Well maybe if one of these meteorites hit a nuclear waste storage facility (or any other superfund cleanup site, or a good deal of the area in China) we'll see people ACTUALLY getting sick. Then this author will feel silly.

Quoted: On what started as a normal Saturday night one week ago, residents of a small, remote Peruvian town saw a bright light streak across the sky, heard a resounding bang and suddenly found themselves at the center of a media frenzy.

Quoted: Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has finally unveiled what's behind Blue Origin, his secretive effort to bring space flight to the masses. The Web site has photos and video of Goddard, the company's first vertical take-off and landing vehicle during a test flight in November.

redotted from maumau30:

I like the new definition as it will put a little more clarity around something that was fairly arbitrary:

Quoted: "[...]the new definition of planethood, which is that an object be massive enough that gravity has formed it into a sphere and that it circles a star and not some other planet."