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Space Breaking news and articles on Space and Astronomy... http://www.SpaceScientific.com/component/content/frontpage.html Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:40:17 +0000 Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Management en-gb Asteroid To Make Closest Approach Since 1975 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SpaceScientific/~3/qjTwDK4XaBA/24465-asteroid-to-make-closest-approach-since-1975.html http://www.SpaceScientific.com/universe-today/505-universe-today-news/24465-asteroid-to-make-closest-approach-since-1975.html <div><div id="attachment_93102" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/near_20000229_mos.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-93102" title="IDL TIFF file" src="http://1-ps.googleusercontent.com/h/www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/526x580xnear_20000229_mos-526x580.jpg.pagespeed.ic.Zr18mpLrYy.jpg" alt="Asteroid To Make Closest Approach Since 1975" width="526" height="580" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Asteroid 433 Eros as seen by NASA's NEAR spacecraft on Feb. 29, 2000. (NASA/JPL/JHUAPL)</p></div><p>On Tuesday, January 31, asteroid <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.universetoday.com/87301/eros-asteroid/" target="_blank">433 Eros</a> will come closer to Earth than it has in 37 years, traveling across the night sky in the constellations Leo, Sextans and Hydra. At its closest pass of 16.6 million miles (26.7 million km) the relatively bright 21-mile (34-km) -wide asteroid will be visible with even modest backyard telescopes, approaching magnitude 8,</p>...</div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9lAcOE08uyXuM6iLqvZORuy75sQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9lAcOE08uyXuM6iLqvZORuy75sQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9lAcOE08uyXuM6iLqvZORuy75sQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/9lAcOE08uyXuM6iLqvZORuy75sQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SpaceScientific/~4/qjTwDK4XaBA" height="1" width="1"/> info@techandcomputer.com (Editor) frontpage Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:55:00 +0000 http://www.SpaceScientific.com/universe-today/505-universe-today-news/24465-asteroid-to-make-closest-approach-since-1975.html Earth’s “Missing Energy” http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SpaceScientific/~3/OZ-_Efe9y-E/24462-earth’s-“missing-energy”.html http://www.SpaceScientific.com/universe-today/505-universe-today-news/24462-earth’s-“missing-energy”.html <div><div id="attachment_93098" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/cumuls-congestus-full.jpg"><img src="http://1-ps.googleusercontent.com/h/www.universetoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/580x435xcumuls-congestus-full-580x435.jpg.pagespeed.ic.9CTYf1smdO.jpg" alt="Earth’s “Missing Energy”" title="cumuls-congestus-full" width="580" height="435" class="size-medium wp-image-93098" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Clouds play a vital role in Earth's energy balance, cooling or warming Earth's surface depending on their type. This painting, "Cumulus Congestus," by JPL's Graeme Stephens, principal investigator of NASA's CloudSat mission, depicts cumulus clouds, which transport energy away from Earth's surface. Image credit: Graeme Stephens</p></div><p>Like many of us, Earth works on a budget – an energy budget. However, this energy isn’t the type that powers our aut</p>...</div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/kUYcGinR_7x0g_73LZOUK2w6bZE/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/kUYcGinR_7x0g_73LZOUK2w6bZE/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/kUYcGinR_7x0g_73LZOUK2w6bZE/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/kUYcGinR_7x0g_73LZOUK2w6bZE/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SpaceScientific/~4/OZ-_Efe9y-E" height="1" width="1"/> info@techandcomputer.com (Editor) frontpage Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:53:00 +0000 http://www.SpaceScientific.com/universe-today/505-universe-today-news/24462-earth’s-“missing-energy”.html NASA Moves Closer to Planetary Landing Demo Capability on Earth with Draper's GENIE http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SpaceScientific/~3/9vnZBLPUbbE/24461-nasa-moves-closer-to-planetary-landing-demo-capability-on-earth-with-draper-s-genie.html http://www.SpaceScientific.com/space-daily/526-space-daily/24461-nasa-moves-closer-to-planetary-landing-demo-capability-on-earth-with-draper-s-genie.html <img src="http://www.spxdaily.com/images-bg/draper-genie-bg.jpg" width="160" height="128" alt="NASA Moves Closer to Planetary Landing Demo Capability on Earth with Draper's GENIE" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 2px; float: right; border: 0px;" /><div><p>  NASA could test its payloads on Earth under realistic flight conditions before sending them into space by using a technology flown by Draper Laboratory last month.