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July 04, 2012
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Explained: Near-miss asteroids
Boston MA (SPX) Jul 04, 2012
On May 29, an asteroid the size of a bus came whizzing past Earth at 10 times the speed of a fired bullet. The near-miss asteroid, named 2012 KT42 - or "KT42" for short - streaked across the orbits of weather and television satellites, 22,000 miles above Earth's surface, making it the sixth-closest asteroid approach on record. While the object had little chance of colliding with Earth, its approach gave scientists an opportunity to run a rapid-response program - or as MIT's Richard Binzel calls it ... read more

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SOLAR SCIENCE

Hi-C to Investigate Activity in Solar Atmosphere
NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. is leading an international effort to develop and launch the High Resolution Coronal Imager, or Hi-C, on a sounding rocket from the White Sand ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

X-raying the beating heart of a newborn star
An international team of scientists has used the world's most powerful X-ray observatories - including ESA's XMM-Newton orbiter - to probe the dusty surroundings of a newborn star and discover some ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

The 'Flame' Burns Bright in New WISE Image
A new image from NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, shows the candle-like Flame nebula lighting up a cavern of dust. The Flame nebula is part of the Orion complex, a turbulent star ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

In McNeil's Nebula, a Young Star Flaunts its X-ray Spots
Using combined data from a trio of orbiting X-ray telescopes, including NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Japan-led Suzaku satellite, astronomers have obtained a rare glimpse of the powerful ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Hubble Sees a Vapor of Stars
Relatively few galaxies possess the sweeping, luminous spiral arms or brightly glowing center of our home galaxy the Milky Way. In fact, most of the Universe's galaxies look like small, amorphous cl ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Sounding Rocket Mission to Observe Magnetic Fields on the Sun
On July 5, NASA will launch a mission called the Solar Ultraviolet Magnetograph Investigation or SUMI, to study the intricate, constantly changing magnetic fields on the sun in a hard-to-observe are ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Prediction system to protect astronauts from solar storms
With the impending solar maximum expected to bring heightened rates of flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs), putting at risk an ever-increasing human presence in space, Oh et al. designed and as ... more
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Military Space News, Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense
PLD Space selected as leading contender for ESA sovereign launch initiative
UK opens competitive bid for GBP 75 million orbital cleanup mission
Boeing wins major contract to deliver new generation strategic comms satellites
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TIME AND SPACE

Making the shortest light bursts leads to better understanding of nature
An attosecond is a ridiculously brief sliver of time - a scant billionth of a billionth of a second. This may seem too short to have any practical applications, but at the atomic level, where electr ... more
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PHYSICS NEWS

Looking at Density Differently in Microgravity
We learn in elementary school about the three phases of matter - solids, liquids, gases - and how they behave. These forms of matter, particularly liquids and gases, have a tendency to act different ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Hidden Portals in Earth's Magnetic Field
A favorite theme of science fiction is "the portal" - an extraordinary opening in space or time that connects travelers to distant realms. A good portal is a shortcut, a guide, a door into the unkno ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

New Taiwanese centre to probe origins of universe
Taiwan opened a space research control centre Tuesday, as part of an ambitious international project aimed at exploring the origins of the universe. ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Tevatron offers Higgs boson data
Scientists say data from the U.S. Energy Department's Tevatron collider offer the strongest indication to date for the long-sought Higgs particle. ... more
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IRON AND ICE

The B612 Foundation Announces The First Privately Funded Deep Space Mission
In a press conference at the California Academy of Sciences Thursday morning, the B612 Foundation unveiled its plans to build, launch, and operate the first privately funded deep space mission - SEN ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Milky Way struck 100 million years ago, still rings like a bell
An international team of astronomers have discovered evidence that our Milky Way had an encounter with a small galaxy or massive dark matter structure perhaps as recently as 100 million years ago, a ... more
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SATURN DAILY

Titan's tides point to hidden ocean
Nothing like it has been seen before beyond our own planet: large tides have been found on Saturn's moon Titan that point to a liquid ocean - most likely water - swirling around below the surface. O ... more
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Glacier retreat could drive a surge in volcanic eruptions worldwide
UK thermal satellite firm wins ESA contract to deliver real time climate and security insights
Beyond male dominance in primates new study redefines gender power roles
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EXO WORLDS

