Tuesday, September 27, 2022

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The Washington Post
Maarten Schmidt, the Dutch-born American astronomer who explained the mysterious heavenly bodies known as quasars and in so doing helped create the modern picture of the universe, its structure and its history, died Sept. 17. at his home in Fresno, ...
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The Washington Post
They didn't. And when the mission management team met Monday morning, it decided it was best to roll the 322-foot-tall rocket, with the spacecraft mounted on top, back the 4 miles to the massive Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center.
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CNN
Oceanographer Grant Deane has been trying to quantify ice melt using acoustic technology, with most of his work focusing on the Hans Glacier (also known as Hansbreen) in Svalbard, Norway (pictured). This glacier retreated around 2.7 kilometers between 1900 ...
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The New York Times
Space rocks have hit Earth with devastating impact. Just ask the dinosaurs. The good news: At present, astronomers do not know of any asteroids that have any chance of hitting Earth in the next century ...
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CNN
The DART mission, or the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, will crash into the space rock at 7:14 p.m. ET after launching 10 months ago. The spacecraft will attempt to affect the motion of an ...
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Phys.Org
In this image made from a NASA livestream, the Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft crashes into an asteroid on Monday, Sept. 26, 2022. Credit: ASI/NASA via AP. A NASA spacecraft rammed an asteroid at blistering speed Monday in an unprecedented ...
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Phys.Org
The work, published in the September 23 issue of Physical Review Letters, could revolutionize how scientists investigate systems containing many interacting electrons. Moreover, if scalable to other problems, the approach could potentially aid in the ...
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NPR
But planetary defense experts say in reality, if astronomers spotted a dangerous incoming space rock, the safest and best answer might be something more subtle, like simply pushing it off course by ramming it with a small spacecraft.
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Florida Today
NASA said on Monday that it is still preparing to support an October 3 launch attempt of its SpaceX Crew-5 mission to the International Space Station. But the agency continues to closely monitor Hurricane Ian and its impacts on Kennedy Space Center.
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WIRED
Bad weather forced a third delay for the space agency's SLS rocket plans—another setback for the uncrewed back-to-the-moon mission.
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