How impact craters are formed
This sounds a bit like a no-brainer really; the asteroid or comet crosses the path of Earth and hits the Earth's surface causing an impact crater. That's it isn't it? No, nothing in life is quite as simple as that ...
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Best of the Week Podcast-Hubble’s First Images of an Extrasolar Planet.
Posted on December 3rd, 2009 No commentsPaul Kalas was the leader of the team who managed the long-sought feat of actually taking a photograph of a planet orbiting another star. Before this, all the planets outside our solar system were found by indirect means. He describes how they achieved the breakthrough, using the Hubble Space Telescope, and discusses the wide range of planets out there that astronomers are discovering.
A Silicon Valley podcast.
Pictures and information on the images of the extrasolar planet.
