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		<title>Spectacular Grapefruit Sized Meteorite Lands in Canada</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Nov 2008 04:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Around 5:30 PM Mountain Time (7:30 PM Eastern Time), a brilliant meteor flashed down from the sky, glowing yellow, red, green, white and blue before it struck the ground near central Saskatchewan, hundreds of miles north of the U.S./Canadian border. Everyone is okay, and no little green men stepped out and demanded to be taken [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solar Plane Breaks Endurance Record</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2007 22:41:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An unmanned solar-powered aircraft flew 54 hours at an altitude above 50,000 feet in New Mexico, breaking the previous record, which had been 30 hours and 24 minutes in a flight on July 23. QinetiQ&#8217;s trapezoid-shaped, ultra-thin &#8220;Zephyr&#8221; plane is built from carbon fibers, is 59 feet (about 20 meters) long and weighs about 66 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solar Eclipse to Take Place September 11th</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The second partial solar eclipse of 2007 will take place Tuesday, Sept. 11, after central and western Asia got to see the last one.Â  The umbra of the moon (the dark shadow cone of the moon) will miss the Earth, passing 499 miles (802 kilometers) below the South Pole.Â  But the moon&#8217;s penumbra (the moon&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Astronomical Highlights for Thursday, Sept. 6</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencebehindthings.com/astronomical-highlights-for-thursday-sept-6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Sep 2007 14:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cassiopeia rises higher this month than last in the northeast during evening.Â  It&#8217;s shaped like a flattened (or stretched out) W, with the W&#8217;s right side (the brighter side) tilted up.Â  Look way below and to the left of Cassiopeia to see bright Capella slowly rising above the horizon around 9 or 10 PM depending [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is a Planet? &#8211; Part 2</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencebehindthings.com/what-is-a-planet-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Aug 2007 01:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I last wrote about the new definition of a planet last year on August 18th, 2006, in a post entitled, &#8220;What is a Planet?&#8220;. I&#8217;d like to update my personal definition of a planet: It must be large enough to hold itself together. This is seen if it is spherical and not &#8220;potato&#8221; shaped. A [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Astronomical Highlights for Tuesday, July 31st, 2007</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Europa, one of the four large moons of Jupiter, casts its shadow on Jupiter&#8217;s face tonight from 6:35 p.m. to 9:09 p.m. in California; 9:35 p.m. to 12:09 a.m. EDT and in Chile, South America; 7:35 a.m. to 10:09 a.m. in Moscow; 11:35 a.m. to 2:09 p.m. in China; and 1:35 p.m. to 4:09 p.m. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Astronomical Highlights for Monday, July 30th, 2007</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:13:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jupiter&#8217;s Red Spot transits around 10:44 p.m. EDT. (Reminder, that means the Red Spot will be halfway around the giant gas planet. But because Jupiter is receding a bit farther into the distance, compared with earlier this month, detail on the Red Spot is getting harder to see and image. The planet Jupiter itself has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Astronomical Highlights for Sunday, July 29th, 2007</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencebehindthings.com/astronomical-highlights-for-sunday-july-29th-2007/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jul 2007 03:37:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The moon will be full at 8:48 p.m. EDT. From North America, the eclipsing binary star SZ Herculis dips from magnitude 10.5 to 12 and back.Â  The RA coordinate for SZ Herculis is either 17h 39.6m or 17h 29.6m.]]></description>
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		<title>Astronomical Highlights for Saturday, July 28th, 2007</title>
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		<comments>http://www.sciencebehindthings.com/astronomical-highlights-for-saturday-july-28th-2007/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jul 2007 17:10:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jupiter&#8217;s Great Red Spot transits around 9:06 p.m. EDT.Â  Jupiter&#8217;s Red Spot is a great anti-cyclonic (high pressure) storm similar to a hurricane on Earth, but it is enormous (three Earths would fit within its boundaries) and it has persisted for at least the 400 years that man has observed it through telescopes. Since it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Astronomical Highlights for Friday, July 27th, 2007</title>
		<link>http://www.sciencebehindthings.com/astronomical-highlights-for-friday-july-27th-2007/</link>
		<comments>http://www.sciencebehindthings.com/astronomical-highlights-for-friday-july-27th-2007/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 13:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Io, one of four moons of Jupiter discovered by Galileo, and easily visible with binoculars in our day, reappears out of eclipse from Jupiter&#8217;s shadow around 11:31 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (7:31 AM in Moscow). With a small telescope, you can watch it growing into view just off the planet&#8217;s eastern limb.Â  Io looks like [...]]]></description>
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