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• First glimpse

  
  What Does The Prayer Really Say? — Authority: 666
  You know how in some feature films when there is a disaster or an asteroid is about to wipe out the earth, they flash various shots of different religious communities praying in the face of impending doom? In Apollo 13 we see Paul VI.  In Armageddon we see John Paul II.  I don’t think John Paul I got a gig. ...
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• Wherein Fr. Z rants about our Catholic identity and dangerous times

  
  What Does The Prayer Really Say? — Authority: 666
  In another entry , about the priest/penitent privilege and a state’s violation of the same we read: I don’t believe it is likely that secret eavesdropping on conversations between priests and penitents is a growing trend in this country, but the revelation of truth and the limits that the law allows between ...
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• What it Would Look Like if Earth had Rings Like Saturn

  
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• Hayabusa Asteroid Probe’s Rescue Plan

  
  BionicBong — Authority: 129
  Japanese engineers have devised a plan to combine parts from two partially-failed ion engines to resume the Hayabusa asteroid probe’s journey back to Earth. An ion engine in ground testing. JAXA In a press release Thursday, officials said they will use the neutralizer of Thruster A and the ion source of ...
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• Western fireball may have been small asteroid

  
  Newsvine - MinnieApolis's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 426
  "Witnesses in Colorado, Utah, Idaho and elsewhere say the fireball "turned night into day" and "shook the ground" when it exploded just after midnight Mountain Standard Time. Researchers who are analyzing infrasound recordings of the blast say the fireball was not a Leonid.
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• One-Half Megaton Explosion In Western USA Skies

  
  Capt. Spaulding's World — Authority: 145
  T his occurred Wednesday night over Utah and Idaho- a rogue asteroid exploded in the sky according to NASAs Spaceweather" site.. As you can see by these screen captures of a surveillance video in Utah- the night sky turns briefly to day as the asteroid exploded. No trace of the exploded space ...
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• Photo Gallery: The Asteroids Galaxy Tour @ Mercury Lounge on November 12, 2009

  
  NickyDigital — Authority: 144
  [IMG: http://nickydigital.com/smile/Asteroids_20091112/20091112_9322_medium.jpg]
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• Dawn Takes up Residence in Asteroid Belt

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 669
  The Dawn spacecraft – which is on a course to study the asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres – has taken up permanent residence in the asteroid belt as of November 13th. Dawn is officially the first human-made object to become a part of the asteroid belt, which is sandwiched between the orbits of ...
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• Clear With A 100% Chance Of Meteor Showers

  
  Popular Fidelity — Authority: 548
  In the predawn hours tomorrow, November 17th, keep your eye on the sky.  The annual arrival of the Leonid meteor shower is scheduled to peak in North America sometime between 3:30 and 5:30 Eastern time.  While the display is a yearly event, this year’s shower is expected to be especially impressive thanks to the ...
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• Coming One Day Near You - A Mega-Tsunami

  
  http://newilluminati.blog-city.com — Authority: 423
  Coming One Day Near You - A Mega-Tsunami One day, a giant wave travelling at 125 mph across open water could crash into Sydney harbour, wipe out the beaches of California or plough across the golf courses of northeast Scotland.   Mega-tsunamis have happened with greater ...
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• The End of The World in Motion

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 551
  I just watched the movie 2012. It is a great movie with all the special effects and great actors. However, is it true that the end of the world or apocalypse is coming? How will the world end? Here are some videos that suggest how the earth will end someday. The world will end because of a gigantic asteroid. ...
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• My rides here

  
  The Desolation Angel - An Idiot's Ravings at the Ragged Edge of the American Century — Authority: 419
  Saturday November 14, 2009 . . . . Novembers half-gone, and its only a couple of weeks until Thanksgiving and the holidays. . . . .So, yes, the movie 2012 opened last night at your local multiplex, which will no doubt, bring an absolute orgy of 2012 prophecy specials to every cable channel; ...
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• Dawn Enters Asteroid Belt – For Good

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 615
  NASA’s Dawn spacecraft re-entered our solar system’s asteroid belt yesterday, Nov. 13, and this time it will stay there.Dawn first entered the belt (whose lower boundary may be defined as the greatest distance Mars gets from the sun (249,230,000 kilometers, or 154,864,000 miles) in June 2008. It remained within ...
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• Missed us by that much…

  
  Eideard — Authority: 491
  Near-Earth Object Program always scary.
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• Photo: Crescent Earth

  
  Newsvine - JCAtom's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 129
  This dazzling picture of our planet, all dark but the cerulean sliver of the South Pole, was a long time coming.More Articles
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• Michio Kaku on ‘2012’ film: ‘Don’t quit your day job’

  
  The US Report — Authority: 126
  Popular physicist Dr. Michio Kaku appeared on Fox and Friends Friday morning to comment on fears spurred by the latest disaster film, ‘2012.’ Kaku told Fox he’d give the movie an ‘A’ for special effects and and ‘F’ on science. “This is the mother of all ‘shake and bake’ movies,” he said. ...
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• Indonesia Asteroid Explosion Causes Concern (VIDEO)

  
  Blippitt.com — Authority: 566
  On October 8, 2009, a large asteroid smashed into Earths atmosphere above South Sulawesi, Indonesia. The resulting explosion could be heard by monitoring stations some 10,000 miles away, according to a report by scientists at the University of Western Ontario. Many scientists and experts are concerned that this ...
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• When Rupert met Karl Lagerfeld

  
  POSHGLAM.com — Authority: 441
  by Katie Wright & Kaz Longe When not one but two fashion giants collaborated on a range of shoes last year, the results were spectacular – remember those shoe boots with tiny axes hanging off the heel? So it’s no wonder that Karl Lagerfeld and Rupert Sanderson have decided to continue their partnership made ...
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• Hard-Luck Hayabusa In More Trouble

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 615
  A problem-plagued Japanese mission to an asteroid just may have received its final blow. The Haybusa mission to asteroid Itokawa in 2005 is currently trying to return to Earth, but now has suffered a breakdown in the third out of four ion thrusters. The cause was a voltage spike due to problems with a neutralization ...
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• Unknown Asteroid Buzzed Earth

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 615
  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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