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Today on SPACE.com -- Thursday, July 25, 2002 -- http://www.space.com/ In today's issue: /------------------------------------- The Space Store Get the complete 30-Volume NASA Video Library for yourself or a friend today! http://www.space.com/nasavideos/ -------------------------------------/ Featured Space Store Product * Corgi Apollo Recovery Helicopter Science/Astronomy: * Perseid Meteor Shower Begins Slow Crawl to Aug. 12 Peak * Is E.T.'s World a Planet? * Science and Music Merge for Fall Concert * Observing 'Alien' Life on Earth * Evidence for Ancient Bombardment of Earth 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: * Senate Panel Restores Pluto Mission Plus... * SpaceTV, SpaceWatch * Solar and Space Weather * Starry Night, TeamSETI * Space Age Jobs ----------------------------------- Featured Space Store Product * Corgi Apollo Recovery Helicopter http://www.space.com/spaceagegear/ This long-awaited collectible has finally arrived - and - will sell out fast. From the aviation archive of Corgi comes the Sikorsky SH-3D Sea King - HS-4 Sqn., U.S. Navy - 1969 Apollo Recovery helicopter. ----------------------------------- Today in Science/Astronomy: * Perseid Meteor Shower Begins Slow Crawl to Aug. 12 Peak http://www.space.com/spacewatch/perseids_begins_020725.html The annual Perseid meteor shower has begun in modest fashion and will soon start building toward a peak Aug. 12, when as many as 60 or more shooting stars could be visible each hour from the Northern Hemisphere. * Is E.T.'s World a Planet? http://www.space.com/searchforlife/dyson_seti_020725.html Freeman Dyson is betting that alien life doesn't live on a world like yours. More specifically, if you check out the tentative wager this celebrated physicist has logged at the Web site www.longbets.org, you'll see that Dyson's hunch is that the first discovery of extraterrestrial life will be made someplace other than on a planet or on a satellite of a planet. * Science and Music Merge for Fall Concert http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/space_music_020725.html A group of musicians are working with an astrophysicist to put together a performance built around signals from space recorded over the last 40 years. Commissioned by NASA, the musical production "Sun Rings" is a collaboration between the string group Kronos Quartet and University of Iowa researcher Donald A. Gurnett. * Observing 'Alien' Life on Earth http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/planetearth/vents_europa_020724.ht ml The best place to learn how to identify extra-terrestrial organisms may not be in space, but beneath the Earth's oceans. * Evidence for Ancient Bombardment of Earth http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/planetearth/earth_bombarded_020724 .html The Moon provides a stark snapshot of the violence of our early solar system. Its largest craters are evidence of asteroid impacts that scarred the surface between 3.8 billion and 4 billion years ago. ----------------------------------- 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: * Senate Panel Restores Pluto Mission http://www.space.com/spacenews/ A Senate appropriations subcommittee voted to restore funding for the New Horizons mission to Pluto in approving a $15.2 billion budget for NASA for 2003. ------------------------------------ * 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 25, 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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