Astronews – October 2004
Start drinking 7Up! Official beverage of Ansari X-Prize offering a free trip to space! WHAT’s the prize beneath the cap of that soft drink bottle? A trip into space. It may sound far-fetched – if not a little crass – but the commercialisation of the final...
Astronews – September 2004
Asteroid Close Encounter this Wednesday Tumbling through space, a peanut-shaped asteroid named 4179 Toutatis is expected to pass within a million miles (1.6 million kilometers) of Earth on Wednesday. Radar images of the three-mile-long (4.6-kilometer-long) asteroid...
Astronews – August 2004
NASA to Announce New Class of Planets Astronomers have discovered four new planets in a week’s time, an exciting end-of-summer flurry that signals a sharper era in the hunt for new worlds. Some appear to be noticeably smaller and more solid – more like...
Astronews – July 2004
NASA’s AURA Spacecraft Launched AURA, a NASA mission dedicated to the health of Earth’s atmosphere, was finally launched today on the fourth try. With the launch of Aura, the first series of NASA’s Earth Observing System satellites is complete. The...