Word: arizona
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Wins for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and Arizona Diamondbacks...
Even though no expansion team has ever won more than 70 games, Arizona and Tampa Bay are hoping to make good showings...
...Diamondbacks, with Andy Benes on the mound and Buck Showalter in the dugout, open at home against Colorado. Kile, a free agent signed to be the Rockies' top pitcher, faces an Arizona lineup that includes Matt Williams, Jay Bell and Devon White...
XF11 was discovered last Dec. 6 by astronomer Jim Scotti , a member of the University of Arizona's Spacewatch group, which scans the skies for undiscovered comets and asteroids. Using a 77-year-old telescope equipped with an electronic camera, he had recorded three sets of images, 30 min. apart, of a small sector of the night sky. The digitized images, fed into a computer programmed to look for objects moving against the background of fixed stars, revealed an asteroid that Scotti, in an E-mail to Marsden, described as standing out "like a sore thumb...
Almost as worrisome are the estimated 300,000 asteroids larger than 300 ft. wide that also come perilously near or intersect Earth's orbit; each could inflict Tunguska-like damage over a large region. The number of Earth-crossing asteroids larger than 60 ft. across, says University of Arizona astronomer Tom Gehrels, could be as high as 100 million. A hit by any one of them could destroy a large city...