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Today on SPACE.com -- Tuesday, May 14, 2002 -- http://www.space.com/ In today's issue: /------------------------------------- The NEW Pentium(r) 4 Processor-M designed for notebooks. Experience accelerated video, multimedia and gaming. http://mds.centrport.net/mdsefc?a27250041;MIHC107C1782P80586B80587S0;B80 587;1 -------------------------------------/ Featured Space Store Product * Classic NASA Videos Science/Astronomy: * Other Worlds Not So Strange, Top Planet Hunter Says * 'Mars Meteorite's' Link to Life Questioned * Oregon Volcano May be Waking Up, Satellites Show * Flying Saucer Spotted in Distant Skies * Mars Odyssey's Picture of the Day: Reuyl Crater Dust Avalanches Missions/Launches: * Six Dead So Far in Baikonur Cosmodrome Hangar Roof Collapse * Poll: Public Support for NASA Slipping * Maverick Rocketeers Pursue Cheap Space Access Business/Industry: * Atlas 5, Delta 4 Set To Debut In Depressed Market Plus... * SpaceTV, Space Age Gear, SpaceWatch * Solar and Space Weather * Starry Night, TeamSETI * Space Age Jobs * SPACE.com Affiliate Program ----------------------------------- Featured Space Store Product * Classic NASA Videos http://www.space.com/nasavideos/ Own one or collect them all today! ----------------------------------- Today in Science/Astronomy: * Other Worlds Not So Strange, Top Planet Hunter Says http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/exoplanet_status_020514- 1.html The popular conception of planets around other stars involves strange worlds, all much larger than Jupiter on crazy paths in solar systems that look nothing like our own but within the planet-hunting community, that view has changed. * 'Mars Meteorite's' Link to Life Questioned http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/mars_meteor_020514.htm l The Western Sahara is a fertile hunting ground for a team of enthusiasts seeking meteorites offering up two rare Martian rocks in the past few months. * Oregon Volcano May be Waking Up, Satellites Show http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/science_briefs-1.html A 4-inch bulge spotted by satellite along with other data indicate that an ancient, dormant volcano in Oregon's Cascade Range may be awakening after thousands of sleepy years, according to research that will be presented Wednesday at a meeting of the Geological Society of America. * Flying Saucer Spotted in Distant Skies http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/eso_flysaucer_020513.htm l A team of European astronomers has discovered an infant solar system on the outskirts of the Milky Way. The dusty, opaque disk appears to be a proto-system much like ours, yet still billion of years younger. * Mars Odyssey's Picture of the Day: Reuyl Crater Dust Avalanches http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/mars_daily_020513.html The rugged, arcuate rim of the 54 mile (90 kilometer) crater Reuyl dominates this THEMIS image. Reuyl crater is at the southern edge of a region known to be blanketed in thick dust based on its high albedo (brightness) and low thermal inertia values. This thick mantle of dust creates the appearance of snow covered mountains in the image. ----------------------------------- Today in Missions/Launches: * Six Dead So Far in Baikonur Cosmodrome Hangar Roof Collapse http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/baikonur_roof_020513.html Emergency workers carefully plucked six bodies from a heap of tangled metal Monday, following the collapse of a hangar roof at Russia's main space launch site. Officials said there was little hope of finding the last two missing workers alive. * Poll: Public Support for NASA Slipping http://www.space.com/news/nasa_poll_020510.html NASA's got some explaining to do if it wants to keep the taxpaying public interested in bankrolling its space exploits. * Maverick Rocketeers Pursue Cheap Space Access http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/marericks_020510.html There's no need to wait for big-ticket, big-money space programs to secure the public right of entry into Earth orbit, says a group of maverick rocketeers. A community of upstart startups is convinced that there is more than one way to create cheap access to space. ------------------------------------ Today in Business/Industry: * Atlas 5, Delta 4 Set To Debut In Depressed Market http://www.space.com/spacenews/spacenews_businessmonday_020513.html Amid an uncertain market, Boeing and Lockheed Martin are reporting smooth sailing as they prepare their respective Delta 4 and Atlas 5 rockets for debut launches this summer. ------------------------------------ * SpaceTV: http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/spacetv/ * Space Age Gear: http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/space_gear-1.html * SpaceWatch: http://www.space.com/spacewatch/ * Space Age Jobs http://www.space.com/php/careers/ * Uplink: Share your opinion! http://uplink.space.com/ ------------------------------------- SOLAR and SPACE WEATHER (May 14, 2002) 3-Day Solar Forecast Solar activity is expected to be at low to moderate levels. 3-Day Aurora Forecast Earth's geomagnetic field is expected to be quiet to unsettled. Isolated active to minor storm conditions are possible Tuesday and Wednesday. Solar Data The current sunspot number is 210, and the solar wind speed recently clocked in at 447 kilometers per second. The solar wind density was 3.3 protons per cubic centimeter. (Speed and density values are snapshots in time and change during the day.) http://www.space.com/spacewatch/space_weather.html ------------------------------------- Sign up to become part of the greatest search in history! Join TeamSETI: http://www.space.com/searchforlife/seti_science_page.html Be a desktop astronomer! Starry Night is the world's leading astronomy software -- choose between Beginner, Backyard, or Pro! http://www.starrynight.com/index.html NEW! Join the SPACE.com affiliate program. 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