Limping into the New Year
Times-Argus - There'll also be a jump in atmospheric warming as all that caloric potential gets converted to heat on stair climbers, treadmills, elliptical trainers and rowing machines. Outdoors, in stubborn defiance of what appears to be diminishing winter weather
Sky & Telescope News Release: Don't Get Snookered By Internet Mars
KCTV 5 - But because their orbits are elliptical (oval) rather than perfectly circular, the minimum separation between the two planets varies from one opposition to the next. In late August 2003 Mars came within 35 million miles of Earth, and in late October
Meitus: Middle age is a concept I can sink my teeth into
Rocky Mountain News - Or 14, but who's counting? On exercise: If you use an elliptical machine, you know that it likes to ask things like age and weight, so it can calculate your workout. When the question came up this week, I thought, 'OK, I'll give you my age. My
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Slate - I just about fell off my elliptical machine (all this talk of exercise is highly inspiring) when I saw this. Don, you need remedial PR training! Ask that big white-haired guy standing behind you. Of course you're doing this to counter a perception
Ancient astronomical device thrills scholars
CNN - It also took into account the elliptical orbit of the moon. "The actual astronomy is perfect for the period," Edmunds told Reuters. "What is extraordinary about the thing is that they were able to make such a sophisticated technological device and to
Fly Wishes to the Moon with Japan's SELENE Mission
Planetary Society - SELENE, which stands for SELenological and ENgineering Explorer, consists of three separate spacecraft -- a main spacecraft that will begin circling the Moon in an elliptical orbit and two small relay satellites that will go into a polar orbit. The
