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Meanwhile on Mars... - Raoul - 8/28/2006 4:22:12 PM
- re: Meanwhile on Mars... - azstrummer - 8/28/2006 8:57:19 PM
  - I tend to agree - Buck Galaxy - 8/30/2006 7:43:45 AM
    - We'll get there. - Doug Ellison - 8/30/2006 2:22:55 PM
      - Thanks for the update Doug - azstrummer - 8/30/2006 6:16:37 PM
        
        Opportunity IDD working agagin - Doug Ellison - 8/31/2006 8:11:05 AM
- re: Navcam august 26 - Raoul - 8/28/2006 8:06:15 PM
  - Next on NOVA: "MARS Dead or Alive" - LJK - 8/29/2006 3:16:35 PM

On the Search For Transits of the Planets Orbiting Gl 876 - LJK - 8/30/2006 6:12:58 PM
- re: BTW Pollux b - Raoul - 8/30/2006 6:17:10 PM
- HD3651B: the first directly imaged brown dwarf companion of an exoplanet host star - LJK - 8/30/2006 6:14:47 PM
  - re: HD3651B: the first directly imaged brown dwarf companion of an exoplanet host star - Marcia - 8/31/2006 2:30:12 AM
  - Theoretical Limits on Extrasolar Terrestrial Planet Detection with Coronagraphs - LJK - 8/30/2006 6:24:13 PM

Suzaku Observations of HESS J1616-508: Evidence for a Dark Particle Accelerator - LJK - 8/30/2006 6:19:36 PM

Pope sacks Vatican observatory director - phil - 8/24/2006 12:09:52 AM
- Doonesbury on ID - Laurie Street - 8/25/2006 5:09:55 PM
- Did he get house arrest? - SDF - 8/25/2006 4:23:53 AM
  - re: Did he get house arrest? - azstrummer - 8/25/2006 5:51:00 AM
- And was this an innocent omission? - alcaray - 8/24/2006 6:32:30 PM
- Intelligent operation? - ER - 8/24/2006 5:06:03 PM
- Pope John Paul Chided Steve Hawkings - carl - 8/24/2006 4:39:37 PM
- Hoo boy... - Fox - 8/24/2006 4:41:42 AM
  - Miracles. - Bowser - 8/24/2006 5:14:26 AM
    - And the moral of the story is... - LJK - 8/30/2006 1:23:21 PM

Launch pad - Raoul - 8/29/2006 7:42:48 PM
- re: Yes! - Tom Brosz - 8/29/2006 8:22:30 PM
  - re: Yes! - Doug Ellison - 8/30/2006 7:55:10 AM
    - Figures Cowing would complain - Buck Galaxy - 8/30/2006 8:20:01 AM
- VAB to Pad to VAB to Pad to ORBIT? - carl - 8/29/2006 7:58:53 PM

Technologies for a spacefaring society - phil - 8/23/2006 7:24:50 PM
- re: What is needed for a spacefaring society - Raoul - 8/23/2006 8:36:17 PM
  - re: What is needed for a spacefaring society - phil - 8/24/2006 12:06:02 AM
    - Hey Tom, care to crunch some numbers? - Lee - 8/24/2006 9:59:18 AM
      - re: numbers - Tom Brosz - 8/24/2006 7:15:16 PM
        
        Thanks. - Lee - 8/30/2006 3:51:46 AM

Life and Death on Ice-Covered Worlds - LJK - 8/29/2006 4:46:24 PM
- Sample return might contain microbes, or contraindicators for life (n/t) - SDF - 8/29/2006 5:20:44 PM
  - Microbes and protiens on Comets? - carl - 8/29/2006 7:18:48 PM
    - Liquid water - SDF - 8/29/2006 7:59:33 PM

