News tagged with solar system objects
New EINSTEIN@HOME effort launched: home computers to search Arecibo data for new pulsars
Mar 24, 2009 |
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Einstein@Home, based at the University of Wisconsin--Milwaukee (UWM) and the Albert Einstein Institute (AEI) in Germany, is one of the world's largest public volunteer distributed computing projects. More ...
Outer Solar System Not as Crowded as Astronomers Thought
Oct 03, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- When a treasure hunt comes up empty-handed, the hunters are understandably disappointed. But when astronomers don't find what they are looking for, the defeat can provide as much information as a successful ...
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Flashback to Neptune's Moon Triton (w/ Video)
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Newly released images commemorate the 20-year anniversary of the Voyager flyby of Neptune's moon Triton on Aug. 24, 2009.
Jupiter, solar system's 'big bully,' takes a punch
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Jul 30, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers have been turning the world's most powerful telescopes toward Jupiter, the solar system's largest planet, ever since Australian amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley discovered a new ...
Craters on Vesta and Ceres Could Hold Key to Jupiter's Age
Sep 15, 2009 |
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Crater patterns on Vesta and Ceres could help pinpoint when Jupiter began to form during the evolution of the early solar system.
Primitive asteroids in the main asteroid belt may have formed far from the sun (w/ Video)
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Jul 15, 2009 |
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Many of the objects found today in the asteroid belt located between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter may have formed in the outermost reaches of the solar system, according to an international team of astronomers ...
Rosetta's final Earth boost
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 04, 2009 |
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ESA's comet chaser Rosetta will swing by Earth for the last time on 13 November to pick up energy and begin the final leg of its 10-year journey to comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. ESA's European Space Operations ...
IBEX spacecraft detects fast neutral hydrogen coming from the moon
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 18, 2009 |
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NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) spacecraft has made the first observations of very fast hydrogen atoms coming from the moon, following decades of speculation and searching for their existence.
Chemical clues point to dusty origin for Earth-like planets
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Jun 19, 2008 |
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Higher than expected levels of sodium found in a 4.6 billion-year-old meteorite suggest that the dust clouds from which the building blocks of the Earth and neighboring planets formed were much denser than previously supposed. ...
Cassini sees collisions of moonlets on Saturn's ring
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Jun 05, 2008 |
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A team of scientists led from the UK has discovered that the rapid changes in Saturn's F ring can be attributed to small moonlets causing perturbations. Their results are reported in Nature. Saturn's F ring ...
Team Finds Oldest Known Asteroids
Mar 20, 2008 |
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Using visible and infrared data collected from telescopes on Hawaii’s Mauna Kea, a team of scientists, led by the University of Maryland’s Jessica Sunshine, have identified three asteroids that appear to be ...
Comet dust reveals unexpected mixing of solar system
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Sep 18, 2008 |
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Chemical clues from a comet's halo are challenging common views about the history and evolution of the solar system and showing it may be more mixed-up than previously thought.
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