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Shuttle launch forecast worsens slightly
Aug 25 2006 6:32PM (CT)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - The weather forecast for the launch of space shuttle Atlantis worsened slightly Friday, with storms expected in the area hours before Sunday's launch.
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More tropical fish sighted in R.I. water
Aug 25 2006 9:39AM (CT)
NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) - An unusually large number of tropical fish have been spotted this summer in Rhode Island waters by divers, fishermen and environmentalists.
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Now how will students learn the planets?
Aug 25 2006 8:45AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - "My Very Excellent Mother Just Sent Us Nine Pizzas." That and variations on it are the way millions of people learned to remember the names of the planets in the solar system _ Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto. The problem is that an international convention of astronomers decreed Thursday that tiny Pluto no longer meets the definition of a planet.
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New rules for unmanned rocket launches
Aug 25 2006 8:37AM (CT)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Columbia space shuttle accident has prompted the government to come up with new safety rules for unmanned rocket launches.
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Widow of Pluto's discoverer 'shook up'
Aug 25 2006 6:33AM (CT)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - The widow of the astronomer who discovered Pluto 76 years ago said Thursday she was frustrated by the decision to strip it of its planetary status, but she added that Clyde Tombaugh would have understood.
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Dinky Pluto loses its status as planet
Aug 25 2006 12:30AM (CT)
PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) - Pluto, beloved by some as a cosmic underdog but scorned by astronomers who considered it too dinky and distant, was unceremoniously stripped of its status as a planet Thursday.
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