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| UH scientists in science news. New | |||||
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Haghighipour and Jewitt suggest that early in the solar system, the asteroid belt was cooler, and they note that the sun didn’t produce quite as much heat when it was very young. More importantly, some of the sun’s radiation was absorbed by the much larger population of dusty debris floating around the belt during those formative years, which would have given icy objects a chance to form there. See detail |
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| Titan – Observations, Experiments, Computations, and Modeling New | |||||
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The workshop will be held on March 24-26, 2008, Miami, Florida
. This workshop is part of the NSF-Collaborative Research in Chemistry (CRC) Network "Chemistry of Unsaturated Hydrocarbons in Titan's Atmosphere” and the second in a series of annual meetings aimed to better understand the hydrocarbon chemistry taking place in the atmosphere and on the surface of Titan. It brings together atmospheric modelers, astronomical observers, mission specialists, planetary scientists, physical chemists (dynamics, kinetics, photochemistry), theoreticians (electronic structure, dynamics calculations), astrobiologists, and organic chemists. See detail |
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| Bioastronomy 2007: Molecules, Microbes and Extraterrestrial Life | |||||
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The conference was held on July 16 -20, 2007, San Juan Puerto Rico. This meeting will serve to bring together an international interdisciplinary group of researchers to share and discuss the latest findings related to origins of solar systems, space resources and exploration for life, topics highly relevant to the new NASA Exploration vision. As an outcome of this meeting we expect to produce a refereed Conference Volume, and through a teacher education program, forge new education collaborations. See detail |
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| Kimberly Binsted Participated in FMARS 2007 | |||||
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Kimberly Binsted participated in FMARS 2007, which was a four-month exploration simulation in a Mars analogue environment, the Haughton impact structure on Devon Island in the Canadian High Arctic. The goal was to experience (and hopefully overcome) some of the challenges of manned Mars exploration. The scientists conducted 22 science projects, including biology and geology field science and human factors experiments, the results of which will appear soon in the relevant journals. For more detail, please visit FMARS or Kim's blog. | ||||
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