From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 15:27:54 -0000 Subject: Today on SPACE.com -- Monday, August 19, 2002
Today on SPACE.com -- Monday, August 19, 2002 -- http://www.space.com/ In today's issue: /------------------------------------- ECLIPSE ALERT: Place yourself between the Earth and the Sun as daylight is replaced by the darkness of night in the Australian Outback! http://www.spaceadventures.com/terrestrial/eclipse/index_space.html -------------------------------------/ Featured Space Store Product * Bullet Space Pen Science/Astronomy: * Going Up? Private Group Begins Work on Space Elevator * Puzzling Pluto Observations Reveal 'Drastic' Changes Atmosphere * Charles Messier, the 'M' Behind M13 and Other Objects SpaceFlight: * NASA/APL Hoping CONTOUR Will Send a Signal * Astronotes: Lance Bass Given Until August 23 to Produce Payment for ISS Trip * Comet-Chasing Spacecraft Possibly Destroyed, NASA Says Business/Industry: * Brazil Backs Out Of Station Project Plus... * SpaceTV, SpaceWatch * Solar and Space Weather * Starry Night, TeamSETI * Space Age Jobs ----------------------------------- Featured Space Store Product * Bullet Space Pen http://www.space.com/spaceagegear/ The famous Fisher "Bullet" Space Pen is a compact, convenient writing instrument that allows you the ease of writing under any conditions. ----------------------------------- Today in Science/Astronomy: * Going Up? Private Group Begins Work on Space Elevator http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/elevator_update_020819.html The world's space programs are vertically challenged. What's needed is a revolutionary low-cost way to move payloads and people into Earth orbit and then outward to the asteroids, Mars and beyond. * Puzzling Pluto Observations Reveal 'Drastic' Changes Atmosphere http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/pluto_puzzle_020816.html Clever new observations of Pluto as it passed in front of a distant star reveal that the planet's thin atmosphere has cooled over the past 14 years while the surface seems to be getting warmer. * Charles Messier, the 'M' Behind M13 and Other Objects http://www.space.com/spacewatch/messier_13_020816.html How often in looking through books on astronomy have you noticed star clusters and nebulae designated by the letter M, followed by some number? There's a man, a famous astronomer, behind that M, but he's not remembered for his main pursuit. ----------------------------------- Today in SpaceFlight: * NASA/APL Hoping CONTOUR Will Send a Signal http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/contour_update_020819.html While efforts to locate the lost in space Comet Nucleus Tour (CONTOUR) spacecraft continued through the weekend, speculation has begun on what may have thrown the mission awry. * Astronotes: Lance Bass Given Until August 23 to Produce Payment for ISS Trip http://www.space.com/news/astronotes-1.html The Russian space agency has given 'N Sync singer Lance Bass five days to come up with payment for a trip to the international space station this fall, a spokesman said Monday. * Comet-Chasing Spacecraft Possibly Destroyed, NASA Says http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/contour_telecon_020816.html The comet-chasing CONTOUR spacecraft appears to have broken into two pieces sometime after its course-altering rocket engine fired early Thursday morning, a NASA official said Friday evening. ------------------------------------ Today in Business/Industry: * Brazil Backs Out Of Station Project http://www.space.com/spacenews/ Citing budget woes, Brazil informed NASA in July that it will not provide an external payload accommodation pallet to the International Space Station program as previously planned. ------------------------------------ * 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 19, 2002) 3-Day Solar Forecast Solar activity is expected to be moderate to high. Region 69 has the potential for major flare activity. 3-Day Aurora Forecast Earth's geomagnetic field is expected to be quiet to active with a chance of isolated minor storming. Active levels are expected Monday. Quiet to unsettled conditions are expected Tuesday and Wednesday. Solar Data The current sunspot number is 308, and the solar wind speed recently clocked in at 505 kilometers per second. The solar wind density was 8.4 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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