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NASA Scientist Figures Way to Weigh Space RockPasadena CA (JPL) May 29, 2012 A scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., has accurately determined the mass of a nearby asteroid from millions of miles away. The celestial equivalent of "guess your weight" was achieved by Steve Chesley of JPL's Near-Earth Object Program Office by utilizing data from three NASA assets - the Goldstone Solar System Radar in the California desert, the orbiting Spitzer Space telescope, and the NASA-sponsored Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. Chesley presented his finding ... read more |
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  European Gravitational Wave Community Strengthens Its Space Collaboration During the 9th international LISA Symposium, held May 21-25 in Paris, the international Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) community analyzed the new situation after ESA's decision to choose ... more | .. |
 OSIRIS-REx Scientists Measure Yarkovsky Effect Scientists with the University of Arizona-led asteroid sample return mission OSIRIS-REx have measured the orbit of their destination asteroid, 1999 RQ36, with such accuracy they were able to directl ... more | .. |
 NASA Scientist Figures Way to Weigh Space Rock A scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., has accurately determined the mass of a nearby asteroid from millions of miles away. The celestial equivalent of "guess your weig ... more | .. |
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Asteroid Nudged by Sunlight: Most Precise Measurement of Yarkovsky Effect Scientists on NASA's asteroid sample return mission, Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer (OSIRIS-REx), have measured the orbit of their destination ... more | .. |
  NASA Offers Guidelines To Protect Historic Sites On The Moon NASA and the X Prize Foundation of Playa Vista, Calif., announced Thursday the Google Lunar X Prize is recognizing guidelines established by NASA to protect lunar historic sites and preserve ongoing ... more | .. |
 Neil Armstrong gives rare interview - to accountant The famously private Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, has been coaxed into giving a rare interview - with an Australian accountant. ... more | .. |
  NTU and I2R scientists invent revolutionary chipset for high-speed wireless data transfer Here is a new microchip that can transfer data the size of 80 MP3 song files (or 250 megabytes) wirelessly between mobile devices, in the flick of a second. Or how about transferring a typical 2-hou ... more |
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London, Paris tighten nuclear bond over US, Russia concerns
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  Exotic particles, chilled and trapped, form giant matter wave Physicists have trapped and cooled exotic particles called excitons so effectively that they condensed and cohered to form a giant matter wave. This feat will allow scientists to better study the ph ... more | .. |
 Just How Green is Google Google may have a bad track record on privacy practices, but when it comes to green, the internet giant is clean, racking up over $850 million in investments to develop and deploy clean energy and e ... more | .. |
  Colliding galaxy cluster unravelled An international team of astronomers has used the International LOFAR Telescope from ASTRON, the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, to study the formation of the galaxy cluster Abell 2256. A ... more | .. |
 The Older We Get, The Less We Know Cosmologically The universe is a marvelously complex place, filled with galaxies and larger-scale structures that have evolved over its 13.7-billion-year history. Those began as small perturbations of matter that ... more |
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 Elusive quasiparticles realized Ultracold quantum gases are an ideal experimental model system to simulate physical phenomena in condensed matter. In these gases, many-body states can be realized under highly controlled conditions ... more | .. |
 Efficient and tunable interface for quantum networks Quantum technologies promise to redefine the landscape of information processing and communication. We already live in an information age, in which vast amounts of data are sent around the world ove ... more | .. |
  Seeking Signs of Life at the Glacier's Edge Microbes living at the edges of Arctic ice sheets could help researchers pinpoint evidence for similar microorganisms that could have evolved on Mars, the Jovian moon Europa, or Saturn's moon Encela ... more | .. |
 Herschel Sees Intergalactic Bridge Aglow With Stars The Herschel Space Observatory has discovered a giant, galaxy-packed filament ablaze with billions of new stars. The filament connects two clusters of galaxies that, along with a third cluster, will ... more |