3D Orbit For Pluto In Response To Nick's Ill-Informed Reply Below - Mark Eby - 8/27/2006 1:36:42 AM
- What is going on is merely the refinement of a classification system. - David F Mayer - 8/28/2006 2:20:52 PM
  - Getting the boot - Doug Ellison - 8/28/2006 3:15:51 PM
    - Exactly! - Mark Eby - 8/29/2006 12:37:17 AM
      - Gerrymandering the definition - phil - 8/29/2006 11:27:38 AM
- 3D view is good, but... - nick hoffman - 8/27/2006 9:22:14 AM
  - re: 3D view is good, but... - Marcia - 8/28/2006 5:53:54 PM
  - Many Properties Are Distance Dependent. - Mark Eby - 8/27/2006 2:32:06 PM
    - re: The report - Raoul - 8/27/2006 7:40:24 PM
      - re: The report. - Marcia - 8/28/2006 5:57:37 PM
      - It's A Dumb Criterion Period - Mark Eby - 8/27/2006 10:36:27 PM
        
        re: IPluto has been controversial right from the moment of its discovery - Raoul - 8/28/2006 8:11:57 AM
        
        Baloney - Mark Eby - 8/28/2006 12:54:22 PM
        
        re: Baloney - Marcia - 8/28/2006 6:02:14 PM
        
        re: Gerald Kuiper - Raoul - 8/28/2006 8:58:23 PM
        
        re: Gerald Kuiper - Marcia - 8/28/2006 9:13:29 PM
        
        re: Being more polite would help, please...and - Raoul - 8/28/2006 3:26:37 PM
        
        Don't Spout BS and I Won't Call It Out - Mark Eby - 8/29/2006 12:50:04 AM
- re: 3D Orbit For Pluto In Response To Nick's Ill-Informed Reply Below - Marcia - 8/27/2006 2:05:26 AM
- Significant Ommision - Mark Eby - 8/27/2006 1:44:39 AM
- Map Control Directions - Mark Eby - 8/27/2006 1:40:27 AM

Anousheh - Raoul - 8/26/2006 8:26:04 PM
- Kuwaiti girl dreams of being an astronaut - phil - 8/28/2006 2:03:46 PM
- 'gesundheit' (n/t) - RobVG - 8/27/2006 3:38:17 AM

Web Astronomers' Blog Reaction to IAU Planet Definition - phil - 8/25/2006 5:38:00 PM
- why pluto is not a planet no mater what the definition is. - dwc - 8/27/2006 11:10:36 PM
  - Utterly Irrelevant - ID - 8/28/2006 12:57:25 PM
- A Triumph Of Stupidity And Lack Of Rigor - Mark Eby - 8/27/2006 1:04:32 AM
- Who cares! I waana know what Jay Leno & Mr. Letterman thought of this fiasco. - Jacob Samorodin - 8/25/2006 10:45:33 PM
- Lead scientist on Nasa's robotic mission calls this "embarrassing". - Eric - 8/25/2006 10:30:34 PM
  - re: Lead scientist on Nasa's robotic mission calls this "embarrassing". - ER - 8/25/2006 11:46:11 PM
  - re: Lead scientist on Nasa's robotic mission calls this "embarrassing". - phil - 8/25/2006 10:48:40 PM
    - Hear, Hear. (n/t) - ER - 8/26/2006 1:48:41 AM
- re: IAU Planet Definition - Raoul - 8/25/2006 6:38:17 PM
  - re: IAU Planet Definition - phil - 8/25/2006 7:17:47 PM
    - re: IAU Planet Definition - Raoul - 8/25/2006 9:26:56 PM
      - Don't piss off Pluto! - phil - 8/25/2006 11:47:51 PM
        
        When The Man On The Street Goes What A Dumbass Definition - Mark Eby - 8/27/2006 10:42:52 PM
        
        re: Don't piss off Pluto! - Marcia - 8/27/2006 1:43:27 AM

Mars Reconnaissance vs Mars Express vs Goggle Earth - Carolinian - 8/26/2006 5:07:17 PM
- What to expect - nick hoffman - 8/27/2006 9:08:05 AM
  - re: What to expect - Carolinian - 8/27/2006 8:54:39 PM

