Our Solar System Born in 'Little Bang'

www.space.com | Oct 2, 2008

New computer model shows a supernova likely triggered the birth of the sun.

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/081002-little-bang.html

Aerospace engineer designed for NASA (Miami Herald)

www.miamiherald.com | Feb 8, 2008

Peter Staudhammer, a wide-ranging aerospace engineer and executive who helped design instruments and engines used by NASA in landings on Mars and the moon, died on Jan. 14 at his home in La Quinta, Calif. He was 73. The cause was cancer, his family said. Obituaries for Miami-Dade & Broward County.

http://www.miamiherald.com/511/story/406447.html

NASA's Dawn Spacecraft Enroute To Shed Light On Asteroid Belt

www.spacedaily.com | Sep 28, 2007

Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Sep 28, 2007 - NASA's Dawn spacecraft is on its way to study a pair of asteroids after lifting off Thursday from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 7:34 a.m. EDT (4:34 a.m. PDT). Mission controllers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., received

http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/NASA_Dawn_Spacecraft_Enroute_To_Shed_Light_On_Asteroid_Belt_999.html

Saturn Moon Iapetus Retains Its Youthful Figure

www.saturndaily.com | Jul 18, 2007

Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 18, 2007 - Saturn's distinctive moon Iapetus is cryogenically frozen in the equivalent of its teenage years. The moon has retained the youthful figure and bulging waistline it sported more than three billion years ago, scientists report. Iapetus spun fast, froze young, and

http://www.saturndaily.com/reports/Saturn_Moon_Iapetus_Retains_Its_Youthful_Figure_999.html

VTT

New results published in the Int. Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics in August 2007 on BNCT (Boron Neutron Capture Therapy) treatments of patients, carried out in Finland, indicate that BNCT is an effective treatment for head and neck cancer.

http://www.vtt.fi/uutta/2007/BNCT-hoitoasema.jsp?lang=en

Missiles and Spaceflight radiation effects, and once these are completed the design will be...

www.flightglobal.com

Missiles and Spaceflight radiation effects, and once these are completed the design will be overstressed to meet the problem. A radiation shield will be installed between the engine and the large liquid-hydrogen fuel tank located immediately above, to protect the fuel and keep it from boiling.

http://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1962/1962%20-%201402.PDF

Department of Chemistry at the University of Virginia

The development of sensitive analytical methods has helped provide more detailed information about the small chemical differences between materials which seem similar but have different histories.

http://www.virginia.edu/chem/people/faculty/allen/

Understanding Radiation and It's Effect

12/15/2003 UCRL-PRES-149818. Understanding Radiation and it’s Effects. 7 Some Isotopes & Their Half Lives Natural uranium is comprised of several different isotopes. When enriched in the isotope of U-235, it’s used to power nuclear reactor or nuclear weapons. billions of years Uranium Brain, heart,

http://www.lacity.org/EAD/EADWeb-MWR/lea/Workshop%20Binder%20Material/understanding_radiation%5b1%5d_files/slide0080.htm