Asteroid could yield solar system clues

Moon revealed to have an Earth-like core
Uncovering details about the lunar core is critical for developing accurate models of The Moon’s formation. The data sheds light on the evolution of a lunar dynamo — a natural process by which our moon may have generated and maintained its own strong magnetic field. The team’s findings suggest the moon possesses a solid, iron-rich inner core with a radius of nearly 150 miles and a fluid, primarily liquid-iron outer core with a radius of roughly 205 miles. Where it differs from...

New data collected from sensors left on moon in 1971...
It's an unlikely marriage between state-of-the-art and 40-year-old technology that has yielded extraordinary results. Scientists at NASA applied contemporary seismological techniques to the data being emitted from sensors placed by their colleagues during the U.S. space program's heyday. Core knowledge: NASA applied contemporary seismological techniques to data being emitted from sensors left on The Moon in 1971. Scientists now think The Moon has a solid, iron-rich inner core and a fluid, primar...

More rain worsens floods in Australia
In this image provided by NASA taken on Jan. 7, 2010, the Advanced Spaceborne... BRISBANE, Australia (AP) - Almost a foot (300 millimeters) of rain in just a few hours renewed flood fears in Australia's already waterlogged Queensland state Saturday, sending a surging river over its banks and into another large town. Officials said about only 20 buildings in Maryborough, where about 22,000 people live, were expected to be flooded after the river burst its banks in the overnight downpour. The wat...

ACLU Sues to Protect Gun Rights
(FOXNews.com) - In what might appear to be a shotgun Wedding of opposites, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a Lawsuit on behalf of a non-US citizen alleging that South Dakota's Concealed Weapons law violates his Constitutional Right to Bear Arms, FOXNews.com reported Thursday. But Gun Rights advocates surprisingly are not all cheering the case, and at least one group questions whether the ACLU is just trying to open the door to secure Gun Rights for Illegal Immigrants. The ACL...

North Dakota Legislature Looks To Outlaw Name Calling
That’s a trite way of describing the Legislation, that has sprung up from the overreaction to Cooperstown teenager Cassidy Andel who was allegedly bullied. In response, we’re getting expensive, knee-jerk legislation that a) isn’t likely to solve any problems and b) is going to cost the Taxpayers a lot. Requires the state’s superintendent to create an anti-bullying plan for the whole state, consulting with the Attorney General, the Department of Health, prosecutors from ar...

Early ads in battle for the next election
Washington (CNN) - The 2012 election may be 22 months away, but the battle for a what may be a vulnerable Democratic-held Senate seat in North Dakota is already heating up. Commonsense Ten, an independent Democratic aligned organization, tells CNN that its launching radio ads Friday defending the record of Sen. Kent Conrad, who faces what could be a difficult bid for re-election in 2012. Jim Jordan, one of the Democratic operatives who last year founded the group, says they'll spend around...

Felt, North Dakota State tops Oral Roberts 80-74
Mike Felt scored 22 points and sank eight consecutive free throws in the closing stretch to lead North Dakota State past Oral Roberts 80-74 on Thursday night. Michael Tveidt added 18 points for the Bison (8-6, 2-2 Summit), who snapped a three-game Losing Streak and won their sixth straight at home. Eric Carlson had 14 points and Freddy Coleman 12. Damen Bell-Holter led the Golden Eagles (5-11, 2-3) with 17 points. Ken Holdman had 15, Warren Niles 12 and Roderick Pearson 11. Oral Roberts, which h...

The 2012 Campaign Season Starts...NOW!
Have you finished reflecting on the 2010 election season? We hope so, because 2010 is totally old news already. Outside groups aligned with both parties are already advertising in North Dakota, an early sign of the potential competitiveness of the state's Senate race and of the likely heavy spending by Third Party groups on contests around the country in 2012. Commonsense Ten, a group founded last cycle by Democratic operatives Jim Jordan, Monica Dixon and Jeff Forbes, is spending $30,000 on r...

Flood of Ads Hitting North Dakota Airwaves Early
Democratic Sen. Kent Conrad, already under the glaring light of a hot re-election campaign, has plans to hit the airwaves even though the 2012 races have just begun. Though the North Dakotan hasn't announced whether he'll run for re-election and so far has no Republican challenger, commercials are already airing in the state. Next week Conrad will become the first Senator this cycle to air an ad on his own behalf. The conservative nonprofit American Future Fund fired the opening salvo with a rad...

Fargo dental office shutdown prompts complaints
Patients who prepaid for dental procedures at the Allcare Dental office in Fargo are out at least $80,000 after the office unexpectedly closed. The director of the North Dakota Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division says his office has received about 20 complaints. Parrell Grossman tells The Forum newspaper that he expects that number to climb. The national dental chain unexpectedly shut down this week, closing offices in more than a dozen states and leaving patients in the lurch. Gross...

