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March 08, 2013

A Naked-Eye Comet Invites Itself To The March Sky, 2013
Paris, France (SPX) Mar 08, 2013
It will appear in the west at sunset, from around the 8th to the 13th of March 2013, and will be visible to the naked eye up to the end of the month: comet Pan-STARRS C/2011 L4 will traverse Cetus, Pisces, Pegasus and Andromeda. The scientists of the Paris Observatory are calculating its path. They have been following it since September 2012, using the large Nancay radio telescope (in the Cher region of France), the Herschel infrared space observatory, at the Pic-du-Midi Observatory (in the Pyrene ... read more

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China targeting navigation system's global coverage by 2020 China's homegrown navigation system BeiDou is expected to achieve full-scale global coverage by around 2020, a leading scientist told Xinhua on Sunday. The BeiDou Navigation Satellite System ( ... more		LSU researchers find new information about 'Snowball Earth' period It is rather difficult to imagine, but approximately 635 million years ago, ice may have covered a vast portion of our planet in an event called "Snowball Earth." According to the Snowball Ear ... more		Waves Generated by Russian Meteor Recorded Crossing the US A network of seismographic stations recorded spectacular signals from the blast waves of the meteor that landed near Chelyabinsk, Russia, as the waves crossed the United States. The National S ... more
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China's fourth space launch center to be in use in two years China's fourth launch center, located in tropical island province of Hainan, will be ready for space launch in two years, said a member of China's top political advisory body. The launch cente ... more		Satellite SAR capabilities being enhanced An advanced satellite payload for Cospas-Sarsat, the global search-and-rescue system, is to be developed by Canada's COM DEV International Ltd. ... more		Trump announces replacement of top US military officer with 3 Star General Trump fires top-ranked US military officer as shake-ups spread U.S. officials reportedly push back on G7 language labeling Russia an 'aggressor'		Vortex loops could untie knotty physics problems University of Chicago physicists have succeeded in creating a vortex knot-a feat akin to tying a smoke ring into a knot. Linked and knotted vortex loops have existed in theory for more than a centur ... more
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e2v image sensors launched into space on board NEOSSat On 25 February 2013, e2v high performance imaging sensors were launched into space on board NEOSSat, a Canadian microsatellite mission to discover and determine orbits of Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) t ... more		'Goody Bag' Filled With Sample Processing Supplies Arrives on Station A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft has delivered a "goody bag" to the crew aboard the International Space Station. But it's not filled with treats. This goody bag - called the Wet Lab Kit - is loaded with ... more		US National Park workers reckon with fear, anger after layoffs Glacial Fracking Identified as Undetected Arctic Methane Source Morocco overturns deportation Uyghur man wanted in China		Iowa State developing ideas to save the Earth from asteroids Bong Wie has heard the snickers. You want to protect the Earth from asteroids? Where were you when the dinosaurs needed you? You want to be like Bruce Willis in that asteroid movie? Wie has a ... more
				Water dimers detected in atmospheric conditions Physicists in Russia are the first to detect water dimers - bonded pairs of gaseous water molecules - in conditions similar to Earth's atmosphere. Such dimers have been predicted to have important e ... more		Paintballs to deflect killer-asteroids In the wake of last month's meteorite explosion in Russia's Chelyabinsk, it has become increasingly clear that, if humanity is not to follow the dinosaurs into oblivion, it has to find a way to defl ... more

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China's fourth space launch center to be in use in two years

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Cassini Spies Bright Venus From Saturn Orbit

UK's TechDemoSat-1 to launch Q3 2013

Keck Observatory Completes $4 Million Adaptive Optics Fund

Ancient meteorite impact in Iowa studied

Russia to send woman to space in 2014

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Curiosity Rover's Recovery on Track

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US ready to compromise with Russia on battlefield nuclear arms

Russia will continue building up its defenses

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