[MIham] Doomed Spacecraft to fly over US and Europe

[Frank]

Space Weather News for Sept. 18, 2008
http://spaceweather.com

DOOMED SPACECRAFT:  Jules Verne is about to become a fireball. On Sept. 
29th, with NASA aircraft looking on, the 22-ton European spacecraft will 
plunge into Earth's atmosphere over the south Pacific Ocean and harmlessly 
disintegrate. Jules Verne recently spent five months docked to the space 
station where it delivered supplies, used its engines help the station avoid 
a piece of space junk, and served as an impromptu bedroom for the ISS crew. 
Mission accomplished, the doomed spacecraft is now making its final orbits 
around Earth glowing about as brightly as Polaris (the North Star).  US and 
European observers are favored with flybys this weekend. If you'd like to 
see Jules Verne, check the Simple Satellite Tracker for viewing times: 
http://spaceweather.com/flybys/

POLAR CROWN PROMINENCES: Colossal dark tadpoles. Fiery "plasma falls."  Van 
Gogh vortices.  These are a few of the strange things Japan's Hinode 
spacecraft has found inside polar crown prominences on the sun. Visit 
http://spaceweather.com for must-see movies.
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