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Sunday, January 31, 2016
The Earth and Moon Both Contain Equal Parts of an Ancient Planet
The early solar system was, for lack of a better term, a chaotic hellscape. Everything we see today, from Mercury on out to the inner Oort Cloud, was a product of a series of collisions that accumulated into moons, asteroids, and planets. And perhaps one of the most violent blows came when a planet roughly the size of Mars smashed into a fledging planet called Earth. At the end of the cataclysmic event, two bodies were left standing: Earth itself, and a fragmentary, molten piece of the two planets that coalesced into the Moon.
But there's been a debate in the planetary science community: Did that early small planet, Theia, side-swipe the Earth, or did it run into it full-on? For a while, all signs seemed to point to Theia landing a glancing shot at Earth, resulting in the orbits and speeds we see today.
But recent analysis of material taken from the Apollo 12, 15, and 17 missions tells a different tale: that of a violent head-on collision, one that left the Earth forever scarred with the fragments of Theia, and that left the Moon with the same ratios of material. The results of this study were published today in Science.
"The collision was so vigorous, so powerful, so rich in energy that it probably mixed the whole system very thoroughly," said Edward Donald Young, lead author of the paper and a professor of Department of Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences at UCLA.
The proof is in the oxygen isotopes: that is, the Moon share the same oxygen isotopes in the same ratios as Earth, and preliminary results of tungsten isotopes shows about the same thing. In other words, the Earth and the Moon are made of the same materials. In the "glancing blow" model, the Moon would primarily have contained material from Theia with some admixture from Earth.
But analysis of salt-heavy lunar rocks and soil show it to be virtually identical to the floor of the ocean. As you can see from the map below, the Apollo rocks all came from vastly disparate parts of the Moon, but the ratios in each region remain the same.
The only outlier is a sample taken from the Northern Highlands of the moon, but Young says that owes to being an entirely different rock type. The rock, Young says, is likely to have more in common with the Bushveld Igneous Complex, a deposit of subsurface materials jutting through the crust in South Africa. The geochemical processing in each of those regions is likely to have remained the same, Young says.
"I think this will motivate impact modeling in [the head on collision] direction, so people will be forced to abandon the glancing blow model," Young says. "People will keep looking with better and better analytic precision."
To Young, this is a closing of the book on the glancing blow hypothesis. Now it's time to figure out how Theia and the Earth went from a head-on collission and became the Earth-Moon system we see today. There's a lot to account for, like how the Earth and Moon established their present rotations and orbits. But one of the bigger parts of the mystery is, to Young and his colleagues, solved.
"My view is that the issue of Theia content is more or less settled," Young says. "Now it's in the hands of the modelers."
Politics U.S. Warship Enters Waters Claimed by China Without Approval
The Pentagon confirmed it sent a ship into waters claimed by China, calling it a “freedom of navigation” operation meant to challenge attempts by that country and others to restrict navigation in the area.
The USS Curtis Wilbur got to within 12 nautical miles (22 km) of Triton Island in the South China Sea, Defense Department spokesman Mark Wright said by e-mail Saturday.
The island, administered by China, is part of the Paracel islands chain in the South China Sea also claimed by Vietnam and Taiwan. Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou ignored a rebuke from the U.S. and visited an island in the contested area earlier this week, reiterating claims to the disputed waterway.
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The operation by the U.S. was intended to affirm sea rights and wasn’t meant to take position on competing land sovereignty claims, Wright said.
“The United States will fly, sail and operate anywhere international law allows,” Wright said. “That is true in the South China Sea, as in other places around the globe.”
The move on the part of the U.S. is “a deliberate provocation,” Yang Yujun, China’s Ministry of National Defense spokesman, said in a statement, according to the official Xinhua News Agency on Saturday.
Consequences Questioned
Yang said the move was unprofessional and irresponsible, and may cause extremely dangerous consequences, Xinhua reported.
While the U.S. has challenged China’s expansive maritime claims as part of President Barack Obama’s “pivot to Asia” strategy, the Pentagon emphasized Saturday it was also signaling opposition to actions by other countries vying with China.
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The operation “challenged attempts by the three claimants, China, Taiwan and Vietnam, to restrict navigation rights and freedoms around the features they claim by policies that require prior permission or notification of transit within territorial seas,” Wright said in the e-mail.
