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The Grand Teton Daylight Meteor of 1972

drhoz wrote in wtf_nature Dec 03, 2011 10:07

Since various near misses by asteroids have been in the news lately, an overdue post about a near miss that was as near as you can get, without it becoming a 'nearly missed'.

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This is Linda Baker's footage taken from the Grand Teton National Park, of a small, merely car-to-house sized asteroid that skimmed through the Earth's atmosphere over the ( Read more... )

space, meteor, planet earth

Pretty Places!

888mph wrote in wtf_nature Nov 24, 2011 17:44

25 of the most breathtaking and colorful places of the world.Granted, not all of them are the work of Mother Nature. A couple of them are man-made and quite a few are an amazing mix of art and nature. Then again, we're part of nature, too ( Read more... )

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Bigass volcanic eruption creates new island in the pacific ocean

blasphemusfish wrote in wtf_nature Mar 22, 2009 17:42

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volcano, explosions, planet earth

The Carrington Event

drhoz wrote in wtf_nature Nov 02, 2008 13:39

A little before noon on September 1st, 1859, England's foremost solar astronomer Richard Carrington was at work in his observatory, drawing the sunspots his telescope projected onto the screen ( Read more... )

space, explosions, planet earth

Yeah, Canada!

ebenizer wrote in wtf_nature Sep 25, 2008 16:10

Rocks May Be Oldest on Earth, Scientists Say
A swath of bedrock in northern Quebec may be the oldest known piece of the Earth’s crust.

In an article appearing in Friday’s issue of the journal Science, scientists report that portions of that bedrock are 4.28 billion years old, formed when the Earth was less than 300 million years old.

“These rocks ( Read more... )

geology, planet earth

The coolest place in the universe.

ben_jams wrote in wtf_nature Aug 23, 2008 12:10

The Large Hadron Collider or LHC will begin smashing protons at near light-speed September 10, to either answer a bunch of important physics questions or to end the existence of our universe. Either way, its kinda cool.

1.9 degrees above absolute zero, colder than space!

science gone wrong, space, planet earth

I am not a geologist, nor do I pretend to be one.

snobahr wrote in wtf_nature Apr 17, 2008 07:06

So, I know very little on the veracity of the research going into The Earth's Hum Earth's Hum Sounds More Mysterious Than Ever

Charles Q. Choi
Special to LiveScience
LiveScience.com Wed Apr 16, 9:11 AM ET
Earth gives off a relentless hum of countless notes completely imperceptible to the human ear, like a giant, exceptionally quiet symphony, but ( Read more... )

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