Chubby, brunette Eunice Kinnison sat in a rocker, reading the Sunday papers and listening to the radio. Her husband Ralph lay sprawled upon the davenport, smoking a cigarette and reading the current issue of EXTRAORDINARY STORIES against an unheard background of music. Mentally, he was far from Tellus, flitting in his super-dreadnaught through parsec after parsec of vacuous space. E.E. "Doc" Smith, Triplanetary, Chapter 5: "1941"
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Splat!
Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day shows Almahata Sitta 15, a piece of an asteroid that was detected in space before entering Earth's atmosphere and falling to the ground. Some fifteen pieces of this have been found, so far.
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