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Today on SPACE.com -- Friday, August 2, 2002 -- http://www.space.com/ In today's issue: /------------------------------------- V: The Final Battle The Ultimate Sci-Fi Miniseries Is Now On DVD For The First Time Ever! That saga that began with V now culminates in a struggle to save the world in V: The Final Battle. The future begins or ends here. http://www.scifi.com/v/dvd/ -------------------------------------/ Featured Space Store Product * NASA Videos Science/Astronomy: * Closet Star Cluster: The Obscure Coat Hanger Star Pattern * Study Supports Idea that Giant Black Holes Merge * Mysterious Shift in Earth's Gravity Suggests Equator is Bulging SpaceFlight: * 'Picky' Inspector Might Have Saved Shuttle Program * NASA Managers Set to Approve Plan to Fly Atlantis in September * NASA's Robotic Return Mission to the Moon Business/Industry: * Researchers Awaiting Results of Scramjet Flight Plus... * SpaceTV, SpaceWatch * Solar and Space Weather * Starry Night, TeamSETI * Space Age Jobs ----------------------------------- Featured Space Store Product * NASA Videos Get the complete 30-Volume NASA Video Library for yourself or a friend today! http://www.space.com/nasavideos/ ----------------------------------- Today in Science/Astronomy: * Closet Star Cluster: The Obscure Coat Hanger Star Pattern http://www.space.com/spacewatch/coat_hanger_020802.html One of the most pleasing sky sights through binoculars or a small telescope can be found nearly overhead in our late evening midsummer sky. With the Moon out of the way this week, it is a good time to seek it out. * Study Supports Idea that Giant Black Holes Merge http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/blackhole_collide_020801.html Astronomers have long suspected that when galaxies collide, their central black holes could merge. A new computer model provides some of the most compelling evidence to date that such colossal collisions do indeed take place, about once a year. * Mysterious Shift in Earth's Gravity Suggests Equator is Bulging http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/equator_bulge_020801.html Something strange has been going on under our feet for the past four years. Earth's gravity field suddenly shifted gears and began getting flatter, reversing a course of centuries during which the planet and its gravity field grew rounder each year. ----------------------------------- Today in SpaceFlight: * 'Picky' Inspector Might Have Saved Shuttle Program http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/sts_ap_020801.html Did a 27-year-old with perfect vision and admitted pickiness help prevent disaster on the space shuttle? * NASA Managers Set to Approve Plan to Fly Atlantis in September http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/sts_update_020801.html NASA managers on Friday are expected to formally bless a plan that would lead to a repaired shuttle Atlantis launching in late September, followed by Endeavour in November and Columbia some time after that. * NASA's Robotic Return Mission to the Moon http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/robotic_moon_020801.html Scientists have called for NASA to mount a robotic return mission to the far side of the moon to collect samples from the solar system's own "big dig" - the oldest and deepest impact crater basin known. This giant site is known as South Pole-Aitken Basin. ------------------------------------ Today in Business/Industry: * Researchers Awaiting Results of Scramjet Flight http://www.space.com/spacenews/ Australian researchers should know within days whether or not their July 30 test flight of a supersonic combustion ramjet, or scramjet, was successful. ------------------------------------ * 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 (August 2, 2002) 3-Day Solar Forecast Solar activity is expected to be moderate. Isolated M-class flares are expected from Regions 39 and 44. Either region could produce a major flare during the period. 3-Day Aurora Forecast Earth's geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at unsettled levels Wednesday. Field activity is expected to increase to unsettled to active levels Thursday and Friday. Solar Data The current sunspot number is 297, and the solar wind speed recently clocked in at 455 kilometers per second. The solar wind density was 2.0 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! 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