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  • Ice Chunk Larger Than Manhattan (four times the size) Breaks Off Greenland Glacier

    08/07/2010 6:38:15 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 55 replies
    LiveScience.com ^ | 8/7/10 | Live Science
    A chunk of ice four times the size of Manhattan has calved from Greenland's Petermann Glacier, scientists announced today. The last time the Arctic lost such a large chunk of ice was in 1962. "In the early morning hours of August 5, 2010, an ice island four times the size of Manhattan was born in northern Greenland," said Andreas Muenchow, associate professor of physical ocean science and engineering at the University of Delaware. Satellite imagery of this remote area at 81 degrees north latitude and 61 degrees west longitude, about 620 miles (1,000 kilometers) south of the North Pole, reveals...
  • Ice chunk falls from sky in Japan

    12/21/2005 12:36:39 PM PST · by NormsRevenge · 11 replies · 406+ views
    AP on TriCities.com ^ | 12/21/05 | AP
    TOKYO (AP) - A disc-shaped piece of ice of unknown origin plummeted from the sky onto a golf course near Tokyo Wednesday, narrowly missing players on the fairway but causing no injuries, police said. Authorities were investigating the bizarre incident, said Saitama prefectural (state) police spokesman Masahiko Kuwashima. Four players at the Heisei Club golf course in Saitama, just outside Tokyo, heard a loud thud and found a disc-shaped hunk of ice - about 50 centimeters (20 inches) in diameter and 15 centimeters (6 inches) thick - broken into several pieces, Kuwashima said. He said police investigators have asked the...