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The Edison Awards Announces Annual Achievement Award Honorees for 2024

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Monday, October 30, 2023
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CHICAGO, Oct. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Edison Awards™, an annual competition honoring excellence in new product and service development, marketing, human-centered design, and innovation, announces distinguished innovators Gwynne Shotwell, President and COO of SpaceX, and Dr. Laurie Leshin, Director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), as honorees of the 2024 Edison Achievement Award. Founded in 1987, The Edison Awards™ are named after renowned inventor Thomas Edison, and the Edison Achievement Award honors remarkable leaders who have made a significant and lasting contribution to innovation throughout their careers. Most notably, the accolade celebrates those whose accomplishments serve as an inspiration across all spaces of innovation and intelligence to positively impact the world at large.

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  • The Edison Awards announces distinguished innovators Gwynne Shotwell, President and COO of SpaceX, and Dr. Laurie Leshin, Director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, as honorees of the 2024 Edison Achievement Award
    CHICAGO, Oct. 30, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Edison Awards ™, an annual competition honoring excellence in new product and service development, marketing, human-centered design, and innovation, announces distinguished innovators Gwynne Shotwell, President and COO of SpaceX , and Dr. Laurie Leshin, Director of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), as honorees of the 2024 Edison Achievement Award.
  • Founded in 1987, The Edison Awards™ are named after renowned inventor Thomas Edison, and the Edison Achievement Award honors remarkable leaders who have made a significant and lasting contribution to innovation throughout their careers.
  • It is our great honor to award these remarkable leaders as they steward the future of space innovation, ensuring their prestigious work is commemorated and celebrated around the globe.
  • Nominations for 2024 The Edison Awards™ are now open and due November 10, 2023, and may be submitted through The Edison Awards' website.

Astronomers puzzled by 'planet that shouldn't exist'

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Wednesday, June 28, 2023
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The search for planets outside our Solar System – exoplanets – is one of the most rapidly growing fields in astronomy.

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  • The search for planets outside our Solar System – exoplanets – is one of the most rapidly growing fields in astronomy.
  • In research published today in Nature, we lay out the puzzle of this planet’s existence – and propose some possible solutions.

A glimpse into our future: red giant stars

    • In this “red giant” phase of evolution, stars can grow to more than 100 times their original size.
    • We know of hundreds of planets orbiting red giant stars.
    • In 2019, the International Astronomical Union dubbed the star Baekdu and the planet Halla, after the tallest mountains on the Korean peninsula.

A planet that should not be there

    • Unlike other red giants we have found hosting exoplanets on close-in orbits, Baekdu has already started fusing helium in its core.
    • For Baekdu, the frequencies of the waves unambiguously showed it has commenced burning helium in its core.
    • The discovery was puzzling: if Baekdu is burning helium, it should have been much bigger in the past – so big it should have engulfed the planet Halla.

Two stars become one: a possible survival scenario

    • At least half of all stars in our galaxy did not form in isolation like our Sun, but are part of binary systems.
    • A merger of these two stars may have prevented the expansion of either star to a size large enough to engulf planet Halla.
    • The violent collision between the two stars may have produced a cloud of gas and dust from which the planet could have formed.

Grandview Lights the Future with an Asteroid

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Friday, September 9, 2022
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GUANGZHOU,China, Sept. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On September 8, 2022, asteroid No.29438 was officially named "29438 Zhengjia (1997 MV)", the phonetic spelling of Grandview in Chinese, and the opening ceremony of Grandview Museum of Science and Grandview Museum of Astronomy was held at Guangzhou Marriott Hotel. This is the first asteroid named after an enterprise engaging in public education by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), which represents not only the recognition and affirmation on the Grandview Group's contribution to citizens' science education by international and domestic scientific and educational societies, but also the expectation and encouragement for the future development of astronomy research and popular science education in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area. The opening ceremony also announced the official opening of Grandview Museum of Science and Grandview Museum of Astronomy, two new members of the "Grandview Planet".

