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HIGHLIGHTS - October 01, 2003

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Astronomy Highlights

Sep 25 NEW	[STScI] Hubble Uncovers Smallest Moons Yet Seen Around Uranus
Sep 18 NEW	[CfA] First Supernovae Quickly Seeded Universe With Stuff Of Life
Sep 17 NEW	[Harvard] "Iron-Clad" Evidence For Spinning Black Hole
Sep 16	[Harvard] Lunar Prospecting With Chandra
Sep 16 NEW	[NOAO] New Galaxy Orbiting Andromeda
Sep 16 NEW	[RAS] UK SCIENTISTS BID FAREWELL TO GALLANT GALILEO
Sep 16	[LBL] Homing in on Dark Energy with Supernova Studies from Space
Sep 12	[ESO] Optical Detection of Anomalous Nitrogen in Comets - VLT Opens New Window towards Our Origins.
Sep 11	[Harvard] Cosmic X-ray Flashes Reveal Their Distance
Sep 10 NEW	[SwRI] Sunlight makes asteroids spin in strange ways
Sep 10 NEW	[JPL] NASA Releases Near-Earth Object Search Report
Sep 09	[STScI] The Slant on Saturn's Rings
Sep 09	[Harvard] Chandra "Hears" A Black Hole For The First Time
Sep 06	[STScI] Farthest, Faintest Solar System Objects Found Beyond Neptune
Sep 05 NEW	[MIT] MIT researchers reassess asteroid hazards
Sep 04	[Keck] High-Resolution Images of Asteroid (511) Davida
Sep 03	[JPL] Asteroid 2003 QQ47's Potential Earth Impact in 2014 Ruled Out
Sep 03	[Keck] Stormy Conditions in Hot Plasma Being Consumed by Massive Black Hole at Center of Milky Way
Sep 02	[NASA] ANTIMATTER FACTORY ON SUN YIELDS CLUES TO SOLAR EXPLOSIONS
Sep 01	[ESO] New Image of Comet Halley in the Cold - VLT Observes Famous Traveller at Record Distance
Aug 28 NEW	[MPA] Glowing in the Cold - New Theory for Mysterious Shining in Clusters of Galaxies
Aug 26	[AAO] Astronomers hunt Martian water from Earth
Aug 21	[JPL] New Findings Could Dash Hopes for Past Oceans on Mars
Aug 21	[ESO] New Insight into the Cosmic Renaissance Epoch - VLT Discovers a Group of Early Inhabitants and Find Signs of Many More.
Aug 13	[NASA] Biggest Cosmic Explosions May Also Propel Fastest Objects in the Universe
Aug 12	[NASA] Many gamma-ray bursts go undetected, MIT mathematician estimates
Aug 12	[NRAO] Distance Measurement Solves Astrophysical Mysteries
Aug 07	[CfA] Eclipse of a winking star by a protoplanetary disk started only recently.
Aug 07	[RAS] Dim future for the universe as stellar lights go out
Aug 06	[NOAO] Giant star as part of the progenitor system of a Type Ia supernova identified.
Aug 06	[SwRI] View of comets as pristine relics of solar system formation evolves
Aug 06	[ESO] Observations show for the first time an asymmetry of the initial phase of a Type Ia supernova.
Aug 06	[CfA] First direct images of asteroid Juno show a fresh impact crater.
Aug 05	[RAS] New classification scheme for comets, asteroids and other minor bodies.
Aug 04	[MPA] A Jet is a Jet, Big or Small: Scale Invariance of Black Hole Jets
Aug 01	[ESA] Ulysses sees Galactic Dust on the rise

Observatories: Telescopes and Satellites

Sep 10	[STScI] NASA Approves James Webb Space Telescope Mirror Architecture
Aug 25	[JPL] Space Infrared Telescope Facility Lifts Off
Aug 04	[NRAO] ALMA Partners Granted Site to Build and Operate Telescope in Chile
Jul 29	[IU] World's largest astronomical CCD camera installed on Palomar Observatory telescope
Jul 21	[JHU] FUSE "Brain Transplant" Secures Future of Orbiting Observatory
Jun 11	[NRAO] Scientists Celebrate VLBA's First Decade As Astronomy's Sharpest "Eye" on the Universe
May 28	[PPARC] WASP prepares to search for a thousand new planets
May 13	[ESO] Sharper and Deeper Views with MACAO-VLTI - First Light" with Powerful Adaptive Optics System for the VLT Interferometer.
Apr 28	[JPL] Galaxy Evolution Explorer On Its Way
Apr 22	[JPL] Galaxy Evolution Explorer Looks Back in Time
Apr 09	[CSIRO] Gas clouds make new 'telescope'
Mar 27	[ESO] "First Light" for HARPS at La Silla - Advanced Planet-Hunting Spectrograph Passes First Tests With Flying Colours.
Mar 27	[JPL] The Sky's the Limit: Grand Finale for Twin-Telescope Survey
Mar 25	[JPL] Space Observatory to Study the Old, the Cold and the Dusty

