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Dead Astronomers Get the Shovel
Science & Tech  (tags: astronomy, Astronomers, science, study, Gailieo, Tycho Brahe, archaeologists )

Scarlett
- 310 days ago - blogs.nature.com
To celebrate the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first use of a telescope, the great astronomer will be... exhumed? Yes, curious scientists have applied for permission to take a DNA sample.
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Kit B. (177)
Monday January 26, 2009, 12:57 pm
That is interesting and that I read some where recently that the Catholic Church has forgiven Galileo. Whew! What a relief.
 
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