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November 2002      October     September      August and Earlier
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2002 Date	NOVEMBER 2002		Notes
Nov 27	Test run for telescope's new coat
Nov 26	IAU names 11 Jovian satellites		moons that previously bore only numerical designations
Nov 26	Report: After the Big Bang, the Big Snowstorm		Puy and Pfenniger of the Geneva Observatory consider space before stars were formed
Nov 26	Fresh evidence of 'eclipse wind'		Re solar eclipse effect
Nov 22	View of Leonids and Northern Lights from NASA DC-8
Nov 22	Did quark matter strike Earth?		Seismographic goodie
Nov 21	NASA helps visually impaired to 'Touch the Universe'		! Pictures with touchable details in NASA Braille Book of Astronomy
Nov 20	Stellar water vapour Detection of Water Vapor in the Photosphere of Arcturus		Ryde Lambert Richter and Lacy, UTA. Nov20 issue of the Astrophysical Journal. [reminder of Calgary speaker telling us about water vapour and our own sun]
Nov 20	Lagoon Nebula The Structure and Evolution of the Lagoon Nebula. I. Submillimeter Continuum and CO Line Mapping		Tothill White Matthews McCutcheon McCaughrean and Kenworthy Nov20 issue of the Astrophysical Journal
Nov 20	BBC Asteroid threat reassessed NewScientist Small but deadly asteroid threat downgraded		Phew!...maybe...
Nov 19	How Life Might Have Formed in Martian Impact Craters
Nov 19	BBC Black holes on collision course NewScientist Black holes are double trouble for galaxy		"For the first time two supermassive black holes have been seen at the heart of one galaxy."
Nov 18	space.com Black Hole Breakaway: Supernova Gives Birth to Cosmic Monster NewScientist Speeding black hole caught by Hubble
Nov 14 and 19	Titanic volcanic eruption seen on Io Io blows its top
Nov 13	Sky and Tel Super Sunspot Images		Re: adaptive optics in a new solar telescope in the Canary Islands, and interesting solar filaments
Nov 12	Satellite finds electrons brought to near-light speed		'evidence of magnetic reconnection accelerating electrons to near light speed in Earth's magnetosphere and perhaps throughout the universe where magnetic fields entangle.'
Nov 11	New evidence for dark energy in the Universe
Nov 10	Stephan's Quintet New Light and Shadows on Stephan's Quintet		Gutiérrez López-Corredoira Prada and Eliche Nov10 issue of the Astrophysical Journal
Nov 8	New scientist Milky Way's black hole on starvation diet
Nov 8	Venus mission is on		BBC re ESA
Nov 7	New Scientist Martian meteorite mysteries resolved also, Space.com Why a Mars Rock Hits Earth Every Month		I'm not going ouside til I find out which day of every month that pesky rock lands;-)
Nov 7	Jodrell Bank reveals new face
Nov 7 and 8	Nasa challenges Moon hoax claims but then, alas, Nasa pulls Moon hoax book		I wish NASA had gone ahead with this. I eyewitnessed Apollo on way to the moon and feel strongly about people using their heads about evidence. BF   See also Sep 22, 21, and 11 stories
Nov 6	How Star Formation Prevents Star Formation		Space.com article on role of ultraviolet light
Nov 6	Astronomers Take Measure of City-Sized Neutron Star		Also see other Nov 6
Nov 6	Sizing Up a Neutron Star		Slowing of time in a neutron star
Nov 6	XMM-Newton closes in on space's exotic matter		ESA item
Nov 5	Space Camp, Astronaut Hall of Fame assets to stay put, new owner says
Nov 5	Sky and Tel In Search of the First Star		"Astronomers have found the oldest giant star ever and hope to use the find to uncover the first stars ever formed."
