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WEBEarth Will Have Mini-Moon for Two Months: 2024 PT5. The recently-discovered near-Earth asteroid called 2024 PT5 will become Earth’s mini-moon from September 29 until November 25, 2024. 2024 PT5 will experience a temporarily captured flyby in 2024, from September 29 until November 25. Image credit: University of Colorado.
Scientists Discover Impenetrable Barrier 11,500 km above Earth
WEBNov 27, 2014 · Next ». A group of researchers headed by Prof Daniel Baker of the University of Colorado’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics has discovered a nearly impenetrable barrier some 11,500 km above our planet that blocks so-called ‘killer electrons,’ which can fry satellites and degrade space systems during intense solar storms.
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WEBSep 20, 2024 · Researchers Store Entire Human Genome on ‘Everlasting’ 5D Memory Crystal. Sep 20, 2024 by News Staff. Unlike other data storage formats that degrade over time, 5D memory crystals can store up to 360 terabytes of information without loss for billions of years, even at high temperatures, according to a team of scientists at the …
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WEB3 days ago · Sep 17, 2024 by News Staff. Bubble use evolved in many small invertebrates to enable underwater breathing, but, until recently, there has been no evidence that vertebrate animals use bubbles in a similar manner. Only one group of vertebrates, semi-aquatic Anolis lizards, may be an exception: these lizards dive underwater when …
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WEB3 days ago · Sep 20, 2024 by News Staff. Io is the most volcanically active body in the Solar System. Io’s volcanoes are powered by both the extreme tides from Jupiter and the gravitational interactions between it and Jupiter’s other moons. These tides generate friction inside Io. Using data from an infrared camera on NASA’s Juno orbiter called the ...
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WEBSep 18, 2024 by News Staff. In the Standard Model of particle physics, the masses of the carriers of the weak interaction, the W and Z bosons, are uniquely related. Physics beyond the Standard Model can change this relationship through the effects of virtual particle quantum loops, thus making it of paramount importance to measure these masses ...
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WEBSep 18, 2024 by News Staff. Primordial black holes are one of the strongest candidates for the Universe’s dark matter. In this scenario, their abundance would be large enough for at least one object to cross through the inner Solar System per decade. A flyby like this would introduce a wobble into Mars’ orbit, to a degree that today’s ...
Super-Saturn J1407b Hosts Massive Ring System, Astronomers Say …
WEBJan 27, 2015 · J1407 is a pre-main sequence 16-million-year-old star located approximately 434 light-years away. It is orbited by at least one planet, named J1407b. Prof Mamajek and Dr Kenworthy estimate that the planet has an orbital period of about 10 years. Its mass is most likely in the range of about 10 to 40 Jupiter masses.
Astronomers Re-examine Gliese 667C, Suggest First System
WEBJun 25, 2013 · “The number of potentially habitable planets in our galaxy is much greater if we can expect to find several of them around each low-mass star — instead of looking at ten stars to look for a single potentially habitable planet, we now know we can look at just one star and find several of them,” said study co-author Dr Rory Barnes from the …
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WEBApr 25, 2024 · Sep 2, 2024 by News Staff. Gold nuggets occur predominantly in quartz veins, and the current paradigm posits that gold precipitates from hot water and carbon dioxide-rich fluids owing to changes in temperature, pressure and/or fluid chemistry. However, the widespread occurrence of large gold nuggets is at odds with the dilute …
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