They will examine small objects around the wrecked craft, and see if they can identify human remains.
Last week an official panel recommended keeping Pluto as a planet and adding at least three, perhaps 40 more small objects.
Actual superposition (as opposed to the cat-in-a-box sort) is easiest with small objects, for which there are fewer pathways along which the superposition can break down.
The eight regular satellites include four large objects discovered by Galileo and four small objects in circular orbits interior to that of the major volcanic moon Io.
The high-frequency sound from the transmitter produces sharp reflections of small objects for the same reason that an electron microscope (which operates at high frequencies) can see smaller things than a light microscope (which operates at low frequencies).
Fast forward twenty years, and to walk the streets of any city in the U.S. is to see Americans of all income classes listening to music, texting, searching internet sites, and watching television on small rectangular objects that also serve as the once much coveted wireless phone.
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The suburbs of the solar system are filled with small, icy objects, including Pluto.
This, though, does not affect the system's optical properties and it can, indeed, see small, faint objects that are near large, bright ones.
The task is further complicated by the relatively small size of the objects of the search.
Flying 260 miles above the earth, it can provide images of objects as small as 3 feet wide.
This let researchers see objects as small as 1 nanometer in size--about five times larger than a single atom.
So all these efforts either hide things in wavelengths longer than we can see - radio, microwaves and a bit of infrared - or hide objects so small we can't see them.
Global Hawk can pick out objects as small as a truck with its synthetic aperture radar, which uses the plane's flight path to simulate the curve of a radar dish several hundred meters long.
Scientists think that black holes grow as small ones merge to form heavier objects.
"Staples is excited to bring the power of 3D printing to our customers, by being the first major U.S. retailer to announce the availability of this innovative technology that lets you create fully formed objects in your home or small business, " said Mike Edwards, Staples executive vice president, merchandising.
Some are written by small shops, some, like the Business Objects application, are produced by big companies.
There is also the small task of looking after the seven million objects it has in storage.
An assortment of objects - mostly beer cans and small rocks - rained down on the Swazi bench after Zimbabwe's fifth goal.
The IrisPen's small size is an advantage when working with irregularly shaped objects such as thick books.
One constant so far, though, is that all of the objects being hidden are stationary and very, very small.
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The aerodynamics of small things are, however, different from those of larger objects (according to classical theory, for example, a bumblebee should be unable to fly).
But the forces exerted by objects in the Kuiper belt (a collection of small bodies orbiting the sun beyond the orbit of Pluto), or by the galaxy as a whole, were also far too weak to be responsible.
Small or penurious institutions are deprived of their treasures, and objects which, for one reason or another, cannot be lent are increasingly neglected: less and less attention is paid, for example, to large pictures and artists who specialised in them.
Described by John Curtis, keeper of special Middle East projects at London's British Museum, as "one of the most iconic objects in the museum, " it is a small, unremarkable oblong of clay almost 9 inches long and 4 inches in circumference.
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NASA's Kepler telescope is permanently on the lookout for celestial objects of interest, and its latest discovery is a small one.
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Small knives were banned along with a host of other undersized sharp objects, like nail clippers, screwdrivers and cosmetic scissors, after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States.
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The researchers say this dust must be coming from collisions among small bodies similar to the comets or icy bodies that make up today's Kuiper Belt objects in our solar system.
Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks there have been no incidents in which terrorists have successfully used sharp objects to take over a plane, which suggests the current policy of keeping even small knives off planes is working, committee members said.
When people think of the word planet, they think of large, special objects, and when you tell people about Pluto and make them realize that Pluto really is quite small, people even start to realize well, okay, maybe Pluto shouldn't be called a planet.
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