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Evolution, Mass Extinctions, and Mass Speciations
Mass Speciations. See the New Scienstist story, which unfortunately claims that it is due to an impact. You don't pay more, we just get a commission -- Click here for more advertisers ...
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Review of the movie Dinosaur, by two palaeontologists from the Canadian Museum of Nature
The hyper-realistic sequence of fiery spectacle and tsunami waves following the asteroid impact(s) that triggered the end-Cretaceous extinctions 65 million years ago was alone worth the price of admission. If you're ...
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SEPP Key Issues
Mars and its moons. A first step might be a landing on one of the moons to establish a base and laboratory. Another undeveloped program is the protection of Earth and its inhabitants from the effects of asteroid impact--not a negligible risk. For related commentary, see Space.
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Berkeley Lab: Educational Sites
To learn about additional education programs around the Lab, visit the websites below. Educational Web Sites ABC's of Nuclear Science Asteroid Impact Center for Science and Engineering Education Energized Learning Exploring the Table of Isotopes Glenn Seaborg: His Life & Contributions Hands-On Universe Human Genome Project: To Know ...
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Earth Intern Program Concludes with Final Poster Presentations - The Earth Institute at Columbia University
Involved News When she began her internship at the Earth Institute’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) in Palisades, New York this summer, Mackenzie Yang (Columbia College ‘11) was excited to study the evidence of an ancient asteroid impact that occurred off the coast of New Zealand. On August 5th, 2008, Mackenzie and twenty-three fellow interns presented their ...
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Exploratorium in Second Life
Eclipse webcast viewing party in Second Life. WHAT'S NEW Destination Mars - A Meteor Impact Simulation on the Surface of Mars. Experience a scale model of a Martian asteroid impact. The model crater is 50 m in diamter and the model runs in slow motion at 1/10th the speed of an actual event. ...
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Talisman Energy Fossil Gallery -- Canadian Museum of Nature
Get up-close-and-personal with the carnivorous Daspletosaurus torosus, the frilled Chasmosaurus irvinensis, and the feathered Sinornithosaurus millenii. Experience the great asteroid impact in our Extinction Theatre, and then emerge to the dawn of a different era in which new creatures took over the world. Check out the giant sea turtle, Archelon ...
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Science Museum | Antenna Science News | Mighty asteroid morphed Mars
It left the largest crater ever seen! Antenna checks out the impact... This research was published in the journal Nature on 26 June 2008. Artist's impression of the asteroid impact. Image: Jeff Andrews-Hanna Mars's smooth northern lowlands are shown in blue. The southern highlands are heavily cratered. ...
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Water in the Solar System
First, gravitational collapse takes place forming small asteroid like bodies some as large as 1/500 of the mass of the earth. The planetesimals begin to ... when a meteor hits anything, some of it sticks and some is scattered back into space by the impact. The lower the density of the material, the more likely it is to escape. In the early ...
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The Living Cosmos
In Defense of Nature, and the founder and president of The Living Cosmos Society The Vital Vastness The Need For A New Model of the Earth -- The Living and Dynamic Earth Dinosaurs Extinctions -- No Asteroid or Comet Impact Here Planetary Ejections: Cratering, Tektites, and Animal and Other Unusual Falls Evolution, Mass Extinctions and Mass Speciations The Unity of ...
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