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38 years ago today !!!! - Raoul - 12/21/2006 9:19:02 PM
- You know that I have the greatest enthusiasm for the mission, Dave - LJK - 12/22/2006 5:26:41 AM
  - re: Very good! Thanks! (n/t) - Raoul - 12/22/2006 6:38:42 AM
    - Book Review: Team Moon - LJK - 12/22/2006 8:29:54 PM

Toward Eclipse Mapping of Hot Jupiters - LJK - 12/18/2006 6:48:05 PM
- Hot Jupiter Variability in Eclipse Depth - LJK - 12/18/2006 6:49:31 PM
  - The color of noise in SuperWASP data and the implications for finding extra-solar planets - LJK - 12/18/2006 6:58:02 PM
    - Developments in Planet Detection using Transit Timing Variations - LJK - 12/18/2006 6:59:36 PM
      - Probing Protoplanetary Disks with Silicate Emission: Where is the silicate emission zone? - LJK - 12/18/2006 7:02:42 PM
        
        Equipotential Surfaces and Lagrangian points in Non-synchronous, Eccentric Binary and Planetary Systems - LJK - 12/20/2006 3:45:07 AM
        
        Potential of Photometric Searches for Transiting Planets - LJK - 12/20/2006 4:19:13 AM
        
        Mid-infrared resolution of a 3 AU-radius debris disk around Zeta Leporis - LJK - 12/20/2006 4:26:39 AM
        
        New Concept for Internal Heat Production in Hot Jupiter Exo-Planets - LJK - 12/21/2006 7:25:56 PM
        
        Accretion of Terrestrial Planets from Oligarchs in a Turbulent Disk - LJK - 12/22/2006 3:50:28 PM
        
        White Dwarf Hints at Our Solar System's End - LJK - 12/22/2006 8:19:06 PM

Galileo's Double Star: The Experiment That "Proved" the Earth Did Not Move - LJK - 12/21/2006 4:16:26 AM
- Had Columbus sailed off the edge the spherical Earth theory would have been delayed. - Jacob Samorodin - 12/22/2006 6:32:57 PM

Modeling atmospheric effects of the September 1859 Solar Flare - LJK - 12/22/2006 3:20:07 AM
- It did more than affect the atmosphere. - Jacob Samorodin - 12/22/2006 6:26:14 PM

Most recent Russian Mars and Moon architecture - E.P. - 12/21/2006 2:55:00 PM
- re: The concept! - Raoul - 12/21/2006 5:00:47 PM
  - It is indeed fascinating. Hope they can do it! (n/t) - Bowser - 12/21/2006 6:26:48 PM
    - Impressive images of the Russian Zenit-2 rocket - LJK - 12/22/2006 5:43:40 PM

New Class of Gravitational Lenses is Discovered - LJK - 12/22/2006 4:18:12 PM

The brightest supernova ever recorded, powered by the death of an extremely massive star - LJK - 12/22/2006 4:15:17 PM

Open Cluster (on APOD) - Raoul - 12/19/2006 7:17:26 PM
- The Super-Metal Rich, Old Open Cluster NGC 6791 - LJK - 12/21/2006 7:36:57 PM
  - Thanks, LJK - Hank - 12/21/2006 8:50:48 PM
    - Open clusters in a dispersing molecular cloud - LJK - 12/22/2006 3:14:55 AM

Bad Budget News For NASA - Jeff F - 12/22/2006 2:55:46 AM

What's Up 2007 - LJK - 12/22/2006 2:55:40 AM

Does the lunar surface still offer value as a site for astronomical observatories? - LJK - 12/19/2006 10:24:54 PM
- re: Does the lunar surface still offer value as a site for astronomical observatories? - gbaikie - 12/20/2006 3:10:27 AM
- re: Does the lunar surface still offer value as a site for astronomical observatories? - ER - 12/20/2006 12:58:05 AM
- Depends on what you want to look at (n/t) - E.P. - 12/19/2006 11:21:03 PM
  - re: If you read the article it would seem it doesn't depend on what you are looking at. A lunar bases system is a waste of time and money. (n/t) - Chris Vancil still in AZ - 12/20/2006 2:54:51 AM
    - Sorry, but words "Darwin Prize" keep on coming to mind (n/t) - E.P. - 12/20/2006 4:15:15 PM
      - re: BTW, nobody is arguing NEO detection is a waste of time and money only lunar based systems are a waste of time and money. We can do the job better in space and on Earth. (n/t) - Chris Vancil in AZ - 12/20/2006 5:01:49 PM
        
        No we can't - E.P. - 12/21/2006 1:11:50 AM
        
        re: Nope Ed that is not what they said... - Chris Vancil in AZ - 12/21/2006 4:07:17 AM
      - re: Don't be sorry, Ed. It's better than you swearing anytime someone questions your reality. (n/t) - Chris Vancil in AZ - 12/20/2006 4:59:29 PM
    - How about a Mars base with this simple idea as part of a small habitable area in one of the many deep canyons? - lance - 12/20/2006 3:50:58 AM
      - re: I don't see Mars as a good platform for telescopes for similar reasons to the Moon. (n/t) - Chris Vancil in AZ - 12/20/2006 4:54:35 AM
        
        re: I don't see Mars as a good platform for telescopes for similar reasons to the Moon. - gbaikie - 12/22/2006 1:43:04 AM

STS 116........ a ReVOLTING Mission........... - carl - 12/21/2006 5:25:44 PM
- Buh-dump-BUMP-ZING! (n/t) - et - 12/21/2006 7:27:19 PM

Seven mavericks of 'science'; New Scientist magazine; Nick Hoffmann is not in the article. - Jacob Samorodin - 12/21/2006 7:26:23 PM

