The Bureau of Land Management, which manages more than 245 million acres of public land, said the illegally installed monolith was removed by "an unknown party or parties" on Friday evening. BLM was investigating who installed it – and said, in jest, it still didn't know whether an "extraterrestrial or earthling" left it there.
The Utah Department of Public Safety said Monday that its Aero Bureau and wildlife resource officers were conducting a count of bighorn sheep last week in Red Rock Country when they spotted the object on public lands managed by the Monticello Field Office and landed nearby to investigate further. The department said there was "no obvious indication" of who put it there.
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Huge Puerto Rico radio telescope, already damaged, collapses | World News | newspressnow.com
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A huge, already damaged radio telescope in Puerto Rico that has played a key role in astronomical discoveries for more than half a century completely collapsed on Tuesday.
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The U.S. National Science Foundation had earlier announced that the Arecibo Observatory would be closed. An auxiliary cable snapped in August, causing a 100-foot gash on the 1,000-foot-wide (305-meter-wide) dish and damaged the receiver platform that hung above it. Then a main cable broke in early November.
China’s Chang’e-5 lunar lander successfully lands on the Moon – TechCrunch
China’s Chang’e-5 mission will be the third ever to bring back soil or rock samples from the Moon – only the U.S. and the former Soviet Union have accomplished that so far. The mission landed on the side of the Moon closest to the Earth (which is always the same side, since the Moon is locked in its orientation during its orbit around our planet).
This landing starts a clock that has a pretty fixed duration in terms of the next steps for the mission – the lander doesn’t actually have a heater unit on board, so it can’t withstand the lunar night.
'Fireball' meteorite that crashed in Michigan holds extraterrestrial organic compounds | Space
Swift recovery of the meteorite from the lake's frozen surface prevented liquid water from seeping into cracks and contaminating the sample with terrestrial spores and microbes. This maintained the space rock's pristine state, enabling experts to more easily evaluate its composition.
In fact, there was so little terrestrial weathering that the fragment brought to Chicago's Field Museum looked like it had been collected in space, said study co-author Jennika Greer, a doctoral candidate in the Department of the Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago, and a resident graduate student at The Field Museum.
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Water may have formed when planets took shape - The Week
A new study by the University of Copenhagen turns the theory about the emergence of water upside down.
"There are two hypotheses about the emergence of water. One is that it arrives on planets by accident, when asteroids containing water collide with the planet in question," says Prof Martin Bizzarro from the Centre for Star and Planet Formation at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen.
"The other hypothesis is that water emerges in connection with the formation of the planet. Our study suggests that this hypothesis is correct, and if that is true, it is extremely exciting, because it means that the presence of water is a bioproduct of the planet formation process," said Martin Bizzarro.
Screen Time: Naming 'greatest actors' is asking for a fight
Readers now communicate their displeasure immediately and globally. Clearly, outrage over the selections of NYT critics A.O. Scott and Manohla Dargis promised to be more alluring than the selections themselves, so it was hard not to jump immediately to the dessert of reader comments. Still, I decided to I'd take the medicine up front and get my spoonful of sugar later.
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You have read correctly. Not only did the judges rule that Reeves should be added to the roster of the greatest actors of the 21st century — so far — but they placed him in the staggeringly high position of No. 4. Keanu shows up ahead of River Phoenix and Viola Davis, and in place of many others who were left off, including Meryl Streep, Christian Bale, Tom Hanks, Amy Adams, Frances McDormand, and, well, you get the picture.
AREA15 offers a new holiday experience
Wanderland also includes an illuminated tree-lined village with extraterrestrial surprises and extraterrestrial elves.
Utah monolith: The mysterious silver monolith in the desert has disappeared - CNN Style
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A metal monolith appeared at a scenic spot in northern Romania over the weekend after a similar structure was disco… https://t.co/b6TIG3UPoj ABC (from New York City / Worldwide) Tue Dec 01 01:54:05 +0000 2020
A tall, silver, shining metal monolith discovered in the desert in southeastern Utah -- which prompted theories of… https://t.co/gBtmcJQefV CNN Mon Nov 30 08:30:08 +0000 2020
Days after a mysterious monolith was discovered at a desert in Utah, a similar metal object appeared in Romania… https://t.co/1e0PDMWRKS CBSNews (from New York, NY) Tue Dec 01 13:29:52 +0000 2020
Another metal monolith is spotted, this time in Romania https://t.co/K4BkfoVKSX Reuters (from Around the world) Tue Dec 01 15:20:00 +0000 2020
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