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Posted on 04/02/2006 2:13:59 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Did a planetary wobble kill the dinosaurs?
by Nicola Jones
New Scientist
June 27 2001
Bruce Runnegar from the University of California at Los Angeles' Center for Astrobiology... and his colleagues used computer models to map out the Solar System for the past 250 million years. In particular, they looked at the perihelion of each planet - the point in its orbit where it is closest to the Sun. The perihelion of Earth rotates around the Sun with a period of hundreds of thousands of years. Because of subtle tugs and pulls between the planets, this period changes slightly with time... Their model suggests one of these blips significantly changed Mercury's orbit 65 million years ago. This wobble would have pulled at the asteroid belt, increasing the chances that asteroids in the Hungarias region would be knocked out of place. Now the researchers are running a fresh set of models to see how much the orbits of these asteroids changed. It wouldn't have been enough to send a shower of asteroids into the Earth, but Runnegar says the wobble could have sent a single asteroid onto collision course with our planet... Now he is planning to run his models forward in time, to see when the next potentially catastrophic planetary wobble will be.
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KEYWORDS: bookmark; catastrophism; charleshapgood; dallasabbott; emiliospedicato; godsgravesglyphs; impact; pirireis; randflemath; roseflemath; spedicato; tethysocean
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To: Quix
Can anyone tell me how to copy that list in a way that copies the underlying links so I can paste them into Word or Excel and alphabetize and recopy then with the links and paste back into a post??? Something like this?
- 31 Moons, Now Close Enough to Touch
- A remarkable Cassini picture: Hyperion (moon of Saturn)
- And Now For News That No One Cares About: ONE MORE RING!
- Arthur Clarke's Video Greeting for Cassini's Iapetus Flyby
- Astronomers Find 'Hot Spot' on Saturn
- Astronomy Picture of the Day 01-17-04
- Astronomy Picture of the Day 03-01-04
- Astronomy Picture of the Day 03-12-04
- Astronomy Picture of the Day 04-30-04
- Astronomy Picture of the Day 05-31-04
- Astronomy Picture of the Day 06-14-04
- Astronomy Picture of the Day 07-02-04
- Astronomy Picture of the Day 07-12-04
- Astronomy Picture of the Day 07-21-04
- Astronomy Picture of the Day 07-23-04
- Astronomy Picture of the Day 1-10-03
- Astronomy Picture of the Day 11-04-02
- Astronomy Picture of the Day 12-10-03
- Astronomy Picture of the Day 3-09-03
- Astronomy Picture of the Day 3-21-03
- Astronomy Picture of the Day 4-05-03
- Astronomy Picture of the Day 4-18-02
- Astronomy Picture of the Day 4-29-02
- Astronomy Picture of the Day 5-09-02
- Astronomy Picture of the Day 5-10-02
- Astronomy Picture of the Day 5-11-02
- Astronomy Picture of the Day 5-19-02
- Astronomy Picture of the Day 8-17-03
- Astronomy Picture of the Day 9-05-02
- Astronomy Picture of the Day 9-07-02
- Astronomy Picture of the Day 9-18-03
- Astronomy Picture of the Day, 6-8-03
- Bizarre Hexagon Spotted on Saturn
- Bizarre boulders litter Saturn moon's icy surface (Enceladus)
- Cassini (en route to Saturn) Provides Best-ever Picture of Jupiter
- Cassini Begins Final Approach Phase
(4 months out): New Image Released - Cassini CHAT now Online and available... IRC (freenode.net)
- Cassini Finds 'Missing Link' Moonlet Evidence in Saturn's Rings
- Cassini Finds Mud in Saturn's Rings
- Cassini Finds an Active, Watery World at Saturn's Moon Enceladus
- Cassini Finds an Atmosphere on Saturn's Moon Enceladus
- Cassini Fly-By of Phoebe successful!
- Cassini Images Reveal Spectacular Evidence Of An Active Moon
- Cassini Mission - The Women of Saturn
- Cassini Returns Never-before-seen Views of the Ringed Planet - Saturn
- Cassini Spacecraft Sees Saturn Lightning
- Cassini Takes Image of Saturn's Rings
- Cassini eyes Saturn lightning, discovers new radiation belt
- Cassini photos thrill, mystify scientists (About Titan!)
