Posts Tagged ‘interstellar’
Voyager 1 nears the final frontier
JOHNS HOPKINS U. (US) — By the end of next year, NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft may after 34 years finally go where no man-made object has gone before—interstellar space. Continue…
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Science & Technology - Jun 17, 2009 15:00 - 1 Comment
Meteorite suggests younger cosmic roots for Earth
University of Chicago Postdoctoral Scientist Philipp Heck with a sample of the Allende meteorite. The dark portions of the meteorite contain dust grains that formed before the birth of the solar system. The Allenda meteorite is of the same type as the Murchison meteorite, the subject of Heck’s Astrophysical Journal study. (Credit: Dan Dry)
