Monarchs jettison Comets
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Tangela Smith had 17 points and six rebounds for the Sacramento Monarchs, who used a 12-0 run in the second half to eliminate the Comets from playoff contention with a 71-62 victory last night in Houston.
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Washington, D.C. â Eleven months ago, NASAâs Stardust mission touched down in the Utah desert with the first solid comet samples ever retrieved from space.
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Mwadi Mabika scored 22 points and Tamecka Dixon had 17 points, nine rebounds and five assists to lead the Los Angeles Sparks to a 71-57 victory over the Sacramento Monarchs in the second game of their WNBA first-round playoff series Sunday.
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Astronomers  have pieced together what  appears to be the first direct evidence that solar storms can wreak  havoc with comets, destroying the ion tails of icy wanderers&nbsp;in a collision  of highly charged particles.&nbsp;
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Tangela Smith scored 21 points Friday night, helping the Sacramento Monarchs humble the top-seeded Los Angeles Sparks 72-52 in Game 1 of their first-round WNBA playoff series.
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CERRO PELON, Mexico -- High on a remote mountaintop, Alfredo Cruz Colin gazed at a panorama of giant pines and firs where millions of orange and black monarch butterflies spend the winter after flying as far as 2,000 miles from Canada and the United States. He saw two things: one of North America's...
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Coach driver liberates Italian Riviera sun loungers A Brit coach driver successfully liberated Italian Riviera sun loungers from foreign occupation by setting fire to the towels traditionally used to denote German territorial sovereignty.â¦
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Earth is heading for a cloud of comet dust that could produce an outburst of Leonid meteors on Nov. 19th.
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Alicia Thompson thought twice before launching an unchallenged buzzer-beating 3-pointer to cap the Storm&#39;s 66-54 victory over the Sacramento Monarchs on Sunday in Game 2 of the Western Conference finals.
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The axis of power shifted Saturday at Sanford Stadium when the two super powers of the Southeastern Conference collided. Georgiaâs awe-inspiring performance in a 45-16 rout
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Sue Bird had 10 points and 14 assists a day after having surgery on her broken nose, and the Seattle Storm advanced to the WNBA finals with an 82-62 win over the Sacramento Monarchs in Game 3 of the Western Conference finals Tuesday night.
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A whole lot of Latta coupled with a whole lot of Old Dominion turnovers and not enough Lady Monarchs offense led to a 79-55 North Carolina victory on Thursday at the Smith Center.
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Elbows flew, whistles blew, and bodies banged for 40 minutes yesterday in Uncasville, Conn. When it was over, Detroit and Connecticut had combined for 52 personal fouls and three technicals. The Shock had also downed the Sun, 79-74, to remain the only unbeaten team in the WNBA.
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By Sandi Doughton, Seattle Times  Dec. 15--University of Washington astronomer Don Brownlee expected surprises from the pinch of comet dust collected by the Stardust spacecraft.   But he didn't foresee such a shake-up.
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An explosion on a distant comet, Holmes, is studied by UK astronomers using the Isaac Newton Telescope.
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Earlier this year, Comet Encke was passing a little too close to the Sun when a coronal mass ejection (CME) hit the comet and ripped off its tail.  NASA's STEREO spacecraft was watching and recorded a must-see movie featured in today's story.
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In late June of 1908, a fireball exploded above the remote Russian forests of Tunguska,  Siberia, flattening more than 800 square miles of trees. Researchers think a meteor was responsible for the devastation, but neither its fragments nor any impact craters have been discovered.