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Solar System Fossils Found By Hubble
segment writes "Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered three of the faintest and smallest objects ever detected beyond Neptune. Each lump of ice and rock is roughly the size of Philadelphia and orbits just beyond Neptune and Pluto, where they may have rested since the formation of the solar system 4.5 billion years ago. The objects reside in a ring-shaped region called the Kuiper Belt, which houses a swarm of icy rocks that are leftover building blocks, or "planetesimals," from the solar system's creation. The results of the search were announced by a group led by Gary Bernstein of the University of Pennsylvania at a meeting of NASA's Division of Planetary Sciences in Monterey, Calif."
That is a big Volkswagen.
In Soviet Russia, Nigel makes plans for you!
Despite certain false claims put out by the left-wing media, that is not what is happening in Iraq (where oil had nothing to do with it).
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That's right. It was actually because Saddam was in league with Bin Laden in the plotting of the Sept11 atrocity
That's apparently what 70% of Americans believe according to a recent poll. Forgive us in the rest of the world for being a bit cynical and believing the American public has been deceived by its administration and media.