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If his plan is approved, the site would provide planetary scientists with a working model of what to look for on the moon's surface.

James Garvin has been a planetary scientist with NASA for 20 years.

But there's liquid water elsewhere in the solar system; it's buried under thick sheets of ice on moons,» Francis Nimmo, a planetary scientist with the University of California at Santa Cruz, told Discovery News.

«That would be the most fascinating thing we could discover,» mission lead scientist Dante Lauretta, a planetary scientist with the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, told a NASA science advisory group in January.

Not exact matches

Chris Lewicki, a former NASA scientist and currently the president and chief engineer of Planetary Resources, chats with Cambridge House Live's Bridgitte Anderson about opportunities for mining in outer space.

Before the International Astronomical Union announced the names April 11, scientists referred to Charon's features with nicknames like «brown mountain» or «yellow mountain,» says Rita Schulz, a planetary scientist who heads the union's Working Group for Planetary System Nomeplanetary scientist who heads the union's Working Group for Planetary System NomePlanetary System Nomenclature.

Scientists have long believed that the early solar system began with four planetary cores that went on to grab all of the gas around them, forming the four gas planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

The new study helps scientists expand their knowledge of what might be possible on planetary bodies in our solar system, said Kelsi Singer, a postdoctoral researcher who studies icy worlds at Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and was not involved with the new research.

«We can now start with a pretty simple disk, pretty simple physics, and reproduce the outer solar system — and that's never been done before,» says Hal Levison, a planetary scientist at Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, who led the study.

In July Caltech planetary scientist Maciej Konacki turned up a world with three suns in the constellation Cygnus.

The planetary scientists weren't hoping to fill their coffers with the revenue from the sale; instead, they offered free sweets in return for signatures on letters beseeching Congress to reverse the cuts.

A postdoc at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory of the University of Arizona and an associate research scientist with the Planetary Science Institute, Richmond is frustrated by her struggle for stability.

To figure out how this happened, Harvard University planetary scientists paired with researchers working at Sandia National Laboratories» Z machine and shot metal projectiles into tiny iron squares at up to 55,000 mph.

«To take the next really big leaps in lunar science is going to take landing on the ground and getting at it with instruments in a way very similar to what we've done for Mars,» says Barbara Cohen, a planetary scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, who has developed methods for dating planetary samples on the surface of other worlds1.

Unencumbered by human frailties, Curiosity — like the rovers Spirit and Opportunity, which survived on the Red Planet years longer than expected — will be free to hunt for E.T. «If we find evidence for life on Mars, boy, are we just gonna go wild with speculation about how common it is in the universe,» says Lou Friedman, a former scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena and cofounder, with Carl Sagan, of the Planetary Society.

(One grassroots group of 300 astronomers declared, «We, as planetary scientists and astronomers, do not agree with the IAU's definition of a planet, nor will we use it.»)

But in a recent paper with co-authors Dorian Abbot and Eliza Kempton in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, Bean describes the need «to think about the techniques and approaches of astronomy in this game — not as planetary scientists studying exoplanets.»

It serves as the model for collaboration among disciplines and nations in planetary science, with its instrument teams featuring balanced rosters of U.S. and European scientists.

Still, the hunt for nonterran life could be accomplished with a tool familiar in any biology lab, scientists suggested here yesterday at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference and in a paper in press at Astrobiology.

The worlds are so dissimilar that planetary scientist Steve Desch says he is one of only a handful of researchers familiar with both.

Or perhaps the moon merged with another space rock that escaped Venus» orbit, says planetary scientist Raluca Rufu of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.

«We went in with a preconceived notion of how Jupiter worked, and I would say we have to eat some humble pie,» says Juno mission leader Scott Bolton, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio.

«This was a hostile, stressful environment for these organisms,» said Oleg Abramov, a planetary scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Ariz., who was not involved with planetary scientist at the Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Ariz., who was not involved with Planetary Science Institute in Tucson, Ariz., who was not involved with the work.

