Sky & Telescope's Weekly Bulletin - Jul 18

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Sky & Telescope's Weekly Bulletin - July 18, 2008
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News
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Mars's Ancient Water Works
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July 17, 2008 | New observations from a NASA orbiter reveal that
water and rock freely mingled across (or under) much of the Red
Planet's surface.
Read More at: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/commu.../25567889.html

Artificial Intelligence: Astronomers' New Assistant
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July 17, 2008 | Astronomers have designed a neural network that can
determine the particulars of binary star systems by just examining
their light curves -- and it can do it really, really fast.
Read More at: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/commu.../25553459.html

Make Way for Makemake
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July 17, 2008 | It took three years to settle on a name for the third-
largest object in the Kuiper Belt.
Read More at: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/commu.../25551919.html

Are Jupiters Hard to Come By?
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July 12, 2008 | A recent survey of stars in the Orion Nebula Cluster
reveals that less than 10% of stars there have enough material in
their surrounding disks to form Jupiter-sized planets.
Read More at: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/commu.../24485639.html

Best in League
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July 17, 2008 | The Astronomical League has announced its best
webmaster for 2008.
Read More at: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/commu.../25553934.html


Observing
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Jupiter's Third Red Spot May Have Survived
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July 11, 2008 | Jupiter's newest red spot was disrupted during its
encounter with the Great Red Spot and Oval BA, but appears to be
reforming.
Read More at: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/obser.../24453169.html

August 1st's Eastern Solar Eclipse
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July 16, 2008 | From sunrise on the northeastern fringes of North
America, to sunset in China, Korea, and Southeast Asia, the Moon's
shadow sweeps across a huge area of the world on August 1st.
Read More at: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/obser.../25521314.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 18, 2008 | Mars, Saturn, and Regulus are getting ever lower in
the western twilight -- but on the other side of the sky, Jupiter is
really coming into its own.
Read More at: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/letsg.../25620404.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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