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June 2010 Top Stories
»» NASA New Horizons: The PI's Perspective: Ever Farther Across the Ocean of Space to a Distant and Unknown Shore
[Thursday, June 3, 2010] New Horizons is speeding through an ocean of space among the giant planets and the nearly 2.5 billion-mile expanse of the middle solar system. Onboard our spacecraft, all systems are "go" and we continue to speed outward at nearly a million miles per day.
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»» MIT astronomer leads the first team to study a Kuiper Belt object during a stellar occultation
[Friday, June 18, 2010] Until now, astronomers have used telescopes to find Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs), moon-sized bodies, and obtain their spectra to determine what types of ices are on their surface.
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