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California, with its population of more than 38 million people, is now «the new epicenter of the legal cannabis industry,» she said, adding, «As both the oldest medical cannabis state and the largest cannabis consumer population, sales in California are projected to dwarf those of any other market.
As a result the best sellers that appear in the New York Times lists are regularly dwarfed by books sold by and to evangelical Christians.
Red Dwarf «Mistaken or flawed identification has assumed a newfound prominence in recent years: It's been cited as a factor in nearly 78 percent of the nation's first 130 convictions later overturned by DNA testing, according to the New York - based Innocence Project, which works to free the wrongly convicted.
Away from the convention, Portland's Apex hosted an event for the American Dwarf Hop Association — the hops are grown to shorter heights — showcasing new varieties such as Jarrylo, which presents flavors or pears and oranges, and floral, minty Pekko.
This afternoon, as part of Disney World opening up its new Seven Dwarf ride, Oladipo and Tobias Harris went on the new attraction.
(Under the current system, which stipulates that teams share equally in all national and international television revenue, there's a considerable disparity in local TV income, with large - market teams, such as the Los Angeles Lakers and the New York Knicks, receiving amounts that dwarf those earned by teams in smaller cities, such as the Utah Jazz and the Vancouver Grizzlies.)
Jon Snow, Sansa, Davos, and the rest of The Empire Starks Back: Back into Winterfell; Ramsay and his knife collection; Margaery and her gently wavy hair; Rickon Stark; Bran & the Coldhands Crew; the High Septon formerly known as High Sparrow; Ian McShane; Daario and Jorah; Bianca's new face; Sam and Gilly; Randyll Tarly's dinner party circuit; the second-most famous dwarf in the world; Yara Greyjoy and Pledge Theon; Euron Greyjoy and his armada of one thousand E-Z-build ships.
lol as you say at least 9 coming in: some West Ham Youth and some new purchases... with the money we'll make from the Seven Dwarfs, it's a pretty good score.
These projects have dwarfed the preceding administration of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and may be used as President Mahama's biggest selling point as he seeks a second term mandate.
NASA's New Horizons probe has officially begun to execute its sequence of Pluto flyby observations as it zooms toward its closest approach to the dwarf planet on July 14.
As Wetzel explained: «By improving how we modeled the physics of stars, this new simulation offered a clear theoretical demonstration that we can, indeed, understand the dwarf galaxies we've observed around the Milky Way.
New theoretical models show that hydrogen in white dwarfs should emit blue light, not red as astronomers once thought.
In their new study, the Leicester - led team assesses whether these laws are the same within the hot, dense conditions in the atmosphere of a dying white dwarf star as here on Earth.
But the dwarf planet rallied, as New Horizons scientists blitzed Twitter with get - out - the - vote tweets.
As a worldwide audience awaits images from NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flyby of Pluto on July 14, NAU scientists already are supporting astronomers» understanding of the dwarf planet's surface.
The spacecraft's view is now three times as sharp as in its previous mapping orbit, revealing exciting new details of this intriguing dwarf planet,» said Marc Rayman, Dawn's chief engineer and mission director, based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.
New work from a Carnegie - led team reports the distances of a number of brown dwarfs, as well as low - mass stars, in The Astronomical Journal.
Three new planets classified as habitable - zone super-Earths are amongst eight new planets discovered orbiting nearby red dwarf stars by an international team of astronomers from the UK and Chile.
New fossils now indicate some giant pterosaurs probably did dine on bigger prey, such as dwarf dinosaurs the size of a small horse, 70 million years ago on an island that became modern - day Transylvania.
Named the Crater 2 dwarf, the new galaxy is not apparent to human eyes as its stars are so spread out, although some stars within it are visible.
The three billion units of code furnished in the new tests will also dwarf the relative trickle of information provided by consumer gene - testing services such as 23andMe, which currently look (postnatally) only at perhaps about one million locations in the genome.
According to two new studies, such clouds also arise around the failed stars known as brown dwarfs — even ones as small as giant planets.
That haze affects surface features such as the dwarf planet's red patches, a new study suggests.
In Neil deGrasse Tyson «s new book The Pluto Files (read our review), he reproduces a selection of angry letters complaining about the decision to reclassify Pluto as a «dwarf planet», rather than a true planet.
New work led by Carnegie's Jacqueline Faherty surveyed various properties of 152 suspected young brown dwarfs in order to categorize their diversity and found that atmospheric properties may be behind much of their differences, a discovery that may apply to planets outside the solar system as well.
