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Asteroid (66391) 1999 KW4 is actually a double asteroid or a binary asteroid...composed of one large asteroid orbited by a smaller moon...about a third of a mile wide and orbits around the larger body about once every 16 hours. The Las Cumbres Observatory describes 1999 KW4 as “slightly squashed at the poles and with a mountain ridge around the equator, which runs all the way around the asteroid. This ridge gives the primary an appearance similar to a walnut or a spinning top.” While 1999 KW4 is classified as a “Potentially Hazardous Asteroid” by the Minor Planet Center, it should...

Here's Our Best Look Yet at Saturn's 'UFO' Moon Adorned with a thin band of icy ring particles, the small moon Pan inspires comparisons to alien spacecraft, walnuts, and even ravioli. View Images One of Cassini's new views of Saturn's moon Pan. Photograph by NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute By Nadia Drake PUBLISHED March 9, 2017 There’s a tiny “flying saucer” orbiting deep within Saturn’s rings, and a NASA probe has just gotten its most impressive look yet at the strange object. The saucer is actually a little moon called Pan, and NASA’s Cassini spacecraft captured its distinctive shape on March 7...

...I thought Huntsman would be my ideal candidate. And indeed, his tax reform proposals--modeled on Bowles-Simpson--are dead-on.... On foreign policy, Huntsman also favors a more realist correction to neocon excess, and would build on Obama's remarkable successes.... And his sanity on climate change--certainty that it is man-made but real skepticism about how to tackle it--is, in my view, the conservative position. And, almost alone among the Republicans, he acknowledges that gay people exist and that our committed relationships merit recognition in the law. So why not Huntsman? The sad truth is: he simply hasn't connected with the voters, generates little...

Life Extension® has published 57 articles that describe the health benefits of walnuts. Some of this same scientific data was featured on the website of Diamond Foods, Inc., a distributor of packaged walnuts. Last year the FDA determined that walnuts sold by Diamond Foods cannot be legally marketed because the walnuts “are not generally recognized as safe and effective” for the medical conditions referenced on Diamond Foods’s website. According to the FDA, these walnuts were classified as “drugs” and the “unauthorized health claims” cause them to become “misbranded,” thus subjecting them to government “seizure or injunction.” Diamond Foods capitulated and...

While looking through a few pictures a friend (thanks, Gail!) sent me from the recent patriotic, anti-big government, anti-tax march on September 12, 2009 in Washington, D.C., I came across the following photo: My curiosity peaked. I contacted the group directly and they said I could re-print anything I wished from their website: http://freedomnuts.org Here's just a small sampling: WALNUT is billed as "the conservative answer to ACORN." WALNUT stands for "WORKERS AGAINST LAZY NON-PRODUCERS UNITED TOGETHER Their motto: "We aren't organizing a community, we're organizing a country."

Intrepid Hot Air special correspondent Jason Mattera is back. Representing ACORN’s sister organization WALNUT, Jason hit the streets to petition for the right of the oppressed to vote twice. The GAP company would approve. So did several of America’s finest citizens. The new disenfranchisement threshhold: $75,000/year. Thanks to camerawoman Alyssa Cordova. Here’s Part I: Click here to watch

Here is a photograph of the Ron Paul 2008 national office in Arlington, Virginia. We have the entire second floor; about 3,000 square feet. The photograph was taken around 6:00 o'clock this morning.

WALNUT GROVE, Minn. - A 31-year-old woman was found dead in a Walnut Grove apartment when Redwood County sheriff's officers responded to an assault report yesterday afternoon. Authorities say the woman apparently had been beaten, but an autopsy will be performed to determine the exact cause of death. The victim's name hasn't been released. A male suspect in the case was found hiding in a wooded area and is being held in Redwood County Jail pending a court appearance.

A giant ridge girdles Saturn's satellite Iapetus - making the moon look like a walnut shell - reveal the latest images from the Cassini-Huygens mission. Scientists are at a loss to explain the feature, which is unique in the solar system. The Cassini spacecraft flew past Iapetus on New Year's Day, approaching to within 123,400 kilometres of the moon's surface. Its camera captured the most detailed images of Iapetus yet, revealing wisps of dark material and two-tone craters. But the ridge is the greatest surprise to scientists. It extends for at least 1300 km, following the equator exactly. In...