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Yahoo! News: Science News Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:57:29 GMT
  • High-resolution satellite launched in California (AP)   - 

    This image provided by Vandenberg Air Force Base shows the successful launch of a Delta II, carrying the GeoEye-1 satellite, rocket from Space Launch Complex-2 Saturday Sept. 6, 2008 at Vandenberg Air Force base in Calif. The satellite makers say GeoEye-1 has the highest resolution of any commercial imaging system. It can collect images from orbit with enough detail to show home plate on a baseball diamond.(AP Photo/Air Force Photo/Airman 1st Class Nathaniel Prost)AP - A super-sharp Earth-imaging satellite that can detail an area the size of a baseball diamond's home plate from space has been launched into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base on the Central California coast.


  • China to launch space mission in late September (AP)   - AP - China will launch its third manned space mission in late September, featuring its first-ever space walk, a state news agency said.
  • Spacecraft flies by remote asteroid, camera stops (AP)   - 

    A Feb. 25, 2007 file photo shows mission specialists at the ESA European Space Operation Center (ESOC) in Darmstadt, southwestern Germany, operating the Rosetta probe during it's fly-by of planet Mars. European Space Agency ESA scientists are preparing for the first fly-by of an asteroid by their deep-space explorer, Rosetta, on a mission to solve the mystery of the birth of the solar system. Rosetta is set to rendezvous with the Steins asteroid, also known as Asteroid 2867, just before 1900 GMT on Friday, Sept. 5, 2008 at a distance of just less than 500 miles (800 kilometers). (AP Photo/Daniel Roland, File)AP - The European deep space probe Rosetta successfully completed a flyby of an asteroid millions of miles from earth, but its high resolution camera stopped shortly before the closest pass, space officials said Saturday.


  • Cassini detects partial rings with Saturn's moons (AP)   - AP - The latest images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show faint, partial rings orbiting with two of Saturn's small inner moons, scientists said Friday.
  • Study: Credit Cards Cause More Spending (LiveScience.com)   - LiveScience.com - If you're trying to save money, leave your credit cards at home and pack cash only.
  • Ike blasts Turks and Caicos, floods Haiti again (AP)   - 

    Hurricane Ike blows through the trees just after daybreak on the island of Providenciales, in the Turks & Caicos Islands, Sunday, Sept. 7, 2008. Ike roared across the low-lying Turks and Caicos island chain before dawn Sunday as people in the British territory sought refuge in emergency shelters or in their homes. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)AP - Ike ripped off roofs, swept away boats and collapsed a bridge on the last road into a flooded Haitian city on Sunday as it roared over the southern Bahamas as a ferocious Category 4 hurricane. The Florida Keys evacuated and Cuba prepared for a direct hit.


  • European space probe completes asteroid fly by (Reuters)   - Reuters - The European Space Agency obtained on Saturday the first images of an asteroid 360 million km (224 million miles) from earth, part of a space mission which scientists hope will help them understand the origins of the planets.
  • Thousands of Australia's koalas felled by land-clearing: WWF (AFP)   - 

    Conservation group WWF has said that Australian koalas are dying by the thousands as a result of land clearing in the country's northeast, while millions of birds and reptiles are also perishing.(AFP/File/Torsten Blackwood)AFP - Australian koalas are dying by the thousands as a result of land clearing in the country's northeast, while millions of birds and reptiles are also perishing, conservation group WWF said Sunday.


  • Finder of key hominid fossil disputes 7-million-year dating (AFP)   - 

    Undated handout photo shows the 3D reconstruction of the skull of Toumai. A fresh storm has broken out over an ancient fossil presented by its defenders as a forebear of humanity and dismissed by its critics as the remains of a vulgar chimp.(AFP/MPFT/File)AFP - A fresh storm has broken out over an ancient fossil presented by its defenders as a forebear of humanity and dismissed by its critics as the remains of a vulgar chimp.


  • Iran wants OPEC output cut to target quotas (AFP)   - 

    An Iranian worker pumps fuel into a customer's car at a petrol station north of Tehran in 2007. Iran has said that OPEC members should cut output to the agreed target quotas in the face of falling oil prices, two days before the cartel meets in Vienna, state-run IRNA news agency reported.(AFP/File/Behrouz Mehri)AFP - Iran said on Sunday that OPEC members should cut output to the agreed target quotas in the face of falling oil prices, two days before the cartel meets in Vienna, state-run IRNA news agency reported.


  • Scientists ID 2 New Genes for Bowel Disease in Kids (HealthDay)   - HealthDay - FRIDAY, Sept. 5 (HealthDay News) -- Variations of two new genes appear to increase the risk of developing inflammatory bowel disease in childhood, researchers say.
 
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