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Dust-sized cosmic particles undergo ablation and chemical alteration during atmospheric entry, causing significant changes in the composition of particles with large sizes or high entry velocities.
Hao Xu et al 2016 ApJ 833 84
Renaissance Simulation results show that bursty star formation occurs in halos as small as 10^7 solar masses, confirming the importance of radiation from the smallest galaxies in reionizing the early universe.
Konstantin Batygin and Michael E. Brown 2016 ApJL 833 L3
Simulations show that a hypothetical Planet Nine on an eccentric, mildly inclined orbit can generate the population of unusual-orbit, highly-inclined Kuiper Belt objects we observe in the solar system.
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Light curves are modeled for supernovae that are powered by rapidly rotating, strongly magnetized neutron stars that collapse into black holes after losing the rotation energy required to support their mass.
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SETI observations with the Allen Telescope Array of 9293 stars — including 2015 exoplanet stars and Kepler objects of interest — found no detectable persistent signals from extraterrestrial technology.
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Five dedicated intermediate PTF surveys covering 188 deg2 found one new large super-fast rotator: (40511) 1999 RE88, a main-belt asteroid with diameter of ~1.9 km and period of ~1.96 hr.