Brown geologists Takahiro Hiroi and Carle Pieters and a colleague from NASA have identified the location from which an unusually well-preserved meteorite fell — the mid-to-far end of the asteroid […]
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Well preserved meteorite yields clues to carbon evolution in space
The first results are in from the organic analysis of the Tagish Lake Meteorite, a rare, carbon-rich meteorite classified as a “carbonaceous chondrite” that fell on a frozen Canadian lake […]
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NASA awards contracts for new remote sensing instrument technology
NASA awarded funding for 11 new contracts for technology development of innovative Earth Science remote-sensing instruments under its Instrument Incubator Program (IIP). The objective of the program is to invest […]
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Cosmos 1 Solar Sail Team Announces Ambitious New Flight Plan
Mission Is a Joint Project of The Planetary Society and Cosmos Studios Pasadena, CA –“The next flight in the Cosmos 1 solar sail project will be an orbital test of […]
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Galileo Flyby Reveals Callisto’s Bizarre Landscape
A spiky landscape of bright ice and dark dust shows signs of slow but active erosion on the surface of Jupiter’s moon Callisto in new images from NASA’s Galileo spacecraft. […]
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Heavy Metal Stars – La Silla Telescope Detects Lots of Lead in Three Distant Binaries
Text with all links and the photo is available at http://www.eso.org/outreach/press-rel/pr-2001/pr-19-01.html Summary Very high abundances of the heavy element Lead have been discovered in three distant stars in the Milky […]
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Kodiak Star Scheduled for Launch From Alaska Sept. 17
The launch of Kodiak Star aboard a Lockheed Martin Athena 1 launch vehicle from Alaska’s Kodiak Launch Complex is scheduled for Monday, Sept. 17 at the opening of a launch […]
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Is Earth’s magnetic field failing?
If you can’t journey to the centre of the Earth, why not bring the churning heart of the planet to your lab? It’s scary stuff, but Adrian Cho thinks it […]
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Teledesic Close to Naming Prime Contractor for Internet-in-the-Sky Network
Finalists Include Alenia Spazio and Lockheed Martin Teledesic LLC, a satellite communications services company, today announced that it has down-selected satellite manufacturers Alenia Spazio, a member company of the Finmeccanica […]
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Advances in our Understanding of Life
Excerpts from the testimony of Jack D. Farmer, Director and Principal Investigator of the NASA funded Astrobiology Program at Arizona State University, for the “Life in the Universe” hearings before […]
