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October 15, 2013

SwRI study finds that Pluto satellites' orbital ballet may hint of long-ago collisions
Boulder CO (SPX) Oct 16, 2013
A large impact 4 billion years ago may account for the puzzling orbital configuration among Pluto's five known satellites, according to a new model developed by planetary scientists from Southwest Research Institute (SwRI). Starting with Charon, Pluto's nearest and largest moon, each of the successively more distant - and much smaller - moons orbits Pluto according to a steadily increasing factor of Charon's own orbital period. The small satellites, Styx, Nix, Kereberos and Hydra, have orbital per ... read more

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Rosetta: 100 days to wake-up ESA's comet-chasing mission Rosetta will wake up in 100 days' time from deep-space hibernation to reach the destination it has been cruising towards for a decade. Comets are the primitive buil ... more		Orbcomm And Savi Announce Strategic Partnership ORBCOMM and Savi Technology (Savi), have announced a strategic relationship to provide advanced location-based monitoring solutions to government and commercial markets. ORBCOMM and Savi have ... more		Martian scars Run Deep Ripped apart by tectonic forces, Hebes Chasma and its neighbouring network of canyons bear the scars of the Red Planet's early history. ESA's Mars Express has flown over this region of Mars on numer ... more
				Iran To Launch 3 Satellites in 6 Months Iran plans to launch three domestically designed satellites in six months, a high-ranking Iranian aerospace official told the country's English-language Press TV on Thursday. Deputy head of Ir ... more		Comet ISON Details Emerge as it Races Toward the Sun Scientists are unraveling more information on Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) as it continues on its journey toward the Sun. Comet C/ISON will skim 730,000 miles above the Sun's surface on Nov. 28 and has th ... more

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Telescopes Large and Small Team Up to Study Triple Asteroid 87 Sylvia Combining observations from the world's largest telescopes with small telescopes used by amateur astronomers, a team of astronomers discovered that the large main-belt asteroid (87) Sylvia has a com ... more		Water discovered in remnants of extrasolar rocky world orbiting white dwarf Astrophysicists have found the first evidence of a water-rich rocky planetary body outside our solar system in its shattered remains orbiting a white dwarf. A new study by scientists at the Un ... more		No talks between the United States and Iran planned 'as of now' Astroscale to lead UK Orpheus mission with GBP 5.15M defence contract Zelensky says discussed buying US air-defence systems with Trump		Astrium Enhances TerraSAR-X Resolution and Coverage Capabilities Astrium, Europe's leading space technology company, has launched two new TerraSAR-X imaging modes. The enhanced imaging capabilities facilitate the delivery of higher resolution imagery as well as t ... more
				French seek lock on Persian Gulf satellite deals The French government, fresh from securing a $913 million deal with the United Arab Emirates for two military satellites, is pushing hard to sell a military system to Saudi Arabia. ... more		Onward and upward as China marks 10 years of manned spaceflight China marks 10 years since it first sent a human into space Tuesday, with its ambitious programme rocketing ahead while rival NASA is largely closed due to the US government shutdown. ... more

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Diamonds may be raining down on Jupiter, Saturn Diamonds, big enough to grace a necklace or bracelet, may be raining down in the atmospheres of Saturn and Jupiter, U.S. scientists say. ... more		Spaceport Colorado and S3 Sign Memorandum of Understanding Spaceport Colorado has announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with S3, an aerospace company that designs and engineers suborbital launch systems, formalizing a collaborative re ... more		The mixed fortunes of development aid Syria's wheat war: drought fuels food crisis for 16 million Global tensions rattle COP30 build-up but 'failure not an option'		Cosmic impact creates Sahara diamond field In the upcoming issue of 'Earth and Planetary Science Letters', South African scientists are to present new evidence of a major impact event which took place some 28mln years ago in what is now Egyp ... more
				Blurring the lines between stars and planets Astronomers including Niall Deacon of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) captured an image of an unusual free-floating planet. As the object has no host star, it can be observed and exami ... more		European satellites included in test of search-and-rescue system A pair of dedicated ground stations at opposite ends of Europe will let satellites participate in global testing of a search-and-rescue system, scientists say. ... more

NASA's moon landing remembered as a promise of a 'future which never happened'

Russia could build manned lunar base

China unveils its first and unnamed moon rover

ESA's test rover begins exploring Atacama Desert

US shutdown not to hit Indian Mars mission

Martian settlement site to be printed on a printer

US universities make big bets on startups

Iran plans new monkey space launch

Scott Carpenter, second American in orbit, dies at 88

Onward and upward as China marks 10 years of manned spaceflight

Ten Years of Chinese Astronauts

NASA vows to review ban on Chinese astronomers

	'Ship in a bottle' detects dangerous vapors Rice University scientists took a lesson from craftsmen of old to assemble microscopic compounds that warn of the presence of dangerous fumes from solvents. The researchers combined a common mineral ... more		Crystals point to 'recycled' super-volcanic magma chambers A thorough examination of tiny crystals of zircon, a mineral found in rhyolites, an igneous rock, from the Snake River Plain has solidified evidence for a new way of looking at the life cycle of sup ... more		Kepler Finds First Signs of Other Earths A new analysis of observations from the Kepler spacecraft reveals what may be the first earth-sized planets with earthlike temperatures found orbiting sunlike stars. Until now, Kepler's nearly ... more		US shutdown not to hit Indian Mars mission The partial shutdown of the US government would not affect the Indian Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) scheduled for launch Oct 28, the Indian space agency said Saturday. "National Aeronautics Space ... more

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Circadian rhythms in skin stem cells protect us against UV rays		LSU Researchers Discover How Microbes Survive in Freezing Conditions		Watery asteroid discovered in dying star points to habitable exoplanets		Raytheon completes critical design review for GPS OCX software		Comet ISON's chances of surviving close brush with the Sun
Soft shells and strange star clusters		Sunshield preparations bring Gaia closer to deep-space Soyuz launch		ESA's test rover begins exploring Atacama Desert		Lockheed Martin's Aegis BMD System Completes Highest Target Intercept Yet		Raytheon's newest Standard Missile-3 intercepts medium-range ballistic missile target

Giant channels discovered beneath Antarctic ice shelf

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Ultraviolet light to the extreme

Quantum computers: Trust is good, proof is better

Disney Research discovers rubbing, tapping paper-like material creates electrical current

Controllers prepare to awaken comet hunter from deep-space sleep

Iran plans new monkey space launch

Tracking devices to go toe-to-toe with smartwatches

Climate puzzle over origins of life on Earth

Exceptional fossil fish reveals new evolutionary mechanism for body elongation

US universities make big bets on startups

Russia replaces space agency chief in reform bid

Ten Years of Chinese Astronauts

Plan maps development of China's sat-nav industry

Martian settlement site to be printed on a printer

Archival Hubble Images Reveal Neptune's "Lost" Inner Moon

Russia may build its own space station after 2020

Russian booster 'not the culprit in saiga kill'

Ukraine targets 50 percent increase in space industry output by 2017

End of an era at US Space Command

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