But...
The problem is: what is an offense, and how big of an offense is it, and
what should be done, and so forth. One can always argue about what offends, and
it's different for everybody.
As for arguing about an offense, the List seems capable of doing that on its
own just fine! Mr.
as big as Ceres is going to be
spherical, so that roundness is implied, since at this size no material
could withstand the crushing forces of gravity, neither the lightest
ices nor iron itself.
Stay tuned for Part Two...
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, I do believe.
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large-body
Ice dynamics is possible.
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And, for a really complex view, see:
http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/water/phase.html
It shows the Ices up through Ice XII ! Imagine the internal dynamics
of a really big IceWorld! I can't, but I know there's a lot going on
there we don't understand.
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Hi, Martin,
See, I knew there were more than nine planets!
Some of these planets sound interesting. Do you suppose the Planet Reseller
has a good stock of used Planets?
I guess we all live on Planet Internet. I know I live on Planet Bluegrass
and Planet DOBRO sometimes.
And to
Hi, Darren,
Brown wanted Persephone, too. But it's taken, years ago, by a MINOR planet.
ORCUS, a Greek name for the Afterlife is already taken by another really
big KBO, 2000DW. Eurydice?
Elysium? Minos? Hades? The Underworld names seems too negative for a happy
object. They may all
Hi, Ron,
You'll notice that I put quotes around the word rules.
Yes, there is no formal definition for a planet. There never has been, only
a
working understanding of what was meant.
There were differences; it has been a topic of discussion. But, there are
working rules, by which I
Hi, All
First, the definition of a planet.
As for the lack of a formal definition of what is a planet, the IAU website
says:
Definition of a Planet: The IAU notes the very rapid pace of discovery of
bodies
within the Solar system over the last decade and so our understanding of
Hi, All,
Brian Marsden, in the article below:
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/050802_planet_definition.html
is quoted as saying if the Stern definition of a planet
were used (everything spherical that goes 'round its star
and doesn't fusion inside), we'd have 24 planets.
Marsden
Hi,
This makes a lot of sense. It would appear that the cartoon dog was
probably named FOR the planet, as this name
would have been in the news at the time -- the discovery of the planet was a
sensation everybody talked about! Walt
was just cashing in on the free publicity. Just like him.
Hi, Darren, Doug,
OK, I didn't do the math, and you can forget that, as it's a complex
simulation that's required;
the number of factors is staggering. I did do the research, though, reading a
few (hundred) pages on
the theoretical models of icy rocky and gassy only bodies.
First, the
Hi, Tracy, List,
The current theory of the Moon's origin
is a grazing impact on the Earth by a
Mars-sized (or better) object before 4410
millilon years ago. That date comes from
the existence of the genesis zircon found
in Australia a few years ago. The oldest
date would be, well, pretty much
Hi, List,
I have no idea why a few people are receiving
six copies of Steve's ad, but I can tell you that
I received only one. If he had SENT six copies,
we ALL would have gotten six copies, or no copies,
if things were screwed up.
So before we have a 31-message thread on The
Six Copies,
Hi, All
I don't doubt that those who received six, did
so. I only know that if a source sends six copies
of a given message to a distribution list, that all
members of that list should receive six copies if
they receive anything at all. QED.
Mail-multiple viruses create multiple
Hi,
I've just a slew of on and off List messages
from everybody who got six copies. Yes, yes,
many did, but that PROBABLY means that
when the original uninfected message (one copy)
got sent to by the List server to a member --
any one -- whose computer is infected with
this virus, the virus
the theory of universal gravitation, the inverse
square law, and all the rest of it, and then
only because he was asked repeatedly to do so.
He did it so they would all shut up and he could
get back to the really important stuff...
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Hi,
Besides being delightful in itself, the first thing I
thought of was that low-eccentricity, co-planar satellite
orbits have long been regarded as a proof of formation
in place, as in the Gallilean satellites of Jupiter, which I,
in contrast, believe are captured Plutonian planets,
just to
, it could mean that 2003
UB313 is much larger than the original
limit of around 3,400 kilometers
(2,100 miles). Hubble Space Telescope
observations are also in the works.
How big did you say?
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the Greco-Roman
tradition of the previous planets.
We have a couple of interesting choices
in mind in that case.
