Space OR Planetary Science - Google News for Friday 29 August 2014

space OR planetary science - Google News

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The Rise and Fall (and Rise and Fall) of Planetary Exploration Funding -
The Planetary Society (blog)

Posted: 29 Aug 2014 05:21 PM PDT
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t...e-funding.html


Irish Examiner
The Rise and Fall (and Rise and Fall) of Planetary Exploration Funding
The Planetary Society (blog)
The total space science budget has rarely exceeded $5 billion, and has
averaged just over half that amount. Remember that space science is more
than just planetary: astrophysics, heliophysics, and Earth science are all
funded in this number. Despite ...
Mississippi and Louisiana Students Get Out-of-This-World Start to the
School YearSpace Ref (press release)
See Cygnus shooting off from the International Space StationIrish Examiner

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Interstellar Space Can Be Pebbly - Scientific American (blog)

Posted: 29 Aug 2014 07:08 AM PDT
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Scientific American (blog)
Interstellar Space Can Be Pebbly
Scientific American (blog)
.... recently exoplanetary science. His latest book is Gravitys Engines: How
Bubble-Blowing Black Holes Rule Galaxies, Stars, and Life in the Cosmos,
and he is working on The Copernicus Complex (both from Scientific American
/ Farrar, Straus and ...



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Universe Update, August 2014 - California Academy of Sciences

Posted: 29 Aug 2014 07:04 PM PDT
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t...-2014/5516806/


California Academy of Sciences
Universe Update, August 2014
California Academy of Sciences
But a couple themes emerge from the stories Ive selected this month, most
notably related to the origin and evolution of planets and planetary
systems… And the stuff between the planets and the stars. Well start
at .... “Once we had these results in ...



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Want to Taste Whisky Aged in Space? - Chinatopix

Posted: 29 Aug 2014 10:51 AM PDT
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t...d-in-space.htm


Irish Examiner
Want to Taste Whisky Aged in Space?
Chinatopix
After the two samples will be reunited, it will then be brought to a
laboratory in Houston, Texas where scientists will compare them. Scientists
will examine the interaction between the Ardberg-crafted molecules mixed
with the charred oak ones in the ...
We definitely want to taste some whisky from spaceIrish Examiner

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Mysteries of space dust revealed - Phys.Org

Posted: 29 Aug 2014 10:40 AM PDT
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t...-revealed.html


Phys.Org
Mysteries of space dust revealed
Phys.Org
"Fundamentally, the solar system and everything in it was ultimately
derived from a cloud of interstellar gas and dust," says Andrew Westphal,
physicist at the University of California, Berkeleys Space Sciences
Laboratory and lead author on the paper ...

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