Treasurer’s Report
Posted by brandoniswrite on October 11, 2010
by Michael Mitrano, Treasurer Membership has increased to 85 with many late-in-the-year renewals. We are now only four shy of last year’s full-year membership. Outreach contributions already exceed last year’s and match the full-year amount for two years ago. Our routine expenses have remained modest, and the AAAP’s surplus for the year-to-date has therefore risen [...]
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NASA Releases Images of Man-Made Crater on Comet
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NASA’s Stardust spacecraft returned new images of a comet showing a scar resulting from the 2005 Deep Impact mission. The images also showed the comet has a fragile and weak nucleus. The spacecraft made its closest approach to comet Tempel 1 on Monday, Feb. 14, at 8:40 p.m. PST (11:40 p.m. EST) at a distance [...]
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NASA’s Arctic Ice Campaign Adds Second Aircraft
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NASA scientists conducting an airborne campaign right now in the Arctic to monitor changes in sea ice and ice sheet thickness have a new tool. A second aircraft — the King Air B200 — arrived in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland, carrying an instrument that maps the icy surface from more than five miles (8 km) above, providing [...]
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