All things in time...
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Greetings,
Wasn't Pluto given dual status a few years back when it was facing
demotion. I thought in addition to the 9th planet it was assigned KBO
1000...right? wrong? partially right?
Elton
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faith, as of the year 2000, could be characterized
as having certain of its views that have been unaltered
for centuries. Currently, it is obvious that battles are being
waged for its heart and mind.
What do you suppose it will be like in the year 2100?
Sterling K. Webb
Darren,
Tantalum is the tenth most dense element,
with a density of 21.02 times that of water,
or three times that of iron. There are others
more dense, but they suffer from various
disadvantages: low melting point (osmium),
danger (plutonium), expense (gold).
As you said, one of
Sorry,
Density is 16.65, not
21.02. That's rhenium.
Sterling
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Darren,
Tantalum is the tenth most dense element,
with a density of 21.02 times that of water,
or three times that of iron
of
proportion to the size of the body, because re-entry would
cause it to be forced together, whereupon it would go critical
and explode.
Like Tunguska, maybe?
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Scientists baffled by mystery heat source on Saturn's moon
, but the process of natural, sustained nuclear
reactions is at the heart of how the universe is put together. The Sun and all
those other stars keep going rather
nicely, you know...
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mark ford wrote:
Hi Stirling
images?
There is an answer, but like Fermat's Last
Theorem, it won't fit in the margin of this
email.
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Darren Garrison wrote:
Sorry for the off-topic post, but I thought many of you would be interested
in this before
always has and will continue to do so. And
lightening will continue to kill more people than storms,
oceanic or continental, ever do.
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Subject
HARLAN,
GRUMPY BUT TRUE.
AS A VIOLATOR, I CONFESS IT.
BUT POSTINGS ARE THIN LATELY.
GET A BIG RED KEYCAP
FOR YOUR DEL BUTTON
AND HAVE A GOOD TIME!
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WE DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR OPINIONS ABOUT NEW ORLEANS,
at what the failure
to detect and determine orbits for ALL the NEA's
could cost the human race.
For now, sent money.
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Mark Miconi wrote:
I agree with you Rob.
It is the same with the losses in Iraq. The military has accidents
Zenzen,
knew when to shut up.
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chris aubeck wrote:
Hi,
Last year, on September 21st, I received a reply on this list from
Göran Axelsson which ended, enigmatically:
As a sidenote there were a meteorite found in sweden almost 100
in
the trash.
Anybody on the List know what
happened to Nininger's sedimentary
find?
Hope that helps.
Sterling K. Webb
Sterling K. Webb wrote:
Hi,
You're probably referring to:
BLECKENSTAD,
Ostergotland, Sweden, April 11, 1925
.
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Ron Baalke wrote:
http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050905/LIFESTYLE08/509050310/1032
Out of Our Past
Battle Creek Enquirer
September 5, 2005
[snip]
50 years ago today, 1955: The Air
the ground floor, or maybe
they just want to build BioSphere3.
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Darren Garrison wrote:
If I was a druggie, I'd say give me some of what they are smoking.
http://www.wired.com/news/space/0,2697,68739,00.html
orbit with time
and its climatological consequences (the Ice Ages),
again done entirely on paper (without any mistakes)
and occupying his entire working life time.
The original animation, much larger, was an APOD
some years ago, but I can't find it in their index.
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see: www
into the wall of
temples; in Egypt, they were strung about the
necks of the dead. In India, fine specimens
are to this day seen upon altars, receiving
prayers and sacrifices.
Sterling K. Webb
drtanuki wrote:
Dear List and Chris,
Todays research
away. Wouldn't you? But,
when nothing else was said...
I figured Ortiz was just smart enough to have used
a proxy server identity, but it seems not. His attitude
seems to be that he was justified in doing so. Very
strange.
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is:
GRAND THEFT, PLANET.
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Hi Sterling and List,
It may be premature to jump to conclusions about the true chain
of events and the reasoning behind them -- Ortiz hasn't responded
yet
-members.co.uk/blobrana/database/TNO1.htm
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello Sterling, Rob, Paul and others following the astronomical brawl,
The Andalucian Astrophysic's webpage of discovery was suspiciously removed
, and in
discoveries, this is predictively valid: if your number of
finds increases dramatically as a function of search
intensity and duration, you are dealing with a population,
not incidental finds.
