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Attention:Asteroids Zipping by Earth at Less Than Moon’s Distance

Posted on September 8, 2010 by Rashid Faridi

Two asteroids are passing close by Earth today. The second space rock will be less than 48,000 miles away — about one-fifth the distance to the moon.There is no danger of impact, says NASA, even though at closest approach asteroid … Continue reading →

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First Time Ever, Scientists Watch an Atom’s Electrons Moving in Real Time

Posted on August 5, 2010 by Rashid Faridi

In a path breaking discovery ,an international team of scientists led by groups from the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) in Garching, Germany, and from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of … Continue reading →

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Russian Forest Fires Rage on;Causing Heat Wave

Posted on August 1, 2010 by Rashid Faridi

Fierce  fire is burning in Russian forests. Around 238,000 firefighters and 226 aircraft were tackling the fires in 14 regions. Temperatures are forecast to top 100 degrees in the next few days. read here

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Asteroid Might Collide With the Earth in 2182

Posted on July 28, 2010 by Rashid Faridi

The potentially hazardous asteroid ‘(101955) 1999 RQ36’ has a one-in-a-thousand chance of impacting the Earth, and more than half of this probability indicates that this could happen in the year 2182, based on a global study in which Spanish researchers … Continue reading →

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