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1 day ago · Stardust/Stardust NExT. NASA's Stardust was the first spacecraft to bring samples from a comet to Earth. Launched on Feb. 7, 1999, the spacecraft flew within 155 miles (250 kilometers) of comet P/Wild 2 and collected samples of dust and volatiles from the comet's coma. On Nov. 2, 2002, it flew by and imaged asteroid 5535 Annefrank.
1 day ago · A spaceflight launch schedule for Cape Canaveral/Kennedy Space Center, Vandenberg AFB, Wallops Island, SpaceX, Blue Origin, ULA, Rocket Lab and much more - tracking the latest developments in spaceflight, check back often for launch schedule changes.
1 day ago · The centimetre ( SI symbol: cm) is a unit of length in the metric system equal to 10−2 metres ( 1 100 m = 0.01 m ). To help compare different orders of magnitude, this section lists lengths between 10 −2 m and 10 −1 m (1 cm and 1 dm). 1 cm – 10 millimetres. 1 cm – 0.39 inches. 1 cm – edge of a square of area 1 cm 2.
5 hours ago · Sirius is the brightest star in the night sky. Its name is derived from the Greek word Σείριος (Latin script: Seirios ), meaning lit. 'glowing' or 'scorching'. The star is designated α Canis Majoris, Latinized to Alpha Canis Majoris, and abbreviated α CMa or Alpha CMa. With a visual apparent magnitude of −1.46, Sirius is almost twice ...
1 day ago · Rock is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles from the mid-1960s, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom. [3] It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, a style that drew directly from the ...
5 hours ago · Abstract. In this chapter is the human story around why the Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center (PABC) was started. The goal of a business incubator is, nominally, to nurture startup companies. But there is a rich personal story behind the PABC. It starts with an ambition to cure a disease because of personal needs and then describes how work ...
5 hours ago · years by the end of the century. However, these findings switch when looking at a high emissions model. Under the high emissions model, drought is expected to decrease from eight to nine times every 20 years to six to seven times every 20 years by 2090. All emission models show that the frequency of severe drought will be occurring every 20 years.
