Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 14:44:07 -0000 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Today on SPACE.com -- Friday, September 27, 2002 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Today on SPACE.com -- Friday, September 27, 2002 -- http://www.space.com/ In today's issue: /------------------------------------- Capture the Solar System with the Coolpix System! http://www.nikoncoolpix.com/ -------------------------------------/ Featured Space Store Product * Little Astronaut Set Science/Astronomy: * Celestial Sea: Explore Autumn's Stars and Constellations * NASA Reveals New Plan for the Moon, Mars & Outward * Sex, IQ & ET: How We Got Big Brains * Amateurs Invited to Join Planet Search SpaceFlight: * Russian Navigation Satellite Orbited by Kosmos Rocket * Astronotes: Shut Down Space Station, Russian Official Says * New Gallery: NASA's New Plans Business/Industry: * Energia Official Warns NASA that Space Station Might Have to Be Abandoned Plus... * SpaceTV, SpaceWatch * Solar and Space Weather * Starry Night, TeamSETI * Space Age Jobs ----------------------------------- Featured Space Store Product * Little Astronaut Set http://www.space.com/spaceagegear/ Ready for Halloween? The Little Astronaut Set includes a full body astronaut suit and a realistic space helmet. The suit comes complete with genuine NASA, American flag and Space Shuttle patches. ----------------------------------- Today in Science/Astronomy: * Celestial Sea: Explore Autumn's Stars and Constellations http://www.space.com/spacewatch/autumn_stars_020927.html During the evening now, the stars of the autumn season cover much of the eastern and southern parts of the sky. There are very few brilliant stars in these areas. But now that the Moon is waning and rises after 10 p.m. and the late evenings are relatively dark, it's a good time to look for some interesting constellations in this part of the sky. * NASA Reveals New Plan for the Moon, Mars & Outward http://www.space.com/news/beyond_iss_020926-1.html A SPACE.com Exclusive * Sex, IQ & ET: How We Got Big Brains http://www.space.com/searchforlife/seti_bigbrains_020926.html Relative to their size, humans have the biggest brains on the planet. Check out the guy sitting next to you on the bus: hunkered beneath a fringe of moussed hair and a few millimeters of skull are three crinkly pounds of brain -- the only substantive difference between you and species you regard as food or pets. * Amateurs Invited to Join Planet Search http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/planet_hunting_020925.html With the tally of planets around other stars hovering around 100 and growing rapidly, amateurs are being invited to join the search for other worlds in an effort to confirm detections of presumed planets and improve understanding of their sizes and other characteristics. ----------------------------------- Today in SpaceFlight: * Russian Navigation Satellite Orbited by Kosmos Rocket http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/kosmos_launch_020926.html A Russian navigation satellite was successfully launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome into Earth orbit today. * Astronotes: Shut Down Space Station, Russian Official Says http://www.space.com/news/astronotes-1.html Valery Ryumin, head of the international space station program office at Rocket Space Corporation Energia, which builds the Progress and Soyuz spacecraft that fly to the ISS, said the company is in dire financial straights because of lack of funding from the Russian government. So Ryumin has proposed to NASA temporarily shutting down the ISS. * New Gallery: NASA's New Plans http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagegallery/ We reveal NASA's new plans to boldly go to the Moon, Mars and beyond in these new images, obtained exclusively by SPACE.com. ------------------------------------ Today in Business/Industry: * Energia Official Warns NASA that Space Station Might Have to Be Abandoned http://www.space.com/spacenews/ As a Russian Progress resupply spacecraft made its way to the international space station (ISS) Sept. 25, the Russian company that manufactures both the Progress and the Soyuz spacecraft used at the ISS said it might be necessary to temporarily close the ISS in 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 (Septemebr 27, 2002) 3-Day Solar Forecast Solar activity is expected to be low to moderate through Friday. 3-Day Aurora Forecast Earth's geomagnetic field is expected to be quiet to unsettled through Friday. Solar Data The current sunspot number is 240, and the solar wind speed recently clocked in at 525 kilometers per second. The solar wind density was 0.2 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! Starry Night is the world's leading astronomy software -- choose between Beginner, Backyard, or Pro! http://www.starrynight.com/ ------------------------------------- Feedback We welcome your comments and suggestions at [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: http://www.space.com/php/email/unsubscribe.php Share Your Space Forward this newsletter to your friends! ************************************************************************* NOTE: Gleason Sackmann is the owner and host of this list. 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