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Celestial mechanics.(asteroid observations)(Brief Article)
The Economist (US)
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March 6, 1999
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A rock in a hard place
ON FEBRUARY 23rd an asteroid called 1999BJ8 sailed past the Earth at a distance of 5m kilometres (3m miles)-a pretty close shave by astronomical standards. This is just one of several hundred rocks, varying in size from a few metres to a few kilometres across, whose orbits around the sun cross the Earth's. A few dozen are potentially extremely hazardous, because they could one day do to humanity what one of their number did to the dinosaurs 65m years ago. So understanding their behaviour is important. But astronomers have been unable to figure ...
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Paying tribute to a great Kiwi scientist
Newspaper article from: The Press
; ...scientists born in New Zealand, biophysicist Maurice Wilkins, credited with helping explain DNA as a building...will unveil the monument near where Professor Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins was born on December 15, 1916. The family moved...
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The Third Man of the Double Helix.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Chemistry and Industry
; The third man of the double helix Maurice Wilkins Publisher: Oxford: Oxford University Press Year...1962 Nobel prize in physiology or medicine with Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins. Watson and Crick's single-page paper appeared...
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El hombre que reveló el secreto de la vida: Falleció Francis Crick.(científico)(Obituario)
Magazine article from: Siempre!
; ...estadunidense James Dewey Watson y el tambin britnico Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins, los otros dos cientficos a quienes se les reconoci...forma, no fue algo singular que el trabajo de Maurice Wilkins, un fsico que haba participado en el Proyecto...
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LIST OF NOBEL WINNERS FOR MEDICINE
News Wire article from: United Press International
; ...United Kingdom. 1962 -- Francis Harry Compton Crick, United Kingdom; James Dewey Watson, United States; Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins, United Kingdom. 1961 -- Greog von Bekesy, United States. 1960 -- Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australia...
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NOBEL PRIZES IN PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE
News Wire article from: United Press International
; ...United Kingdom. 1962 -- Francis Harry Compton Crick, United Kingdom; James Dewey Watson, United States; Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins, United Kingdom. 1961 -- Greog von Bekesy, United States. 1960 -- Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australia...
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Nobel Prizes in Physiology or Medicine.
News Wire article from: United Press International
; ...United Kingdom. 1962 -- Francis Harry Compton Crick, United Kingdom; James Dewey Watson, United States; Maurice Hugh Frederick Wilkins, United Kingdom. 1961 -- Greog von Bekesy, United States. 1960 -- Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet, Australia...
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 "Mid Sussex Times (Haywards Heath, England)")
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Horsham District Council election results.
Newspaper article from: Mid Sussex Times (Haywards Heath, England)
; ...1,046 MARTIN, Richard Hugh, (Liberal Democrat). 467...Anne, (Independent). 989 *WILKINS, Keith Richard, (Conservative...Conservative). 814 SHARP, Andrew Frederick, (Liberal Democrat). 498...Democrat). 698 BURGESS, Peter Maurice, (Independent). 361 CHAPMAN...
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 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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DEEDS & DEALS.(Real Estate)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
; Albany County Albany Frederick Chick bought property at 47...Baker bought property at 14 Wilkins Ave. from Francis Forenzo...property at 803 Rainbow Drive from Hugh Jones for $155,500. New...for $200,500. Watervliet Maurice Bostick and January Bostick...
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OBIT - ARTHUR, LOLLIE MAY HORTON
Newspaper article from: Roanoke Times & World News
; ...2003. She was the wife of Maurice Leroy Arthur for 67 years...Roanoke; grandchildren, Lori Wilkins and husband David, Bradford...Jacobs and husband Tom, Kristi Frederick and husband Kelby, Matthew...preceded in death by a brother, Hugh Horton. The family will receive...
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