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Despite residents' opposition, Mattapoisett solar farm gets Zoning Board approval
Mattapoisett :: MA :: USA | 2 months ago
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Opponents turned out en masse at a hearing on the construction of a solar farm on an 85-acre property off Tinkham Hill Road, but despite the opposition the project was approved. Engineer Richard Charon of the Rochester-based Charon Associates, hired
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Charleston grave exhumation uncovers 4 children among 37 graves
Myrtle Beach :: SC :: USA | 4 months ago
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The graveyard is thought to date to the early 1700s and is in an area that would have been outside Charleston at the time. It does not appear on any plat of the city and it's possible it could be a graveyard for workmen or slaves for which records
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Vulcan tops vote to name Pluto moons
New York :: NY :: USA | 4 months ago
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The choice will delight Star Trek fans; Vulcan is the home planet of Spock, science officer on the starship Enterprise. The name had originally been suggested by William Shatner, the actor who portrayed Captain James T Kirk in the Star Trek TV series
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Vulcan 'Found' Near Pluto?
New York City :: NY :: USA | 4 months ago
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The votes are in, and it looks like 'Vulcan' could be the new name for one of Pluto's smallest moons. After weeks of online ballot casting by people around the world, the poll asking the public to name two of Pluto's moons currently called P4 and P5
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`Vulcan` leads Pluto`s moon name vote
Romulus :: MI :: USA | 4 months ago
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Vulcan" is leading the contention in a vote to name two of Pluto's recently discovered moons. The name has taken more than 100,000 of some 325,000 votes cast in the online poll, the BBC reported. P5 - was discovered last year. 'Star Trek ' actor
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Have Trekkies taken over the voting on the naming of Pluto's new moons?
Romulus :: MI :: USA | 4 months ago
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The voting is scheduled to close on February 25th, after which time the top names will be presented to the International Astronomical Union (IAU) for consideration. Greek and Roman themed names , but voters were encouraged to propose their own. Now,
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Digging up names for Pluto's tiniest moons
Cape Canaveral :: FL :: USA | 4 months ago
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Astronomers announced a contest Monday to name the two itty-bitty moons of Pluto discovered over the past two years. Pluto is the Roman equivalent of the Greek's Hades, lord of the underworld, and its three bigger moons have related mythological
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You can help name Pluto's moons!
Manila :: Philippines | 4 months ago
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41pm Want to make a major contribution to astronomy without having to don a spacesuit? Here's your chance: help name the moons of one of the most controversial heavenly bodies in our solar system. Discoverers of Pluto's two smallest moons are
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Now's your chance to name two of Pluto's new moons
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 4 months ago
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How this supposed non-planet can have so many moons is beyond me, but whatever. Anyway, the new moons have been dubbed P4 and P5 an oversight that needs correcting, especially when considering the elegant names of Pluto's other moons Charon, Nix, and
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You Can Name Pluto's Moons
Mountain View :: CA :: USA | 4 months ago
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Pluto may have been demoted, but its family is getting bigger and bigger. Now, two of the dwarf planet's tiniest moons need names but rather than leaving the Plutonian satellites' naming ceremony to astronomers, that honor has fallen to you . The
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