- Comet Wild 2 Dust And The Birth Of The Solar System
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... comet Wild 2, a comet that originated outside the orbit of Neptune and was subsequently kicked closer to Earth's orbit in 1974 when ...
Article - News Staff - May 20 2015 - 10:29am - 0 attachments
- Proof That HL Tau Image Shows Forming Planets
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... they miss each other, similar to how Pluto has avoided Neptune for billions of years despite the two orbits crossing one ...
Article - News Staff - May 5 2015 - 3:30pm - 0 attachments
- Complex Organic Molecules Discovered Around Star MWC 480
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... planetesimals and comets in our own Solar System beyond Neptune. “We now have even better evidence that this same chemistry exists ...
Article - News Staff - Apr 8 2015 - 12:00pm - 0 attachments
- Right Under Our Eyes: Nibiru On Its Way?
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... We currently know Nibiru as Neptune, allegedly the ninth planet. It simply isn't. You could call it the ... and 9th stable planetary orbits. Astronomers now refer to Neptune as a WIMP, a Wandering Immensely Massive Planetoid. WIMPs are dark ... news is that our solar WIMP, aka Nibiru, aka Planet-X, aka Neptune, is behaving according to the Mayan and Nostradamian prophecies. It is ...
Article - Johannes Koelman - Mar 27 2015 - 12:05am - 0 attachments
- Wandering Jupiter, Did Our Solar System Once Have Super-Earths?
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... super-Earths - planets larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune - and caused their giant remnants to fall into the sun billions of ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 23 2015 - 3:21pm - 0 attachments
- ESA’s CHEOPS Satellite: The Pharaoh of Exoplanet Hunting
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... hundreds of stars hosting planets in the super-Earth to Neptune mass range and will continue to do so into the foreseeable future. The ...
Blog Post - Tomasz Nowakowski - Mar 19 2015 - 5:23pm - 0 attachments
- 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko Reveals First Detection Of Molecular Nitrogen On A Comet
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... present in the atmospheres and surface ices on Pluto and Neptune’s moon Triton. It is in these cold outer reaches of our ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 19 2015 - 2:33pm - 0 attachments
- Chiron May Possess Saturn-Like Rings
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... Rings of gas and dust also encircle Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune along with a "centaur", Chariklo, an homage to the mythological ...
Article - News Staff - Mar 16 2015 - 10:06am - 0 attachments
- Giant Methane Storms Raging On Uranus
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... spectrum isn’t a surprise – Uranus, and its neighbor Neptune, are pretty much just big balls of methane, water and ammonia (but it ... a dynamic interior (it has an active magnetic field like Neptune) but that little of this energy is reaching the atmosphere. This is why ...
Article - The Conversation - Mar 7 2015 - 1:00pm - 0 attachments
- Buy New Textbooks Again? Pluto May Go Back To Planet Status
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... both orbit a star, the Sun, like Venus, Mars, Uranus and Neptune. That’s also part of the widely accepted definition of a planet. ... as a planet, the eighth one known at the time (neither Neptune nor Pluto had been discovered yet). But within a few years, other ...
Article - The Conversation - Feb 26 2015 - 10:30am - 0 attachments
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