</p><p>  Using the GENIE (Guidance Embedded Navigator Integration Environment) System, Draper recently fully controlled the Xombie suborbital rocket built by Masten Space Systems during a closed loop tethered flight at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California.</p><p>  T</p>...</div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/VljUvVMLiFGk2Krg0g8Vt-yGo7M/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/VljUvVMLiFGk2Krg0g8Vt-yGo7M/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/VljUvVMLiFGk2Krg0g8Vt-yGo7M/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/VljUvVMLiFGk2Krg0g8Vt-yGo7M/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SpaceScientific/~4/9vnZBLPUbbE" height="1" width="1"/> info@techandcomputer.com (Editor) frontpage Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:11:00 +0000 http://www.SpaceScientific.com/space-daily/526-space-daily/24461-nasa-moves-closer-to-planetary-landing-demo-capability-on-earth-with-draper-s-genie.html Cosmology in a petri dish http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SpaceScientific/~3/KRs11NLfbVI/24460-cosmology-in-a-petri-dish.html http://www.SpaceScientific.com/space-daily/526-space-daily/24460-cosmology-in-a-petri-dish.html <img src="http://www.spxdaily.com/images-bg/particle-mesh-method-simulation-self-gravitating-fluids-bg.jpg" width="160" height="128" alt="Cosmology in a petri dish" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 2px; float: right; border: 0px;" /><div><p>  Scientists have found that micron-size particles which are trapped at fluid interfaces exhibit a collective dynamic that is subject to seemingly unrelated governing laws. These laws show a smooth transitioning from long-ranged cosmological-style gravitational attraction down to short-range attractive and repulsive forces.</p><p>  The study by Johannes Bleibel from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Stuttgart, Germany,</p>...</div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/7fzaLiKt_4GEyCaJ-zEnTFTRr9c/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/7fzaLiKt_4GEyCaJ-zEnTFTRr9c/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/7fzaLiKt_4GEyCaJ-zEnTFTRr9c/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/7fzaLiKt_4GEyCaJ-zEnTFTRr9c/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SpaceScientific/~4/KRs11NLfbVI" height="1" width="1"/> info@techandcomputer.com (Editor) frontpage Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:11:00 +0000 http://www.SpaceScientific.com/space-daily/526-space-daily/24460-cosmology-in-a-petri-dish.html U.S. Presidential Hopeful Promises Moon Base by 2020 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SpaceScientific/~3/rho48vqFvA8/24459-u-s-presidential-hopeful-promises-moon-base-by-2020.html http://www.SpaceScientific.com/space-daily/526-space-daily/24459-u-s-presidential-hopeful-promises-moon-base-by-2020.html <img src="http://www.spxdaily.com/images-bg/newt-gingrich-300-bg.jpg" width="160" height="128" alt="U.S. Presidential Hopeful Promises Moon Base by 2020" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 2px; float: right; border: 0px;" /><div><p>  US Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich has promised to build a moon base by 2020 if he becomes the next U.S. President in November, the Former Speaker of the House of Representatives said in an address to a crowd of over 700 people on Florida's "Space Coast" on Wednesday.</p><p>  "By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon and it will be American," Gingrich promised to an applauding</p>...