(Untitled)- January 29, 2008 Asteroid to make close approach (BBC News, 29 January 2008) A asteroid some 250m (600ft) across is about to sweep past the Earth. . . . There is no chance of it hitting the planet, but astronomers will train telescopes and radar on the object to learn as much about it as they can. . . . The asteroid - which carries the rather dull designation 2007 TU24 - will pass by at a distance of 538,000km (http://www.matrixmasters.com/blog/2008_01_01_archiveearth.html#8014239376847257535 (Untitled)- January 8, 2008 The Fate of the Ocean ... not good (Julia Whitty, Mother Jones, MarchApril 2006) Our oceans are under attack, and approaching a point of no return. Can we survive if the seas go silent The 25 years Ive spent at sea filming nature documentaries have provided a brief yet definitive window into these changes. Oceanic problems once encountered on a local scale have gone pandemic, and thesehttp://www.matrixmasters.com/blog/2008_01_01_archiveearth.html#5686073077690815169 |