Space: 6 New Exoplanets and Possibly 1,200 More

To view this email as a web page, go here. You received this email because you opted-in to receive email from Scientific American. To ensure delivery please add newsletters@reply.sciam.com to your address book. Log in or Register Manage Your Newsletter Subscriptions Manage Your Profile Energy & Sustainability Evolution Health Mind & Brain Space Technology + More Science Space February 03, 2011 Forward to a Friend | Subscribe | RSS News | Space A Wealth of Worlds: Kepler Spacecraft Finds 6 New Exoplanets and Hints at 1,200 More A newfound planetary system has six worlds, five of which rank among the smallest known, and the list of unconfirmed candidates has swelled to four figures By John Matson Image Gallery "Cloud streets" feather North America's storm-lashed eastern coast A NASA satellite caught this true-color picture in a moment of clear weather between two major snowstorms that hit North America's eastern coast News | Space Where's Saturn? Cassini Spacecraft Helping Provide More Accurate Planetary Coordinates Astronomers are using the Cassini probe as a distant radio beacon to better pin down the orbit of the giant planet By John Matson Advertisement (Newsletter continues below) Cross-check | Space Is speculation in multiverses as immoral as speculation in subprime mortgages? Theoretical physics has descended into increasingly fantastical speculation, disconnected from the reality that we can access empirically By John Horgan Nature | Thought & Cognition Did Vikings navigate by polarized light? "Sunstone" crystals may have helped seafarers to find the sun on cloudy days Observations | Space Crew of 520-day mock Mars mission nears mock landing After nearly eight months' journey in a small, enclosed craft, the crew of the Mars500 mission is nearing the turning point of its simulated voyage--arrival and disembarking at the Red Planet By John Matson Advertisement (Newsletter continues below) Image Gallery Big Snow: Satellite observes massive snowstorm blanketing the U.S. One of the largest winter storms in decades hit the U.S. Midwest, pictured on Feb. 1 stretching from the Rockies to the east coast Scientific American February 2011 Inside this issue » Try a risk-free issue! Follow Scientific American Email Alerts RSS Feeds Facebook Twitter YouTube iTunes Podcasts Nominate Scientific American for a social media award in the Shorty Awards science category Podcasts 60-Second Science Simulation Says Single Collision Created Pluto's 3 Companions Computer simulations show that a crash between evenly sized planetoids creates a Pluto and a Charon, plus a debris disk that could have become Pluto's other two satellites Sign Up for other Scientific American Newsletters | Manage Your Profile | Forward to a Friend This message was sent to: positiv111.space@blogger.com If you would like to change your email address or alter your HTML/Text preference for this Scientific American mailing, use this link to set up your profile. Scientific American values your privacy and will promptly remove your email address if you wish to unsubscribe. In many instances we can remove your email address from our list within 24 to 48 hours, but in some instances it may take up to 10 business days. To remove your name from this Scientific American list, please unsubscribe here. If you have any comments, feedback or complaints regarding Scientific American's email newsletters please send them to webmaster@sciam.com. This message was sent by ScientificAmerican.com using Silverpop(TM). Use this link to view our privacy policy. This email was sent by: Scientific American, Inc. 75 Varick St, New York, NY, 10013, USA