Category: News For Kids
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Earth had A Close Call
Two asteroids ‘2012 XE54’ and ‘4179 Toutatis’ passed Earth really close. Yesterday 2012 XE54, a small asteroid and 4179 Toutatis, a lumpy shaped asteroid, almost 3 miles (5 km) long passed Earth. “4179 Toutatis” has passed Earth several times before, in 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008. It is termed as a potentially hazardous object (PHO). PHOs…
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Messi’s Record Breaking Goal
Lionel Messi scored a goal for the 86th time in year 2012 on Sunday. So what, you might ask? Here is what it is. He broke German great Gerd Mueller’s 40-year-old record for scoring most goals in a year. Mueller had scored a total of 85 goals in the year 1972. Lionel Messi is an Argentine footballer…
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South Africa, Vietnam Seal the Rhino Deal
Rhino poaching is banned as per international laws. Still, 618 rhinos were poached in South Africa in 2012, most of them in the world famous Kruger National Park. Shockingly, it is double than the number of rhinos Poached in 2010. South Africa is home to 25,000 rhinos. This makes 85 percent of the total rhino…
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Ancient Lake of Antartica
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWbznvXPrEU Lake Ellsworth is about 14km long, 3km wide and 160m deep and lies under 2 miles of thick. It has been like that for almost half million years. British scientist Martin Siegert discovered the subglacial lake in 1996. The scientist’s are not going to get this done easily as the lake is located in a part of Antarctica that is…
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Book Your Tickets for Moon
SpaceX recently announced that it will be constructing buildings on Mars. Now another space company Golden Spike hopes to start personal trips to the moon by 2020. Alan Stern, the head of the company hopes that people could visit the Moon for scientific research or to make their country proud. There is a lot of platinum…
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Mexico gets a New President
Enrique Peña Nieto is the new president of Mexico. He’s just 46-years old. He won the election in July but started on job earlier this week. Mr. Peña Nieto won Mexico’s recent election with the support of the the PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party). The U.S. is following these developments closely as they share a 2000-mile long border…
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Our Earth at Night from Space
NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration(NOAA) for the first time in history, have created photo-stitch of our planet Earth, as seen from space at night. They have titled it “Black Marble.” The night side of Earth twinkles with light and the first thing to stand out is the cities. “Nothing tells us more…
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Five eclipses in 2013
We will get to see five eclipses in year 2013 out of which three will be lunar eclipses and two of them will be solar eclipses. An eclipse is an astronomical event where one object in the sky moves into the shadow of another such object. During Lunar eclipse, the moon passes through the shadow…
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Powerful Earthquake hits Japan
A powerful earthquake of magnitude 7.3 struck off the northeast coast of Japan on Friday evening. Thankfully, it caused little damage. The buildings in Tokyo wobbled for a few minutes and only some minor injuries have been reported. This earthquake is nothing compared to the huge 2011 earthquake of magnitude 9 that killed more than 19,000 people in Japan. It…
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Indian Olympic Association suspended by IOC
International Olympic Committee(IOC) suspended Indian Olympic Association(IOA) because it was not happy with the top officers of the association. The suspension means the IOC will no longer fund India and its officials will not be able to attend its meetings. Indian athletes will not be eligible for IOC scholarships and cannot take part in international meets…
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Alastair Cook creates History
English cricketer Alastair Cook created history by scoring his 23rd Test century, the most by an Englishman. Cook remained unbeaten on a brilliant score of 136. His team made 216 runs for one at close on the second day on Thursday. This is also skipper Cook’s third consecutive century in the series against India. England seems to…
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Google Keeping An Eye On Endangered Species
Beware poachers, drones could soon be helping protect rhinos, tigers and elephants in Africa and Asia. Google funded the World Wildlife Fund a grant of $5 million to develop sensors to help protect endangered species. The WWF said poaching of endangered animals is devastating on their population, which are being conserved, for decades. The WWF is the winner of…