News, Tuesday, 05 SEP 2006 SLAS Meeting Preview SLAS President Lowell Lyon reports he has updated the club's web site with information on this month's general meeting. http://www.slas.us/displayevent.asp?EventID=813 +++++ SMART-1 Impacts Moon At 11:42:22 MDT Saturday night the SMART-1 spacecraft impacted the Moon's surface as planned... http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/SMART-1/ http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/SMART-1/SEM2N58ZMRE_0.html http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/SMART-1/SEM7A76LARE_0.html +++++ SMART-1 Swan Song: Valuable Data Until Final Moments Right up to its final orbits, SMART-1 continued delivering valuable data... http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/SMART-1/SEMC378ZMRE_0.html +++++ SMART-1 Mission Review At a press conference held today at ESOC recent results from the SMART-1 mission were presented along with an overview of the Operational, Technical and Scientific successes of the mission. http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=39965 +++++ STS-115 Launch Coverage Begins Wednesday Morning http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/MM_NTV_Breaking.html +++++ STS-115 Press Kit http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/154433main_sts115_press_kit.pdf +++++ STS-115 Fact Sheet http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/155942main_115factsheet.pdf +++++ Building Tough Crops to Grow on Mars Imagine tomatoes that grow through the chill of winter or a front lawn that doesn't need watering all year. http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/09/01/superplant_spa.html?category=techno... +++++ New Clue to World's Tiniest Particles Discussion at PhysOrgForum Particle physicists around the world will be designing their next generation of billion-dollar experiments following new findings from a University of Adelaide-led research team. http://www.physorg.com/news76599449.html +++++ Pope's debate group to publish evolution talks The minutes, to be issued later this year, will show how Catholic theologians see no contradiction between their belief in divine creation and the scientific theory of evolution... http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=A0608743660C09FEB35A... +++++ ************************************************** ************************************************** Free Telescopes For SLAS Members SLAS has several scopes available for free, long term loan to current SLAS members who have belonged to SLAS for at least 30 days. http://slas.us/membership_benefits.htm +++++ Images and Data From Cassini-Huygens At:s http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/latest/index.cfm http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press-releases.cfm +++++ Information On The Mars Rovers At: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.html +++++ SLAS 2006 Star Party Schedule http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/LOCAL.HTML +++++ SSA / UMNH 2006 Southern Utah Public Star Party Schedule http://users.wirelessbeehive.com/~paw/STARPARTIES.HTML +++++ ************************************************** News is being sent to you because of your affiliation with the Salt Lake Astronomical Society or because you are subscribed to the Utah Astronomy Listserve. 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