[Science] Experts: Meteor sighting unusual, but space debris is common

Experts: Meteor sighting unusual, but space debris is common
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20130323_Possible_meteor_lights_up_the_sky_-_and_the_Internet.html
The meteor that blazed across the East Coast sky Friday night and lit up the Twittersphere was the size of a washing machine and not at all unusual, scientists said.

Comet Thought To Have Killed Dinosaurs
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2297594/Were-dinosaurs-killed-comet-New-analysis-suggests-smaller-faster-space-rock-sparked-mass-extinction.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Scientists believe they have pinpointed the exact type of space rock that collided with earth millions of years ago, causing the extinction of an entire species.

DNA Discoverer's Letter to Son to be Auctioned for $1M or More
http://www.counselheal.com/articles/4507/20130324/dna-discoverers-letter-son-auctioned-1m-more.htm
(Photo : Reuters/Christie's Images LTD. 2013/Handout) Francis Crick (R) with James D. Watson, co-discoverers of the structure and function of DNA, are shown in this image taken circa 1953 in this image released to Reuters on February 26, 2013.

Robotics team takes seventh competition in Milwaukee
http://fox13now.com/2013/03/23/students-design-build-robots-for-national-competition/
MILWAUKEE - A Janesville High School robotics club placed seventh out of 54 teams in the Wisconsin Regional FIRST Robotics Competition.

Sun Activity Cycle Will See "Solar Maximum" Peak Later This Year
http://www.latinospost.com/articles/15154/20130324/sun-activity-cycle-will-see-solar-maximum-peak-later-year.htm
The upcoming period of heightened activity will compete the so-called "solar maximum" for the sun's current 11-year activity cycle, during which the star's magnetic fields are affected by the flow of solar plasma.

Testing a new class of speedy computer
http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/5759/20130323/lockhead-martin-quantum-computer-speeds-through-problems-millions-times-faster.htm
Our digital age is all about bits, those precise ones and zeros that are the stuff of modern computer code. But a powerful new type of computer that is about to be commercially deployed by a major US military contractor is taking computing into the strange, ...

Seven Pieces Of Space History That You Can Own
http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-032413a.html
Seven Pieces Of Space History That You Can Own Bonhams auction house is hosting a space history sale tomorrow. They've done similar things in the past, but this one is more fun because it's now and Buzz Aldrin is opposed to it.

Rocketdyne retirees interested in rocket engine recovery
http://www.sen.com/news/apollo-rockets-are-lifted-from-the-seabed.html
NEVADA, Mo. - Retirees of the former Rocketdyne plant watched this past week with interest as a team sponsored by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos recovered an F-1 engine from a Saturn V rocket on the ocean's floor.

Mars rover scientist coming to LSSU for public talk
http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/03/23/the-once-flowing-rivers-the-drinkable-water-and-when-well-walk-on-the-red-planet/
At this moment, a nuclear-powered rover the size of a Toyota Prius is exploring a crater on Mars half the size of Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

Part 2: Whitehead acknowledgment adds to state's aviation legacy
http://sheltonherald.com/13153/part-2-whitehead-acknowledgment-adds-to-states-aviation-legacy/
Andy Kosch with a replica of Gustave Whitehead's No. 21, now recognized by Jane's All the World's Aircraft as the first powered aircraft to leave the ground, at the Connecticut Air and Space Museum in Stratford.

Delaware meteor lights up sky
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/delaware-meteor-lights-up-sky/2013/03/23/fd8fd419-a10c-43ee-b345-5df5b796d513_video.html
A security camera above a car yard in Seaford, Delaware, captured footage of what appeared to be a meteor travelling across the skyline late on Friday.

USFWS to reconsider protection for Montana fluvial arctic grayling
http://www.ravallirepublic.com/news/state-and-regional/article_cbdef5aa-7713-5f63-b3a3-7078bf2d0d74.html
HELENA - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has agreed to reconsider the Montana fluvial arctic grayling for protection as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act.

Proposed bill would launch state review of climate change
http://www.kotanow.com/story/21781087/proposed-bill-would-launch-state-review-of-climate-change
Drought conditions that threaten Nebraska farms and ranchers is prompting lawmakers to reassess the issue of climate change. Senator Ken Haar of Malcom introduces a legislation that would launch a state review of climate change and it's possible impact ...

Poll questions shift public views on global warming
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/straighttalk/archives/2013/03/20130324-075409.html
How you ask the question skews the results when it comes to public opinion on global warming, finds an analysis of hundreds of polls.

Nanowires Could Increase Solar Cell Efficiency Limits
http://www.techfragments.com/2068/nanowires-could-increase-solar-cell-efficiency-limits/
nanowire solar cell A single nanowire can concentrate the sunlight up to 15 times of the normal sun light intensity, researchers at the Niels Bohr Institut, Denmark and the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, have shown.

In tweets: Calgary power consumption chugs right along during Earth Hour
http://www.halifaxnewsnet.ca/News/2013-03-22/article-3205952/Earth-Hour-shines-spotlight-on-energy-conservation/1
Earth Hour was just like any other hour in Calgary, with “no identifiable change” in energy consumption, according to Enmax. Cities across the world saw marked reductions in electricity usage on March 23 as part of the annual event aimed at drawing ...

Gloria Dickie, Special to the Free Press and QMI Agency
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10873277
Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield tweeted this image from space of Windsor and Detroit during Earth Hour. Tweet · Bookmark and Share.

UFOs among us?
http://www.agoracosmopolitan.com/news/ufo_extraterrestrials/2013/03/24/5626.html
As a Washington resident, James E. Clarkson takes pride in his state's out-of-this-world history. Clarkson, director of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) for Washington state, told people at Yelm Timberland Library last week about Washington's central role in ...