Nov 5	Comet Collisions Help Generate Puzzling Cosmic Rays, Study Shows
Nov 5	Beamed Propulsion: Out Of the Lab Into Space		First International Symposium on Beamed-Energy Propulsion, University of Alabama in Huntsville
Nov 5	Ancient Hidden Craters on Mars Revealed
Nov 5	Stardust sends home asteroid image		See also Nov 1 item
Nov 5	Most powerful magnet found in the Universe ++		"first direct measurement of a magnetic field around a peculiar neutron star first observed nearly 25 years ago"
Nov 4	Glasgow astronomers explain hot star disks ++
Nov 2 and 4	Magnetism shapes beauty in the heavens also Astronomers Untangle Source of the Prettiest Pictures in Space
Nov 2	Jupiter spaceprobe knocked out on final voyage
Nov 2	Moon might reveal first life on Earth		"Lunar rocks retain memories long since lost down here. "
Nov 1	Cassini Spacecraft Snaps First Photo of Saturn also Cassini Sights Saturn
November 1	Probe set for asteroid flyby		"rehearsal for encountering a comet"
November 1	Memories Of Orange Rock From The Lunar Age		Apollo 17 astronaut Harrison Schmitt...at the GSA Planetary Geology division's Gilbert Lecture and Award Ceremony, Schmitt discussed "A Lunar Field Geologist's Perspective 30 Years Later: Shocking Revelations about the Moon, Mars, and Earth."
November 1	Energized 'heartbeats' may explain stirred up galaxies
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2002 Date	OCTOBER 2002		Notes
October 31	NASA/JPL story Red freckles on Europa suggest 'lava lamp' action BBC story Jupiter moon's 'elevator of life'		Also Europa items Oct27, 20
October 31	Space.com Space-Based Power System Needed to Solve Earths Energy Woes
October 31	Space tourism 'viable at $15,000 a seat'		[How much to take along a telescope?...:-)]
October 31	'Oldest' star found in galaxy		also an Oct 30 story
October 30	Galileo nears first visit to small moon, dusty ring
October 30	Earth-based Analogs of Mars Offer Insight into the Red Planet
October 30	Antimatter Power: Reaching for Deep Space
October 30	Relic Star Found, Pointing Way to Dawn of Time:   Star Sheds Light on Birth of Elements		also an Oct 31 story
October 28	NASA funds next phase for Kepler planet-finding satellite		[...that name sounds familar...]
October 28	Meteorite's location found in Siberia		"and that's the pravda..."
October 27	Eavesdropping on ice		Acoustical oceanographer re Europa Also Europa items Oct20, 31
October 25	NASA MUSIC OUT OF THIS WORLD		composition "Sun Rings" incorporating space sounds with instruments
October 25	ESA's Belgian astronaut ready for Space Station mission
October 25	Scientists boost tally of moons around Uranus		"brings the total number of confirmed uranian moons to 21" [what bet there will be more?...]
October 25	Sky and Tel Dark Matter Gets a Reality Check
October 24	The First Rock in the Solar System (Murchison Meteorite)		psrd.hawaii.edu item An aggregate of corundum, hibonite, and perovskite may be among the first rocks to form in the Solar System.
October 24	Space weather rules techno-earthlings		"Weather in space can really disrupt modern life on Earth, as a new exhibit at Kitt Peak National Observatory shows."    Also space weather item Oc23
October 24	Integral makes its first measurements
October 24	Astronomer sees black hole eating star
October 24	Success for star hunters		"new technique [allowing] astronomers to find planets no other current method can. "
October 23	Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Chile and ESO for Establishing a New Center for Observation in Chile - ALMA		re ESO New Center for Observation in Chile  Versión español
October 23	Experts to talk about space weather		Also space weather item Oc24
October 23	Sky and Tel Why Is Saturn Tipsy?
October 22	Space.com Loony Moons: Chaos, Order and Strange Behavior
October 21	Comet Orbiter Rosetta Shipped To South American Launch Site
October 21	BBC Cosmic rays 'linked to clouds'		"German scientists say they have found the first direct evidence linking cosmic rays to cloud formation and climate change." [Does Kyoto Accord include this?...See also Oct19 item]
October 21	BBC Universe is 'doomed to collapse'
October 21	Earth's little brother found: Asteroid 2002 AA29
October 21 (updt)	MegaPrime first Engineering Run		Tech item - "MegaPrime is a new prime focus environment for the 3.6-m Canada France Hawaii Telescope. " [including photos of the project]
October 21	NASA researchers probe Mundrabilla meteorite		A new NASA study of a one-of-a-kind meteorite found 36 years ago in Australia ... offers an amazing opportunity for understanding fundamentals of alloy formation."
