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According to a email sent by the Alex Zwissler, Executive Director/CEO of the Chabot Space & Science Center to members of the Mount Diablo Astronomical Society, a proposed City of Oakland FY 2010-11 budget will include drastic cuts in the City of Oakland’s contribution to the Chabot.
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At 4.27pm PST, a little piece of the Gorda plate some 30 miles west of Ferndale, CA decided to move to the north a little ahead of the rest of its plate. According to the Eureka Times-Standard, the resulting 30-second earthquake has knocked out power in Eureka and Ferndale, and while the damage is widespread it also appears to be relatively minor. There is no count of injuries or fatalities.
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From spaceweather.com comes word of what may go down in history as the weirdest atmospheric phenomenon in history. Sometime in the early morning in the skies over Norway, some unknown something left something, something in a beautiful and wholly artificial spiral pattern.
The best theory I’ve heard is that a missile launch, possibly Russian in origin, [...]
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At 7:21, Hal McAlister received a full briefing from LA County Deputy Fire Chief Jim Powers, and things look very good.
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Smoke from the nearby Station fire has shut down operations at Mount Wilson Observatory and may even threaten the observatory itself.
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UPDATE: JPL observations confirm that a mysterious dark spot on Jupiter’s southern hemisphere first observed by Australian astronomer Anthony Wesley, is an impact mark.
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To celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing (and score more potential mail addresses), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) is offering free access to the January 30, 1970 issue of Science magazine.
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A few weeks ago, we reported on how ISS astronauts serendipitously photographed the eruption of Sarychev Peak as it was occurring, capturing pyroclastic flows as they sped down the mountain’s slopes. This week, NASA’s Earth Observatory released images taken by the ASTER satellite showing in graphic detail the resulting devastation of over half the island.
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I’ve animated the photos shot by the astronauts on board the ISS as they passed over the Sarychev Peak volcanic eruption. Even from 150 miles up, the photos reveal interesting volcanic eruption features.
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Headlining Friday night’s Radio and Television Correspondents’ Dinner, comedian John Hodgman suggested the possibility that Barack Obama is “the nation’s first nerd president of the modern era.”
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