Category: Science
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LA Transit Projects Opening in time for the 2028 Summer Olympics
Around 28 years ago, the Blue Line opened and started service between Long Beach and Downtown Los Angeles. Light rail had returned to the region after a thirty year hiatus. Shortly after that, the first section of the Red Line subway opened. True mass transit had returned to LA. During that thirty year period before…
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TRAPPIST-1: Possible Water-Rich Terrestrial Worlds
TRAPPIST-1, is an ultra-cool red dwarf star that is slightly larger but much more massive than the planet Jupiter, located 39.6 light-years from the Sun in the constellation Aquarius. 2017 was a big year concerning TRAPPIST-1, with the news that this star has a system of seven planets, and that three of which are Earth-sized in what is called a goldilocks orbit,…
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Falcon Heavy: SpaceX Launched The World’s Most Powerful Rocket!
The World’s Most Powerful Rocket took off from Kennedy Space Center.  SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy was successfully launched on Tuesday, February 6, 2018, to much fanfare, especially from cheering colleagues at the company’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California. With the ability to lift nearly 64 metric tons into orbit and a mass greater than a fully…
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TWO ASTEROIDS WILL PASS US BY!
Two newly discovered asteroids will sweep passed the Earth. they were both discovered February 5, 2018. Asteroids 2018CB and 2018 CC will pass closer to the Earth, than the Moon. These visitors comes on the heels of the  Asteroid 2002 AJ129, which flew passed Earth on Super Bowl Sunday at 10 times the moon’s distance.…
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Asteroid 2002 AJ129 to Fly Safely Past Earth Super Bowl Sunday
Asteroid 2002 AJ129 will make a close approach to Earth on Super Bowl Sunday, February 4, 2018 at 1:30 p.m. PST. At the time of closest approach, the asteroid will be no closer than 10 times the distance between Earth and the Moon. 2002 AJ129 is an intermediate-sized near-Earth asteroid, somewhere between 0.3 miles and…
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Hyundai’s 2019 NEXO Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Named Digital Trends Top Tech of CES 2018
FOUNTAIN VALLEY, Calif., Jan. 16, 2018 – Capitalizing off its successful unveiling at the 2018 Consumer Electronic Show (CES), the Hyundai 2019 NEXO Fuel Cell Vehicle has received another accolade as the Digital Trends Top Tech of CES 2018 in the automotive category. The publication highlights the NEXO as a top product in the automotive…
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January 31, 2018 Super Blue Moon Eclipse Video
A view of the total lunar eclipse from Phoenix, AZ where I started filming around 5:20 AM MST. This was nearly ninety minutes of filming of the main event until the moon set behind a stand of trees. [Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”72″ gal_title=”Super Blue Moon Eclipse”]
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What Is a Blue Moon?
The term has traditionally referred to an “extra” full moon, where a year which normally has 12 full moons has 13 instead. The “blue moon” reference is applied to the third full moon in a season with four full moons, thus correcting the timing of the last month of a season that would have otherwise been expected…
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Lockheed Martin Receives $459 Million THAAD Interceptor Contract
DALLAS, Jan. 26, 2018Â — The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) a $459 million contract modification for production and delivery of interceptors for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) weapon system. The modification brings the total contract value to $1.28 billion with funding provided in 2017 and 2018. The new…
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Hot Earths may be stripped-down Jupiters
Massive rocky worlds orbiting their sun in only a few days may be the leftover cores of gas giants that moved in from the outskirts of a planetary system. Source: Hot Earths may be stripped-down Jupiters