May 2006 Top Stories
»» NASA New Horizons Mission: The PI's Perspective: 'Exploration at Its Greatest'
[Monday, May 1, 2006] With the rush of events surrounding launch over, I am back to writing this column about once per month. We're more than 100 days into flight now, and in every respect, New Horizons continues doing fine.
»» Spitzer Telescope Sees Trail of Comet Crumbs
[Wednesday, May 10, 2006] NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has snapped a picture of the bits and pieces making up Comet 73P/Schwassman-Wachmann 3, which is continuing to break apart on its periodic journey around the sun.
»» New capture scenario explains origin of Neptune's oddball moon Triton
[Wednesday, May 10, 2006] Neptune's large moon Triton may have abandoned an earlier partner to arrive in its unusual orbit around Neptune.
»» X-rays Fly as Cracking Comet Streaks Across the Sky
[Friday, May 12, 2006] Scientists using NASA's Swift satellite have detected X-rays from a comet that is now passing the Earth and rapidly disintegrating on what could be its final orbit around the sun.
»» Palomar Observes Broken Comet
[Monday, May 15, 2006] Astronomers have recently been enjoying front-row seats to a spectacular cometary show. Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 is in the act of splitting apart as it passes close to Earth. The breakup is providing a firsthand look at the death of a comet.
»» NASA Stardust Analysis Update
[Monday, May 15, 2006] The Stardust Preliminary Examination Team (PET) is now in the second half of the six month period to complete the initial characterization of the returned comet samples.
»» NASA Workshop: Near-Earth Object Detection, Characterization, and Threat Mitigation - Call For Papers
[Monday, May 15, 2006] NASA is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for a workshop on Near-Earth Object (NEO) Detection, Characterization and Threat Mitigation to be held at a site to be announced.
»» ESA's new camera follows disintegration of a comet
[Friday, May 19, 2006] The continuing disintegration of Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 has allowed ESA scientists to see into the interior of the comet using a camera attached to the ESA Optical Ground Station on Tenerife.