October 21	Scientists Trek to Worlds Highest Lake Seeking Clues to ET
Oct 20	ESA At that star, turn left!: Are organic molecules in space also left-handed?
Oct 20	NRAO Clouds found floating high above Milky Way
Oct 20	Thin ice opens lead for life on Europa		Also Europa items Oct27, 30
Oct 19	New Scientist Aircraft vapour trails are climate scourge		Item on reducing contrails. [news on this aspect of global warming started appearing after 9-11] [Does Kyoto Accord include this aspect?...See also Oct21 item]
Oct 18	Earth Rocks On The Moon
Oct 18	Skid marks in the galaxy: interpretation of radio galaxies		Radio galaxies...emit radio waves...when electrically charged particles travelling at almost the speed of light are slowed down ...Until recently it was not known exactly where the particles reach such high speeds... A group of scientists... now for the first time been able to determine more precisely the region"
Oct 18	First light for new Palomar infrared camera
Oct 17	Gamma-Ray Satellite Launched
Oct 17	Stardust will fly by asteroid Annefrank next month
Oct 17	The planet that wasn't there		Mt Wilson release. Valuable reminder of the tentativeness of Exoplanet tallies.   This story prompted considerable RASClist discussion.
Oct 16	Surfing a Black Hole: Star Orbiting Massive Milky Way Centre Approaches to within 17 Light-Hours
Oct 16	Galaxy merger leaves behind telltale blue arc		JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV release
Oct 14	article Crowded Space - Asteroids, minor planets detected in regions once believed empty
Oct 14	Massive Balancing Act Pins Down Big G		Mercury involved (not the planet)
Oct 14	New 'eye' for infrared astronomy wins award		AAO news item
Oct 14	DoD Satellite Tracked Siberian Fireball that Might have Hit Earth
Oct 12	Exploding star takes astronomers by surprise
Oct 12	Catch a flying 'star'		BBC item "image of the International Space Station (ISS) was captured from the ground... using a webcam attached to an eight-inch (20 centimetres) telescope"
Oct 11	Manned Mars mission 'will happen'		"Human explorers will make it to Mars but not for hundreds of years, says an astronaut who has walked on the Moon."
Oct 11	Biological Potential Seen for Mars
Oct 11	World Space Congress: Moon Seen as 'Robotic Village'
Oct 11	Chaos Seen in Movement of Ring-Herding Moons of Saturn
Oct 10	More and More ESPs (Extrasolar Planets)		planetary society news item
Oct 10	World's Largest Optical Telescopes Open for Competitive Access Under New NSF Program
Oct 10	Retro-MACHOs: Pi in the Sky?		Ap.Jrnl. Daniel E. Holz and John A. Wheeler rMay21/aJn20 2002 [Stellar-mass black hole detection method?]
