New Discoveries - Extraplanetary, deep space, etc.

Shaun Barrett · 2003-03-21 18:36:12

I, for one, wasn't aware of the Mars Today site.

Thanks, Cindy and E_C, for the interesting stuff you post!

Palomar · 2003-03-21 20:46:04

I, for one, wasn't aware of the Mars Today site.
Thanks, Cindy and E_C, for the interesting stuff you post!

*No problemo, Amigo! :laugh:

Here's an even better link (includes maps, panoramas, globes, timekeeping, geological charts, Mars Explorer Rover 2003 mission info...a lot here, although I'm having abit of difficulty this evening with getting some of the images to download):

http://cmex-www.arc.nasa.gov/CMEX/index.html

--Cindy

Palomar · 2003-03-22 14:01:17

*Radiation Dangers for Mars Astronauts Downgraded:

http://skyandtelescope.com/news/current … _903_1.asp

--Cindy

Palomar · 2003-03-22 14:05:13

*Earth gets more Marsian meteorites than lunar ones:

http://skyandtelescope.com/news/current … _905_1.asp

--Cindy

George H · 2003-03-22 14:43:00

That t.v. show about black holes you told us about, Cindy, really cool. It'll be on again, I'll try to watch it. You get the Sky & Telescope new's letter right? That's where you got the 2 last links? I might subscribe.

Jupiter's northern lights & Great Dark Spot, great. So Jupiter can make its own northern lights, wow. I'm learning alot. Thanx. I think you're awesome Cindy

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Palomar · 2003-03-22 16:24:26

*Hi George. Hopefully you can catch the program, "Supermassive Black Holes," some time soon. I'd like to buy the video. Yes, I subscribe to the Sky and Telescope newsletter; it's brief, comes into my e-mail box about once every 5 days, and they don't give your address to other people (no junk e-mail). And thanks for the compliment.

--Cindy

Palomar · 2003-03-25 07:57:34

Star dies in giant gamma ray bursts

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

Palomar · 2003-03-25 08:20:20

*Posters (from Hubble images), toys, model building, clothing articles and caps, patches, media (books, DVDs, CDs, calendars, slides), etc. Lots of good stuff here.

http://www.spaceuniverse.com

--Cindy

Palomar · 2003-03-25 08:56:48

*Greatest Myths, Hoaxes and Mysteries of Astronomy and Space Science:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm....science

Palomar · 2003-03-26 09:02:34

*The Lagoon Nebula; it's one of the more beautiful of nebulae, IMO; if there is a Heaven, this must be the entrance to it:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap021006.html

--Cindy

Palomar · 2003-03-26 13:02:34

*Distant black hole 3 billion times bigger than the Sun:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world....=389204

Mind staggering. Wow. I'm glad it's 13 billion light years away...!

"Now be a nice black hole and don't come any closer." :laugh:

--Cindy

Palomar · 2003-03-28 08:24:42

*Talk about weird; I've never heard of a "runaway black hole" before. And it's heading in our direction...{gulp} Let's just hope the astronomers are right, and we Terrans have nothing to fear from it.

http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/space/11/2 … index.html

--Cindy

Palomar · 2003-03-28 14:27:23

*"A megamerger in space: Two black holes collide."

http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1120/p01s02-ussc.html

--Cindy

Josh Cryer · 2003-03-28 22:18:09

A meteor estimated to be the size of a 'Volkswagen bug' exploded over the Midwest around midnight yesterday morning.

http://slashdot.org/articles/03/03/28/1 … ml?tid=160

Palomar · 2003-03-29 06:51:14

A meteor estimated to be the size of a 'Volkswagen bug' exploded over the Midwest around midnight yesterday morning.
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/03/28/1 … ml?tid=160

*Hmmmm, I bet that woke up the cows. Well, thank goodness no one was harmed and there was no property damage.

Do scientists always or often compare the sizes of meteor/ites to Volkswagen Bugs? Not to my knowledge.