~ "Grammar Girl" moved to Flame ~ - Fox (visiting moderator) - 8/14/2006 4:18:44 PM
- re: ~ "Grammar Girl" moved to Flame ~ - Grammar Girl - 8/27/2006 9:50:54 AM
  - Coming soon, to an email near you (n/t) - Fox - 8/27/2006 8:14:29 PM

Pluto out ...or see you in 3 years - Raoul - 8/22/2006 10:18:58 PM
- I am still for charting worlds by size and composition. - REB - 8/24/2006 2:25:19 PM
- New information v. nostgalgia. - Bowser - 8/23/2006 1:13:11 AM
- More Dumb BS Based On A Predetermined Bias Against Pluto - Mark Eby - 8/23/2006 12:28:11 AM
  - Pluto's shoulders are broad, and she does not care. (n/t) - alcaray - 8/24/2006 3:22:06 PM
  - Pluto and Neptune - nick hoffman - 8/24/2006 5:20:39 AM
    - Looked At It In 3 Dimensions? - Mark Eby - 8/27/2006 1:19:09 AM
    - re: Pluto and Neptune - phil - 8/24/2006 1:41:36 PM
  - Why not just keep it simple (stupid ASStronomers)? - Buck Galaxy - 8/23/2006 7:27:12 AM
    - Because It's Arbitrary Not Scientific - Mark Eby - 8/23/2006 10:57:05 AM
  - Bingo! Kepler is coming - phil - 8/23/2006 1:09:34 AM
    - "Xena" Needs A Real Name - Mark Eby - 8/23/2006 2:00:25 AM
      - How about Prostrateus - REB - 8/25/2006 1:02:29 PM
        
        re: Or Your'nus (n/t) - Raoul - 8/25/2006 10:28:06 PM
        
        Say it "Ouranos" (n/t) - Adam - 8/25/2006 8:27:10 PM
- why not do some real science before being pedantic? - phil - 8/22/2006 10:39:44 PM

A letter to Pluto - Raoul - 8/26/2006 1:55:07 PM
- Folks, post your Pluto humor here! (n/t) - phil - 8/26/2006 2:45:13 PM

ISS tonight - Raoul - 8/25/2006 9:32:15 PM
- re: And once completed, how it would look from Earth - Raoul - 8/26/2006 2:00:54 PM

Pluto's out of the round loop, demoted to "dwarf". - Bowser - 8/24/2006 2:09:18 PM
- Let's solve thuis damn problem ONCE AND FOR ALL TIME!! .....I've got a simple solution. - Jacob Samorodin - 8/24/2006 10:38:20 PM
  - I'd vote for 8 planets + 1 rather than 79 kajillion. - Bowser - 8/24/2006 11:49:09 PM
    - It's not about a number - Doug Ellison - 8/26/2006 8:36:48 AM
    - Well wadda ya know!...Bowser actually makes sense for once. (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 8/25/2006 10:42:52 PM
      - Next...flying pigs!!!! (n/t) - p - 8/26/2006 1:00:25 AM
- re: Pluto's out of the round loop, demoted to "dwarf". - Delbert - 8/24/2006 9:16:39 PM
  - My encounter with ISR. - ER - 8/25/2006 2:30:47 PM
  - Everyone who's done so publicly has been sued by ISR. (n/t) - ER - 8/25/2006 12:47:08 PM
    - Interesting. Glad you got one. (n/t) - Bowser - 8/25/2006 2:49:39 PM
  - I guess they have - Delbert - 8/24/2006 9:26:01 PM
- Is so a planet. - Tom Brosz - 8/24/2006 7:09:13 PM
  - Is not! - ER - 8/24/2006 8:53:04 PM
    - re: However - Raoul - 8/24/2006 9:03:33 PM
      - D'accord, mon ami - ER - 8/24/2006 10:26:47 PM
        
