News tagged with inner planet
Giant planet ejected from the solar system
(PhysOrg.com) -- Just as an expert chess player sacrifices a piece to protect the queen, the solar system may have given up a giant planet and spared the Earth, according to an article recently published in ...
Nov 10, 2011 |
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Spitzer detects comet storm in nearby solar system
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has detected signs of icy bodies raining down in an alien solar system. The downpour resembles our own solar system several billion years ago during a period ...
Oct 20, 2011 |
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Dawn spacecraft gets cozy with massive asteroid
(AP) -- Scientists are busy poring over images of the massive asteroid Vesta, the first time it has been photographed up close.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 01, 2011 |
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Scientists surprised by solar wind data retrieved from Genesis mission
The 2004 crash-landing of a NASA capsule into the deserts of Utah had mission scientists fearing for a while that samples collected by the Genesis mission, sent to capture particles from the sun's solar wind, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 10, 2011 |
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Six small planets orbiting a sun-like star amaze astronomers
(PhysOrg.com) -- 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 ...
Feb 02, 2011 |
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The end of planet formation, as told by trace elements from the mantles of Earth, the moon and Mars
New research reveals that the abundance of so-called highly siderophile, or metal-loving, elements like gold and platinum found in the mantles of Earth, the Moon and Mars were delivered by massive impactors ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 09, 2010 |
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Tally-Ho! deep Impact spacecraft eyes comet target
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft has beamed down the first of over 64,000 images it will be taking of Comet Hartley 2.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 08, 2010 |
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Magnesium detected in MESSENGER flyby of Mercury (w/Video)
NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft served up another curveball to a University of Colorado at Boulder team after a second flyby of the hot inner planet Oct. 6 detected magnesium -- an element created inside exploding ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 30, 2009 |
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