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September 11, 2009 4:22 PM

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Megameteorite Mystery

Posted By Amy Bucci - BlogWild Contributor

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In a remote region of Patagonia, enormous craters measuring up to 500 meters wide and 50 meters in depth could be evidence to a bombardment of meteorites. This meteoroid impact field, the largest in the southern hemisphere, is of extreme interest for National Geographic Society/Waitt grantee Rogelio Acevedo.

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July 20, 2009 3:58 PM

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Full Moon Rises on Google Earth

Posted By Ford Cochran - BlogWild Editor

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Exactly 40 years after Neil Armstrong took his famous "one small step for man," and less than six months after adding the ocean to its virtual planet, Google unveiled the moon in Google Earth today.

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