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Earth’s Speeded Rotation Puzzles Scientists

Photograph of Earth by NASA.
Photograph of Earth by NASA.

January 2, 2004  Boulder, Colorado - In 1949, the U. S. Bureau of Standards produced the world's first atomic clock which counted the rates of vibration in cesium atoms. Then in 1972, the world adopted an international time keeping system based on atomic clocks. That's when it became necessary to synchronize the resonance of the cesium atom and earth time as measured by the earth's spin. After 1972, the Bureau of Standards had to insert what are called 'leap seconds' into the atomic time keeping system because the earth's rotation slowed a little bit each year.

 

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Beagle 2 Spacecraft Will Land on Mars Christmas Day.

A heat shield will protect the Beagle 2 spacecraft during descent to Mars on December 25, 2003. Image courtesy www.beagle2.com
A heat shield will protect the Beagle 2 spacecraft during descent to Mars on December 25, 2003. Image courtesy www.beagle2.com

December 19, 2003 Washington, D. C. - NASA Science News has released a story worth sharing about next Thursday's projected landing of the Beagle 2 spacecraft on Mars. NASA begins: "It's wintertime in the northern hemisphere of Mars and a flying saucer is about to land.

 

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China to the Moon?

China's first man in space completes 14 orbits in 21 hours on October 16, 2003. Photograph Xinhua/AP.
China's first man in space completes 14 orbits in 21 hours on October 16, 2003. Photograph Xinhua/AP.

December 12, 2003 Alexandria, Virginia - American science might soon be challenged by the President of the United States with a request to get back to the moon. According to Washington insiders, Vice President Dick Cheney has been having a series of confidential meetings for some time to discuss with agencies and congressmen how to reinvigorate the depressed NASA space program. One idea that has caught a lot of attention ­ and speculation ­ is going back to the moon with astronauts - and maybe even building a permanent lunar base.

 

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“Smoking Gun” Evidence That Liquid Water Has Flowed on Mars?

"The distributary fan's discovery provides clear, unequivocal evidence that some valleys on Mars experienced the same type of on-going, or persistent, flow over long periods of time as rivers do on Earth. ... and might be the strongest indicator yet that some craters and other depressions on Mars once held lakes."

­ Mike Malin, Ph.D., Planetary Geologist, Malin Space Science Systems

Hubble Telescope image of Mars and the largest canyon in the solar system, Valles Marineris, that stretches for 2,500 miles (4,000 km). Image courtesy Space Telescope Science Institute.
Hubble Telescope image of Mars and the largest canyon in the solar system, Valles Marineris, that stretches for 2,500 miles (4,000 km). Image courtesy Space Telescope Science Institute.

 

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Updated – 2003 Fujian Flu Could Be Worse Than 1968 Hong Kong Flu.

"OF THE 280 MILLION PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES, WHAT PERCENTAGE WOULD END UP WITH THIS FUJIAN FLU THIS TIME?"

"I think at least 20%. So, we're talking about 50 million people at least in 2003-2004. And about 70,000 excess deaths."

- Paul Glezen, M. D., Virologist, Baylor College of Medicine

Transmission electron photomicrograph of an influenza virus particle, © Science Photo Library, GlaxoKlineSmith.
Transmission electron photomicrograph of an influenza virus particle, © Science Photo Library, GlaxoKlineSmith.

Updated - December 5, 2003 - Two influenza vaccine manufacturers announced today that they have shipped all their vaccines and will not have any more until the spring of 2004. So, if one doctor's office is out of flu shots, try another. Some offices and clinics have more flu vaccines than others.

 

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Fifth Intense Solar X-Flare – What’s Happening On the Sun?

At 20:48 UT on October 29, 2003, the fifth intense solar X-Flare (near sun's center) in a week erupted on the sun, emitting light, x-rays, ultraviolet rays and plasma energies which will impact Earth yet again on October 30. Image courtesy Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO).

October 29, 2003  Grenbelt, Maryland - Today at 20:48 UT (4:58 p.m. ET), the fifth intense solar X-Flare (10) in a week erupted on the sun. The massive Jupiter-sized sunspot known as 486 has been the source of two of the most powerful solar flares ever recorded in the X category that indicates most intense sunspot eruptions. The unprecedented series of five X-flares within a week began last Thursday, October 23, 2003, when there was a powerful X-sized solar flare, followed by two weaker X-flares. Then on Tuesday, October 28th, came the third largest solar flare ever recorded - an X 17.2. The strongest known is an X 20. That was followed on Wednesday, October 29th, with an X 10.

