Solar SystemNews and information about the solar system.Comets soar into Solar Walk orbit - Gainesville Sun- September 14, 2008 Scientists speculate that asteroids crashing to earth caused catastrophic changes species extinction, climate change, massive dust clouds. Special to The Sun One of two Halleys Comet sculptures on the Solar Walk by artist Elizabeth Indianos ...http://www.gainesville.com/article/20080913/NEWS/809140277/1105/NEWS&title=Comets_soar... Mass. researchers win 'America's Nobel Prize' - Boston Globe- September 13, 2008 Two Massachusetts researchers who discovered a natural dimmer switch in cells that can turn down the effects of genes are the winners of an Albert Lasker Medical Research Award, an honor sometimes called America's Nobel Prize. Victor R. Ambros Victor ...http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2008/09/mass_researcher.html?p1=Well_MostPo... Get your electricity from outer space - Times of India- September 13, 2008 The key to our energy future may be in space. A new long-range energy transmission experiment opens the possibility of sending solar energy from space to earth. A former NASA scientist has used radio waves to transmit solar power a distance of 148 km ...http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/HealthSci/Get_your_electricity_from_outer_space/article... Marylanders exhaust solar, geothermal grants - Baltimore Sun- September 13, 2008 Electricity prices were going up, environmentalism was in, and solar power companies were proliferating. But last year Maryland residents still didn't take the state up on all the financial incentives it offered for installing "green" power systems ...http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bay_environment/bal-te.md.solar26jul26,0,3415136.st... |