- Cassini spacecraft makes flyby of Saturn's largest outer moon (Phoebe)
- Cassini spacecraft spies new moon in Saturn's outer ring
(~4 mile diameter) - Cassini spacecraft successfully fires engine to raise orbit
- Cassini's first surprise: Saturn's magnetic field unlike Earth's
- Cassini-Huygens Flyby of Phoebe
(Outermost Saturn Moon) on June 11 - Changes in Saturn Rings Puzzle Scientists
- Cosmic Close-Up: Sensational Images Of Saturn
Show The Ringed Planet In Incredible Detail - Dazzling New Saturn Images Released
- Death of a Spacecraft: The Unknown Fate of Cassini
- Do not Adjust Your Screen: Image from Cassini's Dione flyby
- ESA Flubs Titan Landing Show
- ESA has posted (finally) 360 degree montage of Huygens' landing area
(200k Pic warning!) - Encore For Enceladus! Saturn Moon Ripe For Astrobiology Exploration
- European Craft on Saturn Moon Finds Tantalizing Signs of Liquid
- European Probe Lands on Saturn's Moon
- European Space Agency's Huygens Probe
Set to Detach From Cassini Orbiter - 'Fossil fuel' theory takes hit with NASA finding
- Freak One-Eyed Monster Storm Spotted on Saturn
- From Ringside, Dazzling Photos Show Saturn's Swirling Wreaths
- GM lets everyone in on its discount
- Geology Picture of the Week, December 7-13, 2003
(with an interplanetary bonus) - Geology Picture of the Week, December 7-13, 2003
(with a remarkable interplanetary bonus) - Go Huygens! (Huygens at Saturn's Moon Titan)
- Has Huygens found life on Titan?
- Heavenly Triangle
[Crescent moon, Saturn and star Regulus in tight triangular formation tonight] - Hidden Ocean in Saturn's Moon? New Clues
- "Hot spot" found on one of Saturn's moons
- Hot stuff on Saturn
- How GM can avoid bankruptcy
- Hubble Spots Two Tiny Uranian Moons
- Huge Storm Spotted on Saturn
- Huge seas spotted on Saturn's moon Titan
(bigger than the Great Lakes - very cool pictures) - (Huygens) Spacecraft Landed in Mud on Saturn Moon
- Images suggest Saturn moon geologically active
- "Kissing Lakes" On Titan
- Majestic Saturn ready for its close-up (Wed-Thu)
- Mars Now, Saturn Moon Titan for Next Robot Lander from Earth
- Mysterious glowing aurora over Saturn confounds scientists
- Mystery of Saturn's Two-Faced Moon Solved
- NASA Runs Rings Around Saturn
- NASA Sees into the Eye of a Monster Storm on Saturn (Cassini)
- New close-up of Hyperion, weird Saturn moon (links to others)
- New insights into composition of giant planets
- Odd Spot on Titan Baffles Scientists
- On Saturn, a Spacecraft Is Finding New Worlds
- Only 365 days to go before Cassini reaches Saturn!
- Out of the blue, Saturn reveals its true colours (stunning photo)
- Phoebe Probably Distant Traveller (Saturn Moon)
- Photos of Saturn's largest moon show badly pitted surface
- Photos: Saturn Moon "Mother Lode": Icy Jets Located
- Planet Parade: See 3 Bright Worlds Tonight
- Planetary line-up excites the sun (Sunspot source found?)
- Plumes spewing from Saturn moon may contain water
(More evidence of a younger Solar System) - Possible Ice Volcano Found on Saturn Moon (Titan)
- Probe Enters Atmosphere of Saturn's Moon
- Probe Enters Atmosphere of Saturn's Moon
- Probe reveals seas on Saturn moon
(Titan--hydrocarbon seas, not water). - Recent Changes in Saturn Rings Puzzle Scientists
(Bush Administration to Blame) - Reworked images reveal hot Venus
- Richard C. Hoagland has another finding about Iapetus
(Saturn's Moon)! Aliens might have made it! - Ringworld Waiting
- Saharan Sand Dunes Found on Saturn's Moon Titan
- Saturn Craft Approaches Ringed Planet After 7 Years in Space
- Saturn Joins Full Moon in Tonight's Sky
- Saturn Moon Rhea May Have rings (Neat!)