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  • The opening ceremony also announced the official opening of Grandview Museum of Science and Grandview Museum of Astronomy, two new members of the "Grandview Planet".
  • On June 26, 1997, an asteroid was detected and recorded at Xinglong Observatory of National Astronomical Observatories (NAOC).
  • This year, with the approval of the WG Small Bodies Nomenclature, this asteroid was officially named "29438 Zhengjia (1997 MV)".
  • Chen Jiansheng, astrophysicist and academician of University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, presented the certificate of asteroid naming to Grandview Group.

Grandview Lights the Future with an Asteroid

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Friday, September 9, 2022
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GUANGZHOU,China, Sept. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- On September 8, 2022, asteroid No.29438 was officially named "29438 Zhengjia (1997 MV)", the phonetic spelling of Grandview in Chinese, and the opening ceremony of Grandview Museum of Science and Grandview Museum of Astronomy was held at Guangzhou Marriott Hotel. This is the first asteroid named after an enterprise engaging in public education by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), which represents not only the recognition and affirmation on the Grandview Group's contribution to citizens' science education by international and domestic scientific and educational societies, but also the expectation and encouragement for the future development of astronomy research and popular science education in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area. The opening ceremony also announced the official opening of Grandview Museum of Science and Grandview Museum of Astronomy, two new members of the "Grandview Planet".

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  • The opening ceremony also announced the official opening of Grandview Museum of Science and Grandview Museum of Astronomy, two new members of the "Grandview Planet".
  • On June 26, 1997, an asteroid was detected and recorded at Xinglong Observatory of National Astronomical Observatories (NAOC).
  • This year, with the approval of the WG Small Bodies Nomenclature, this asteroid was officially named "29438 Zhengjia (1997 MV)".
  • Chen Jiansheng, astrophysicist and academician of University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, presented the certificate of asteroid naming to Grandview Group.

Lunar Crater Named After USRA Scientist Paul Spudis

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Monday, October 25, 2021
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COLUMBIA, Md., Oct. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --The International Astronomical Union Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature recently approved a crater name Spudis craterin honor of Dr. Paul Spudis, a Universities Space Research Association scientist who worked at the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) for 22 years (1990-2002, 2008-2018).

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  • COLUMBIA, Md., Oct. 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --The International Astronomical Union Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature recently approved a crater name Spudis craterin honor of Dr. Paul Spudis, a Universities Space Research Association scientist who worked at the Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) for 22 years (1990-2002, 2008-2018).
  • Spudis crater is located near the Moon's south pole and is 13 kilometers in diameter.
  • Paul Spudis was an expert in lunar and terrestrial planetary geology, and throughout his career made fundamental contributions to understanding the geology and mechanics of impact basins and craters, the origin and evolution of the lunar crust, volcanic processes on Earth and other planets, and the genesis of lunar polymict breccias.
  • USRA engages the university community and employs in-house scientific leadership, innovative research and development, and project management expertise.More information about USRA is available at www.usra.edu .

International Astronomical Union Names Lunar Crater After Arctic Explorer Matthew Henson: Name Proposed by LPI/NASA

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Monday, September 20, 2021
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HOUSTON and COLUMBIA, Md., Sept. 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --The International Astronomical Union has named a lunar craterthe "Henson Crater" after Dr. Matthew Alexander Henson, an extraordinary explorerwho journeyed toEarth's North Pole.

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  • HOUSTON and COLUMBIA, Md., Sept. 20, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --The International Astronomical Union has named a lunar craterthe "Henson Crater" after Dr. Matthew Alexander Henson, an extraordinary explorerwho journeyed toEarth's North Pole.
  • He led several expeditions to the Arctic and was awarded a medal by the U.S. Navy in 1945 for his Arctic exploration.
  • Shortly before his death in 1955, he received two honorary degrees from Howard University and Morgan State University.
  • Jordan Bretzfelder found that the name "Henson" had not yet been applied to a lunar feature, so she and Kring submitted it to the International Astronomical Union's Task Group for Lunar Nomenclature for consideration.