Vietnam respects harmless travel complying with international rules, Foreign Minister spokesman Le Hai Binh said in comments on the government website Sunday.
The U.S. has also said that all sides in various territorial disputes should avoid aggressive actions and claims.
As is customary in such operations, no other countries were notified in advance, Wright said. The movements were watched by China and not approved by the nation, Chinese foreign affairs ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said in a statement, urging the U.S. to respect and abide by Chinese laws.
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The passage of the USS Curtis Wilbur near Triton Island was reported earlier by the Wall Street Journal.
(Adds Vietnam’s response in 10th paragraph.)
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Sunday, November 29, 2015
Russia plane entered Israel control zone from Syria: minister
Russia began strikes in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on September 30, over a year after a US-led coalition began strikes in the country against the Islamic State group (AFP Photo/Sergey Venyavsky)
Jerusalem (AFP) - A Russian warplane recently entered Israeli-controlled airspace from Syria but the intrusion was resolved without incident, Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon said on Sunday.
"There was a slight intrusion a mile (1.6 kilometres) deep by a Russian plane from Syria into our airspace, but it was immediately resolved and the Russian plane returned towards Syria," Yaalon told public radio.Yaalon's comments come amid deep concern over the downing of a Russian warplane by Turkey, which claims it strayed over the Syrian border into its airspace and ignored repeated warnings to change course. Moscow denies the allegations.
"It was apparently an error by the pilot who was flying near the Golan."
Israel seized most of the Golan Heights from Syria in 1967 and later annexed the territory in a move never recognised by the international community.
Yaalon recalled that Israel and Russia had made arrangements to avoid clashes over Syria, with the agreement said to include a "hotline" and information sharing.
He said "Russian planes do not intend to attack us, which is why we must not automatically react and shoot them down when an error occurs."
