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NASA’s DART Spacecraft Test Happening 5 p.m. Today!

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LANL News:

NASA’s DART spacecraft test is happening today and will impact around 5 p.m. (mountain time).

The DART Mission is an experiment to change the orbital path of an asteroid. A kinetic impactor will strike Dimorphos, a small asteroid orbiting a larger asteroid, Didymos.

The goal is to change the orbital path of Dimorphos.

Cathy Plesko, a Planetary Defense Scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), explains the method they are testing to deflect the asteroid. If successful, Dimorphos’ orbit around Didymos should change by about 10 minutes.

Scientists at Los Alamos National Read More

Pajarito Astronomers Host Dark Night Star Party Tonight!

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Photo of the Triangulum Galaxy. Photo by Jeremy Best

Pajarito Astronomers News:

Los Alamos County Parks, Recreation and Open Space Divisions have partnered up with the Pajarito Astronomers for the Dark Night program.

Anyone with an interest in star gazing and the chance to look through a telescope is invited to come out to Spirio Soccer Fields tonight, Sept. 24 at Overlook Park in White Rock.

Arrive at nightfall for viewing, or around sunset for setting up. Jupiter and Saturn will be visible most of the night as well as lots of lovely stars, star clusters, and deep space objects. If arriving at Read More

United Church: Appeal For Donations To Mission Possible

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UCLA News:

Mission Possible is one of the missions that the United Church of Los Alamos has supported since the 1980s. Mission Possible is a Christian mission devoted to bringing the Gospel, food, health care, and hope to people in Eastern Europe.

Mission Possible has been especially busy in Ukraine since the start of the Russian invasion. Mission Possible urgently needs additional funds to continue this work as the destruction by the Russian invasion continues. Mission Possible’s website, at www.mp.org has more information about their work and current needs.

A recent message from Addie Read More

Huang: Beijing 1990 Postcards Reserved For Team Chinese Taipei Of Hangzhou 2022 – Language, Legend, Culture, Science, Math & Philosophy Of ‘One China’

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Courtesy/Zhen Huang

By ZHEN HUANG
Los Alamos 

The 11th Asian Olympic Games, Beijing 1990, was the first time that China hosted the Games.

It was also the first time that Taiwanese athletes attended the Games by the name of Team Chinese Taipei. Athletes from 36 countries got together to celebrate our diversified cultures and promote peace and prosperity of the Asian Pacific region. Mainland Chinese people warmly welcomed our great Olympic Families from Asian and Pacific neighbors, in particular, our fellow Chinese from Taiwan. 

During Beijing 1990, I served as a volunteer of the weather forecast Read More

International Space Hall Of Fame Inductee Held World Record For Longest Manned Spaceflight

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Valeri Polyakov watches from Mir as the Space Shuttle Discovery practices an approach maneuver in February 1995. The photo was taken by Vladimir Titov aboard the Space Shuttle. Courtesy/NASA

Valeri Polyakov was a cosmonaut from March 1972 until June 1995. He was inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame in 1996. Courtesy photo

NMMSH News:

ALAMOGORDO — International Space Hall of Fame Inductee Valeri Polyakov, the Russian cosmonaut who held the world record for the longest manned spaceflight, has passed away at the age of 80. The announcement was made by Roscosmos, Russia’s state Read More

New Mexico Attorney General’s Office Kicks Off 6th Annual Human Trafficking Conference

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From the Office of the Attorney General:

ALBUQUERQUE – Monday the New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas, in partnership with the Life Link, Crime Victims Reparation Commission (CVRC), U.S. Department of Labor and CYFD, kicked off the 6th Annual Human Trafficking Conference.

The conference brings law enforcement and service providers from around the state, nation, and across our Mexican border together to collaborate and build relationships, learn and share goals and initiatives moving forward to combat human trafficking.

“My number one priority is keeping our children and families Read More

Los Alamos-Based UbiQD And SICPA Expand Partnership On Anti-Counterfeit Security Inks

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Quantum dot ink solution emitting an orange glow under ultraviolet excitation. Courtesy/UbiQD

UBIQD News:

  • Newly developed quantum dot based security features present unique properties to combat counterfeiting and strengthen security applications

Los Alamos, NM and Lausanne, Switzerland—UbiQD, Inc., a New Mexico-based nanotechnology company, and SICPA SA, a Swiss technology company and market leader in security inks, as well as a leading provider of secured authentication, identification, traceability and supply chain solutions, announced Monday the expansion of their partnership Read More

New Mexico Museum Of Natural History & Science To Host In Person Outreach Meeting For NASA Sun Research Mission

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NMMNHS News:

ALBUQUERQUE –The New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science (NMMNHS) and other New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs divisions are part of a major NASA-funded educational outreach project, which is associated with a mission to study unexplored regions of the sun.  

From Monday, Sept. 26 through Wednesday, Sept. 28, the Museum will host the outreach team, which consists of representatives from six scientific and science education institutions across the Southwest, from NASA’s Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere (PUNCH) mission.  

“The New Mexico Read More

Rotary Club Of Los Alamos Hosts Youth Exchange Students

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Rotary Youth Exchange students from Germany, Switzerland, Finland, France, Japan and Taiwan and Rotary Youth Exchange administrators were recently introduced to bird-banding at Bandelier by Ranger Cassie Howell. Photo by Laura Gonzales

Rotary Youth Exchange students studying in District 5520 (New Mexico and west Texas) take a break on a ladder at Bandelier during an orientation weekend Sept. 9 in Los Alamos.  Photo by Laura Gonzales

By LINDA HULL
Vice President
Rotary Club of Los Alamos

Kon’nichiwa, Bonjour, Hallo, Hei … are just a sampling of the greetings Rotarians enjoyed over Read More

Los Alamos Congregations Join Colores United Donation Drive To Support Asylum Seekers

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By CATHLEEN SCHALLER
Los Alamos

… Donation boxes are available outside Unitarian Church and United Church, Pajarito Ward of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and Los Alamos Jewish Center also will collect donations among their congregations.

National news sources are full of stories of busloads of asylum seekers arriving in New York, Chicago and Washington, D.C. Political controversy puts these immigrants, and the cities hosting them, squarely into the spotlight.

Not making national news? The relatively small town of Deming, New Mexico (population 14,083). But something Read More