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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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  Hubba-Hubble NASA has awarded University of Delaware astronomy professor Judi Provencal research time on the Hubble Space Telescope, and, as you might imagine, Provencal is over the moon about it. "The telescope ... more | .. |
  Tin-100, a doubly magic nucleus Stable tin, as we know it, comprises 112 nuclear particles - 50 protons and 632 neutrons. The neutrons act as a kind of buffer between the electrically repelling protons and prevent normal tin from ... more | .. |
 Stars, Jets and Batteries Magnetic instabilities play a crucial role in the emergence of black holes, they regulate the rotation rate of collapsing stars and influence the behavior of cosmic jets. In order to improve underst ... more | .. |
  Illuminating the dark: Ahead with the Euclid mission UK teams working on the mission to study the "dark Universe" are being granted a planned 8.5M pounds by the UK Space Agency to develop scientific instruments. This is following the formal adoption o ... more |
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US approves sale of $3 bn in munitions, bulldozers to Israel
Denmark hopes to have air defence system in place from 2026
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 Dark Universe mission blueprint complete ESA's Euclid mission to explore the hidden side of the Universe - dark energy and dark matter - has reached an important milestone that will see it head towards full construction. Selected in Octobe ... more | .. |
 Hubble Views the Globular Cluster M10 Like many of the most famous objects in the sky, globular cluster Messier 10 was of little interest to its discoverer. Charles Messier, the 18th century French astronomer, cataloged over 100 galaxie ... more | .. |
  Smartphones put writing on the wall for paid texts Text messaging, the simple telecoms service that turned into a global phenomenon, is under threat from free smartphone services and operators need to find alternative revenue streams, analysts say. ... more | .. |
 IT security problems shift as data moves to 'cloud' The Internet "cloud" has become the hottest topic in computing, but the trend has created a new range of security issues that need to be addressed. ... 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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Beyond the burn: Harvesting dead wood to reduce wildfires and store carbon
Helium Found in Earth's Core Suggests New Insights into Planetary Formation
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  HE Space Anniversary: One of Europe's leading providers of personnel services for space is 30 years old Three hundred percent growth in six years, 150 people from 26 countries and 30 job vacancies: These are the key figures of the personnel services agency specialized in space. The headquarter i ... more | .. |
  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 |
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 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 | .. |
  Earth observation for us and our planet The Rio+20 summit on promoting jobs, clean energy and a more sustainable use of our planet's resources closed after three days of talks. During the summit, the role of Earth observation in sustainab ... more | .. |
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 |
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 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 | .. |
  SwRI Building Eight NASA Nanosatellites to Help Predict Extreme Weather Events on Earth NASA has selected a team including Southwest Research Institute to develop the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS), which will provide better prediction capabilities for extreme weat ... 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 | .. |
 CERN to give update on search for 'God-particle' The European Organisation for Nuclear Research said Friday it may announce next month whether tests with its atom-smasher have found the elusive "God particle". ... more |
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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 | .. |
 Spanish group sells stake in satellite operator to China Spanish infrastructure group Abertis said on Friday it had sold a 7.0-percent stake in leading European satellite operator Eutelsat to China's sovereign wealth fund. ... 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 | .. |
 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 |
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