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>Subject: S&T's Weekly News Bulletin for April 15
>Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 20:22:32 -0400
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> * * * SKY & TELESCOPE's WEEKLY NEWS BULLETIN - April 15, 2005 * * *
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>Welcome to S&T's Weekly News Bulletin. Images, the full text of stories
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>SENATE APPROVES NASA'S NEW ADMINISTRATOR
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>On April 13th, just one month after President Bush nominated Michael
>Griffin as the 11th NASA administrator, the former head of the Space
>Department at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory was
>unanimously approved for the post by the US Senate Commerce Committee. He
>takes over for acting administrator Frederick Gregory.
>
>Griffin's prepared remarks and answers to committee-member questions
>during his confirmation hearing paint a promising picture for the future
>of space science in America....
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> > http://SkyandTelescope.com/news/article_1499_1.asp
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>A VERY COLORFUL SOLAR ECLIPSE
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>It didn't last long, but it sure was a sight. The "hybrid" annular-total
>eclipse on April 8, 2005, delighted watchers and photographers aboard
>cruise ships in the Pacific, on land in parts of Central America and the
>Caribbean, and across much wider territories where the eclipse was
>partial -- at least where clouds didn't wipe out the show....
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> > http://SkyandTelescope.com/news/article_1497_1.asp
> > http://SkyandTelescope.com/observing/highlights/article_1498_1.asp
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>HIGHLIGHTS OF THIS WEEK'S SKY
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>* First-quarter Moon on August 16th.
>* The annual Lyrid meteor shower should be at its peak very late on April
>21-22 when Lyra rises high overhead. However, the bright Moon will hamper
>observations.
>* Jupiter (magnitude -2.4, in Virgo) glares brilliantly in the southeast
>at nightfall -- the brightest "star" in the sky
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> > http://SkyandTelescope.com/observing/ataglance
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