Saturday, May 3, 2008

Scientists Pinpoint Dinosaur Extinction - Daily Californian

Scientists Pinpoint Dinosaur Extinction - Daily Californian
Until now, the clock used to measure Earth's history was a little off-by hundreds of thousands of years. Scientists at the Berkeley Geochronology Center have refined a radioactive ...

Did a Cooked Meteorite Seed Life on Earth? - Universe Today
Earth, four billion years ago, was a lifeless, hot and violent place. Not exactly a world where you'd expect life to form. But this was the scene where the first life-forming amino ...

Pikpus et les meteorites
Les Fabuleuses Aventures de M. Pikpus Animation#5 Toutes les autres sur http://ripoche.f.free.fr/anim/ Author: fripoche Tags: pikpus animation bricks film bricksfilm lego fabuleuse aventure m.pikpus court anime image meteorite city:St Brévin country:FR user-category:creation user-category:fun user-category:shortfilms Posted: 17 August 2006

NASASciFiles - The Case of the Shaky Quake
NASASciFiles - The Case of the Shaky Quake NASA 56 min 12 sec - May 11, 2002 NASA Sci Files video containing the following eleven segments. NASA Sci Files segment exploring the different types of waves that earthquakes create. NASA Sci Files segment exploring faults and how they contribute to eartquakes. NASA Sci Files segment explaining what fossils are and how plate tectonics work. NASA Sci Files segment explaining the Global Positions System and how it monitors and measures crustal movement. NASA Sci Files segment exploring the many layers of the earth and how these relate to earthquakes.NASA Sci Files segment explaining how scientists measure the power of earthquakes by using the Richter Scale and the Moment Magnitude Scale. NASA Sci Files segment explaining what meteors, meteoroids, and meteorites are and the differences in these. NASA Sci Files segment explaining the basic facts about earthquakes including frequency, intensity, and location. NASA Sci Files segment exploring how seismographs work and what they do. NASA Sci Files segment explaining the study of seismology and how seismologists study eartquakes. NASA Sci Files segment involving students in an activity that studies how to locate an earthquake's epicenter by using triangulation.