The pictures, taken when New Horizons was about 13 million kilometers from the dwarf planet, show three different swaths of the icy surface as Pluto slowly rotated on its axis.
She says uncertainty in these new measurements means the orbits of these dwarf galaxies may not be as nicely aligned as they seem.
The star - forming dwarf galaxy in the new study was found during an ongoing, large - scale inventory of the heavens, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which revealed it as a possible point of interest.
Pluto and Charon might have been the stars of the New Horizons mission, but the dwarf planet's four smaller moons have some surprises to share as well.
If it's real, the signal should grow stronger as Fermi acquires additional years of observations and as wide - field astronomical surveys discover new dwarfs.
Pluto is thought to possess a subsurface ocean, which is not so much a sign of water as it is a tremendous clue that other dwarf planets in deep space also may contain similarly exotic oceans, naturally leading to the question of life, said one co-investigator with NASA's New Horizon mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.
The New Horizons spacecraft has arrived at Pluto after a decade - long journey, collecting images and data as it flies by the dwarf planet at 28,000 mph (45,000 km / h).
With its Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI), New Horizons has observed several Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) and dwarf planets at unique phase angles, as well as Centaurs at extremely high phase angles to search for forward - scattering rings or dust.
Discoveries of Sun - like stars with host exoplanets as well as red dwarf companions have been common, and many appear to be old and stable enough for life to have evolved (RAS new releases of April 16 and April 19, 2011; and University of St. Andrews press release).
But in case you're wondering, the New Horizons team did not plan for Pluto to be downgraded to a dwarf planet in the same year as the launch.
Here we report the discovery of three small planets orbiting a bright (Ks = 8.6 mag) M0 dwarf using data collected as part of K2, the new transit survey using the re-purposed Kepler spacecraft.
We identify PSO J060.3200 +25.9644 (near - infrared spectral type L1) and PSO J077.1033 +24.3809 (L2) as new members of Taurus based on... ▽ More We present the discovery of eight young M7 - L2 dwarfs in the Taurus star - forming region and the Scorpius - Centaurus OB Association, serendipitously found during a wide - field search for L / T transition dwarfs using Pan-STARRS1 (optical) and WISE (mid-infrared) photometry.
A new dwarf planet, named as 2014 UZ224 has been discovered and may join the club of five dwarf planets and give company to Pluto.
Our discoveries include 24 new L dwarf companions and one known L dwarf not previously identified as a companion.
The new method should already become viable for white dwarf systems in five years» time as the JWST goes online.
An intensive study of a neighboring dwarf galaxy has surprised astronomers by showing that most of its molecular gas — the raw material for new stars — is scattered among clumps in the galaxy's outskirts, not near its center as they expected.
12 systems were resolved as new binaries, including the discovery of a new white dwarf companion to the star HD8049.
SPHERE opens new horizons in the study of young brown dwarfs and giant exoplanets thanks to high - contrast imaging capabilities at optical and near - infrared wavelengths, as well as high signal - to - noise spectroscopy in the near - infrared from low (R ~ 30 - 50) to medium resolutions (R ~ 350).
On June 11, 2008, On August 24, 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) voted at the meeting of its Executive Committee to establish bright «dwarf planets beyond the orbit of Neptune as a new class of substellar objects in the Solar System called «plutoids» (IAU press release).
As a result of this study, HD 284149 ABb therefore becomes the latest addition to the (short) list of brown dwarfs on wide circumbinary orbits, providing new evidence to support recent claims that object in such configuration occur with a similar frequency to wide companions to single stars.
A new T8.5 brown dwarf has been found in this system using NASA's Wide - field Infrared Survey Explorer as of March 26, 2012 (more).
Modal noise become significantly more important as the wavelength increases and presents a risk to the new generation of near - infrared precision radial spectrographs under construction or being proposed to search for planets around cool M - dwarf stars, which emit most of their light in the NIR.
The July 14 close encounter — in which New Horizons will zoom within 7,800 miles (12,500 kilometers) of Pluto — will reveal many different surface features, such as craters and mountains, on the dwarf planet and its satellites (Charon, Nix, Hydra, Kerberos and Styx).
The New Horizons team has now sorted through the huge database and sent their recommendations on to the IAU (which famously reclassified Pluto as a «dwarf planet» back in 2006).
When New Horizons arrives at the Pluto system, onboard science instruments such as Alice, a sensitive ultraviolet imaging spectrometer, will reveal even more about the composition and structure of the dwarf planet's dynamic atmosphere.
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