Category: Around the Web
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Boy Hit By Meteorite
German boy sees light, feels burn as pea sized meteorite bounces off his hand, gets knocked down, stands up and sees foot wide crater next to him… he couldn’t hear so well for awhile but lives to tell about it…. Update: It may be a hoax… the Bad Astronomy blog argues both ways and some…
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Top Dollar Paid for Dinosaur Skulls
Article from BBC News via Geology.com: “…A giant 65-million-year-old Triceratops skull sold at Bonhams’ Natural History auction for $242,000 (£148,000). A skull from a cousin of the T. rex, the Alioramus remotus, went for $206,000 (£126,000). Both sold for almost double the original estimates…” Photo: peter_e_lee.
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The Role of Collapsing Mountains in Italy’s Recent Earthquake
NPR Podcast: “The quake that struck L’Aquila in central Italy early Monday morning is a symptom of an unusual phenomenon: collapsing mountains…” Photo of Gran Sasso and Campo Imperatore:Ekki01 via Wikipedia.
