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Will the UN Save the World from Asteroids?: Reuters story on CNN: "An asteroid may come uncomfortably close to Earth in 2036 and the United Nations should assume responsibility for a space mission to deflect it, a group of astronauts, engineers and scientists said on Saturday." In this exclusive post, Fractals of Change takes...; Tags: asteroid; Blog posts 2007-02-21

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Flux in ocean levels drove mass extinctions: study: PARIS AFP — Mass extinctions that wiped out up to 90 percent of Earth's flora and fauna were driven in large part by shifting ocean levels, according to a study published in Nature. Understanding what made many of the planet's living organism rapidly die out at least five...; Articles 2008-06-16
Oxygen in the solar system: Oxygen in the solar system. Ed. by Glenn J. MacPherson et al. Mineralogical Soc. of America 2008 598 pages $40.00 Paperback Reviews in mineralogy and geochemistry; v.68 QD181 Jointly published by the...; Articles 2008-06-01
Natural hazards and disasters, 2d ed: Natural hazards and disasters, 2d ed. Hyndman, Donald and David Hyndman. Brooks/Cole Publishing 2009 555 pages $116.95 Paperback QB5014 Donald and David Hyndman (both: geology, U. of Montana and Michigan State U., respectively) have...; Articles 2008-06-01
Am.F. High School students discover 4 'killer' asteroids: AMERICAN FORK -- These American Fork High School students don't think they've done anything earth-shattering. But their astronomy teacher reminds them that discovering four asteroids is an incredible accomplishment. And it takes a lot of work. "They are needles in a haystack," says teacher...; Articles 2008-05-26

11 Planets: 11 Planets David A. Aguilar National Geographic Society 1145 17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036-4688 Media Masters Publicity publicity karen@mmpublicity.com 9781426302367, $16.95 www.ngs.org Recently, modern astronomers came to a new consensus on how to view the...; Articles 2008-05-01
First Downloadable Content Free with Mass Effect PC: EDMONTON, Alberta -- Leading video game developer BioWare[TM], a division of Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ:ERTS), has announced that "Bring Down the Sky," the first piece of downloadable content for the award-winning space epic Mass Effect[TM], will be available for PC gamers to download free1 of charge when Mass Effect for...; Articles 2008-04-18
German whizzkid got it wrong: NASA: WASHINGTON AFP — It was an incredible tale of a German schoolboy spotting a miscalculation by the US space agency, proving the chances of an asteroid hitting the Earth were higher than initially believed. But the amazing story of the whizzkid versus the space bureaucracy turned out to...; Articles 2008-04-15
German schoolboy, 13, corrects NASA's asteroid figures: paper: BERLIN AFP — A 13-year-old German schoolboy corrected NASA's estimates on the chances of an asteroid colliding with Earth, a German newspaper reported Tuesday, after spotting the boffins had miscalculated. Nico Marquardt used telescopic findings from the Institute of Astrophysics in Potsdam AIP to calculate that there was...; Articles 2008-04-15
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AWARDED CONTRACT FOR TELESCOPE DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM: University of Hawaii of Honolulu, Hawaii, is being awarded amodified contract for $8,000,000.This action will provide thePanoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System PanSTARRSproposed a mufti-year program to develop and deploy a telescope datamanagement system.The initial effort was awarded via a Grant to theUniversity of Hawaii a Minority Institute and...; Articles 2008-04-02
USA: UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII AWARDED CONTRACT FOR TELESCOPE DATA MANAGEMENT SYSTEM.: University of Hawaii of Honolulu, Hawaii, is being awarded a modified contract for $8,000,000.This action will provide the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System PanSTARRS proposed a mufti-year program to develop and deploy a telescope data management system.The initial effort was awarded via a Grant...; Articles 2008-04-02
Farming After Doomsday: A newly opened "seed vault" in Norway houses the keys to global agriculture, providing civilization with a vital backup in the event of ultimate catastrophe. From climate change and nuclear winter to global pandemic and asteroid strikes, humankind has little trouble envisioning any number of catastrophes that...; Articles 2008-04-01
First Statin Monotherapy to Achieve Regression of Coronary Atherosclerosis by Angiography in a Major Clinical Study.(Clinical report): ASTEROID Studied the Effect of Intensive CRESTORTM Therapy on Atherosclerosis LONDON, March 31 /PRNewswire/ -- CRESTORTM rosuvastatin is the only statin to show regression of coronary atherosclerosis in a major clinical study. That result, which was based on intravascular...; Articles 2008-03-31
Have Social Security and Medicare Been Forgotten About? FBI Investigates Terror Involving Americans in Iraq: WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: To our viewers, you're in THE SITUATION ROOM. Happening now, they are promising housing help and more jobs. The candidates offering competing plans to try to fix the economy. But what about Social Security? ...; Articles 2008-03-27
IS CHICAGO BURNING?: Hillary Clinton, Superdelegates, and Playing with Fire NEW YORK--Will there be race riots if Barack Obama is denied the Democratic nomination? Despite the continuing fallout over his association with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, the Illinois senator has won the most state primaries, the most votes and...; Articles 2008-03-25
Arthur C Clarke: science fiction turns to fact: NOVEL IDEAS The futurologist, engineer and writer, who died last week aged 91, showed an uncanny ability to predict technological advances Five he got right: 1 Clarke was the first to suggest that satellites which remain at a fixed point...; Articles 2008-03-23
What's the panic?: Panicology By Simon Briscoe & Hugh Aldersey-Williams Viking Pounds 20 (284pp) Pounds 18(free p&p) from 0870 079 8897 Anyone old enough to have watched the 1970s sitcom Dad's Army, about life in the Home Guard, will never forget the shouted advice from elderly Corporal Jones: "Don't Panic,...; Articles 2008-03-14
2008 Isaac Asimov memorial debate: Mining the Sky: The Engineering, Economics, and Ethics of Exploring the Solar System's--Natural Resources THURSDAY, MARCH 13 7:30 p.m. Planets, moons, asteroids, and comets contain natural resources such as water, minerals, and trace elements that may have survival value to visiting astronauts and economic value to...; Articles 2008-03-01
Tunguska asteroid size downgraded by new computer simulations: The explosion that caused such incredible forest devastation at Tunguska a century ago in Siberia may have been caused by an asteroid only a fraction as large as previously published estimates, new supercomputer simulations suggest. "The asteroid that caused the extensive damage was much smaller than we had...; Articles 2008-03-01
Terra; our 100-million-year-old ecosystemand the threats that now put it at risk: Terra; our 100-million-year-old ecosystem--and the threats that now put it at risk. Novacek, Michael. Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2007 451 pages $27.00 Hardcover QE721 Writing for a general audience, paleontologist Novacek (Vice President and...; Articles 2008-03-01

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