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Colorado meteor event - Dec 6, 2008

Sunday, December 7th, 2008

“COLORADO SUPERBOLIDE: Last night, Dec. 6th at 1:06 a.m. MST, a meteor of stunning brightness lit up the skies of Colorado. Astronomer Chris Peterson photographed the event using a dedicated all-sky meteor camera in the town of Guffey, near Colorado Springs.
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Space.com reports that an unknown force is acting on spacecraft that approach and then recede from earth

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Space.com had a very interesting article posted on Febr. 29th. Basically it reports that JPL scientists have verified that there is some unknown force operating on 5 of 6 spacecraft that have taken paths that approach earth and then recede from earth on a new path.
Basically it comes down to some well-measured but very small [...]

More press coverage on the intesifying “global warming” versus “global cooling” debate

Sunday, March 2nd, 2008

Even the New York Times is taking note of the recent increase of debate activity between the global warming/anthropogenic and global cooling/solar crowds
Skeptics on Human Climate Impact Seize on Cold Spell
In general the article is pretty good and balanced in terms of reporting the debate. At the end it even points out the danger that [...]

BREAK: Gravity Probe B - update Sept 2007

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Another update for Gravity Probe B in preparation for presentation of conclusions in November.
http://einstein.stanford.edu/

First Mars rover, Sojournor, spotted

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

Sojournor spotted from Mars orbit:
Mars probe may have spotted lost rover - space - 12 January 2007 - New Scientist Space
The most powerful camera ever sent into orbit around Mars has spotted yet another lander lying lifeless on its surface: Mars Pathfinder, which operated for three months in 1997. It may also have found the [...]