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Fireball over Germany | Bad Astronomy

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[UPDATE: Turns out the fireball described below was the re-entry of the Soyuz booster that brought Expedition 30 up to the International Space Station a few days ago. Thanks to Marco Langbroek for alerting me to this!] [Update 2 (19:08 GMT): More footage, and a picture in a Dutch paper. Tip o’ the Whipple Shield Broadcasting platform : YouTube Source : DiscoverMagazine Discovery Date : 24/12/2011 18:08 Number of articles : 2

Fireball over Germany | Bad Astronomy

Reconciling Arctic Expectations with Modern Realities

Image courtesy of Bob Davies/Cape Farewell. This guest post was written by Bob Davies, principal at Montgomery Sisam Architects in Canada, as part of the Cape Farewell project . I left Canada a few days ago to come to this remarkably remote place at 78 degrees north to join Cape Farewell’s global Climate/Culture Expedition . A group of 20 scientists, writers, visual artists and musicians; a delightfully odd collection of souls from around the world, will be boarding a 135 foot sailing schooner, the … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Vanished Persian army said found in desert

50,000 soldiers believed buried by a cataclysmic sandstorm in 525 B.C The remains of a mighty Persian army said to have drowned in the sands of the western Egyptian desert 2,500 years ago might have been finally located, solving one of archaeology's biggest outstanding mysteries, according to Italian researchers. [more@link] http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/cambyses-army-remains-sahara.html Bronze weapons, a silver bracelet, an earring and hundreds of human bones found in the vast desolate wilderness of the Sahara desert have raised hopes of finally finding the lost army of Persian King Cambyses II. The 50,000 warriors were said to be buried by a cataclysmic sandstorm in 525 B.C

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