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The Middlesboro crater (or astrobleme) is a meteorite crater in Kentucky, United States. [2] It is named after the city of Middlesboro, Kentucky, which today occupies much of the crater. The crater is approximately 3 miles (about 5 km) wide and its age is estimated to be less than 300 million years . The impactor is estimated to have been about ...
Comet Nishimura was discovered Aug. 11 by Hideo Nishimura, an amateur astronomer from Japan, according to NASA. This is the astronomer’s third comet discovery , Space.com reports.
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Paleogeographic reconstruction showing the Appalachian Basin area during the Middle Devonian period. The oldest exposed rocks in Kentucky are of Ordovician age. [2] At this time Kentucky was covered by a shallow, warm sea. The carbonate rocks of Kentucky deposited during this period are regarded as "world-class" sources of fossils. [3]
The two recently identified shark species were up to 12 feet long and once lurked in what is now Kentucky. ... Teeth of the species were found in various areas, with the walls of Mammoth Cave also ...
The Kentucky Space Grant Consortium (KSGC) is a partnership between Kentucky and NASA. Projects include the University of Kentucky 's Big Blue, Kentucky Space , and Northern Kentucky University 's Moon Buggy Project.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -NASA's rover Perseverance has gathered data confirming the existence of ancient lake sediments deposited by water that once filled a giant basin on Mars called Jerezo Crater ...
The exoplanets were found using a statistical technique called "verification by multiplicity". 95% of the discovered exoplanets were smaller than Neptune and four, including Kepler-296f, were less than 2 1/2 the size of Earth and were in habitable zones where surface temperatures are suitable for liquid water.