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| October 18, 2013 |
 Asteroid 2013 TV135 - A Reality Check Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 18, 2013 - Newly discovered asteroid 2013 TV135 made a close approach to Earth on Sept. 16 when it came within about 4.2 million miles (6.7 million kilometers). The asteroid is initially estimated to be about 1,300 feet (400 meters) in size and its orbit carries it as far out as about three quarters of the distance to Jupiter's orbit and as close to the sun as the Earth's orbit. It was discovered on ... more |  |
 AvtoVAZ Boss Quits Ahead of Space Industry Job Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 18, 2013 - Igor Komarov, head of Russia's largest car maker Avtovaz, has submitted his resignation ahead of a likely appointment as chief of a new state-run space corporation currently being formed by the Russian government. "The resignation letter will be discussed soon by the company's board of directors," AvtoVAZ spokesman, Igor Burenkov, said Wednesday, but declined to comment on the nature of Ko ... more |  |
 Russia Readies Proton Rocket for October 20 Launch Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 18, 2013 - A Proton-M carrier rocket with a US telecoms satellite will be transported early Thursday to a launch pad at the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan in preparation for launch on October 20, Russia's space agency Roscosmos said. According to Roscosmos, the Proton rocket with a Briz-M booster and the Sirius FM-6 satellite has been cleared for the launch by a special state commission on Wedne ... more |  |
US 'Itching' to Join Russia in Anti-Asteroid Nuclear Defense Washington (RIA Novosti) Oct 18, 2013 - US scientists are "itching" to work with their Russian counterparts in putting nuclear weapons technology to use in new systems to defend Earth from threatening asteroids, an investigative journalism outlet reported Wednesday. "In recent years, advocates of the use of nuclear weapons to counter space threats have been gaining ground," the non-profit Center for Public Integrity (CPI) said i ... more |  |
 Finding alien worlds on Earth Paris (ESA) Oct 18, 2013 - Have you ever wondered which places on Earth most resemble other planets? For some of us, imagining the landscape of other worlds might just be for fun, but scientists and engineers wonder about what the otherworldly places on Earth can tell us about neighbours like the Moon and Mars. Working in the most unusual places on Earth can help us to prepare for human flights, robotic missions and ... more |  |
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410-meter asteroid 'may collide' with Earth in 2032 Moscow (Voice of Russia) Oct 18, 2013 - A potentially catastrophic asteroid has been discovered by astronomers, who say there's a slim chance that the 410-meter-wide minor planet will crash into Earth in 2032, creating a blast 50 times greater than the biggest nuclear bomb. The asteroid, described as 2013 TV135, was found in the Camelopardalis (Giraffe) constellation by the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in southern Ukraine, ... more |  |
 Comet ISON Appears Intact Baltimore MD (SPX) Oct 18, 2013 - A new image of the sunward plunging Comet ISON suggests that the comet is intact despite some predictions that the fragile icy nucleus might disintegrate as the Sun warms it. The comet will pass closest to the Sun on November 28. In this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image taken on October 9, the comet's solid nucleus is unresolved because it is so small. If the nucleus broke apart then Hubb ... more |  |
 Heading to a High Slope for Some Sunshine Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 18, 2013 - Opportunity is on the northern edge of 'Solander Point' at the rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover is investigating the geologic contacts at the base of Solander Point. On Sol 3446 (Oct. 3, 2013), at the location of the surface target 'Callitris,' Opportunity began an extensive two-sol, stereo color panorama of the ridge along Solander Point. Additional Alpha Particle X-ray Spectromet ... more |  |
 Gravitational waves help understand black-hole weight gain Perth, Australia (SPX) Oct 18, 2013 - Supermassive black holes: every large galaxy's got one. But here's a real conundrum: how did they grow so big? A paper in the latest issue of Science pits the front-running ideas about the growth of supermassive black holes against observational data - a limit on the strength of gravitational waves, obtained with CSIRO's Parkes radio telescope in eastern Australia. "This is the first time ... more |  |
 Astronomer see misaligned planets in distant system Ames IA (SPX) Oct 18, 2013 - data from NASA's Kepler space telescope, an international team of astronomers has discovered a distant planetary system featuring multiple planets orbiting at a severe tilt to their host star. Such tilted orbits had been found in planetary systems featuring a "hot Jupiter," a giant planet in a close orbit to its host star. But, until now, they hadn't been observed in multiplanetary systems ... more |  |
