Word: tres
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...restoring democracy. The January 2001 EDSA Dos that led to the fall of Joseph Estrada was a poor photocopy; it forced out a dysfunctional presidency and followed the constitutional line of succession by ushering in Arroyo, who was Estrada's Vice President. The riot of May 2001, dubbed EDSA Tres and instigated by Estrada's fanatical supporters, completely debased the notion of People Power...
Spitzer provided researchers with direct observations about the temperature and color of two planets—TrES-1 and HD 209458b—and also dispelled a long-accepted explanation for the size of one of the planets...
Harvard’s team observed light from TrES-1, while GSFC’s team observed light from HD 209458b, but Charbonneau said the similarity of the results makes them even more convincing...
...isolate TrES-1’s infrared emissions, Charbonneau said his team used Spitzer to obtain data when the planet was in transit, meaning it was passing in front of its star, and during the secondary eclipse, when the planet was behind the star. The light from the star was then subtracted from the light from both the star and the planet. The data, collected for six hours on Halloween, allowed Charbonneau and his colleagues to determine that there was a signal from TrES...
DIED. GUILLERMO CABRERA INFANTE, 75, inventive Cuban-born novelist known for his offbeat humor and vivid evocations of pre-Castro Cuba; of a blood infection; in London. An exile since the early 1960s, he was best known for his 1967 novel Tres Tristes Tigres (later published in English as Three Trapped Tigers), a loving, pyrotechnic paean to the energetic night life of old Havana...