The number twelve has been linked for millennia to the measurement of time. Both calendars and clocks are organized based on this figure: the year consists of 12 months and the day of 24 hours. Each hour is divided into 5 × 12 minutes. The duodenum (derived from the Latin word "duodecim", which means "twelve") is part of the small intestine and in an adult it measures approximately 12 inches in length (30.5 cm).
Today 12/12/12, a giant and irregular peanut-shaped asteroid will approach the Earth and will be closely observed by astronomers from all over the world. It is called Tutatis, it measures 4.46 kilometers long and 2.4 kilometers wide, and although it does not represent any danger, its passage 6.9 million kilometers away represents an opportunity for astronomers to gather new information about the origins. Of the solar system.
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The asteroid that collided with Earth wiped out the dinosaurs 65.5 million years ago also led to extreme devastation of snake and lizard species, including the extinction of a lizard species recently identified by scientists at Yale universities. and Harvard and christened Obamadon gracilis. This is clear from new research published in the journal PNAS in which it is estimated that 83 percent of all species of snakes and lizards died after the impact of the asteroid.
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The lunar crust was almost totally pulverized in the past by asteroid and comet bombardments. This is the conclusion reached by geophysicist Maria Zuber, scientific head of the GRAIL mission, after analyzing the map of the lunar gravitational field generated by the probes of this NASA mission, which has been described as the one with the "highest resolution obtained to date from a celestial body ".
An earthquake of more than 7 degrees on the Richter scale shook northeast Japan today, with a hypocenter in the sea off the coast of Miyagi province, triggering a tsunami warning for the coastal areas of the northeast of the country.
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