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The Southern Taurid meteor stream will be active and it has produced fantastic fireballs seen around the world! For those of you craving a bit of deep sky work? The time is right to do a little "Wild Duck" hunting. Here's what's up! http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/whats_up_nov1_2004.html <a href="http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/whats_up_nov1_2004.html";>AOL Link</a> CHINA ANNOUNCES UPCOMING SPACEFLIGHT PLANS Nov 1, 2004 - China joined Russia and America in putting a human into space over a year ago, and they're getting ready to do it again. Officials from the China Aerospace Science and Technology (Cast) agency announced their upcoming plans to put more people into space next year. If all goes well, they'll launch two astronauts this time, and keep them in space for 5 days. Engineers are working to improve the Shenzhou spacecraft's performance, power generation, and environmental controls to support two astronauts. China is also planning on sending a robotic probe to orbit the Moon within 2 years, and another to land on it by 2010. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3971869.stm <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3971869.stm";>AOL Link</a> WHY TIME MIGHT FLOW IN ONE DIRECTION Nov 1, 2004 - Physicists have puzzled for more than a century about the nature of time. Why does it go in one direction? Time could go backwards, and physics formulas would still work properly. Researchers from the University of Chicago think they might have an answer: we live in a universe of ever increasing entropy. Instead of one Big Bang going off, and then the Universe expands and cools forever, small fluctuations in nearly empty space could set off new Big Bangs - the Universe would never reach equilibrium. http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/why_time_flow_one_direction.html <a href="http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/why_time_flow_one_direction.html";>AOL Link</a> NASA ANNOUNCES MAY 2005 FOR SHUTTLE FLIGHT Nov 1, 2004 - Grounded since the Columbia disaster, the space shuttles are tentatively expected to return to flight as early as May 2005, according to NASA officials. The agency updated their launch schedule on Friday, targeted Discovery's launch window to be open from May 12 to June 3, 2005. The shuttles have a lot of work to do; current plans are calling for 28 more flights until 2010 to complete the construction of the International Space Station, after which the shuttles will be retired. http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/may_2005_shuttle_rtf.html <a href="http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/may_2005_shuttle_rtf.html";>AOL Link</a> ROVERS HAVE RETURNED 50,000 PICTURES Nov 1, 2004 - This relatively boring picture of Spirit's calibration target, with a bit of rocky ground in the background is the 50,000th photograph sent back by NASA's twin rovers since they arrived on Mars in January, 2004. There are now more than twice as many images returned by the rovers as all three previous landers combined: Viking 1, Viking 2, and Mars Pathfinder. Both rovers have completed their three-month primary missions, and first extensions; they started their second extensions on Oct. 1. http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/rovers_50000_pictures.html <a href="http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/rovers_50000_pictures.html";>AOL Link</a> Additional headlines from Universe Today http://www.universetoday.com/am/exec/search.cgi?start=5&perpage=8&template=index/default.html <a href="http://www.universetoday.com/am/exec/search.cgi?start=4&perpage=8&template=index/default.html";>AOL Link</a> All contents copyright (c) 2004 Universe Today ----------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe from: Universe Today - Daily Edition (Text), just follow this link: http://www.universetoday.com/mojo/mojo.cgi?f=u&l=ut%2dtext&[EMAIL PROTECTED]&p=4996766 Click this link, or copy and paste the address into your browser. 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