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High-resolution satellite launched in California (AP)
September 8, 2008
AP - A super-sharp Earth-imaging satellite that can detail an area the size of a baseball diamond's home plate from space has been launched into orbit from Vandenberg Air Force Base on the Central California coast.
China to launch space mission in late September (AP)
September 8, 2008AP - China will launch its third manned space mission in late September, featuring its first-ever space walk, a state news agency said.
Spacecraft flies by remote asteroid, camera stops (AP)
September 8, 2008
AP - The European deep space probe Rosetta successfully completed a flyby of an asteroid millions of miles from earth, but its high resolution camera stopped shortly before the closest pass, space officials said Saturday.
Cassini detects partial rings with Saturn's moons (AP)
September 8, 2008AP - The latest images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show faint, partial rings orbiting with two of Saturn's small inner moons, scientists said Friday.
For Giant Bug, Size Matters (LiveScience.com)
September 8, 2008LiveScience.com - Female giant weta crickets are huge. At about 0.7 ounces (20 grams), they're one of the world's heaviest insects. But the males are about half their size. Now scientists know why.
Hurricane Ike pounds Cuba on way to Gulf (Reuters)
September 8, 2008
Reuters - Hurricane Ike pounded northeastern Cuba
with 120 mile per hour (195 kph) winds, torrential rains and
massive waves that rolled through coastal towns on Sunday on a
path toward the Gulf of Mexico oil fields and possibly New
Orleans.
NASA Chief Vents Frustration in Leaked E-mail (SPACE.com)
September 8, 2008SPACE.com - HOUSTON — NASA chief Michael Griffin lamented the mandated 2010 retirement of the agency's space shuttle fleet and the all-too-likely possibility that U.S. astronauts will be absent from the International Space Station for extended periods in the future in a leaked e-mail intended for top advisors.
Thousands of Australia's koalas felled by land-clearing: WWF (AFP)
September 8, 2008
AFP - Australian koalas are dying by the thousands as a result of land clearing in the country's northeast, while millions of birds and reptiles are also perishing, conservation group WWF said Sunday.
Finder of key hominid fossil disputes 7-million-year dating (AFP)
September 8, 2008
AFP - A fresh storm has broken out over an ancient fossil presented by its defenders as a forebear of humanity and dismissed by its critics as the remains of a vulgar chimp.
ConocoPhillips to pay 9.6 bln dlrs for stake in Origin gas scheme (AFP)
September 8, 2008
AFP - Oil giant ConocoPhillips will pay up to 9.6 billion dollars (eight billion US) for a half share in a natural gas project owned by Origin Energy in Australia, the companies said Monday.
