News tagged with ring system
O, Pioneers! (part 2): The derelicts of space
Before the Pioneer 11 spacecraft could venture beyond our solar system, it had to pass through the rings of Saturn. At the time, the rings were not well characterized and some thought the spacecraft could ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 06, 2012 |
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Tree rings may underestimate climate response to volcanic eruptions: study
Some climate cooling caused by past volcanic eruptions may not be evident in tree-ring reconstructions of temperature change because large enough temperature drops lead to greatly shortened or even absent growing seasons, ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 05, 2012 |
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Scientists discover a Saturn-like ring system eclipsing a sun-like star
A team of astrophysicists from the University of Rochester and Europe has discovered a ring system in the constellation Centaurus that invites comparisons to Saturn.
Jan 11, 2012 |
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First ever direct measurement of the Earth's rotation
A group with researchers of the Technical University of Munich, Germany, are the first to plot changes in the Earth's axis through laboratory measurements. To do this, they constructed the world's most stable ...
Dec 22, 2011 |
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Spacecrafts reveal mysteries of Jupiter and Saturn rings
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a celestial forensic exercise, scientists analyzing data from NASA's Cassini, Galileo and New Horizons missions have traced telltale ripples in Saturn and Jupiter's rings to specific collisions ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 31, 2011 |
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Ring closure as warning: New reagent for the detection of organophosphate neurotoxins with an extremely fast response
(PhysOrg.com) -- Soman, Tabun, and Sarin (which has already been used in terrorist attacks) are chemical weapons that attack the nervous system. When inhaled, these extremely toxic organophosphates can lead to death within ...
Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry
Sep 16, 2009 |
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