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks in Moscow in September to discuss ways of avoiding accidental clashes.
Russia launched a bombing campaign in Syria on September 30 at the request of its longstanding ally Bashar al-Assad that Moscow says is targeting Islamic State jihadists and other "terrorist" groups.
Israel has reportedly launched more than a dozen air strikes in Syria since 2013, mainly targeting alleged arms transfers to Hezbollah, and Israeli officials were believed to have feared that Russia's intervention could limit their room for manoeuvre.
Israel opposes Assad, but has sought to avoid being dragged into the war.
It also fears that Iran could increase its support for Hezbollah and other militant groups as international sanctions are gradually lifted under a July nuclear deal that Moscow helped negotiate between Tehran and world powers.
In September 2014, Israel downed a Russian-made Syrian warplane over the Golan Heights in the first such incident in three decades and warned it would respond "forcefully" if its security was threatened.iew photo
Russia began strikes in supp
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
ਇਟਲੀ 'ਚ ਜੰਮੇ ਵਿਦੇਸ਼ੀ ਬੱਚੇ ਨਾਗਰਿਕਤਾ ਲਈ ਦਰਖ਼ਾਸਤ ਮੌਕੇ 200 ਯੂਰੋ ਦਾ ਭੁਗਤਾਨ ਨਹੀਂ ਕਰਨਗੇ
ਵਿਦੇਸ਼ੀ ਮਾਪਿਆਂ ਦੇ ਬੱਚਿਆਂ ਨੂੰ ਦਿੱਤੀ ਜਾਣ ਵਾਲੀ ਇਟਾਲੀਅਨ ਨਾਗਰਿਕਤਾ ਸਬੰਧੀ ਸੋਧ ਲਈ ਸਦਨ ਵਿਚ ਬਿੱਲ ਪੇਸ਼ ਕੀਤਾ ਗਿਆ ਸੀ, ਜਿਸ ਨੂੰ ਸਦਨ ਵਲੋਂ ਮਾਨਤਾ ਦਿੱਤੀ ਜਾ ਚੁੱਕੀ ਹੈ, ਜਿਸ ਅਨੁਸਾਰ :
1) ਜਿਹੜੇ ਵਿਦੇਸ਼ੀ ਨਾਗਰਿਕ ਕਾਨੂੰਨੀ ਤੌਰ 'ਤੇ ਇਟਲੀ 'ਚ ਰਹਿ ਰਹੇ ਹੋਣ, ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਦਾ ਪੈਦਾ ਹੋਣ ਵਾਲਾ ਬੱਚਾ ਜਨਮ ਤੋਂ ਹੀ ਇਟਾਲੀਅਨ ਨਾਗਰਿਕ ਹੋਵੇਗਾ।
2) ਜਿਹੜੇ ਵਿਦੇਸ਼ੀਆਂ ਕੋਲ ਇਟਲੀ ਦੇ ਦਸਤਾਵੇਜ਼ ਨਹੀਂ ਹਨ, ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਦਾ ਇਟਲੀ ਪੈਦਾ ਹੋਣ ਵਾਲਾ ਬੱਚਾ ਜਾਂ 12 ਸਾਲ ਦੀ ਉਮਰ ਤੱਕ ਜਿਹੜਾ ਬੱਚਾ ਇਟਲੀ ਵਿਚ ਦਾਖਲ ਹੋ ਚੁੱਕਾ ਹੋਵੇ ਅਤੇ ਲਗਾਤਾਰ 5 ਸਾਲ ਸਕੂਲ ਜਾ ਕੇ ਸਿੱਖਿਆ ਪ੍ਰਾਪਤ ਕਰਨ ਉਪਰੰਤ ਇਟਾਲੀਅਨ ਨਾਗਰਿਕ ਬਣਨ ਦਾ ਅਧਿਕਾਰ ਰੱਖਦਾ ਹੈ।
3) 18 ਸਾਲ ਦੀ ਉਮਰ ਤੋਂ ਇਟਲੀ ਅੰਦਰ ਦਾਖਲ ਹੋਏ (ਕੁਝ ਖਾਸ ਹਾਲਾਤਾਂ ਵਿਚ) 6 ਸਾਲ ਲਗਾਤਾਰ ਇਟਲੀ 'ਚ ਰਹਿ ਕੇ ਸਿੱਖਿਆ ਪ੍ਰਾਪਤ ਕਰਨ ਵਾਲਾ ਵਿਦਿਆਰਥੀ ਨਾਗਰਿਕਤਾ ਪ੍ਰਾਪਤ ਕਰਨ ਦਾ ਅਧਿਕਾਰ ਰੱਖਦਾ ਹੈ।ਜਿਹੜੇ ਵਿਦੇਸ਼ੀ ਬੱਚੇ ਬਾਲਗ ਹੋਣ ਤੋਂ ਪਹਿਲਾਂ ਇਟਲੀ 'ਚ ਦਾਖਲ ਹੋਏ ਹਨ, ਉਹ ਵੀ ਇਕ ਖਾਸ ਸ਼ਰਤ ਅਧੀਨ ਨਾਗਰਕਿਤਾ ਦੀ ਦਰਖ਼ਾਸਤ ਦੇ ਸਕਦੇ ਹਨ, ਜਿਸ ਅਨੁਸਾਰ ਉਹ ਇਟਲੀ 'ਚ 6 ਸਾਲ ਦਾ ਅਵਾਸ ਸਮਾਂ ਪੂਰਾ ਕਰ ਲੈਣ ਅਤੇ ਇਟਲੀ 'ਚ ਗ੍ਰੈਜੁਏਸ਼ਨ ਜਾਂ ਇਸਦੇ ਬਰਾਬਰ ਦੀ ਕੋਈ ਤਕਨੀਕੀ ਸਿੱਖਿਆ ਲਗਾਤਾਰ ਪੂਰੀ ਕਰ ਲੈਣ।
