News, research papers and Starcharts for August 2023

 

News, research papers and Starcharts for August 2023

 

 

Hi everyone some interesting news and research out this month.

 

Venus Mercury and Regulus - Photo taken last weekend

A smartphone image here of the nice sunset and evening from Featherston, In the Wairarapa.

The conjunction of the 3 can be seen above the Rimutaka ranges in the evening sky, some due and smoke was in the air. Relative to where we live in Wellington the sky was much clearer and dark even from in the streets of the town, the hills block the glow of Wellington, the street lights were better shielded and dimmer too.

Cheers Edwin

 

Liquid water on cold exo-Earths via basal melting of ice sheets

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-35187-4

 

 

 

Why the day is 24 hours long: The history of Earth’s atmospheric thermal tide, composition, and mean temperature

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.add2499

 

 

 

I/Pu reveals Earth mainly accreted from volatile-poor differentiated planetesimals

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adg9213

 

 

 

Hydrogen peroxide at the poles of Ganymede

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adg3724

 

 

 

 

Chasing Nomadic Worlds A New Class of Deep Space Missions

https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12411

 

 

 

 

 

Warning of a forthcoming collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-39810-w

 

 

 

morphological evolution in secondary aquatic mammals

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2023.1099#d1e1892

 

 

No (Cambrian) explosion and no (Ordovician) event A single long-term radiation in the early Palaeozoic

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018223002109?via%3Dihub

 

 

Subchondral defects resembling osteochondrosis dissecans in joint surfaces of the extinct saber-toothed cat Smilodon fatalis and dire wolf Aenocyon dirus

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0287656

 

 

 

 

 

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Interesting News items

 

 

An interesting look at Venus here

 

https://www.planetary.org/articles/life-on-venus-your-questions-answered

 

 

 

'Why the day is 24 hours long': Astrophysicists reveal why Earth’s day was a constant 19.5 hours for over a billion years

https://www.artsci.utoronto.ca/news/why-day-24-hours-long-astrophysicists-reveal

 

 

SwRI-LED TEAM FINDS ANCIENT, HIGH-ENERGY IMPACTS COULD HAVE FUELED VENUS VOLCANISM

https://www.swri.org/press-release/swri-led-team-finds-ancient-high-energy-impacts-could-have-fueled-venus-volcanism

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