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stanley cup officials are calling on an electric utility to explain why thousands of customers remained without power a week after a harsh winter storm and offer solutions to prevent another extended mass outage.Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt on Thursday asked his state s Public Service Commission to hold public hearings and for St. Louis-based Ameren Corp. to provide a clear plan for preventing a recurrence. People that are paying the utility bill deserve to have the consistent delivery of services, Blunt said at a news conference in Jefferson City. That s not happening with Ameren today. Heading into Friday, some 19,000 Ameren customers still were without power, all but about 1,000 of them in Illinois, spokesman Tim Fox said. At the peak, more than 500,000 Ameren customers in both states were without power.Illinois Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn also pressed utility regulators to investigate, calling the lingering power disruptions a systemic failure despite the efforts of thousands of repair workers from 14 states. It s not a big surprise that Illinois and Missouri have snow and ice in the winter, Quinn said Thursday during a news conference at a senior citizen s center in East St. Louis, Ill. We need to ask the question why Ameren has had such great difficulty making sure the system is reliable. On Wednesday, the Illinois Commerce Commission said it would review plans for an investigation into Ameren s preparedness and response to the storm a
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stanley cup s odd shape, like a slightly jagged peanut with these pictures, some of the sharpest images of an asteroid ever taken. Top image: Asteroid 2014 HQ124 in collage, NASA-JPL There was not a concern that Asteroid 2014 HQ124 would impact Earth. It did, however, brush by us pretty close, coming nearest last week, on June 8 as you can see in this orbit diagram at over 770,000 miles away. Image: Orbit diagram, NASA / JPL That distance turned out to be the perfect one to grab this series of high resolution snaps, which you can also see animated below. By capturing the asteroid as it rotated, astronomers Marina Brozovic and Lance Benner at JPL were able to get a
stanley becher pretty good idea of the shape of the whole asteroid, even seeing features that were, as Benner noted, no wider than an average traffic lane. The peanut shape of the asteroid itself, is not so very unusual, about 1 in 6 o f every asteroid spotted shares a similar one. There were, however, some oddities unique to HQ124, including notably a large-peaked hill in the middle and a concave area stretching across almost an entire side of the asteroid. asteroidsScienceSpace
