"The researchers concluded the Sumatra earthquake caused a length of day change too small to detect, but it can be calculated. It also caused an oblateness change barely detectable, and a pole shift large enough to be possibly identified."
- JPL Release, via Science.Nasa.Gov and Slash-Dot ----
Quasars are impossible. Either "How can something so very far away be so very bright? or How can something so close be going so very, very fast?". Established dogma is the former, the renegades assk the latter instead, and have evidence that some quasars are closer than dogma allows.
- USCD, via SciScoop ----
"NASA's Deep Impact Mission is set for launch later today. The spacecraft will make contact with Comet Tempel 1 on July 4th... literally. The plan is to slam the Impactor spacecraft into the comet while the Flyby spacecraft looks on."
- JPL DeepImpact, via UtahSkies
