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...Geologist Frank Reeves, then working for the Vacuum Oil Company, was conducting an aerial survey of the Canning Basin when he spotted the crater near Wolfe Creek. "He thought it was volcanic at first," says his daughter Peggy Reeves Sanday, "but was later able to confirm it was of meteoric origin." Sanday, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, grew up with stories about the crater but didn't visit it until 1999, when she learned tribal tales that were an anthropologist's treasure trove. Since then she has been back almost every year, collecting dozens of Aboriginal paintings...
Though no one is sure how the rings formed, some of the material is almost certainly the remains of small pulverized moons that were destroyed either by a cataclysmic meteor hit or when they wandered too close to a gravitational danger zone known as the Roche limit: the altitude above a planet at which the difference in gravity between the end of an object closest to the planet and the end farthest from the planet is great enough to pull the object apart while not pulling the remains out of orbit. Instead, the rubble disperses around the planet. Photographs...
Maureen Dowd will be forced to temporarily cease her diagnosis of the Bush admin’s misdoings—testosterone’s to blame, she has explained in at least 20 columns—and face the music that recent media meteor Condi Rice is, indeed, female...
...There’s literally nothing—short of a meteor, I suppose—that could get in the way of implementing gay marriage in this state on May 17,” Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence H. Tribe ’62 said in the wake of yesterday’s decision...
...This gargantuan show at Vegas? Caesars Palace is a controversial subject chez Corliss. Husband was enthralled, wife repelled. But I?m writing the column, so here goes. With gigantic colonnades at the beginning and shooting stars and meteor showers at the climax, director Franco Dragone encases his stars, nearly smothers her (and that?s all right with me) in production values. You?ll never see anything so stupendous. Or stupefying. (Mary just called in: ?Or stupid...