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New Space Shuttle exhibit offers first public display of Columbia, Challenger artifacts and debris
2015-06-29 18:47:45| Extremetech
NASA is displaying artifacts and debris from both Columbia and Challenger. In some cases, these artifacts have never before been seen in public.
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Mediterranean Sea classified as sixth highest region for accumulation of plastic debris
2015-06-29 17:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: The team of Andrés Cózar, an ecologist at CEIMAR at the University of Cadiz in Spain, provided the first global map of the abundance of plastic debris in the open oceans. The map showed the existence of five areas of large-scale accumulation of floating plastic debris in the centres of the North Pacific, South Pacific, North Atlantic, South Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Ocean currents transport the floating plastic dumped by man to central convergence areas in the open oceans where these materials...
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Whole Foods litigation continues; disturbance over Cavs loss; debris litters beaches: Best of the beat
2015-06-22 01:00:28| Grocery - Topix.net
Whole Foods Market will open in River Square shopping center on Detroit Road in Rocky River in September, despite ongoing lawsuits by a neighborhood resident who says the city broke the law when it allowed the store to open there. Rocky River Law Director Andrew Bemer said lawyers are supposed to meet in the next few days to discuss Rockland Avenue resident Robert Weible's lawsuit that the Whole Foods project violates the zoning code because the property is zoned for local business -- not a national chain.
NRL Patents Compact Orbital Debris Sensor
2015-05-26 04:12:32| rfglobalnet Home Page
The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Geospace Science and Technology Branch, has received a U.S. patent for the Optical Orbital Debris Spotter, a compact, low power, low cost, local space debris detection concept that can be integrated into larger satellite designs, or flown independently on-board nano-satellite platforms.
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International Space Station may get laser cannon to vaporize orbital debris
2015-05-18 21:15:55| Extremetech
It's time to stop getting out of the way and start standing up to space junk -- with lasers.
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