Solar System News

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Recent Solar System News stories:

04/11/08 Geologists Discover New Way of Estimating Size and Frequency of Meteorite Impacts
10/24/07 Solar Telescope Reaches 120,000 Feet on Jumbo-Jet-Sized Balloon
10/29/07 Comet Holmes
11/06/06 Mercury Transit on November 8, 2006
08/24/06 Pluto demoted - no longer a Planet!
01/11/06 Stardust returns - with comet dust!
09/22/05 Mars Opposition on October 30, 2005
03/18/05 Sun-Earth Day 2005 (March 20, 2005)
02/16/05 The Kyoto Protocol Is in Effect! Around the World, 141 Countries Are Taking the First Steps to Decrease Greenhouse Gasses!
01/14/05 Deep Impact Launch
12/30/04 Huygens probe on its way to Titan
10/28/04 Cassini Titan Flyby in October 2004
10/27/04 Lunar Eclipse in October 2004
10/01/04 Asteroid Toutatis Passes Near Earth
06/30/04 Cassini arrives at Saturn
06/11/04 Cassini approaches Saturn's moon Phoebe
06/02/04 Venus Transit in June 2004
05/04/04 Space Day 2004
04/21/04 Hubble Servicing Mission Canceled
03/17/04 New planetoid named Sedna discovered
02/26/04 Rosetta ready to go!
01/15/04 Rosetta mission prepares for launch
01/14/04 A Rover on the Red Planet! Spirit Will Look at the Geology of Mars
10/31/03 New Moons of Uranus and Neptune
10/24/03 Space weather storms from the Sun
09/19/03 Galileo Reaches the End of its Road
08/07/03 Mars Opposition in August 2003
07/10/03 Mars Exploration Rovers Launched
03/07/03 Mercury Transit on May 7, 2003
06/06/03Solar Eclipse on May 31, 2003
04/25/03 Mars Rover Landing Sites Selected
04/11/03 More Moons around Jupiter & Saturn
03/20/03 More and more Moons of Jupiter
03/12/03 Sun-Earth Day (March 18, 2003)
02/28/03 Searching for more moons of Pluto
01/14/03 Three New Moons Found Around Neptune!
01/03/03 Io is a Salty Moon!
12/30/02 The Youngest Crater on the Moon!
12/18/02 The Odyssey Spacecraft Brings News from Mars!
12/11/02 A Jupiter moon that has more holes than Swiss cheese!
09/25/02 More than 100 planets orbit distant stars!
07/02/02 Newly Discovered Martian Lakes and Canyon!
06/18/02 An Exoplanet that Looks Like Jupiter!
04/24/02 Planetary Alignment 2002
04/12/02 Missions Possible!
01/28/02 Galileo Says Goodbye to Io
01/04/02 Something Old, Something New...


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