From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Tue Jun 17 2003 - 11:03:52 PDT
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NEWSALERT: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 @ 1658 GMT
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NEW LAUNCH DATE SET FOR 'OPPORTUNITY' ROVER
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Launch of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has been put off one
day -- to June 26 -- to give workers more time to complete pre-flight
preparations, the space agency said Monday.
http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/merb/status.html
FLATTEST STAR EVER SEEN
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To a first approximation, planets and stars are round. Think of the Earth
we live on. Think of the Sun, the nearest star, and how it looks in the
sky. But if you think more about it, you realize that this is not
completely true.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0306/14flattest/
'SOLAR TSUNAMIS' USED TO STUDY THE SOLAR CORONA
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Since the launch of the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory in 1995,
scientists have used it to study flares, filaments and coronal mass
ejections. The telescope has also discovered solar tsunamis, huge
propagating waves that are triggered along with coronal mass ejections and
can travel the entire diameter of the sun. Researchers are applying this
unusual phenomenon for the first time to new studies of the solar corona.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0306/16tsunamis/
EVIDENCE FOR METEOR IN EARLY MASS EXTINCTION FOUND
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It's the stuff of science fiction movies. Bruce Willis, by a mighty
effort, saving the world from extinction by a huge meteor. But Bruce
Willis won't do it, and in our current state of readiness, neither will
anyone else.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0306/15extinct/
HOT NEWS FOR COLD DARK MATTER FROM CHANDRA
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Astronomers have used NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to make the most
detailed probe yet of the distribution of dark matter in a massive cluster
of galaxies. Their results indicate that about 80 percent of the matter in
the universe consists of cold dark matter -- mysterious subatomic
particles left over from the dense early universe.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0306/14chandra/
BRIDGES MOVES FROM KENNEDY TO LANGLEY
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Gen. Roy D. Bridges, Center Director for NASA's Kennedy Space Center, has
been named Center Director for the agency's Langley Research Center.
Bridges, a retired U.S. Air Force Major General and former space shuttle
pilot will assume his new duties Aug. 10.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0306/13bridges/
VETERAN ASTRONAUT BEGINS NEW ADVENTURE IN EDUCATION
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James Voss, one of NASA's most experienced astronauts having logged five
shuttle flights and served as a member of the space station's Expedition 2
crew, has left the agency for a position at Auburn University.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0306/15voss/
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<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/merb/status.html">NEW LAUNCH DATE SET FOR 'OPPORTUNITY' ROVER</a>
<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0306/14flattest/">FLATTEST STAR EVER SEEN</a>
<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0306/16tsunamis/">'SOLAR TSUNAMIS' USED TO STUDY THE SOLAR CORONA</a>
<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0306/15extinct/">EVIDENCE FOR METEOR IN EARLY MASS EXTINCTION FOUND</a>
<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0306/14chandra/">HOT NEWS FOR COLD DARK MATTER FROM CHANDRA</a>
<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0306/13bridges/">BRIDGES MOVES FROM KENNEDY TO LANGLEY</a>
<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0306/15voss/">VETERAN ASTRONAUT BEGINS NEW ADVENTURE IN EDUCATION</a>
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