</div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/6jqQbSNc_466V_UnFf2GQ9WPIpo/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/6jqQbSNc_466V_UnFf2GQ9WPIpo/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/6jqQbSNc_466V_UnFf2GQ9WPIpo/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/6jqQbSNc_466V_UnFf2GQ9WPIpo/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SpaceScientific/~4/rho48vqFvA8" height="1" width="1"/> info@techandcomputer.com (Editor) frontpage Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:11:00 +0000 http://www.SpaceScientific.com/space-daily/526-space-daily/24459-u-s-presidential-hopeful-promises-moon-base-by-2020.html NASA Says No to Probe Crash Theory Test http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SpaceScientific/~3/8wgvYwgxfUE/24458-nasa-says-no-to-probe-crash-theory-test.html http://www.SpaceScientific.com/space-daily/526-space-daily/24458-nasa-says-no-to-probe-crash-theory-test.html <img src="http://www.spxdaily.com/images-bg/phobos-grunt-mars-probe-brown-bg.jpg" width="160" height="128" alt="NASA Says No to Probe Crash Theory Test" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 2px; float: right; border: 0px;" /><div><p>  NASA has refused to participate in an experiment designed to show if U.S. radars could have had an impact on Russia's troubled Phobos-Grunt Mars probe, the deputy head of the country's space agency, Roscosmos, Anatoly Shylov said on Thursday.</p><p>  "Roscosmos filed an official request to the U.S. side to participate in the investigation, but they refused," Shylov said.</p><p>  The official also said that the government commission</p>...</div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/KrSO89S-j4J-1J-gfxkyB9-I91w/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/KrSO89S-j4J-1J-gfxkyB9-I91w/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/KrSO89S-j4J-1J-gfxkyB9-I91w/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/KrSO89S-j4J-1J-gfxkyB9-I91w/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SpaceScientific/~4/8wgvYwgxfUE" height="1" width="1"/> info@techandcomputer.com (Editor) frontpage Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:11:00 +0000 http://www.SpaceScientific.com/space-daily/526-space-daily/24458-nasa-says-no-to-probe-crash-theory-test.html Wild Early Lives of Today's Most Massive Galaxies http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SpaceScientific/~3/SdzvoTX2YmU/24457-wild-early-lives-of-today-s-most-massive-galaxies.html http://www.SpaceScientific.com/space-daily/526-space-daily/24457-wild-early-lives-of-today-s-most-massive-galaxies.html <img src="http://www.spxdaily.com/images-bg/laboca-camera-atacama-pathfinder-experiment-apex-telescope-distant-galaxies-star-formation-activity-starburst-bg.jpg" width="160" height="128" alt="Wild Early Lives of Today's Most Massive Galaxies" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 2px; float: right; border: 0px;" /><div><p>  Astronomers have combined observations from the LABOCA camera on the ESO-operated 12-meter Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope [1] with measurements made with ESO's Very Large Telescope, NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, and others, to look at the way that bright, distant galaxies are gathered together in groups or clusters.</p><p>  The more closely the galaxies are clustered, the more massive are their halos of dark matter -</p>...</div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/gd1NMxTUBBOTWGKqpkIpPyjURj8/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/gd1NMxTUBBOTWGKqpkIpPyjURj8/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/gd1NMxTUBBOTWGKqpkIpPyjURj8/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/gd1NMxTUBBOTWGKqpkIpPyjURj8/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SpaceScientific/~4/SdzvoTX2YmU" height="1" width="1"/> info@techandcomputer.com (Editor) frontpage Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:11:00 +0000 http://www.SpaceScientific.com/space-daily/526-space-daily/24457-wild-early-lives-of-today-s-most-massive-galaxies.html Mars Orbiter Shows Wind's Handiwork http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SpaceScientific/~3/6UHHqa94O74/24456-mars-orbiter-shows-wind-s-handiwork.html http://www.SpaceScientific.com/space-daily/526-space-daily/24456-mars-orbiter-shows-wind-s-handiwork.html <img src="http://www.spxdaily.com/images-bg/dunes-trapped-impact-crater-noachis-terra-mars-bg.jpg" width="160" height="128" alt="Mars Orbiter Shows Wind's Handiwork" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 2px; float: right; border: 0px;" /><div><p>  Some images of stark Martian landscapes provide visual appeal beyond their science value, including a recent scene of wind-sculpted features from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.