Mauna Kea
Dec 19 2005, Irani

The solar system’s formation needs a rethinking. This is felt with the discovery of ‘Buffy,’ an object on the Kuiper Belt’s fringe that extends far beyond Neptune. It is a frigid mini-planet 300 to 600 miles across. The object seems to be throwing a...

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Dave Wettergreen, Carnegie Mellon University research scientist, talks about Scarab, a lunar rover designed to drill and test soil samples, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008, at NASA’s field testing site on Mauna Kea, Hawaii. The rover features specially designed..