Moonwatch and Meteorwatch Coming Soon to a Garden Shed Near You

From a well equipped Garden Shed in England, the Newbury Astronomical Society in collaboration with the International Year of Astronomy 2009 will be holding a twitter Moonwatch on the 26/27th October 2009 and a twitter Meteorwatch for the Germinids Meteor Shower on the 12th December 2009.

Sky Map Presentation from the Interstellar Boundary Explorer - IBEX Science Team

IBEX scientists present the first sky map of the Sun's Solar Wind interaction with the Milky Way Galaxy as the Solar System passes through the harmful material that exists between the stars

Mission Overview for the Interstellar Boundary Explorer - IBEX

IBEX is a low cost mission to investigate the interaction between the Suns protective Heliosphere and harmful Galactic Cosmic Rays

What rolled down the crater wall first, the boulder or the avalanche?  look to the right of the boulder and you will notice some lighter ground that suggests the boulder was their prior to the sand blasting http://j.mp/7wvIX

Other than our own, which planet or moon in our Solar system holds the most potential for supporting human life http://bit.ly/1BxuGX

30 foot wide Asteroid only just discovered this week will skim past Earth tonight at a distance closer than the Moon http://bit.ly/1VhDjE

LCROSS team have found the impact plume and imaging shows that it expanded to a diameter of 5 miles over the lunar surface http://bit.ly/3RoVnI

Professor of Geology Peter Schulz a co-investigator for LCROSS mission science data is elated that all the spacecraft's scientific instruments provided loads of interesting data during the precious 4 minutes between the 2 impacts of the Centaur upper stage and sherpherding spaecraft http://bit.ly/3YoJR1

KBO Quaoar unusually high density and moonlet Weywoot lack of circullar orbit is challenging current scientific understanding of what lurks beyond the orbit of Neptune http://bit.ly/4ooKAq

These two specks look familiar, a Martian Astronomers view of their nearest neighbour http://bit.ly/2aFzXU

NASA to present new IBEX science data on Thursday that promises a new view of our Galaxy http://bit.ly/2gZwMU

1st come 1st served for STS129 Space Shuttle Atlantis launch tweetup, NASA will be allocating tickets to the first 100 applicants and will add another 50 to a waiting list, registration commences from 12noon EDT on Fri 16th Oct http://j.mp/8gc1S

Doug Naylor writer and co-creator of Red Dwarf has been commissioned by Dave channel to write 6 new episodes http://bit.ly/RRvtM

Bono and The Edge from U2 chat with International Space Station crew during visit to Mission Control Houston http://j.mp/Y1Boo

David Bowie's Space Oddity 40 years on http://bit.ly/LQpoZ

if you are wondering what DJ 09 is, its The Official Red Dwarf Fan Club convention Dimension Jump XV being held this weekend http://bit.ly/2DwFdS

Leonard Nimoy is Concerned About the State of Science Fiction on TV http://bit.ly/2vYkJ0

Prepare for Impact! Watch LCROSS briefings, mission updates and launch video

Collection of videos gathered over the last few months for the Lunar Crater Observation Sensing and Satellite (LCROSS) mission including NASA briefings from the mission scientists and engineers, mission progress updates and launch of the LRO/LCROSS from Cape Canaveral on the 18th June 2009. Impact is currently scheduled for 11:31 UTC on Friday 9th Oct 2009.

LCROSS impact preview from The Planetary Society blog including critical mission milestones, links to webcasts and CGI animation charting its course from launch to impact http://bit.ly/X2b92

What happens when Black Holes collide? scientists would like to understand the interactive behaviour of coalescing singularities as they move slowly.......very slowly together http://bit.ly/4gNluf

Eve of silent thud! last 24 hours of LCROSS will involve a critical series of nail-biting flight team operations to ensure precise impact and separation of shepherding spacecraft from the spent Centaur rocket impactor. Everything has to come together without delay since there will only be 4 minutes worth of science data gathering between the two impacts http://bit.ly/4v5NgR

NASA scientists are watching our backs, probably no Apocalypse from Apophis

Chance of Asteroid Apophis the size of 2 1/2 football fields smashing into Earth in 2036 has been revised from 1 in 45,000 to 1 in 250,000, let's hope they're correct despite no dedicated government budget for NEO monitoring http://bit.ly/CXrni

Consequences of Viking not digging 5cm deeper in 1976, science behind lunar surface water discovery and will Messenger hiccup happen again during New Horizons flyby of Pluto http://j.mp/ZqEfy

Watch LCROSS impact live coverage on NASA TV or observe with Telescope in the Pacific region http://bit.ly/35No4

Citizen Science NASA Apps homepage for downloading LCROSS impact images contributed by astronomers http://bit.ly/8mkHD

Selected NASA mission highlights for STS-125 Space Shuttle Atlantis mission for maintenance and upgrade of the Hubble Space Telescope http://bit.ly/1vmAjY

Comet Formation Theory May Not Be Set in Stone (or Ice)

Comet Formation Theory May Not Be Set in Stone (or Ice) http://bit.ly/RFUdn

Moon crash will create six-mile plume of dust as Nasa searches for more signs of water beneath the surface http://bit.ly/njami

MESSENGER Gains Critical Gravity Assist for Mercury Orbital Observations

MESSENGER successfully flew by Mercury yesterday, gaining a critical gravity assist that will enable it to enter orbit about Mercury in 2011 and capturing images of five percent of the planet never before seen. With more than 90 percent of the planet's surface already imaged, MESSENGER's science team had drafted an ambitious observation campaign designed to tease out additional details from features uncovered during the first two flybys. But an unexpected signal loss prior to closest approach hampered those plans.
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LCROSS Smash and Augustine summary report on Astrocast TV for October 2009

Greg talks about NASA’s LCROSS and it’s planned October 9th plung into Cabeus A crater on the Lunar surface. Greg also reports on the Augustine Committee summary Report on Human Spaceflight.

This episode of A Green Space - A Green Earth (GSGE in the menu tab) Bente reports on Earth observation from Space and how satellites measure Ocean currents and Gravity helping determine weather patterns, climate change and more.

The Astronomer’s Universe, Carolyn Collins Petersen takes a closer look at the first Stars in our Universe.

This month in Our Night Sky, Yvonne Garcia filling in for Tavi Greiner, and reports on the Great World Wide Star Count and IYA09’s Galilean Nights and how you can participate in both events in October.