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The asteroid orbits the Sun in 368 days - a period similar to Earth's year - but it does not orbit in the same plane as the Earth.
BBC: Asteroid 2012 DA14 in record-breaking Earth pass
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Tintin (Jamie Bell), the young reporter with an orange-brown quiff and an insatiable curiosity, pursues a buried treasure, journeying to the far corners of the earth by ship, plane, and motorcycle.
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But as lovely a treasure as it is, an old-fashioned printed world atlas is not on the same plane or even the same planet as Google Earth (and its sister, Google Maps).
FORBES: Atlas Hugs: The Great Print-Versus-Digital Showdown
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In some alternate plane of the space-time continuum dinosaurs with prehensile claws rule the Earth, and purple monkeys are their servants.
FORBES: Apple Pulls Ahead Of RIM In Smartphones
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This is a special type of Earth model which traces its idealised "horizontal" surface - the plane on which, at any point, the pull of gravity is perpendicular to it.
BBC: Europe's Goce satellite probes Earth's gravity
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Soldiers now point out a nearby patch of ravaged earth, where Thamilselvan was sleeping in November 2007 when an air force plane dropped the bomb that killed him instantly.
ECONOMIST: Sri Lanka's war