The point is, while we treat this, and lots of other things on the Internet, as documentary fact, is anything but a found object.

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Brown's team, using the Hubble telescope, found the object's diameter to be just 70km bigger than Pluto's.

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Meanwhile, journalists found a new object of attention.

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The Chinese debris was the only object they found.

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Health privacy watchdog Patient Privacy Rights and Zogby International surveyed 2, 000 people, and found that almost all object to doctors, hospitals, and insurance companies sharing or selling their information without their consent.

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Army bomb disposal officers carried out a controlled explosion on a suspicious object that was found on the Cavehill Road, close to a police station.

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Taking out the object, the officer found it was a pack of cigarettes.

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Because the theory relies on an object that itself has already found a way to grow to the size of Mars, the bow shock idea creates a bit of a chicken or egg problem.

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Prosecutors did not pursue the death penalty, so Gerhartsreiter could face a maximum sentence of 25 years to life in prison for the murder conviction, plus two additional years because the jury also found that he personally used a blunt object and a sharp instrument as weapons.

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Then a marine geologist, James Kennett of the University of California, Santa Barbara, said he had found evidence of the impact of a large object from space 12, 900 years ago, in the form of carbon spherules in silt.

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Richard Hamilton of Columbia University had previously realised the usefulness of this heat-flow model but became unstuck when he found that, under this transformation, the object may stretch out to form singularities spikes that could not be easily manipulated into a sphere.

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It reports that the object, covered in runic writing and about 60cm long, was found embedded in granite and initially taken for "piping sticking out of the ground".

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However, many more of these threatening asteroids will surely be found in coming years (indeed, within the past two months, a newly discovered object 1km across caused a brief flurry, until its orbit was properly calculated).

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They become denizens of the asteroid belt that's found between Mars and Jupiter until they fall out of orbit, possibly as a result of a collision with another object.

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