It's now "2009 - the INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF ASTRONOMY" with events globally and locally. To learn more about what's it all about, visit www.astronomy2009.org
13 ASTRONAUTS NOW IN SPACEThere are now 13 astronauts in space orbiting 217 miles above Earth in the International Space Station. In the second half of July there were 13 astronauts in space when the space shuttle Endeavour docked with the ISS, marking an historic record of "a baker's dozen" of humans living in space! The last space shuttle mission, Discovery from August 31 to September 10, brought seven astronauts once again to the ISS, which is staffed by six astronauts. The shuttle launch on November 18 to the ISS has brought the space travel population to 13 for the third time this year. No human has flown beyond Earth orbit since December 1972 -- 36 years and 11 months ago. |
It's now "2009 - the INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF ASTRONOMY" with events globally and locally. To learn more about what's it all about, visit www.astronomy2009.org
The movie "2012" has opened. Maya mia! Panic? No way! See what Dr. Tyson has to say on his link below and relax, eat some popcorn and, if you wish, see the sci-fi disaster movie and know all is safe. "Now occupying 50-million web pages on the Internet, the 2012 fears derive from nothig more than a hoax of the scientific illiterate perpetuated on the scientifically uninformed," said Dr. Tyson.
The sky is falling! Well, not really. If you had a clear sky view in the morning darkness of November 17 you were in for a treat. "The annual Leonid meteor shower may be more spectacular this year," said Dr. Tyson. "Hayden's intrepid skywatcher Joe Rao tells you why." See the link below.
To add your name to the Star-Struck notification email list, send a BLANK EMAIL to: star-struck-join@lists.amnh.org
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"THE HUNT FOR PLANET X" BOOK LECTURE - SUN., NOV. 15Astronomy writer Govert Schilling gave a presentation on his new book "The Hunt For Planet X" on Sunday, November 15 at 2 p.m. in Manhattan at the Helen Mills Theatre, 139 West 26th Street, between 6th & 7th avenues. "The search for new planets in our solar system is a centuries old adventure story rich with human drama. The lecture touched on over 300 years of debates, debacles and discoveries." For more details visit the link below. |
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Coming this December is another highly anticipated book by Brooklyn couple C. Bangs and Greg Matloff, and Les Johnson of Alabama - "Paradise Earth: The Regreening of Planet Earth" from Praxis and Springer/Copernicus Books. Johnson is a NASA phyicist and deputy manager of the Advanced Concepts Program at NASA in Huntsville, Alabama. Greg Matloff is a physics professor at the NYC College of Technology in downtown Brooklyn ad his wife C. Bangs is an artist focusing on space subjects.
The new book concerns the sustainability of life on the Earth and how the current situation and technology may affect the home planet in the future.
For a preview of the trio's book, view the fascinating DVD video on the You-Tube link below made by Bangs this Spring using the artwork from her chapter in the book and with a poetic overview by Matloff. It's a wonderful video!
The trio have collaborated on other enthrallingly informative popular science books, last year on "Solar Sails" and in 2007 on "Living Off the Land In Space: Green Roads to the Cosmos." Both are reviewed on this news web site. Check the authors' web sites below.
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DOUBLE YOUR ENTHUSIASM FOR SPACE!! -- NYSKIES ASTRONOMY and the NY SPACE SOCIETY (National Space Society of NYC) hold joint meetings, free and open to the public, on the FIRST & THIRD WEDNESDAYS of each month at 7 p.m. at St. Paul's Lutheran Church at 315 West 22nd Street in Chelsea, just west of 8th Avenue in Manhattan.
For seminar details visit www.nyskies.org and http://chapters.nss.org/ny/nyc/ -- Upcomig seminars are on DECEMBER 2 and 16, with topics TBA soon. The last two seminars were on November 4 and November 18. Both concerned COSMOLOGY, based on reading the special edition published by "Astronomy Magazine" - "COSMOLOGY'S GREATEST DISCOVERIES" on magazine racks now. It contains 13 articles and the lively and highly informative seminars, led with zest by John Pazmino, dealt with the first half of the edition and then the second half.
The N.Y. SPACE TOURISM SOCIETY meets regularly and holds special events. Visit www.spacetourismsocietyny.org for more information.
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A POST from WILLIAM WATSON of the SPACE FRONTIER FOUNDATION on link below: | |
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NSS 29th INTERNATIONAL SPACE DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE in CHICAGO MAY 27-31, 2010 - clink on link below | |
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3-D GLASSES ON! -- SEE MARS IN 3-D PHOTOS.... | |
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The ASTRO-GAIA NEWS of NYC freely lists and reports on space and environmental events in the NYC metropolitan area. It was created and is maintained by professional journalist HAROLD EGELN, a member of the National Space Society, the Planetary Society, the National Air & Space Society, and a lifetime member of the Sierra Club, and an award-winning fulltime staff reporter for the historic "Brooklyn Daily Eagle" newspaper founded in 1841. In September 2009 Egeln was given a "Hidden Treasures" Service Award plaque by the Bay Ridge Community Council for his civic contributions through his quarter-century of newspaper work; he was one of 14 honorees awarded, along with Congressional, state and city government citations. "ASTRO-GAIA NEWS of NYC" is copyright2009İHarold Egeln. All Rights Reserved
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As of November 9, 2009 this e-newsletter is dedicated to the life and work of the wonderful astronomer CARL SAGAN, born here in Brooklyn on this date in 1934. He died on December 20, 1996 at age 62. I had the immense pleasure of meeting and talking with Sagan in the late 1980s at NYU's Psychology Department Building, as I was to introduced him to two women from a Chinese peace organization, here on a two-week visit to NYC with me as their guide. The organization for which I was executive director, the NY Committee for a SANE Nuclear Policy (now Peace Action), a national organization founded in 1957, was planning to host a visit for Sagan to China where our guests were to be his guide. See the Brooklyn Daily Eagle newspaper link below about Brooklyn-born Carl Sagan who inspired so many people, including me!
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This free E-News web site serves as the e-newsletter of the "SPACESHIP GAIA EXPLORER JOURNAL FOR EARTH & SPACE" [http://community.webtv.net/AstroEcologist/SPACESHIPGAIA/].
It is designed to highlight current and recent NYC metro news, events and resources for the grassroots spacefaring and astronomical community, and those sharing an active interest in both space and home-world Spaceship Earth's environment -- the Cosmic Ecology connection.
To access recent NYC NEWS items, clickon one of the links on the next page in "MISSION CONTROL"
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