30 January 2010
Blog
The moon is, on average, 238,855 miles from Earth. The moon’s orbit around Earth is not a perfect circle, it’s an ellipse. One side of the orbit is 31,070 miles closer than the other.
In each orbit, the moon reaches this closest point to us, called perigee. Once, or twice a year, perigee coincides with a [...]
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27 January 2010
Geek
The geek world has been agog with Apple’s latest worst kept secret, and today they launched the iPad, which is something half way between an iPhone and a notebook computer. The iPad can display full Web pages, books and iPhone applications, and has a touch-screen keyboard.
Some people will probably go gaga over it, but with [...]
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