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Since 1973, Shoemaker has been photographing the sky in search of asteroids that periodically cross the earth's orbit and thus pose the danger of a collision. To date, he says, 57 such asteroids at least 1 km (.62 mile) in diameter have been cataloged. In addition, about three earth...
Fed up with chocolate chip cookies, frozen yogurt, oversize muffins and all the other sweet and faddish snacks? Then you might consider cinnamon rolls, perhaps the ultimate in sugary binges. Now taking defenseless nibblers by storm in the shopping malls of the Midwest, South and Far West, these huge pinwheels...
The data used to create the image had arrived in California by an unusual route. Looking for ways to view Halley's comet at perihelion, Ames scientists had hit upon the idea of using the Pioneer 12 spacecraft, which has been orbiting Venus since December 1978, surveying the planet with...
Some of the more interesting delicacies on the menu: pigs' feet cassoulet, beaver confit, stuffed goose's neck, eel gratin and frog tart. Other attractions were a 4-ft. 5-in. candied Eiffel Tower, a 10-ft. vegetarian paella dish and a gigantic cooking pot 10 ft. in diameter and...
For the Triassic-Jurassic extinction, however, that evidence may exist. Less than 500 miles northwest of the Nova Scotia fossil find is the enormous Manicouagan impact crater, its outermost ring--clearly visible in satellite photographs--measuring more than 90 miles in diameter. Given the margins of error in dating, the...