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Geotimes February 2007 Cassandra Willyard	Surprise! Stardust Lands Actual Stardust The dust is clearing around a cosmic puzzle that has long piqued the interest of astronomers. Tiny grains of dust, no larger than the width of a human hair, are revealing the conditions in which the solar system, and perhaps life, got its start.
Geotimes February 2007 Kathryn Hansen	Creating a Formula for the Northern Lights A new formula could help researchers predict space weather events, which can affect electronic and communication systems.
Geotimes February 2007	Did You Know? "Plutoed" is Word of the Year According to the American Dialect Society, "plutoed" is the 2006 Word of the Year, thanks to the planet's demotion to "dwarf planet" by the International Astronomical Union earlier in the year.
IEEE Spectrum February 2007 James Oberg	Putting up the Ritz What happens when a real estate tycoon who's made a pile of money starts thinking really big? In the case of Robert Bigelow, he starts working out a way to build hotels in outer space. And he just might be smart enough, rich enough, and driven enough to pull it off.
IEEE Spectrum February 2007	Station Watching Packed with colorful, carefully annotated and detailed illustrations and photographs, Reference Guide to the International Space Station makes it easy to track both past and planned ISS evolution.
Popular Mechanics March 2007 Jennifer Bogo	NASA Mission Statement Q&A: Eyes on Earth Interview with a professor involved in a study to find out how Earth scientists view NASA's shifting priorities and how it may affect the study of the planet.
Geotimes January 2007 Kathryn Hansen	Teachers Face Desert Heat of Spaceward Bound Geoff Hammond is the latest teacher to be selected for NASA's Spaceward Bound program, a program aimed at training the next generation of space explorers.
Wired January 2007 David Kushner	One Giant Screwup for Mankind NASA put a man on the moon - then lost the videotape. A grizzled crew of ex-rocket jockeys are on a star-crossed mission to find it.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2007	Lockheed Martin Instrument to Monitor Solar Eruptions on Latest NASA Sun Mission Data from spacecraft instruments will allow scientists to construct the first ever three-dimensional views of the Sun, providing a new perspective on Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs).
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2007	Cassini Camera Sees Into the Eye of a Storm on Saturn NASA's Cassini spacecraft has seen something never before seen on another planet-a hurricane-like storm at Saturn's south pole with a well-developed eye, ringed by towering clouds.
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