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01/07/2009
American DJ's Galaxian Move Is Moving Head Version of Popular Solar System-Type Laser Effect (Harmony Central)
A new solar galaxy, moving at the speed of light, will soon be coming to nightspots everywhere! American DJ has introduced the , a moving head version of its popular Galaxian celestial red and green laser beam effect.
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01/07/2009
Are you solar ready? Solar Red’s disruptive solar PV technology can halve cost of residential solar (Environmental News Network)
A typical residential solar system will put you back around $20,000+ after credits and incentives and requires extensive design work and several trained technicians toiling on your roof - drilling, wiring, bolting, and performing other complex tasks to build the proper infrastructure. What if your roof were built for solar panels, and installing them were as simple as snapping panels into place? ...
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01/07/2009
Danger ahead as the Sun goes quiet (New Scientist)
The Sun is about to go into a period of low sunspot activity, which could let more harmful cosmic rays enter the solar system
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01/07/2009
Rocky Planet Births Are Common, Dead Stars Suggest (National Geographic)
Asteroid debris around the remains of dead stars once like our sun show chemical signatures similar to the makeup of our solar system's terrestrial worlds, according to a new study.
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01/06/2009
Dead stars harbor asteroids (MSNBC)
New observations of chewed-up asteroids around old dead stars called white dwarfs bolster the idea that the Earth and other rocky planets in our solar system are far from alone in the universe.
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01/08/2009
The Milky Way: Bigger, Faster, Better Understood (Time Magazine)
A clutch of recent studies reveal more about our home galaxy than scientists previously knew
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01/05/2009
Hold on: galaxies may be on collision course (Times Online)
The Solar System is orbiting the centre of the Milky Way at a giddy 600,000 mph – 100,000 mph faster than was thought.
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01/08/2009
First asteroids found with Earthlike crust (UPI)
COLLEGE PARK, Md., Jan. 8 (UPI) -- Two meteorites found in Antarctica are from an asteroid with an outer layer or crust similar to the Earth's continents, U.S. scientists said Thursday.
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01/06/2009
Earth moves much faster than we thought: Astronomers (Canada.com)
Our planet — along with the whole solar system — is rushing through space 160,000 kilometres per hour faster than we thought, says a new analysis of Earth's place in the universe.
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01/08/2009
UPI NewsTrack Health and Science News (UPI)
FDA adds 41 drugs to diet pills alert ... First asteroids found with Earthlike crust ... Loud noise permeates cosmos, NASA says ... Study: Spirituality adds happiness to kids ... Health/Science news from UPI.
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  • Asteroid Discovery Circumstances - For each minor planet: Where and when found, and by whom.
  • Exploring The Planets-Discovery - The five known in antiquity, three more since the telescope, and Ceres.
  • Is Mars Habitable? - A. R. Wallace's 1907 critique of Lowell's Book
  • Neptune and Pluto - Mathematical discovery of planets
  • Orbits and Gravitation - The development of the mathematics of planetary motion.
  • The Planet Mars: A History of Observation and Discovery - On-line version of the book by William Sheehan.
  • The Struggles to Find the Ninth Planet - A paper by Clyde Tombaugh relating his discovery of Pluto.
  • When Did the asteroids Become Minor Planets? - Discusses the discovery of the first asteroids, their designation as planets, and their reclassification.
  • God sprinkles tiny but wonderful seeds of blessings on earth each day...and I just caught one that's so nice and true...it's YOU ! TAKE CARE ALWAYS !Everything is useful as long as we know how to make use of it.
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