Various astronomy news

[Tichy]

OK, Sci-Fi but still. Seems like the Hugo award is broken, with trolls messing up the voting process:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/a ... id-puppies

They already screwed the 2015 edition... Very annoying.

[err404]

[In French, à Paris, France]

Table ronde sur les 40 ans d'exploration martienne:
http://www.aerobuzz.fr/agenda/article/c ... s-sur-mars

Extrait:
Table-ronde : « 1976 – 2016 : 40 ans sur Mars : Les leçons apprises et les défis à relever depuis les missions Viking ».
- Gilles Dawidowicz, Géographe, Président de la Commission de planétologie de la Société Astronomique de France,
- Olivier de Goursac, Dernier étudiant de la mission Viking au NASA/JPL, Charter Member de la Planetary Society et Membre de l’AéCF.
- François Forget, Directeur de recherche CNRS à L'Institut Pierre Simon Laplace. Membre des équipes Mars Express et Exomars.

Lundi 13 Juin 2016 à 18h30 à l’Aéroclub de France, salon Dorand, 6 rue Galilée, 75116 Paris

L’inscription est gratuite mais demandée: communication@aeroclub.com

[impaktor]

Translate?

[GunChleoc]

There's going to be a round table discussing 40 years of Mars exploration. Looks like the event will be in French, so if you don't understand the previous post, no point in reserving a spot ;)

[FluffyFreak]

Two articles on ArsTechnica.

Jupiter Juno mission -> http://arstechnica.co.uk/science/2016/0 ... o-details/
and
Uk Should have it's own space program -> http://arstechnica.co.uk/science/2016/0 ... e-say-mps/

[bszlrd]

Some study of that propellantles EM drive, which indicates that it might actually doesn't violate Newton's third law.

[FluffyFreak]

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/06/ ... le-places/

[impaktor]

World going to hell? Here are the Solar System’s five most livable places

Still upset about Brexit? :)

[FluffyFreak]

Just scoping out possible new homeworlds in case Theresa May / Micheal Gove / Andrea Leadson become our unelected Prime Minister.

They're all fucking evil.

[FluffyFreak]

Back on topic: Mars Hi-Rise camera keeps on delivering some amazing photos of Mars... Lots of blue!

http://www.uahirise.org/releases/aug2016/