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Sky & Telescope's Weekly Bulletin - September 5, 2008
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News
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Phoenix Surpasses 90-day Milestone
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September 5, 2008 | NASA's newest Martian lander has now been
scratching, digging, sniffing, baking and tasting samples of the Red
Planet's polar terrain for more than three months. How long can it
survive in the fast-approaching Martian winter — and how much
more can it learn?
Read More at: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/community/skyblog/newsblog/27910644.html

Perseids Hitting the Moon
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September 3, 2008 | Amateurs have helped lead the way in recording
the flashes of meteoroids hitting the Moon's night side.
Read More at: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/community/skyblog/newsblog/27807494.html

http://www.fqxi.org/data/articles/Searching_for_the_Golden_Spike.pdf
"Loop quantum gravity also makes the heretical prediction that the
speed of light depends on its frequency. That prediction violates
special relativity, Einstein's rule that light in a vacuum travels at
a constant speed for all observers..."

http://edge.org/3rd_culture/smolin03/smolin03_index.html
Lee Smolin: "Now, here is the really interesting part: Some of the
effects predicted by the theory appear to be in conflict with one of
the principles...

Backwards comet 'Dracula' discovered, perplexing scientists
"In May, a team of international scientists, including two Canadians,
spotted a comet in the Kuiper Belt region orbiting backwards around the
sun on a 104-degree tilt."
http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/science/story.html?id=934e3165-5976-4659...