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Ancient zircon data reveals tectonic origin of Earth's first continental crust
Autonomous sub explores unexplored trench depths to reveal critical mineral clues
Europe launches first geostationary atmospheric sounder to boost extreme weather forecasts | .. |
  Hubble Spies Edge-on Beauty Visible in the constellation of Andromeda, NGC 891 is located approximately 30 million light-years away from Earth. The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope turned its powerful wide field Advanced Camera ... more | .. |
  China to see 14 solar eclipses this century People in eastern Chinese regions saw an annular eclipse of the sun Monday morning, the longest eclipse in terms of duration for the next 1,000 years, according to astronomers' predictions. Th ... more | .. |
  Cassini Spots Tiny Moon, Begins to Tilt Orbit NASA's Cassini spacecraft made its closest approach to Saturn's tiny moon Methone as part of a trajectory that will take it on a close flyby of another of Saturn's moons, Titan. The Titan flyb ... more | .. |
 Famed US alien seeker shifts gaze back to Earth After decades spent scanning the heavens for signs of life elsewhere in the cosmos, astronomer Jill Tarter is stepping back, and letting a colleague take charge of the quest. ... more |
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 Proba-2 catches solar eclipse Europe missed Sunday's solar eclipse on the other side of the planet but ESA's space weather microsatellite Proba-2 passed repeatedly through the Moon's shadow. As a result, four partial eclip ... more | .. |
 Germany's SAP grabs US cloud firm for $4.3 bn German business software giant SAP said Tuesday it was acquiring US cloud-based e-commerce firm Ariba for $4.3 billion in a move boosting its arsenal against arch-rival Oracle. ... more | .. |
 Hinode Mission to Capture Annular Solar Eclipse This Weekend On May 20-21, 2012 an annular eclipse of the Sun will be visible from within a narrow corridor along Earth's northern Hemisphere - beginning in eastern Asia, crossing the North Pacific Ocean, and en ... more | .. |
  Mercury's Magnetic Field Measured by MESSENGER Orbiter Researchers working with NASA's Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft report the frequent detections of Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) waves at the edge of the ... more |
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Atomic 6 receives 2M Space Force award to advance next generation solar arrays
ESA and Neuraspace develop autonomous satellite navigation technologies
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  Stunning View of Lyrids and Earth at Night On the night of April 21, the 2012 Lyrid meteor shower peaked in the skies over Earth. While NASA allsky cameras were looking up at the night skies, astronaut Don Pettit aboard the International Spa ... more | .. |
 Ammonites Found Mini Oases at Ancient Methane Seeps Research led by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History shows that ammonites-an extinct type of shelled mollusk that's closely related to modern-day nautiluses and squids-made homes in ... more | .. |
 Herschel Space Observatory study reveals galaxy-packed filament A McGill-led research team using the Herschel Space Observatory has discovered a giant, galaxy-packed filament ablaze with billions of new stars. The filament connects two clusters of galaxies that, ... more | .. |
  Newfound exoplanet may turn to dust Researchers at MIT, NASA and elsewhere have detected a possible planet, some 1,500 light years away, that appears to be evaporating under the blistering heat of its parent star. The scientists ... more |
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 Fuel for the black hole An international research team led by Gerd Weigelt from the Max-Planck-Institut fur Radioastronomie in Bonn reports on high-resolution studies of an active galactic nucleus in the near-infrared. The ... more | .. |
 Baby galaxies grew up quickly Baby galaxies from the young Universe more than 12 billion years ago evolved faster than previously thought, shows new research from the Niels Bohr Institute. This means that already in the early hi ... more | .. |
 Timely discovery: Physics research sheds new light on quantum dynamics Kansas State University physicists and an international team of collaborators have made a breakthrough that improves understanding of matter-light interactions. Their research allows double io ... more | .. |
 Celestial Tapestry Is Born Of Uncertain Parentage A new Legacy Image from the Gemini Observatory reveals the remarkable complexity of the planetary nebula Sharpless 2-71 (Sh 2-71). Embroiled in a bit of controversy over its "birth parents" the nebu ... more |
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