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Whopper Swan Coming in for a Landing.

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Maps Mania: 14 Billion Miles from Earth

Maps Mania: 14 Billion Miles from Earth : Yesterday Voyager 1 passed a distance of 14 billion miles from Earth. Voyager 1 was launched into space on September 5, 1977. Its missio...

Rage - Bob Woodward

 <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53949849-rage" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img border="0" alt="Rage" src="https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1598180112l/53949849._SX98_.jpg" /></a><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53949849-rage">Rage</a> by <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15441.Bob_Woodward">Bob Woodward</a><br/> My rating: <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3549845711">5 of 5 stars</a><br /><br /> A well-documented book that provides insight into the President that other books do not provide. I attribute this to two facets one does not find in other Trump books: Presidential access and access to primary sources. In most instances, there are direct words from the sources. Many of us have a firm belief the President is not up to the job o

Voyager: Inside the world's greatest space mission

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 https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20170818-voyager-inside-the-worlds-greatest-space-mission

How Neptune’s Triton Destroyed Nearly All Of Its Moons

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  How Neptune’s Triton Destroyed Nearly All Of Its Moons The largest moon around our last planet didn’t originate with Neptune. https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/how-neptunes-triton-destroyed-nearly-all-of-its-moons-b0b4467b052f

Neptune & Triton – August 31, 1989.

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  Image-processor extraordinaire Kevin Gill has reached back in time to give us a new image of Neptune and its moon Triton. When NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft flew past Neptune and Triton in August 1989, its cameras were very busy. Kevin has taken separate color-filtered images from that visit and calibrated and combined them to give us a new, almost haunting look at the planet and its largest moon. #Astronomy  https://www.universetoday.com/147636/neptune-triton-august-31-1989/

The Biggest Crater Known Was From an Asteroid That Made the Dinosaur Killer Look Like a Pebble

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B illions of years ago, Jupiter's planet-sized moon Ganymede  got a helluva whack : Looking over data from probes that have visited the moon,  scientists estimate  it got hit by an object a staggering 300 kilometers wide.  #Astronomy  https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/the-biggest-crater-known-was-from-an-asteroid-that-made-the-dinosaur-killer-look-like-a

Fallen Boulder at the Grand Canyon Reveals Prehistoric Reptile Footprints

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  Fallen Boulder at the Grand Canyon Reveals Prehistoric Reptile Footprints 313 million years ago, two reptilian creatures crept over this boulder’s surface  #Archaeology https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/fallen-boulder-grand-canyon-reveals-ancient-footprints-180975646/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20200825-daily-responsive&spMailingID=43294861&spUserID=MTA4NDA3NTIyMDI4MAS2&spJobID=1822053449&spReportId=MTgyMjA1MzQ0OQS2

The Little-Known Role of Slavery in Viking Society

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  https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/little-known-role-slavery-viking-society-180975597/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20200825-daily-responsive&spMailingID=43294861&spUserID=MTA4NDA3NTIyMDI4MAS2&spJobID=1822053449&spReportId=MTgyMjA1MzQ0OQS2