Sentences with phrase «of planetary»

The Target NEO 2: Open Community Workshop was organized by a group of planetary scientists alarmed at the way that NASA had conceived and then announced its Asteroid Retrieval Mission (ARM) in early April.

Then researchers could use the detailed seismic picture of the moon's interior to understand better the evolution of a planetary body assembled from the vaporous debris of a giant impact on the still - forming Earth.

«An asteroid in the Earth - moon system would provide a safer destination to begin developing our capability for human deep space exploration,» says Chris Lewicki of Planetary Resources, a space - mining firm in Seattle.

Sifting through Kepler data, astronomers have discovered 130 new extrasolar planets and identified hundreds of planetary candidates, showing that the universe is teeming with planets.

«Within any undertaking, there can not be 100 percent assurance,» Rummel says, «but avoiding unacceptable risks is what I do, and minimization of the chance of planetary contamination is simple prudence.»

The B612 Foundation, which includes two former NASA astronauts, Edward Lu and Rusty Schweickart, and a team of planetary science veterans, now intends to raise $ 450 million to launch a mission by July 2018.

Her approach is nonmathematical, and not at all condescending, and she conveys the true excitement of planetary research.

The mission was aptly named, says astronomer Louis Friedman, executive director of the Planetary Society in Pasadena, California.

But instead of cheering, a lot of planetary scientists are dubious about the mission's chances of success.

To study this, researchers used an numerical model of a small parcel of a planetary core, rather than simulating the core as a whole, which would require too much calculation power.

One of the more vocal critics is Mark Sykes, director of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona.

To meet it, the panel discussed the creation of a Planetary Protection Coordination Office (PPCO) within NASA, with an annual budget of $ 250 million - $ 300 million.

Copernicus even drew on the meticulous records of planetary motion from the observatory at Maragheh in northwestern Iran for his proposal that Earth revolves around the sun.

Studying super-Earths is a particularly fruitful area of planetary science, says David Latham of the CfA, who was not involved in the HARPS work.

The task combines «science, technology expertise and know - how learned at NASA with a bottoms - up maker's mentality,» says Juan Carlos Castilla - Rubio, CEO of the Planetary Skin Institute and co — chair of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Measuring Sustainability 2012 — 14.

Uranus rotates on its side, probably because of a planetary collision.

With a maximum allowable cost of $ 1 billion, the selected missions span the solar system and, not incidentally, all the subgroups of the planetary community.

Two fields of planetary science took serious hits with today's announcement of the competition results.

The discovery that the debris disks around some larger stars retain carbon monoxide longer than their Sun - like counterparts may provide insights into the role this gas plays in the development of planetary systems.

Co-authors include Jonathan Aurnou, professor of planetary science and geophysics in UCLA's Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences, and Johannes Wicht, a research scientist at Germany's Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research.

Over time, these slowly spinning boulders bumped into each other with enough force to wear their edges into smooth surfaces, write the scientists in this month's issue of Planetary and Space Science.

The team, led by Alexis Rodriguez of the Planetary Science Institute in Arizona, looked at snapshots taken from three Mars orbiters.

It must also be complimented for the excellent selection of planetary images and the first - class figures and diagrams.

The authors note that their study supports the existence of a planetary object within the range of parameters considered both in the Planet Nine hypothesis of Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin from Caltech, and in the original one proposed in 2014 by Scott Sheppard from the Carnegie Institute and Chadwick Trujillo from the University of North Arizona; in addition to following the lines of their own earlier studies (the latest led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias), which suggested that there is more than one unknown planet in our Solar System.

But V. Sundararamaiah, ISRO's scientific secretary, says the agency hopes to create a dozen or so junior research fellowships at select institutes and universities to serve the needs of its planetary exploration program.

CAMBRIDGE, U.K. — Saturn stole the show at the start of the 37th annual meeting of the Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society, held here this week.

The framing cameras were provided by the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Gottingen, Germany, with significant contributions by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) Institute of Planetary Research, Berlin, and in coordination with the Institute of Computer and Communication Network Engineering, Braunschweig.

Astronomers were thrilled when they first saw the Hubble images of the planetary nebulas ngc 7027 and crl 2688, also known as the Egg nebula.

The interaction occurred 149 minutes into the three - hour program, drawing in several candidates who repudiated the idea of enacting an «insurance policy» to guard against the risk of sea - level rise and other impacts of planetary warming.

Plus, it'd bring order to the current chaos of planetary designations.

The prospect of samples being returned by Chang» e-5 next year — more than four decades since the last ones were snagged by the Soviet Union's Luna 24 in 1976 — is tremendously exciting for lunar science, says Ian Crawford, a professor of planetary science and astrobiology at Birkbeck College in London.

The presence of water raises the possibility that Ceres might harbor life, so NASA's Office of Planetary Protection insisted that Dawn stay at least 420 miles away to minimize the risk of contaminating a pristine world with earthly microbes.

The team looked at previously dated meteorites that had evidence of explosive heating and ancient argon, and they modeled the collision and its blowback on the asteroid belt to pinpoint the timing of the planetary crash.

Elisabetta Pierazzo of the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Arizona, and colleagues used a global climate model to study how water vapour and sea salt thrown up from an impact will affect ozone levels for years after the event.

Likewise, the rules governing naming of surface features of the planets and their satellites — as spelled out in Appendix 6 of the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature — pointedly exclude hoi polloi.

Such observations are critical in advancing our understanding of all types and sizes of planetary systems — and ultimately how unique our own solar system might be,» said Perrin.

The interpretation is robust, says geologist Joseph Michalski, also of the Planetary Science Institute.

«It's quite dramatic,» says planetary scientist Jonathan Lunine of the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory in Tucson, who presented the images here on Thursday at the 37th meeting of the Division of Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society.

To do so, he started with a volcanism model developed previously by Sara Seager, MIT's Class of 1941 Professor of Planetary Sciences, and her former graduate student Renyu Hu.

NASA, too, is feeling the pinch, as it juggles Mars planning, support of the troubled space shuttle fleet, lagging construction of the International Space Station, and an ambitious program of planetary exploration.

Traditionally, the assumed beneficiary of planetary protection has been the planet Earth.

That means studying changes in the Pliocene atmosphere, the land surface and most of all the oceans, which absorb the bulk of planetary warming.

Welcome to the paradox of planetary protection.

The results should fill in many more brushstrokes — not just for Pluto's portrait, but also for the entire process of planetary formation.

It's clear now that these molecules form readily in stellar nurseries, providing insights into the chemical evolution of planetary systems, including our own.»

Research Topic 1 Origin and Evolution of Planetary Systems Research Topic 2 Origins of Organic Compounds in Space Research Topic 3 Rock - Water - Carbon Interactions, Organic Synthesis on Earth, and Steps to Life Research Topic 4 Life and Habitability Research Topic 5 Biosignatures as Facilitating Life Detection

«Let's take a picture,» Asmin «Oz» Pathare of the Planetary Science Institute says into his walkie - talkie, a hundred yards away from us.

The discovery may also help solve a nagging problem regarding the makeup of planetary systems.

The research team looked at some of these as examples, and studied the evolving nature of planetary habitability over astronomical and geological time.

Direct imaging of exoplanetary systems is a powerful technique that can reveal Jupiter - like planets in wide orbits, can enable detailed characterization of planetary atmospheres, and is a key step toward imaging Earth - like planets.