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Coimbra ... tem mais encanto! A foto que parece ser das mais antigas que já vi daquela zona. A zona é, para quem conhece mais ou menos, a actual Praça da República, TAGV, Associação Académica. Identifica-se claramente o pórtico do Jardim da Sereia. Adorei a piscina e o jardim. A foto chegou-me por mão amiga, isto é, por mail e sem referências a data, autor ou enquadramento histórico.

By Seth Shostak, Senior AstronomerSETI Institute Fortunately, it wasn’t large enough to require intervention by Bruce Willis, but asteroid 2008 TC3 is the first space rock to have been spotted before it crashed to Earth. It streaked into the skies over northern Sudan in the early morning of October 7, 2008, and then exploded at a high 37 km above the Nubian Desert, before the atmosphere could slow it appreciably. It was believed that the asteroid had fully disintegrated into dust. A meteor astronomer with the SETI Institute’s Carl Sagan Center, Peter Jenniskens, thought otherwise. After establishing a collaboration with Mauwia Shaddad of the Physics Department and Faculty of Sciences of the University of Khartoum, he traveled to the Sudan. The two researchers, together with students and staff from the university, collected nearly 280 pieces of the asteroid, strewn over 29 km of the Nubian Desert. Never before had meteorites been collected from such a high altitude explosion. As it turn...

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