ShortTakes.* JUPITER'S NEW MOON Astronomers at the University of Arizona (body, education) University of Arizona - The University was founded in 1885 as a Land Grant institution with a three-fold mission of teaching, research and public service. think they've discovered a 17th moon orbiting Jupiter. If confirmed, the 5.6 kilometer (3.5 mile)-wide satellite would be the smallest known moon of any planet in the solar system solar system, the sun and the surrounding planets, natural satellites, dwarf planets, asteroids, meteoroids, and comets that are bound by its gravity. The sun is by far the most massive part of the solar system, containing almost 99.9% of the system's total mass. . * MONSTER ALGAE algae (ăl`jē) [plural of Lat. alga=seaweed], a large and diverse group of primarily aquatic plantlike organisms. These organisms were previously classified as a primitive subkingdom of the plant kingdom, the thallophytes (plants that Some unusual, fast-growing algae (plantlike organisms), toxic to most sea life, have been spotted in a lagoon outside San Diego, Calif. The menace, Caulerpa taxifolia, devastated dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. 40.5 [km.sup.2] (10,000 acres) of marine habitat in the Mediterranean Sea in the 1980s. Scientists plan to thwart the outbreak with chlorine, an algae-killing chemical. |
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