ਜਿਹੜੇ ਵਿਦੇਸ਼ੀ ਬੱਚੇ ਨਾਗਰਿਕਤਾ ਲਈ ਦਰਖ਼ਾਸਤ ਦੇਣਾ ਚਾਹੁੰਦੇ ਹਨ, 200 ਯੂਰੋ ਦਾ ਭੁਗਤਾਨ ਕਰਨ ਦੀ ਜਰੂਰਤ ਨਹੀਂ ਹੈ। ਸਥਿਤੀ 1) ਅਤੇ 2) ਵਿਚ ਜਿਹੜੇ ਮਾਤਾ-ਪਿਤਾ ਬੱਚਿਆਂ ਲਈ ਨਾਗਰਿਕਤਾ ਦੀ ਦਰਖ਼ਾਸਤ ਦੇਣਾ ਚਾਹੁੰਦੇ ਹਨ, ਉਪਰੋਕਤ ਨਿਯਮ ਉਨ੍ਹਾਂ 'ਤੇ ਲਾਗੂ ਹੁੰਦਾ ਹੈ। ਸਥਿਤੀ 3) ਅਧੀਨ ਜਿਹੜੇ ਵਿਦਿਆਰਥੀ 18 ਸਾਲ ਦੀ ਉਮਰ ਤੋਂ ਬਾਅਦ ਨਾਗਰਿਕਤਾ ਲਈ ਮੰਗ ਕਰਦੇ ਹਨ, ਉਹ ਇਸ ਸ਼੍ਰੇਣੀ ਅਧੀਨ ਨਹੀਂ ਆਉਂਦੇ, ਜਿਹੜੇ ਮਾਤਾ-ਪਿਤਾ ਬੱਚਿਆਂ ਲਈ ਨਾਗਰਿਕਤਾ ਦੀ ਮੰਗ ਨਹੀਂ ਕਰਦੇ, ਬਾਲਗ ਹੋਣ 'ਤੇ ਵਿਦਿਆਰਥੀ ਨਾਗਰਿਕਤਾ ਦੀ ਮੰਗ ਕਰ ਸਕਦਾ ਹੈ, ਅਜਿਹੀ ਸ਼੍ਰੇਣੀ ਅਧੀਨ ਨਾਗਰਿਕਤਾ ਦੀ ਮੰਗ ਕਰਨ 'ਤੇ ਉਹ 200 ਯੂਰੋ ਦਾ ਭੁਗਤਾਨ ਕਰਨ ਤੋਂ ਨਹੀਂ ਬਚ ਸਕਦੇ।
'ਜਗ ਬਾਣੀ' ਦੇ ਪਾਠਕਾਂ ਲਈ ਇਕ ਜ਼ਰੂਰੀ ਸੂਚਨਾ ਹੈ। 'ਜਗ ਬਾਣੀ' ਵਲੋਂ ਐਪ ਨੂੰ ਅਪਡੇਟ ਕਰ ਦਿੱਤਾ ਗਿਆ ਹੈ। ਤੁਸੀਂ ਵੀ ਆਪਣੇ ਫੋਨ ਦੇ ਪਲੇਅ ਸਟੋਰ ਵਿਚ ਜਾ ਕੇ 'ਜਗ ਬਾਣੀ' ਐਪ ਨੂੰ ਅਪਡੇਟ ਕਰਕੇ ਦੁਨੀਆ ਭਰ ਦੀਆਂ ਖਬਰਾਂ ਦਾ ਅਨੰਦ ਮਾਣ ਸਕਦੇ ਹੋ।
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Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Princess Eugenie supports grandmother Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace
had a chance to lend her support to her grandmotherQueen Elizabeth at a special awards ceremony on Monday night at Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty was presenting a $1.5 million prize to Dr Robert Langer for his advances in engineering.
During the event, held in the palace's lavish Throne Room, the Queen gave out the award in the presence of select guests and other members of the royal family including Eugenie, Princess Anne and Prince Philip. As guests mingled, Eugenie, 25, was pictured chatting and shaking hands with attendees.
The Princess is back on the royal circuit following her move from New York City earlier this year. Eugenie, who works at top London art galleryHauser & Wirth, had lived in the Big Apple since 2013 where she worked at online auction house Paddle8.
Eugenie, however, has made trips back to the U.S. and last month attended a fundraiser with her mom Sarah Ferguson and her older sisterPrincess Beatrice in Manhattan.
The trio were joined by rapper 50 Cent at the BGC Charity Day on Wall Street, raising money for the ongoing relief since the attacks on the World Trade Center, 14 years ago.
The Queen Elizabeth and husband Prince Philip looked to be thoroughly enjoying their evening Photo: Getty Images
Meanwhile 89-year-old Queen Elizabeth, who wore a cream and gold dress, gave Dr. Langer her winning smile as she handed him the trophy. The doctor received the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering for "his revolutionary advances and leadership in engineering at the interface with chemistry and medicine," according to the award's official website.
