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Word: minibang (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week a team of astronomers, led by Marc Aaronson of the University of Arizona's Steward Observatory, detonated something of a minibang. Using new data obtained by observing the movements of a family of galaxies in the vicinity of the Virgo cluster, they assigned a new age to the universe. The universe, it now seems, is closer to 10 billion years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Fickle Universe | 1/25/1982 | See Source »

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