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Earth's Other MoonsManoa HI (SPX) Apr 04, 2012 Earth usually has more than one moon, according to a team of astronomers from the University of Helsinki, the Paris Observatory and the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Our 2,000-mile-diameter Moon, so beloved by poets, artists and romantics, has been orbiting Earth for over 4 billion years. Its much smaller cousins, dubbed "minimoons," are thought to be only a few feet across and to usually orbit our planet for less than a year before resuming their previous lives as asteroids orbiting the Sun. ... read more |
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  A planetary system from the early Universe A group of European astronomers has discovered an ancient planetary system that is likely to be a survivor from one of the earliest cosmic eras, 13 billion years ago. The system consists of th ... more | .. |
  Orbital Receives Order for Minotaur I Space Launch Vehicle From USAF Orbital Sciences reports that the U.S. Air Force has exercised an option order for a Minotaur I space launch vehicle to support the ORS-3 "Enabler" mission for the Operationally Responsive Space (OR ... more | .. |
  Met Office to Provide Space Weather Warnings for Planet Earth and Forecasts for Exoplanets The UK Met Office's weather and climate model is being adapted to help understand space weather at Earth and the atmospheres of planets orbiting other stars. Two teams of scientists presented their ... more | .. |
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  Boeing Completes Parachute Drop Test of Crew Space Transportation Spacecraft Boeing has completed a parachute drop test of the company's Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft at the Delmar Dry Lake Bed near Alamo, Nev. CST-100 is part of the Boeing Commercial Crew T ... more | .. |
 Solar Eruptions Cause Sunquakes A study led by UCL's Mullard Space Science Laboratory has shown for the first time that sunquakes can be produced during eruptions of magnetic field and charged particles, as the immense magnetic st ... more | .. |
  NASA and ATK Push Ahead With Booster for Deep Space Exploration System NASA and ATK hascompleted the first test for NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) booster program March 28 at ATK's Promontory, Utah, test facility. This demonstration was a key avionics and controls te ... more | .. |
  Space Savings for ISS Science Samples Efficiency is the name of the game when talking about packing things into small spaces. Anyone who has ever tried to compress an overstuffed suitcase knows that one of the greatest updates to carry- ... more |
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China says to hike defence spending by 7.2% this year
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 Busy first days for ATV Edoardo Amaldi Just two days after a flawless docking with the ISS on 29 March, ESA's third ATV has conducted its first 'test' reboost, proving that it is fully integrated with the Station and ready to perform orb ... more | .. |
  Handover of Japan-built Radar to NASA On March 30, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) officially handed off a new satellite instrument to NASA at Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. The Dual-frequency Precipitation Ra ... more | .. |
 Supersonic snowballs in hell how comets interact with the Sun's atmosphere Since the 1980s astronomers have seen thousands of comets falling towards the Sun, most of them too small to survive a close approach, let alone to re-emerge. Until recently no such objects had been ... more | .. |
 Huge tornadoes discovered on the Sun Solar tornadoes several times as wide as the Earth can be generated in the solar atmosphere, say researchers in the UK. A solar tornado was discovered using the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly telescop ... more |
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  Hardware 'bug' hits TomTom nav devices The Dutch maker of TomTom satellite-navigation units says a "leap year bug" has caused a fault resulting in some of the devices malfunctioning. ... more | .. |
  Australia, S. Korea create giant telescope Astronomers in Australia have linked radio telescopes in that country with counterparts in South Korea to create a giant instrument almost 5,000 miles across. ... more | .. |
 Discovery of an 'alien earth' imminent? The first planet that can be considered a true "alien Earth" will probably be discovered in the next two years, a NASA scientist says. ... more | .. |
  US scientists launch personalized robot project Imagine going to a local store, picking out a design for a robot to help with some household chores, and having the device built within a matter of hours. ... more |
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FARMing with Data OpenET Introduces FARMS Tool to Aid Water Management
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 Spy robot can jump 30 feet straight up The U.S. Army has tested a reconnaissance robot that can jump 30 feet into the air, high enough to vault into a second story window, its maker says. ... more | .. |
 Facebook fans get to play out celebrity fantasies A trio of console videogame stars joined the online social play revolution with a free-to-play title that lets folks at Facebook virtually live out celebrity fantasies. ... more | .. |
 New Study Calls For Recognition of Private Property Claims in Space 150 years ago in 1862, amidst the bloodiest war in our nation's history, the Lincoln administration had the foresight to pass two historic pieces of legislation: the Pacific Railway Act and the Home ... more | .. |
  Clocking an accelerating universe: First results from BOSS Some six billion light years ago, almost halfway from now back to the big bang, the universe was undergoing an elemental change. Held back until then by the mutual gravitational attraction of all th ... more |
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  Dawn Marks 205 Years Of Humans Watching Vesta Vesta is spending the 205th anniversary of its discovery by treating Dawn to more spectacular vistas. When Heinrich Wilhelm Matthaus Olbers first spotted Vesta, he could hardly have imagined that th ... more | .. |
  Fermi Observations of Dwarf Galaxies Provide New Insights on Dark Matter There's more to the cosmos than meets the eye. About 80 percent of the matter in the universe is invisible to telescopes, yet its gravitational influence is manifest in the orbital speeds of stars a ... more | .. |
  Orbital Celebrates 30th Anniversary of Company's Founding Orbital Sciences has celebrated the company's first three decades in the space business as it completed 30 years of operations since the enterprise's founding on April 2, 1982. At anniversary events ... more | .. |
  The sounds of Mars and Venus are revealed for the first time In a world first, the sounds of Mars and Venus are revealed as part of a planetarium show in Hampshire this Easter. Despite many years of space exploration, we have no evidence of the sound of other ... more |
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 Europe's ATV-3 Space Freighter Adjusts ISS Orbit Europe's ATV-3 unmanned resupply spacecraft, which docked with the ISS earlier this week, readjusted the space station's orbit on Sunday, the Mission Control said. Two main engines of ATV-3 we ... more | .. |
 SLS Avionics Test Paves Way for Full-Scale Booster Firing NASA has successfully tested the solid rocket booster avionics for the first two test flights of the Space Launch System, America's next heavy-lift launch vehicle. This avionics system include ... more | .. |
 Comet Wild2: First Evidence of Space Weathering The traditional picture of comets as cold, icy, unchanging bodies throughout their history is being reappraised in the light of analyses of dust grains from Comet Wild2. A team led by the Univ ... more | .. |
 Getting to Know the Goldilocks Planet NASA's Kepler spacecraft is discovering a veritable avalanche of alien worlds. Recent finds include planets with double suns, massive "super-Earths" and "hot Jupiters," and a miniature solar system. ... more |
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 Mars missions race, India takes lead India aims at sending an orbiter to Mars in 2013. The race for the Red planet unwinds with NASA planning a launch for the same 2013 fiscal year and China somewhat lagging behind. Earlier this month ... more | .. |
Many US police use cell phones to track: study Many US police departments use cell phone tracking, often without court orders, to find suspects and investigate criminal cases, according to a study released Monday. ... more | .. |
 A Star Explodes, Turns Inside-Out A new X-ray study of the remains of an exploded star indicates that the supernova that disrupted the massive star may have turned it inside out in the process. Using very long observations of Cassio ... more | .. |
  N. Korea rocket launch plan well advanced: website New satellite imagery shows advanced preparations by North Korea for its rocket launch, including a mobile radar trailer and apparently empty fuel tanks, a US website reported Monday. ... more |
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