items tagged with Solar system
Sun to destroy Earth in 7.6 billion years
Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-02-24 06:27:39
No need to panic just yet, but in 7.6 billion years, the dying Sun will expand and burn up our planet completely. The answer? Use a large passing asteroid to ‘nudge’ our orbit further outwards; live on space ‘life rafts’ or leave the planet in search of strange new worlds.
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Written By: Alex Zaharov-Reutt
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-02-24 06:27:39
No need to panic just yet, but in 7.6 billion years, the dying Sun will expand and burn up our planet completely. The answer? Use a large passing asteroid to ‘nudge’ our orbit further outwards; live on space ‘life rafts’ or leave the planet in search of strange new worlds.
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Asteroid 2007 WD5 passes safely by Mars; 2007 TU24 does same with Earth
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-02-03 09:47:55
Going from a 3.6% chance to a zero chance of hitting Mars, Asteroid 2007 WD5 raced by the Red Planet without a collision, coming within about 13,700 miles of the planet. Also, Asteroid 2007 TU24 passed by Earth, a day earlier, on January 29, 2008, without any problems.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-02-03 09:47:55
Going from a 3.6% chance to a zero chance of hitting Mars, Asteroid 2007 WD5 raced by the Red Planet without a collision, coming within about 13,700 miles of the planet. Also, Asteroid 2007 TU24 passed by Earth, a day earlier, on January 29, 2008, without any problems.
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Mercury data surprises scientists
Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-30 15:48:29
Data received from NASA's MESSENGER Mercury probe has delivered some surprises for scientists studying the solar system's innermost planet.
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Written By: Stephen Withers
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-30 15:48:29
Data received from NASA's MESSENGER Mercury probe has delivered some surprises for scientists studying the solar system's innermost planet.
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Comet Wild 2 looks like asteroid to NASA Stardust spacecraft
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-25 09:37:15
NASA’s Stardust mission to Comet Wild 2 back in 2004, in which samples were returned to Earth, are now being analyzed by astronomers. They are surprised because the comet looks more like an asteroid: calling it an asteroid-like comet.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-25 09:37:15
NASA’s Stardust mission to Comet Wild 2 back in 2004, in which samples were returned to Earth, are now being analyzed by astronomers. They are surprised because the comet looks more like an asteroid: calling it an asteroid-like comet.
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Brace for impact: Collision between Smith’s Cloud and Milky Way
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Energy
2008-01-12 10:40:20
Smith’s Cloud, a gigantic cloud of hydrogen gas, is heading toward our Milky Way Galaxy at over 540,000 miles per hour (864,000 kilometers per hour)—or about 150 miles per second. And, a collision is about to happen ....
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Energy
2008-01-12 10:40:20
Smith’s Cloud, a gigantic cloud of hydrogen gas, is heading toward our Milky Way Galaxy at over 540,000 miles per hour (864,000 kilometers per hour)—or about 150 miles per second. And, a collision is about to happen ....
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Swiss give best estimate of Moon age at 62M years after solar system formed
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-04 21:41:36
A study based on tungsten isotopes has revised the age for the Moon’s formation. The Moon is thought to have been created when a giant space object hit the Earth.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2008-01-04 21:41:36
A study based on tungsten isotopes has revised the age for the Moon’s formation. The Moon is thought to have been created when a giant space object hit the Earth.
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Celebrate the New Year with Comet 8P/Tuttle
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-12-30 08:31:44
On January 1 and 2, 2008, Comet 8P/Tuttle will be making its closest approach to Earth. See it in your local northern sky as it travels less than 24 million miles away. And, southern sky watchers get to see it later in January.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-12-30 08:31:44
On January 1 and 2, 2008, Comet 8P/Tuttle will be making its closest approach to Earth. See it in your local northern sky as it travels less than 24 million miles away. And, southern sky watchers get to see it later in January.
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Possibility of asteroid hitting Mars upped to 1 out of 25
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-12-29 09:14:03
One week ago the chance of Mars getting smacked by 2007 WD5 asteroid was 1 out of 75. Based on historical data of the asteroid’s path, that possibility of a collision has been raised to 1 out of 25, or four percent.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-12-29 09:14:03
One week ago the chance of Mars getting smacked by 2007 WD5 asteroid was 1 out of 75. Based on historical data of the asteroid’s path, that possibility of a collision has been raised to 1 out of 25, or four percent.
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Sandia simulation shows small near-earth objects can cause big troubles
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-12-22 10:02:05
A Sandia supercomputer has found that the space body causing the Tunguska explosion, which destroyed hundreds of thousands of acres and thousands of animals, in Siberia in 1908 was 3-4 times smaller than what first thought. Humans should pay attention to these smaller space bodies for the sake of millions of lives.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-12-22 10:02:05
A Sandia supercomputer has found that the space body causing the Tunguska explosion, which destroyed hundreds of thousands of acres and thousands of animals, in Siberia in 1908 was 3-4 times smaller than what first thought. Humans should pay attention to these smaller space bodies for the sake of millions of lives.
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Where oh where is the comet?
