"
In an update to last week's status report from JPL on some spurious reboots that Spirit suffered over Easter weekend, the mission has actually referred to "amnesia events" on the rover. An "amnesia event," they explain, is when, for reasons... More»
Apr. 20, 2009 | 06:44 PDT | 13:44 UTC
A couple of space carnivals
Visit Alice's Astro Info for the 99th Carnival of Space, and Fraser's over at Universe Today for the 98th.... More»
Apr. 16, 2009 | 14:31 PDT | 21:31 UTC
The Planetary Society's Solar Sail featured in The Atlantic
by Susan Lendroth
In The Atlantic's new article, "Across the Universe," Thomas Mallon charts a course from the discovery of exoplanets through the possibility of extraterrestrial intelligence to the most feasible way to send spacecraft to such... More»
Apr. 16, 2009 | 13:55 PDT | 20:55 UTC
What to do if the big one is headed our way?
One question I am asked frequently is whether there's any international laws or agreements on how to handle the situation of an impending asteroid impact. Planetary Society members are very concerned about the threat of Earth impacts -- we... More»
Apr. 14, 2009 | 20:00 PDT | Apr. 15 03:00 UTC
COLBERT is going to space!!
It's just been announced: Although the name "Colbert" won the popular vote for the new moniker for Node 3 at the International Space Station, NASA has elected not to name Node 3 for the Comedy Central fake news show host, but instead named it for... More»
Apr. 14, 2009 | 09:08 PDT | 16:08 UTC
Ted Stryk: Europa Jupiter System Mission Colloquium
Ted Stryk sent me the following notes on a meeting on the Europa Jupiter System Mission held on April 9 and 10. Thanks, Ted! --ESL
by Ted Stryk
On April 9, the University of Tennessee's Earth and Planetary Sciences department hosted a colloquium... More»
Apr. 13, 2009 | 14:57 PDT | 21:57 UTC
Spirit hiccup
Another of those dreaded "status reports" from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory arrived in my mailbox just now. Apparently, over the Easter weekend, Spirit's computer mysteriously reset twice. One of the reboots happened while it was using its... More»
Apr. 13, 2009 | 11:05 PDT | 18:05 UTC
Moon shadow, moon shadow
Over the weekend, sharp-eyed Cassini-watchers on unmannedspaceflight.com noticed a series of way-cool photos on the mission's raw images website. Here's a full-frame view, captured some time on April 8.Click to enlarge >Shadows on Saturn's... More»
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