Word: earths
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...writing to point out that Sandia National Laboratories has nothing to do with Russ Humphreys' kooky ideas about a young Earth and sprinting continents (News, Nov. 9). He has never published these speculations in a science journal, nor has he presented them at Sandia for peer review...
Stargazers are celebrating and satellites are battening the hatches as the earth makes its annual passage Wednesday and Thursday through the trail of the Tempel-Tuttle comet. Each year on or around November 18, different parts of the world are treated to the Leonids - a show of "shooting stars" (actually meteoroids from the comet's tail). Normally 10 to 20 light up the night sky each hour, but this year the show should be considerably better. Astronomical records dating to the beginning of the millennium show that every 33 years or so the Leonids spike a little as the comet...
...earth's atmosphere today is significantly different than it was in 1966 - it's filled with man-made devices that could be damaged by going bump in the night with a rock flying at 250 miles per hour. Accordingly, a planned space shuttle mission will be delayed until the 19th. But people on the ground would do well to turn their gazes to the storm - due to irregularities in the earth's rotation, another one isn't expected until the 22nd century...
Carey is a musical earth angel. Claimed by two worlds--pure pop and urban soul--she chose, a few albums ago, to integrate hip-hop into her sound. Her mostly entertaining new CD features cameos from a host of rappers, including Snoop Dogg and the gruff-voiced Mystikal. Some of Carey's lyrics are revealing: "I gravitated towards a patriarch," the now divorced diva sings in Petals. Some of her music, however, is less pointed and could use more grit. Carey longs for the hard black soul of the street, but she hovers a bit above it, heat shimmering...
Fortunately for other dinos that walked the earth in about 110 million years B.C., this giant was a vegetarian and probably snacked on pine needles and ferns. It was similar in size and overall shape to the beast most people still think of--despite a highly unpopular renaming a few years ago--as Brontosaurus. The University of Oklahoma paleontologists who found the new species have named it, aptly, Sauroposeidon, after the Greek sea god. Poseidon was also in charge of earthquakes, and it's clear that every step this gargantuan creature took must have been literally seismic...