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• Earth formed from meteoritic material, say scientists

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 706
  Washington, November 14 (ANI): A University of Arkansas professor and his colleagues have shown that the Earth’s mantle contains the same isotopic signatures from magnesium as meteorites do, suggesting that the planet formed from meteoritic material, thus resolving a long-standing debate in the field over the ...
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• NASA’s LCROSS confirms presence of water in lunar crater

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 706
  Washington, November 14 (ANI): Preliminary data from NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, has indicated that the mission successfully uncovered water in a permanently shadowed lunar crater.The LCROSS spacecraft and a companion rocket stage made twin impacts in the Cabeus crater on ...
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• NASA Confirms Water On Moon

  
  Green Options — Authority: 146
  Back in October, there was quite a bit of controversy surrounding NASA’s project of crashing a LCROSS satellite into the moon to determine if there is in fact water on the moon. While it was initially believed by spectators and researchers alike that the mission was a big failure, since there was no visible lunar ...
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• Water Found on Moon, Scientists Say

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 911
  The discovery, which came out of a mission a month ago, confirmed scientists’ suspicions and could help explorers.
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• Rapid Star Formation Spotted In ‘Stellar Nurseries’ Of Infant Galaxies

  
  Rashid's Blog — Authority: 421
  According to scientists at Durham University the Universe’s infant galaxies enjoyed rapid growth spurts forming stars like our sun at a rate of up to 50 stars a year.The findings show that “stellar nurseries” within the first galaxies gave birth to stars at a much more rapid rate than previously expected, the ...
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• Rosetta bound for outer Solar System after final Earth swingby

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 583
  This morning, mission controllers confirmed that ESA’s comet chaser Rosetta had swung by Earth at 8:45 CET as planned, skimming past our planet to pick up a gravitational boost for an epic journey to rendezvous with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014.Rosetta passed over the ocean, just South of the Indonesian ...
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• 2010 May See At least Two Solar Sails Afloat in Space

  
  Greenlaunches.com — Authority: 138
  After sailing in water and in air, it is time to unfurl sails in the space and year 2010 may actually be marked as the year of beginning of solar sailing. Two different space experiments are set to use light pressure from sun to demonstrate that space propulsion is possible. These sail will be covered with a thin ...
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• Ready for "Genesis 2" The Sequel?

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 735
  Today’s opening of the special-effects-on-steroids film “2012” and accompanying news media frenzy is a reminder of our morbid fascination with end of the world predictions. Now it’s time for me to make my own prognostication. Move over Nostradamus. Rather than ...
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• Are Earth’s Oceans Made Of Extraterrestrial Material?

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 520
  Pacific ocean. Did water come from ice-covered asteroids that may have reached the Earth around one hundred million years after the birth of the planets?Contrary to preconceived notions, the atmosphere and the oceans were perhaps not formed from vapors emitted during intense volcanism at the dawning of our planet. ...
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• Prefer a Solar Water Heater

  
  3stepADS - Free Advertising Blog — Authority: 541
  A good way to make your own renewable hot water and cut down on your electricity bill is to install a solar water heater system at home. But before going out and buying any system, here are a few tips to help you find the best option.A solar water panel is usually 1 meter wide [...]
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• Balloon-borne telescope images Sun’s surface like never before

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 706
  Washington, November 12 (ANI): The SUNRISE balloon-borne telescope, the result of an international project, has delivered images that show the complex interplay on the solar surface to a level of detail never before achieved.The SUNRISE is a collaborative project between the Max Planck Institute for Solar System ...
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• Sun’s Bubbling Surface Detailed In Video Images

  
  Discoveries In Science — Authority: 115
  A balloon-borne telescope has delivered video images of the sun’s bubbling, gassy surface in details we’ve never before been able to see. Would you like to replay the video or share the link to it with your friends? The collaborative project between the Max Planck Institute for Solar ...
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• Resurrected Cubesat solar sailer to fly next year

  
  Kentucky Space — Authority: 466
  Dennis Overbye wrote Monday about the plans by the Planetary Society to build and fly a series of solar sails , dubbed "LightSails," over the next three years, first in orbit around Earth and then into deeper space, saying that About a year from now, if all goes well, a box about the size of a loaf of bread ...
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• Star Panel Fabrications in Popular Sky Programs

  
  2012 and Planet X News Blog — Authority: 108
  When people are looking for proof of the existence of Planet X, one of the first places they go looking is one of the popular sky programs, such as Google Sky and Microsoft WorldWide Telescope. While these are incredibly useful tools for the common man to learn about astronomy, in terms of research they’ve only ...
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• New Moon “Devotion” TV Spot (video)

  
  Bitch Pleaz — Authority: 138
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• 2012 – A Scientific Realty Check

  
  NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory Blog — Authority: 106
  Donald Yeomans There apparently is a great deal of interest in celestial bodies, and their locations and trajectories at the end of the calendar year 2012. Now, I for one love a good book or movie as much as the next guy. But the stuff flying around through cyberspace, TV and the movies is not based on science. ...
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• MESSENGER Spacecraft Reveals More Hidden Territory On Mercury

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 520
  the Mercury SurfaceA NASA spacecraft gliding over the battered surface of Mercury for the second time this year has revealed more previously unseen real estate on the innermost planet. The probe also has produced several science firsts and is returning hundreds of new photos and measurements of the planet’s surface, ...
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• Owens Corning, SunEdison Power Up 440-kW PV Solar System in NJ

  
  Environmental Leader — Authority: 621
  Owens Corning, a leading supplier of building materials and glass fiber reinforcements, and SunEdison, North America’s largest solar services provider, announced the activation of a 440 kilowatt (kW) roof-mount photovoltaic (PV) solar system at Owens Corning’s Kearny, N.J., facility. The new system will produce ...
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• Delivery of Full-Scale Receiver to eSolar’s Sierra SunTower Power Plant Marks New Era for B&W

  
  Power Industry News — Authority: 145
  B&W Enters New Solar Receiver Market: Delivery of Full-Scale Receiver to eSolar’s Sierra SunTower Power Plant Marks New Era for B&W B abcock & Wilcox Power Generation Group, Inc. (B&W PGG), a major operating unit of The Babcock & Wilcox Company (B&W), has designed, developed and ...
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• Why Look for Life on Mars?

  
  Starts With A Bang — Authority: 539
  The Mars Polar Lander cost the average American the price of half a cheeseburger. A human lander would cost the average American more -- perhaps even ten cheeseburgers! So be it. That is no great sacrifice. -JONAH GOLDBERG, National Review Online , May 3, 2000 This week, Seed Magazine is doing a special on ...
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