The binary antimonide compounds of the skutterudite family have a good potential for thermoelectric applications as recent results at JPL have shown. However, the room temperature thermal conductivity of these materials ...

Apart from the shaking near the epicenter that is the earthquake, a seismic event creates a permanent field of dislocation in the entire Earth. This redistribution of mass changes (slightly) the Earth's interia tensor; ...

Interplanetary collision hazards in many planetary systems force civilizations to become spacefaring or extinct. This selection pressure apparently acts on a timescale of 10***sup5*** years on Earth's current human ...

The Cosmic Dust Analyzer (CDA) is designed to characterize the dust envirenment in interplanetary space, in the Jovian and in the Saturnian systems. The instrument consists of two major components, the Dust Analyzer (DA) ...

Using the 2MASS second incremental data release and the zodiacal subtracted mission average maps of COBE/DIRBE, the authors estimate the cosmic background in the J (1.25 mu m) and K (2.2 mu m) bands using selected areas ...

This paper describes a type of cosmic ray detector for isotopic and energy detection of energetic nuclei which derives both dimensions of position information from one side of the detector. This simplifies the required ...