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Snakes in a courthouse!

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Lubbock Avalanche-Journal - 4/25/13

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JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Non-venomous snakes are slithering into a Mississippi courthouse this spring, posing no threat but giving workers the creeps.

 

 

Five of the brown DeKay's snakes — sometimes called earth snakes — have been found in the Hinds County circuit clerk's basement office since April 8.

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Giant, Disease-Carrying Snails Invade Florida

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Weather.com - 4/24/13, Jess Baker

Destructive, disease-carrying devils are invading Florida at an alarming pace.

The Florida Dept. of Agriculture shows off the invasive African land snails in Miami-Dade County. (Image: Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

 

Giant African Snails, which can grow to be eight inches long, can can eat through plaster and stucco (yes, that means your home). They chow down on 500 different types of plants. Even worse - as National Geographic reports - the snails "eat rat feces and contract rat lungworm, which can cause a rare form of meningitis" in humans.

Meteorite Slams into Connecticut House

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Weather.com - Sean Breslin, 4/24/13

Via an NBC Connecticut screenshot, the meteorite that hit a Connecticut man's home on April 19 is seen.

 

Celestial events can be awe-inspiring, as long as they remain at a distance and don't come crashing through your home.

The Lyrid meteor shower was little more than a close call for Larry Beck, whose Wolcott, Conn. house was struck by what appeared to be a baseball-sized rock in the middle of the night, late Friday, April 19. It was originally thought to be a piece of concrete from a runway that was stuck in a plane and then dropped from the sky, according to reports included in a Universe Today story.

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Last Chance for Lyrid Meteors This Year: Where to See Them

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Accuweather.com - 4/24/13,By Samantha-Rae Tuthill

AccuWeather.com meteorologists continue to monitor sky cover for the viewing possibilities of the Lyrids, the first major meteor shower since early January.

The shower continues to be visible through April 26 after peaking during the predawn hours of Monday, April 22. While the Lyrids average 10 to 20 meteors an hour, AccuWeather's Mark Paquette said there is potential for significantly more.

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'Pink' Full Moon Brings Lunar Eclipse Thursday

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Weather.com - Joe Rao, Space.com, 4/23/12

Amateur astrophotographer Rhys Harris of Bodmin, Cornwall, England sent in a photo of the March 2013 full moon. He writes: "I managed to snatch this image last night [March 27, 2013] in light polluted skies!" (Rhys Harris)

 

This month's full moon, which falls on Thursday (April 25), always reminds me of one of the first times I viewed the April full moon.

When I was very young boy living in New York, there was a popular television weathercaster by the name of Carol Reed. While not a meteorologist, she had an upbeat personality and always finished her reports with what became her personal catch phrase: "And have a happy!"

Hubble's Cool New Photos of 'Comet of the Century'

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Weather.com - 4/23/12

This contrast-enhanced, computer-processed image was produced from photos of Comet ISON taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope on April 10, 2013, when the comet was 386 million miles from the sun.

 

NASA's iconic Hubble Space Telescope has snapped stunning new photos of Comet ISON, which could become one of the brightest comets ever seen when it zips through the inner solar system this fall.

Hubble captured the new photos on April 10, when Comet ISON was slightly closer than Jupiter. At the time the icy wanderer was about 386 million miles from the sun and 394 million miles from Earth.

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