Even so, North Korea at the time declared it had successfully put in a place a second earth-orbiting satellite.
The newfound world, dubbed Kepler-22b, is much bigger than our planet - but, even so, it's also the smallest world yet discovered outside our Solar System, and finding it does bode well for the eventual detection of a true twin, a planet that really is a second Earth.
It was my daughter Chloe's second day on Earth, and already the mom anxiety had kicked in over what looked like a bruise just above her forehead.
Scientists discover that for every second now passing in Earth time, three years pass outside the planet.
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Arrow 3 detects an incoming missile, intercepts it and destroys it with a second missile above the earth's atmosphere.
One theory for the difference between the Moon's far side and near side is an ancient collision with a second natural satellite of Earth.
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It joins the US Marines famed V-22 Osprey as the second such aircraft on earth and is the first unmanned aircraft packing the technology.
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No one could have predicted, however, that he was about to lead Apple on a tear that would make it the second largest company on earth, by market capitalization.
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By the time humanity got its first closeup view of Mars, a little less than a century after Schiaparelli mapped it, the planet had come to seem like a second, more exotic Earth.
But pushing that figure up to a mere 5 watts would allow LCRD technology to have downlink speeds of 1 gigabyte per second and uplink speeds of 100 megabytes per second out to near earth distances.
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The project is part of a broader trend: Innovative consumer hits, like the iPhone, Google Earth, Second Life, and the Wii remotes and accessories, are increasingly put to unexpected -- and often unauthorized -- uses by outside researchers and tinkerers.
For the second, NEAR (Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous) Shoemaker trained its lens on the saddle, a part of Eros that exhibits few impact craters.
Mehta is now awaiting the release of Earth, the second film in her Elements trilogy, and is busy drafting the script for the third, Water.
The Monte Carlo location is larger, with a 1200 square foot bar whose ice weighs in at 80 tons, and it claims to be the second largest ice bar on earth.
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Measured by the number of published papers, China is the second most productive scientific nation on Earth.
It is not circling the Earth but orbits a point in the Sun-Earth system called the second Lagrange point.
Traveling at a 1000 kms per second, the shockwaves would reach earth in about a day and a half.
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This summer, two of them merged to form a single oval, larger than the earth, making the second-biggest storm in the solar system after the Great Red Spot.
The second or third largest hotel on earth, depending how you count, the MGM Grand is a true Las Vegas icon: the city's largest hotel, a major concert and sporting event venue, full of nightlife and entertainment options and celebrity chef restaurants, including arguably the nation's single best fine dining spot, the 3-Michelin starred, Forbes 5-Star, Joel Robuchon.
The AMS will collect 7 gigabytes of data per second and beam the information down to Earth for analysis.
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Cremated human remains were placed in the second stage of the Falcon and will orbit the Earth.
South Africa, who have played three away matches, were going down to their second defeat of the tournament, coming down to earth after the historic 30-28 win over New Zealand in Dunedin last weekend.
The first CME is travelling towards Earth at speeds greater than 1300 miles per second, and the second is travelling at about 1100 miles per second.
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During this violent time, much of the debris would have resembled comets - dirty snowballs thought to be mostly slushy water surrounding a rocky core - slamming into Earth at velocities greater than 25 km per second (16 miles per second).
And earlier this year the Live Earth concerts were streamed live to the inhabitants of Second Life, garnering a sizable virtual audience.
The high-resolution camera will offer a video image with a frame rate of 3.25 frames per second with a resolution that is comparable to much of Google Earth.
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Our second American Revolution will push on to new possibilities not only on Earth but in the next frontier of space.
Second, we need to make America the most attractive place on Earth for high-tech services and manufacturing jobs and to accelerate foreign direct investment in the U.S. Finally, we need to address the competitiveness of America's infrastructure.
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