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NASA finds solar mystery
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SPACE CENTER, Houston -- NASA scientists have a new mystery to
solve: How did materials formed by fire end up on the outermost
reaches of the solar system, where temperatures are the coldest?
The materials were contained in dust samples captured when the
robotic Stardust spacecraft flew past the comet Wild 2 in 2004. A 100-
pound capsule tied to a parachute returned the samples to Earth in
January, landing in the Utah desert.
The samples include minerals such as anorthite, which ...
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It's a big, busy solar system.(TEACHER'S toolkit)
Science Scope
; ... Teachers of inquiry, rejoice! The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is a great place to look for the latest news, statistics, and images. Three key pages to bookmark are the NASA Science Mission Directorate's Solar System Exploration web ...
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The solar system.(web services)(Brief Article)
Teacher Librarian
; NASA Kids: Solar System httpkids.msfc.nasa.gov/ SolarSystem/ NASA presents information about the planets, the sun, comets, asteroids, and meteor showers. Students can even learn what age or weight they would be on another planet! Older students will want to visit NASAs other site on the solar
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Collecting star dust: after seven years and 2.9 billion miles, the Stardust spacecraft sent back to Earth the oldest material ever collected--from before the dawn of our solar system.(SCIENCE)
Popular Mechanics
; I'm in the cockpit of a modified DC-8 cruising 39,000 ft. above Nevada in the early hours of 3an. 15, 2006. The plane, which is owned by NASA and operated jointly with the University of North Dakota, is on an intercept course with the fastest man-made object ever to enter Earth's atmosphere--the
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Jumping Jupiter! Is Our Solar System a Rarity?
The Washington Post
; ... for any possible habitable planet as we know it." That's "bad news" for those in search of extraterrestrial intelligence, said Marcy ... about 5 percent appear to have world-wrecking planets. "The good news is that 95 percent of the sun-like stars don't have these nemeses ...
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Find yields clues to solar system birth
The Boston Globe
; Astronomers yesterday reported the discovery of newborn planetary systems that resemble our own solar system in its infancy, providing images that are like baby pictures showing how our sun and its family of planets grew up to be the solar system we see and inhabit today. To astronomers, the new
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