From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Sun Apr 18 2004 - 07:32:27 PDT
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COSMIC MAGNIFYING GLASS REVEALS DISTANT PLANET
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0404/15planet/ NEW SPACE STATION RESIDENTS POISED FOR LAUNCH
http://spaceflightnow.com/station/exp9/status.html COMETLIKE BODY VAPORIZED BY VERY YOUNG STAR
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0404/16youngstar/ JAPANESE SUPERBIRD SOARS TO SPACE ATOP ATLAS LAUNCHER
http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/ac163/ MARS ROVER FINDS ROCK LIKE METEORITES ON EARTH
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<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0404/15planet/">COSMIC<http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0404/15planet/">COSMIC> MAGNIFYING GLASS REVEALS DISTANT PLANET</a>
<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/station/exp9/status.html">NEW<http://spaceflightnow.com/station/exp9/status.html">NEW> SPACE STATION RESIDENTS POISED FOR LAUNCH</a>
<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0404/16youngstar/">COMETLIKE<http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0404/16youngstar/">COMETLIKE> BODY VAPORIZED BY VERY YOUNG STAR</a>
<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/ac163/">JAPANESE<http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/ac163/">JAPANESE> SUPERBIRD SOARS TO SPACE ATOP ATLAS LAUNCHER</a>
<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/040415meteorites.html">MARS<http://spaceflightnow.com/mars/mera/040415meteorites.html">MARS> ROVER FINDS ROCK LIKE METEORITES ON EARTH</a>
<a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0404/14meteorite/">SCIENTISTS<http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0404/14meteorite/">SCIENTISTS> SIZE-UP ILLINOIS METEORITES</a>
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Like Sherlock Holmes holding a magnifying glass to unveil hidden clues,
modern day astronomers used cosmic magnifying effects to reveal a planet
orbiting a distant star.
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Expedition 9, the next crew to live aboard the International Space
Station, will depart Earth Sunday night as they launch on a Russian Soyuz
rocket for the two-day journey to reach the orbiting laboratory complex.
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Evidence that a cometlike body with a diameter of at least 100 kilometers
fell into a massive, very young star has been obtained by a team of
astronomers at Penn State using the 9.2-meter Hobby-Eberly Telescope at
the McDonald Observatory in Texas.
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Blessed with perfect weather for a space shot and a smooth-as-silk
countdown, a Lockheed Martin Atlas 2AS rocket blasted off Thursday night
to deliver a Japanese communications satellite into a record-setting high
orbit designed to economize the payload's precious fuel supply.
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NASA's Opportunity rover has examined an odd volcanic rock on the plains
of Mars' Meridiani Planum region with a composition unlike anything seen
on Mars before, but scientists have found similarities to meteorites that
fell to Earth.
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The meteorites that punched through roofs in Park Forest, Illinois, in
2003 came from a larger mass that weighed no less than 1,980 pounds before
it hit the atmosphere, according to scientific analyses led by the
University of Chicago's Steven Simon, who himself also happens to live in
Park Forest.
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