From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 10:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Today on SPACE.com -- Monday, October 7, 2002
Today on SPACE.com -- Monday, October 7, 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 * STS-112 Mission Pin Science/Astronomy: * Sky Surprises: Uranus and Neptune * Survival of the Flattest: Digital Organisms Replicate and Mutate * Asteroid-Hunting Telescope Proposed at Congressional Hearing SpaceFlight: * Mission Atlantis: Shuttle Ready to Broadcast 'Must See TV' * Astronotes: One of Three PongSats Launched * Exhilaration, Fear Fill Astronauts Before Shuttle Launch Business/Industry: * Japanese Lab Forms Unit To Develop Microsatellites Plus... * SpaceTV, SpaceWatch * Solar and Space Weather * Starry Night, TeamSETI * Space Age Jobs ----------------------------------- Featured Space Store Product * STS-112 Mission Pin http://www.space.com/spaceagegear/ A great collectible from the upcoming Shuttle mission! ----------------------------------- Today in Science/Astronomy: * Sky Surprises: Uranus and Neptune http://www.space.com/spacewatch/surprise_planets_021007.html After a week of looking for easy-to-find objects, it's time to can the night sky for some more challenging targets. Here, we present the first of four Sky Surprises in Starry Night's Fall Sky Tour. * Survival of the Flattest: Digital Organisms Replicate and Mutate http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/generalscience/digital_life_021007 .html All biological organisms compete for limited resources. The successful ones reproduce, and their species survive to another generation. And when species are in direct competition, the one that wins is the one that reproduces fastest -- according to the traditional rules of population genetics. * Asteroid-Hunting Telescope Proposed at Congressional Hearing http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/house_neo_021003.html NASA and the National Science Foundation should split a $125 to $150 million bill to build a ground-based telescope dedicated to finding Near Earth Objects (NEOs) that could pose a collision threat with Earth. ----------------------------------- Today in SpaceFlight: * Mission Atlantis: Shuttle Ready to Broadcast 'Must See TV' http://www.space.com/shuttlemissions/ Shuttle Atlantis is being fueled for a planned liftoff this afternoon that promises to provide the most thrilling television pictures ever seen of a space launch from the Cape. * Astronotes: One of Three PongSats Launched http://www.space.com/news/astronotes-1.html After a 3 1/2-hour wind delay, a private company successfully launched a 14-foot rocket Saturday night from a remote site on arid West Texas ranchland that organizers are calling Texas' newest spaceport. * Exhilaration, Fear Fill Astronauts Before Shuttle Launch http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/fl_sts112_preview_021006.html You are an astronaut. You are a small person in a big universe, one of a select few, the sum of brains, talent and years of hard physical training. ------------------------------------ Today in Business/Industry: * Japanese Lab Forms Unit To Develop Microsatellites http://www.space.com/spacenews/spacenews_businessmonday_021007.html Frustrated by the scarcity of suitable government missions for testing advanced technologies, Japan's Communications Research Laboratory (CRL) has formed a unit to develop a new line of microsatellites in cooperation with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. ------------------------------------ * 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 (October 7, 2002) 3-Day Solar Forecast Solar activity is expected to be low to moderate through Wednesday. 3-Day Aurora Forecast Earth's geomagnetic field is expected to be at quiet to active levels through Wednesday. Solar Data The current sunspot number is 126, and the solar wind speed recently clocked in at 418 kilometers per second. The solar wind density was 9.7 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] Share Your Space Forward this newsletter to your friends! ************************************************************************* NOTE: Gleason Sackmann is the owner and host of this list. 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