From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4@msn.com)
Date: Thu Nov 07 2002 - 18:06:13 PST
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From: Craig Tupper
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 8:40 PM
To: oss-update@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Space Science news from NASA HQ...
Sorry, no mangled old lyrics to kick off this message. (awww...)
But ya can't snooze with this news:
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Amid the fury of 28 thermonuclear blasts on a neutron star's surface,
scientists using the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton X-ray satellite
have obtained a key measurement revealing the nature of matter inside these
enigmatic objects. Really heavy diagnostics at
http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/20021003nsexplosion.html
And in related news: scientists have identified the most magnetic object
known in the Universe, the result of the first direct measurement of a
magnetic field around a peculiar neutron star known as a
magnetar. http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/20021030strongestmag.html
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Our Stardust spacecraft successfully completed a close flyby of asteroid
Annefrank on November 2. This was a full dress rehearsal of procedures the
spacecraft will use during its Jan. 2, 2004, encounter with it primary
science target, comet Wild 2. Mission status report at
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2002/release_2002_203.cfm , and a later
update with an image of Annefrank at
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2002/release_2002_204.cfm
In other planetary flyby news, Galileo had a little trouble during its pass
by Amalthea, but managed to survive, and will hopefully be returning more
science data soon. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2002/release_2002_205.cfm
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We've announced a contest, which will give American school kids a chance to
name two rovers being launched next summer to explore Mars. The LEGO
Company will manage the contest in conjunction with The Planetary
Society. Kids, go help the Rock Raiders invade Mars at
http://www.nasa.gov/releases/2002/02_213.html
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An international team of astronomers have provided proof that the magnetic
field close to a number of aging stars is 10 to 100 times stronger than
that of our own Sun . These observations suggest a solution to the long
outstanding problem as to how, at the end of its life, a perfectly
spherical star can give rise to the complex and beautiful structure seen in
the resulting "planetary nebula". http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/news/magnetism/
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A successful test of the camera on our Cassini spacecraft has produced
images of Saturn 20 months before the spacecraft arrives at that
planet. Launched in 1997, from here on in it'll just get
better. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/releases/2002/release_2002_202.cfm
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Finally, Dr. Guenther Riegler, a senior executive here in the Office of
Space Science at NASA Headquarters, has been named director of astrobiology
and space research at NASA Ames Research Center in California's Silicon
Valley. What am I gonna do without you giving me actions, Guenter? Or
gracefully handling the ones I give
you. http://amesnews.arc.nasa.gov/releases/2002/02_115AR.html
Cheers!
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