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...Number of miles separating the earth from a 120-yd.-long asteroid--the closest brush since...
...fundamentally meaningless question, concludes Lourie. "He created himself through his choices," he writes, and "like everyone else, was formed by a fate he did not get to choose." Sakharov, Lourie says, is "as elusive in death as he was in life," something that is reflected in the stars. An asteroid in the belt between Mars and Jupiter is named for him. It streaks through space, only .1% off perfect orbit...
Scientists are pretty sure by now that an asteroid or comet ended the 135 million-year reign of the dinosaurs. A huge chunk of space debris slammed into the earth 65 million years ago, blasting a pall of dust into the air. With the sun blocked, temperatures plunged and light-starved plants at the bottom of the food chain died. Bad news for the dinos, good news for the rodent-like beasts that suddenly had breathing room to begin evolving into...
...Scientists are pretty sure that an asteroid or comet ended the 135-million-year reign of the dinosaurs. A huge chunk of space debris slammed into the earth 65 million years ago, blasting a pall of dust into the air. With the sun blocked, temperatures plunged and light-starved plants at the bottom of the food chain died. Bad news for the dinos, good news for the rodent-like beasts that suddenly had breathing room to begin evolving into...
This isn't the first time Oprah has teased us. Sure, last week Oprah Winfrey announced that she's going to stop hosting her talk show in 2006, but she says this every so often, like the astronomers do about an asteroid heading toward the earth. But people actually read the articles about Oprah...