From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Today on SPACE.com -- Friday, May 17, 2002 Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 05:23:42 -0700
Today on SPACE.com -- Friday, May 17, 2002 -- http://www.space.com/ In today's issue: /------------------------------------- Deep Space Explorer Wins Prestigious Parents' Choice Gold Award! Deep Space Explorer has been awarded a Parent's Choice Gold Award in the software category for ages twelve and older from the Parents' Choice Foundation, the nation's oldest and most respected authority on children's media. http://www.starrynight.com/ -------------------------------------/ Featured Space Store Product * Space Food Sticks Science/Astronomy: * In Search of Star Cities * Asteroid Impact Tied to Rise of Dinosaurs * SPACE.com Q&A with David Jewitt, Co-Discoverer of Jovian Moons * Meteorite Hunters Find Rare Booty in African Desert * 11 New Moons Discovered Around Jupiter; Brings Total to 39 Missions/Launches: * NASA Security Comforts Israeli Astronaut * Astronauts Want Better 'Situational Awareness' in Shuttle Cockpits * International Space Station Oxygen Producer Breaks Business/Industry: * Teets Considers Adding Millions More to EELV Budget Plus... * SpaceTV, Space Age Gear, SpaceWatch * Solar and Space Weather * Starry Night, TeamSETI * Space Age Jobs * SPACE.com Affiliate Program ----------------------------------- Featured Space Store Product * Space Food Sticks http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/space_gear-1.html Do you remember Space Food Sticks? They're back! Long unavailable in the United States, Space Food Sticks are back in limited quantities. The Space Food Sticks Preservation Society (there really is such an organization) discovered they never ceased production in Australia and found a way to distribute the sticks stateside. ----------------------------------- Today in Science/Astronomy: * In Search of Star Cities http://www.space.com/spacewatch/hunting_dog_020517.html Soaring high in the eastern sky and almost overhead at around midnight right now are the two stars marking the Hunting Dogs, known as Canes Venatici. In their vicinity, avid backyard astronomers can find a wealth of interesting objects to study, from a famous spiral galaxy to a cluster of distant star cities. * Asteroid Impact Tied to Rise of Dinosaurs http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/planetearth/jersey_dinosaurs_02051 6-1.html The history of dinosaurs and asteroids became further entwined today with the announcement that an impact from a space rock 200 million years ago may have eliminated some competition and helped the giant reptiles flourish and eventually dominate the planet. * SPACE.com Q&A with David Jewitt, Co-Discoverer of Jovian Moons http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/jovian_jewitt_020517.htm l It's not every day someone finds 11 moons that had gone unnoticed in the four centuries since the telescope was invented and Galileo figured out that Jupiter had four satellites and the Earth couldn't be the center of the universe. Yet, remarkably, it has happened twice in the past two years -- in January 2001 and again Thursday. * Meteorite Hunters Find Rare Booty in African Desert http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/solarsystem/mars_meteorite_020517. html The Western Sahara, a fertile hunting ground for enthusiasts seeking meteorites, offered up two rare Martian rocks in the past few months. * 11 New Moons Discovered Around Jupiter; Brings Total to 39 http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/jupiter_satellite_020516 .html A team of researchers announced today the discovery of 11 new moons around Jupiter, adding to nearly a dozen they found last year and bringing the total known satellites of the gas giant planet to 39. ----------------------------------- Today in Missions/Launches: * NASA Security Comforts Israeli Astronaut http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/israeli_astronaut_020517.html Israel's first astronaut said Thursday that he feels safe with all of NASA's security precautions and does not consider himself a terrorist target _ or even an added risk to his space shuttle flight this summer. * Astronauts Want Better 'Situational Awareness' in Shuttle Cockpits http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/shuttle_avionics_020516.html They want to know exactly where they are at all times, where they might wind up and exactly what their status is at every moment, especially during critical times like launch and landing. * International Space Station Oxygen Producer Breaks http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/iss_repairs_020515.html The international space station's three residents are using a backup method of producing oxygen while trying to fix a broken generator. ------------------------------------ Today in Business/Industry: * Teets Considers Adding Millions More to EELV Budget http://www.space.com/spacenews/index.html The U.S. Air Force may need to begin adding significant new funding to its budget request for 2004 in order to keep multiple sources of its next generation of expendable launch vehicles, according to Peter B. Teets, undersecretary of the Air Force. ------------------------------------ * 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 17, 2002) 3-Day Solar Forecast Solar activity is expected to be at low to moderate levels. 3-Day Aurora Forecast Isolated active periods are possible Wednesday. Otherwise, Earth's geomagnetic field is expected to be quiet to unsettled through Friday. Solar Data The current sunspot number is 134, and the solar wind speed recently clocked in at 430 kilometers per second. The solar wind density was 3.0 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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