Welcome to a new edition of COS, number #353, with many articles by our community. A great list of articles dealing with astronauts, stars, planets, moon, comets, asteroids, spaceship, space's history rockets and space's business. There is no way that you will not find good material reading here.
Astroswanny investigates approaching Asteroid 2014 HQ124 discovered two
weeks ago by the NEOWISE survey. Currently visible to only southern
telescopes in the pre-dawn sky, 2014 HQ124 will make a 3.2 Lunar
Distance close approach on June 8th. This is quite close for a large
newly discovered asteroid whose size is between 300-500m.
Urban Astronomer takes us to Titan - the largest moon of Saturn, which is an enigmatic little world. It has
earth-like weather, rivers and seas, yet has an average temperature more
than a hundred degrees below the coldest weather ever measured on
Earth. The more planetary scientists learn about it, the more questions
come to light.
Two articles from Universe Today:
- Are we ready for contact - Nero-psychologist Gabriel G. de la Torre from the University of Cádiz is questioning whether or not astronomers, who have previously only looked for signs of extraterrestrial life, should actively send messages from Earth.
- While no one’s yet invented a replicator that can brew a cup of tea out of thin air, scientists have taken in step in that direction by creating an amazing replica of a Martian meteorite using a 3D printer .
Chandra also sends us two stories
- Core-Halo Age Gradients In Young Stellar Clusters
- NASA's Chandra Delivers New Insight Into Formation Of Star Clusters
And the two items of CosmoQuest
- Planets in the sky (All naked eye are visible) - Go out and look up! Enjoy the planetary offerings in the night sky right now as the weather gets nicer.
- On the Educators' Zone, we're collecting ideas for crafty and artsy space and science projects. Have some in mind, please share! And visit our new collaborative Pinterest board to browse more ideas.
Don't miss Space-io9 a recently new member of CoS! Welcome!
- Square hole on a round sun. Coronal holes are nothing new, but the one that showed up this week looks striking.
- Space around Earth is downright crowded with the junk of old missions, broken spacecraft, and explosions.
- This week marks the 53rd anniversary of Alan Shepard's flight, the first crewed American space mission.
- The latest Morpheus prototype lander test flight used autonomous hazard detection, but what is it and how does it work?
From the Meridian Journal desk
- Solar system’s largest moon Ganymede may have ‘club sandwich’ oceans
- Curiosity completes third drilling in search of Martian organics
NextBigFuture with latest breaking news
- The Spacex Falcon 9R rocket rose to a height of 3280 feet (1000 meters) in its latest test, posted on May 1st, 2014. The legs were in a fixed down position from launch to landing, but future tests will begin with them stowed.
- Planetary Resources has shifted the company's focus to a more mundane space resource: water. Water found on or near asteroids, their theory goes, could be processed into fuel to extend the useful lives of aging commercial satellites.
- Planetary Resources co-founders discuss the space mining companies plans and progress
That's all for this week, enjoy and don't forget to browse a bit in my own site .
Gadi