Planetoid busted for going wrong way in a one-way
orbit.
- Cassini and other studies
lend extra credence to theory that Saturn's retrograde moon Phoebe is an early
object but late capture.
-
From Wired on Phoebe , and via AAAS Science magazine's "
Phoebe's Dark Chilly Birth"
Earth's Gravity Scar
ëA new ESA study predicts that the devastating Sumatran earthquake, which
resulted in the tragic tsunami of 26 December 2004, will have left a 'scar' on
Earth's gravity that could be detected by a sensitive new satellite, due for
launch next year.û
-
ESA "Earth's Gravity
Scar" (with pictures)
via Science Daily
New Postage
Stamps Honor Four Scientists
USPO honors four scietists
- Josiah Willard Gibbs, Barbara McClintock, John von Neumann,
Richard P. Feynman.
- Wapo
Physicists detect the undetectable:
'baby' solitary waves
ëWhen University at Buffalo theorist Surajit Sen published his prediction that solitary
waves, tight bundles of energy that
travel without dispersing, could break into smaller, "baby" or secondary solitary
waves, experts in the field acclaimed it as a fine
piece of work. They also felt that these waves might never be seen experimentally. But
Sen and his colleagues have done just that.
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- Solitary waves or Solitons
were discovered by John Scott Russell
in
the Victorian canals in 1834. They've been used for modelling
littoral waves and tsuanmi, as well as studied in electromagnet waves and
by this author in particulate waves.
- Physical Review
Letters / NSF via PhysOrg
and EurekAlert
- References -Solitary Wave Calculator; WHOI Workshop on Solitary Waves
