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Stephanie Meyer has created a page on her website discussing the illegal distribution of her sixth book in the Twilight series. She also posted the first 264 pages of the book on her website for all to read. Most fans know that someone got their hands on her ‘work in progress’ manuscript of Midnight Sun and posted it on the internet. She was horribly distressed and feels she can’t complete the book now. I really hope that she changes her mind. What a loss.

http://www.stepheniemeyer.com/midnightsun.html

Atari Inc. (1972-1984)

The third version of the Atari Video Computer System sold from 1980 to 1981.

Intellivision (1979)

The Intellivision is a video game console released by Mattel in 1979.

Nintendo Entertainment System (1985-1990)

The Nintendo Entertainment System (often abbreviated as NES or simply Nintendo) is an 8-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America, Europe, and Australia in 1985.

Sega Mega Drive (1989)

The Sega Mega Drive is a 16-bit video game console released by Sega in Japan in 1988, North America in 1989. Over 29 million units sold!

Super Nintendo Entertainment System (1990-1993)

The Super Nintendo Entertainment System or Super NES (also called SNES and Super Nintendo) is a 16-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America, Europe, Australasia (Oceania), and South America between 1990 and 1993.

Atari Jaguar (1993-1994)

The Atari Jaguar is a video game console, released by Atari Corporation in 1993. It was designed to surpass the Mega Drive/Genesis and the Super Nintendo Entertainment System in processing power. It was in competition with 3DO and later consoles that made up the Fifth generation of video game consoles. The console was first released in selected U.S. cities in November 1993, and the rest of the country in early 1994. Although it was promoted as the first 64-bit gaming system, the Jaguar proved to be a commercial failure and prompted Atari to leave the home video game console market. Despite its commercial failure, the Jaguar has a large fan base that produces homebrew games, making the console a cult classic.

Sega Saturn (1994-1998)

The Sega Saturn is a 32-bit video game console that was first released on November 22, 1994 in Japan, May 11, 1995 in North America, and July 8, 1995 in Europe. The system was discontinued in 1998.

Nintendo 64 (1996)

The Nintendo 64, often abbreviated as N64, is Nintendo’s third home video game console for the international market. Named for its 64-bit CPU, it was released on June 23 1996 in Japan, September 29 1996 in North America, March 1 1997 in Europe and Australia, September 1 1997 in France and December 10 1997 in Brazil. It is Nintendo’s last home console to use cartridges to store games (Nintendo switched to a proprietary optical format for the GameCube, then to standard DVD-sized media for Wii). The N64 sold 32.93 million units worldwide.

Playstation (1994)

The PlayStation (abbreviated PS, PSone, PS1, or informally as PSX) is a 32-bit fifth generation video game console released by Sony Computer Entertainment in December 1994.

Sega Dreamcast (1997-2001)

The Dreamcast code-named White Belt, Black Belt, Dural, Dricas, Vortex, Katana, Shark, and Guppy during development) is a video game console made by Sega, and is the successor to the Sega Saturn. An attempt to recapture the console market with a next-generation system, it was designed to supersede the PlayStation and Nintendo 64. Originally released sixteen months before the PlayStation 2 (PS2) and three years before the Nintendo GameCube and the Xbox, the Dreamcast is part of the sixth generation of video game consoles.

PlayStation 2 (1999)

The PlayStation 2 (abbreviated “PS2″) is a sixth-generation video game console manufactured by Sony, the successor to the PlayStation, and the predecessor to the PlayStation 3 as part of the PlayStation series of video game consoles. Its development was announced in March 1999 and it was released a year later in Japan.

The PS2 is the best-selling console to date, having reached over 140 million units in sales by mid-2008.

Nintendo Gamecube (2001)

The Nintendo GameCube often abbreviated as GCN, is Nintendo’s fourth home video game console and is part of the sixth generation console era. The hardware system is the most compact, and second-cheapest after Sega’s Dreamcast, of the sixth generation. It is the successor to the Nintendo 64 and predecessor to Nintendo’s Wii. The console was released on September 14, 2001 in Japan, November 18, 2001 in North America, May 3, 2002 in Europe, and May 17, 2002 in Australia. The GameCube sold 21.74 million units worldwide.

Xbox (2001)

The Xbox is a sixth-generation video game console produced by Microsoft Corporation. It was Microsoft’s first foray into the gaming console market, and competed directly with Sony’s PlayStation 2 and the Nintendo GameCube. It was released on 15 November, 2001 in North America, 22 February, 2002 in Japan, and 14 March, 2002 in Australia and Europe. It is the predecessor to Microsoft’s Xbox 360 console. It was discontinued in late 2006.

Scientists say they are searching for remnants of one of the largest meteors visible in the country in the last decade meteor that brilliantly lit up the sky before breaking into pieces that may have fallen to earth in western Canada. Watch the video below:

Widely broadcast video images showed what appeared to be a speeding fireball on Thursday night over Saskatoon that became larger and brighter before disappearing as it neared the ground. Hildebrand said on Friday that he received about 300 e-mail reports from witnesses.

“It would be something like a billion-watt light bulb,” said Hildebrand, who also co-ordinates meteor sightings with the Canadian Space Agency. Tammy Evans was wakened by her 10-year-old daughter who ran into the bedroom of their home in North Battleford, Saskatchewan.

“She said there was a flash of light, the house shook twice and it sounded like dinosaurs were walking,” Evans, a nurse, said. Hildebrand suspects the meteor broke up into pieces and he plans to investigate an area around Macklin, Saskatchewan, near the Alberta border.

Rick Huziak, an amateur astronomer in Saskatoon, helped operate a camera on top of the University of Saskatchewan physics building that captured video of the meteor.

Although the camera records one every two to three weeks, this meteor was among the brightest seen in Canada in the last dozen years, he said. “It was quite spectacular. The ground lights up all over the place,” he said.

Martin Beech, an associate professor of astronomy at the University of Regina, said meteorites are valuable to learning about the history of the solar system. “Picking up a meteorite is almost equivalent to doing a space exploration mission between Mars and Jupiter,” he said.

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Huziak said most meteors burn up completely after entering the Earth’s atmosphere, but one in a thousand actually drop meteorites that hit the ground. The biggest meteorite fall occurred northeast of Edmonton near the town of Bruderheim in 1960. More than 700 fragments were recovered that totalled 300kg.