If you've ever whirled a ball attached to a string around your head and then let it go, you know the great speed that can be achieved through a slingshot maneuver. Similarly, NASA's Juno spacecraft will be passing within some 350 miles of Earth's surface Wednesday, Oct. 9, before it slingshots off into space on a historic exploration of Jupiter.

Congratulations to Timothy Harrington-Taber for successfully defending his PhD dissertation on "Heavy Flavor Decay of Zgamma at CDF." "...