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First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 21 mins ago - 1 reports

NASA

NASA Records The Brightest Meteor To Hit The Moon In Close To A Decade

It?s hard to forget the record-setting meteor that . Looks like the Moon didn?t want to be left out of the fun, with NASA recently announcing it suffered its own flashy impact in March ? the largest ever recorded by the agency. , the meteor strike occurred ... [Published Gizmodo Australia - 5 hours ago]

Entities: NASA, Mare Imbrium, Solar System

First reported 34 mins ago - Updated 34 mins ago - 1 reports

Otherworldly parade sends Fun Fair into goofy orbit

Aliens, robots and rocket ships marched on the Saint Martins University campus Saturday afternoon as part of the 26th annual Lacey Spring Fun Fair.Parking lots were filled before the childrens parade began at noon, where participants dressed in a nod ... [Published Tacoma News Tribune - 34 mins ago]

Entities: Rhubarb, Reindeer, Solar System, Olympia (United States)

First reported 40 mins ago - Updated 40 mins ago - 1 reports

Chevrolet Volt

Zero-net houses produce as much energy as they use

_ PALM SPRINGS ? Rick Walsh and Pat Dowd like their homes super energy-efficient. The couple, who have been together 17 years, put solar panels on their Victorian home in San Franciscos Castro District and drive a hybrid electric Chevy Volt.When they ... [Published Palm Springs Desert Sun - 40 mins ago]

Entities: Solar Panels, Chevrolet Volt, Solar System

First reported 1 hour ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 1 reports

Acura RDX

How Adding An Electric Car Cut Solar Payback Time In Half

Do you think that buying an electric vehicle could reduce the payback time of a solar power system by 50%? Let us explore that.Chevy Volt.Image Credit: GMThis is the story of a family in Pennsylvania who installed a 9.43 kW solar panel array to offset ... [Published PluginEurope.com - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Chevrolet Volt, Acura RDX, Electric Car, Solar System

First reported 23 hours ago - Updated 18 hours ago - 2 reports

UCLA

Galaxy overcrowded With Zero Rooms for New Planets

We have never come across a notion that the solar systems have turned so overcrowded that it doesn't have any room for new planets.However, astronomers Julia Fang and Jean-Luc Margot at UCLA have been running replications of millions of faraway star systems. ... [Published French Tribune - 18 hours ago]

Entities: Solar System, Jean-Luc Margot, UCLA, Replication

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated 20 hours ago - 3 reports

First American Corporation

First American Mission To Sample An Asteroid Gets Green Light

OSIRIS-REx will scoop up a couple of ounces of dirt from the asteroid Bennu and bring it back to Earth.Earth-bound scientists are on track to get their hands on asteroid soil, straight from the source, in 2023. An asteroid-sampling mission, planned for ... [Published Popular Science - May 17 2013]

Entities: Planetoid, First American Corporation, University of Arizona, NASA

First reported 21 hours ago - Updated 21 hours ago - 1 reports

Photovoltaic systems focus of solar summit

The Maui NewsSave |A Maui "Solar Summit" will focus this month on issues relating to the installation and use of photovoltaic systems.Presented by Maui County and the Sustainable Living Institute of Maui, the summit will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. ... [Published Maui News - 21 hours ago]

Entities: Photovoltaic Systems, Solar System, Doug McLeod, Robert Johnston, Solar Power

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 4 reports

Why do planets farthest from sun have highest winds? Team closes in on answer

The planets beyond Mars exhibit the highest winds speeds of any other planets in the solar system. It's a puzzle, because less energy from the sun is available there to drive higher winds. Astronomers have long marveled that the fastest wind speeds in ... [Published Christian Science Monitor - May 18 2013]

Entities: Uranus, Atmosphere, William Hubbard, Jupiter

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Suntrix

Making the solar industry a brighter placeHomegrown solar company is on a mission to provide good-value, high-quality solar power available to every home and business in South Australia.Renewable energy and particularly small-scale solar generation is ... [Published The Australian Business Journal - May 17 2013]

Entities: Solar System, Solar Panels, Electrician, David Hille, Wholesale

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 3 reports

Goldman Invests in Solar

Wall Street’s major banks continue investing in the clean energy sector, with The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (GS) the latest to jump on the bandwagon. Goldman entered into a deal to finance approximately 110 megawatts (MW) rooftop solar power generators ... [Published Yahoo! Finance - May 17 2013]

Entities: SolarCity, Goldman Sachs Group Inc, US Bancorp, Down Payment, Clean Technology