Kent Conrad Has Started His 2012 Advertising Campaign Already
At the beginning of the 2010 election cycle, ex-Rep. Earl Pomeroy launched his media advertising campaign at an earlier point than any of his previous campaigns. It was a clear indication of just how vulnerable Pomeroy was feeling (and rightfully so, as we know now). But Senator Kent Conrad, who has been identified repeatedly as one of the most vulnerable Democrat Senators in the 2012 cycle, has done Pomeroy one better. He’s begun his campaign advertising almost two years early in response...

Conrad going up on the air
North Dakota Sen. Kent Conrad is going up on the radio with a 60-second campaign ad next week, signaling that even if he hasn't made up his mind on running again in 2012, he's not taking any chances. The spot, obtained by Politico, laments the Attack Ads being run by the American Future Fund against the Democrat two years before the election and positions the Incumbent as a fiscal hawk. "They're at it again. Out of state special interest groups attacking our senator, Kent Conrad two years...

UND men's hoops team riddled with injuries
After the University of North Dakota men's Basketball Team learned it had lost starting forward Spencer Goodman and reserve center Mitch Wilmer for the rest of the season, coach Brian Jones was asked if his front line could get any thinner. "Can we knock on wood?" Jones responded. That might be the only solution remaining to keep the Fighting Sioux healthy as they prepare for the second half of their season, which begins Sunday with a home game against Longwood University of Virginia. Goodman, a...

Smokers Face Jail Time in New York
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Boehner, Pelosi Comment on Shooting
Speaker John Boehner issued a statement Saturday saying he's "horrified by the senseless attack" on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was shot outside a Safeway in Tucson, Ariz., during an event to talk to her constituents. You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our lives, and attempts to monopolize opinion or suppress freedom of thought, expression, and worship. Read more... We invite all Americans who share these values to join...

Giffords Appeared on Fox News' 'America's Newsroom' Day Before Shooting
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Harry Reid: This Whole Tea Party Thing Will Blow Over
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Obama: 'Tragedy for Our Entire Country'
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Watch Live Coverage of Updates on the Attack on Rep. Giffords
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Oregon Students Asked to Take Off Sombreros for BCS-Themed Ellen Taping
University of Oregon Students in "fiesta-themed" costumes were asked to remove sombreros by "Ellen DeGeneres Show" Staffers Thursday during a taping of the show. You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our lives, and attempts to monopolize opinion or suppress freedom of thought, expression, and worship. Read more... We invite all Americans who share these values to join us here at Fox Nation. These amazing images captured by ...

Sarah Palin on the Tragedy in Arizona
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Aide credited with saving student before being killed by bus
Bourbonnais police still are investigating a crash that killed a 46-year-old special education aide who reportedly was struck by a bus as he pushed an autistic Student out of harm's way. Interim Bourbonnais Police Chief Greg Kunce said today he had not yet seen a Witness Statement that confirmed early reports that Thomas "Jim" Dunn Jr. was struck as he tried to protect his 19-year-old student, but he said investigators still are taking statements. "If that is what happened, I wouldn't be surpr...

Jets implicated in solar riddle
Scientists say they are closer to understanding why the Sun's outer atmosphere is hotter than its surface. The corona, as it is known, is millions of degrees hotter than the star's visible surface layer, or photosphere. Two satellites have now identified jets of super-heated gas, called spicules, shooting up from just above the Sun's surface into the outer atmosphere. Researchers tell the journal Science that this process could be what maintains the temperature difference. "I...

Stanford researchers try to solve satellite mystery
Palo Alto, California -- Sending a Spacecraft into orbit is a tenuous business. Surviving the launch is only part of the challenge. Once it is in space, it must survive the rigors of that environment. That can be tough on hardware. It is one of those under-reported mysteries of the space age -- a rocket delivers a payload into orbit, or on a mission, all appears fine, and then... "Unfortunately, we do not have one way or two way communication with the spacecraft," Stanford University researc...

Agencies Start Taking Reservations For Space Trips
Sun Sentinel: Mostly affluent men from their 30s to 60s have been booking trips so far, though at least one young couple outside Florida has decided to delay buying a home to sign up. Interest is worldwide, with bookings from Spain to Japan, said Jeannie Cartier Sauleau, owner of Sixth Star Travel of Plantation. The $200,000 Price Tag pays for three days of training, the stay at the spaceport and the trip. Galactic plans to start with one Spacecraft seating six passengers and two ...