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Asteroid's near hit changes its orbitPasadena, Calif. (UPI) Feb 10, 2011 An asteroid passing Earth at just 3,400 miles was the closest near miss on record, and Earth's gravity sent it into an entirely new orbit, U.S. researchers say. The approach of the small asteroid 2011 CQ1 last week was so close the object's path through space was bent by 60 degrees, the biggest orbital change ever recorded by astronomers, NewScientist.com reported. The change was large enough to shift the asteroid, slightly more than a yard across, from one category of objects into anoth ... read more |
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 Stardust Heading Into The Bonus Round A bonus round is something one usually associates with the likes of a TV game show, not a pioneering deep space mission. "We are definitely in the bonus round," said Stardust-NExT Project Manager Ti ... more | .. |
  Giant Ring Of Black Holes Just in time for Valentine's Day comes a new image of a ring - not of jewels, but of black holes. This composite image of Arp 147, a pair of interacting galaxies located about 430 million light-year ... more | .. |
  NRL Researchers View The Sun In 3D Beginning on February 6, 2011, the two STEREO spacecraft are 180 degrees apart providing Naval Research Laboratory scientists with a 360-degree view of the Sun. NASA's STEREO (Solar Terrestrial Rela ... more | .. |
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 New Images Show Cloud Exploding From Sun Ripples Like Clouds On Earth Physicists, led by a researcher at the University of Warwick, studying new images of clouds of material exploding from the Sun have spotted instabilities forming in that exploding cloud that are sim ... more | .. |
 Car-size asteroid nears Earth Wednesday A car-size asteroid will pass near Earth Wednesday, U.S. scientists said, while one bigger than two football fields might hit Earth in 18 years. ... more | .. |
  Amount of data stored worldwide estimated U.S. researchers say they've estimated the amount of data stored worldwide by 2007 at 295 exabytes - equivalent to 1.2 billion average computer hard drives. ... more | .. |
Stardust Celebrates Twelve Years With Rocket Burn NASA's Stardust spacecraft marked its 12th anniversary in space on Monday, Feb. 7, with a rocket burn to further refine its path toward a Feb. 14 date with a comet. The half-minute trajectory ... more |
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Floppy discs out, Blu-rays in -- Greece revises stats Greece has thrown out nearly a dozen items such as floppy discs, photo film and matches from a list of "nearly extinct" goods used until now to calculate inflation, the state statistics agency said. ... more | .. |
 NASA Spacecraft Closes In On Comet Tempel 1 NASA is about to discover how solar heat devours a comet. "For the first time, we'll see the same comet before and after its closest approach to the sun," explains Joe Veverka, principal investigato ... more | .. |
  LRO Could Have Given Apollo 14 Crew Another Majestic View Although the Apollo 14 mission to the moon was filled with incredible sights and was completely successful - it met all its science goals - the crew experienced a bit of a disappointment at missing ... more | .. |
 Astrobotic Technology Annouces Lunar Mission On SpaceX Falcon 9 Astrobotic Technology has announced it has signed a contract with SpaceX to launch Astrobotic's robotic payload to the Moon on a Falcon 9. The expedition will search for water and deliver payloads, ... more |
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  NASA's "COSmIC" Simulator Helps Fingerprint Unknown Matter In Space Who are we? Where do we come from? These are questions that scientists hope to find clues to by better understanding the composition and evolution of the universe. NASA flies sophisticated spa ... more | .. |
 Asteroid Busting Imagine it is June 30, 1908 and you are in Siberia. The time is just after seven in the morning. Suddenly a pressure wave knocks you off your feet and a few moments later a blast of heat is so inten ... more | .. |
 Humankind Sees Sun As Never Before For the first time in history a stunning view of the whole Sun is visible to the world. The unique 360 degrees view of the Sun was unveiled on Sunday 6 February 2011 after NASA's two STEREO (Solar ... more | .. |
 First Stars In Universe Were Not Alone The first stars in the universe were not as solitary as previously thought. In fact, they could have formed alongside numerous companions when the gas disks that surrounded them broke up during form ... more |
