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My feature profiling scientists on the New Horizons mission that flew past Pluto and is now preparing to go past another Kuiper Belt object

Link March 4, 2017 Ron Cowen

My feature profiling scientists on the New Horizons mission that flew past Pluto and is now preparing to go past another Kuiper Belt object

A never-before-told tale: An asteroid with six tails

Link November 8, 2013 Ron Cowen

A never-before-told tale: An asteroid with six tails

Moons with Underground Oceans: Uranus’ turn? [Nature]

October 20, 2012 Ron Cowen

Saturn’s moon Enceladus has been known to have an underground ocean since 2005, and now astronomers are looking to Ariel, one of Uranus’ moons, as another possible locale with an underground oasis. From my Nature blog post, Could a moon of Uranus harbour an underground ocean?:

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