When at sea, we were treated to some 25 sessions with a diverse faculty, including Larry Cahill, neurobiologist at the University of California, Irvine; Robert Fovell, atmospheric and oceanic scientist at U.C.L.A.; James Gillies, head of communications at CERN; Peter Smith, professor emeritus of planetary sciences at the University of Arizona; and David Stevenson, planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology.

That's not the case with the new cluster, reported in the 13 June issue of Nature by planetary scientist David Nesvorný of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and his colleagues.

A bet the former had with other scientists on the nature of planetary orbits.

The findings help iron out a big wrinkle in the giant impact hypothesis, the only idea about the moon's origin that hasn't been shot down yet, says Harvard University planetary scientist Sarah Stewart, who was not involved with the study.

We erroneously stated in June's Discover Dialogue that planetary scientist Steve Squyres was a member of the imaging team for Voyager's encounters with Jupiter and Mars.

Solomon's co-authors include Diane Ivy, research scientist in the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, along with researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, and the University of Leeds in the U.K.

Then in the mid-1970s, planetary scientist William K. Hartmann and a few others proposed that the moon was formed by the collision of a Mars - size planet with the Earth.

«Comets can be unpredictable,» says Mark Lemmon, a planetary scientist at Texas A&M University, College Station, who wasn't involved with either team's research.

«We had the unique opportunity to compare the two planets at the same time,» says Iess, who has analyzed the Cassini data with Burkhard Militzer, a planetary scientist at the University of California, Berkeley.

Wladimir Lyra, a planetary scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., says the names are boring and don't resonate with non-scientist audiences.

There, the microscopically small grains of rock from the core are catapulted along with ice particles into space, where they were measured by the instruments on the Cassini space probe,» explained the Heidelberg planetary scientist.

Working with Berkeley Lab scientist Jill Banfield, a study co-author and also a professor in UC Berkeley's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, the team used newly developed DNA - based methods to identify all of the genomes of the microbes that used the introduced oil for growth along with their specific genes that were responsible for oil degradation.

«I'm personally very happy with the current system,» says Massachusetts Institute of Technology astrophysicist and planetary scientist Sara Seager.

Located 149 light years away in the constellation Cygnus the Swan, it was discovered by planetary scientist Maciej Konacki of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena with the 10 - meter Keck telescope at Mauna Kea, Hawaii.

Interspersed with the planetary information are explanations of the scientist's tricks of the trade.

Sasselov is working with planetary scientists and cosmochemists to answer these questions by analyzing concentrations of molecules in the universe and on the extrasolar planets they suspect may harbor life.

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.

Porco called on other scientists on the panel to come up with a «working definition» of life that could give planetary scientists guidance as to what else they should look for.

What planetary scientists lump together as asteroids are far too diverse — from boulders to floating heaps of gravel to mini planets with signs of past volcanic activity and even liquid water — to have a single common origin.

The years - long landing site selection process — open to any planetary scientist — had whittled down a list of sites to seven and then to four, all with the guidance of mission engineers.

«The biological explanation is becoming less and less plausible,» says John Kerridge, a planetary scientist at the University of California at San Diego who is familiar with both studies.

Some old - school planetary scientists still fear that someone will abuse «their» data, but the Mars rover missions have demonstrated that sharing raw images is a win - win situation, as those who work with such images are also the best PR people a mission can wish for.

The 30 - year - old planetary scientist has many passions, from the social commentary of Dostoyevsky to the lyrics of Metallica, but none measure up to her obsession with alien life.

«With warming, thunderstorms become more explosive,» said Romps, an assistant professor of earth and planetary science and a faculty scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

The new work is an intuitive next step in a years - long rethink of the early solar system, says Kevin Walsh, a planetary scientist at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo., who was not involved with the new simulation.

But the new evidence comes from a pair of respected planetary scientists, Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena, who prepared for the inevitable skepticism with detailed analyses of the orbits of other distant objects and months of computer simulations.

«We're left with a crystal ball,» says Kevin Hand, a planetary scientist at JPL who is one of the few researchers openly sympathetic to Greenberg's views.