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...bore the hallmarks of a natural incident; debris from a satellite collision is generally too small to be seen. The satellites involved in last week's cosmic crack-up were relatively small machines. The Russian ship weighed 1,235 lbs.; the American ship was about a ton. Once that mass is broken up into smaller pieces, the atmosphere ought to do a pretty good job of incinerating it. Skylab did shower the Australian outback with wreckage during its reentry in the summer of 1979, but it weighed a whale-like 91 metric tons; Columbia weighed...
...undergraduate was robbed with a "realistic BB gun" while walking along Plympton St. Saturday night, according to the Harvard University Police Department. HUPD and Cambridge police officers apprehended the alleged suspect outside of the Au Bon Pain on Mass. Ave, according to HUPD spokesman Steven G. Catalano, who said the suspect will be handled by the Cambridge Police Department because the crime occurred outside HUPD's jurisdiction. Catalano said that there is no continuing threat to public safety. —Check TheCrimson.com for updates throughout the weekend...
...ever walked through a swarm of gnats at a picnic, you have some idea of what it's like to navigate the mass of debris that circles our planet in low-Earth orbit. Space planners have long warned that the growing belt of cosmic junk would eventually lead to collisions, and on Tuesday it happened, when an American satellite and a defunct Russian satellite totaled each other 500 miles above Siberia. This has sparked new worries that space is simply becoming too dangerous a place to travel. Things aren't nearly that severe yet - but they're getting worse...
Murphy, a councillor since 1999 and a long-term member of the ordinance and finance committees, has already begun his new job as deputy secretary for governmental affairs with the Mass. Executive Office of Transportation...
...cafeteria—essentially the only student space on campus—serves as a venue for almost all events, though Bloom said the school traditionally rents out space “with a real stage” at the Mass. College of Art, a two minute walk from the main campus, for the annual International Night festivities...