New Dinosaur Family

A fossilised bone dug up near Hastings 113 years ago has been recognised as a completely new family of dinosaur. The animal belongs to a general type of dinosaur called a sauropod - which was characterised by a large body, a long neck and a small head. A PhD student from the University of Portsmouth stumbled upon the specimen while browsing through the shelves of London's Natural History Museum. The fossil represents the dorsal vertebra (back bone) of a new family, genus and species of dinosaur now named Xenoposeidon proneneukus. It lived about 140 million years ago, was about the size of an elephant and weighed 7.5 tonnes. This is very cool because we never know what our scientists will figure out next. Its also cool because a student figured this out. We should care about this because anything is predictible. They thought it was a Brotasaraus, because of it's bone structure but it tured out to be a totally different thing.

An obscure comet discovered more than a century ago suddenly became about a million times brighter late last month, wowing amateur astronomers in Colorado and around the world. Scientists are so intrigued with the changeable Comet Holmes, they asked for, and got, emergency viewing time on the over-scheduled Hubble Space Telescope last week. The comet was discovered in the 1890s by amateur astronomer Edwin Holmes. At the time it was also strangely luminous for a few months, said Chris Peterson, owner of a robotic telescope in Guffey that's used to track big meteors for the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Holmes completes its orbit every seven years, but it never gets close enough to the sun to go through the regular, bright outgassings of more well-known comets, such as Halley or Hale-Bopp, he said. This is very cool because it was forund in the 1980's and has been getting brighter ever since. Some of these things that scientists find are really cool and should be apperciated. It got about one million times brighter since it was discovered. The core is about 6 miles across and can be seen at night sometimes.

Avs win in OT

From the article by Jose Theodore. Ryan Smyth scored 23 seconds into overtime and Theodore made 39 saves to give Colorado a 3-2 victory over the Calgary Flames on Friday night. Marek Svatos tied it at 2 with 4:15 left in regulation. Joe Sakic set up the winner and also scored for Colorado to reach the 1,600-point mark. Alex Tanguay and Matthew Lombardi scored for Calgary, and Miikka Kiprusoff made 19 saves. The Avalanche opened the scoring when Sakic converted a feed from Wojtek Wolski at 7:27 of the first period. A short time later, Tanguay got behind the Avalanche defense, but was thwarted by Theodore on a breakaway attempt. I think people in Colorado should defiently care about this because it is our home hockey team and even if you dont like hockey, you can support our team.