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Credit: Chris Stevens<\/p><\/div>\n

By Scott Powers\u00a0– Writer for Orlando Sentinel<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Tiny particles of space dust: How do they stick together? How might astronauts not stir them up? Two UCF scientists are asking, and they\u2019ve gotten NASA<\/a>\u2019s attention.<\/p>\n

UCF physics Professor and Assistant Director at the Florida Space\u00a0Institute<\/a> Joshua Colwell, Ph.D.<\/a>,\u00a0and UCF physics post-doctoral\u00a0Research\u00a0Scientist Julie Brisset, Ph.D.<\/a>, have won two of nine new NASA grants awarded this week. The grants will allow them to send eight experiments up on sub-orbital flights. In their separate experiments, Brisset and Colwell will be researching what happens to dust particles in micro-gravity. Brisset will be looking for clues to the past, while Colwell will be looking to develop advice for NASA missions in the future.<\/p>\n

Brisset is studying how tiny particles might stick together \u2013 critical to understanding how the planets formed billions of years ago. NASA is arranging for her next experiment to go up in a small sub-orbital rocket next August, and is supporting her work with $92,000.<\/p>\n

Colwell is studying how to touch something blanketed with coarse space dust called regolith, without stirring up too much. That is critical to understanding how NASA astronauts or robots might visit asteroids in the future. NASA is arranging for his next experiment to go up in an airplane, that creates micro-gravity by flying parabolic aerobatics, in August of next year and is supporting his work with about $140,000.<\/p>\n

NASA announced those two awards, through its Flight Opportunities Program<\/a>, plus the other 7\u00a0awards\u00a0that went to researchers in Wisconsin, California, New York, Virginia and elsewhere on November 19th.<\/p>\n

To read the original article\u00a0in the\u00a0Orlando Sentinel\u00a0click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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