| SwRI News Releases |
- Asteroid collision that spawned Vesta's asteroid family occurred more recently than originally thought
- Images from the Dawn spacecraft indicate that a collision that created the impact crater Rheasilvia on Asteroid (4) Vesta occurred more recently than was previously thought.
[Thursday, May 10, 2012]
- New IBEX data show heliosphere's long-theorized bow shock does not exist
- New data requires decades of research that included a bow shock to be re-examined
[Thursday, May 10, 2012]
- Unseen planet revealed by its gravity
- Scientists combined new Kepler Telescope data with an established theory to predict that an unseen second planet about the mass of Saturn is orbiting the distant star KOI-872.
[Thursday, May 10, 2012]
- Southwest Research Institute's Canup elected member of National Academy of Sciences
- NAS membership one of the highest honors awarded to U.S. scientists or engineers
[Friday, May 04, 2012]
- Splatters of molten rock signal period of intense asteroid impacts on Earth, raise questions about the source of impactors
- Rock layers on Earth may hold the “fingerprints” of asteroid mega-impacts dating back to the Archean era, a formative time for early life.
[Wednesday, April 25, 2012]
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Deffenbaugh,
Communications Department, Southwest Research Institute, P.O. Drawer 28510, San Antonio,
Texas 78228-0510, Phone (210) 522-2046, Fax (210) 522-3547.
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