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Cassini finds new Saturn moons

The Cassini-Huygens mission in orbit around Saturn has discovered two new moons around the ringed planet.

The new discoveries take Saturn's total tally of natural satellites to 33.

The moons are about 3km (2 miles) and 4km (2.5 miles) across and located 194,000km (120,000 miles) and 211,000 km (131,000 miles) from Saturn's centre.

They are provisionally named S/2004 S1 and S/2004 S2 though one of the new moons may have been spotted before in a single image from the Voyager probe.

Source:BBC News Tuesday, 17 August, 2004

Singh ends Tiger’s reign

Vijay Singh is the new world number one in golf - after winning the Deutsche Bank Championship by three shots in Boston on Monday, 6 September. Vijay's victory ended Tiger Woods' 5 year reign as Number 1. This is Singh's 7th tour win including the USPGA.

Tied at 3rd position was Daniel Chopra - a rising star in the game of golf.

A new cat cafe in New York

Photo Courtesy : Paul Hawthorne, Getty Images

The Meow Mix Cafe, designed especially for cats and their owners opened in midtown New York last month. The cafe is owned by the New Jersey based cat-food maker Meow Mix Company. On the feline menu are delights such as mackerel, and salmon.

No dogs allowed!

Bear downs 36 beers, passes out at campground

Rainier, not Busch - the beer of choice for a black bear!!!

State Fish and Wildlife agents recently found a black bear passed out on the lawn of Baker Lake Resort, in the US. There were some clues scattered nearby — dozens of empty cans of Rainier Beer.

The bear apparently got into campers’ coolers and used his claws and teeth to puncture the cans. And not just any cans.

"He drank the Rainier and wouldn’t drink the Busch beer," said Lisa Broxson, bookkeeper at the campground and cabins resort east of Mount Baker.

Fish and Wildlife enforcement Sgt. Bill Heinck said the bear did try one can of Busch, but ignored the rest. The beast then consumed about 36 cans of Rainier.

Source:MSNBC

World's First Blue Roses

Professor Peter Guengrich and Dr Elizabeth Gillam - biochemists at Vanderbilt University, nashville, Tennessee, discovered a liver enzyme that turned bacteria blue. They capitalised on their discovery and produced a blue rose. Blue roses are supposed to be in the flower market soon.

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