Showing posts with label NASA. Show all posts
Showing posts with label NASA. Show all posts

3.14.2010

Search on for Death Star that throws out deadly comets

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" A major clue to Nemesis's existence is a mysterious dwarf planet called Sedna that was spotted on an elongated 12,000-year-long orbit around the sun.
Mike Brown, who discovered Sedna in 2003, said: "Sedna is a very odd object – it shouldn't be there! It never comes anywhere close to any of the giant planets or the sun. It's way, way out there on this incredibly eccentric orbit.
The only way to get on an eccentric orbit is to have some giant body kick you – so what is out there? "
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Note: This so so cool. I wonder if they got all the Bush propagandists out of NASA yet?

3.11.2010

Obama facing uprising over new NASA strategy

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" Obama's move for a greater private sector role in space launches -- as he seeks to keep ballooning federal deficits in check -- has generated fears of job losses among thousands of NASA employees who provide an important economic base in Florida, a state usually crucial in presidential elections."