What would happen to Earth if the moon was only half as massive?Neil F. Comins, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Maine, Orono, explains why an Earth with a half-mass moon would be populated by bug-eyed creatures that would never know the beauty of a total eclipse.
Blues legend B.B. King has died at the age of 89, Clark County, Nevada Coroner John Fudenberg told ABC News. King, who is considered one of the greatest guitarists of all-time, died at 9:40 p.m. Thursday, Fudenberg said.
One day after speaking those words, Dr. King was shot and killed by a sniper. As word of the assassination spread, riots broke out in cities all across the United States and National Guard troops were deployed in Memphis and Washington, D.C.