Summer harvest

Summer harvest
With the next CityBeat "Great Demo Review" nearly nine months away, we decided to thresh away at our pile of recently released local albums to see if any shimmering needles were hiding in the haystack of ...

A Piece of the Moon and Mars come to Piggott
Image Credit: JPL/NASA. This is an artist's rendition of the Phoenix spacecraft on Mars.

Meteorite Offers A Primordial Peek - New York Times Blogs

Meteorite Offers A Primordial Peek New York Times Blogs, NY - 12 hours ago The meteorite turns out to be a type known as carbonaceous chondrites, which contain sizable quantities of carbon and organic molecules. ...

Ancient Bacterial Fossils May Exist on Moon - FOXNews

Ancient Bacterial Fossils May Exist on Moon FOXNews - Jun 26, 2008 Now, work by a team of English scientists reinforces an earlier suggestion that evidence of life on the early Earth might be found in meteorites on the moon ...

Doctor Who (Classic Series): Falling Meteorites

Doctor Who (Classic Series): Falling Meteorites
Doctor Who (Classic Series): Falling Meteorites

2 min - 2008-01-03

UNIT works out what to do about some falling meteorites.

Collecting Meteorites in Antarctica

Collecting Meteorites in Antarctica
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41 min - 2006-01-26

Google TechTalks January 26, 2006 Dr. Monika Kress Dr. Kress was a member of the ANSMET 2003-04 Expedition. (ANSMET = Antarctic search for meteorites) http://geology.cwru.edu/~ansmet/ ABSTRACT Every year since the late 70's the US National Science Foundation has supported a team of space scientists to search for meteorites in Antarctica. Why Antarctica? The polar desert environment best preserves these precious samples of other worlds, which include shattered planetesimals, fragments of asteroids, and even rocks from the Moon and Mars. In this talk, I will discuss the scientific importance of meteorites, and the methods used to recover them from the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.

big fishy, little fishies

big fishy, little fishies

Aboriginal Boreal Conservation Leaders."The series highlights Aboriginal leaders in boreal forest conservation through a series of personal interest stories." Honouring our aboriginal sons and daughters . Want to know if waterboarding is torture? Ask Christopher Hitchens. Keeping an eye on the fasc1...

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Boom!

Boom!

Stamane noto una valigia abbandonata davanti al balcone di casa mia e subito mi torna in mente il falso allarme bomba di qualche anno fa. Era una sera dell'estate del 2002, se non ricordo male, e qualcuno aveva lasciato una ventiquattrore accanto al portone dello stabile in cui abito. Evidentemente ...

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The Keepers of the Moon

The Keepers of the Moon

Decades after the Apollo astronauts brought the first Moon rocks back to Earth, they are still providing scientists with new secrets....

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Tags: Space, Science and Technology, Geology, moon, Solar System, Rock and Stone, Meteors and Meteorites

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Way later than 2001, space odysseys are under way (Austin American-Statesman)

Way later than 2001, space odysseys are under way (Austin American-Statesman)
In 1969, Neil Armstrong giant-stepped on the moon, "2001: A Space Odyssey" won a visual effects Oscar, "Star Trek" was a TV hit and a lot of us started mentally planning trips beyond the final frontier.

In print (Science News)
When you look up at the night sky, it's hard to imagine the violent, chaotic place the solar system was billions of years ago.

Exploding Asteroid Theory Gains Evidence (Universe Today)
About 13,000 years ago, woolly mammoths roamed the North American continent and the first known human society in that region, known as the Clovis civilization, lived there as well. But geologic and archeological evidence shows they both suddenly disappeared, and scientists have long debated the mystery of the mass extinction of both animals and [...]

Fireball Remains a Mystery

Fireball Remains a Mystery

Fireball Remains a Mystery

That's just a sunset, but pretend it's a fireball, okay? | Photo by Travis Hornung via Flickr There is still no explanation of the fireball that soared through Southern California skies yesterday morning at about 10:40 a.m. "I was in downtown Los Angeles on the 31st floor of my office and just happe...

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July Museum Round-Up

July Museum Round-Up

With so many museums in D.C., it's easy to overlook the wealth of fun and interesting events that are happening at them. Here's a round-up of some of the notable events and exhibits going on in July, including a look at baseball in D.C., a hip-hop happy hour and a chance to finally see what's living...

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Ideas & Trends: Maybe Chicken Little Wasn’t Paranoid After All

Ideas & Trends: Maybe Chicken Little Wasn’t Paranoid After All

“Civilization killers” are one thing, but when it comes to earth-bound objects, smaller rocks matter too....

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Tags: Space, Earth, Solar System, Asteroids, Siberia, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Sandia National Laboratories, Meteors and Meteorites

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