Astroblog: Last week in Astronomy

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Last week in Astronomy

I see lots of interesting things about astronomy and Science that I would love to blog, but time just gets away. Here's a list of things that I found interesting in Astronomy news and Blogs.

Stuarts essay on Why Astronomy matters
http://www.strudel.org.uk/blog/astro/000537.shtml

which was inspired by this report of cluelessness by the Bad Astronomer
http://www.badastronomy.com/bablog/2006/10/18/katie-couric-is-a-bonehead/

The hottest story was the reports that there may be no ice in the deep craters on the Moon.

From the Bad Astronomer
Science: http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2006/1018/1?rss=1
Nature: http://www.nature.com/news/2006/061016/full/443730a.html
New Scientist: http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=0393af3fca46cf747287a46fbd0933ThT
The Lab: http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2006/1768484.htm

Lunar landers and space elevators.
Nature: http://www.nature.com/news/2006/061016/full/061016-14.html

Lunar Lander Competition fails:
New Scientist http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=53017603b024795ace2403bba24ca92a
New Scientist: http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=9b1c3980c25fea567d6fba1360d50e81

For the second year in a row no one has walked away with the Space Elevator Prize:
http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?i=b6e46ea699a9a7b87db7c40aa7a09cbf

Keck telescope earthquake woes: http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2006/1017/1?rss=1
Stuarts report: Hawaiian Earthquake Damage

Record Ozone Hole: http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2006/1020/1?rss=1

STEREO View of the Sun: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061018150446.htm

South Pole of Mars:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061019100823.htm

First directly Imaged Brown Dwarf Companion of Star hosting exoplanets:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061019192358.htm

# posted by Ian Musgrave @ 7:12 am

Comments:

Hey Ian, you've pretty much started an astronomy carnival!

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Anonymous : 12:16 am

Your right, you know. Only next time I'll do a trace more description and I won't cut and past from $#@%!!!! MSword, which installs nonstandard characters and munged up the RSS feed for days, until I manually edited the xml file. Curse you microsoft!

Anyway, myabe I can do this biweekly or something, could be fun.

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