Archive for 2008
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MESSENGER's Mercury Flyby
January 18, 2008
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A pioneering NASA spacecraft becomes the first to visit Mercury in almost 33 years.
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Finding Planets While They're Hot
January 17, 2008
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Astronomers may have observed the aftermath of a collision between two distant planets. A strange object orbiting a star 170 light-years away doesn't match any theory for planetary formation, and may have been formed by two protoplanets crashing together.
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2007 Was Tied as Earth's Second-Warmest Year
January 16, 2008
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Climatologists at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York City have found that 2007 tied with 1998 for Earth’s second warmest year in a century.