Today on SPACE.com --- Friday August 11, 2006 -- http://www.space.com/
/------------------------------------- Advertisement: Visit the LiveScience Store Cool Gifts, Gadgets, and Gear. Products for the inquiring mind. http://livesciencestore.com/index.html -------------------------------------/ In today's issue: Science/Astronomy: * Foxy Star Pattern Points to Other Stellar Sights * BLOG: Polite Demotion Planned for Planet Pluto * Wired News Pulls Freelancer's Space Stories * Catch the Sky Falling: Peter Jenniskens, Meteor Storm Chaser * Star Observations Could Solve Cosmic Riddle * Image of the Day: Walkout, Take 1 Spaceflight: * Space Shuttle Atlantis Crew Practice Escape Drill * The First Female Space Tourist? U.S. Entrepreneur Determined to Reach Orbit * ISS Crew Gets a 'Kick' From Soccer Team Call * U.S. Space Pioneer James Van Allen Dies at 91 * NEW! Daily Space Trivia NEW! LiveScience.com * New Gallery: Freaky Fish * Amazing Images: Upload Your Cool Pictures Now and Vote! * U.S. Lags World in Grasp of Genetics and Acceptance of Evolution * Love and Sex Influence Disease Evolution * Contagious Canine Cancer Spread by Parasites * New Architecture Inspired By Living Cells NEW! Cool Stuff: * Gallery: Perseid Meteor Shower * Great Space Quizzes: The Space Shuttle * Video: Killer Comets and Ominous Asteroids! * Stars and Galaxies Wallpaper * New: Solar System Planets: The Best of Your Amazing Images * Vote: The Best Space Movies * Vote Now: The Strangest Things in Space * Space Tourism: A Multimedia Special Report Plus... * Uplink, SPACE.com TV and NightSky * Starry Night, TeamSETI ----------------------------------- Science/Astronomy: * Foxy Star Pattern Points to Other Stellar Sights http://www.space.com/spacewatch/060811_night_sky.html A foxy little star pattern points to the Dumbell Nebula and other interesting objects. * BLOG: Polite Demotion Planned for Planet Pluto http://www.livescience.com/blogs/author/robbritt In June, we broke the news that astronomers might get the chance to vote in September on a new definition for the word planet, a wording that will be proposed by a panel that includes historians, educators and other non-astronomers. * Wired News Pulls Freelancer's Space Stories http://www.space.com/news/060810_ap_wired_fake.html Online technology publication Wired News removed three articles from its Web site Wednesday after editors couldn't confirm the authenticity of at least one source. * Catch the Sky Falling: Peter Jenniskens, Meteor Storm Chaser http://www.space.com/searchforlife/seti_perseids_060810.html At the SETI Institute, Dr. Peter Jenniskens studies meteor showers in order to better understand comets and their contribution to the origin of life on Earth, as meteoroids are samples of the material that rained down on the Earth the carbon needed for life. * Star Observations Could Solve Cosmic Riddle http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060809_lithium_riddle.html A process similar to a conveyor belt transports heavy elements from the surface of stars into their interiors where they are destroyed, new observations suggest. * Image of the Day: Walkout, Take 1 http://www.space.com/imageoftheday/image_of_day_060810.html The six astronauts of NASA's STS-115 mission rehearsed the last few hours of their upcoming launch day today. ----------------------------------- Spaceflight: * Space Shuttle Atlantis Crew Practice Escape Drill http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/ft_060811_sts115_drill.html The Atlantis astronauts capped a practice countdown Thursday with a drill they never want to go through for real: A launch tower escape. * The First Female Space Tourist? U.S. Entrepreneur Determined to Reach Orbit http://www.space.com/news/060810_ansari_spaceprep.html For U.S. entrepreneur Anousheh Ansari, failure to reach space is not an option. * ISS Crew Gets a 'Kick' From Soccer Team Call http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/060809_exp13_soccer.html Three astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS) took a break in their orbital work Thursday for an apparently fun-filled phone call with soccer champions from Spain. * U.S. Space Pioneer James Van Allen Dies at 91 http://www.space.com/news/ap_060809_vanallen_obit.html Physicist James A. Van Allen, a leader