1.   As climatologists debated the meaning and even the degree of our aberrant warmth, astronomers predicted confidently that the universe would expand forever.

2.   Astronomers predict that the project should not only be able to discover Earth-size planets but also study their atmospheres for signs of life.

3.   Astronomers also predicted that the discovery could be only the beginning of many others in a short time.

4.   Astronomers predict that if Shoemaker-Levy still harbors large fragments, they will plunge into Jupiter explosively.

5.   As the search is intensified using new instruments and more advanced telescopes, astronomers predict it will not be many years before they get visual sightings of these planets.

6.   Friday night is the peak of the annual Leonid meteor shower, and astronomers are predicting a better-than-average, but not spectacular, showing.

7.   However, astronomers cannot predict a collision because they do not have an estimate for the closing lateral velocity of the two star systems.

8.   Other astronomers predicted peak activity a day earlier, in the wee hours Thursday morning.

9.   The best viewing time, astronomers predict, will be shortly after midnight and until dawn, when the Earth orbits into the incoming stream of meteors.

10.   Astronomers predict that the Leonids will peak after midnight over Asia and the western Pacific.