They're out there...
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involved.
I am much more interested in 2003EL61 itself!
Its shape, for example. Now, there's a puzzle
worthy of puzzlement.
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Sterling also wrote:
Stoss uses NEAT data, DSS and POSS data
a pattern here?
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drtanuki wrote:
List,
Which would be the most likely event that
potentially could have created an Earthite meteorite?
What age would it be? And of what earth rock
material and how could it be determined
/astrobiology/Articles2002/Astrobio_pavlov_25-34.pdf+terrestrial+meteoriteshl=en
And so on...
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drtanuki wrote:
List,
Which would be the most likely event that
potentially could have created an Earthite meteorite?
What age
-holder's speculations..:.
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Darren Garrison wrote:
http://newswire.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/behold.pl?ascribeid=20050923.103123time=11%2050%20PDTyear=2005public=0
Fri Sep 23 11:50:07 2005 Pacific Time
Supernova Explosion May
Congratulations, Darren!
You are the road to discovering the Ultimate
Weapon! It isn't the Death Star from Star Wars,
or the X-Ray Laser, or the Hydrogen Bomb, no,
no, no, no...
It's the Hyper Kinetic Gun!
A one ton slug of iron accelerated in a rail gun
to 1% of the speed of light
bursts, with a lot more to learn
than what we've learned already.
Ain't it always the way?
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Darren Garrison wrote:
On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 21:06:58 -0500, Sterling K. Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
The author
Chris,
Darren Garrison posted a link to a photo
of the Black Stone:
www.jesusneverexisted.com/ islam2.html
Although it's small, it appears to be the
only photo on the web. It looks very much
like a meteorite, or least, there's nothing
visible in the photo to suggest it isn't.
Sterling K
-meteorites.htm
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Sterling K. Webb wrote:
Chris,
Darren Garrison posted a link to a photo
of the Black Stone:
www.jesusneverexisted.com/ islam2.html
Although it's small, it appears to be the
only photo
Hi,
A very nice artwork of a large impact
on Venus (could just as easily be the early
Earth) by Bob Eggleton can be found on:
http://fantasy.mrugala.net/Bob%20Eggleton/Bob%20Eggleton%20-%20Ah%20-%2056.jpg
It's Desktop size (1024x768) and it
looks good there!
Sterling K. Webb
observed over 3000 miles.
Putulsk peas were found as far away as Sicily
(perhaps 3000 miles or more).
It's a thin but interesting case, but impossible
unless the dates are wrong. Any information
on the compass orientation of the fireball path?
Sterling K. Webb
Note: Coordinated Universal
Hi, Bernd
Thanks for clearing that up.
Another nice speculation
goes the way of most
nice speculations.
Albert Einstein was attending an awards
dinner where many prominent scientists
were receiving various honors. At his
table was a well-known chemist who took
a small notebook out of his
attempted to determine if Fe60 is present? Since the
discovery, a few years ago, of a sub-handful of Fe60 atoms in
oceanic sediments was a major piece of news, such a trial
would seem an obvious step, given what you propose.
Sterling K. Webb
I mean, what's the point of our talking ABOUT
! But, that's because of its
small nuclear dimension, and as you can see,
it's rare...)
Sterling K. Webb
Axel Emmermann wrote:
Hello list,
I usually lurk from behind the Atlantic but his thing has captured my
imagination.
Most of you
, for one, would like to know What
The Xxxx it was. Only prudent, as the Elder Bush
used to say...
Just because the neighborhood has been
quiet for a few thousand years, we can't
assume it always will be.
Sterling K. Webb
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Axel Emmermann wrote
.
One last fiat, don't Google cosmic dust
catastrophe. You will be rewarded with a
grand banquet of apocalyptic whacko's such
as I have rarely seen. You always turn up
some nutcases when you Google, but this
search term really calls them out of the
woodwork!
Sterling K. Webb
.
Since there are claims of finding carbon
(soot) layers from the 65-million year old
impact, surely there would be plenty of
evidence of an atmosphere flash heating
event only a few thousand years ago?
But there isn't such evidence, so...
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be transported
effectively to the Earth.
