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Events for February

• Sat Feb 13 2010: Big Y Kids Fair

• Sun Feb 14 2010: Big Y Kids Fair

• Tue Feb 23 2010: ASNH General Meeting

Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton's life, by William Stukeley

Outreach Events for this week

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Astronomical Events for February

• Mon Feb 8 2010 9:27 AM: Moon South Dec.: 25.7 S

• Wed Feb 10 2010 11:58 PM: Moon Ascending Node

• Thu Feb 11 2010 11:58 PM: Moon Ascending Node

• Fri Feb 12 2010 12:55 AM: Moon-Mercury: 2.6 S

• Fri Feb 12 2010 9:06 PM: Moon Apogee: 406500 km

• Sat Feb 13 2010 9:51 PM: New Moon

• Sun Feb 14 2010 5:42 PM: Neptune Conjunction

• Sun Feb 21 2010 1:32 PM: Moon-Pleiades: 0.1 N

• Sun Feb 21 2010 7:42 PM: First Quarter

• Tue Feb 23 2010 1:00 AM: Moon North Dec.: 25.7 N

• Thu Feb 25 2010 4:11 AM: Moon Descending Node

• Fri Feb 26 2010 9:03 AM: Moon-Beehive: 3.2 N

• Sat Feb 27 2010 4:40 PM: Moon Perigee: 357800 km

ASNH Times Faces of the Moon

A new book by ASNH member Bob Crelin

Click the book below for a review from Astronomy Magazine

ASNH Times The 100 Best Targets for Astrophotography

A new book by ASNH member Ruben Kier

Click the book below for a review from Springer.com

How the ISS comes together (Click image to view animation)

Astronmical Games!

APOD for Today

NASA Image of the Day

Guests look on from the terrace of Operations Support Building II as space shuttle Endeavour launches on the shuttle program's last planned night launch. Endeavour launched from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Pad 39A to begin the STS-130 mission early Monday, Feb. 8, 2010. Mission STS-130 will deliver a third connecting module, the Italian-built Tranquility node and a seven-windowed cupola, which will be used as a control room for robotics, to the International Space Station. Image Credit: NASA/Paul E. Alers

NASA Ames Research Center News and Features

• Ames Hosts Tests to Improve Semi-Trucks' Fuel Efficiency
Posted on Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST

Saving the nation $10 billion annually in diesel fuel costs may be possible in a few years thanks to new devices developed at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, also known as LLNL of Livermore, Calif., that are now being tested at NASA?s Ames Research Center.


• NASA to Study Seeds in Space to Understand Plant Growth
Posted on Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST

NASA scientists hope to better understand exactly how and why plants grow differently in space in an experiment named, Tropi.


• NASA Studies Nanomechanics of Inner Ear
Posted on Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST

Learning how to walk again after long-duration space flights is a problem astronauts face as they readjust to Earth?s gravity. To learn how microgravity affects human space travelers, NASA scientists studied the nanomechanics of hair cells in the inner ear.


• NASA Ames to Discuss 2011 Budget
Posted on Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announced the administration's fiscal year 2011 budget request Monday by calling for change and a new era of innovation in America's approach to science and space exploration.