Items tagged with planet

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Earthlings Share a Nice Neighborhood Friday, August 8th, 2008 - 14:32:56 - Anuradha Menon We don't have spacecraft to take us outside our solar system-not yet, at least. Still, astronomers thought they had a pretty good understanding of... read more

Electronics for Extreme Environments Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 - 12:41:53 - Anuradha Menon Developing electronics that operate in extreme environments is an area of strategic importance to NASA's future planetary missions. Instruments that... read more

Planets Align for the 4th of July Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 - 10:51:02 - Anuradha Menon No, not those lights. Look beyond the fireworks. Almost halfway up the western sky, just above the twilight glow of sunset, a trio of worlds is... read more

Solar System's Biggest Impact Scar Thursday, June 26th, 2008 - 16:03:24 - Ehud Rattner Every scar tells a story, yet a huge gash on Mars has long proven very hard to read. Now a peek beneath the planet's surface reveals that the scar is... read more

Hidden Planet in Our Solar System? Wednesday, June 18th, 2008 - 18:53:49 - Iddo Genuth An icy, unknown world might lurk in the distant reaches of our solar system beyond the orbit of Pluto, according to a new computer model. The hidden... read more

Three-of-a-Kind Planets Found Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 - 23:09:00 - Ehud Rattner Astronomers have discovered a family of three planets, ranging from just four to nine times as massive as Earth, orbiting a Sun-like star 42... read more

Plutoids - Pluto-Like Min-Planets new Name Sunday, June 15th, 2008 - 12:45:19 - Iddo Genuth The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has decided that Pluto — and other dwarf planets in the Solar System that share similar characteristics —... read more

Pluto-like Objects to Be Called 'Plutoids' Thursday, June 12th, 2008 - 10:25:21 - Ehud Rattner From now on Pluto won't just be any dwarf planet, it will be a 'plutoid.' The International Astronomical Union (IAU) announced the name today after... read more

Smallest Extrasolar Planet Found Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 - 14:45:06 - Iddo Genuth Astronomers have sighted the smallest extrasolar planet yet orbiting a normal star - a distant world just three times the size of our own... read more

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