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SciTechTalk: Quick, name the planets!Washington DC (UPI) Jun 24, 2012 When the prestigious Kavli Prize for Astrophysics was announced for 2012, one of the winners was Mike Brown, an astronomer working at the California Institute of Technology in California. Possibly not a household name, but Brown is the reason schoolchildren today are being taught our solar system is comprised of eight planets, not the nine we've been told of for more than seven decades. Children no longer learn the mnemonic device to name the planets, in order, from the sun outward: Moth ... read more |
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  Arecibo Observatory Finds Asteroid 2012 LZ1 To Be Twice As Big As First Believed Using the planetary radar system at Arecibo Observatory, astronomers have determined that asteroid 2012 LZ1 is twice as large as originally estimated based on its brightness, and large enough to hav ... more | .. |
  Hubba-Hubble NASA has awarded University of Delaware astronomy professor Judi Provencal research time on the Hubble Space Telescope, and, as you might imagine, Provencal is over the moon about it. "The telescope ... more | .. |
  Tin-100, a doubly magic nucleus Stable tin, as we know it, comprises 112 nuclear particles - 50 protons and 632 neutrons. The neutrons act as a kind of buffer between the electrically repelling protons and prevent normal tin from ... more | .. |
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 Stars, Jets and Batteries Magnetic instabilities play a crucial role in the emergence of black holes, they regulate the rotation rate of collapsing stars and influence the behavior of cosmic jets. In order to improve underst ... more | .. |
  Illuminating the dark: Ahead with the Euclid mission UK teams working on the mission to study the "dark Universe" are being granted a planned 8.5M pounds by the UK Space Agency to develop scientific instruments. This is following the formal adoption o ... more | .. |
 Dark Universe mission blueprint complete ESA's Euclid mission to explore the hidden side of the Universe - dark energy and dark matter - has reached an important milestone that will see it head towards full construction. Selected in Octobe ... more | .. |
 Hubble Views the Globular Cluster M10 Like many of the most famous objects in the sky, globular cluster Messier 10 was of little interest to its discoverer. Charles Messier, the 18th century French astronomer, cataloged over 100 galaxie ... more |
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Maxar secures $205 million in multi-year deals to boost space capabilities across MEA
K2 Space validates satellite systems in orbit and fires record-breaking thruster | .. |
  IT security problems shift as data moves to 'cloud' The Internet "cloud" has become the hottest topic in computing, but the trend has created a new range of security issues that need to be addressed. ... more | .. |
  The toughest life on Earth You can freeze it, thaw it, vacuum dry it and expose it to radiation but still life survives. ESA's research on the International Space Station is giving credibility to theories that life came from ... more | .. |
 NRL Scientists Propose Mitigation Concept of LEO Debris Physicist and Engineers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory Plasma Physics Division and Naval Center for Space Technology are researching a technique to 'sweep' Low Earth Orbit (LEO) debris from s ... more | .. |
 Forgotten Star Cluster Useful For Solar Science And Search for Earth Like Planets A loose group of stars, known for over 180 years but never before studied in detail, has been revealed to be an important new tool in the quest to understand the evolution of stars like the Sun, and ... more |
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 ISS to Build Up Meteorite Defenses Russian cosmonauts will conduct a space walk in August during which they will install additional anti-meteorite panels on the International Space Station (ISS), cosmonaut Yury Malanchenko said on Fr ... more | .. |
 CERN to give update on search for 'God-particle' The European Organisation for Nuclear Research said Friday it may announce next month whether tests with its atom-smasher have found the elusive "God particle". ... more | .. |
 Where Are The Metal Worlds And Is The Answer Blowing In The Wind The torrent of discoveries that has come out of the exo-planet research community lately has brought up more new questions than it has answered. Some of the more interesting ones have to deal with s ... more | .. |
  BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter Mass Properties Measurements The mass properties of the BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter have been measured using specialist equipment in ESA's European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC). The mass properties of ... more |
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The long slow death of Norway's wild salmon
Beijing decries 'discriminatory' ban on Chinese purchases of US farmland
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 Metal-poor stars are rich with small planets Planets as big as Earth but smaller than Neptune are likely even more common in our galaxy than previously believed, according to a statistical analysis of recent results from NASA's Kepler mission. ... more | .. |
 Astronomers spy 2 planets in tight quarters as they orbit a distant star A research team led by astronomers at the University of Washington and Harvard University has discovered a bigger version of Earth locked in an orbital tug-of-war with a much larger, Neptune-sized p ... more | .. |
 Astronomers with NASA's Kepler Mission find 'puzzling pair of planets' Two planets with very different densities and compositions are locked in surprisingly close orbits around their host star, according to astronomers working with NASA's Kepler Mission. One planet is ... more | .. |
  Researchers Estimate Ice Content of Crater at Moon's South Pole NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft has returned data that indicate ice may make up as much as 22 percent of the surface material in a crater located on the moon's south pole. The t ... more |
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 Chance Alignment Between Galaxies Mimics a Cosmic Collision Because of the alignment, NGC 3314B's dust lanes appear lighter than those of NGC 3314A. This is not because that galaxy lacks dust, but rather because its dust lanes are lightened by the bright fog ... more | .. |
 Russian Cosmonauts Have 'Alien Instructions' The UN has developed detailed instructions in case of a first contact with aliens, Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka said answering a question on Chinese TV. "The UN and representatives of Chi ... more | .. |
 Most Quasars Live on Snacks, Not Large Meals Black holes in the early universe needed a few snacks rather than one giant meal to fuel their quasars and help them grow, according to observations from NASA's Spitzer and Hubble space telescopes. ... more | .. |
 Compact Blue Dwarf Can't Hide from Hubble The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this view of the dwarf galaxy UGC 5497, which looks a bit like salt sprinkled on black velvet in this image. The object is a compact blue dwarf galax ... more |
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China speeds up renewables building spree: report
French giant EDF will take 12.5 pecent stake in new UK nuclear plant
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 Researchers find evidence of ice content at the moon's south pole If humans are ever to inhabit the moon, the lunar poles may well be the location of choice: Because of the small tilt of the lunar spin axis, the poles contain regions of near-permanent sunlight, ne ... more | .. |
 Space is Big, But Getting Smaller Last week there was an event that tells us the "end" is nearing; the end of BIG SPACE. Ever since the first satellite was launched some 55 years ago, the space community has thought of space as bein ... more | .. |
 Why Won't the Supernova Explode? Somewhere in the Milky Way, a massive old star is about to die a spectacular death. As its nuclear fuel runs out, the star begins to collapse under its own tremendous weight. Crushing pressure trigg ... more | .. |
  New Gravitational Biology Lab Allows for Testing in Artificial Gravity NASA is expanding its existing capabilities for doing plant and animal tissue investigations on the International Space Station with the delivery of a new centrifuge scheduled for this summer. The c ... more |
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 Science world commemorates father of computer science Scientists will gather from Bangalore to Texas on Saturday to honour British mathematician Alan Turing, a pioneer of the modern computer whose code-cracking is credited with shortening World War II. ... more | .. |
 Neutrons escaping to a parallel world? In a paper recently published in EPJ C, researchers hypothesised the existence of mirror particles to explain the anomalous loss of neutrons observed experimentally. The existence of such mirror mat ... more | .. |
 Black Holes as Particle Detectors Finding new particles usually requires high energies - that is why huge accelerators have been built, which can accelerate particles to almost the speed of light. But there are other creative ways o ... more | .. |
 Announcement of Higgs boson find imminent? One of the most anticipated announcements in science could be imminent, that the Higgs boson may finally, really have been discovered, physicists say. ... more |
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