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    POPS    Fantastic new image of Earth from space
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    by LOPix  11-12-2009   
     Who would have expected that some of the most interesting pictures from space are of the Earth.
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    POPS    Plane almost hit by meteor
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    by LOPix  8-13-2007   
     When they first offered insurance against having a satellite fall on your house in the late 1950s I thought it was a gimmick — which it is. But I’ve been hearing more and more about meteor hits. I’d say this was a ‘slow news day’ gimmick, too — but just tell that to the dinosaurs ...
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    POPS    Saturn moon looks like a walnut
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    by LOPix  7-24-2007   
     As a ‘space-junkie’, I’m always fascinated by interesting stuff we continue to discover from space exploration and space-augmented astronomy and astrophysics. I hope we don’t waste this capability to feed Bush’s ego-driven demand to put people on Mars without providing the money to pay for it. ============== Current theories about the causes of Iapetus’ weird shape: <http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20070723/sc_space/walnutshapedmoonsmysterysolved;_ylt=AtCR3fko1DPF6kasRK2GwTtxieAA> "You would expect a very fast-spinning moon to have this bulge but not a slow-spinning moon, because the bulge would have been much flatter," said Dennis Matson, another Cassini project scientist at JPL. However, Mason said, "we've modeled how Iapetus formed its big, spin-generated bulge and why its rotation slowed down to its present, nearly 80-day period."
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