Lightning in Saturn ring captivates Voyager 2 ahead of Phoebe flyby
NASA scientists report Voyager 2 penetrated a faint ring behind Saturn while measuring enormous lightning discharges in the planet’s rings, including the B ring's spokes. The craft 2.9 million miles beyond Saturn and 971 million miles from Earth, survived dust collisions at 10 miles per second as it nears Phoebe and Uranus in 1986.
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Pasadena
Calif
UPI
Saturn
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Phoebe Friday
Uranus
Joseph Romig
Voyager
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Romig
Ning
Weather outlook with humid evening and showers
Warm and humid with a chance of showers or thunderstorms tonight and tomorrow. Low tonight in the mid 60s, high tomorrow between 80 and 85. Sunset today 7 42 p.m. sunrise tomorrow 6 28 a.m. High yesterday 82, low 67, record high 92 in 1962, record low 40 in 1965, mean last year 77, normal 67, humidity 8 p.m. yesterday 70, 8 a.m. today 81.
Hundreds flee as Texas floods after torrential rains
United Press International reports widespread flooding across south Texas with hundreds evacuated as heavy rains drenched Seguin Gonzales Geronimo and San Antonio areas. Northern Indiana and parts of the Plains see flash flood warnings while Bucyrus Ohio endures 6.14 inches of rain and Texas evacuations continue into the night.
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United Press International
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Atlantic Seaboard
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Bucyrus
Ohio
Seguin
Gonzales
Geronimo
San Antonio
Forest fires rage in Idaho and Utah region wide
Fire crews battled a lightning sparked blaze in Idaho that scorched about 13 400 acres of range and timber near Spencer killing 100 sheep and burning 300 others Ranchers moved 800 to 1 000 cattle to safety The Bureau of Land Management noted elk and moose habitats but no immediate animal danger Utah's Uinta National Forest saw small fires with state crews aiming to control them by today The fires began yesterday and continued as rangers reported progress
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United Press International
Idaho
Forest Service
Utah
Uinta National Forest
Spencer
Bureau of Land Management
Medflies controlled says Gov Brown in California
Gov. Edmund G Brown Jr said the Mediterranean fruit fly has been brought under control after a week since the last discovery in six northern California counties. He urged calm and noted more fly findings possible but pledged continued eradication efforts. Los Angeles County readies a second aerial spray near Baldwin Park while Santa Cruz County begins marathion spraying over a 49 square mile zone around Boulder Creek.
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San Francisco
California
Edmund G. Brown Jr
Brown
el Monte
Los Angeles
Baldwin Park
Boulder Creek
Santa Cruz
Plastic fruit fools medfly trap in Torrance yard joke
In Torrance California Ivan Yurco hung plastic apricots and other fruit in a barren apricot tree to amuse neighbors. When a supposed Los Angeles Agricultural Commission inspector placed a medfly trap in the tree the gag continued as a second inspector did the same. Yurco suspects officials may be in on the joke or simply unaware of the plastic fruit.
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Torrance
Calif
UPI
Ivan Yurco
Yurco
Los Angeles Agricultural Commission
Yurgo
Space shuttle Columbia readies for second launch
Cape Canaveral reports the shuttle Columbia returning to the firing pad for final preparations ahead of a second flight slated for Oct. 9. The craft carries its first working payload and an untested crane, with NASA confirming high confidence as delays ease after a nine day systems test.
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AL Ross
UPI
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Columbia
Oceanside
NASA
James M. Beggs
Space Shuttle
Lightning causes wide power outage across California Nevada
A storm likely struck an Arizona transmission line triggering a massive outage that cut power to about 4 million Edison customers in Los Angeles Orange and Riverside counties and left nearly two million customers in California and Nevada without electricity. Officials said pinpointing the exact cause will take days.
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Arizona
California
Nevada
San Francisco Bay
San Diego
Oregon
Western System Coordinating Council
Salt Lake City
WSCC
Dennis Eyre
Bob Krauch
Southern California Edison
Edison
Orange
Riverside
Power blackout hits three western states
Power went out in Idaho Montana and Wyoming affecting about half a million homes and businesses. Utility officials cited transmission problems in Colorado as the likely cause and said most power was restored in Wyoming and Idaho while Montana still faced outages.
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Denver
Idaho
Montana
Wyoming
Colorado
Mark Seibert
Public Service Co
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