Mission to the Planets

Moon: SMART-1 ----- in preparation

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Sep 28 2003	[ESA] SMART-1 leaves Earth on a long journey to the Moon
Sep 24 2003	[RAS] A smart way to study the Moon
Sep 22 2003	[ESA] SMART-1: the first spacecraft of the future

Mars: Mars Exploration ----- in preparation

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Dec 21 2001	[ESA] Mars missions in 2003 will share their communications channels.
Nov 22 2000	[ESA] Europe plays a major part in future Mars exploration.
Sep 28 2000	[spaceViews] NASA's next mission to Mars will be named "2001 Mars Odyssey".

NASA's Mars program

Mars: Planet-B (Nozomi) ----- on the way

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Jan 12
1999

[spaceViews] Nozomi Mars arrival delayed until December 2003.

Mars: Mars Express ----- on the way

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Jun 03 2003	[ESA] Mars Express en route for the Red Planet
Jun 02 2003	[JPL] U.S. Partners Share in Excitement of Europe's Mars Mission
May 20 2003	[ESA] ESA sets ambitious goals for the first European mission to Mars

Mars Express homepage

Mars: Mars Rovers 2003 ----- on the way

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Jul 07 2003	[JPL] Newly Launched 'Opportunity' Follows Mars-Bound 'Spirit'
Jun 10 2003	[JPL] NASA's 'Spirit' Rises on Its Way to Mars
Jun 04 2003	[JPL] NASA Will Send Two Robotic Geologists to Roam on Mars

Mars Exploration Rover Mission homepage

Mars: Mars Global Surveyor ----- in orbit

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Jan 31 2001	[JPL] Mars Global Surveyor completes its primary science mission.
Feb 22 1999	[JPL] Mars Global Surveyor ready to begin full mapping mission within the next two weeks.
Feb 04 1999	[JPL] Mars Global Surveyor successfully completes aerobraking and will soon begin its mapping mission.

Mars Global Surveyor homepage

Jupiter: Galileo ----- end of mission

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Sep 21 2003	[JPL] The Final Day on Galileo
Sep 21 2003	[JPL] Galileo End of Mission Status
Sep 17 2003	[JPL] Galileo To Taste Jupiter Before Taking Final Plunge

Galileo homepage

Saturn: Cassini & Huygens ----- on the way

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Nov 01 2002	[JPL] Cassini-Huygens Mission Status
Sep 26 2002	[JPL] Huygens stepped flawlessly through a test run
Aug 28 2002	[ESA] No rest on the way to the most mysterious of Saturn's moons

Pluto: Pluto Exploration ----- planned

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Feb 20 2002	[JHU] A shorter path to Pluto
Dec 18 2001	[Lowell] Lowell Astronomers are members of the science team for the Pluto-Kuiper Belt Mission.
Nov 29 2001	[NASA] NASA selects Pluto-Kuiper Belt mission for phase B study

comets: Rosetta ----- in preparation

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May 28
2003

[ESA] New Destination For Rosetta, Europe's Comet Chaser

Rosetta homepage

comets: Stardust ----- on the way

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Jun 19 2003	[JPL] Stardust Successfully Completes Deep Space Maneuver
Jan 24 2002	[JPL] Stardust completed a critical maneuver on its path to comet Wild-2.
Jan 11 2001	[JPL] Stardust camera cleaned - spacecraft can see clearly now.

Stardust homepage

Planet Earth on its way to space

Earth orbit: International Space Station -----

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Feb 20 2002	[NASA] International Space Station: Strange odor on board
Feb 20 2002	[NASA] International Space Station: Crew completes first spacewalk without Space Shuttle
Feb 08 2002	[NASA] International Space Station: Science experiments and preparation for spacewalk

ISS homepage

Earth orbit: Space Shuttle -----

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Feb 02 2003	[CNN] CNN coverage about the Columbia desaster
Feb 14 2002	[NASA] STS-109: After two years of maintenance Space Shuttle Columbia will return into orbit
Jan 29 2002	[NASA] STS-109: Shuttle Columbia on launch pad for the Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.

space: Commercial Space Exploration... -----

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Aug 25
1998

[spaceViews] Asteroid Nereus target for SpaceDev mission.

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