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Icebergs hang around

By Daniel Smith on Dec 1, 11 11:02 PM

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In March 2000, an iceberg calved off the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.

Named B-15, it measured roughly 275 by 40 kilometers. The iceberg subsequently broke into pieces

And (very big) bits and pieces are still floating about today. Here's a shot of B-15J and B-15Y taken last month.

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Daniel Smith - a long time ago, in a galaxy far away just north of Watford, Daniel fancied himself as a scientist but turned out to be the worst scientist since that bloke who mapped out all those canals on Mars that turned out to be scratches on his telescope's lens. Luckily, he is now not working on the Large Hadron Collider inadvertently creating a black hole that would swallow the world but is safely behind a desk writing this blog, bringing you the fantastical underbelly of nature... weird science.

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