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SMOS mission reveals 15-year global forest carbon storage trends
Pacific microstate sells first passports to fund climate action
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 US, France to sign accord on tracking space debris US and French defense chiefs plan to sign a space cooperation agreement on Tuesday designed to help track debris in outer space threatening vital satellites, officials told AFP. ... more | .. |
  Proposed Mission To Jupiter System Achieves Milestone With input from scientists around the world, American and European scientists working on the potential next new mission to the Jupiter system have articulated their joint vision for the Europa Jupit ... more | .. |
 First Ever STEREO Images Of Entire Sun It's official: The sun is a sphere. On Feb. 6th, NASA's twin STEREO probes moved into position on opposite sides of the sun, and they are now beaming back uninterrupted images of the entire star-fro ... more | .. |
  Surprise Hidden In Titan's Smog: Cirrus-Like Clouds Every day is a bad-air day on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Blanketed by haze far worse than any smog belched out in Los Angeles, Beijing or even Sherlock Holmes's London, the moon looks like a dirt ... more |
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  A Six-Planet System A remarkable planetary system discovered by NASA's Kepler mission has six planets around a Sun-like star, including five small planets in tightly packed orbits. Astronomers at the University o ... more | .. |
 NASA Finds Earth-Size Planet Candidates In Habitable Zone Is our Milky Way galaxy home to other planets the size of Earth? Are Earth-sized planets common or rare? NASA scientists seeking answers to those questions recently revealed their discovery. " ... more | .. |
Las Cumbres Scientists Play Key Role In New Planetry System Discovery NASA's Kepler mission has discovered its first Earth-size planet candidates and its first candidates in the habitable zone, a region where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface. UC Santa Ba ... more | .. |
NASA Stardust Adjusts Flight Path For Comet Meetup Just over two weeks before its flyby of comet Tempel 1, NASA's Stardust spacecraft fired its thrusters to help refine its flight path toward the comet. The Stardust-NExT mission will fly past comet ... more |
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Major climate-GDP study under review after facing challenge
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 Cassini Sends Back Postcards Of Saturn Moons On Jan. 31, 2011, NASA's Cassini spacecraft passed by several of Saturn's intriguing moons, snapping images along the way. Cassini passed within about 60,000 kilometers (37,282 miles) of Enceladus a ... more | .. |
 NASA's NEOWISE Completes Scan For Asteroids And Comets NASA's NEOWISE mission has completed its survey of small bodies, asteroids and comets, in our solar system. The mission's discoveries of previously unknown objects include 20 comets, more than 33,00 ... more | .. |
 BigBOSS Advances On Dark Energy With Help From National Optical Astronomy Observatory The National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO), the National Science Foundation's (NSF's) research and development center for ground-based astronomy, has announced its conditional approval of the ... more | .. |
 Working Together To Take The Pulse Of The Universe Using the Parkes radio telescope, CSIRO astronomers are working closely with NASA to unlock one of astronomy's great enigmas - the science behind pulsars. The team are using the world-class fa ... more |
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Earth-Size Planet Candidates Found In Habitable Zone NASA's Kepler mission has discovered its first Earth-size planet candidates and its first candidates in the habitable zone, a region where liquid water could exist on a planet's surface. Five of the ... more | .. |
  A Picture-Perfect Pure-Disc Galaxy The bright galaxy NGC 3621, captured here using the Wide Field Imager on the 2.2-metre telescope at ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile, appears to be a fine example of a classical spiral. But it is ... more | .. |
'Space net' for orbiting debris proposed Japan's space agency says it is teaming up with a maker of fishing nets to create a "space net" for safely collecting orbiting space debris. ... more | .. |
Report: Space 'junk' threatens services The amount of junk orbiting Earth in space is nearing a "tipping point" that may threaten the $250 billion space services industry, a U.S. report says. ... more |
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