First of all, in the time between the two events, the Earth moved roughly 300, 000 miles, meaning the asteroid and the meteor were in completely different places.

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Having wrong-footed the shadow chancellor last November, it became rapidly apparent on Budget day that George Osborne had moved heaven and earth to be able to do the same again.

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Most of the earth being moved to make way for China's highways, factories and skyscrapers is handled by a fairly simple machine called a wheel loader.

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By pairing the 3-D printed fossils with robotics, scientists are able to test how dinosaurs actually moved when they roamed the Earth millions of years ago.

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Or all the other more then 20, 00 pieces of orbital debris like Spent Rocket Boosters left in space that can no longer be moved by a control center on Earth.

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'' Two seconds later, just before we would have stalled and started a death spiral to earth, the jet's control stick moved forward, and the airplane began to pick up speed, averting the stall.

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Officials moved quickly to calm residents, saying there was no threat to human life from the rock fragments that hit the earth outside Chelyabinsk.

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