It is estimated that over two billion lives have been improved by the technologies that Dr. Langer's lab has created.
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Russia Blocked Israeli Military Fights Over Syria, Lebanon
An Israeli air force jet fighter plane takes off from Tel Nof Air Force base in central Israel, Monday, Nov. 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
Russian forces sent out a warning to the Israeli Air Force after Israeli jets were detected near Russian controlled airspace near the Syrian–Lebanese border, Lebanese media outlet As Safir reported Friday.
The warning was issued after a Russian radar system spotted Israeli jets approaching Russian-controlled airspace two weeks ago, a Lebanese diplomatic official said, according to the report.
Russia’s defense ministry said Thursday that its forces in Syria had set up a “hotline” with Israel’s military to avoid clashes in the sky over the war-torn country.
An “information-sharing” mechanism “has been established through a hotline between the Russian aviation command center at the Hmeimim air base (in Syria) and a command post of the Israeli air force,” the ministry said in a statement, adding that the two sides were undergoing training on how to cooperate.
According to As Safir, the Lebanese source said that Russian aircraft immediately blocked the Israeli jets’ path while they flew above the Akkar region in northern Lebanon. “The Russians immediately sent a clear warning to the Israelis that entering Syrian airspace would be a pretext for opening fire,” the source added.
According to the paper, which is considered loyal to Hezbollah, the Israeli aircraft quickly heeded the warnings and changed their course.
Russia and Israel have been working to find a way to avoid unintended collisions between their aircraft over Syria since President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agreed to set up a “mechanism” at talks in Moscow last month.
Russia launched a bombing campaign in Syria on September 30 at the request of its long-standing ally Bashar Assad that Moscow says is targeting Islamic State jihadists and other “terrorist” groups.
Israel has reportedly launched air strikes in Syria against Iranian arms transfers to Hezbollah and Israeli officials are believed to fear that Russia’s intervention could limit their room for maneuvre.
The United States and its allies involved in a coalition bombing IS have sharply criticised Russia’s air campaign and say that the majority of its strikes have hit more moderate rebel groups fighting Assad.
Moscow has blasted the accusations and says Washington has rebuffed calls to cooperate more closely.
Moscow protest against Russia role in Syria
Around 200 people demonstrated in Moscow on Saturday against Russia’s campaign of air strikes in Syria, with one protester arrested by police.
The rally by people mainly in their 50s and 60s in a small central park passed off amid tight security as the authorities threw up a strong security cordon.
The demonstrators oppose Moscow’s decision to carry out air strikes which began targeting assorted Syrian rebel groups on September 30.
One opposition party, Solidarnost, had called for a protest — but the majority of those who showed up wore pacifist badges rather than any suggesting political allegiance.
Less than an hour into the demonstration, police arrested a woman waving a banner reading “Putin assassin, don’t bring shame on Russia,” and bundled her into a van.
Police then blocked access to the site to prevent more people joining, but despite their efforts, protesters continued to chant slogans against the military intervention as well as against corruption in Russia.
Some brandished banners promising to visit “hell upon those who bomb in the name of peace.”
Organiser Svetlana Kravietz, 42, told AFP that “war is not what we need in our country — we already have many problems to solve. We are going through a serious economic crisis.”
Fellow protester Dmitri Stipanov, 36, said: “Today they show us initial successes — just as they did at the start with Afghanistan” following the Soviet invasion in 1979.
“But afterwards it all degenerated — and today I think we’re in for a repeat,” Stipanov said.
Kravietz said she believed the air strikes were part of a hidden Moscow agenda.
“We’ve already had a war with Ukraine and now that is calming down we’re off to war in Syria,” she said, seeing the manoeuvre as political skulduggery.
“Some people at the heart of the authorities organise these wars to hang on to power and not to help anybody.”
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Saturday that Russia is fighting for its national interests in Syria, not for President Bashar al-Assad.
“Of course we are not fighting for specific leaders, we are defending our national interests, on the one hand,” Medvedev said in an interview to air on state television.
“And secondly, we have a request from the lawful authorities (of Syria). That is the basis we are working on,” he said, quoted on the government website.
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