Asteroids

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• Surprise! Unknown Asteroid Buzzed Earth

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 663
  A 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 third-closest known ...
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• Are We Alone for 11/09/09 - Skeptic Check: Doomsday at the Movies

  
  ASTRO LINK — Authority: 123
  Are We Alone - Skeptic Check: Doomsday at the Movies ENCORE PRESENTATION: Hollywood has a few ideas of how the world will end: killer asteroids … lethal pandemics … deadly ice-ages. These themes have all played out on the big screen. But, hey, they’re only movies, right? We’ll separate the science from the ...
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• Are We Alone for 11/09/09 - Skeptic Check: Doomsday at the Movies

  
  Cloudymidnights — Authority: 421
  Are We Alone - Skeptic Check: Doomsday at the Movies ENCORE PRESENTATION: Hollywood has a few ideas of how the world will end: killer asteroids … lethal pandemics … deadly ice-ages. These themes have all played out on the big screen. But, hey, they’re only movies, right? We’ll separate the science from the ...
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• The Music Tee Announces New Albums

  
  Lost In A Supermarket — Authority: 139
  There’s no getting around the fact that music is pretty much free nowadays. And that’s why The Music Tee is two shades of brilliant… offering something tangible in the digital age. We’ve covered these folks before, but in case you’re not familiar, The Music Tee offers complete albums (plus a variety of ...
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• New Asteroids Service

  
  Chirotic Journal — Authority: 98
  Today Saturn crosses my Ascendant and not a moment too soon, I haven’t known whether I’m on foot or horseback for as long as I can remember, and with that transition out of the 12th, well, I feel like a prisoner on release day. I’ve been working very hard on two projects over the last few months: the first is ...
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• Easter Island compounds, space internet and more, October,2009

  
  To the Future with Love — Authority: 112
  NewScientist Just check out this cool robot! Its adorable! Today: NASA Research to Help Aircraft Avoid Ocean Storms, Turbulence Researchers test new space Internet system on International Space Station Augmented Reality: Science Fiction or Reality? (w/ Video) Invisibility cloak could protect against earthquakes ...
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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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• Panties & Lipstick = Cost of a Latte @ Peachfrog

  
  Williamsburg Greenpoint News + Arts — Authority: 133
  Opened not long after the dramatic economic collapse of autumn 2008, discount designer store Peachfrog is coming up on its one-year anniversary party. In that time, with stock priced up to 90% off of retail, the Williamsburg shop, located on N 10th St between Bedford and Berry, has become a magnet for bargain hunters ...
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• Just £14.99 for Atari Keychains (Asteroids/Millipede) - Gadgets

  
  My Bloggerings — Authority: 159
  £14.99 Info / Buy Product Information Video game aficionados of a certain age will remember Ataris iconic controllers with pixellated affection. And thats just as well because boffins have somehow managed to miniaturize them, attach them to keychains and ...
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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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• Uh oh!!

  
  Journey to Perplexity — Authority: 121
  Did we just have a really close call  with an asteroid?  It wouldn’t be the first time .  Anthony Watts says in his post that the space rock was not being tracked by any Earthlings.  That’s not a happy thought!
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• Indonesian Asteroid blast reveals holes in Earths defences

  
  2012. The big wobble — Authority: 140
  Early warning system misses asteroid that caused explosion three times larger than Hiroshima over Indonesia Millions of asteroids are on orbits that come close to Earths, including asteroid Eros, shown here (Image: NASA/JPL/JHUAPL) Asteroid blast reveals holes in Earths defences 22:54 26 October 2009 by David ...
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• New Release Tuesday (on a Wednesday)

  
  Battery In Your Leg — Authority: 130
  I have an unusual relationship with Devendra Banhart . There are times where I absolutely love him and think he’s genius; there are also times where his voice completely grates my nerves and I can’t shut it off fast enough. What causes my manic reaction to his music is anyone’s guess, but either way he’s a ...
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• Erisian Elusiveness, Plutonic Potential

  
  Chirotic Journal — Authority: 98
  Here is an interesting idea. Eris, Goddess of Discord, so named after being more or less directly responsible for the declassification of Pluto as a genuine planet and his reclassification as a ‘dwarf planet’ – if anyone is going to take Pluto down a notch or two it had to be Eris (the sister of Ares no less) ...
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• Asteroid Blast Reveals Holes In Earths Defenses

  
  JustGetThere — Authority: 480
  New Scientist | AN asteroid exploded over Indonesia with the force of three Hiroshima bombs - and no one on Earth knew it was coming. The New Scientist website reports the dramatic explosion over South Sulawesi, Indonesia, on October 8 underscores how blind humanity is to the danger of giant space rocks. NASA ...
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• Asteroids should be next small step for man in space, panel tells President Barack Obama

  
  JustGetThere — Authority: 480
  By Philip Sherwell Telegraph | Even as a rocket designed to help carry astronauts back to the Moon awaits take-off in Florida this week, asteroids have been singled out as the favoured destination for mans return to outer space. An expert panel appointed by President Barack Obama to assess Americas future ...
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• Free NASA iPhone App | Universe Today

  
  CTRL-F5 — Authority: 461
  NASA announced last week they had developed the first iPhone application geared specifically for keeping track of all things NASA. I don’t have an iPhone ,
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• Brits Getting Worried Our Black President Is No Morgan Freeman

  
  Gawker: Valleywag — Authority: 632
  Just another thirty feet across, and it would have been a weapon of mass destruction, that petit meteor that recently exploded in the skies above Indonesia. This is why Barack Obama must build us a force field, against heavenly apocalypse. Scientists had no clue a thirty-foot meteor was hurtling toward the Earth ...
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• Brits Getting Worried Our Black President Is No Morgan Freeman [Asteroids]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 864
  Just another thirty feet across, and it would have been a weapon of mass destruction, that petit meteor that recently exploded in the skies above Indonesia. This is why Barack Obama must build us a force field, against heavenly apocalypse. Scientists had no clue a thirty-foot meteor was hurtling toward the Earth ...
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• What is the triboelectrification rule anyway?

  
  The Write Stuff — Authority: 537
  The triboelectrification rule has been a headache all day here at Kennedy Space Center... so what is it? Heres a great explaination from nasa.gov The skies look clear except for some high clouds, there’s no rain in the immediate forecast,...
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