Asteroids and meteorites, along with comets, are regarded as left-overs from the raw ingredients of the early solar system, uncooked by any planet-forming processes.

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For the 12, 000-seat basketball arena, architects at Wilkinson Eyre devised a rapidly erected steel-frame system shrink-wrapped with a white PVC skin, the curved steel stretchers forming a pattern of alternating diagonal projections on the outside.

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If hydrates remain a problem, the smaller size will be easier for BP to circulate antifreeze-like methanol through the system, keeping the hydrates from forming.

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Italy's political system encourages the forming of alliances, and the Democratic Party has teamed with the more left-wing Left Ecology Freedom party.

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