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I believe I knew before PZ Myers did that an Asteroid had been named after him. I heard it on the radio. and much later on he confirmed it on his blog. See this post.
[Correction: He knew, he was just being cool. See this.]
Curiously, PZ claims that we do not know what the asteroid looks like…
In the Index to Creationist Claims, there is an entry to an old argument from Walt Brown:
Claim CE302:
The sun has 99 percent of the mass of the solar system, but less than 1 percent of the angular momentum. It is spinning too slowly to have formed naturally.
Source:
Brown, Walt, 1995. In the…
The Digital Cuttlefish tells me in rhyme that a new ring has been discovered around Saturn, a huge (13 million km radius) but low density cloud of dust that is responsible for splattering Iapetus with dark material. Very cool.
The Cuttlefish also informed me that lazy ol' Phil Plait hasn't covered…
Phil has conceded, and I've received official verification that Pharyngula is indeed the winner of the Best Science Blog award.
I have no illusions, though: this really isn't a recognition that I have the best science blog, it's evidence that I can put together a really good PR campaign that will…