Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 13:35:03 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Today on SPACE.com -- Thursday, July 11, 2002 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Today on SPACE.com -- Thursday, July 11, 2002 -- http://www.space.com/ In today's issue: /------------------------------------- Just in time for summer, Space Adventures, Ltd. invites you to lose some weight... in fact, lose it all! With programs scheduled for July and August, Space Adventures Zero-Gravity flights can free you of your extra pounds multiple times in one hour, for 30 seconds intervals: http://www.spaceadventures.com/zerog/index_space.html -------------------------------------/ Featured Space Store Product * Complete 30-Volume NASA Video Library Science/Astronomy: * Asteroid Hunting: Bigger Telescopes Aren't Always Better * Bioastronomy 2002: Scientists Look for Life * Hunt for Potentially Deadly Asteroids Underfunded, Panel Says * Diamond Factory: New View of Our Solar System's Youth * Four Volcanoes Active, Not Dormant, Satellites Show SpaceFlight: * Report: Science Capabilities of International Space Station Questionable * Increased Traffic Around Earth Calls for Stronger Spacecraft; Earlier Warning * New Wallpapers: Cool images from Space Artist Michael Eaton Business/Industry: * Alenia Spazio Selects Arianespace for Atlantic Bird 1 Launch Plus... * SpaceTV, SpaceWatch * Solar and Space Weather * Starry Night, TeamSETI * Space Age Jobs ----------------------------------- Featured Space Store Product * Complete 30-Volume NASA Video Library http://www.space.com/nasavideos/ The complete 30-volume set of NASA Videos featuring original NASA film. ----------------------------------- Today in Science/Astronomy: * Asteroid Hunting: Bigger Telescopes Aren't Always Better http://www.space.com/searchforlife/seti_asteroid_020711.html "Why aren't you using this telescope to search for asteroids? Don't you know that near-earth asteroids are the biggest threat to the survival of everything, including us, on this planet? * Bioastronomy 2002: Scientists Look for Life http://www.space.com/searchforlife/bioastronomy_shostak_020711.html Seth Shostak, astronomer at the SETI Institute, is attending a week-long conference on life in the universe being held in Australia. This is his first report from the scene. * Hunt for Potentially Deadly Asteroids Underfunded, Panel Says http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/asteroid_panel_020710.html The U.S. government should invest more money in tracking near-Earth objects that might threaten Earth, said members of a space roundtable on Capitol Hill Wednesday. * Diamond Factory: New View of Our Solar System's Youth http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/nano_diamonds_020710.html Somewhere in space natural factories churn out uncountable quantities of tiny diamonds, each thousands of times smaller than a pinhead. * Four Volcanoes Active, Not Dormant, Satellites Show http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/volcano_monitor_020710.html Volcano monitoring will take an important step toward better science and improved safety this week when researchers publish satellite data showing that four volcanoes in South America are not dormant, as thought, but are active. ----------------------------------- Today in SpaceFlight: * Report: Science Capabilities of International Space Station Questionable http://www.space.com/news/iss_remap_020710-1.html A blue-ribbon group has advised NASA that the International Space Station (ISS), without enhancements, lacks research capacity and cannot facilitate the sophisticated science as promised. If the costly orbiting outpost is not beefed up with more gear and staffed with dedicated researchers, the study group reported today, NASA should not claim the ISS is a "science driven" program. * Increased Traffic Around Earth Calls for Stronger Spacecraft; Earlier Warning http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/debris_protection_020710-1.ht ml More than 40 years of an increasingly global push into space have placed hundreds of artificial satellites in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) and at the same time created a cloud of hazardous debris around the planet. * New Wallpapers: Cool images from Space Artist Michael Eaton http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/downloads/wallpapers/ Cool new images from Space Artist Michael Eaton. ------------------------------------ Today in Business/Industry: * Boeing To Combine Space and Military Aircraft and Missile Units http://www.space.com/spacenews/index.html Boeing Co. is combining its space division with its military aircraft and missiles operation, creating a new business group designed to meet what company officials said is a growing need for defense systems that depend heavily on information management capabilities. ------------------------------------ * SpaceTV: http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/spacetv/ * SpaceWatch: http://www.space.com/spacewatch/ * Space Age Jobs http://www.spacejobs.com/ * Uplink: Share your opinion! http://uplink.space.com/ ------------------------------------- SOLAR and SPACE WEATHER (July 11, 2002) 3-Day Solar Forecast Solar activity is expected to be low to moderate. 3-Day Aurora Forecast Earth's geomagnetic field is expected to be mainly quiet to unsettled for the next three days. Isolated active conditions may occur late in the period in response to an expected onset of high speed stream effects from a coronal hole. Solar Data The current sunspot number is 129, and the solar wind speed recently clocked in at 514 kilometers per second. The solar wind density was 4.0 protons pe rcubic 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! 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