- Saturn Ring Shrinkage Result of Global Mating
- Saturn from Hubble and Cassini - mind-boggling
- Saturn rings have own atmosphere
- Saturn to light up new year
- Saturn's Auroras Defy Scientists' Expectations
- Saturn's Moon Iapetus Is the Yin-and-Yang of the Solar System
- Saturn's Moon Iapetus Shows a Bulging Waistline
- Saturn's Moon Phoebe 'A Frozen Time Capsule': NASA
- Saturn's largest moon has dramatic weather, geological activity (Titan)
- Saturn's moon is the double of Star Wars space station
- Saturn's moon reveals bulging equator
- Saturn's natural radio emissions raise questions about rotation
- Saturn's sixtieth moon discovered
- Saturn's vanishing rings, and other surprises
- Scientists Able to Define Life on Saturn Moon But Not In the Womb
- Scientists Find That Saturn's Rotation Period Is A Puzzle
- Scientists Find Water on Saturn Moon
- Scientists awed by images of Saturn moon (Phoebe)
- Scientists baffled by changes Cassini shows in Saturn's rings
- Scientists spot new ring around Saturn
- Seldom-seen Celestial Show Tonight_May 13, 2002
- Solar System News: New Photographs of Saturn, Mars
- Space probe shows Saturn wearing 'string of pearls'
- Spongy-Looking Hyperion Tumbles Into View
- Stunning Image from Saturn:
A splendid portrait created by light and gravity. - (Stunning Saturn Pic) NASA finds Saturn's moons may be creating new rings
- Suicide probe takes Saturn mission to climax (Cassini-Huygens)
- Surprise! Saturn has small moon hidden in ring
- The Eerie, Bizarre Sounds of the Saturnian System
- The Electrical Heating of Saturn
- The Greatest Show Off Earth
- The Whole Enceladus
- The sound of rings
- Three Planets in Twilight [Observe Tonight]
- Three Planets in Twilight [Tonight]
- Timeline of Huygens Descent to Titan (in EST)
- Titan Has More Oil Than Earth
- Titan a 'Flammable' Moon Covered in Liquid Gas
- Titan image from Cassini two days from flyby
(Oct. 23); flyby T-17 hours - Titan may have oily oceans
- Titan's Surface Revealed
- Twelve new moons for Saturn
- USSR-USA lunar race. The history of Soviet N1 Lunar Rocket. [History]
- Ultraviolet Images From Cassini Reveal Detail of Saturn's Rings
- Views of Saturn's rings from international spacecraft have scientists puzzled
- Water signs on Saturn moon raises possibility of extra-terrestrial life
- Water turned into ice in nanoseconds
- What Is Melting the Ice on Enceladus?
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snowsislander
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To: snowsislander
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09/15/2009 1:29:41 PM PDT
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Quix
(POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
To: Quix
HOW DID YOU DO IT. I used the Firefox browser and the Emacs editor.
In Firefox, I selected the list of links, and did a right-click, which popped a menu with an option "View Selection Source". I chose that option, and that showed the list of links as html. I saved that html as a separate file via the "Save" option.
I then edited the file with Emacs; it has a function called "sort-columns" which let me easily do the sorting on the link text.
There were some anomalies due to leading special characters such as quote marks and parentheses, but they were few and easy enough to move to the correct area.
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09/15/2009 2:18:16 PM PDT
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snowsislander
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To: snowsislander
WONDERFUL. THANKS THANKS.
I’d forgotten source code option in firefox. Thanks.
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09/15/2009 3:32:08 PM PDT
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Quix
(POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
To: Quix
- Find the message you want to do this to.
- Click "reply".
- Use your browser to view source, or...
- Use your browser to save as HTML.
- Do your editing on the HTML file, that will work. Word even makes that somewhat easy.
- In Windows, right-click on the saved file's icon, and
- select "Open with", and
- select Word
Have fun, and enjoy the links.
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
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09/15/2009 5:50:45 PM PDT
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Quix
(POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
To: Quix
Uh, not to complain, but, uh, I’m not sure I needed that one anyway. ;’) Thanks Quix!
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09/15/2009 6:20:04 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: Quix
Though, if I *were* to alphabetize it, I’d get all anal, and isolate the leading “A “ and “The “ in the topic names, so that they would be ignored by the sort. ;’)
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09/15/2009 6:21:18 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: Quix
Also where Bill Haley got his inspiration for “Rock Around the Clock”.
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09/15/2009 6:27:19 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
I realized too late they didn’t include the links.
I’d have been overly anal as well and taken out the leading “A’s” and “The’s”
Alas, I haven’t gotten to my class administrivia yet for tomorrow . . . silly me.
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09/15/2009 6:41:03 PM PDT
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Quix
(POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
To: SunkenCiv
Goodness, are you as old as I am??
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09/15/2009 6:42:02 PM PDT
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Quix
(POL Ldrs quotes fm1900 2 presnt: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2130557/posts?page=81#81)
To: IronKros; demlosers; jeddavis; KayEyeDoubleDee; Nikas777; Ping-Pong; Vicomte13
Hi — I’ve just gone through all the ping lists (just finished that process) to clean out the ex-FReepers. In that connection, I’ve removed you from the Catastrophism ping list.
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To: gleeaikin
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SunkenCiv
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SunkenCiv
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New ping message prototype, loosely based on the APoD ping message:
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