Science - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
The first U.S. spacecraft designed to explore the extreme outer solar system is ready for launch....
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- The first U.S. spacecraft designed to explore the extreme outer solar system is ready for launch. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said the Interstellar Boundary Explorer -- or IBEX -- spacecraft will image and map the dynamic interactions taking place where the hot solar wind reaches the cold expanse of space. The two-year mission will begin Oct. 19 when...
Junk for Code (Free subscription) | yesterday
This image spans the floor of Ius Chasma's southern trench. Ius Chasma is located in the western region of Valles Marineris, the solar system's largest canyon. This canyon is well known for its fine stratigraphic layers modified by wind and water. Mars, lus Chasma floor, Mars Reconnaissance Explorer, 2008 Ius...
ideonexus (Free subscription) | yesterday
TB bacteria coats itself in sugar to sucker lung cells into giving it a home. Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria Credit: CDC Our solar system takes a sometimes dangerous orbit through the Milky Way. The Government Accountability Office slams Carbon Offsets as being crafted by the Oil Industries they are meant to restrict. “Scrumpox” is a form of herpes that spreads through [...]
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | yesterday
A Nasa spacecraft zoomed above the surface of Mercury on Monday, viewing rocky terrain never before seen up close on our solar system's innermost planet, scientists said.
Dohiyi Mir (Free subscription) | yesterday
A crisp night with a few clouds make for a moody scene. The Moon and Nunki (Sigma Sagitarii, part of the Teapot Asterism in Sagitarius). And now a more straight up shot with Jupiter. ntodd
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Washington - NASA's Messenger spacecraft came within just 200 kilometres of Mercury early Monday, taking pictures of the rocky planet nearest the sun. It was the second of three planned flybys for the craft, which is due to settle into orbit around M...
Reuters UK (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A car-sized NASA spacecraft zoomed above the surface of Mercury on Monday, viewing rocky terrain never before seen up close on our solar system's sun-baked innermost planet, scientists said.
Planetary Society (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Boulder-Sized Asteroid will Burn Up in Earth's Atmosphere
Earth and other unlikely worlds (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Fast Forward 2 , an unthemed anthology of original shories, including one of mine, is out now. And there's free stuff on the interweb to promote it: editor Lou Anders' introduction , and 'Catherine Drew' , Paul Cornell's dashing tale of derring-do in a Solar System dominated by the British Empire. In other news, there's an early review of The Quiet War in the Guardian , Eternal Light is due to be republished...
www.OSIR.org.in (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
One of the greatest achievements in the life of an astronomer is to discover a new planet or solar system. In the political world, the equivalent is uncovering a new voting bloc. When writing my latest book, “The Audacity of Deceit: Barack Obama’s Source: www.investors.com Top scientist to work full-time in greater orbit - [...]
Fireballs and Meteorites - SOTT.NET (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Meteorites From Inner Solar System Match Up To Earth's Platinum Standard Science Daily Sat, 04 Oct 2008 03:52 UTC Some of the world's rarest and most precious metals, including platinum and iridium, could owe their presence in the Earth's crust to iron and stony-iron meteorites, fragments of a large number of asteroids that underwent significant geological processing in the early Solar System. © ESA...
Fanboy.com (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
It's interesting to think that the birth of our solar system may mirror the birth of the universe itself: Our Solar System Born in 'Little Bang' "First there was the theoretical Big Bang that got the universe going. Several...
HolyCoast.com (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Brad O'Leary has a column at Investor's Business Daily that should be a warning to all of us of what's to come: One of the greatest achievements in the life of an astronomer is to discover a new planet or solar system. In the political world, the equivalent is uncovering a new voting bloc. When writing my latest book, "The Audacity of Deceit: Barack Obama's War on American Values," I discovered a relatively...
Arkytek Ltd :: Blog (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Jeff Kantor, on building and managing a 150 Petabyte database Interview It makes for one heck of a project mission statement. Explore the nature of dark matter, chart the Solar System in exhaustive detail, discover and analyze rare objects such as neutron stars and black hole binaries, and map out the structure of the Galaxy.… Full published article at: http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/03/lsst_jeff_kantor/...
