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News : Joseph Burns Wins 2013 DDA/AAS Brouwer Award 14 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
Joseph Burns has made fundamental contributions in many areas of planetary dynamics. With Safronov in 1973, he wrote a classic paper that quantified the regimes of non-principal axis rota...
News : Professor Veverka Awarded Kuiper Prize for 2013 20 Jul 2013 | 09:00 am
Dr. Joseph Veverka of Cornell University's Department of Astronomy is the 2013 recipient of the Gerard P. Kuiper Prize for outstanding contributions to the field of planetary science by the Divis...
News : Wave At Saturn 12 Jul 2013 | 09:00 am
Public invited to join in Wave at Saturn at Cornell WHAT: Participate in a worldwide interplanetary portrait. Free and open to the public WHEN: July 19, 2013, 3:30 to 5:30 pm. WHERE: Sciencen...
News : New NASA Observatory is Changing Astronomy 26 Jun 2013 | 09:00 am
NASA cut a hole in the side of a 747, replacing it with an infrared telescope, Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA). SOFIA has been said to become NASA's next generat...
News : Sofia featured in documentary 3 Jun 2013 | 09:00 am
Pioneer Science: Discovering Deep Space | BBC Documentary The SOFIA airborne telescope featured with Prof. Terry Herter starting ~16mins in. Link to YouTube.
News : AGU Blogosphere Interview with Alex Hayes 31 May 2013 | 09:00 am
Link to Interview: http://blogs.agu.org/geospace/2013/02/18/remote-sensing-and-planetary-processes-alex-hayes/
News : Forecast for Titan: Wild Weather Could be Ahead 24 May 2013 | 09:00 am
Link to Article: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/cassinifeatures/feature20130522/ Link to Article in the Cornell Daily Sun: http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2013/05/hang-10-gnarly-waves-titans...
News : Astronomers Discover New Neighbor Galaxy to the Milky Way 2 May 2013 | 09:00 am
ALFALFA team discovers new Milky Way Neighbor A new neighbor of the Milky Way in the constellation Leo, has been discovered with the Arecibo telescope through its radio emission by the ALFALFA s...
News : Small meteors punch through Saturn's rings 26 Apr 2013 | 09:00 am
The April 25 paper published in the journal Science provides the first direct evidence of small meteoroids, around a half-inch to several yards in size, breaking into streams of rubble and cras...
News : Nature Article Authored by Dominik Riechers and His Team 18 Apr 2013 | 09:00 am
Massive present-day early-type (elliptical and lenticular) galaxies probably gained the bulk of their stellar mass and heavy elements through intense, dust-enshrouded starburstsandmdash;that is, in...