This is why I suggested to Firestone
that he should assay for 60-Fe from his
recently evaluated soil layers. Its
presence would force an acceptance of
the extraterrestrial origin of those
isotopic anomalies.
Sterling K. Webb
Hi, All
Ron Baalke wrote:
. It also performed a calibration of...
the rover's head to regain use of it...
I think we have all had days
when we needed to re-calibrate
our heads!
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Hi,
I'm would guess that when dealers say a certain percentage of crust,
they're using the old eyeball-meter.
Human approximation for areas is fairly accurate: Who ate the last
quarter pizza? He's about 50% bald on top.
Sterling
?
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Actually, there is no such thing as an Alabama hick, there are only rednecks in
Alabama. Just to clear things up, the following are the three different subgroups
labeled as
uppity or a high falutn' snoot
#4 - In Texas, at least, only Czechs are Bohemians, Germans are Square
Heads - (note: married to the former and being the latter - this is a fact)
Most Curious Listener
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profess to have enjoyed it, though some may gnash
molars
in private. It is our way.
Proud Tom, as a satirist, is a far gentler creature than, for example, Pietro
Aretino.
Smile on him and he may find others with whom to amuse himself. Or not. But smile.
Sterling K. Webb
List:
The problem with giving good advice
to those that need it most, is that
if they had the wit to recognize it
as good advice, they wouldn't have
needed that particular advice in the
first place, and if they don't get
it, they won't get it, et cetera...
Matteo:
We've noticed that
.
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Please take my name off of the list. These senseless debates could have
easily taken place off list. Somebody e-mail me when it is a good time
to subscribe again (i.e. when
? It could make a big
difference.
You can still burn off a world without resorting to direct thermal radiation; just
blast hot materials all over an Earth with too much oxygen for its own good.
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nibble of the
MOON?
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Bob - Not Chondrite Lung disease. Just Garden variety lung and nasal
cancer.
CharlyV - First my geocities site has gremlins, and now Bob M. can't
do
of the dry lakes when all I have about me is plowed
fields. It's nice to know you could find a meteorite in one.
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http://www.statesboroherald.net/topstories/story7.html
Space object lands in Bulloch
content
of LDG suggests they were formed from sand.
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Charles Viau wrote:
Fantastic!
The somewhat obvious question is that could these structures possibly be
a source for Libyan Desert Glass, or is the source
Hi,
Just as it's hard to get to the Moon (from Earth, that is, I haven't made it
yet), it's even harder to get TO the Earth FROM the Moon.
Yeah, I know, it flies in the face of the obvious (Earth LOOKS flat)! There's the
Moon just hanging around up there in the heavenly neighborhood,
have no CRE, proving that they
spent less than 25,000 years in space. In other words, there's a
lower bound to CRE ages, which corresponds to 0 years to 25,000
years. Of course, these tests may have become more refined and
and the lower bound smaller now.
Sterling K. Webb
Hi,
My well-worn copy of Encyclopaedia Psychedelia does not report chronometric
circularity as a known side effect of Datura stramonium. Sounds more like
Gigasalvia venerii (commonly known as Venusian Gold).
Sterling
. This fortuitous
correspondence was the chief argument for the old theory that the Moon was
spun off from the Earth's Pacific basin. This theory, formulated by
Darwin (no, not that Darwin, but a nephew or grandson), was still being
vigorously supported by some as late as 1963!
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location on Mars.
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at:
www.msss.com/mars/pictures/viking_lander/viking_lander.html
The Atlas made from the Viking images at:
ic.arc.nasa.gov/ic/projects/bayes-group/Atlas/Mars/
The Atlas of Mars was published in book form (SP-438).
Try to find one!
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Arizona instead.
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Ron Baalke wrote:
1. Mars' thinner atmosphere means more
meteorites survive the fall though it
than on Earth.
There are a number of factors to consider. Mars
originally.
Now, that would nice to watch! A 100 kilometer comet in an inner system
orbit, what a show!
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Hi all,
I know I should research
.) Halliburton already owns it!
And (drum roll, please!) the Number One Reason Bush picked
the Moon!
1.) No Registered Democrats on the Moon!
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Hi, Dave,
The gas can't explode unless mixed thoroughly and in the
proper proportion with oxygen: two O2 for every CH4. Of course, if
you wreck the piping, the gas could escape and mix with the
atmosphere and if it were ignited you'd a gas well fire of
tremendous
it?
