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Asteroid Won't Hit Earth in 20 Years

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Weather.com - 1/11/13, AP

The big scary-sounding asteroid is no longer even a remote threat to smash into Earth in about 20 years, NASA says. Astronomers got a much better look at the asteroid when it whizzed by Earth on Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013, from a relative safe 9 million miles away. They recalculated the space rock's trajectory and determined it wasn't on a path to hit Earth on April 13, 2036 as once feared possible. AP Photo/NASA

WASHINGTON -- Upon further review, a big scary-sounding asteroid is no longer even a remote threat to smash into Earth in about 20 years, NASA says.

Astronomers got a much better look at the asteroid when it whizzed by Earth on Wednesday from a relative safe 9 million miles away. They recalculated the space rock's trajectory and determined it wasn't on a path to hit Earth on April 13, 2036 as once feared possible.
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Scientists discover the largest-known spiral galaxy

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Source: The Extinction Protocol - 1/11/13

The previously unsuspected tidal dwarf galaxy candidate (circled) appears only in the ultraviolet, indicating the presence of many hot young stars. Photo: NASA

January 11, 2013 – SPACE - Scientists have discovered that a barred spiral galaxy located 212 million light-years from the Earth is the largest-known spiral, measuring five times the size of our Milky Way galaxy. Using archival data from NASA’s Galaxy Evolution Explorer (GALEX) mission, scientists found that measuring tip-to-tip across its two outsized spiral arms, NGC 6872 spans more than 522,000 light-years, making it more than five times the size of our Milky Way galaxy. “Without GALEX’s ability to detect the ultraviolet light of the youngest, hottest stars, we would never have recognised the full extent of this intriguing system,” lead scientist Rafael Eufrasio, a research assistant at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt said in a statement.

 

Re: Drop in crime rates: It’s the air, stupid! And who knew?

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Exopermaculture Posted on January 11, 2013

Crime rates have been dropping precipitously, in city after city. WHY? Theories abound, of course; and Kevin Drum, the author of this study, investigated most of them. I preferred a theory that he didn’t investigate, namely, that the human race is growing more spiritual. Oops! Maybe not. Or maybe that’s not “why” it’s happening. But, as the Dalai Lama would put it, everything happens all together; it’s called “dependent arising.”

In other words, our 3D reliance on linear chains of cause-and-effect may be just that, linear, limited. I’ve been pondering this idea for a long time. See this.

 

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