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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:10:52 -0600 (CST)
Subject: The "Hole" Story
A recently discovered female pelvis is changing minds about the head size of an ancient human ancestor, Homo erectus, and consequently revising notions about how smart they may have been. Found in Gona, Ethiopia, not far from the site that yielded the 3.2 million year old remains of the famed Australopithecus afarensi "Lucy," the pelvis indicates that Homo erectus, which lived in Africa roughly 2 million years ago, had a larger birth canal than originally ...
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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:13:34 -0600 (CST)
Subject: Planetary "First Family" Discovered by Astronomers using Gemini and Keck Observatories
Planetary "First Family" Discovered by Astronomers using Gemini and Keck Observatories
Astronomers using the Gemini North telescope and W.M. Keck Observatory on Hawaii's Mauna Kea, the tallest mountain in the Hawaiian chain, have obtained the first-ever direct images identifying a multi-planet system around a normal star.
The Gemini images allowed the international team to make the initial discovery of two of the planets in the confirmed planetary system with data obtained on Oct. 17, 2007. Then, on Oct. 25, 2007, and in the summer of 2008, the team, led by ...
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