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Another Vertebrate Species Reported Extinct from the Hawaiian Islands

HONOLULU – A species of lizard is now extinct from the Hawaiian Islands, making it the latest native vertebrate species to become extirpated from this tropical archipelago.

The copper striped blue-tailed skink (Emoia impar) — a sleek lizard with smooth, polished scales and a long, sky-blue tail — was last confirmed in the Na’Pali coast of Kauai in the 1960s. But repeated field surveys on Kauai, Oahu, Maui and Hawai’i islands from 1988 to 2008 have yielded no sightings or specimens. (more…)

Pan-STARRS Telescope Spots New Distant Comet

By Guest PostJune 22, 2011Scienceastronomers, automated software, c 2011 l4 comets, canada france hawaii telescope, earth, haleakala, larry denneau, marco micheli, massachusetts, maui, mauna kea, mercury, mikael granvik, minor planet center cambridge, panstarrs, panstarrs 1 telescope, parabolic, potentially hazardous asteroids, richard wainscoat, robert jedicke, sensitive electronic detector, telescope images, tommy grav, university of hawaii at manoa

Astronomers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa have discovered a new comet that they expect will be visible to the naked eye in early 2013.

Originally found by the Pan-STARRS 1 telescope on Haleakala, Maui, on the night of June 5-6, it was confirmed to be a comet by UH Mānoa astronomer Richard Wainscoat and graduate student Marco Micheli the following night using the Canada-France-Hawaiʻi Telescope on Mauna Kea. (more…)

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Another Vertebrate Species Reported Extinct from the Hawaiian Islands

Pan-STARRS Telescope Spots New Distant Comet