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  Avatar's Moon Pandora Could Be Real, Planet-Hunters Say

  December 17, 2009 — In the new blockbuster Avatar, humans visit the habitable -- and inhabited -- alien moon called Pandora. Life-bearing moons like Pandora or the Star Wars forest moon of Endor are a staple of science ... > full story
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  Icy Moons of Saturn and Jupiter May Have Conditions Needed for Life

  December 15, 2009 — Planetary scientist Francis Nimmo will outline the impact of ice dynamics on the habitability of the moons of Saturn and Jupiter on Tuesday, Dec. 15, at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical ... > full story
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  Ganymede Makes Big Impression On Jupiter's Auroral Lightshows

  September 16, 2009 — Studies of features in Jupiter’s spectacular and rapidly changing aurorae have given new insights into the complex electromagnetic interactions between the giant planet and two of its innermost ... > full story
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  Scientists Complete First Geological Global Map Of Jupiter's Satellite Ganymede

  September 16, 2009 — Scientists have assembled the first global geological map of Jupiter's moon Ganymede -- the solar system's largest moon -- and in doing so have gathered new evidence into the formation of the large, ... > full story
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  Jupiter Captured Comet For 12 Years In Mid-20th Century

  September 14, 2009 — Comet 147P/Kushida-Muramatsu was captured as a temporary moon of Jupiter in the mid-20th century and remained trapped in an irregular orbit for about twelve years. There are only a handful of known ... > full story
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  New Transient Radiation Belt Discovered Around Saturn

  September 14, 2009 — Scientists using the Cassini spacecraft's Magnetospheric Imaging instrument (MIMI) have detected a new, temporary radiation belt at Saturn, located around the orbit of its moon Dione at about 377,000 ... > full story
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  Will Kepler Find Habitable Moons?

  September 3, 2009 — Since the launch of the NASA Kepler Mission earlier this year, astronomers have been keenly awaiting the first detection of an Earth-like planet around another star. Now, in an echo of science ... > full story
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  Huge New Planet Orbits 'Wrong' Way Around Star; Tells Of Game Of Planetary Billiards

  August 27, 2009 — A team of scientists has found a new planet which orbits the wrong way around its host star. The planet, named WASP-17, and orbiting a star 1000 light years away, was found by the UK's WASP project ... > full story
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  New Planet-Finder Shows Its Power: Kepler Orbiting Telescope Should Soon Find Alien Earths

  August 6, 2009 — The first results are in from the Kepler orbiting observatory, the world's most powerful planet-searching telescope, and they show that the instrument should have no trouble detecting "alien Earths" ... > full story
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  Wind Estimate 'Shortens' Saturn's Day By Five Minutes

  July 29, 2009 — A new way of detecting how fast large gaseous planets are rotating suggests Saturn's day lasts 10 hours, 34 minutes and 13 seconds -- over five minutes shorter than previous estimates that were based ... > full story

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