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February 28, 2013

Comet may give Mars a close shave in 2014
Coonabarabran, Australia (UPI) Feb 27, 2013
A newly discovered comet is heading for Mars and should give the red planet a close fly-by in October 2014, Australian astronomers say. Comet hunter Robert McNaught at Siding Spring Observatory in New South Wales, Australia, discovered the object dubbed C/2013 Jan. 3. Additional data on the comet's movements by the Catalina Sky Survey in Arizona allowed astronomers to trace the comet's likely orbit around the sun. Its calculated trajectory has the comet crossing Mars's orbit on Oc ... read more

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First-ever space tourist plans mission to Mars The world's first space tourist, US multimillionaire Dennis Tito, unveiled plans Wednesday to send a manned mission to Mars and back, targeting a launch date less than five years away. ... more		Stanford scientist closes in on a mystery that impedes space exploration New research by Stanford aeronautics and astronautics Assistant Professor Sigrid Close suggests she's on track to solve a mystery that has long bedeviled space exploration: Why do satellites fail? ... more		'Faulty Ukrainian Parts' Blamed for Zenit Launch Failure The crash of a Russian Zenit-3SL rocket earlier this month was caused by defective components manufactured in Ukraine, Ivan Kharchenko, first deputy head of the Russian government's military-industr ... more
				Meteorite's Powerful Blast Due to Space Collisions The powerful blast of a meteorite above the Urals city of Chelyabinsk was probably caused by its previous "space collisions" with other celestial bodies, said Professor Erik Galimov of the Vernadsky ... more		U.S. research to be free online The White House says major government agencies must make taxpayer-funded research freely available to the public within 12 months after publication. ... more

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Glasses.com turns heads with 3-D iPad app Jonathan Coon turned heads Wednesday with iPad software that lets people try on sunglasses by manipulating 3-D images of themselves from the neck up. ... more		What Exploded over Russia? When the sun rose over Russia's Ural Mountains on Friday, Feb. 15th, many residents of nearby Chelyabinsk already knew that a space rock was coming. Later that day, an asteroid named 2012 DA14 would ... more		N. Korea's Kim oversees test of multiple rocket launcher UK slaps fresh sanctions on Iran after Israel attack China warns Blinken over deteriorating ties in talks		Supermassive black hole spins super-fast Imagine a sphere more than 2 million miles across - eight times the distance from Earth to the Moon - spinning so fast that its surface is traveling at nearly the speed of light. Such an object exis ... more
				Black hole found spinning near the relativistic limit The best evidence yet that some supermassive black holes (SMBH) rotate at extremely high rates has been found by an international team of astronomers. Made using the recently launched NuStar space t ... more		New Ellipsoidal Mirror Pushes Boundaries Of Solar Research Optical Surfaces Ltd. has supplied a 350mm diameter on-axis ellipsoidal mirror to the Kiepenheuer-Institut fur Sonnenphysik (KIS) in Freiberg, Germany. The Kiepenheuer-Institut fur Sonnenphysi ... more

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Fermi's Motion Produces a Study in Spirograph NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope orbits our planet every 95 minutes, building up increasingly deeper views of the universe with every circuit. Its wide-eyed Large Area Telescope (LAT) sweeps a ... more		Asteroid impact mission targets Didymos ESA's proposed Asteroid Impact and Deflection Assessment mission now has a target: asteroid Didymos. The recent Russian meteor and, on the same day, our planet's close encounter with an even larger ... more		High-resolution lidar unveils droplet formation in clouds Pakistan horror zoo is reborn as rehab centre The Indian villagers who lost their homes to the sea		Lab Instruments Inside Curiosity Eat Mars Rock Powder Two compact laboratories inside NASA's Mars rover Curiosity have ingested portions of the first sample of rock powder ever collected from the interior of a rock on Mars. Curiosity science team memb ... more
				NASA's Aquarius Sees Salty Shifts The colorful images chronicle the seasonal stirrings of our salty world: Pulses of freshwater gush from the Amazon River's mouth; an invisible seam divides the salty Arabian Sea from the fresher wat ... more		NASA Deciphering the Mysterious Math of the Solar Wind Many areas of scientific research - Earth's weather, ocean currents, the outpouring of magnetic energy from the sun - require mapping out the large scale features of a complex system and its intri ... more

Water On The Moon: It's Been There All Along

Building a lunar base with 3D printing

US, Europe team up for moon fly-by

Lab Instruments Inside Curiosity Eat Mars Rock Powder

First-ever space tourist plans mission to Mars

Mars rover ingests rock powder for tests

Choreographed to Perfection

Stanford scientist closes in on a mystery that impedes space exploration

ATK Launch Abort Motor For First Orion Test Vehicle

Welcome Aboard Shenzhou 10

Reshuffle for Tiangong

China to launch 20 spacecrafts in 2013

	Origin of Russian meteor identified Scientists say they have reconstructed the path of the meteor that exploded over Russia Feb. 15 and identified its likely origin within our solar system. ... more		Russia calls for united meteor defense The world should unite to establish a defense system against space objects that threaten Earth, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin says. ... more		Detecting Life on Planets that Orbit White Dwarf Stars A white dwarf is a dead star that slowly cools down until it fades into oblivion. Yet it has been predicted that habitable planets can orbit a white dwarf. If we can somehow detect these planets, wo ... more		The light-lift member of Arianespace's launcher family is readied for its second mission The Spaceport's ZLV launch site in French Guiana is busy with activity as the second Vega undergoes its assembly for a mission scheduled in April. Build-up of the smallest member in Arianespace's la ... more

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NRL Scientists Produce Densest Artificial Ionospheric Plasma Clouds Using HAARP		NASA Creates Space Technology Mission Directorate		Stellar Motions in Outer Halo Shed New Light on Milky Way Evolution		Mercury may have harbored an ancient magma ocean		USAF Awards Lockheed Martin Contracts to Begin Work on Next Set of GPS III Satellites
Future Evidence for Extraterrestrial Life Might Come from Dying Stars		The NASA Comet ISON Observing Campaign		'Vulcan' wins Pluto moon name vote		Choreographed to Perfection		SMOS: the global success story continues

One-Kilo Meteorite Fragment Found

Russian Meteorite Clean-Up 'Two-Thirds Complete'

UK-Led Instrument Selected For European Jupiter Mission

SwRI ultraviolet payload selected for mission to Jovian ice moons

NASA Selects Launch Services for ICESat-2 Mission

Hubble Sees a Glowing Jet From A Young Star

Vietnam to launch third satellite into orbit

ATK Launch Abort Motor For First Orion Test Vehicle

Record Number of Students Control ISS Camera

World's smallest space telescope launched

Mars rover ingests rock powder for tests

Fluids in Space, Shaken Not Stirred

NASA Partner Orbital Tests Rocket, Newest US Launch Pad

Search for 'unparticles' focuses on Earth's crust

World's first "phonesat", STRaND-1, launched into orbit

SSTL's 40th satellite platform launch: Sapphire reaches orbit

SpaceX 2 Launch Set for March 1

NASA Releases Glory Taurus XL Launch Failure Report Summary

Russia to Aim for 15 percent of Global Space Market

Opportunity Is On A Rock Hunt

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