Sky & Telescope's Weekly Bulletin - Nov 21

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Sky & Telescope's Weekly Bulletin - November 21, 2008
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News
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Detective Work Reveals Mars's Watery Past
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November 21, 2008 | New findings announced this week suggest that the
Red Planet may have had an ancient ocean after all and that buried
glaciers of ice have turned up in surprising places.
Read More at: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/commu.../34866804.html

Chandrayaan 1 is a Hit
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November 21, 2008 | India's first deep-space mission has chalked up
another success during the first days of its two-year mission:
slamming an instrumented probe into the lunar surface.
Read More at: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/commu.../34886564.html

New Eyes on the Cosmic-Ray Sky
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November 18, 2008 | High on the Argentinian pampa, 1,600 water-filled
"eyes" await the arrival of the most powerful high-energy particles in
the universe.
Read More at: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/commu.../34667479.html


Observing
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View Vesta at Its Brightest
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October 29, 2008 | Vesta, the brightest asteroid, is easy to observe
during the last three months of 2008.
Read More at: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/commu.../33501429.html


This Week's Sky at a Glance
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November 21, 2008 | The Venus-and-Jupiter pairing is becoming ever
more dramatic in the southwestern twilight, as these two brightest
planets draw closer and closer together.
Read More at: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/letsg.../34887304.html


Monthly Podcast
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Tour November's Sky by Eye and Ear!
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November 6, 2008 | With the return of standard time in the Northern
Hemisphere, evenings arrive much sooner than they did just a few weeks
ago. That makes it a snap to get in some quick stargazing before
dinnertime.
Read More at: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/obser.../34028924.html


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Astronomical Calendar 2009
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Guy Ottewell's legendary calendar for the upcoming year.
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SkyWatch 2009
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Your observing guide for 2009 from the editors of Sky & Telescope.
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Beautiful Universe 2009
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Special Edition for the International Year of Astronomy!
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SJG wrote in
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New Eyes on the Cosmic-Ray Sky
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November 18, 2008 | High on the Argentinian pampa, 1,600 water-filled
"eyes" await the arrival of the most powerful high-energy particles in
the universe.
Read More at:
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/commu.../34667479.html

Here's a link to a Powerpoint presentation about the installation.

http://www.auger.org/observatory/ppt...rvatory_v5.ppt

Skip ahead to page five, the observatory plan, to see magnitude of the
project. It's extremely impressive. :]