uk-hotdailynews: 2015-01-26 U.K. Science

Asteroid called 2004 BL86 to pass relatively closely to Earth on Monday
OregonLive.com
The orbit of asteroid 2004 BL86 will bring it within about 745,000 miles of Earth on Jan. 26, 2015. (NASA). Print · Brad Schmidt | The Oregonian/OregonLive By Brad Schmidt | The Oregonian/OregonLive The Oregonian Email the author | Follow on Twitter
See an asteroid tonight   The Durango Herald
Asteroid Scheduled to Pass Close to Earth on Monday   Viral Global News
Mountain-sized asteroid to fly past Earth   KCCI Des Moines
Chicago Daily Herald
Science Times
myfox8.com
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Close encounter with distant Pluto getting under way
CNN International
(CNN) NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is closing in on Pluto and its five moons. Soon we will see what no one has ever seen before: Crisp, clear pictures of the tiny, icy world. "The pictures are what we're all waiting for," Alan Stern, New Horizons principal ...

New Horizons probe eyes Pluto for historic encounter   BBC News
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft zooms in on Pluto   Sydney Morning Herald
Zooming in on Pluto   Gulf Daily News
National Gazette
Daily Mail
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Scientists slow the speed of light
BBC News
A team of Scottish scientists has made light travel slower than the speed of light. They sent photons - individual particles of light - through a special mask. It changed the photons' shape - and slowed them to less than light speed. The photons remained ...

Scientists find a way to SLOW DOWN the speed of light   Daily Mail
Scientists have managed to slow down the speed of light   Metro
Speed of light slowed down by Scottish scientists who changed shape of photons   Market Business News
Huffington Post UK
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Wired.co.uk
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Was It Really An Asteroid That Wiped Out The Dinosaurs? Study Says Not
Design & Trend
(Photo : Donald Davis) A new experiment involving a heat furnace and other items including non-living and living plant material has debunked the theory of how dinosaurs were wiped out 65 million years ago. A new experiment involving a heat furnace and ...

Dinosaur-killing asteroid didn't ravage earth: Study   Zee News
Don't miss 100 millionth photo of the Sun   The Hawk
Revealed: asteroid that killed the dinosaurs boiled Earth's atmosphere   The Conversation UK
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Watch the Arctic disappear: Animation reveals perennial ice melting over 27 years
Full-Time Whistle
According to satellite images, a remote Arctic ice cap has lost more than 50 meters of thickness since 2012, which is about one-sixth of its original thickness. More alarmingly, it is now flowing 25 times faster! Global temperatures last year were the highest ...

Arctic ice cap slides 25 times faster into Polar Ocean   Customs Today Newspaper
Arctic ice cap sliding into sea at alarming rate   Toronto Star
Watch sea ice vanishing in the Arctic over 27 years   Daily Mail
New Scientist
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Jupiter moons cast triple shadow in rare celestial event
Telegraph.co.uk
Three of Jupiter's moons — Io, Europa, and Callisto — have simultaneously cast their shadows onto the planet's surface in a rare spectacle witnessed from Earth. The triple-shadow transit was broadcast live on the website of the Griffith Observatory in ...

See 3 Moons of Jupiter Perform Rare Triple Transit Friday Night   Yahoo News UK
Watch it live: Shadows of three moons fall on Jupiter tonight   Los Angeles Times
Triple moon shadow event on Jupiter has begun   Techie News
Derby Telegraph
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Nasa and ATK prepare for static-fire test of SLS booster qualification motor
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ATK (NYSE: ATK) said its board of directors has declared a quarterly cash dividend of USD0.32 per share. The dividend will be payable February 6, 2015, to stockholders of record as of February 2, 2015. ATK is an aerospace, defense and outdoor sports and ...

Space Launch System Booster Aimed and Ready to Fire   Space Fellowship
Space Launch System Booster Aimed, Ready to Fire   Product Design & Development
Nasato test SLS booster qualification motor   French Tribune

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