2007 astronomy news highlights

The 2007 December 15 issue of the Meta Research Bulletin is available for reading in HTML and PDF formats: http://metaresearch.org/publications/bulletin/bulletin.asp

This issue contains three featured articles:
.. Book Review: "The Virtue of Heresy"
.. Predictions for the Mercury Messenger Mission
.. The Great Comet Holmes Outburst of 2007 (an explanation that works well for all comet outbursts)

Our regular feature, "Meta Science in the News", contains a round-up of astronomy news stories in 2007 and how the mainstream and Meta Science expectations fared in connection with each story:
o Moon Origin: Earth's Moon is a cosmic rarity
o Did the Moon form from Earth?
o H-fusion may not be the main heat source inside stars
o Possible asteroid impact on Mars could produce major dust storm
o Claims of Martian bacterial life
o Dino-killing asteroid traced to cosmic collision
o 'Body C' gets a name
o Discovery of first NEO-producing meteorites
o Astronomers baffled by basalt in the outer asteroid belt
o Evidence for the origin of Ceres as a moon of 'Planet K'
o A belt of moonlets in Saturn's A ring
o Evidence for two populations of classical trans-Neptunian objects: The strong inclination dependence of classical binaries
o Formation mechanisms for Kuiper Belt Binaries
o The Pioneer Anomaly: non-existent in outer solar system
o Giant void casts doubt on current models of the universe
o Dark Matter Mystery Deepens in Cosmic 'Train Wreck'
o Galactic Halo: Two stellar components in the halo of the Milky Way
o The Edge at the Edge of the Universe
o Reports from the Alternative Cosmology Group newsletter
o NGC4319 & Markarian 205: connected by a luminous bridge?
o Universal 'axis of evil' starting to look real
o Do high-energy gamma rays travel slower than low-energy rays?
o NeWiki: A new science supplement to Wikipedia

Tom Van Flandern - Sequim, WA - see our web site on frontier astronomy research at http://metaresearch.org

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