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Countdown for Loki: just over a year ago, Loki lay in ruins, smashed and abandoned against the rocky shores of Sicily after an ill fated middle sea race campaign. But like the incorrigible Norse deity whose name it bears, Loki is back to cause mischief for its contemporaries. This time resurrected in the form of a 63-foot Reichel-Pugh. Offshore yachting followed Loki's swift return to racing in the lead up to the Rolex Sydney Hobart.(Profile)
Offshore Yachting
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Dec 11: The countdown is running. Fifteen days to Boxing Day and the start of the 64th Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race and the new Loki is at Woolwich Dock, preparing for launch. It was a mammoth effort to get the new 63-footer ready after late modifications were made to the boat's stern, but superyacht experts McConaghy in Sydney and the Loki team just made it.
The boat's owner Stephen Ainsworth looks on as she is slowly lowered into the water, savouring the moment as the keel pierces the surface of Sydney Harbour for the first time ...
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Saturn's Moon Iapetus Shows Bulging Waistline.
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Cassini Caps off 2004 With Flyby of Icy Moon Iapetus.
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; ...with an encounter of Saturn's ying-yang moon Iapetus (eye-APP-eh-tuss) on New Year's Eve...June 30 of this year. The next close flyby of Iapetus is not until 2007. Iapetus is a world of sharp contrasts. The leading hemisphere...
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Magazine article from: Journal of the Geological Society
; ...this margin prior to the final closure of Iapetus during the 430-400 Ma Scandian Orogeny...occurred concurrently on opposite sides of Iapetus. We suggest that the HP collision recorded...Laurentia on the other (western) side of Iapetus. If the ages and the tectonostratigraphic...
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Cassini eyes Iapetus.(Astronomy)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Science News
; ...on Saturn's split-personality moon Iapetus: half being bright, half being dark...astronomer Jean Dominique Cassini discovered Iapetus in 1672. He correctly surmised that the...outer moon, have drifted inward to coat Iapetus' leading edge. Another possibility...
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News Wire article from: The Hindustan Times
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Magazine article from: Science News
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Magazine article from: Current Science, a Weekly Reader publication
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Magazine article from: Journal of the Geological Society
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