Sunita and the lost camera ....:-( - Raoul - 12/20/2006 7:15:47 PM
- That camera should come out of her check! - Bowser - 12/20/2006 7:22:08 PM
  - re: Perhaps! ...And from Christer's visor..the whole scenery! - Raoul - 12/20/2006 7:38:01 PM
    - remarkable image - Robert - 12/21/2006 2:10:28 AM
      - re: Large or small - Raoul - 12/21/2006 6:19:31 PM
      - Shouldn't this be a worry? - LJK - 12/21/2006 3:49:18 PM
        
        re: Perhaps.. - Raoul - 12/21/2006 6:21:44 PM

A dramatic stellar crib in the Tarantula Nebula - Raoul - 12/21/2006 4:57:02 PM

The Carl Sagan Memorial Blog-a-Thon on December 20, 2006 - LJK - 12/16/2006 6:17:24 AM
- BILLLIONS upon BILLLLLIONSSS of............. - carl - 12/16/2006 3:30:21 PM
  - re: His quotes... - Raoul - 12/16/2006 4:20:09 PM
    - Life Beyond Earth and the Mind of Man 1975 - LJK - 12/17/2006 11:29:02 PM
      - Two More Sites - LJK - 12/20/2006 2:15:03 PM
        
        Nick Sagan's site - LJK - 12/20/2006 4:17:00 PM
        
        Cosmic Clock and Calendar - LJK - 12/21/2006 4:30:26 PM

Mars Express 'may' have imaged silent MGS - JimO - 12/20/2006 7:24:34 PM
- array arm - Robert - 12/20/2006 10:04:57 PM
  - Simply the innate perversity of inanimate objects. - Bowser - 12/21/2006 2:00:12 PM
  - Old scandal.... - et - 12/21/2006 1:25:09 AM
    - ohh, that... - Robert - 12/21/2006 2:04:21 AM
      - re: ohh, that... - Marcus Massey - 12/21/2006 10:43:25 AM
  - If there is fuel left... - Buck Galaxy - 12/20/2006 10:47:58 PM
- re: Mars Express 'may' have imaged silent MGS - Jeff F - 12/20/2006 9:52:13 PM
- re:Thank you, Jim! I'm sharing this info ! - Raoul - 12/20/2006 8:02:20 PM

Nice pass tonight - TB - 12/20/2006 5:36:25 AM
- re: Nice pass tonight - Raoul - 12/20/2006 6:45:21 AM
  - Some images from Space Weather - LJK - 12/20/2006 3:12:16 PM
    - Appearing to drifting apart - TB - 12/21/2006 6:19:04 AM
    - re: Great picture! - Raoul - 12/20/2006 7:17:24 PM

Call For Papers Remembering the Space Age - LJK - 12/21/2006 5:47:53 AM

ESA and the future of exploration - Raoul - 12/19/2006 9:32:55 PM
- Russia Set To Implement Ambitious Space Program - LJK - 12/21/2006 5:37:49 AM

Mars aquifers -- current 'conventional wisdom'?? - JimO - 12/8/2006 5:28:26 PM
- Is this a philosophical, scientific, or politic question? - nick hoffman - 12/9/2006 6:31:28 PM
- How are they determining if the water is liquid or not? (n/t) - Robert Clark - 12/8/2006 8:36:12 PM
  - re: Signatures - Raoul - 12/8/2006 9:44:49 PM
- re: Mars aquifers -- current 'conventional wisdom'?? - Laurie Street - 12/8/2006 6:45:59 PM
  - The Weeping Wall of Satori - LJK - 12/21/2006 5:18:34 AM

Beamer's fourth spacewalk...a shape of things to come? - Raoul - 12/18/2006 8:07:42 PM
- He deserves special recognition for what he did to get the solar panel back in the box. (n/t) - Delbert - 12/19/2006 7:05:11 PM
  - re: Yes, definitely! - Raoul - 12/19/2006 7:21:53 PM
    - Why not just detach them and let them fly free? - LJK - 12/20/2006 3:40:48 AM
      - re: Because they will be needed again! (n/t) - Raoul - 12/20/2006 6:58:06 PM
- re: shape of things to come - TB - 12/18/2006 10:14:50 PM
- re:From Beamer's helmet - Raoul - 12/18/2006 8:34:35 PM

Abov'e the Earth (first EVA) - Raoul - 12/15/2006 5:37:24 PM
- New Zealand! (Raoul, I couldn't resist ) n/t (n/t) - GB - 12/19/2006 11:49:20 PM
  - re: Yes, indeed! (n/t) - Raoul - 12/20/2006 5:29:54 PM

Study - Dropping Galileo-Type Probes into Saturn's Atmosphere - LJK - 12/20/2006 3:03:51 PM

I'd be interested to know what "theoretical" heat-flow values for Mars would be? - Jacob Samorodin - 12/17/2006 10:20:05 PM
- That's a difficult area - nick hoffman - 12/18/2006 12:10:51 PM
  - Yeah. It's tough to even figure out what "heat flow values" is referring to! - SDF - 12/18/2006 2:58:54 PM
    - "heat flow values" - nick hoffman - 12/19/2006 2:14:58 AM
      - Radar altimetry measurements of Olympus Mons. - SDF - 12/19/2006 3:26:02 AM
        
        Human and geologic timescales - nick hoffman - 12/20/2006 12:29:49 AM
        
        re: Radar altimetry measurements of Olympus Mons. - LJK - 12/19/2006 2:27:11 PM
        
        I don't know the difference - SDF - 12/19/2006 3:34:44 PM
        
        re: I don't know the difference - LJK - 12/19/2006 3:54:50 PM
        
        Squeezing Meteorites to Reveal the Martian Mantle - LJK - 12/20/2006 2:32:29 PM

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