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November 01, 2015

Asteroids and Comets make for a media driven Deep Impact
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Nov 01, 2015
We are certainly at risk of things falling from the sky. The dinosaurs, and most species that lived on Earth around 65 million years ago, found this out the hard way. So did the residents of Chelyabinsk, Russia in 2013. Other incidents are peppered throughout history, including the legendary Tunguska Incident of 1908. Thanks to modern astronomy, we know that asteroids seem to fly near to the Earth on a fairly regular basis, with a recent approach coinciding with Halloween. It's good to see reports ... read more

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China's first moon rover sets record for longest stay China's first lunar rover, Yutu, has been operating on the moon for almost two years, setting the record for the longest stay by a rover, according to a Chinese lunar probe scientist. Yutu was ... more		GPS IIF satellite successfully launched from Cape Canaveral The U.S. Air Force successfully launched its 11th and next-to-last Boeing-built Global Positioning System GPS IIF series satellite aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 launch vehicle from Spa ... more		ULA launches GPS IIF-11 satellite for US Air Force A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF-11 satellite for the U.S. Air Force lifted off from Space Launch Complex-41 Oct. 31 at 12:13 p.m. EDT. ... more
				Did Jupiter Expel A Rival Gas Giant It's like something out of an interplanetary chess game. Astrophysicists at the University of Toronto have found that a close encounter with Jupiter about four billion years ago may have resulted in ... more		NASA Chief: We're Closer to Sending Humans on Mars Than Ever Before President Barack Obama remains committed to a 2030 manned mission to Mars, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Administrator Charles Bolden, Jr. stated on Wednesday. Bolden no ... more

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Halo satellite will search for 'missing' normal matter Studies of the early universe show that 5 percent of all mass and energy should be in normal matter-that is, the visible stuff of the universe, composed of protons and neutrons. However, when ... more		Towers of Steel for New SLS Test Stand Rising at NASA Marshall Steel is rising for two towers that will compose a 215-foot-tall structural test stand for NASA's Space Launch System at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The first t ... more		U.S. defense in free fall U.S. and Saudis conduct Middle East's largest counter-drone exercise Saudi Arabia and Pakistan sign mutual defense pact		US Prepares for Extreme Space Weather A severe solar storm could disrupt the nation's power grid for months, potentially leading to widespread blackouts. Resulting damage and disruption for such an event could cost more than $1 trillion ... more
				Scientists simulate 3-D exotic clouds on an exoplanet Scientists have catalogued nearly 2,000 exoplanets around stars near and far. While most of these are giant and inhospitable, improved techniques and spacecraft have uncovered increasingly smaller w ... more		Capacitor breakthrough Oct. 21, 2015, was the day that Doc Brown and Marty McFly landed in the future in their DeLorean, with time travel made possible by a "flux capacitor." While the flux capacitor still conjures sci-fi ... more

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ESA satellite images Manicouagan Crater Earlier this year, the European Space Agency's Sentinel-1A satellite imaged the oldest and most visible crater on Earth, the Manicouagan Crater. ESA shared the image online on Friday, October 30. ... more		China to start work on turbo-charged super-collider by 2020: report China will begin work on the world's largest super-collider in 2020, a mega-machine aimed at increasing understanding of the elusive Higgs boson, state-run media reported Thursday. ... more		Fossil fuels harm health from 'cradle to grave': report Trash, mulch and security: All jobs for troops in Washington Rising oceans to threaten 1.5 million Australians by 2050: report		Finally a promising natural nanomaterial Yuri Lvov and Rawil Fakhrullin of Bionanotechnology Lab, Kazan Federal University, in cooperation with Wencai Wang and Liqun Zhang of State Key Laboratory of Organic-Inorganic Composites, Beijing Un ... more
Holograms go mainstream, with future full of possibility Concert promoters hoping to bring out legends such as Whitney Houston, Billie Holiday and Elvis Presley used to face an obvious problem - the singers are dead. ... more		Fuel Additive Could Lead to Safer Jet Fuel Airplane accidents are especially dangerous because jet fuel is highly flammable under crash conditions. On impact, jet fuel is dispersed in the air as a fine mist, which triggers a sequence of even ... more		Robot's influent speaking just to get attention from you Communication in human dialogue is based on one another's words and body language. We can sense whether the other person is distracted, and we change the course of our conversation and our actions t ... more		How a flying bat sees space Recordings from echolocating bat brains have for the first time given researchers a view into how mammals understand 3-D space. By training bats to fly around obstacles in a room, and sit patient ... more

	Oldest DNA sequences may reveal secrets of ancient animal ancestors 700 million year-old DNA sequences from ancient animals have been unearthed by researchers at the Universities of Leicester and Warwick, shedding new light on our earliest animal ancestors and how t ... more		Bacterial hole puncher could be new broad-spectrum antibiotic Bacteria have many methods of adapting to resist antibiotics, but a new class of spiral polypeptides developed at the University of Illinois targets one thing no bacterium can live without: an outer ... more

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New Horizons on track to pass Kuiper 2014 MU69 within 12000 kms in 2019		Ozone hole grows over Antarctica, but no cause for alarm: UN		Nordic seas cooled 500,000 years before global oceans		Deal on Antarctic marine sanctuaries fails		NASA/USGS Mission Helps Answer: What Is a Forest
The sun is brightening - but not in China		Ambitious program could unlock power of Earth's microbial communities		Space Station Investigation Goes With the Flow		Rewrite of Onboard Memory Planned for NASA Mars Orbiter		The Youngest Crater on Charon

VISTA discovers new component of Milky Way

Birth of universe modeled in massive data simulation

NASA spacecraft plunges through Saturn moon's icy spray

Spirals in dust around young stars may betray presence of massive planets

Rock on: Is your meteorite real

America's next superbomber to be shrouded in secret for years

A Full View of Pluto's Stunning Crescent

Charles Elachi to retire as JPL Director

May the 5th force be with you

Russian moon mission would need 4 Angara-A5V launches

First telephone station becomes operational at Vostochny Cosmodrome

US Air Force renews ISR support contract with Raytheon

U.S. demos Standard Missile 3 in Europe

Wal-Mart eyes drone home deliveries

Land-Facing, Southwest Greenland Ice Sheet Movement Decreasing

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Study solves mysteries of Voyager 1's journey into interstellar space

China naval chief warns US of conflict risk in South China Sea

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