Category Archives: News

News: New views of Apollo landing sites remind us we walked on the Moon; show we didn’t walk far

Posted on September 7, 2011 by physcarl

NASA have recently released new higher resolution images of some of the Apollo landing sites that show our physical legacy on the Moon in more detail than ever before. NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) is currently orbiting the Moon creating three dimensional … Continue reading →

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News: Latest News From NASA; GRAIL Moon Mission, ISS Supply Ship Loss

Posted on August 27, 2011 by physcarl
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News: Earth’s newest (and only) trojan asteroid discovered!

Posted on July 28, 2011 by physcarl

Each planet that orbits our Sun has 5 points in space around its orbit where something special occurs. An object placed at one of these points, called Lagrangian points, remains at the point. This is due to the gravitational pulls of … Continue reading →

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News: Hopeful Higgs Hint at Tevatron and the Large Hadron Collider

Posted on July 26, 2011 by physcarl

A hint of a particle that may or may not be the long sought after Higgs boson has been found in the data from two different experiments on different continents. The Large Hadron Collider on the French-Swiss border and the … Continue reading →

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News: Dawn sets its sights on Vesta

Posted on June 13, 2011 by physcarl

Launched in September 2007, the Dawn spacecraft is on its way to visit two of the oddest members of the asteroid belt, inbetween Mars and Jupiter. On the 16th July 2011, Dawn will hopefully be inserted into orbit around the … Continue reading →

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News: Anti-matter trapped for 16 minutes at CERN

Posted on June 8, 2011 by physcarl

Anti-matter is fascinating stuff. As far as we know, nearly all the stuff around us and that we can see is made of normal matter – protons, electrons etc. – but we know that for each normal matter particle there … Continue reading →

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