But I dint find inny bargins.
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Hi, Tom,
Maybe it's a giant placer silver nugget.
Land'0'Goshen! She's found the Mother Lode!
Or would we call that the Mother In Law Lode?
Sterling
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Tom aka James Knudson wrote:
Hello List, My (soon to be ex) mother in law showed me a
the cause to be volcanic dust). Tambora was not
identified as the culprit for almost a century (1913).
Sterling K. Webb
Bernhard \Rendelius\ Rems wrote:
I mean, do they offer some PROOF for their theory? A plume
it's 14 degrees)
agree; we'd have liked to be there too, felled by the Denver Death
Cookie in the warm sun.
Sterling K. Webb
Lars Pedersen wrote:
Hello
Anybody got the hangover today ;-)
been very quiet
What a ridiculous notion!! Million year old mining slag? No way!
I checked with all the Extra Terrestrials I know, and they all
re-assure me that there's been no active mining ventures in the Solar
System since that dreadful incident when SmelterWorld #17 went down (all
the Vorlags were
to reach the
ground is less than for an iron, only 40 tons or so. That's a
stone roughly spheroidal and about 25 feet in diameter! So, if
you notice a fusion crusted rock, say, 9 meters across, be
sure and check it with a magnet.
Sterling K. Webb
Whoops!
It's those tricky decimal points again. Or long division, perhaps. Either
that, or the back of this envelope is not big enough. Maybe I should have used
one of those two PDP-11's you have connected with a serial cable?
And the really silly thing is that three years ago (02-20-01),
, until the Martians land in New Jersey with their Heat Rays, let's not worry
first about panic amongst the
populace.
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Arbitrarily, obvious math, estimated, little difference
and PayPal
scams that tell you your account will suspended if you don't...
Just pretend you're playing Doom and kill it BEFORE it can move or even
twitch.
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Good Evening
the file and checking its contents.
Obviously, it's going out to most if not all of the List right now.
Everyone, DON'T OPEN THE ATTACHMENT!
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ROCKS ON FIRE wrote:
Hello list,
I am not sure if anyone of you
, they think). At the time the book was
closed, the odds were down to 16 to 1 (against).
So, what do you think the odds of life on Mars are (for or
against)?
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possible the List distribution
software
does not post Cc'ed messages under some circumstances.
At any rate, I have had no more difficulties since I changed the addressing mode.
It
might be worth checking the addressing mode of the messages in question.
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to be
caused by your exposure to his product 43 years earlier, he can point
out that you were duly warned and it ain't his fault if you ignored it.
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Kevin Heider wrote:
I went to my local gun shop yesterday
the bait as I fish?! Is
nothing sacred?
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Mark Miconi wrote:
Sterling,
Silica dust is certain types of fine sand is deadly. Just breathing the
stuff into your lungs can cause permanent damage to your lungs. The Silica
dust in the sand has shown
Berle.
I say this as a person who, for many years,
DONATED more money to SETI than I spent on, say,
buying meteorites, or even books, so I was not
without hope in that dream. But I have concluded
that it was just that... a dream.
Sterling K. Webb
at the
moment, it lands on page one.
However, once a story
reaches enough people to
interest a sufficient number,
the story acquires a life of its
own. But getting there is mostly
a matter of luck.
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Notkin wrote:
Jeff K. posted:
I have
read my comments
as praise for accomplishing an up-hill task
so well.
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Sterling posted:
I think the most obvious reason for the lack of press focus on
Park Forest (March 26/27, 2003) is the fact that the invasion of Iraq
a little paradoxical.
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I dream to find a similar one, somewhere ... if anyone has a clue
where to prospect, please share it with me, off list, other wise
I will have to charter a 380
of the object. Stoney meteorites that have
been tested demonstrated a slow internal speed of
sound. Hence, it is likely that most large stoney
meteorites are shattered by their own re-entry
shock waves!
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noticed or remembered, it seemed.
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Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 2:26 PM
Subject: [meteorite-list] GA. Fireball spotted on 1/19
, rock and ice is more
like it.
Here's the URL and the text of the
article in Nature:
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Found: one Earth-like planet
Astronomers use gravity lensing to spot homely planets.
by Mark
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