Sky & Telescope's Weekly Bulletin - Mar 7

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Sky & Telescope's Weekly Bulletin - March 7 2008
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News
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Martian Landslides Caught in the Act
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March 4, 2008 | A scarp along the edge of the Martian north polar cap
is more active than anyone expected.
Read More at: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/commu.../16223907.html

Rings Around Rhea?
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March 7, 2008 | During a close flyby of Saturn's largest icy moon in
late 2005, several instruments aboard Cassini sensed (but didn't
actually "see") what appears to be a trio of thin rings and a dust
disk surrounding Rhea.
Read More at: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/commu.../16380901.html

Can a Robot Draw a Map?
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March 3, 2008 | Scientists will need detailed geologic maps of Mars
to guide their search for life there. Typically such maps are produced
through painstaking human field work. But a group of scientists wants
to know whether a robot could do the job instead.
Read More at: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/home/16176107.html

What's in a Name?
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March 4, 2008 | A well-known astronomical tool has a new name, but
everything else is the same.
Read More at: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/commu.../16211457.html


Observing
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A Cloudy Comet and a Wispy Nebula
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March 6, 2008 | Comet Holmes is greatly dimmed from its glory days
last fall, but this week it's passing the photogenic California
Nebula.
Read More at: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/commu.../16346346.html

A Triple Occultation by Eugenia and Its Moons
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March 6, 2008 | On March 8, 2008, this asteroid or one of its two
moons could make a faint naked-eye star vanish briefly from the sky.
Read More at: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/resou.../16364396.html


This Week's Sky at a Glance
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March 7, 2008 | The waxing crescent Moon marches up past the Pleiades
and Hyades to reach first quarter toward the end of the week. Saturn
closes in on Regulus. And Arcturus rises to signal the approach of
spring.
Read More at: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/obser.../16339431.html


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