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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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  China conducts first manual space docking A Chinese spacecraft on Sunday successfully completed the country's first manual docking in orbit, a milestone in an ambitious programme to build a space station by the end of the decade. ... more | .. |
  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 | .. |
  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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 Man Versus Machine on Shenzhou The first attempt at a manual docking by a Chinese spacecraft has been a success, but it still raises issues to be explored. The Shenzhou 9 spacecraft successfully undocked from the Tiangong 1 space ... more | .. |
  New Space Station Crew Confirmed Space officials confirmed on Friday the line-up of a new mission to the International Space Station (ISS) ahead of their launch next month. Three Expedition 32 crew members - NASA astronaut Su ... more | .. |
  Extensive Water in Mars Interior Until now, Earth was the only planet known to have vast reservoirs of water in its interior. Scientists analyzed the water content of two Martian meteorites originating from inside the Red Planet. ... 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 |
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Australia to deploy fleet of underwater strike drones
Pacific Island leaders back 'ocean of peace' at fraught summit
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  ILS and AsiaSat Announce a New Contract for an ILS Proton Launch International Launch Services (ILS) and Asia Satellite Telecommunications Co. Ltd. (AsiaSat) announced a contract for an ILS Proton launch service as early as 2014 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Ka ... more | .. |
 USAF officials announce milestone Atlas V launch As part of the Defense Department's ongoing efforts to maintain assured, affordable access to space through 2030, the Atlas V rocket successfully lifted off from Space Launch Complex-41 at Florida's ... 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 | .. |
 EVE Underflight Calibration Sounding Rocket Launch The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) was launched on 11 February 2010, and the EUV Variability Experiment (EVE), one of the three solar instruments aboard SDO, began normal operations on 1 May 2010. ... more |
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Above and below, Chinese science soars Huge industrial and commercial benefits seen in space and deep-sea programs China has just expanded its horizons, high in the sky and deep in the sea, with two scientific achievements. The cou ... 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 Spacewalk to work on ISS scheduled Russian, American and Japanese astronauts are scheduled to conduct a space walk on the International Space Station, cosmonaut Yury Malanchenko said. ... more |
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Global search and rescue system gets recognition as real lifesaver
Solar flare ions reach extreme temperatures in breakthrough study
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  NASA technology-sharing portal announced NASA says it has launched an Internet portal to accelerate technology transfer from the space agency to U.S. businesses, industry and the public. ... 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 | .. |
That's No Lab, It's a Space Station Tiangong 1 is described by its Chinese builders as a "space laboratory". This term is has been widely adopted by journalists and space analysts. It's probably not inaccurate to call the Tiangong 1 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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  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 | .. |
 Complex Challenges Solved In Tech Meetings For Commercial Crew Program NASA's Commercial Crew Program is turning to a number of strategies to work through the complex challenges of engineering a new generation of rockets and spacecraft. Technical Interchange Meetings, ... more | .. |
 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 | .. |
 Designer elaborates on challenges facing Shenzhou-9 mission In an interview, the general designer of the Tracking, Telemetry, Command and Communication System of the China Manned Space Engineering Qian Weiping said that, if we say the core mission of the She ... more |
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China chides 'economic pressure' over Trump threat of Russian oil tariffs
Boeing says will hire replacements for striking US defense workers
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 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 | .. |
 Boeing Completes Key Reviews of Space Launch System Boeing has completed its first major technical reviews for the cryogenic stages of the Space Launch System (SLS), bringing the team into the design phase for the nation's next heavy-lift, human-rate ... more | .. |
China's manned spacecraft in final preparations for mid-June launch China's Shenzhou-9 manned spacecraft is in final preparations for its launch in mid-June, paving the way for China's first manned space docking mission, as well as the country's first space mission ... more |
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 China to conduct first manual space docking Chinese astronauts are due to carry out the nation's first manual space docking Sunday, a highly complex manoeuvre that will bring the Asian powerhouse a step closer to building a space station. ... 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 | .. |
 Two NASA Visualizations Selected for Computers Graphics Showcase A NASA computer animation that shows how the sun's heat drives the Earth's swirling winds and ocean currents and a series that tours the lunar surface and the evolution of the moon are the scientifi ... more | .. |
 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 |
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