New and exciting activities in the
McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences
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Recent News from MacCenter Fellows
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| Pluto May Have Captured Its Biggest Moon After an Ancient Dance and Kiss
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If Charon hit Pluto at a relatively sedate speed of about 2,000 miles per hour — 10 times as slow as the Earth’s moon-forming impact — the two would have remained in contact for about 10 hours before gradually separating but remaining together. The researchers described this encounter as a “kiss and capture.”
William McKinnon said that such a scenario “makes sense” given the large number of objects believed to
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be drifting around the Kuiper belt in the early solar system. “Collisional capture is probably a common process,” he said, with many other large binary objects also thought to exist in the Kuiper belt.
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Recent Publications by MCSS Fellows
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Major and Trace Element Variations and Lithologic Component Analysis in Apollo 17 Drive Tube 73001/2
Mason Neuman, Piers Koefoed, Kun Wang, Brad Jolliff, Randy Korotev, Richard Morris
Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 130(1), e2024JE008373 2025
Quantum Monte Carlo calculations of electron scattering from C12 in the short-time approximation
L. Andreoli, S. Pastore, M. Piarulli, et al.
Physical Review C, 110(6), 064004 Dec 2024
The putative center in NGC 1052
Anne-Kathrin Baczko, Michael Nowak, et al.
Astronomy and Astrophysics, 692, A205 2024
Dark photon constraints from CMB temperature anisotropies
Andres Aramburo-Garcia, Anastasia Sokolenko, et al.
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics, 2024(11), 049 2024
The short-time approximation and its potential application to neutrino scattering
Chambers-Wall, G.; King. G. B.; Pastore, S.; Piarulli, M.; et al.
Nuovo Cimento della Societa Italiana di Fisica C, 47 370 2024
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Direct measurements of cosmic - Ray iron and nickel with CALET on the International Space Station
Adriani, O.; Binns, W.R.; Israel, M. H.; Krawczynski, H.; Rauch, B.F.; Zober, W.; et al.
Advances in Space Research 74 (9) p. 4368-4376 Nov 1 2024
Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations of Magnetic Form Factors in Light Nuclei
Chambers-Wall, G.; King. G. B.; Pastore, S.; Piarulli, M.; et al.
Physical Review Letters 133 (21) 212501 Nov 18 2024
3MHz space antenna
Katz, J. I.; Krassner, J.
RAS Techniques and Instruments 3 (1) pp. 866-873 2024
Microscopic calculation of the 6He β-decay spectrum for new physics searches
King, G. B.; Pastore, S.; Piarulli, M.
Nuovo Cimento della Societa Italiana di Fisica C, 47 364 2024
Professor Wilczek Comes to Harvard
Alford, M.
Frank Wilczek: 50 Years Of Theoretical Physics, pp. 1–4 (book chapter)
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FINESST: Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology
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| FINESST solicits proposals from accredited U.S. universities and other eligible organizations for graduate student-designed and performed research projects that contribute to SMD's science, technology, and exploration goals.
Application Deadline: February 5, 2025
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Enhancing the Science Return of Landed In Situ X-ray Spectrometers
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EEPS Colloquium
Scott VanBommel, WashU
Thursday, January 16, 2024
11:30am, Rudolph 301
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| Finding New Physics in Debris from Colliding Neutron Stars
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St. Louis Astronomical Society January Meeting
Bhupal Dev, WashU
Friday, January 17
7:30pm, McDonnell 162
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