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Japan confirms space probe brought home asteroid dustTokyo (AFP) Nov 16, 2010 A Japanese deep-space probe became the first ever to collect asteroid dust during a seven-year voyage that ended with its return to Earth over the Australian desert this year, Japan said Tuesday. The news crowns with success the journey of the unmanned Hayabusa probe, which five years ago made a pinpoint landing on an asteroid 300 million kilometres (186 million miles) from Earth - about twice as far as the sun. Since the probe's return in June, scientists had carried out a lengthy analysis of ... read more |
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  Linking Geometric Problems To Physics Could Open Door To New Solutions A Princeton scientist with an interdisciplinary bent has taken two well-known problems in mathematics and reformulated them as a physics question, offering new tools to solve challenges relevant to ... more | .. |
  Yihua Zheng: A New Breed Of Weather Forecaster It is 11:15 a.m. on a Friday morning at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. and time for Yihua Zheng's daily check on the sun. She walks from her small office down the hall to the C ... more | .. |
  Mining On The Moon Is A Not-So-Distant Possibility While lunar mining might some day be economically feasible for countries and companies, a Missouri University of Science and Technology researcher believes strongly that mining in space is essential ... more | .. |
 Chandra Finds Youngest Nearby Black Hole Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have found evidence of the youngest black hole known to exist in our cosmic neighborhood. The 30-year-old black hole provides a unique opportunity ... more |
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  Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Wednesday November 17 The Leonid meteor shower best viewing this year will be in the two to three hours before dawn on November 17 and 18, according to the editors of StarDate magazine. There is always some uncerta ... more | .. |
  Eartly Dust Tails Point To Alien Worlds Did you know that the Earth has a dust tail? The Spitzer Space Telescope sailed right through it a few months ago, giving researchers a clear idea of what it looks like. That could be a big help to ... more | .. |
 A Softer Landing on the Moon Getting something onto the surface of the Moon intact is always a challenge. Gravity pulls you in. There's no atmosphere to slow you down. Parachutes don't work. Your only hope is to use thrusters t ... more | .. |
  Saturn Then And Now: 30 Years Since Voyager Visit Ed Stone, project scientist for NASA's Voyager mission, remembers the first time he saw the kinks in one of Saturn's narrowest rings. It was the day the Voyager 1 spacecraft made its closest approac ... more |
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  SSTL Satellite Steps Aside To Reduce Space Junk Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has successfully repositioned the UK-DMC-1 spacecraft, which is reaching the end of its operational life, using unspent propellant to reduce the orbital lifeti ... more | .. |
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 EOS Welcomes Australian-US Partnership To Track Space Junk An Australian company, Electro Optic Systems (EOS) on Wednesday welcomed the joint Australian-U.S. partnership to boost tracking of space debris. A leader in the field of space tracking, EOS has bee ... more |
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 Discovery Of Novel Type Of Magnetic Wave A team of international researchers led by physicists in the University of Minnesota's College of Science and Engineering have made a significant breakthrough in an effort to understand the phenomen ... more | .. |
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 Sunrise Reveals Sun's Magnetic Building Blocks The first results of the Sunrise mission led by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research have now been published. Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research (MPS) i ... more | .. |
 Cool Star Is A Gem Of A Find NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has eyed its first cool brown dwarf: a tiny, ultra-cold star floating all alone in space. WISE is scanning the whole sky in infrared light, ... more |
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 Cassini To Resume Nominal Operations Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., expect the Cassini spacecraft will resume normal operations on Nov. 24. They have traced the steps taken by an onboard computer ... more | .. |
 U.K. astronomers see 'snooker' star system U.K. astronomers say a recently discovered star system looks like, and may have once behaved like, a game of snooker or billiards. ... more | .. |
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