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Fragmenting Comet Flyby To Be Webcast
New York NY (SPX) Apr 18, 2006
Slooh.com, an astronomical event Web site, said Tuesday it will begin live monitoring of the approach of Comet 73P Schwassmann-Wachmann, beginning this week at 9 p.m. Eastern Time. The comet, which has broken up into 19 separate pieces, is heading for a rendezvous with Earth. Slooh.com broadcasts live celestial events via its Web site from its telescopes stationed at high altitude at the Institute of Astrophysics of the Canary Islands.

   
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    Killer GRB Unlikely In The Galactic Neighborhood
    Ohio State University
    Columbus OH (SPX) Apr 18, 2006 Are you losing sleep at night because you're afraid that all life on Earth will suddenly be annihilated by a massive dose of gamma radiation from the cosmos? Well, now you can rest easy.

    Hubble Captures Pair Of Nearby Cosmic Jewels
    Baltimore MD (SPX) Apr 18, 2006
    New images by the Hubble Space Telescope have captured the most detailed picture to date of the open star clusters NGC 265 and NGC 290 in the Small Magellanic Cloud � one of the Milky Way's nearest galactic neighbors.

    NASA Simulation Beats Gravity Wave Overloads
    Greenbelt MD (SPX) Apr 18, 2006
    NASA scientists said Tuesday they have developed a new computer model that can simulate the gravitational waves generated by merging black holes without crashing.

    US, China Renew Science Pact For Five More Years
    Washington (AFP) Apr 19, 2006
    The United States and China renewed Tuesday an agreement on cooperation in science and technology as President Hu Jintao flew into the country for his first official visit.

    ANU Joins Giant Magellan Telescope Group
    Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 18, 2006
    Australia's National University is the latest international partner to join the consortium developing Giant Magellan Telescope, which will be the largest optical instrument in the world.

    Company Offers Sub Orbital Launches Of Small Payloads For 99 Dollars
    Santa Clara CA (SPX) Apr 18, 2006
    Masten Space Systems said Tuesday it has begun a "CanSats To Space" payload program intended to carry 350 gram, soda-can sized payloads into sub-orbital space and back, beginning in 2007.

    Aeroflex Expands Their Radhard MSI Logic Multipurpose Transceiver Family
    Colorado Springs CO (SPX) Apr 19, 2006
    Aeroflex has released the the UT54ACS164646S 5/3-volt, 16-bit, MultiPurpose Registered Transceiver. The UT54ACS164646S offers features unmatched in the MSI Logic industry such as cold- and warm-sparing, voltage translation, asynchronous two-way communication and signal buffering.

    Mirabilis Expands Into Satellite Broadcast Industry
    Orlando, Florida.(SPX) Apr 19, 2006
    Mirabilis Ventures announced its acquisition of the transportable earth station (TES) operations of Chameleon Communications, marking Mirabilis' presence in the satellite transmission arena.

    Nano Generators Powered By Good Vibrations
    New York (UPI) Apr 17, 2006
    Generators fabricated from wires only nanometers or billionths of a meter wide can convert vibrations to electricity, experts told UPI's Nano World.

    India Opens New Integration And Test Facility
    Bangalore, India (SPX) Apr 19, 2006
    The country's largest satellite integration and test facility, the ISRO Satellite Integration and Test Establishment (ISITE), opened on Monday. The establishment, one among the very few in the world and on par with the best, was inaugurated by national security adviser M K Narayanan.

    Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Gauge Indian Ocean Pollutants
    Arlington VA (SPX) Apr 18, 2006
    U.S. researchers have successfully sent a fleet of aerial drones over the Indian Ocean to track pollutants responsible for dimming Earth's atmosphere.

    NASA Cuts Shuttle Mission Spacewalks By One
    Washington DC (SPX) Apr 18, 2006
    NASA officials said Tuesday the shuttle Discovery crew will perform one fewer spacewalk during their visit to the International Space Station, currently planned for July.

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