News Archives Astrobiology Science News 1 June 2006 By Keith Cowing June 1, 2006 Adventures in Near-Earth Object Exploration, Science NASA’s Science Programs Threatened by Missions to Put Humans in Space, Newhouse News Service NASA’s Reverse Thrust, Scientific American Planetary Science: Exploring Other Worlds to Learn More About Our Own, Science The Eccentricity-Mass Distribution of Exoplanets: Signatures of Different Formation Mechanisms?, lanl.arXiv.org Estimations of orbital parameters of exoplanets from transit photometry by using dynamical constraints, lanl.arXiv.org Science Team Determines Composition of Asteroid Itokawa, Brown University Floating pile of rubble a pristine record of solar system’s history, University of Michigan Hayabusa mission offers an intimate portrait of asteroid Itokawa, AAAS Keith Cowing SpaceRef co-founder, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA, Away Teams, Journalist, Space & Astrobiology, Lapsed climber. Follow on Twitter