Untitled. The Scale of the Universe 2. Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2012 March 12 The Scale of the Universe - Interactive Flash Animation Credit & Copyright: Cary & Michael Huang Explanation: What does the universe look like on small scales? On large scales? Tomorrow's picture: dust before galaxies Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP)NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply.NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important NoticesA service of:ASD at NASA / GSFC& Michigan Tech.
Stone-cutter finds fossil whale in marble slabs | Not Exactly Rocket Science. In July 2002, an Italian man named Mr Francioni found something strange. Francioni owns a marble-cutting company in the Tuscan town of Pietrasanta, and he had just acquired a block of Egyptian marbleized limestone. After slicing the block into six slabs, he discovered the fossilised bones of an animal within. Fossils weaken the strength of cut stone and many people discard them outright. But Francioni was excited: he thought he had found a dinosaur, and contacted the nearby University of Pisa. He got through to Giovanni Bianucci. Meanwhile, Bianucci wanted to know more about the mystery animal. Bianucci and Gingerich named the animal Aegyptocetus tarfa (“Egyptian whale from Tarfa”). Aegyptocetus’s skull was 68 centimetres long and it probably weighed around 650 kilograms.
“It’s a useful contribution,” says Erich Fitzgerald, who studies fossil whales, “but it isn’t really going to change the way we think about whale evolution.” Aegyptocetus’s bones also suggest how it died. Motions of the Sun Simulator.
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