Oct 10	Fragmentation of Magnetically Subcritical Clouds into Multiple Supercritical Cores and the Formation of Small Stellar Groups		Ap.Jrnl. Li and Nakamura rMay7/aJn13 2002 [re "calculations...extended to the nonaxisymmetric [cloud evolution] case under thin-disk approximation, which allows for a detailed investigation into the process of fragmentation, fundamental to binary, multiple system, and cluster formation [vs axisymmetric processes and collapses to form an isolated star or stellar system at the center"]. [Might this also relate to formation of "linear" stellar configurations, which possible linearity Kemble's Cascade or a Line Under Leo or other such asterisms may prompt some observers to contemplate? :BF:oct15,02]
Oct 10	The Galactic Distribution of Large H I Shells		Ap.J. McClure-Griffiths rAp07/aJn20 2002 "H I shells in the Southern Galactic Plane Survey ...[possible] shell expansion away from spiral arms and into interarm regions" [Interesting re small-scale galactic structure, maybe? relate to Local Bubble etc...:BF]
Oct 10	Saturn-Like Planet Found, You Can Spot the Star it Orbits		[well, maybe... in Calgary only 9.4 degrees alt. over souther horizon at e.g. transit Oct12]
Oct 10	Pluto is undergoing global warming, researchers find		[Are the Plotonians looking at the Kyoto accord?:-p
Oct 9,10	McDonald Observatory Planet Search finds first planet orbiting close-in binary star Surprise planet discovered in twin star system Planet Found in Tight Binary Star System Close twin star system reveals a planet		more (tec) details
Oct 9	Scientists race to observe fading gamma-ray burst
Oct 9	Titan's bizarre landscape shaped by internal heat?
Oct 9	Risk of Small Asteroid Strikes Lowered
Oct 9	'Cat's eye' images show cold hole over Jupiter's north pole
Oct 8	Univ. of Hawaii Astronomers to Develop New Telescopes for "Killer Asteroid" Search
Oct 8	Astronomers "slice and dice" galaxies		"new UKIRT Imaging Spectrometer (UIST) ... ability to 'slice' any object in the sky into sections, producing a three dimensional view of the conditions throughout entire galaxies in a single observation."
Oct 8	Shadow Moons: The Unknown Sub-Worlds that Might Harbor Life
Oct 8	Cosmic particles scoop Nobel Prize Astrophysicists win Nobel prize		"new ways to study galaxies and stars"
Oct 7	New Solar System body revealed
Oct 5	Amateurs to help discover extra-solar planets
Oct 4	Oct 4 -10 World Space Week		Office for Outer Space Affairs, United Nations Office at Vienna item
Oct 4, 7	Cory Clarke creates illustrated web site on Phil and Blair's telescope making class ++		Local goodie ; page is also linked through Calgary RASC homepage.
Oct 4	Space.com article 10 Steps to Rewarding Stargazing
Oct 04	New moon for Uranus
Oct 03	Tally of Asteroids Harboring Moons Grows Beyond 30
Oct 03	Cosmic crash of speeding jets tracked also Life Cycle of Black Hole Emissions Seen for First Time
Oct 02, 03	Camera eyes dusty spirals in Milky Way center also New High-Resolution Infrared View of Milky Way		[also a labled image]
Oct 02	New [Radio] telescope as big as Earth itself		High frequency VLBI Array
Oct 02	Mars Climate Clues Found in Slice of Ice		Including refs to variable tilt of Mars (did you know that?) and to Earth's moon. Thus, implications for the Drake formula.
Oct issue	Interpretations of the Accelerating Universe		A.S.P. Narlikar, Vishwakarma and Burbidge rMy3/aJn18 2002 "reinterpretation of the magnitude-redshift relation for Type Ia supernovae"

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2002 Date	SEPTEMBER 2002		Notes
Sept 30	Lumicon's Final Exposure
Sep 26	NASA Reveals New Plan for the Moon, Mars & Outward
Sept 22	"Controversial claim " Earth's magnetic field 'boosts gravity'		"could be evidence of hidden extra dimensions and help a 'theory of everything' fall into place"
Sept 21, 22	No Charges Filed Against Aldrin also Ex-astronaut escapes assault charge		Also SEE Sept.11 story, and calendar-master's comment.
