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Archived posts are listed in reverse chronological order.
Oct. 11, 2007 | 12:22 PDT | 19:22 UTC
DPS: NASA Night: Sweetness and light
On Tuesday night, after the poster session had ended (and, not incidentally, after all the meeting attendees had had their chances to get their two free drinks), was the traditional "NASA Night," an event that I viewed with trepidation. At the... More»
Oct. 11, 2007 | 10:32 PDT | 17:32 UTC
News flash: Lakes at Titan's south pole, too, on top of the land of lakes in the north
This morning the RADAR team released the following image, from the "T36" flyby on October 2, 2007:Click to enlarge >Lakes at Titan's south poleCassini's RADAR instrument acquired its first swath across the southern polar region on October 2, 2007,... More»
Oct. 10, 2007 | 14:43 PDT | 21:43 UTC
DPS: The Yarkovsky, O'Keefe, Radzievskii, and Paddack (YORP) effect
On Monday at the Division of Planetary Sciences meeting in Orlando there was an entire oral session devoted to YORP, which stands for Yarkovsky, O'Keefe, Radzievskii, and Paddack, all of whom studied the effects of solar radiation pressure on small... More»
Oct. 10, 2007 | 12:40 PDT | 19:40 UTC
DPS: New stuff from New Horizons at Jupiter
I'm already on my way home from the Division of Planetary Sciences meeting in Orlando, which will continue there for the rest of this week. Overall, it was not quite as exciting as some of the previous DPS meetings I've been to. Most of the... More»
Oct. 9, 2007 | 15:37 PDT | 22:37 UTC
Dawn Journal: Firing Up the Ion Propulsion System
Here's the latest Dawn Journal entry, contributed by Dawn Project System Engineer, Marc Rayman.
Dear Xedawnions,
Joining an elite club among spacecraft, Dawn successfully fired up its xenon ion propulsion system on October 6. This important... More»
Oct. 9, 2007 | 06:59 PDT | 13:59 UTC
Kaguya: First of two mini-satellites successfully deployed
I'm taking a coffee break from sessions at DPS and just came across the news that Kaguya, the Japanese lunar orbiter also known as SELENE, has just successfully released the first of two mini-satellites. Even cooler, their onboard camera recorded... More»
Oct. 8, 2007 | 18:47 PDT | Oct. 9 01:47 UTC
DPS: Sending humans to an asteroid?
I am finally in my hotel room after an exhausting first day at the 39th meeting of the Division of Planetary Sciences. The day was made more exhausting by the fact that in order to have as little impact on my 14-month-old daughter's life as... More»
Oct. 5, 2007 | 11:28 PDT | 18:28 UTC
39th annual meeting of the Division of Planetary Sciences is next week
Next week is the 39th annual meeting of the Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society, which is usually abbreviated to just "DPS." I'll be wrenching myself away from the baby to attend the first two days of it, all the way... More»
Oct. 4, 2007 | 21:46 PDT | Oct. 5 04:46 UTC
Kaguya is now in lunar orbit
JAXA confirmed this evening that Kaguya successfully entered orbit around the Moon, a highly elliptical orbit with an apogee of 11,741 kilometers above the surface and a perigee of only 101 kilometers; the spacecraft orbits once every 16 hours and... More»
Oct. 4, 2007 | 21:00 PDT | Oct. 5 04:00 UTC
Your voices counted: budget amendment passed today
The Planetary Society issued a call to action yesterday to support passage of an amendment to the budget bill in the Senate that would deliver an additional $1 billion to NASA. That budget has passed! Read more in an update from Lori Garver, the... More»
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