NASA plans to robotically capture a small near-Earth asteroid and redirect it safely to a stable orbit in the Earth-moon system where astronauts can visit and explore it. Is this part of NASA’s search for potential "killer" asteroids?
At a recent Congressional hearing, NASA told lawmakers that it’s time for the private sector to aid in the search for potentially city-destroying asteroids and meteors.
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This video from April 14, 2013, is hard to evaluate, but the videographer, who could, of course, see more with the naked eye, appears convinced that it’s one of the Lake Erie UFOs, and we are getting reports from others that orbs are being seen over the lake nightly.
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Five witnesses at Louisiana university observed a glowing object circle their campus at low altitude several times on April 12, 2013.
This description of an orb circling a campus in Louisiana, corroborated by a number of witnesses, is unlikely to have been a sky lantern. It would appear to be a genuine unknown. Many of our readers equate orbs with the souls of the dead, including Whitley Strieber, who has reported experiences that suggest this connection.
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Increased exposure to traffic-related air pollution during pregnancy is associated with a higher incidence of leukemia in children. This means that China–the most polluted country in the world–is headed for a cancer epidemic caused by bad air–among other things.
Researcher Julia Heck says, "We studied pregnancy exposures because the fetus is likely to be more vulnerable to environmental factors during that time, and we also know that certain childhood cancers originate in utero."
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