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Planet Hunting - Hubble Takes A Look At Fomalhaut B

... corresponds to an 872-year-long orbit as calculated from Kepler's laws of planetary motion. Fomalhaut moves across the sky at 0.425 ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 13 2008 - 5:22pm - 0 attachments

Leading Chemical Company Deploys Savi's SmartChain(R) Asset Management Software To Monitor And Secure Chemical Tank Rail Cars

... to reduce risk and improve performance," said David Kepler, executive vice president, chief sustainability officer and chief ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Sep 22 2008 - 7:31am - 0 attachments

Stars The Temperature Of Pizza Ovens Get Weighed

... to how Earth orbits the sun. As first shown by Johannes Kepler in the 17th century, the total mass of any binary system can be ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 2 2008 - 4:59pm - 2 attachments

Searching For Life On Other Worlds

... Then next year there ‘s another mission called Kepler which will take us down to Earth-size planets, and let us look further ... with Corot Searching for Earth-size planets with Kepler The Darwin mission Terrestrial Planet Finder ...

Article - Douglas Blane - Mar 19 2008 - 9:56pm - 0 attachments

3-D Computer Snowflakes Are Never The Same Twice

... puzzling mathematicians since at least 1611, when Johannes Kepler predicted that the six-pointed structure would reflect an underlying ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 17 2008 - 12:24pm - 1 attachment

Nanoscience: Weak Force, Strong Effect

... of Semiconductor and Solid State Physics at Johannes Kepler University (JKU) in Linz, explains: "The van der Waals force is a weakly ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 24 2007 - 8:30am - 1 attachment

Job We Want: Creating Alternate Earths For NASA

... which launched on December 27, 2006, and NASA’s Kepler spacecraft, scheduled to launch in 2009, can find planets not much ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 24 2007 - 4:36pm - 3 attachments

Using Poisonous Snakes To Cure Alzheimers

... in collaboration with Walter Welz at the Johannes Kepler University in Linz. Researchers first noticed the pharmacological ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 11 2007 - 11:14pm - 0 attachments

Impossible Asteroid Siblings

Combining precise observations obtained by ESO's Very Large Telescope with those gathered by a network of smaller telescopes, astronomers have described in unprecedented detail the double asteroid Antiope, which is shown to be a pair of rubble-pile chu ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 29 2007 - 1:41pm - 0 attachments