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• Giant Asteroid Impact Could Have Stirred Entire Ocean

  
  Wired Science — Authority: 770
  The collision of a large extraterrestrial object with Earth almost 2 billion years ago may have stirred the seas worldwide and delivered a huge serving of oxygen to the deep ocean. The Sudbury impact, named after the Canadian city located near the center of what remains of the ancient crater, happened around 1.85 ...
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• Surprise! Unknown Asteroid Buzzed Earth

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 666
  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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• Camera Network Tracks Anomalous Meteorite

  
  International Space Fellowship — Authority: 597
  An unusual meteorite with an interesting orbit has been tracked to the ground using a photographic observatory that records time-lapse images of fireballs traveling across the sky.The network of cameras is in the Nullabor Desert in Western Australia. It allows scientists to track a fireball path, formed by a meteorite ...
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• Camera Network Spies Anomalous Meteorite

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 666
  A network of time-lapse cameras set up in the Nullarbor Plain desert of Western Australia has allowed researchers to track a fallen meteorite to the ground, and enabled them to determine its original orbit and parent body. The meteorite has a composition different than that of other meteors , leading researchers to ...
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• Unsettled Youth: Spitzer Observes A Chaotic Planetary System

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 519
  NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope captured this infrared image of a giant halo of very fine dust around the young star HR 8799.Before our planets found their way to the stable orbits they circle in today, they wiggled and jostled about like unsettled children. Now, NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has found a young ...
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• The Asteroids Galaxy Tour: From the Stage to the Streets

  
  WhatsWear.com — Authority: 440
  When looking for a fashion-forward musician many tend to turn to Lady GaGa, who is comparable to Madonna with her influence on the fashion world. Yet, we must not overlook budding songstress and fashionista Mette Lindberg. She is a singer and front woman of The Asteroids Galaxy Tour , whose album Fruit got them on ...
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• Are We Alone for 11/09/09 - Skeptic Check: Doomsday at the Movies

  
  ASTRO LINK — Authority: 122
  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 ...
  2 days ago

• Are We Alone for 11/09/09 - Skeptic Check: Doomsday at the Movies

  
  Cloudymidnights — Authority: 420
  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 ...
  2 days ago

• End of Days

  
  Discovery News - Technology — Authority: 736
  Are you ready for the End of the World? Master of the Apocalyptic Blockbuster Roland Emmerich unveils his latest doomsday disaster on Friday November 13: 2012, starring John Cusack as sci-fi writer Jackson Curtis, a divorced father who occasionally moonlights ...
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• The Music Tee Announces New Albums

  
  Lost In A Supermarket — Authority: 140
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• 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 ...
  1 week ago

• Easter Island compounds, space internet and more, October,2009

  
  To the Future with Love — Authority: 110
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Asteroid Explosion over Indonesia

  
  Universe Today — Authority: 666
  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: 134
  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: 158
  £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: 483
  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: 141
  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: 131
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• 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) ...
  2 weeks ago

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