12 November 2009
Asteroid scrapes past Earth just 8,700miles away – with only 15 hours warning | Mail Online: “Although no one noticed at the time, the Earth was almost hit by an asteroid last Friday.
The previously undiscovered asteroid came within 8,700miles of Earth but astronomers noticed it only 15 hours before it made its closest approach.
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3 September 2009
Telegraphs Ran on Electric Air in Crazy 1859 Magnetic Storm | Wired Science | Wired.com: “On Sept. 2, 1859, at the telegraph office at No. 31 State Street in Boston at 9:30 a.m., the operators’ lines were overflowing with current, so they unplugged the batteries connected to their machines, and kept working using just the [...]
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