Sky & Telescope's Weekly Bulletin - Jul 11

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Sky & Telescope's Weekly Bulletin - July 11, 2008
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News
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Water in Moon Dust Raises Questions
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July 9, 2008 | Traces of water recently found in glassy granules
brought back 40 years ago by the Apollo 15 crew suggest scientists
haven't quite figured out yet just how our Moon formed.
Read More at: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/commu.../24080009.html

Asteroids with Split Personalities
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July 11, 2008 | Where did the dozens of known binary asteroids come
from? According to a new finding, sunlight alone can force a body to
spin in such a frenzy that it literally flies apart.
Read More at: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/commu.../24446504.html

Faint Supernovae Remain Unexplained
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July 10, 2008 | A subclass of supernovae that fades much faster than
expected reveals possible kinks in astronomers' theories of what
causes these explosions.
Read More at: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/commu.../24314749.html

Shiny Eye for Airborne Observatory
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July 7, 2008 | The main mirror for the world's most advanced flying
observatory has been transformed from a carefully shaped and polished
piece of glass into a highly reflective optical component ready to
study the infrared universe.
Read More at: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/commu.../24039504.html

Brown-Dwarf Binary Tests Theories
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July 8, 2008 | Recent calculations for a pair of failed stars add to
astronomers' scant knowledge of brown dwarfs and will help set a
reference point for future studies.
Read More at: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/commu.../24037049.html

Mercury: The Incredible Shrinking Planet
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July 3, 2008 | During its first flyby of Mercury, NASA's Messenger
spacecraft found much less iron on the planet's surface than expected
and a cloud of ionized atoms -- including water -- caught up in the
planet's magnetosphere. And that's just for starters.
Read More at: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/commu.../22868414.html


Observing
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Little Red Spot Gone?
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July 7, 2008 | It's still not clear what will become of Jupiter's
Little Red Spot after the recent collision with its two larger
siblings.
Read More at: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/commu.../24009969.html

Have You Seen Comet Boattini?
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July 2, 2008 | Comet Boattini, now faintly visible to the unaided eye
from sites without light pollution, is climbing rapidly higher in the
Northern Hemisphere's dawn sky.
Read More at: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/commu.../22809364.html


This Week's Sky at a Glance
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July 11, 2008 | The Mars-Saturn-Regulus drama continues to play out
ever lower in the western twilight. In the southeast sky, Jupiter is
climbing into good telescopic view ever earlier in the night.
Read More at: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/obser.../24310689.html


SkyTour Podcast
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Tour July's Sky by Eye and Ear
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July 1, 2008 | There'll be fireworks this month on Independence Day -
and plenty of celestial sparklers overhead too, with Saturn and Mars
low in the west and Jupiter rising in the east. Download this podcast
for a guided tour ! Host: S&T's Kelly Beatty.
Read More at: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/obser.../22796979.html


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