        re: Confusion - Raoul - 8/25/2006 7:35:22 AM
  - re: Not the first time - Raoul - 8/24/2006 7:32:39 PM
- Always "MICKEY MOUSE PLANET" - carl - 8/24/2006 4:36:38 PM
  - actually - dd - 8/24/2006 4:41:24 PM
    - DAWG-gon-ITT! - carl - 8/24/2006 6:41:39 PM
- re: My Very Educated Mother Just Said Unambiguously No..... - Raoul - 8/24/2006 3:26:59 PM
  - Remember how Pluto was discovered - Jack Herer - 8/24/2006 3:52:18 PM
- re: Pluto's out of the round loop, demoted to "dwarf". - phil - 8/24/2006 3:24:52 PM
  - re: Pluto's out of the round loop, demoted to "dwarf". - Doug Ellison - 8/24/2006 3:27:53 PM

China-Russia plan joint mission to Mars - Chris Vancil - 8/26/2006 5:09:25 AM

"FORE!!!!!!" Nasa Ok's EVA Golf Drive - carl - 8/23/2006 3:43:29 PM
- Gotta get this LINK thing down - carl - 8/24/2006 2:06:31 PM
- WTF? - Robert - 8/23/2006 8:09:43 PM
  - re: Much later - Raoul - 8/23/2006 8:26:51 PM
    - OK...but I hope the club is tethered... - Robert - 8/25/2006 5:40:38 PM

Space-related Internet domains available - Robert - 8/25/2006 3:41:52 PM

Anousheh for september 14th - Raoul - 8/23/2006 7:20:22 PM
- re: Pictures!! - Raoul - 8/24/2006 3:37:47 PM

Opportunity pushing for Victoria Crater - Tom Brosz - 8/22/2006 6:40:06 AM
- If they can keep up that pace, maybe Sept 2? (n/t) - Peter Bruener - 8/22/2006 7:43:06 PM
- re: Opportunity pushing for Victoria Crater - azstrummer - 8/22/2006 2:04:54 PM
  - re: Opportunity pushing for Victoria Crater - Doug Ellison - 8/22/2006 7:54:06 PM
    - re: Opportunity pushing for Victoria Crater - Tom Brosz - 8/24/2006 6:12:46 AM
      - re: Opportunity pushing for Victoria Crater - Doug Ellison - 8/24/2006 8:11:12 AM
    - re: Opportunity pushing for Victoria Crater - Doug Ellison - 8/23/2006 8:50:35 PM
  - re: Victoria Crater - Tom Brosz - 8/22/2006 5:02:21 PM
    - re: Victoria Crater - pwokenyaw - 8/22/2006 6:51:04 PM
      - Evil Knievel 2006 - LJK - 8/22/2006 7:25:34 PM
        
        Wicked pissah! - phil - 8/23/2006 2:11:49 AM
        
        re: Wicked pissah! - ljk - 8/23/2006 4:03:14 AM

Tesla electric car update - Tom Brosz - 8/23/2006 11:37:11 PM
- Does trickle down really work? - Sawyer - 8/24/2006 4:26:58 AM
  - It certainly seems to for commercial technologies - Tom Brosz - 8/24/2006 6:03:29 AM

Mariner 4 and the comet - Raoul - 8/23/2006 9:23:42 PM

The HST showing the LMC's hydrogen an oxygen clouds - Raoul - 8/23/2006 8:13:00 PM

New NASA CEV to be named "Orion." - Tom Brosz - 8/23/2006 6:45:48 AM
- Thank God no more APOLLO on STERIODS Monilker - carl - 8/23/2006 3:47:13 PM
- re: "Orion." - Raoul - 8/23/2006 3:23:02 PM
  - I think Raoul wins the scoop on this one. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 8/23/2006 6:14:22 PM
    - re: :-)) (n/t) - Raoul - 8/23/2006 7:17:02 PM
- Reference book - Tom Brosz - 8/23/2006 6:51:56 AM

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