This illustration shows one possible path that the comet Kushida-Muramatsu took around Jupiter (located at centre of axes) (Illustration: Ohtsuka/Asher) The planet Jupiter seems to be as promiscuous as its Olympian namesake. New calculations reveal that in the middle of the last century it had a fling with a wayward comet, which for 12 years …
Titan’s hydrocarbon lakes, seen here in radar images, boast life-friendly chemistry (Image: NASA/JPL) 23 November 2009 by David Shiga Saturn’s frigid moon Titan may be friendlier to life than previously thought. New calculations suggest Titan’s hydrocarbon lakes are loaded with acetylene, a chemical some scientists say could serve as food for cold-resistant organisms. At about …
THE NEW YORK SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN: Published Weekly at 128 Fulton Street, (Sun Building,) New York. BY MUNN & COMPANY. RUFUS PORTER, EDITOR. TERMS.–$2 a year–$1 in advance, and the remainder in 6 months. The Science of Astronomy. DESCRIPTIVE ASTRONOMY. Mercury, the nearest planet to the sun, is a globe of about 3140 miles in diameter, …
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Brought to you by: Hermanus Times 01/10/2009 02:01 PM – (SA) South Africa and more particularly, the HMO (Hermanus Magnetic Observatory) have been engaged in an exciting space technology programme which resulted in the launch of the second SA satellite, Sumbandilasat, on 17 September from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Russia. This satellite was designed and built …
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30 September 2009 by Stuart Clark Dark matter is either weirder than we thought or does not exist at all, a new study suggests. A galaxy is supposed to sit at the heart of a giant cloud of dark matter and interact with it through gravity alone. The dark matter originally provided enough attraction for …
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