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	Science Daily update ⋅ February 29, 2020
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	Space.com How scientists found Earth's new minimoon and why it won't stay here forever Space.com A weird "minimoon" found circling Earth likely won't be there long. The scientists who discovered the object on Feb. 15 estimate that, because of the instability of its path through space, the minimoon will likely leave Earth's orbit sometime in April. Astronomers ... Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com Boeing defends Starliner space capsule ground tests after problematic debut flight Space.com After Boeing's CST-100 Starliner failed to reach the International Space Station in an uncrewed test flight in December, NASA has raised some serious questions about the company's ability to safely launch astronauts into space. A joint NASA-Boeing ... Flag as irrelevant
	Washington Post Freeman Dyson, a visionary and renaissance physicist, dies at 96 Washington Post Freeman Dyson, a visionary physicist and technophile who helped crack the secrets of the subatomic world, tried to build a spaceship that could carry humans across the solar system, worked to dismantle nuclear arsenals and wrote elegantly about science ... Flag as irrelevant
	Space.com Critical rocket escape system motor for NASA's Orion spacecrafy aces final test Space.com NASA's Orion spacecraft has achieved a new milestone with a successful final test of the vehicle's attitude-control motor (ACM) Tuesday (Feb. 25). Orion is designed to carry astronauts to the moon for NASA's planned 2024 Artemis mission. The ACM steers ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times Why Mars Needs Leap Days, Too The New York Times This Saturday, you have the gift of time. Feb. 29 is a leap day — a calendar oddity that gives us an extra day. You probably know why: You probably know why: The time it takes Earth to rotate on its axis is called a day — but it doesn't take an even number of ... Flag as irrelevant
	The Planetary Society The Downlink: Kuiper Belt World Named Gonggong, New InSight Results The Planetary Society Welcome to The Downlink, a planetary exploration news roundup from The Planetary Society! Here's everything that crossed our radar this week. Gonggong The largest unnamed world in the solar system now has a name: Gonggong. The Planetary Society ... Flag as irrelevant
	The New York Times Freeman Dyson, Visionary Technologist, Is Dead at 96 The New York Times Freeman J. Dyson, a mathematical prodigy who left his mark on subatomic physics before turning to messier subjects like Earth's environmental future and the morality of war, died on Friday at a hospital near Princeton, N.J. He was 96. His daughter Mia Dyson ... Flag as irrelevant
	WIRED Katherine Johnson's Math Will Steer NASA Back to the Moon WIRED Katherine Johnson blazed trails, not just as a black female mathematician during the Cold War, but by mapping literal paths through outer space. Her math continues to carve out new paths for spacecraft navigating our solar system, as NASA engineers use ... Flag as irrelevant
	Phys.Org Why is there any matter in the universe at all? New study sheds light Phys.Org Scientists at the University of Sussex have measured a property of the neutron—a fundamental particle in the universe—more precisely than ever before. Their research is part of an investigation into why there is matter left over in the universe, that is, why all ... Flag as irrelevant
	BBC News Telescopes detect 'biggest explosion since Big Bang' BBC News Scientists have detected evidence of a colossal explosion in space - five times bigger than anything observed before. The huge release of energy is thought to have emanated from a supermassive black hole some 390 million light years from Earth. Flag as irrelevant
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