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Astronomers seize last chance in lifetime for Venus Transit - 0 views

  • Transits occur in truly weird combinations, either in a June or a December. When one happens, another one happens in the same month eight years later.
  • EnlargeDescription of the June 5-6 transit of Venus across
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Dinosaur with tiny arms unearthed in Argentina - 0 views

  • Argentine experts have discovered the near-complete remains of a new species of Jurassic-era dinosaur that stood on its rear legs and had tiny arms, according to a leading paleontologist.
  • The creature looks a bit like a scaled-down Tyrannosaurus rex, but with even smaller arms.
  • this six-meter (20-foot) long creature creature "has completely reduced arms and tiny claws, which implies that it used only its very sharp teeth to feed itself,"
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Researchers film rare striped rabbit in Sumatra (w/ Video) - 0 views

  • With cameras set up in Sumatra looking for medium- and small-sized wild cats, such as leopards, a research group involving the University of Delaware's Kyle McCarthy, found images of something else entirely -- a rabbit. Not just any ordinary rabbit, but a Sumatran striped rabbit, one of the world's rarest species and one that had been captured on film only three times before.
  • while his group plans on continuing their study of small cats, they are now also focusing on the rare rabbit species
  • This is the most data that anybody has compiled on these rabbits ever
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • 10 photographs of the Sumatran striped rabbit on two separate occasions in locations 790 meters apart
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NASA offers guidelines to protect historic sites on the Moon - 0 views

  • NASA and the X Prize Foundation of Playa Vista, Calif., announced Thursday the Google Lunar X Prize is recognizing guidelines established by NASA to protect lunar historic sites and preserve ongoing and future science on the moon. The foundation will take the guidelines into account as it judges mobility plans submitted by 26 teams vying to be the first privately-funded entity to visit the moon.
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APOD: 2012 May 15 - All the Water on Planet Earth - 0 views

  • if all of the water on or near the surface of the Earth were bunched up into a ball. The radius of this ball would be only about 700 kilometers
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