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Favorite Astronomy Links - Part 1
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Astronomy POD |
archive |
index - a service of
Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA
- Chandra X-ray Astrophysics Facility
- CHARA
Array - optical/interferometric array of six telescopes located on
Mount Wilson, California
- Current evening sky map
- Current
Sunspots - Big Bear Solar Observatory
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Deep
Space 1 - asteroid and
comet flyby - encountered
Comet Borrelly on Sep. 22, 2001
- FUSE - Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopic Explorer - successfully launched
on June 24, 1999
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Mars Exploration
Rover Mission - Spirit and Opportunity - January, 2004
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Mars
Express -
European Space Agency
- MESSENGER - Mercury
Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging mission
- launch in 2004
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Mount Evans Meyer-Womble Observatory - Highest in the world (14,125 ft)
- NASA
Space Science News - an
excellent resource - updated regularly
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NEAR - Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous -
Earth flyby on January 23, 1998
- Pathfinder - stereo pictures from July, 1997 -
rover and Yogi
| monster panorama
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S&T's current news - latest news from Sky and Telescope
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Sea of Galilee Astrophysical Observatory - Lowest in the world (-200 m)
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Stardust -
successful NASA mission that flew to Comet Wild 2
(vilt 2), photographed it, captured interstellar and comet
dust, and returned to Earth. It was launched
on Feb. 7, 1999, arrived at the comet on Jan. 2, 2004 and returned to
Earth on Jan. 15, 2006.
- Planetesimal
Beyond Neptune - 1996 TL66
Last update: December
21, 2007 |
