Hurricane Sandy Makes Landfall on the East Coast

East coast prepares for hurricane Sandy late in hurricane season

OCEAN CITY, NJ - OCT. 28: Ed Wicks secures plywood over the windows of a hair salon to protect from the high winds of approaching Hurricane Sandy in Ocean City. New Jersehttp://www.slate.comy is expected to be hit hard by approaching storm sometime on tomorrow, bringing heavy winds and floodwaters.
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New Planet Found Just Outside Our Solar System

Scientists have found a planet around the same size as earth but with much less mass and with a surface temperature reaching over 2,200 degrees Fahrenheit! (1,200C).  The unnamed planet cannot support life, that we know of, but scientists believe other planets could also be orbiting the same sun that are capable.  The planet revolves around it's sun every few days, so you would have a birthday every 3 days!  Though scientists are calling it a neighbor of earth, the planet is 25 trillion miles away and would take over 40,000 earth years in our fastest spacecraft!  Since the 1990's scientists have found over 800 exoplanets (planets outside our solar system) but none as close as the newly discovered planet.

Felix Baumgartner Freefalls to Earth from Outerspace!

On Sunday October 14, 2012 Australian Felix Baumgartner plunged to planet earth from the edge of outer space.  Felix traveled in a small capsule attached to a 7 story hot air balloon from a height of over 128,000 ft from the surface of the earth.  He became the first human to break the sound barrier by free falling.  Felix reached speeds of over 850mph passing the speed of sound by almost 100mph!