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February 21, 2016

Puzzling asteroid observations explained by destruction of asteroids close to Sun
Helsinki, Finland (SPX) Feb 18, 2016
An international team composed of researchers from Finland, France, the United States and the Czech Republic originally set out to construct a state-of-the-art model of the NEO population that is needed for planning future asteroid surveys and spacecraft missions. The model describes the NEOs' orbit distribution and estimates the number of NEOs of different sizes. The vast majority of NEOs originate in the doughnut-shaped main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. The orbit of a ma ... read more

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Longest-Lasting Stellar Eclipse Discovered Imagine living on a world where, every 69 years, the sun disappears in a near-total eclipse that lasts for three and a half years. That is just what happens in an unnamed binary star system ne ... more		X Prize aims to show AI is friend not foe An X Prize unveiled on Wednesday promised millions of dollars to a team that could best show that artificial intelligence is humanity's friend, not its enemy. ... more		Opportunity Taking Panoramic Views and Prepping for Science Opportunity is exploring 'Marathon Valley' on the rim of Endeavour crater. The rover is up on very steep slopes to reach high-value science targets on 'Knudsen Ridge.' For the past week, Oppor ... more
				Staying Alive on Tiangong 2 China's next astronauts will launch this year aboard the Shenzhou 11 spacecraft. Their target will be the Tiangong 2 space laboratory, which will probably launch at least a few weeks before them. Th ... more		NASA Report Details Expert Team Investigation of Asteroid Redirect Mission A new report chartered by NASA provides input to important areas of robotic mission requirements development and explores the science benefits and potential knowledge gain from the agency's Asteroid ... more

Can fables, fairy tales teach robots morality? Researchers at Georgia Tech are attempting to give robots a sense of right and wrong by teaching them fairy tales. ... more		A global Olympic-style competition to advance assistive and robotic technologies According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), around 15% of the world's population is physically impaired to some degree. In order to overcome the hurdles of everyday life, many disabled people ... more		North Korea declares nuclear statehood 'permanently enshrined' ArianeGroup to develop next-generation M51.4 missile for French nuclear deterrent Comtech modem earns first sovereign certification for SES O3b mPOWER network		Russia plans return to Mars, Moon despite money woes Visitors are rare these days to the museum of Russia's Space Research Institute in Moscow even though it holds gems like the model of the Soviet Lunokhod, the first ever space rover to land on the Moon, in 1970. ... more
				NASA to simulate growing potatoes on Mars in Peru Do Peru's potatoes have the right stuff? ... more		Pluto's 'Hulk-like' Moon Charon: A Possible Ancient Ocean? Pluto's largest moon may have gotten too big for its own skin. Images from NASA's New Horizons mission suggest that Pluto's moon Charon once had a subsurface ocean that has long since frozen a ... more

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Astronomers take images of an exoplanet changing over time Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers at the University of Arizona have taken the first direct, time-resolved images of an exoplanet. Their results were published in The Astrophysical Jou ... more		Hubble Directly Measures Rotation of Cloudy 'Super-Jupiter' Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have measured the rotation rate of an extreme exoplanet by observing the varied brightness in its atmosphere. This is the first measurement of the rot ... more		New U.S.-European Sea Level Satellite Will Help Safeguard Ships at Sea Planet captures first light from Pelican-3 satellite as constellation expands Trump signs memorandum to deploy U.S. National Guard troops to Memphis		China Relocates 10,000 for Giant Telescope to Search for Alien Life Chinese authorities will relocate almost ten thousand people from their homes in the southwest of the country to construct the world's largest radio telescope, intended to search for alien life. ... more
NASA chooses ASU to design and operate special satellite It's difficult to imagine a shoebox on the forefront of scientific discovery. However, that's exactly what a group of researchers at ASU's School of Earth and Space Exploration is doing. The team is ... more		Chinese scientists invent leak detection system for moon exploration Chinese scientists have developed a system to measure the leak rate for a vacuum environment which will be used in the country's third step moon exploration program. According to scientists at ... more		First detection of super-earth atmosphere For the first time astronomers were able to analyse the atmosphere of an exoplanet in the class known as super-Earths. Using data gathered with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and new analysis t ... more		China's space telescope to displace humans in search for aliens China will move nearly 10,000 people to make way for the world's largest radio telescope which promises to help humanity search for alien life, state media reported on Tuesday. ... more

	US, Spain to Jointly Monitor Outer Space Traffic The United States and Spain have signed a memorandum agreeing to monitor space by sharing situational data, the US Strategic Command (STRATCOM) said in a press release on Tuesday. "Our space s ... more		Russia Developing Remote Controlled Robot for Space Tasks Russia is developing a remote controlled robot to carry out tasks at Russia's planned national space station, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said Saturday. "A combat robot may be ... more

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