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...Moon come to be? Prevailing wisdom has it that 4.5 billion years ago, a collision between the Earth and an object larger than Mars tossed immense quantities of vapor and debris into orbit around our planet. Eventually, the gas and rock formed a disk of dust which cooled and clumped together to form the moon. That theory received a major boost Thursday thanks to a study published in the journal Nature. Using computer simulations, University of Colorado scientists showed how a single moon can grow in this fashion. The researchers conducted 27 simulations which tracked up to 2,700 objects...
McKinnon said that the Rhodes had been "the central object" of his week but that he was able to make little progress until the night before Friday's 10 a.m. deadline...
Taneka Jones, a psychology senior, reported that she was assaulted by an MSU police officer after she was pulled over on Nov. 23, 1996. Jones' sister, Alicia, said at a Monday press conference that during the incident Taneka Jones was struck on the head and back with a blunt object and her head was banged against the police car. The conference was held at Owen Graduate Hall...
Lastly, the characterization of these students as "averse to modern people" is unfounded. What these students object to is not modernity, but the relatively brand-new policies which force all first and second-year students to live in co-ed dormitories with virtually no guidelines for modest speech or conduct...
...bizarre reversal of roles, NASA downplayed the near miss ? and pointed out Mir had about 1,000 yards of headroom. "It wasn't anything major. This happens every month," said NASA spokesman John Lawrence. But the incident provided a reminder of the hazards of space traffic ? where an object the size of a grain of sand can hit with the impact of a .38-caliber bullet...