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Phobos-Grunt-2: Russia to probe Martian moon by 2022 Moscow (Voice of Russia) Oct 18, 2013 - Russia is set to launch a probe to the Martian moon Phobos by 2022, the head of the Russian Space Research Institute has revealed. The renewal of the ambitious program, which includes taking samples of the moon's soil, comes despite previous failure. "We plan to get back to Phobos in 2020-2022," the institute's director, Lev Zeleny, announced on Tuesday, speaking at the Russian Space Resea ... more |  |
Russian scientists set sights on space Moscow (Voice of Russia) Oct 18, 2013 - Russian scientists plan to once again attempt to launch an exploratory mission on the Martian satellite Phobos - the date for the launch of the new probe entitled Boomerang is tentatively set on 2022. Moskovskiy Komsomolets talked with Igor Mitrofanov, head of the Gamma spectroscopy lab of the Institute of Space Research of the Russian Academy of Sciences, who outlined the future of Russian spac ... more |  |
Chelyabinsk meteorite fragment weighing almost 600 kg lifted from Lake Chebarkul by Staff Writers - Moscow (Voice of Russia) Oct 18, 2013 A giant fragment of the Chelyabinsk meteorite was lifted from the bottom of Lake Chebarkul near the city of Chelyabinsk in the Russian Urals Mountains on Wednesday. The fragment weighing about 570 kg proved so heavy that even the weighing machine broke, making it impossible to measure the exact weight. Sergei Zamozdra, a professor of the Chelyabinsk S ... more |  |
Curiosity confirms origins of Martian meteorites Washington DC (SPX) Oct 18, 2013 - Earth's most eminent emissary to Mars has just proven that those rare Martian visitors that sometimes drop in on Earth - a.k.a. Martian meteorites - really are from the Red Planet. A key new measurement of Mars' atmosphere by NASA's Curiosity rover provides the most definitive evidence yet of the origins of Mars meteorites while at the same time providing a way to rule out Martian origins of oth ... more |  |
 'Biobots' may help map hidden, dangerous environments Raleigh, N.C. (UPI) Oct 17, 2013 - A swarm of insect cyborgs, or "biobots," may one day allow the mapping of unknown and dangerous environments such as collapsed buildings, U.S. researchers say. Researchers from North Carolina State University say they have have developed software that could track a swarm of biobots, such as remotely controlled cockroaches, equipped with electronic sensors and released into a collapsed b ... more |  |
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Spacecraft images of asteroid reinforce telescope observations Tucson (UPI) Oct 17, 2013 - NASA scientists say a spacecraft's close-up view of an asteroid can work with ground-based telescopes to clarify our understanding of a solar system object. The agency's Dawn spacecraft that studied the giant asteroid Vesta from July 2011 to September 2012 captured images that provided a "reality check" for images taken by ground-based telescopes and the Hubble Space Telescope, they sai ... more |  |
 Astronomers find clues to decades-long coronal heating mystery New York NY (SPX) Oct 17, 2013 - Drs. Michael Hahn and Daniel Wolf Savin, research scientists at Columbia University's Astrophysics Laboratory in New York, NY, found evidence that magnetic waves in a polar coronal hole contain enough energy to heat the corona and moreover that they also deposit most of their energy at sufficiently low heights for the heat to spread throughout the corona. The observations help to answer a ... more |  |
Russia to Make Second Attempt at Mars Moon Mission Moscow (RIA Novosti) Oct 17, 2013 - Russia will take a second crack at bringing back dust samples from Phobos, one of the moons of Mars, after an attempt in 2011 ended in the spacecraft crashing back to Earth, a top scientist said Tuesday. Russia's next bid to recover material from Mars' largest moon will take place between 2020 and 2022, Lev Zelyony, the director of the Space Research Institute at the Russian Academy of Sci ... more |  |
Mission To Mars: A Critical Step In Space Globalization Moscow (Voice of Russia) Oct 17, 2013 - India is getting ready to become the fifth country to send a spaceship to Mars. The USA, Russia, the EU, China and Japan are working on their own programs of studying the Red Planet. And although it has already been proven that there is no life there, it does not make Mars any less interesting for people. To the contrary, a race of space projects to make colonies on Mars has started on Earth. ... more |  |
 The active Sun boosts Titan's outer atmosphere Paris (ESA) Oct 17, 2013 - The NASA-ESA-ASI Cassini spacecraft has been observing the Saturn system, including the giant satellite Titan, for more than 9 years. A detailed analysis of Cassini data has now confirmed predictions that the density of Titan's ionosphere is directly linked to the 11 year cycle of solar activity. All planets and satellites with atmospheres possess an ionosphere, a region in the upper atmos ... more |  |
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