Statement by Maria T. Zuber: Hearing on NASA at 50: Past Accomplishments and Future Opportunities and Challenges (SpaceRef)
Hearing on NASA at 50: Past Accomplishments and Future Opportunities and Challenges
Top Scoops (Scoop.co.nz)
After reviewing Robert M. Hazen’s 28-page CV. of his work as an experimental mineralogist (listing grant $$$ too), as an educator, author of a dozen books and a symphonic trumpeter – I was most charmed to read that a new mineral “precipitated” by microbes in California’s highly alkaline Lake Mono had been proposed in his honor in March of this year: “hazenite”.
Austin adventurer following dad into space (w/video) (Houston Chronicle)
In October, Richard Garriott will take a voyage to the international space station aboard a Russian spacecraft.
Discovery of the source of the most common meteorites (EurekAlert!)
Astronomy & Astrophysics is publishing the first discovery by T. Mothé-Diniz (Brazil) and D. Nesvorný (USA) of asteroids with a spectrum similar to that of ordinary chondrites, the meteoritic material that most resembles the composition of our Sun. Most of the meteorites that we collect on Earth come from the main belt of asteroids located between Mars and Jupiter [1]. They were ejected from ...
