But still, am totally discombobulated.
(Ha, bet you didn't know I knew that word!)
Swarm of pebbles could safely deflect asteroids
but a new calculation shows that this could deflect an
Earthbound rock.
- New Scientist
- 05 May 2012
- Magazine issue 2863
Follow Links:
Heavenly Firework Display may have been result of activity in Europe's most destructive seismic hotspot. – Kaθημερινη, 16 ΟκτωβρίουAthens - Skies lit up over Southern Greece and the islands, giving rise to the rumour that the Aurora Borealis was once again playing in our skies.
Thousands watch spectacular fireworks display (breathtaking!) – The Hastings Observer, 15th October Hastings - Thousands of onlookers packed the the seafront on Saturday night to watch the Hastings Week annual fireworks display.Aurora Australis unleashes southern spectacle – The Mercury, 16 October Hobart - An explosion on the Sun's surface wowed Tasmanians with a spectacular night sky.
Updated January 06, 2012 01:09:56
A mineral brought back to Earth by the first men on the Moon and long thought to be unique to the lunar surface has been found in Australian rocks more than 1 billion years old.
Named after Apollo 11's 1969 landing site at the Sea of Tranquility, tranquillityite was one of three minerals first discovered in rocks from the Moon and the only one not to be found, in subsequent years, on Earth.
Australian scientist Birger Rasmussen said tranquillityite had "long been considered as the Moon's own mineral" until geologists discovered it, by chance, in rock from resources-rich Western Australia.