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• Unknown Asteroid Buzzed Earth

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 590
  Written by Nancy AtkinsonA previously undiscovered asteroid came within 14,000 km of Earth last week, and astronomers noticed it only 15 hours before closest approach. On Nov. 6 at around 16:30 EST a 7 meter asteroid, now called 2009 VA, came only about 2 Earth radii from impacting our home planet. This is the ...
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• 10 Neat Facts About Carl Sagan

  
  Neatorama — Authority: 790
  Carl Sagan with a model of the Viking Lander. Photo via Wikipedia I miss Carl Sagan . Sagans enthusiasm for science and his knack for translating difficult scientific concepts into simple explanations that many can understand, made him a popular figure. He was an ambassador for ...
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• Scientists debunk six 2012 end-of-the-world myths

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Washington, November 7 (ANI): A team of scientists has debunked six myths about the world supposedly ending in 2012 according to an ancient Mayan prophecy.According to a report in National Geographic News, the first myth debunked by scientists is that the Maya calendar doesn’t end in 2012, as some have said, and the ...
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• Dark Red Spot Found on Kuiper Belt Object Haumae

  
  Newsvine - JCAtom's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 125
  Unlike all other large Kuiper Belt Objects, which are covered in methane ice and so slightly red in colour, Haumea and its two moons are covered in water ice, giving them a blue tinge. Moreover, Haumea is much denser than water and so must have a rich rocky core.
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• Asteroid

  
  From My Bottom Step — Authority: 141
  An XKCD sketch . Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 License .
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• Would the reinsurance industry survive a Tunguska event?

  
  www.Artemis.bm — Authority: 125
  Risk Management Solutions recently published a paper analysing the 1908 Tunguska asteroid event which hit Central Siberia in Russia and looking at scenarios to determine what might happen should a similar event occur today. If a similar event happened above Manhattan today it could cause over a trillion dollars in ...
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• The mysterious past, October, 2009

  
  To the Future with Love — Authority: 112
  Today: The mysterious glaciers that grew when Asia heated up Tiny ancient shells point to earliest fashion trend Californias Channel Islands hold evidence of Clovis-age comets Winning the ultimate battle: How humans could end war A prehistoric ‘runway’ used by flying reptiles Europe’s oldest stone ...
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• DHS Secretary Used Asteroid Scare for Real Estate Fraud, Mistress Claims

  
  Future Update — Authority: 114
  October 28, 2029 —Homeland Security Secretary Marshall Lawe joined the scheme to fraudulently evacuate the planet in order to help enrich a California businesswoman with whom he was having an extra-marital affair, FU has learned. Federal investigators have uncovered Lawe’s role in the scam after questioning ...
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• Leonid Meteor Shower: Impact?

  
  Tikkun Olam — Authority: 486
  I know this is an annual event (my husband just tonight alerted me to its impending appearance)--the Leonid meteor shower --but I am still reeling from the video we saw last night, a 3-hour production made from the TV mini-series, "Impact." It is a science-fiction story about a meteor shower during which a brown ...
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• NASA Chief Resigns As Apocalypse Scandal Broadens

  
  Future Update — Authority: 114
  November 2, 2029—NASA Administrator Cy Phiphan resigned today as allegations mounted about his leading role in the end-of-the-world fraud scheme that sent billions of people fleeing the planet. While denying that he engaged in any intentional conspiracy to defraud the world, Phiphan said he needed to devote full ...
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• 50 years of space exploration

  
  Thing of the Day — Authority: 124
  Following the successful test flight of NASA’s Ares I-X rocket on 28th October, it’s interesting to see this diagram that depicts the nearly 200 lunar, solar and interplanetary space missions that have been undertaken in the last 50 years. http://books.nationalgeographic.com/map/map-day/ There’s a better ...
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• My best pickup line

  
  Bad Astronomy — Authority: 695
  Regular readers know that Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal is one of my favorite web comics. This morning, he had an astronomy-themed bit of snark : I’ve blocked out the woman’s reply, so you’ll have to click through to see the punch line. And I love Zach, the artist, I really do, but… SPOILER for ...
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• Asteroid Explosion over Indonesia

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 590
  Written by Nicholos WethingtonThis has taken awhile to filter into the Western press, but an asteroid exploded over the town of Bone,Indonesia on October 8th at around 11am local time. Initially, locals called the police to report that a plane had crashed, or that an earthquake shook the ground, as reported in the ...
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• Horoscopes of the Ds and Rs Progressions 10.31.09

  
  Stars Over Washington — Authority: 429
  Here is a dual wheel of both parties Secondary Progressions set for today, Oct 31, 2009, at noon edt in Washington, DC. Please click image to enlarge because I may leave out a detail or two in this text and there are several notated which a need for brevity prevents me from mentioning; a few US natal planets are ...
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• Asteroid Explosion over Indonesia

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 663
  This has taken awhile to filter into the Western press, but an asteroid exploded over the town of Bone,Indonesia on October 8th at around 11am local time. Initially, locals called the police to report that a plane had crashed, or that an earthquake shook the ground, as reported in the Jakarta Globe . The Jakarta ...
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• Weekend Asteroid Mash-Up

  
  Mystic Medusa — Authority: 484
  Pan – Georges Barbier Oh well Virgoans are about to go absolutely ape. Not only is Saturn out of their sign so they can go nano-seconds at a time without guilting themselves, they’ve got asteroid Pan (asteroid number 4450) and Dionysus (asteroid number 3671) in their sign with NO Saturn to be a spoilsport ...
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• If you listen closely, you can hear the voice of evil

  
  KHdN - Kenneth Hynek (dot Net) — Authority: 435
  On the surface, this cringe-inducing announcement just sounds like yet another example of the sort of marketing logic that underpins reality TV these days. Pop culture fused with news headlines: The gossip apocalypse has arrived: Jon Gosselin and Nadya Suleman will be going on a date. The “Jon & Kate Plus ...
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• Obama’s Space War from the Freeman Perspective

  
  EscapeTheIllusion.com — Authority: 124
  Freeman talks at Brave New Books about the coming space war propelled by the fear of the coming asteroid, Apophis. Click here to view the embedded video. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez9HolbzMVk[/youtube] Click here to view the embedded video. ...
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• Asteroid Explodes Over Indonesia

  
  ASTRO LINK — Authority: 123
  Source - Space Weather News for Oct. 28, 2009: http://spaceweather.com INDONESIAN ASTEROID: Earlier this month, with no warning, a ~10-meter wide asteroid hit Earths atmosphere above Indonesia and exploded. The break-up was so powerful, it triggered nuclear test ban sensors thousands of kilometers away. A ...
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• Asteroid Explodes Over Indonesia

  
  Cloudymidnights — Authority: 421
  Source - Space Weather News for Oct. 28, 2009: http://spaceweather.com INDONESIAN ASTEROID: Earlier this month, with no warning, a ~10-meter wide asteroid hit Earths atmosphere above Indonesia and exploded. The break-up was so powerful, it triggered nuclear test ban sensors thousands of kilometers away. A ...
  1 week ago

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