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Volcano shoots ash 8 miles high in Alaska
Jan 17 2006 11:18PM (CT)
ABOVE AUGUSTINE VOLCANO, Alaska (AP) - Gray veins of ash crisscrossed the upper slopes of Augustine Volcano and a small steam cloud puffed from the summit following the island mount's latest explosion Tuesday.
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Winds halt launch of Pluto spacecraft
Jan 17 2006 10:43PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - High winds forced NASA to scrub the launch Tuesday of an unmanned spacecraft on a nine-year, 3-billion-mile voyage to Pluto, the solar system's last unexplored planet.
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Stardust space capsule arrives in Houston
Jan 17 2006 8:38PM (CT)
HOUSTON (AP) - The newly returned Stardust space capsule arrived Tuesday at NASA's Johnson Space Center, where the space agency said scientists will unlock its internal canister and take a first peek at comet debris particles it was supposed to capture during a seven-year journey, .
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W.Va. scientists discover superbubble
Jan 17 2006 7:07PM (CT)
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) - Astronomers using the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope in West Virginia have discovered a superbubble, the fastest-spinning pulsar ever observed and a magnetic field that resembles a Slinky.
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Endangered whales sighted off Texas coast
Jan 17 2006 6:54PM (CT)
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) - Two endangered whales were spotted in the Corpus Christi Bay, well outside their typical winter territory of Florida and Georgia, authorities said.
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Alaska's Augustine Volcano erupts again
Jan 17 2006 3:51PM (CT)
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) - Augustine Volcano erupted Tuesday on its uninhabited island off south-central Alaska, firing a plume of volcanic ash 8 1/2 miles into the air, officials at the Alaska Volcano Observatory said.
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Experts to search Bangladesh for sandpiper
Jan 17 2006 12:15PM (CT)
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) - A team of international bird experts will begin surveying the Bangladeshi coast Tuesday in search of the endangered spoon-billed sandpiper, whose population they believe has dwindled to just 350 pairs in the wild, organizers said Monday.
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