Category: The FAS Astronomers Blog
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Asteroid 1, Dinosaurs 0
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 31, Number 15. The dinosaurs ruled the Earth for millions of years. Despite their dominance, the dinosaurs disappeared. The commonly accepted…
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The Case of the Brontosaurus
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 31, Number 14b. When I was growing up, Brontosaurus was almost as famous as T. rex. However, Othniel Marsh made a…
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The Case of the Velociraptor
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 31, Number 14a. The dinosaur in the movie Jurassic Park, called Velociraptor, was modeled after another dinosaur named Deinonychus. I guess…
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Meet The Dinosaurs
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 31, Number 14. In this article, we’ll focus on several individual dinosaurs and tell you a little more about them. As…
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The Classification of Dinosaurs
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 31, Number 13. As noted in An Introduction to Dinosaurs, Richard Owen (Owen 1842) created the designation Dinosauria meaning “Fearfully great…
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An Introduction to Dinosaurs
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 31, Number 12. As you look around, you might notice that there are no dinosaurs, or at least what we think…
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The Rise of the Vertebrates
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 31, Number 11. The Earth’s history is described by geologic time, which is broken into eons, eras, periods, and epochs. The…
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A History of the Earth (Geologic Time)
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 31, Number 10. The history of the Earth is described by geologists using something call Geologic Time. This is a timeline…
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The Making Of The Atomic Bomb
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 31, Number 9. Physics drives the cosmos. Okay, there is a lot of chemistry going on as well. But astrophysics is…
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Owen Gingerich
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 31, Number 8. Astronomer Owen Gingerich passed away on May 28, 2023 at the age of 93. With his passing, we…
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The Solar System
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 31, Number 7. We live in a solar system. So, just what is it? It is a star and all the…
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The Multiverse
FAS Astronomers Blog, Volume 31, Number 6. This is part 5 of a 5-part series on the Universe (The Visible Universe, The Dark Universe, The…