Sept 20	Telescope finds Big Bang evidence
Sept 19	Rings around Earth shaped past climate: study		See also Sept 17 story
Sept 19	Signs of water found on distant planets		[with implications]
Sept 19	Orbiting Apollo rocket will soon depart		See also Sept 11, 16 stories
Sept 19	Lander risks missing Mars trip		"British scientists vow to have their robotic probe ready for launch in 2003, amid concerns over the project's finances"
Sept 19	Cosmic polarisation detected from South Pole		"The faint microwave afterglow of the Big Bang is polarised - the discovery should help probe the birth of the Universe"
Sept 17	Earth Might Have Been a Ringed Planet, Like Saturn		See also Sept 19 story
Sept 17	Newfound Planet in Circular Orbit around Another Star
Sept 17	Hubble Confirms Middleweight Black Holes Exist		Astronomers said today they've firmly identified two medium-mass black holes, supplying strong confirmation that these curious middleweights exist.   [and a "0.5 percent" curiosity]
Sept 17	Old galaxies have youthful shine		"Astronomers have discovered more black holes in a cluster of galaxies than they expected."
Sept 16	Scientists Hope to Monitor Space Junk Hitting Moon		See also Sept 11, 19 stories
Sept 16	Speed of light broken with basic lab kit		[But if "info" still still has a speed limit, is that ALL info or might quantuminfo be different and FTL?...BF]
Sept 16	Proposal: Removing Earth's Radiation Belts
Sept 13	Did a Comet Swarm Kill the Dinosaurs?		[actually, too much TV did them in...they became couch-potatosauruses:-)]
Sept 11	Apollo astronaut says he hit man in self defense		re Astronaut Aldrin confronted by moon-hoax-sceptic, I actually saw Apollo 11 on way to moon two evenings in a row from Saxe Point Park, Victoria, B.C. Of course, eye witnesses probably don't count with idiots. Also SEE Sept.21-22 stories
Sept 11	Nasa names new space telescope
Sept 11	New 'moon' found around Earth		See also Sept 16, 19 stories
Sept 10	Moon opens for business		"A private US company has won permission to launch its own probe to the Moon next year."
Sept 8	Perspective on asteroid threat evolving
Sept 8	Test for Einstein's gravity speed theory
Sept 6	Stellar Jets Stay Hot and Fast [Far] into Space
Sept 6, 8	Livermore Lab Chemist Accurately Dates First Objects To Form In The Solar System also Chemist dates first objects to form in the solar system
Sept 6	Experts: Study Asteroid Risks
Sept 6	Earth's Gravitational Field Mapped
Sept 6, 17	Universe might yet collapse in 'big crunch' also SEP17 "Runaway Universe" May Collapse In 10 Billion Years, New Studies Predict also see Aug 31 Telescope to help explain why universe is accelerating		"Although the Universe's growth is speeding up, US physicists think it could start to implode when just twice its current age" See also Sep.5 SouthPole item
Sept 5	Comets break up far and near
Sept 5	photo release Hubble Captures Celestial Wheel Within a Wheel		"an unusual galaxy known as Hoag's Object (Hubble Huly 2001 photo)...600 million light-years away in the constellation Serpens"
Sept 5	Diamonds Reveal Early Water World of Earth		[partly re planetary evolution]
Sept 5	Large Meteor May Have Struck Australia
Sept 5	Telescope to be built at South Pole		See also 3rd item under "Sep6,17"
Sept 4	Asteroid Siblings Oddly Grouped by Orientation		" Koronis family of asteroids"
Sept 2	Extra-solar 'planet' an optical illusion
Sept 2	Speed of gravity to be measured
Sept 2	article Top 5 Cosmic Myths #4: Meteors are heated by friction as they pass through the atmosphere
Sept 1	'The Sun's twisted mysteries'		"CMEs...may be due to twisted magnetic fields originating deep within the heart of the Sun." Also: June 7, 14 headlines re sun

 
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Some CERN pre-prints re gravitational- and micro-lensing, including implications re exoplanet searches

• Astrometric Microlensing: A Channel to Detect Multiple Lens Systems
• Perturbative approach to the astrometric microlensing due to an extrasolar planet investigating astrometric microlensing due to extrasolar planetary lens
• Predictions for the frequency and orbital radii of massive extrasolar planets
   
   And earlier Cern pre-prints re exoplanets:
• The EXPLORE Project I: A Deep Search for Transiting Extrasolar Planets
• Are There Unstable Planetary Systems Around White Dwarfs?
   
   
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