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Today on SPACE.com -- Wednesday, July 24, 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 * Denim NASA Vector Shirt Tech Today * Sony Ericsson P800 Science/Astronomy: * Goliath Telescope: OWL's Eye May Find First Galaxies * Rare Earth Debate Part 4: Avoiding Doom * Astronotes: Asteroid Has Small Chance of Hitting Earth in 2019 * Conference: The United States Has Unfinished Business on the Moon SpaceFlight: * Stratospheric Platform Serves As Satellite * Stolen Apollo Moon Rocks Recovered by FBI in Florida * Space Adventures Teams with XCOR Aerospace To Develop Sub-Orbital Vehicle Business/Industry: * National Security Needs Cut Into NASA's Plutonium Inventory Plus... * SpaceTV, SpaceWatch * Solar and Space Weather * Starry Night, TeamSETI * Space Age Jobs ----------------------------------- Featured Space Store Product * Denim NASA Vector Shirt http://www.space.com/spaceagegear/ Long sleeve denim shirt by features 8 oz. 100% cotton woven twill fabric, two-needle cover stitching, left front chest pocket with button-down collar and wood tone buttons. ----------------------------------- Tech Today * Sony Ericsson P800 http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/tech_today.html News about the latest gizmos and gadgets conveniently available on Earth. ----------------------------------- Today in Science/Astronomy: * Goliath Telescope: OWL's Eye May Find First Galaxies http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/owl_telescope_020724. html A group of European astronomers and engineers are planning to cast a new heavyweight into the observation ring, an optical telescope bigger than a football field. * Rare Earth Debate Part 4: Avoiding Doom http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/rare_earth_4_020724.html This five-part debate will cover a variety of topics prompted by the hypothesis of "Rare Earth," a book by Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee that suggests complex life may be unique to Earth. * Astronotes: Asteroid Has Small Chance of Hitting Earth in 2019 http://www.space.com/news/astronotes-1.html Scare stories are popping up around the Internet over a newfound asteroid that's going to hit Earth and create doom. We've been here before, and we want to assure you that you should be far more frightened of the Dow Jones Industrial Average right now. * Conference: The United States Has Unfinished Business on the Moon http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/moon_return_020723.html Nearly thirty years ago, the last sightseers on the Moon left in a puff of dust. NASA's Apollo adventure ended - a $25 billion outpouring of technological muscle energized by beat-the-Soviets resolve. ----------------------------------- Today in SpaceFlight: * Stratospheric Platform Serves As Satellite http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/skytower_020724.html A high-flying unpiloted solar-electric aircraft has doubled as a giant telecommunications tower. From an altitude far above Earth, the craft transmitted hours of next-generation mobile voice, data, and video services to handheld devices on the ground. * Stolen Apollo Moon Rocks Recovered by FBI in Florida http://www.space.com/news/ap_moonrocks_020723.html Three employees of the Johnson Space Center in Houston and another man were charged in an alleged plot to sell stolen moon rocks from the Apollo missions for $1,000 to $5,000 a gram, the FBI said. * Space Adventures Teams with XCOR Aerospace To Develop Sub-Orbital Vehicle http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/space_tourism_020722.html Astronaut wannabes looking for a short space jaunt may soon have an alternative to shelling out millions of dollars for a trip to the International Space Station (ISS). ------------------------------------ Today in Business/Industry: * National Security Needs Cut Into NASA's Plutonium Inventory http://www.space.com/spacenews/ New demands from the U.S. national security community have cut into the supply of Plutonium-236 available to be used for upcoming space science missions, a Department of Energy official said. ------------------------------------ * 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 24, 2002) 3-Day Solar Forecast A major sunspot region has rotated onto the visible face of the Sun. Region 39 will rotate across the visible side of the Sun over the next two weeks. It produced a major flare Monday and another Tuesday, and more are expected. Solar activity is expected to be moderate to high. Regions 36 also has the potential to produce isolated major events. 3-Day Aurora Forecast Earth's geomagnetic field is expected to be quiet to active on Wednesday, when the charged particles from a major solar flare are expected to arrive. Minor storm conditions are expected on Thursday with active to minor storm conditions on Friday. Solar Data The current sunspot number is 226, and the solar wind speed recently clocked in at 415 kilometers per second. The solar wind density was 3.1 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! 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