An Asteroid “Double Disaster” Struck Germany in the Miocene
A Gothic church rises high above the medieval town of Nördlingen, Germany. But unlike most churches, St. George’s is composed of a very special type of rock: suevite, a coarse-grained breccia that’s formed only in powerful impacts. That discovery and other lines of evidence have helped researchers determine that Nördlingen lies within an […]
Ralphie from ‘A Christmas Story’ could have been the first child in space. Then disaster struck.
Challenger lifts off on a mission in 1984. (NASA/) Countless children dream of going to space, but one 14-year-old in 1986 may actually have had a shot at it: Peter Billingsley. Billingsley played the adorable, doe-eyed 9-year old Ralphie Parker in the holiday movie A Christmas Story—the goofy, sometimes hilarious 1983 classic that has become […]
