May. 1st, 2012

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Elephant bones unearthed at the site of Preresa in Spain show that people ate elephant meat and bone marrow 80,000 years ago:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-04/f-sf-om042412.php

Shouldn't that be "Humans who populated..."?
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There's some good planetary observing this month, and we finally got a hole in the clouds. Despite storms in the area, I was out with binoculars earlier and saw Venus (now set) Mars and Saturn. I also got a few glimpses of the Moon, mainly as a reference.

These are only 10X and the haze was blurring things, so there were no real details spotted, not even rings around Saturn (which I have seen through my Schmidt-Cassegrain before). I thought about dragging my telescope out, but was feeling tired and it's a heavy, awkward beast on its tripod, and difficult to fit through my narrow back door.

If the luck holds, maybe tomorrow or Thursday. The show will continue for at least a few more days.

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