SSS 2010-04-29

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. Thisll just take a minute. Any school kid can tell you that comets are made of ice. That frozen water burning off is what gives comets their characteristic tails. But asteroids were g

SSS 2009-01-06

This is Scientific American's 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute. If we want to learn more about our planet and other planets in the universe, we can get some help from stars that are long dead and gone. Thats what U.

NASA's WISE satellite spots "horseshoe" asteroid

LOS ANGELES, April 8 (Xinhua) -- NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) has discovered a rare asteroid that traces out a horseshoe shape relative to Earth, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) said on Friday. Unlike most near-Earth asteroid

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By Lisa McAdams Kiev, Ukraine 20 April 2006 VOA Correspondent Lisa McAdams at the prohibiton zone near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant A recent United Nations report about the world's worst nuclear

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By Mil Arcega Washington, D.C. 26 June 2006 watch Zocor report The 20-year patent on the cholesterol-lowering drug, Zocor, expired this past Friday, opening the door to competition from cheaper, generic versions of the popular drug. But some lawmake

VOA标准英语2013--NASA: Humans Could Visit Asteroid in 2021

NASA: Humans Could Visit Asteroid in 2021 These chunks of ancient space rocks hold clues about the formation of the universe, pose threats to our planet, and present new territory for explorers. NASA's proposed asteroid mission is a logical next leap

美国国家公共电台 NPR Asteroid Impact That Wiped Out The Dinosaurs Also Caused Abrupt Global Warming

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: A giant asteroid slammed into Earth about 65 million years ago. That impact killed off the dinosaurs. And now scientists say it had another major effect on the planet, one that's a cautionary tale. Here's NPR's Nell Greenfieldboyce

美国国家公共电台 NPR Victims Of Sexual Harassment Speak Up, But Legal Fears Can Inhibit Them

DAVID GREENE, HOST: The experience of reporting sexual harassment has changed radically over the past few weeks. First, film producer Harvey Weinstein was accused by numerous women of misconduct and abuse. A series of other public allegations then to

美国国家公共电台 NPR NASA Launches Mission To Retrieve Ancient Asteroid Dust

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美国国家公共电台 NPR NASA's Other Asteroid Mission: Grab A Chunk And Put It In Orbit Around The Moon

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Small asteroid to pass Earth: NASA

LOS ANGELES, June 24 (Xinhua) -- Near-Earth asteroid 2011 MD will whip past Earth on June 27, but will not pose any threat, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) said on Friday. The asteroid will pass only 12,000 kilometers (7,500 miles) above the E

2006年VOA标准英语-Asteroid Approaches Earth: Destruction or Delig

By Paul Sisco Washington, DC 07 July 2006 watch Asteroid report A major asteroid passed by the Earth this week, and another is heading this way. An asteroid visible in the night sky Asteroids are similar to comets and meteors. But they are larger, m

2006年VOA标准英语-Large Asteroid Has 'Close' Brush with Earth

By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 03 July 2006 A large asteroid, known as 2004 XP14, raced past the Earth early Monday. Scientists say it posed no threat to the planet, but serves as a reminder of the hazards encountered in space. -------- The rocky sp

Huge asteroid will pass closer to Earth than the moon

BEIJING, Nov. 7 (Xinhuanet) -- A huge asteroid will pass closer to Earth than the moon on Tuesday, but experts say there is no cause for alarm. Asteroid 2005 YU 55 will pass about 300-thousand kilometers from the earth. The giant space rock is about

Who Was King Tut 图坦卡蒙法老 Chapter 2 An Unusual Father

Of all the pharaohs who ruled Egypt, Tuts father had to be among the strangest. First of all, there was the way he looked. Amenhoteps head was oddly shaped. It was very long and narrow. And his hips were very large for a man. Was a rare disease the c

Asteroid buzzes Earth harmlessly

BEIJING, June 28 (Xinhuanet) -- A truck-sized asteroid passed over the Atlantic Ocean within 7,500 miles of the Earth on Monday, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The space rock, called asteroid 2011 MD, is the second space rock to zip e

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Science and technology 科学技术 Dealing with asteroid strikes 应对小行星撞击 A close shave 近地掠过 After a hit and a near miss minds are focusing on the risks from space rocks 在一次撞击和一次近距离擦肩而过后，人们开

英闻天下——259 NASA Says Asteroid Will Get Closer to Earth

NASA has announced that an Asteroid will pass closer to Earth than the TV satellites that surround the planet. NASA says that the celestial visitor has no chance of impacting the Earth and is known as 2012 DA14. A group of amatuer astronomers discove

英闻天下——283 An Asteroid Misses Earth, Causes No Public Panic

Meanwhile, a 45-meter wide asteroid has hurtled safely past earth after it came within 27-thousand kilometers, making it the closest known flyby for a rock of its size. The asteroid, named 2012 DA14 came closer to earth than many communication and we

新GRE填空三空练习题

1. In Democracies and its Critics, Robert Dahl defends both democratic value and pluralist democracies, or polyarchies. Dahl argues convincingly that the idea of democracy rests on political equalitythe equality capacity of all citizens to determine