Re: [meteorite-list] How to Watch July 4 Comet Impact

2005-06-04 Thread MexicoDoug
Darren & Sterling, If this is a suggestion that women are from robust thermophilic microbes at the tops of Venusian clouds...perhaps Sterling was the decendent of some restless earthmen fertilizing the them with silver iodide?... don't miss the 26-27th of June, it will remind you of Eart

Re: [meteorite-list] How to Watch July 4 Comet Impact

2005-06-04 Thread Gerald Flaherty
I had a kid in my elementary 4th grade class names Sterling!~! - Original Message - From: "Darren Garrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 9:00 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] How to Watch July 4 Comet Impact On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 19:39:16 -0500, &

Re: [meteorite-list] How to Watch July 4 Comet Impact

2005-06-04 Thread Gerald Flaherty
Wow how long have you had a handle on the earth tounge, english? - Original Message - From: "Sterling K. Webb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 8:39 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] How

Re: [meteorite-list] How to Watch July 4 Comet Impact

2005-06-04 Thread Gerald Flaherty
Doug, YOU THE MAN!!!jerry - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 3:46 PM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] How to Watch July 4 Comet Impact Ron Baalke kindly forwards: Although it is now moving a

Re: [meteorite-list] How to Watch July 4 Comet Impact

2005-06-03 Thread Darren Garrison
On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 19:39:16 -0500, "Sterling K. Webb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >As a Venusian, I can't tell you the last time I remember having a "clear > day"! >Seems like there's always 25 or 30 miles of thick cloud cover overhead, at >least in >the part of Venus I live in... My great

Re: [meteorite-list] How to Watch July 4 Comet Impact

2005-06-03 Thread Sterling K. Webb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just imagine how bright Venus is as seen from Mercury when they are in > opposition!) The answer is -6.7, just about the same Earth looks to Venusian > observers on a clear day:), with our Luna being as bright as Jupiter to > treated > Venusians... Doug, As a

Re: [meteorite-list] How to Watch July 4 Comet Impact

2005-06-03 Thread MexicoDoug
I wrote: >and will be quite bright (Mercury 0th magnitude - same as a bright Mars and >2.5X more than Saturn). Not to mention Venus near her brightest ever at >-4th magnitude. "Venus near her brightest ever", no. Mercury today, June 3, is at her conjunction with Earth on the opposite s

Re: [meteorite-list] How to Watch July 4 Comet Impact

2005-06-03 Thread MexicoDoug
Ron Baalke kindly forwards: >Although it is now moving away from the Earth, the comet >is still approaching the Sun, so its overall brightness in the >coming days and weeks will appear to change very little, if at all. >The comet is expected to hover at around tenth-magnitude, >meaning that it

[meteorite-list] How to Watch July 4 Comet Impact

2005-06-03 Thread Ron Baalke
http://www.space.com/spacewatch/050603_deep_impact.html How to Watch July 4 Comet Impact By Joe Rao SPACE.com 03 June 2005 In early July, NASA's Deep Impact spacecraft will deploy a tiny impactor to smash into the nucleus of a small comet. The idea is to excavate a sizable crater and provide