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NASA prepares for asteroid rendezvousPasadena, Calif. (UPI) Aug 24, 2010 NASA is getting ready for its Dawn spacecraft's encounter with a giant asteroid, set to happen in less than a year, the agency said. Dawn will conduct a detailed study as it spends a year circling the asteroid Vesta, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit a body in the solar system's asteroid belt, SPACE.com reported Tuesday. There have been previous missions to asteroids, but scientists say Vesta offers a chance for something special. "Vesta is going to amaze us," Marc Rayman, Da ... read more |
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Los Angeles CA (SPX) Aug 20, 2010Physicists from UCLA and Japan have discovered evidence of "natural nuclear accelerators" at work in our Milky Way galaxy, based on an analysis of data from the world's largest cosmic ray detector. Cosmic rays of the highest energies were believed by physicists to come from remote galaxies containing enormous black holes capable of consuming stars and accelerating protons at energies compa ... more 
Geneva, Switzerland (SPX) Aug 20, 2010The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS), an experiment that will search for antimatter and dark matter in space, leaves CERN1 next Tuesday on the next leg of its journey to the International Space Station. The AMS detector2 is being transported from CERN to Geneva International Airport in preparation for its planned departure from Switzerland on 26 August, when it will be flown to the Kenned ... more  
Huntsville AL (SPX) Aug 20, 2010Let the countdown begin. NASA's Dawn spacecraft is less than one year away from giant asteroid Vesta. There's nothing more exciting than revealing an unexplored, alien world," says Marc Rayman, Dawn's chief engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. "Vesta," he predicts, "is going to amaze us." Dawn is slated to enter orbit around Vesta in late July 2011. As the first breathtaking images a ... more |
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A Hop, Skip And A Jump On The Moon - And BeyondBoston MA (SPX) Aug 19, 2010 Although unmanned, wheeled rovers have explored the surfaces of the moon and Mars for decades, these vehicles have limits - they can't crawl inside craters, scale cliffs or travel long distances. For more than two years, a team of students led by Professor of the Practice of Astronautics and former NASA astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman in MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics has been collaborating with engineers from the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory to design and build a prototype for a ne ... read more |
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