2/5     "Asteroid 2012 DA14 to sweep close on February 15, 2013"
        http://www.csua.org/u/z5p (earthsky.org)
        "It'll pass within the moon's distance from Earth - closer than the
        orbits of geosynchronous satellites."  What a close call!
        \_ (2/15) The meteor in Russia beated it.
        \_ (2/15) The meteor in Russia trumps it.
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12/2    'Starry, starry, starry night: Star count may triple'
        http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101202/ap_on_sc/us_sci_starry_night
        'So the number of stars in the universe "is equal to all the cells in
        the humans on Earth, a kind of funny coincidence," Conroy said'
        Another coincidence is that 1 mole = 6.02 * 10^23.  So the number of
        stars = # of molecules in 1 gram of H2 gas.
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11/15   "Scientists propose one-way trips to Mars"
        http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_one_way_to_mars
        \_ CSUA/OCF guy gwh has been a big proponent of the one-way trip to
           Mars for years.  -tom
        \_ I think it is suiciadal.  One glitch and you life is down to the
           tens of minutes of reserve oxygen with any kinds of physical supply
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12/4    "This time system adjusts for shifts in relative time which occur
        due to the vessel's speed and space warp capability. It has little
        relationship to Earth's time as we know it. One hour aboard the USS
        Enterprise at different times may equal as little as three Earth
        hours. The stardates specified in the log entry must be computed
        against the speed of the vessel, the space warp, and its position
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11/22   What no chatter about the Climate Hack?  MOTD, I'm so diappointed
        \_ What is impressive about breaking onto an academic server? I
           broke onto the Astronomy machines when I was a sophmore.
           \_ Way to miss the point. The hack itself was not impressive.
              The information that was exposed, however, make the above
              thread kind of moot.
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