The Mayan civilization, based in modern day Mexico and Central America, reached its height from 300 AD to 900 AD and had a talent for astronomy.

玛雅文化以现代的墨西哥和中美洲为基础，在公元300至公元900年间达到顶峰，具有非凡的天文智慧。

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The new study "is a nice piece of work," says Mauricio Cisternas, an astronomer at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany.

德国海德尔堡市马普学会天文研究所的天文学家莫里西奥·西斯特纳斯说，这项新研究“很精致”。

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"This discovery is very exciting," said Rainer Klement of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Heidelberg, Germany, who targetted the stars in the study.

“这个发现非常令人兴奋，”德国海德堡马克斯·普朗克天文研究所的赖纳·克莱门特这样说，他在这项研究中负责选定作为观测对象的星球。

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If that argument, if the argument-- If trying to run the Cartesian argument for astronomy fails, yet it seems to be an exactly analogous argument, we ought to conclude that the argument for the distinctness of the mind and the body must fail as well.

如果这个论证,如果把卡氏论证运用到天文学,是失败的,看来我们也不得不承认,类似的那个证明心灵,和身体不同的那个论证,必然也是失败的

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Whereas we all know that the universe is of a certain kind-- -- we can't even call it Copernican anymore-- poetry has this odd preference for Ptolemaic astronomy.

虽然我们都知道宇宙是怎样的-,现在即使哥白尼的理论也不完全正确了-,但是诗歌偏爱托勒密的宇宙观。

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But the sheer inhospitable nature of the site is also what makes it perfect for astronomy.

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Observing the asteroid wasn't easy, said David Tholen, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii Institute for Astronomy.

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Mr. MICHAEL ROWAN-ROBINSON (Astronomer): It would be disastrous for astronomy if we come away from the general assembly with nothing.

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