Hi,
Time was, every discovery of an extra-solar planet
was big news. Now, with the total pushing up toward
or past 200, it's like, ho-hum, another exotic planet,
unless it's was the smallest yet discovered or the
biggest or the hotest...
But the new extra solar planet announced today is
All Hail Eris ?? Does the arrogance and sophomoronic Solar System
smugness ever stop on our glorious stellar merry-go-round? Even I'm getting
dizzy from this!
Now we really do have cartoon dogs naming the new planetary discoveries in
the further reaches of the Solar System without
At 08:37 PM 14/09/2006, you wrote:
Yeah - those pea-sized ones generate the most heat.
The grounds keeper should have beaten it with a stick for ruining the turf.
Cheers,
Pete
The Kitchener, Ontario meteorite fell on a golf course in 1998 and
barely missed a golfer. Read about it at:
On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 02:47:31 -0500, you wrote:
gossip that Eris was approved as another crude joke. Backwards it spells
Sire
And scramble it again, and it spells rise!
Backwards google:
http://elgoog.rb-hosting.de/index.cgi?dir=/page=/webhp%3Fhl=en
Sigh. I am getting tired of this. Sterling, will you please:
1) inform yourself of what are proper procedures in minor body research instead
of just quoting Brown, as if it is Brown who sets the standard (he surely isn't,
see below, as this is a real issue concerning Brown);
2) realize that
Thanks Robert
As I mentioned last week, I have a copy that I am finally going to scan
and will then send to Darren for posting.
Regards
Dave
Robert Woolard wrote:
Dave, Mike and List,
Thanks to Dave Mouat for his kind offer to send out
the copies of the Spirit magazine with Mike's
http://pr.caltech.edu/media/Press_Releases/PR12893.html
Caltech News Release
For Immediate Release
September 14, 2006
The Dwarf Planet Formerly Known as Xena Has Officially Been Named
Eris, IAU Announces
PASADENA, Calif.--The International Astronomical Union (IAU) today
announced that the
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status.html
SPIRIT UPDATE: The Martian Sun Also Rises as Winter Retreats -
sol 957-963, September 14, 2006:
Spirit is beginning to see an upward trend in electrical power as winter
slowly recedes and the sun ascends higher in the sky each day.
Electrical
MARS ODYSSEY THEMIS IMAGES
September 11-15, 2006
o Feature of the Week: Iani Chaos
http://themis.asu.edu/feature
o Ejecta Texture (Released 11 September 2006)
http://themis.asu.edu/zoom-20060911a
o Arabia Terra (Released 12 September 2006)
http://themis.asu.edu/zoom-20060912a
o Aram
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/image-details.cfm?imageID=2261
Crater Studies on Titan
September 12, 2006
Full-Res: PIA08737
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA08737
This image from Cassini's radar instrument shows an impact crater with a
diameter of 30 kilometers (19
Hi Dave,
Thanks for the article on Mike the meteorite hunter!
This was a well written article that is getting good
press.
Best Regards,
Pat
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Doug:
While there is no precedent for naming dwarf planets, the Small Bodies
Nomenclature Committee of the IAU
http://www.ss.astro.umd.edu/IAU/csbn/
has authority over the naming of these objects (per the IAU resolution).
As with ALL asteroids, the discoverer has the naming rights and can use
On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 09:17:17 -0700, you wrote:
Thanks Robert
As I mentioned last week, I have a copy that I am finally going to scan
and will then send to Darren for posting.
Here's the article-- as usual, I'll just leave it up for a while, so if you want
to keep it, download a copy.
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