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'Ultra-primitive' particles found in comet dust

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 2

Dust samples collected by high-flying aircraft in the upper atmosphere have yielded an unexpectedly rich trove of relicts from the ancient cosmos, report scientists from the Carnegie Institution. The stratospheric ...


NASA researchers make first discovery of life's building block in comet

First discovery of life's building block in comet made

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Aug 17, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 13

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA scientists have discovered glycine, a fundamental building block of life, in samples of comet Wild 2 returned by NASA's Stardust spacecraft.


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Stardust Logs A Decade Under The Stars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Feb 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Saturday, Feb. 7, marked the 10th anniversary of the launch of NASA's well-traveled Stardust spacecraft.


NASA Stardust Capsule To Go On Display At Smithsonian

NASA Stardust Capsule To Go On Display At Smithsonian

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created Sep 26, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (6) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Having returned the world's first particles from a comet, NASA's Stardust sample return capsule will join the collection of flight icons in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum ...





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Primitive asteroids in the main asteroid belt may have formed far from the sun

Primitive asteroids in the main asteroid belt may have formed far from the sun (w/ Video)

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created Jul 15, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 0

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 ...


Heat Shield Readied for Next Mars Rover

Heat Shield Readied for Next Mars Rover

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created Jul 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver, has finished building and testing the heat shield for protecting the Curiosity rover of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory project. This heat shield is even larger than the ...


Personalized medicine helps cancer patients survive

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 20, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Cancer patients can survive longer under treatments based on their individual genetic profiles, according to a nationwide study released jointly today by Phoenix-area healthcare organizations.


NASA Selects Material for Orion Spacecraft Heat Shield

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Apr 07, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has chosen the material for a heat shield that will protect a new generation of space explorers when they return from the moon. After extensive study, NASA has selected the Avcoat ablator system for ...


A dust factory around a dead star

A dust factory around a dead star

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Feb 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (6) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- A team of astronomers, led by Loretta Dunne from the University of Nottingham, have found some very unusual stardust. In a paper to be published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical ...


Dust Particle from Comet Wild 2

Comet particles provide glimpse of solar system's birth spasms

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Nov 17, 2008 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0

Scientists are tracking the violent convulsions in the giant cloud of gas and dust that gave birth to the solar system 4.5 billion years ago via a few tiny particles from comet Wild 2.


Dusty Shock Waves Generate Planet Ingredients

Dusty Shock Waves Generate Planet Ingredients

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 11, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (16) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Shock waves around dusty, young stars might be creating the raw materials for planets, according to new observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.


Comet dust reveals unexpected mixing of solar system

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created Sep 18, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (17) | comments 2

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.


A comet’s tale at Diamond

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Sep 09, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

A new picture of the composition of comets is emerging with the help of 21st century technology available at Diamond, the UK’s national synchrotron light source, in Oxfordshire.


Scientists determine strength of 'liquid smoke' with 3D images

Scientists determine strength of 'liquid smoke' with 3D images

Physics / Condensed Matter

created Jul 29, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (17) | comments 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers have created a 3D image of a material referred to as "liquid smoke." Aerogel, also known as liquid smoke or "San Francisco fog," is an open-cell polymer with pores smaller than ...



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