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Japanese SELENE (Kaguya) Lunar Mission Spots Apollo 15 Landing Site (Images) (Universe Today)

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 21:38:41 GMT

The Japanese lunar mission SELENE (Selenological and Engineering Explorer), also known as "Kaguya" has imaged the "halo" left behind in the lunar surface from Apollo 15's lunar module engine exhaust plume. This is the first time a mission after the Apollo Program has detected such a feature. Apollo 15 landed on the Moon in 1971 [...]

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Explosives Launch a $7.9 Million Project to Notch Elk Creek Dam in Oregon (Red Orbit )

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:00:28 GMT

By Mark Freeman, Mail Tribune, Medford, Ore. Jul. 16--The crack of explosives Tuesday sent waves of concrete crumbling and launched a plume of dust skyward, signaling the beginning of the end to Elk Creek Dam. Construction crews detonated the first set of explosives at 1:35 p.m.

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Holy shuttle plume! Website shows debris coming off flame trench (The Write Stuff)

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 21:24:55 GMT

NASASpaceFlight.Com has some details from NASA's study of the debris that got blasted out of the flame trench during shuttle Discovery's most recent launch. Included is a cool infrared video loop showing bricks shooting into the air. There is reference...

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Alaska volcano spews huge ash plume for 3rd day (Physorg)

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:00:08 GMT

(AP) -- Lonnie Kennedy was taking everything in stride after he and his family were rescued from their cattle ranch near an erupting volcano. The mountain, on the other hand, remained agitated, spewing out a huge plume of ash more than 6 miles high.

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Alaska volcano spews huge ash plume for 3rd day (Boston Globe)

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:31:40 GMT

Lonnie Kennedy was taking everything in stride after he and his family were rescued from their cattle ranch near an erupting volcano. The mountain, on the other hand, remained agitated, spewing out a huge plume of ash more than 6 miles high.

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Alaska volcano spews huge ash plume for 3rd day; in continuos state of eruption (Star Tribune)

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:31:12 GMT

The Okmok Caldera, a 3,500-foot volcano on Umnak Island about 60 miles west of the fishing port of Dutch Harbor, erupted Saturday and was still in a near state of continuos eruption on Monday. It's ash plume reached more than 6 1/2 miles high and was moving southeastward over the North Pacific.

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Cold Springs Fire Surpasses 500 Acres Slug Line:Cold Springs Fire Surpasses 500 Acres (Red Orbit )

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:00:19 GMT

By Mark Morey STAFF AND NEWS SERVICE REPORTS A wildfire burning northeast of Trout Lake grew to more than 500 acres Sunday and blocked access to a popular climbing route on Mount Adams. The plume from the Cold Springs fire was visible from Portland to Yakima on Sunday.

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Wildfire Near Mount Adams Unfurls Eruptionlike Smoke Plume (Red Orbit )

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:00:27 GMT

By Erik Robinson, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash. Jul. 14--A lighting-sparked wildfire, smoldering for a week, exploded Sunday in a blaze that prompted some Southwest Washington residents to mistake the cauliflower-like smoke plume for an eruption of Mount Adams.

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Evacuation order ends at Oak Ridge plant site (San Fransisco Chronicle)

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:46:02 GMT

Emergency responders are standing down after they evacuated a commercial waste processing plant at the site of a former uranium enrichment plant in Tennessee. About 45 employees at Materials and Energy Corp. in Oak Ridge evacuated Monday morning after a plume...

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B.C. residents home after apartment evacuated (CBC.ca)

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 05:00:00 GMT

Residents of a North Vancouver apartment building were back home yesterday after an evacuation a day earlier.Six were sent to hospital with minor injuries after a worker accidentally mixed chlorine and another chemical. The resulting toxic plume prompted fire crews to evacuate about 200 people from the building Saturday morning.

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Wildfire Near Mount Adams Unfurls Eruption-Like Smoke Plume (Red Orbit )

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 02:00:13 GMT

Smoke from the fire was visible 60 miles away in Vancouver, where several people mistook the cauliflower-like plume of smoke for an eruption of Mount Adams. With temperatures above 90 degrees and a 12 mph northwest wind this afternoon, the fire jumped from 100 acres to more than 500 acres in size.

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The RBS Thing #18a (The Rik Files)

noreply@blogger.com (Rik) — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:37:00 GMT

He's chasing me, but I can't see him. I'm in a wasteland, grass clumps withered in heat, dust covering my calves, my knees, as I run. This is a road, my naked feet tell me, with tyre marks in the dirt and upright flints ripe for the tripping; don't look down! Don't look back! Let fly the plume of my speed behind me, unseen, unknown. He's chasing me; I can't see his dust. Everything is yellow:...

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Chemicals At School's Doorstep (Tampa Bay Online)

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 04:14:16 GMT

U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson on Monday is expected to call on the federal government's help in cleaning up the toxic groundwater plume of chemicals that has spread to Azalea Elementary School from the Raytheon defense plant in west St. Petersburg.

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Alaskan volcano erupts with little warning, flings ash plume 30,000 feet in the air (Star Tribune)

Sun, 13 Jul 2008 00:08:13 GMT

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A volcano has erupted with little warning on an island in Alaska, sending an ash cloud at least 30,000 feet high.The Okmok Caldera erupted late Saturday morning. Seismologists at the Alaska Volcano Center detected a series of small tremors hours before.Okmok is located on one of Alaska's Aleutian Islands, 60 miles west of the busy fishing port of Dutch Harbor on Unalaska Island.Jerry...

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Homes Near Plume To Have Air Tested (Tampa Bay Online)

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:29:01 GMT

The state will test air quality inside homes and apartments where groundwater contamination is heaviest from the Raytheon plant site in St. Petersburg, officials said.

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Natural Hazards: Plume from Kilauea Volcano (Nasa)

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:39:03 GMT

Kilauea Volcano on Hawaii's big island released a volcanic plume in early July 2008.

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Strike Fears Allayed, SAG/AFTRA Now Just in It For the Slap Fights [Hollywood Strikewatch] (Defamer)

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:00:00 GMT

The nuclear labor plume at left is presented a little closer to actual size this morning, the start of the first full day without the specter of strike hell exhaling waves of rancid breath over...

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State To Share Assessment Of Raytheon's Pollution Report (Tampa Bay Online)

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:50:20 GMT

ST. PETERSBURG - More than a month after environmental experts from Raytheon said there is no health risk from a toxic plume of chemicals that has spread up to half a mile from the plant, state regulators are set to give their assessment of the company's findings.

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VIDEO: Fire crews still fighting massive Renfrew blaze (The Herald )

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:16:56 GMT

Fire crews were today continuing to tackle a massive fire at a scrapyard that has sent a 300ft plume stretching 10 miles to the south-west of the town.

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Lumber warehouse fire a mystery so far (Salt Lake Tribune)

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 07:01:38 GMT

Flames shot 40 feet out of a lumber warehouse that caught fire Tuesday in Cottonwood Heights. The plume of smoke could be seen across the Salt Lake Valley.

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