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September 03, 2013

'Trojan' asteroids in far reaches of solar system more common than previously thought
Vancouver, Canada (SPX) Sep 03, 2013
BC astronomers have discovered the first Trojan asteroid sharing the orbit of Uranus, and believe 2011 QF99 is part of a larger-than-expected population of transient objects temporarily trapped by the gravitational pull of the Solar System's giant planets. Trojans are asteroids that share the orbit of a planet, occupying stable positions known as Lagrangian points. Astronomers considered their presence at Uranus unlikely because the gravitational pull of larger neighbouring planets would destabili ... read more

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We may all be Martians New evidence has emerged which supports the long-debated theory that life on Earth may have started on Mars. Professor Steven Benner will tell geochemists gathering today (Thursday 29 Aug) at ... more		Mars Curiosity Debuts Autonomous Navigation NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has used autonomous navigation for the first time, a capability that lets the rover decide for itself how to drive safely on Mars. This latest addition to Curiosity's arr ... more		ESO's VLT provides new clues to help solve lithium mystery An international team led by astronomers in Brazil has used ESO's Very Large Telescope to identify and study the oldest solar twin known to date. Located 250 light-years from Earth, the star HIP 102 ... more		Israeli telecom satellite sent into space: statement A rocket carrying an Israeli communications satellite has been successfully launched from a Russian facility in Kazakhstan, Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) said in a statement on Sunday. ... more
				MOND predicts dwarf galaxy feature prior to observations A modified law of gravity correctly predicted, in advance of the observations, the velocity dispersion - the average speed of stars within a galaxy relative to each other - in 10 dwarf satellite g ... more		NASA's SDO Mission Untangles Motion Inside the Sun Using an instrument on NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory, called the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager, or HMI, scientists have overturned previous notions of how the sun's writhing insides move from ... more

CubeSats, SmallSats and MicroSats

Start-up of payload preparations brings Europe's Gaia another step closer to its mission to map a billion stars Europe's billion-star surveyor, Gaia, is getting its first glimpse of the Spaceport where payload preparations have commenced for this spacecraft's launch on an Arianespace Soyuz mission later in 20 ... more		Andreas Mogensen set for Soyuz mission to ISS in 2015 ESA's Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen has been assigned to be launched on a Soyuz spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in September 2015 for a mission to the International Space Stati ... more		Canada willing to join US 'Iron Dome' missile shield: minister Israeli officers warned against criticising Trump's Gaza plan; Israel hits Hamas weapons facility in Syria Trump will cry wolf once too often		Milky Way Gas Cloud Causes Multiple Images of Distant Quasar For the first time, astronomers have seen the image of a distant quasar split into multiple images by the effects of a cloud of ionized gas in our own Milky Way Galaxy. Such events were predicted as ... more
				U.S. astronomers prepare to pour glass for giant telescope mirror A furnace in Arizona is melting glass to pour a 27-foot mirror for a giant telescope with 10 times the resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope, scientists say. ... more		Why super massive black holes consume less material than expected Using NASA's super-sensitive Chandra X-ray space telescope, a team of astronomers led by Q. Daniel Wang at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has solved a long-standing mystery about why most s ... more

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China to launch lunar lander by end of year: media China will send its first probe to land on the moon by the end of the year, space administrators said Wednesday according to state media. ... more		New Cassini data from Titan indicate a rigid, weathered ice shell An analysis of gravity and topography data from Saturn's largest moon, Titan, has revealed unexpected features of the moon's outer ice shell. The best explanation for the findings, the authors said, ... more		SFL Missions Inc. Secures CSA Contract for HAWC Satellite Concept Study Multinational research project shows how life on Earth can be measured from space How life's building blocks formed on early Earth examined through polyester protocell formation limits		Ultracold Big Bang experiment successfully simulates evolution of early universe Physicists have reproduced a pattern resembling the cosmic microwave background radiation in a laboratory simulation of the Big Bang, using ultracold cesium atoms in a vacuum chamber at the Universi ... more
				NASA Data Reveals Mega-Canyon under Greenland Ice Sheet Data from a NASA airborne science mission reveals evidence of a large and previously unknown canyon hidden under a mile of Greenland ice. The canyon has the characteristics of a winding river channe ... more		Space Laser To Prove Increased Broadband Possible When NASA's Lunar Laser Communication Demonstration (LLCD) begins operation aboard the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) mission managed by NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffet ... more

NASA Prepares for First Virginia Coast Launch to Moon

NASA Selects Launch Services Contract for OSIRIS-REx Mission

Environmental Controls Move Beyond Earth

We may all be Martians

Mars Curiosity Debuts Autonomous Navigation

Scouting a Boulder Field

Andreas Mogensen set for Soyuz mission to ISS in 2015

NASA awards nearly $1.5B in support contracts

NSBRI and NASA Reduce Space Radiation Risks by Soliciting for Center of Space Radiation Research

China to launch lunar lander by end of year: media

China launches three experimental satellites

Medical quarantine over for Shenzhou-10 astronauts

	NASA's Chandra catches our galaxy's giant black hole rejecting food Astronomers using NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory have taken a major step in explaining why material around the giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy is extraordinarily faint in X- ... more		ASA Mars Rover Views Eclipse of the Sun by Phobos Images taken with a telephoto-lens camera on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity catch the larger of Mars' two moons, Phobos, passing directly in front of the sun - the sharpest images of a solar eclipse e ... more		Arianespace Launches EUTELSAT 25B/Es'hail 1 and GSAT 7 On Thursday, August 29, Arianespace carried out the 57th successful Ariane 5 launch in a row, orbiting two telecommunications satellites: EUTELSAT 25B/Es'hail 1 for the Qatari and European operators ... more		e2v signs contract with Russia for supply of imaging sub-system to World Space Observatory Today Keith Attwood, CEO of e2v, the global provider of solutions for space and Vladimir Nevolin, deputy director of the Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (LPI) signed a ... more

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Neutron stars in the computer cloud		Earthlings are really Martians, says new theory		Brain interface allows researcher to control another's hand movements		NASA Continues Preparation for SLS Engine Testing at Stennis		ATK Delivers Backbone of NASA's JWST
Russian rocket engine export ban could halt US space program		NASA Releases New Imagery of Asteroid Mission		Scouting a Boulder Field		Chelyabinsk meteorite had previous collision or near miss		Ariane 5 build-up is completed for Arianespace upcoming flight with EUTELSAT

NASA Crashes Helicopter to Study Safety

The go-ahead is given for Ariane 5 mission to orbit EUTELSAT 25B/Es'hail 1 and GSAT-7

NASA Tests Limits of 3-D Printing with Powerful Rocket Engine Check

NIST ytterbium atomic clocks set record for stability

Sea ice decline spurs the greening of the Arctic

The potential for successful climate predictions

NASA's HS3 Mission Analyzes Saharan Dust Layer Over Eastern Atlantic

Computer Simulations Indicate Calcium Carbonate Has a Dense Liquid Phase

Arctic Sea Ice Update: Unlikely To Break Records, But Continuing Downward Trend

Meteor that hit Russia may have had close shave with Sun

Japan suspends satellite rocket launch at last minute

Promise of jobs triggers scramble for civilian drones

Indian rocket GSLV-D5 to go back to assembly building

Russian Aerospace Industry Needs State Help

Starbirth Surprisingly Energetic: ALMA observations give new insights into protostars

Global sea level rise dampened by Australia floods

Comet ISON to fly by Mars

UA astronomers take sharpest photos ever of the night sky

Israel deploys Iron Dome defence system: Netanyahu

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