 

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Science Data Reinforces Invisible “Dark” Matter and Energy Make Up 96% of Our Universe

The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe's first detailed map of the oldest light in the universe. Cosmologists call it a "baby picture" of the universe. Colors indicate "warmer" (red) and "cooler" (blue) spots. The oval shape is a projection to display the whole sky; similar to the way the globe of the earth can be projected as an oval. The microwave light captured in this picture is from 379,000 years after the Big Bang, over 13 billion years ago. Source: WMAP NASA.
The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe's first detailed map of the oldest light in the universe. Cosmologists call it a "baby picture" of the universe. Colors indicate "warmer" (red) and "cooler" (blue) spots. The oval shape is a projection to display the whole sky; similar to the way the globe of the earth can be projected as an oval. The microwave light captured in this picture is from 379,000 years after the Big Bang, over 13 billion years ago. Source: WMAP NASA.

October 24, 2003  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - 2003 is turning out to be a pivotal year for cosmologists. In February, NASA's Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy (an-EYE-stro-pea) Probe - known as WMAP - made precise measurements of the oldest light in the universe, the microwave background radiation from the Big Bang. The map produced from the microwave data breaks our universe down this way:

 

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Is Our Universe Finite and Shaped Like A Dodecahedral Sphere?

"An analysis of astronomical data suggests not onlythat the universe is finite, but also that it has a specific, rather rigid topology (dodecahedral sphere). If confirmed, this is a major discovery about the nature of the universe." 

­  George F. R. Ellis, "The Shape of the Universe," Nature,
Vol. 425, October 9, 2003, www.nature.com/nature

 

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Part 2 – Cuban Megaliths and the Atlantis Question

Northeast of Cabo de San Antonio, marked in yellow, and down about one-half mile off the western tip of Cuba are large stones in rectangular and pyramidal shapes. There are also huge unidentified structures that have 90-degree corners and are spread along straight corridors on the white sea floor sand.
Northeast of Cabo de San Antonio, marked in yellow, and down about one-half mile off the western tip of Cuba are large stones in rectangular and pyramidal shapes. There are also huge unidentified structures that have 90-degree corners and are spread along straight corridors on the white sea floor sand.
Original high resolution side scan sonar images of large structures a half mile down on the white sand sea floor off the western tip of Cuba, received by an ADC International, Inc. expedition in 2000 directed by Paulina Zelitsky and Paul Weinzweig, Owners, Advanced Digital Communications International, Inc. of Havana, Cuba. Sonar images © 2000 by ADC International, Inc. and used with permission.
Original high resolution side scan sonar images of large structures a half mile down on the white sand sea floor off the western tip of Cuba, received by an ADC International, Inc. expedition in 2000 directed by Paulina Zelitsky and Paul Weinzweig, Owners, Advanced Digital Communications International, Inc. of Havana, Cuba. Sonar images © 2000 by ADC International, Inc. and used with permission.

October 5, 2003  Havana, Cuba - Three years ago when Paulina Zelitsky and Paul Weinzweig, co-owners of Advanced Digital Communications, saw the first side scan sonar images of the deep water structures off the western tip of Cuba, some underwater objects were dark as metals sometimes show up on magnetometers. I asked Paul if any more data supported the initial cesium magnetometer data which implied there might be metal coatings on some of the megalithic structures.

 

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Part 3 – Paint Creek Island, Ohio Crop Formation Photographs

October 5, 2003 Bainbridge, Ohio - The following photographs were taken by Jeffrey Wilson during his field investigation of the Paint Creek Island, Ross County, Ohio, formation in soybeans on September 28, 2003. The formation is four miles west of the ancient Seip Mound and about thirty miles from the Serpent Mound. This is the third formation at the mounds in 2003.

Paint Creek Island, near Bainbridge in Ross County, Ohio, formation in soybeans about 30 miles from the Serpent Mound pattern - both probably occurred around same date of August 24, 2003. Aerial photograph © 2003 by Dan Music and Jeffrey Wilson.
Paint Creek Island, near Bainbridge in Ross County, Ohio, formation in soybeans about 30 miles from the Serpent Mound pattern - both probably occurred around same date of August 24, 2003. Aerial photograph © 2003 by Dan Music and Jeffrey Wilson.

 

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