</p><p>  The scene shows dunes and sand ripples of various shapes and sizes inside an impact crater in the Noachis Terra region of southern Mars. Patterns of dune erosion and deposition</p>...</div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/n8t8yt7xqGuiGNF10iszRtmp2Z4/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/n8t8yt7xqGuiGNF10iszRtmp2Z4/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/n8t8yt7xqGuiGNF10iszRtmp2Z4/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/n8t8yt7xqGuiGNF10iszRtmp2Z4/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SpaceScientific/~4/6UHHqa94O74" height="1" width="1"/> info@techandcomputer.com (Editor) frontpage Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:11:00 +0000 http://www.SpaceScientific.com/space-daily/526-space-daily/24456-mars-orbiter-shows-wind-s-handiwork.html Does antimatter weigh more than matter http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SpaceScientific/~3/Q_ouE7mdc64/24455-does-antimatter-weigh-more-than-matter.html http://www.SpaceScientific.com/space-daily/526-space-daily/24455-does-antimatter-weigh-more-than-matter.html <img src="http://www.spxdaily.com/images-bg/allen-mills-lab-bg.jpg" width="160" height="128" alt="Does antimatter weigh more than matter" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 2px; float: right; border: 0px;" /><div><p>  Does antimatter behave differently in gravity than matter? Physicists at the University of California, Riverside have set out to determine the answer. Should they find it, it could explain why the universe seems to have no antimatter and why it is expanding at an ever increasing rate.</p><p>  In the lab, the researchers took the first step towards measuring the free fall of "positronium" - a bound state between a positron and an</p>...</div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/tz14kfhLNOSuKbENvqDyEd47RIM/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/tz14kfhLNOSuKbENvqDyEd47RIM/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/tz14kfhLNOSuKbENvqDyEd47RIM/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/tz14kfhLNOSuKbENvqDyEd47RIM/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SpaceScientific/~4/Q_ouE7mdc64" height="1" width="1"/> info@techandcomputer.com (Editor) frontpage Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:11:00 +0000 http://www.SpaceScientific.com/space-daily/526-space-daily/24455-does-antimatter-weigh-more-than-matter.html Russia Plans to Launch U.S. Satellite in February http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/SpaceScientific/~3/eVnQon8VBYk/24454-russia-plans-to-launch-u-s-satellite-in-february.html http://www.SpaceScientific.com/space-daily/526-space-daily/24454-russia-plans-to-launch-u-s-satellite-in-february.html <img src="http://www.spxdaily.com/images-bg/proton-m-rocket-baikonur-kazakhstan-brown-bg.jpg" width="160" height="128" alt="Russia Plans to Launch U.S. Satellite in February" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 2px; float: right; border: 0px;" /><div><p>  Russia is preparing a Proton-M carrier rocket for the launch of the U.S. Sirius FM-6 telecoms satellite, Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said on Thursday.</p><p>  "The launch is tentatively scheduled for February 2012," Roscosmos said.</p><p>  The assembly of the upper stage of the rocket and the testing of a Briz-M booster is being carried out at the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan.</p><p>  The Sirius FM-6 mission was</p>...</div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ARm7vIVpVZZ3sLylN6s7dR1BChQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ARm7vIVpVZZ3sLylN6s7dR1BChQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ARm7vIVpVZZ3sLylN6s7dR1BChQ/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/ARm7vIVpVZZ3sLylN6s7dR1BChQ/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/SpaceScientific/~4/eVnQon8VBYk" height="1" width="1"/> info@techandcomputer.com (Editor) frontpage Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:11:00 +0000 http://www.SpaceScientific.com/space-daily/526-space-daily/24454-russia-plans-to-launch-u-s-satellite-in-february.html