in space exploration who discovered the radiation belts surrounding the Earth that now bear his name, died Wednesday. He was 91. * NEW! Daily Space Trivia http://www.space.com/php/trivia/ One of Today's 5 New Questions: Which Shuttle was the only one to be fitted with ejection seats? ---------------------------------- NEW! LiveScience.com http://www.livescience.com/ * New Gallery: Freaky Fish http://www.livescience.com/php/multimedia/imagegallery/igviewer.php?imgid=847&gid=54 Some of the stranger finned creatures of the deep. * Amazing Images: Upload Your Cool Pictures Now and Vote! http://www.livescience.com/amazingimages/ Upload your cool science images now. Get your own homepage, vote for your favorites and more! * U.S. Lags World in Grasp of Genetics and Acceptance of Evolution http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/060810_evo_rank.html A comparison of peoples' views in 34 countries finds that the United States ranks near the bottom when it comes to public acceptance of evolution. Only Turkey ranked lower. * Love and Sex Influence Disease Evolution http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/060810_illness_spread.html Dating, going steady, hooking up, settling down. There are many ways to be a couple and avoid the lovesick blues. Now it appears that in addition to lovesickness, there is a link between the types of relationships people have and how illness affect us all. * Contagious Canine Cancer Spread by Parasites http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/060810_dog_cancer.html Dogs have a form of sexually transmitted cancer that for 200 to 2,500 years has apparently spread via contagious tumor cells that escaped from their original body and now travel around the world as parasites. * New Architecture Inspired By Living Cells http://www.livescience.com/othernews/060810_cell_building.html You don't need the Magic School Bus to head into a walled cell; you just need a plane ticket to the Far East where the first cell-shaped building will soon be erected. ---------------------------------- NEW! Cool Stuff: * Gallery: Perseid Meteor Shower http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagegallery/igviewer.php?imgid=2752&gid=212&index=0 The annual Perseid meteor shower dazzles skywatchers around the world. What can we expect from this year's show? * Great Space Quizzes: The Space Shuttle http://www.space.com/php/spacetrivia/index.php?quiz=shuttle Test your knowledge on what may be the most complicated machine ever built. * Video: Killer Comets and Ominous Asteroids! http://www.space.com/php/video/player.php?video_id=b041217_com_ast_promo Stalk the flying mega-mountains that could destroy us or save us. * Stars and Galaxies Wallpaper http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/downloads/wallpapers/collection.php?collection=universe Out of this Universe: Check out this cool collection of Stars and Galaxies Wallpaper. * New: Solar System Planets: The Best of Your Amazing Images http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/imagegallery/igviewer.php?imgid=4131&gid=296&index=0 Amateur photographers focus in on the planets in our solar system. * Vote: The Best Space Movies http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/spacemovies/ Is your favorite space movie on the list? Find out now! * Vote Now: The Strangest Things in Space http://www.space.com/bestimg/?cat=strangest Now you can decide which is most bizarre. * Space Tourism: A Multimedia Special Report http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/earlyspacetourism/ Part One: Where Only A Few Folks Have Gone. ---------------------------------- * SpaceTV: http://www.space.com/php/multimedia/spacetv/ * NightSky: http://www.space.com/spacewatch/ * Uplink: Share your opinion! http://uplink.space.com/ ------------------------------------- JOIN NOW! Sign-up For the National Space Society https://www.nss.org/membership/new_member_form.html It's because of members like YOU that we've been able to convince the U.S. President and many in Congress to continue our journey towards the stars! Sign up to become part of the greatest search in history! Join TeamSETI: http://www.space.com/searchforlife/seti_science_page.html Be a desktop astronomer! 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