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Deep Hole Spotted on Moon

Feature may be ‘skylight’ in an underground lava tube. (more at link)... more

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Now, web surfers can explore Mars

Nasa and Microsoft launched an interactive website that allows web surfers to become... more

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AUGUSTO DE LUCA : FOTOGRAFIE - NAPOLI GRANDE SIGNORA -PHOTOGRAPHS

FOTO TRATTA DAL LIBRO " NAPOLI GRANDE SIGNORE " GANGEMI EDITORE ROMA.... more

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Meteor illuminates the Utah sky

preety amazing. wish i would have seen it (video)... more

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Nasa and Microsoft launch 'explore Mars' website

Nasa and Microsoft have launched an interactive website that allows users to explore... more

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Dawn Takes up Residence in Asteroid Belt

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 Mars and Jupiter.Dawn didn't move in without checking the place out first, though; this is the second visit for the craft, which remained there for 40 days in June of 2008. The lower boundary of the asteroid belt is defined as the furthest Mars gets away from the Sun during its orbit – 249,230,000 kilometers, or 154,864,000 miles.

Dawn, which was launched in September 2007, is on an eight-year, 4.9-billion kilometer (3-billion mile) journey to study the asteroid Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres. By studying these members of the asteroid belt, NASA scientists hope to learn more about the formation of our Solar System. Because Vesta and Ceres are some of the largest members of the ring of asteroids between Mars and Jupiter, they are the most intact from when they were formed, and should act as a 'time capsule' to preserve information about what the early Solar System was like.

Dawn got a gravity assist from Mars in February of 2009, which propelled it past the planet and into the asteroid belt.

The spacecraft is expected to visit Vesta in August of 2011. Vesta is believed to be the source of most of the asteroid-origin meteorites that fall to ground here on Earth, and further study of the asteroid should confirm this.

In May of 2012, Dawn will make its way to Ceres, which lies further out in the asteroid belt. It will arrive there in July of 2015, where it will spend the remainder of its mission studying the icy dwarf planet, which may even have a tenuous atmosphere.

If you want to keep tabs on Dawn in its new home, the mission web site has a tool updated hourly, found here, which allows you to see where Dawn is right now. The tool includes simulated views of the Earth, Mars, Sun and Vesta from the vantage point of the spacecraft.

http://www.universetoday.com/2009/11/16/dawn-takes-up-residence-in-asteroid-belt/The Dawn spacecraft – which is on a course to study the asteroid Vesta and dwarf... more

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Let There Be Light

The Kepler Mission will make finding potentially habitable exoplanets easier than... more

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Let There Be Light § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM

Astronomers will soon find scores of Earth-sized exoplanets, but imaging them may be... more

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Strong Leonid meteor shower peaks early Tuesday morning

One of the best annual meteor showers will peak in the pre-dawn hours Tuesday, and for... more

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Telescope Captures Close-Up Of Sun's 'Bubbling' Surface

Last Wednesday, Germany's Max Plank Institute for Solar System Research released... more

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Probe launched to track impact of warming on Earth's water

And yet, the impact of warming on Earth's water is conspicuously left out of important... more

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C-PROJECTS : Bon Dye Jere Hood La : New Video Coming Soon : 2009 : 2010 :2010 : 2012 : Trailer

C-PROJECTS : Bon Dye Jere Hood La : New Video Coming Soon : New Album Coming Soon,... more

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NASA discovers water on the moon!

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Mississippi Storm History: What happened on this date (November 12)

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Heart of the Milky Way Photos From NASA

really amazing composite image of the Milky Way released by NASA. They combined infra... more

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Vatican Looks to Heavens for Signs of Alien Life

"VATICAN CITY - E.T. phone Rome. Four hundred years after it locked up Galileo for challenging the view that the Earth was the center of the universe, the Vatican has called in experts to study the possibility of extraterrestrial alien life and its implication for the Catholic Church.

"The questions of life's origins and of whether life exists elsewhere in the universe are very suitable and deserve serious consideration," said the Rev. Jose Gabriel Funes, an astronomer and director of the Vatican Observatory.

Funes, a Jesuit priest, presented the results Tuesday of a five-day conference that gathered astronomers, physicists, biologists and other experts to discuss the budding field of astrobiology — the study of the origin of life and its existence elsewhere in the cosmos.

Funes said the possibility of alien life raises "many philosophical and theological implications" but added that the gathering was mainly focused on the scientific perspective and how different disciplines can be used to explore the issue."

The Vatican created the "Big Bang Theory" to mimic the story of the Virgin Mary. It is a complete lie, just like Black Holes and Al Gore's cult of Global Warming.

For thousands of years ancient people have been charting the heavens with precision. They always knew the Earth was round from seeing the Earth's shadow on the moon during lunar eclipses, which they knew when were going to happen. They even had accurate dimensions of the Earth from mathematical computations on the angles of the horizon.

The Vatican has one of the biggest observatories in the world. If you think the Church doesn't know science, you are sadly mistaken. They told the people the Earth was flat back then and they're telling us the the Big Bang myth today. What they know and what they tell are two different stories...NASA too.

Those who are excommunicated today, will be vindicated tomorrow. Check out my Electric Universe group or just research the theory and learn from today's excommunicated scientists."VATICAN CITY - E.T. phone Rome. Four hundred years after it locked up Galileo for... more