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	Science Daily update ⋅ March 5, 2022
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	Space.com James Webb Space Telescope instrument gets ready to probe the universe's chemistry Space.com During the observatory's commissioning and ongoing mirror alignment, Webb's Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) team successfully finished initial check-out and characterization of three mechanisms that are key for the instrument to do its work. Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com James Webb Space Telescope will study icy objects in the mysterious 'graveyard of the solar system' Space.com These bodies, known as Kuiper Belt objects or trans-Neptunian objects, show remarkable diversity in terms of color, shape, size, groupings (clusters, pairs, etc.), and geological and atmospheric activity. Flag as irrelevant
	The Verge After mistaken identity and confusion, a piece of space junk slams into the Moon The Verge After years of zooming through deep space, a presumed leftover piece of a Chinese rocket slammed into the Moon today, just as space tracking experts expected it would. At least, it should have hit the Moon around 7:30AM ET this morning, as long as the ... Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com Rogue rocket body imaged weeks before its moon impact (photo) Space.com A Virtual Telescope Project image shows a rogue rocket stage on the road to oblivion, nearly a month before it smashed into the the moon on Friday (March 4). The image was taken Feb. 8 during the stage's last close flyby of Earth, when it was visible ... Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com Space Force plans to send a patrol probe out past the moon Space.com In a new video, the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) revealed the U.S. military's big plans for its future work in space. These plans, the video showed, include extending space awareness capabilities beyond geostationary orbit with the help of a ... Flag as irrelevant
	Livescience.com 3-ton rocket almost certainly just smashed into the moon at 5771 mph Livescience.com The discarded rocket stage was projected to land at Hertzsprung crater on the moon's far side at 7:25 a.m. EST (1225 GMT), with the energy from the collision punching out a crater which scientists believe could be up to 66 feet (20 meters) wide. The impact ... Flag as irrelevant
	CNET A Dead Rocket Crashed Into the Moon Today, and Scientists Are Thrilled CNET A natural impact on the moon created this crater in 2013. It's about to get another. NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Arizona State University. A hunk of space junk came to an explosive end on Friday when it collided with the moon, and astronomers are ... Flag as irrelevant
	Phys.Org Scientists think an old rocket just hit the Moon going 5800 mph Phys.Org Add one more crater to the long list of pockmarks on the lunar surface. According to orbital calculations, a rocket hurtling through space for years crashed into the Moon on Friday, but the strike wasn't directly observed, and there might be a wait for ... Flag as irrelevant
	Fox News T. Rex might actually be three separate species: study Fox News The iconic Tyrannosaurus rex, or "T. Rex," might need to be re-categorized into three distinct species, according to researchers. The Tyrannosaurus rex is the only recognized species of the group of dinosaurs Tyrannosaurus to date – though previous ... Flag as irrelevant
	PEOPLE.com NASA Offers to Fly Your Name Around the Moon on Upcoming Artemis I Mission PEOPLE.com Feeling FOMO after seeing William Shatner and Sir Richard Brandon fly to space? Well, NASA has a solution. When the space agency sends its Orion capsule into space later this year as part of ... Flag as irrelevant
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