Astronomers Aim for Giant Mirror Telescope to View Exoplanets
Richard Terrile of JPL outlines a plan for the Circumstellar Imaging Telescope a in orbit observatory with a nearly five foot diameter mirror free of microscopic ripples. The project seeks 15 times the smoothness of Hubble to suppress light scattering and enable imaging of planets around about 100 nearby stars by the mid 1990s with preliminary cost estimates around 100 million dollars.
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Richard Jerrile
Pasadena
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Terrile
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Jupiter
Earth
Planetary Sciences Division
American Astronomical Society
Sand Canyon Pueblo may have served religious commuters
Cortez Colorado Sand Canyon Pueblo larger than life with up to 150 rooms around a central plaza may have functioned as a religious or ritual center rather than a domestic site. Archaeologist Bruce Bradley notes a high ratio of kivas to rooms and few middens suggesting ceremonial use rather than long habitation. The site dates to the early 1200s and the Anasazi may have left abruptly around 1300.
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Cortez
Colo
Sand Canyon
United States
Mesa Verde
Green Butte
Bruce Bradley
Crow Canyon’ Archeological Center
Bradley
Pompeii
UN Sand Canyon Pueblo
Anasazi
Swedish deep gas drillers run out of money
A Swedish American team drilling one of the world’s deepest holes near a central Swedish fir forest halted work after exhausting funds for its 20 million dollar deep gas project. Project leader Tord Lindbo of Vattenfall said prospects remain, urging a 3.1 million dollar raise to reach 24 600 feet while investors study plans and scientists debate the existence and commercial viability of deep gas.
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Tord Lindbo
Dala Djupgas Provbormning KB
Perry ‘Moore
Oklahoma City
Lindbo
Vattenfall
Sweden
State Power Board
Power Board
Soviet Union
Kola Peninsula
Dwarf Skeleton in Italy Signals Ancient Care for Disabled
A 17 year old with inherited dwarfism found in southern Italy shows prehistoric hunter gatherer society valued a disabled member. The 3 foot youth, buried in a cave with an old woman, hints at social status and tolerance 12 000 years ago and extends dwarfism history by over 5 000 years.
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Italy
Nature
David Frayer
University of Kansas
Frayer
Tyrrhenian Sea
Ionian Sea
Leg of duckbilled dinosaur found near Georgia border
An amateur paleontologist with Columbus College and scientists report the discovery of the lower leg bones of a duckbilled dinosaur along a stream near the Georgia Alabama border. The four and a half foot leg bones indicate a creature at least 30 feet tall, one of the region's largest and most complete duckbilled finds.
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Ox News
Atlanta
United States
George-Alabama
Columbus College
David Schwimmer
Schwimmer
New Jersey
Alabama
Russell County
Mla
Chattahoochee River
Stewart County
Dent Williams
Seale
Ala
Williams
Benes
Narshes
Gulf of Mexico
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