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NEWSALERT: Thursday, October 28, 2004 @ 1856 GMT
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The latest news from Astronomy Now and Spaceflight Now
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SCIENTISTS ELATED BY CASSINI'S TITAN OBSERVATIONS
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After years of anticipation, the Cassini spacecraft beamed back
smog-piercing close-up images of Saturn's moon Titan late Tuesday,
revealing a strange, striated landscape that both thrilled - and mystified
- planetary scientists.
http://spaceflightnow.com/cassini/041027science.html
TITAN UP CLOSE
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These raw, un-processed images of Saturn's moon Titan were taken by the
Cassini spacecraft and transmitted to Earth on October 26. The pictures
provide the closest views ever snapped of the hazy moon.
http://spaceflightnow.com/cassini/041026flybypix.html
LAUNCH OF NASA AUTOPILOT EXPERIMENT SCRUBBED AGAIN
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While closing up the Pegasus rocket's nose cone for today's planned launch
of NASA's DART rendezvous technology demonstrator, workers discovered
contamination inside the shroud that must be cleaned before the mission
can proceed.
http://spaceflightnow.com/pegasus/dart/status.html
WORKERS CHANGING BATTERIES ON NEXT DELTA 2 ROCKET
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Launch of Boeing's Delta 2 rocket carrying a replacement satellite for the
U.S. military's Global Positioning System has been re-targeted for late
next week after technicians exchange batteries on the third stage, the Air
Force said Wednesday.
http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/d308/041027newdate.html
STELLAR SURVIVOR FROM 1572 A.D. SUPPORTS THEORY
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An international team of astronomers is announcing today that they have
identified the probable surviving companion star to a titanic supernova
explosion witnessed in the year 1572 by the great Danish astronomer Tycho
Brahe and other astronomers of that era.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0410/27progenitor/
LONELY HALO RAISES QUESTIONS ABOUT DARK MATTER
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Dark matter continues to confound astronomers, as NASA's Chandra X-ray
Observatory demonstrated with the detection of an extensive envelope of
dark matter around an isolated elliptical galaxy. This discovery conflicts
with optical data that suggest a dearth of dark matter around similar
galaxies, and raises questions about how galaxies acquire and keep such
dark matter halos.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0410/26chandrahalo/
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