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From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Thu Jan 09 2003 - 08:21:24 PST


Loads of relevant article links in here!

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SpaceRef - Your Space Reference
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THE DAY IN SPACE
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In today's space news from SpaceRef:

-- Launch Advisory: ICESAT/CHIPSAT Launch retargeted for Saturday, Jan. 11
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=7508
-- CHIPS Ready to Operate on "The Bubble"
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=10327

"NASA's Cosmic Hot Interstellar Plasma Spectrometer (CHIPS) satellite, scheduled for launch on Jan. 11, will
study the gases and dust in space, which are believed to be the basic building blocks of stars and planets."

-- NASA, Carnegie Mellon University Sign Lease for New Campus
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=10311

"NASA and Carnegie Mellon University have reached agreement on a long-term lease under which the
university will renovate 19,000 square feet of space for its growing West Coast campus in Buildings 23 and 24
on the historic Shenandoah Plaza at Moffett Field, Calif."

-- Astronomers Detect a Faint Debris Trail in the Andromeda Galaxy
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=10326

"The discovery of a faint trail of stars in the nearby Andromeda galaxy offers new evidence that large spiral
galaxies have grown by gobbling up smaller satellite galaxies."

-- Physicists set lower age of universe at 11.2 billion years: New age provides evidence for prescence of a dark
energy
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=10325

"Cosmologists from Case Western Reserve University and Dartmouth College have continued efforts to refine
the age of the universe by using new information from a variety of sources to calculate a new lower age limit
that is 1.2 billion years higher than previous age limits."

-- Rosetta - A Comet Ride to Solve Planetary Mysteries
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=10329

"ESA's Rosetta will be the first mission to orbit and land on a comet. Comets are icy bodies that travel
throughout the Solar System and develop a characteristic tail when they approach the Sun. Rosetta is
scheduled to be launched on-board an Ariane-5 rocket in January 2003 from Kourou, French Guiana."

-- Astronomers Identify New Type of Star
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=10328

"Astronomers Steve B. Howell of the University of California, Riverside and Tom Harrison of New Mexico State
University, Las Cruces, announced today at the American Astronomical Society Meeting in Seattle, Wash., that
they have confirmed the existence of a new variety of stellar end-product. This previously unknown type of star
has some properties similar to brown dwarf stars and may help astronomers understand some of the recently
discovered extra-solar planets in close proximity to their suns."

STATUS REPORTS
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For more status reports click here:
http://www.spaceref.com/news/statusreports.html

HST Daily Report # 3274
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=7520

MRPO Daily Status Report 1-7-03
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=7519

Preview 2003 - ESA Science Programme / ESA TV Exchanges / 10-01-2003
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=7517

ISS On-Orbit Status 7 Jan 2003
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=7516

Joint USAF/NOAA Report of Solar and Geophysical Activity 7 Jan 2003
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=7515

Presolicitation Notice: Headhunter Services for NASA Ames Research Center
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=7514

NASA HQ Heads Up Tuesday, January 7, 2003
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=7513

Expedition Six Conducts FOOT Session Tuesday
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=7511

WDC SI Launch Announcement 13267 (Revised)
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=7510

AIP FYI #3: One Last Look: Notable S&T Quotations from 2002
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=7509

Space Weather Advisory Outlook #03-1 2003 January 07
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=7507

The results of the inquiry into the failure of Ariane flight 157 are released
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=7506

Space Debris and Nuclear Power Sources: National Research for 2002
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=7505

United Nations Register of Objects Launched into Outer Space Update
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=7504

Chandra Chronicles 7 Jan 2003
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=7503

Quasars, their host galaxies, and their central black holes
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=7502

High Contrast Imaging of Extrasolar Planets
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=7501

A New Transiting Extrasolar Giant Planet
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=7500

Three New Long Period X-ray Pulsars Discovered in the Small Magellanic Cloud
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=7499

Hubble Space Telescope and Ground-Based Optical and Ultraviolet Observations of GRB010222
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=7498

The 2001 Astronomy Job Market
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=7497

The field brown dwarf LP 944-20 and the Castor moving group
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=7496

One Ring to Encompass them All: A giant stellar structure that surrounds the Galaxy
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=7495

NGC 4608 and NGC 5701: Barred Galaxies without Disks?
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=7494
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Microlensing by free-floating brown dwarfs
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=7493

Formation of massive binaries
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=7492

Dark Energy and the Fate of the Universe
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=7491

Formation of giant planets by fragmentation of protoplanetary disks
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=7490

Search for and study of extremely metal-deficient galaxies
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=7489

Current Uncertainties in the Use of Cepheids as Distance Indicators
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=7488

The starburst-AGN of NGC1808 observed with XMM-Newton
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=7487

PNAS 7 January 2003 Vol. 100, No. 1 - Selected Articles
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=7486

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PRESS RELEASES
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For more press releases click here:
http://www.spaceref.com/news/press.html

Arianespace to Continue with Launches of the Baseline Ariane 5
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=688

Medical Issue Bumps Cosmonaut from Space Walk
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewnews.html?id=687

NASA Funds Space Center, Partner, to Develop Instrument for Space Mission
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=10324

Evolution of Galaxy-Spanning Magnetic Fields Explained
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=10323

Scientist Measures Speed of Gravity
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=10322

Keck Observatory's Premier Planet-Hunting Machine is Getting Even Better
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=10321

Hypergiant Star Erupts
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=10320

Astronomers poised to apply novel way to look for comets beyond Neptune
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=10318

Lockheed Martin Receives $341 Million Contract for PAC-3 Missile Production
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=10317

Wireless network boosts supernova search to stellar first year
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=10316

Finding Life Away From Earth Will be Tough Task, Says Noted Paleontologist
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=10315

Next-generation Solar Cells Could Put Power Stations in Space
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=10314

NASA Technology Used to Improve Health
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=10313

Natural Zoom Lens Allows Hubble to See Deep into the Cosmos
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=10312

Eta Carinae, Awash in X-rays, Might be Two Stars, Not One
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=10310

During January Shuttle flight, companies to test environmentally friendly, mist fire-fighting system
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=10309

Lufthansa Airlines and Space Adventures Partner on Miles and More Sweepstakes
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=10308

Coronal activity may be 'buried alive' in red giant stars, say Colorado researchers
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=10307

NASA TV Features Station Briefing and Spacewalk
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=10306

Arianespace Flight 157: The Inquiry Board Submits its Findings
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=10305

TODAY'S CALENDAR EVENTS
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4th Landing Site Workshop for the Mars Exploration Rovers
http://www.spaceref.com/calendar/calendar.html?pid=1745

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