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*After detailed study of the [[Sutter's Mill meteorite]] founded in [[California]] on 22 April 2012 scientists reports it contains some of the oldest material in the [[Solar System]]. [http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/347199/description/California_meteorite_a_scientific_gold_mine (Science News)] [http://www.nature.com/news/us-meteorite-was-fastest-on-record-1.12095 (Nature)] [http://www.businessinsider.com/one-of-the-fastest-rarest-meteorites-recovered-in-californias-gold-county-2012-12 (Business Insider)]

*[[Expedition 34]] Flight Engineers [[Tom Marshburn]], [[Roman Romanenko]] and [[Chris Hadfield]] docked their [[Soyuz TMA-07M]] [[spacecraft]] to the [[International Space Station]]’s [[Rassvet (ISS module)|Rassvet module]]. [http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/expeditions/expedition34/e34_launch.html (NASA)]

*[[MIT]] researchers discover that [[Herbertsmithite]] exhibits a [[quantum spin liquid]] behavior, a new [[state of matter]]. [http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/143782-mit-discovers-a-new-state-of-matter-a-new-kind-of-magnetism (Extreme Tech)] [http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112752884/magnetism-mit-quantum-spin-liquid-herbertsmithite-122112/ (Red Orbit)] [http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/21/quantum_spin_liquid_mit_research/ (The Register)]

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