--Cindy

Palomar · 2003-03-29 07:31:12

*Shadow of Phobos against Marsian landscape:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

--Cindy

Palomar · 2003-03-29 10:14:32

A meteor estimated to be the size of a 'Volkswagen bug' exploded over the Midwest around midnight yesterday morning.
http://slashdot.org/articles/03/03/28/1 … ml?tid=160
*Hmmmm, I bet that woke up the cows. Well, thank goodness no one was harmed and there was no property damage.

*Whoops; looks like I spoke too soon. The following was included in my latest "Sky & Telescope" e-mail bulletin:

ASTRO NEWS BRIEFS

Meteorites Rain on Northern Illinois

A chunk of interplanetary debris detonated into the sky over
northeastern Illinois just before midnight on March 26th, dropping a rain of meteorites onto Chicago's suburbs. In Park Forest, a five-pound stone punched through the roof of a home and rolled to a stop not far from the bed of a sleeping
13-year-old. Rattled residents flooded police and fire stations with calls, as the bolide's atmospheric entry rivaled the Sun and could be seen from as far away as Ohio. The intruding meteoroid had an estimated diameter of 1 or 2 meters and a mass of perhaps 10 tons. No one was injured by the falling fragments, and scientists have asked that residents turn in any pieces they find.

Palomar · 2003-03-29 10:42:15

*SETI in-home project; 4 million PC's around the world taking part in helping the search for extraterrestial signals (hey -- I'm willing to let my PC to help out!). Shaun, if you read this, have you heard of this program? Nearly 100,000 Aussies have taken part in the project (those folks Downunder...smart!):

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/ … 76260.html

--Cindy

Palomar · 2003-03-29 11:18:57

*Here's the link which will allow interested parties to download SETI@home to their PC's:

http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/

--Cindy

Shaun Barrett · 2003-03-30 19:24:08

Well, Cindy, you're now keeping Australians informed about Australia!

I didn't realise so many Aussies were into the computer-SETI thing. And you stung my conscience because I wasn't involved!

But I've signed up now and I'm hoping it'll be my computer that actually makes the BIG DISCOVERY!!

[P.S. I will share the glory with you, though. Since you were the one who shamed me into participating.]

Palomar · 2003-03-30 20:07:31

Well, Cindy, you're now keeping Australians informed about Australia!
I didn't realise so many Aussies were into the computer-SETI thing. And you stung my conscience because I wasn't involved!
But I've signed up now and I'm hoping it'll be my computer that actually makes the BIG DISCOVERY!!

[P.S. I will share the glory with you, though. Since you were the one who shamed me into participating.]

*Hi Shaun:

I'm setting my computer up as well. I do want to be involved. Geez, how often can nonscientists take a role in research? Not often, that I know of. So it's doubly exciting for me.

And yes...to have the computer which finds THE source -- that'd be absolutely fabulous.

--Cindy

Phobos · 2003-03-30 20:14:24

*Distant black hole 3 billion times bigger than the Sun:

Imagine how big that thing would be if merely had the density of the sun, it would probably be a star with a diameter akin to an entire galaxy. It seems the farther and farther back in time they look, the weirder and weirder things get.

Palomar · 2003-03-30 20:44:22

It seems the farther and farther back in time they look, the weirder and weirder things get.

*Yeah. Sorry, but this came in mind (my sometimes really weird sense of humor): Imagine some day Hubble transmits an image of an old bearded man with long silver hair, his head thousands of light-years across, sticking out his enormous tongue, thumbs stuck in his ears and waggling his fingers at us: God, billions of years ago -- hamming it up for the as-yet future Hubble, to knock the socks off atheists and agnostics.

Wow, that'd make my day, believe it or not. To actually know for certain.

Okay, okay: Please don't call the nice men in the starched white shirts out after me... :laugh:

--Cindy

Shaun Barrett · 2003-03-31 02:11:30

Cindy writes:-

.. Please don't call the nice men in the starched white shirts out after me... :laugh:

Relax Cindy. Those guys are busy chasing me ... I'm rarely more than two steps ahead of 'em!!!

Palomar · 2003-04-02 08:00:48

*Saturn's rings now open to greatest extent, from our view:

http://skyandtelescope.com/observing/ob … _304_1.asp

--Cindy

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