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SJG

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 9:18 pm

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SkyTonight.com's Weekly Bulletin - January 26, 2007
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News
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Pluto-bound Craft Nears Jupiter
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January 24, 2007 | With 1 year down and 8 to go until it reaches
Pluto, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is preparing for a flyby of
Jupiter and crucial tests of its instruments.

That flyby will occur 1.4 million miles from the giant planet, far
enough away to avoid a strong dose of the lethal charged particles
trapped in its magnetosphere but close enough to study the planet and
its moons in detail.
Read More at:
http://skytonight.com/news/Pluto-bound_Craft_Nears_Jupiter.html

Observing
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Eclipses in 2007
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January 15, 2007 | Two total lunar eclipses are visible from parts of
North America in 2007. But if you're looking for a total solar eclipse,
you'll need to wait till August 2008 -- and travel to Central Asia.
Read More at: http://skytonight.com/observing/home/3304006.html

This Week's Sky at a Glance
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January 26, 2007 | Venus blazes ever higher at dusk -- accompanied not
by Mercury down to its lower right. And Algol has a couple of eclipses
this week that are well timed for North America.
Read More at:
http://skytonight.com/observing/home/This_Week_s_Sky_at_a_Glance.html

Discovering constellations has never been so easy!
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Patterns in the Sky by Ken Hewett-White
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http://www.shopatsky.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=1193&utm_source=blog%2Bpatterns&utm_medium=blog%2Bpatterns&utm_campaign=blog%2Bpatterns

Grab your binoculars and go exploring!
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Binocular Highlights by Gary Seronik
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http://www.shopatsky.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=1192

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Davoud

Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 11:54 pm

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SJG <stuartgoldman@gmail.com> wrote:

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Would NASA have launched this spacecraft if they had known that Pluto
is "not a planet?" ;--)

Davoud

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