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Samik shared an item

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:04:18 America/Los_Angeles

Want a planet? You might want to avoid lithium
A science joke: A woman is out walking and sees a kid on his hands and knees looking at the sidewalk. She asks the boy what he’s doing, and he says, "Looking for a quarter I lost." She asks him where he lost it, and he points across the...
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Bibi bookmarked a link

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:04:49 America/Los_Angeles

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | 'Significant' water found on Moon
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My MLM Dream posted a tweet

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:57:54 America/Los_Angeles

Our Changing Universe: The program's topic will cover Edwin Hubble to present day astronomy practices. Full.. http://bit.ly/3bYrTd
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baylward8 posted a tweet

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:57:33 America/Los_Angeles

Updated my blog with Astronomy: Some Facts http://tinyurl.com/yl2prdj
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yonroyd posted a blog entry

Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:41:16 America/Los_Angeles

What Would The Current Year Be If The Gregorian Calendar Used The Sidereal Year?
I learned this in astronomy. A tropical year is Earth’s full orbital period around the sun. A sidereal year is the...
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Curtis Chappell posted a blog entry

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:54:31 America/Los_Angeles

There Is Water On The Moon! View Photo Here…
This image provided Friday, Nov. 13, 2009 by NASA shows...there's plenty of water on the moon...scientists said Friday. (AP...
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Yoo posted a blog entry

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:50:37 America/Los_Angeles

LCROSS saw water
LCROSS crashed into the Moon last month, although the lack of a visible plume in the real-time video feed made the impact less...
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rockhunter posted a blog entry

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:35:53 America/Los_Angeles

Water on the Moon!
NASA has announced that they have found gallons of water on the moon. The LCROSS satellite, sent to the moon in October,...
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wildscreentv posted a tweet

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:11:21 America/Los_Angeles

sciencestage.com Reader Photo Gallery: Awesome DIY Astronomy http://bit.ly/3k35nP
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wildscreentv bookmarked a link

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:11:19 America/Los_Angeles

Reader Photo Gallery: Awesome DIY Astronomy | sciencestage.com
sciencestage.com Reader Photo Gallery: Awesome DIY Astronomy http://bit.ly/3k35nP
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Myles bookmarked a link

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:58:48 America/Los_Angeles

NASA's LCROSS Impacts Confirm Water in Lunar Crater
"We are ecstatic," said Anthony Colaprete, LCROSS project scientist and principal investigator at NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif. "Multiple lines of evidence show water was present in both the high angle vapor...
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gabo bookmarked a link

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:54:01 America/Los_Angeles

NASA - 2012: Beginning of the End or Why the World Won't End?
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klham posted a blog entry

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:21:00 America/Los_Angeles

Impact Data Indicates Water on Moon
NASA: 'LCROSS Impact Data Indicates Water on Moon' (image credit: NASA) NASA today opened a new chapter in our understanding...
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scotu bookmarked a link

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:53:33 America/Los_Angeles

Gravit - A gravity simulator
Gravit is a gravity simulator which runs under Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. It's released under the GNU General Public License which makes it free. It uses Newtonian physics using the Barnes-Hut N-body algorithm. Although the main goal of Gravit is...
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nimi posted a blog entry

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:35:00 America/Los_Angeles

Two Earth-sized Bodies With Oxygen Rich Atmospheres Found, But They're Stars Not Planets
Astrophysicists at the University of Warwick and Kiel University have discovered two earth sized bodies with oxygen rich...
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Ana Luiza posted a blog entry

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:23:00 America/Los_Angeles

Nasa finds water on the moon
Close This is Nasas's picture of the day and an official report that they found water on the moon:Water Detected at...
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NileshS posted a blog entry

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:48:21 America/Los_Angeles

NASA sees "significant quantities" of water on the moon
Shortly after NASA's LCROSS probe slammed into a crater in the polar...
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driko bookmarked a link

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:46:19 America/Los_Angeles

NASA's LCROSS Impacts Confirm Water in Lunar Crater
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Sam Harrelson bookmarked a link

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:48:12 America/Los_Angeles

NASA says it has discovered water on the moon - CNN.com
Wow. Just wow. Love that I can share this with students as I found out about it via Twitter during the day. Too bad Twitter is blocked here at school on the web. God bless the API.
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DazzlinDonna posted a blog entry

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:39:50 America/Los_Angeles

Large Ice Field Discovered On Moon
According to rumors, NASA is about to announce that they’ve discovered a large lunar ice field on the Earth’s...
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Laura Lee Dooley bookmarked a link

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:27:57 America/Los_Angeles

The World Will Not End in 2012 | Neil deGrasse Tyson
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klham posted a blog entry

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:46:00 America/Los_Angeles

Rosetta the comet chaser
Physorg: 'Rosetta bound for outer Solar System after final Earth swingby (w/ Video)'. Rosetta is a European Space Agency...
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Dan bookmarked a link

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 07:35:46 America/Los_Angeles

Psychology of Space | Mapless Questing
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Alex Soojung-Kim Pang posted a tweet

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:47:30 America/Los_Angeles

Brian May and I are intersted in lots of the same things: astronomy, 19th c photography, rock: http://tinyurl.com/yarooyl
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klham posted a blog entry

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:42:00 America/Los_Angeles

Freeing Spirit
Gearlog: 'NASA to Attempt to Free Stuck Mars Rover'
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