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

No matter what age, we can learn

SO LONG as one’s brain is functioning, life is interesting. To keep my brain working, I find a book like Patrick Holford’sWhen we are young we naturally consider anyone over retirement age as being elderly. What I fi nd annoying now, being in my 90s, ... [Published Mature Times - May 17 2013]

Entities: Patrick Holford, Solar System, Species

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Alan Hale column: If life exists elsewhere, we must go find it

The so-called "minor bodies" of the solar system asteroids and comets have been in the news quite a bit lately.We had the entry of a small asteroid over the city of Chelyabinsk, Russia, three months ago coincidentally, on the same day that a previously-known ... [Published Las Cruces Sun-News - May 17 2013]

Entities: Planetoid, Solar System, Saturn, Jupiter, Infrared

Quotes

..."We felt we couldn't wait and should release an interim product," he says. "The community has been hoping to get this for a while. I think it will stimulate a lot of interesting work."

Cassini creates the first global topographic map of Titan [Published SEN - 4 hours ago]

...75 meters) across. Lance Benner, radar astronomer and principal investigator for the Goldstone radar observations, said: "Asteroid 1998 QE2 will be an outstanding radar imaging target at Goldstone and Arecibo and we expect to obtain a series of high-resolution images that could reveal a wealth of surface features. Whenever an asteroid approaches this closely, it provides an important scientific opportunity to study it in detail to understand its size, shape, rotation, surface features, and what they can tell us about its origin. We will also use new radar measurements of the asteroid's distance and velocity to improve our calculation of its orbit and compute its motion farther into the future than we could otherwise. "It is tremendously exciting to see detailed images of this asteroid for the first time. With radar we can transform an object from a point of light into a small world with its own unique set of characteristics. In a real sense, radar imaging of near-Earth asteroids is a fundamental form of exploring a whole class of solar system objects." NASA JPL-CaltechJPL-Caltech Orbit: Asteroid 1998 QE2 image:149122:0::0 The asteroid is about 1.7 miles (2.7 kilometers) long, and according to NASA, about the length of nine Queen Elizabeth II ocean liners. However, NASA explains that the space rock was not named after the ocean liner. It was named by the NASA affiliated in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which gives each newly discovered asteroid a unique name. According to LA Times, scientist are not certain about the origin of the asteroid. Mianzer said that the sooty substance on its surface suggests it may have resulted from a comet that approached the Sun too closely. NASA leads the global effort to document near-Earth asteroids that pose impact risk. NASA says it has the most robust and productive survey and detection program for near-Earth objects (NEOs), having discovered over 98 percent of the known NEOs. NASA plans to send a robotic probe to one of the most potentially hazardous near-Earth objects known in 2016. The OSIRIS-REx mission to asteroid (101955) Bennu will lay groundwork for efforts involving spacecraft reconnaissance on newly discovered hazardous NEOs."

NASA: Asteroid 1998 QE2 will pass Earth on May 31 [Published Digital Journal - 10 hours ago]

"This has been an open question for the last 25 years" study lead author Yohai Kaspi, a planetary scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, told SPACE.com

How the mighty winds of Uranus and Neptune blow [Published Tehran Times - 11 hours ago]

...on my rooftop watching the stars, thinking about what's out there," said NASA science chief John Grunsfeld, a former space shuttle astronaut. "And now we know, because of Kepler and the hard work of all the Kepler scientists." Follow Mike Wall on Twitter @michaeldwall and Google+. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook or Google+. Originally published on SPACE.com

NASA's Planet-Hunting Kepler Telescope Will Have Long Legacy, Despite Big Glitch [Published Space.com - 17 hours ago]

