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Heads Up, There Is An 1,100 Foot Wide Asteroid Heading Our Way And It’s Going To Get Very, Very Close – BroBible
Mark your calendars. April 13, 2029. That’s the day a…
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Mark your calendars. April 13, 2029. That’s the day a monstrous 1,100 foot wide asteroid is going to go zooming by Earth at a rather alarmingly close distance from the planet.
In fact, …
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Asteroids named in honour of Indigenous Australians for significant contribution to Aboriginal astronomy – ABC Message Stick
Asteroids are named in honour of Indigenous elders, academics and the Torres Strait island community.
When Meriam elder Uncle Segar Passi looks to the night sky, there’s now a special place among the heavens he can call his own.
Key points:
- Five asteroids have been named after two Indigenous elders, two Indigenous academics and a Torres Strait island community
- The asteroids were originally discovered in 1979 at the Siding Springs Observatory in NSW
- Torres Strait Islander culture is linked to the stars, which inform laws, customs, and practices
A 1.9-kilometre…
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“Canary in the coal mine”: Greenland ice has shrunk beyond return, study finds – Sight Magazine
Greenland’s ice sheet may have shrunk past the point of return, with the ice likely to melt away no matter how quickly the world reduces climate-warming emissions, new research suggests.
15 August 2020
CASSANDRA GARRISON
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Greenland’s ice sheet may have shrunk past the point of return, with the ice likely to melt away no matter how quickly the world reduces climate-warming emissions, new research suggests.
Scientists studied data on 234 glaciers across the Arctic territory spanning 34 years through 2018 and found that annual snowfall was no longer enough to replenish glaciers of the snow and ice being lost to summertime melting.
A fishing vessel sails in the ice fjo…
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Humans off the hook? Climate change killed woolly rhinos, says study – The Jakarta Post – Jakarta Post
A woolly brown rhinoceros that weighed two tons once roamed northeastern Siberia before mysteriously disappearing around 14,000 years ago.
A woolly brown rhinoceros that weighed two tons once roamed northeastern Siberia before mysteriously disappearing around 14,000 years ago.
Was its demise caused by humans, or the warming climate of the time?
A new study by a Swedish and Russian team of scientists who examined DNA fragments from the remains of 14 of these prehistoric mammals lets our species off the hook.
They say the population of the animal — also known by its scientific name Coelodonta antiquitatis — remained stable for m…
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