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Asteroid found in gravitational 'dead zone'
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09/10/2010 01:51 PM
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There are places in space where the gravitational tug between a planet and the Sun balance out, allowing other smaller bodies to remain stable. These places are called Lagrangian points. (2010-08-13)
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Black hole blows big bubble
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09/10/2010 01:51 PM
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Combining observations made with ESO's Very Large Telescope and NASA's Chandra X-ray telescope, astronomers have uncovered the most powerful pair of jets ever seen from a stellar black hole. (2010-07-08)
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Scientists see billions of miles away
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09/10/2010 01:51 PM
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A large group of scientists, including Jay Pasachoff, Bryce Babcock, and Steven Souza at Williams College, reveal the character of one of the most distant objects in the solar system in a scientific paper to appear in the June 17 issue of the journal Nature. (2010-06-21)
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Triton's Summer Sky of Methane and Carbon Monoxide
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09/10/2010 01:51 PM
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According to the first ever infrared analysis of the atmosphere of Neptune's moon Triton, summer is in full swing in its southern hemisphere. (2010-04-08)
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IBEX satellite finds ribbon-like structure at edge of heliosphere
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09/10/2010 01:51 PM
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The invisible structures of space are becoming less so, as scientists look out to the far edges of the solar wind bubble that separates our solar system from the interstellar cloud through which it flies. (2009-10-16)
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Cosmic Rays Hit Space Age High
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09/10/2010 01:51 PM
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Planning a trip to Mars? Take plenty of shielding. According to sensors on NASA's ACE (Advanced Composition Explorer) spacecraft, galactic cosmic rays have just hit a Space Age high. (2009-09-30)
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CU-Boulder space scientists set for final spacecraft flyby of Mercury
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09/10/2010 01:51 PM
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NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft, which is toting an $8.7 million University of Colorado at Boulder instrument, will make its third and final flyby of Mercury on Sept. 29 -- a clever gravity-assist maneuver that will steer it into orbit around the rocky planet beginning in March 2011. (2009-09-29)
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Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter's LAMP shedding light on permanently shadowed regions of the Moon
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09/10/2010 01:51 PM
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NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), launched on June 18 of this year, has begun its extensive exploration of the lunar environment and will return more data about the Moon than any previous mission. (2009-09-18)
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Caltech visiting associate champions the study of solar eclipses in the modern era
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09/10/2010 01:51 PM
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Championing the modern-day use of solar eclipses to solve a set of modern problems is the goal of a review article written by Jay Pasachoff, visiting associate at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy at Williams College. (2009-06-11)
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Radio telescope images reveal planet-forming disk orbiting twin suns
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09/10/2010 01:51 PM
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Astronomers are announcing today that a sequence of images collected with the Smithsonian's Submillimeter Array (SMA) clearly reveals the presence of a rotating molecular disk orbiting the young binary star system V4046 Sagittarii. (2009-06-11)
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The lower atmosphere of Pluto revealed
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09/10/2010 01:51 PM
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Using ESO's Very Large Telescope, astronomers have gained valuable new insights about the atmosphere of the dwarf planet Pluto. The scientists found unexpectedly large amounts of methane in the atmosphere, and also discovered that the atmosphere is hotter than the surface by about 40 degrees, although it still only reaches a frigid minus 180 degrees Celsius. (2009-03-03)
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NASA spacecraft ready to explore outer solar system
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09/10/2010 01:51 PM
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The first NASA spacecraft to image and map the dynamic interactions taking place where the hot solar wind slams into the cold expanse of space is ready for launch Oct. 19. The two-year mission will begin from the Kwajalein Atoll, a part of the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean. (2008-10-07)
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Plutoid chosen as name for Solar System objects like Pluto
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09/10/2010 01:51 PM
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Almost two years after the International Astronomical Union (IAU) General Assembly introduced the category of dwarf planets, the IAU, as promised, has decided on a name for transneptunian dwarf planets similar to Pluto. (2008-06-12)
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Astonomers find tiny planet orbiting tiny star
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09/10/2010 01:51 PM
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An international team of astronomers led by David Bennett of the University of Notre Dame has discovered an extra-solar planet of about three Earth masses orbiting a star with a mass so low that its core may not be large enough to maintain nuclear reactions. The result was presented Monday (June 2) at the American Astronomical Society annual meeting in St. Louis. (2008-06-03)
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More Pluto Current Events and Pluto News
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