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Otherworldly parade sends Fun Fair into goofy o... [Published Tacoma News Tribune - 34 mins ago]
Zero-net houses produce as much energy as they use [Published Palm Springs Desert Sun - 40 mins ago]
How Adding An Electric Car Cut Solar Payback Ti... [Published PluginEurope.com - 1 hour ago]
BYERS: Keep solar plants off N.J. farmland [Published Asbury Park Press - 3 hours ago]
Kenney-Marshall: After the MCAS comes learning [Published Wicked Local Mendon - 3 hours ago]
Cassini creates the first global topographic ma... [Published SEN - 4 hours ago]
NASA Records The Brightest Meteor To Hit The Mo... [Published Gizmodo Australia - 5 hours ago]
Much can be revealed in a box of beliefs [Published KansasCity.com - 5 hours ago]
Solar's future is so bright, you'll have to wea... [Published Modesto Bee - 5 hours ago]
NASA Plans Asteroid Mission. First Stop: Bennu [Published BruDirect - 6 hours ago]
NASA observes powerful meteor strike on moon [Published domain-b - 6 hours ago]
Star Trek's techonological feats ahead of the t... [Published Abu Dhabi National - 10 hours ago]
NASA: Asteroid 1998 QE2 will pass Earth on May 31 [Published Digital Journal - 10 hours ago]
How the mighty winds of Uranus and Neptune blow [Published Tehran Times - 11 hours ago]
Titan Surface Secrets Revealed In First 3D Map [Published ITechPost - 12 hours ago]
Sunways AG (SWW) - Alternative Energy - Deals a... [Published TransWorldNews - 13 hours ago]
Opportunity Mars Rover Blazes Past 40 Year Old ... [Published Universe Today - 14 hours ago]
Astronomers Awaiting Comet ISON's Year-End Spec... [Published VOA News - 16 hours ago]
NASA's Planet-Hunting Kepler Telescope Will Hav... [Published Space.com - 17 hours ago]
Galaxy overcrowded With Zero Rooms for New Planets [Published French Tribune - 18 hours ago]
Column: Plants are at the heart of many crucial... [Published TheJournal.ie - 19 hours ago]
Trailer: Under The Dome, Europa Report, Pacific... [Published Nerdcore - 19 hours ago]
Dan Dare: Car-repair manual publisher releases ... [Published Mail Online UK - 20 hours ago]
2-Mile Asteroid to Brush Past Earth on 31 May [Published International Business Times UK - 21 hours ago]
Photovoltaic systems focus of solar summit [Published Maui News - 21 hours ago]
Nasa approves first asteroid mission [Published News24.com - 23 hours ago]
No room for more planets in system [Published Herald-Zeitung - 23 hours ago]
Jonathan Page: The Genesis 1 debate [Published Ames Daily Tribune - May 18 2013]
WATCH: Giant Space Rock Headed Our Way [Published Huffington Post - May 18 2013]
Moon Explosion Sparked By Meteorite Crash On Lu... [Published The Huffington Post \| Full News Feed - May 18 2013]

Blogs

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Trailer: Under The Dome, Europa Report, Pacific... [Published Nerdcore - 19 hours ago] Nach dem Klick die neuen Trailer zur TV-Adaption von Stephen Kings Under The Dome und Europa Report, dazu noch weil toll: der finale Trailer zu Pacific Rim und der erste Clip aus Alfonso Cuaróns Gravity: Europa Report Hier der Trailer zu Europa Report ...
How Kepler’s Pointing System Might Have Failed [Published IEEE Spectrum - May 17 2013] <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> As has been reported this week, the Kepler planet hunting space telescope, may have to end its mission earlier than hoped, due to the failure of the system that keeps it pointed in the right direction. ...
Where robots fail: Why education can’t just be ... [Published Venturebeat - May 17 2013] This is a guest post by TutorSpree CEO Aaron HarrisThanks to technology, we’re watching a revolution happen in education right now.From the explosion in popularity of language learning apps like Mindsnacks to the media furor about the rise of massive ...
Where robots fail: Why education can’t just be ... [Published Venturebeat - May 17 2013] This is a guest post by TutorSpree CEO Aaron Harris Thanks to technology, we’re watching a revolution happen in education right now. From the explosion in popularity of language learning apps like Mindsnacks to the media furor about the rise ...
Star Trek, Star Tech [Published Centauri Dreams - May 17 2013] Tau Zero’s founding architect (and the former head of NASA’s Breakthrough Propulsion Physics project) weighs in on the kind of technology we see in the new Star Trek movie and ponders what it would take to make at least some of it real. by Marc Millis ...

Audio/Video

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VIDEO: 'Earth-like' planets discovered [Published BBC News Video - Science and Environment - Apr 19 2013]
The Gamma-Ray Spectrometer at Mercury: A Seven ... [Published UC Television - YouTube - Mar 14 2013]
Radar Images of Asteroid Toutatis [Published Wired Videos - Feb 20 2013]
Nature: 31 January 2013 [Published Nature Podcast - Jan 30 2013]
Babbage: In furious flux [Published Economist Magazine - YouTube - Jan 02 2013]

Press Releases

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"Meteorite Man" Geoff Notkin Making an Impact A... [Published PR.com Press Releases - May 16 2013]
Solaria Corporation Expands into China Solar Ma... [Published Business Wire - May 13 2013]
AMECO Awarded Solar Project at Long Beach Aquat... [Published PR.com Press Releases - May 11 2013]
Spire Corporation Reports Results for First-Qua... [Published EON Environment - May 10 2013]
Spire Corporation Reports Results for First-Qua... [Published EON Energy - May 10 2013]