Innovative technique enables scientists to learn more about elusive exoplanet
One of the first planets discovered outside of the Solar System, Tau Bootis b, has eluded numerous attempts to measure the light coming from its atmosphere and so has remained something of a mystery ... more
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SOLAR SCIENCE

Space tornadoes power the atmosphere of the Sun
The super tornadoes - which are thousands of times larger and more powerful than their earthly counterparts but which have a magnetic skeleton - spin at speeds of more than 6,000 mph at temperatures ... more
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EXO WORLDS

New Planet-weighing Technique Found
Although there have been about 800 extra-solar planets discovered so far in our galaxy, the precise masses of the majority of them are still unknown, as the most-common planet-finding technique prov ... more
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TECH SPACE

BGI demonstrated genomic data transfer at nearly 10GB per second between US and China
BGI has announced that a group of scientists and researchers successfully demonstrated genomic data transfer at a sustained rate of almost 10 Gigabits per second (Gbps) over a new link connecting US ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Tevatron scientists announce their final results on the Higgs particle
After more than 10 years of gathering and analyzing data produced by the U.S. Department of Energy's Tevatron collider, scientists from the CDF and DZero collaborations have found their strongest in ... more
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EXO WORLDS

Dramatic change spotted on a faraway planet
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have seen dramatic changes in the upper atmosphere of a faraway planet. Just after a violent flare on its parent star bathed it in intense X-ray ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Has the Speediest Pulsar Been Found?
Researchers using three different telescopes - NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton in space, and the Parkes radio telescope in Australia - may have found the fastest moving pulsar ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

University of Florida astronomer reports rare case of gravitational lensing
You could say that the odds of seeing it were astronomical. Yet there it was, 10 billion light-years from Earth, the most massive galaxy cluster ever seen at such a distance - with a gravity f ... more
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Ultrasound triggers nuclear decay anomaly hinting at flexible space-time
AI system accelerates aircraft concept design using language models
Autonomous sub explores unexplored trench depths to reveal critical mineral clues
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IRON AND ICE

Ex-NASA astronauts aim to launch asteroid tracker
A private company made up of former NASA astronauts and US scientists said Thursday it is planning to build and launch its own space telescope to track dangerous asteroids and protect the Earth. ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

Reaching, Researching Between Stars
From Earth, observers use telescopes to look and learn about the distant luminous spheres. But the telescope often isn't the only instrument used. Karl Gebhardt, professor of astrophysics at The Uni ... more
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DEEP IMPACT

Caltech scientists find new primitive mineral in meteorite
In 1969, an exploding fireball tore through the sky over Mexico, scattering thousands of pieces of meteorite across the state of Chihuahua. More than 40 years later, the Allende meteorite is still s ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Youris: A Black Hole's Dinner
A giant gas cloud is on collision course with the black hole in the centre of our galaxy in 2013. This is a unique opportunity to observe how a super massive black hole sucks in material, in real ti ... more
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MERCURY RISING

MESSENGER Completes Its 1,000th Orbit of Mercury
MESSENGER will complete its 1,000th orbit of the planet closest to the Sun at 11:22 p.m. EDT tonight. "Reaching this milestone is yet another testimony to the hard work and dedication of the full ME ... more
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IRON AND ICE

A Fleeting Flyby Of A Battered World Called Asteroid 21 Lutetia
The long and tumultuous history of asteroid Lutetia was revealed by ESA's Rosetta spacecraft as it raced past this large, ancient asteroid. This spectacular movie shows a sequence of images snapped ... more
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STELLAR CHEMISTRY

NASA's Hubble Spots Rare Gravitational Arc from Distant, Hefty Galaxy Cluster
Seeing is believing, except when you don't believe what you see. Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found a puzzling arc of light behind an extremely massive cluster of galaxies re ... more
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TIME AND SPACE

Sifting Through a Trillion Electrons
Modern research tools like supercomputers, particle colliders, and telescopes are generating so much data, so quickly, many scientists fear that soon they will not be able to keep up with the deluge ... more
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