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Make Room For Growth

With the successes in recent years of N.A.S.A.’s Odyssey and Mars Rover missions, the American space agency is flying pretty high. The disappointment of Beagle 2 notwithstanding, the European Space Agency has made great...

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Blog, Inc. II

Eric Richardson on Can Corporations and Blogging Co-exist? On January 22, 2004, local community blog LAVoice.org editor Mack Reed posted a review of the LA.com site. His review focused largely on the site's target...

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Naiad

Naiad was discovered in August 1989 by Voyager 2. This satellite orbits Neptune every seven hours, close to the equator. Further, Naiad’s orbit lacks eccentricity. This satellite is the innermost moon orbiting Neptune. Naiad...

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Rhea: Mother of the Gods

Saturn’s second largest moon is Rhea, named for the mother of Zeus in Greek mythology. The satellite has albedo features, no atmosphere, and visible ice deposits. This moon has a diameter of 1530 kilometers...

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Harpalyke

Harpalyke, previously known as S/2000 J5, is one of Jupiter’s 60+ natural satellites. This moon was discovered in 2000 by Scott S. Sheppard, David C. Jewitt, Yan Fernandez and Gene Magnier. Harpalyke has an...

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Seeding the Solar System?

An interesting scientific theory regarding the origins of life on Earth involves asteroid and asteroid fragment impacts. The theory is that meteorites containing polyhydroxylated sugar compounds impacted Earth acting as “energy sources for all...