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-12-17 07:52:35
That’s what they said when NASA scientists decided to send their Deep Impact spacecraft to Comet 85P/Boethin. When they looked again for the comet, it was no where to be found. So, Deep Impact was re-direced to Comet Hartley 2.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-12-17 07:52:35
That’s what they said when NASA scientists decided to send their Deep Impact spacecraft to Comet 85P/Boethin. When they looked again for the comet, it was no where to be found. So, Deep Impact was re-direced to Comet Hartley 2.
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Voyager 1 and 2 say solar system is dented
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-12-11 09:19:11
NASA scientists used data from the long-running, far, far away interstellar Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft to find that the solar system has an asymmetrical (not balanced or regularly arranged) shape.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-12-11 09:19:11
NASA scientists used data from the long-running, far, far away interstellar Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 spacecraft to find that the solar system has an asymmetrical (not balanced or regularly arranged) shape.
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Mechanisms for solar wind discovered by Japanese Hinode spacecraft
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-12-10 09:43:30
An international group of scientists using the Hinode spacecraft have found that two mechanisms produce the solar wind. How the solar wind was produced was previously not fully understood by scientists.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-12-10 09:43:30
An international group of scientists using the Hinode spacecraft have found that two mechanisms produce the solar wind. How the solar wind was produced was previously not fully understood by scientists.
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Thirty Meter Telescope gets $200 million boost
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-12-06 11:58:40
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation gave the University of California and the California Institute of Technology a commitment of $200 million for future development and construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT).
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-12-06 11:58:40
The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation gave the University of California and the California Institute of Technology a commitment of $200 million for future development and construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT).
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Mars is BIG and RED for its close encounter with Earth
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-11-22 09:01:36
Mars and Earth are a mere 55 million miles (89 million kilometers) apart, making Mars appear much redder and larger than usual. See Mars, and the Moon, November 26-27, 2007, at your local night sky.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-11-22 09:01:36
Mars and Earth are a mere 55 million miles (89 million kilometers) apart, making Mars appear much redder and larger than usual. See Mars, and the Moon, November 26-27, 2007, at your local night sky.
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See the star-eating comet Monday night 11.19.2007
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-11-19 08:22:38
Ok, Comet Holmes is not really going to eat a star, but the evening of November 19, 2007, in the western hemisphere, will be a good time to see the comet fly directly in front of the star Mirfak (alpha Persei) and appear to engulf it with its large cloud of dust.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-11-19 08:22:38
Ok, Comet Holmes is not really going to eat a star, but the evening of November 19, 2007, in the western hemisphere, will be a good time to see the comet fly directly in front of the star Mirfak (alpha Persei) and appear to engulf it with its large cloud of dust.
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Comet Holmes tops the solar system, now larger than Sun
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-11-15 09:36:33
Comet 17P/Holmes, which has been growing larger since October 23, 2007, is now larger than the Sun. Although the Sun is now the second largest body in the solar system it still is much more massive than the tenuous comet.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-11-15 09:36:33
Comet 17P/Holmes, which has been growing larger since October 23, 2007, is now larger than the Sun. Although the Sun is now the second largest body in the solar system it still is much more massive than the tenuous comet.
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Annual Taurid meteor shower to peak November 12, 2007
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-11-10 10:20:35
The Taurid meteor shower, which is caused by the Comet Encke is expected to show its best display in the eastern sky just before dawn on Monday, November 12th.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-11-10 10:20:35
The Taurid meteor shower, which is caused by the Comet Encke is expected to show its best display in the eastern sky just before dawn on Monday, November 12th.
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One physical stretch by an astronaut will lead to one long intellectual stretch for humankind
Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2007-11-05 08:40:01
Without the successful NASA spacewalk conducted on Saturday, November 3, 2007, to repair a damaged solar array, future planned missions would have had to be halted. One man, one team, one community performed a makeshift operation to save the day and, in the process, to save the International Space Station.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: UNI-verse
Category: The Science Blog
2007-11-05 08:40:01
Without the successful NASA spacewalk conducted on Saturday, November 3, 2007, to repair a damaged solar array, future planned missions would have had to be halted. One man, one team, one community performed a makeshift operation to save the day and, in the process, to save the International Space Station.
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NASA liftoff: Dawn brightens the early morning
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-09-27 08:15:54
The NASA Dawn spacecraft was launched onboard a Delta 2 rocket at 7:34 a.m. EDT on Thursday, September 27, 2007—about twenty-one minutes after the dawning of the day—on a mission to learn about the early history of the solar system from two large asteroids.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-09-27 08:15:54
The NASA Dawn spacecraft was launched onboard a Delta 2 rocket at 7:34 a.m. EDT on Thursday, September 27, 2007—about twenty-one minutes after the dawning of the day—on a mission to learn about the early history of the solar system from two large asteroids.
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Two asteroids collide, space rocks spew out, one kills dinosaurs
Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-09-05 21:01:37
In a nutshell, a new U.S. study states that two giant asteroids collided inside the asteroid belt about 160 million years ago, and two fragments hit the Earth and the Moon. Mass extinctions occurred on Earth, killing, among other creatures, the dinosaurs.
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Written By: William Atkins
Section: Science
Category: Space
2007-09-05 21:01:37
In a nutshell, a new U.S. study states that two giant asteroids collided inside the asteroid belt about 160 million years ago, and two fragments hit the Earth and the Moon. Mass extinctions occurred on Earth, killing, among other creatures, the dinosaurs.
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