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Anousheh Ansari - Raoul - 8/21/2006 4:32:30 PM
- re: Ok, not yet but likely! (n/t) - Raoul - 8/21/2006 4:38:25 PM
  - re: Yes! - Raoul - 8/23/2006 3:38:07 PM

Precipitous reaction to trendy science and unintended consequences - phil - 8/23/2006 2:23:26 AM

Antikythera mechanism - humanity's oldest known computer - LJK - 8/22/2006 6:13:38 PM
- re: Antikythera mechanism - humanity's oldest known computer - Vince - 8/23/2006 12:30:15 AM

Inconstant Moon - Raoul - 8/17/2006 8:38:23 PM
- re: Inconstant Moon - Delbert - 8/18/2006 9:07:47 PM
- re: Inconstant Moon - Tom Brosz - 8/18/2006 5:33:44 PM
  - just a what if story - phil - 8/22/2006 10:25:23 PM
  - re: Inconstant Moon - Pugs - 8/19/2006 4:14:20 AM
- Great story. (n/t) - Bowser - 8/17/2006 10:30:41 PM

Uncovering Extraterrestrial Intelligence: When Will It Happen, and What Will We Find? - LJK - 8/22/2006 7:46:10 PM
- Macroengineering in the Galactic Context: A New Agenda for Astrobiology v2 - LJK - 8/22/2006 7:50:01 PM
  - Macroengineering -- references - JimO - 8/22/2006 9:14:33 PM

One quadrillion newly noticed members of the Sol system - LJK - 8/14/2006 4:16:33 PM
- Recent smash-up? - Adam - 8/15/2006 10:06:09 PM
- Wow. OK. Eney, Meeny, Miney, Mo. Abra and Cadabra. - Bowser - 8/15/2006 4:42:16 AM
  - Lots of stuff our there - ljk - 8/17/2006 11:35:13 AM
    - A Brief History of Trans-Neptunian Space v2 - LJK - 8/22/2006 9:08:14 PM

Current bombardment of the Earth-Moon system: Emphasis on cratering asymmetries - ljk - 8/21/2006 2:30:20 AM
- The Threat of NEOs and ways of dealing with them - 3 papers - LJK - 8/22/2006 9:03:25 PM

Voyager 1 at 100 AU ! - Raoul - 8/16/2006 5:49:05 PM
- re: Voyager 1 at 100 AU ! - Jacob Samorodin - 8/16/2006 10:46:38 PM
  - I wonder if they've accounted for lightspeed delay - SDF - 8/17/2006 12:01:28 PM
    - Voyager reached 100 AU distance at 5:13 pm Eastern Time yesterday - SDF - 8/17/2006 12:06:37 PM
- re: Voyager 1 at 100 AU ! - Hans - 8/16/2006 6:03:43 PM
  - re: Jet Propulsion Laboratory (n/t) - Raoul - 8/16/2006 6:22:45 PM
    - From the latest Voyager Mission Status Report - ljk - 8/17/2006 2:36:13 AM
      - Voyager in the News from JPL - LJK - 8/22/2006 8:04:05 PM

SPACEHAB To Support Commercial Orbital Transportation Partners - Chris Vancil - 8/22/2006 7:48:07 PM

"Lucky" imaging - Sawyer - 8/22/2006 1:09:41 PM
- "this is technology that eventually will be in the hands of amateurs" That would rock (n/t) - Peter Bruener - 8/22/2006 7:28:05 PM
- clever - alcaray - 8/22/2006 3:28:44 PM

Pink Floyd to the rescue of the missing Apollo 11 footage? - LJK - 8/22/2006 6:27:40 PM

Physics News Update 789 - Smallest pyramids in the Universe - LJK - 8/22/2006 6:16:54 PM

Last flight of the Icarus - nick hoffman - 8/21/2006 9:52:25 AM
- re: Icarus - Raoul - 8/22/2006 4:28:55 PM
- Wow... - Tom Brosz - 8/22/2006 7:02:23 AM

The Reality of Dark Matter - Proven by Chandra? - LJK - 8/21/2006 8:39:21 PM
- 1E 0657-56: NASA Finds Direct Proof of Dark Matter - LJK - 8/22/2006 3:42:58 PM

What is a planet? - LJK - 8/18/2006 6:09:13 PM
- re: Hmm, the debate goes on and it's not quite 12 yet! - Raoul - 8/18/2006 7:30:12 PM
  - re: re:Sorry! - Raoul - 8/18/2006 8:02:59 PM
    - Colbert takes on Tyson over Pluto and the new, uh, thingies - ljk - 8/19/2006 2:25:11 AM
      - re: Suspense......suspense! - Raoul - 8/19/2006 9:31:34 PM
        
        re: A new proposal - Raoul - 8/20/2006 7:58:48 PM
        
        Another one - a body needs an atmosphere - ljk - 8/21/2006 2:40:32 AM
        
        re: No more Mercury? (n/t) - Raoul - 8/21/2006 5:42:15 AM
        
        re: No more Mercury? - LJK - 8/21/2006 7:17:41 PM
        
        Planetesimals To Brown Dwarfs: What is a Planet? - LJK - 8/22/2006 2:32:59 PM

COTS winners - Tom Brosz - 8/18/2006 8:08:10 PM
- Kistler revives hope of Australian space launches - nick hoffman - 8/21/2006 7:48:27 AM
  - That'd be cool... - Adam - 8/22/2006 10:51:51 AM
- re: COTS winners - Peter Bruener - 8/21/2006 6:47:00 AM
  - re: COTS winners - Tom Brosz - 8/21/2006 3:28:43 PM
- Press release - Tom Brosz - 8/18/2006 8:31:46 PM

Infrared telescopes in space could last much longer - Raoul - 8/22/2006 5:41:19 AM
- Fascinating article. I can imagine what they felt. (n/t) - Bowser - 8/22/2006 5:51:07 AM

Atlantis and STS 115 - Raoul - 8/21/2006 6:29:47 PM
- Thanks! Link to media kit - Tom Brosz - 8/21/2006 10:45:05 PM
- re: Heidemarie - Raoul - 8/21/2006 6:36:54 PM

Spitzer Digs Up Troves of Possible Solar Systems in Orion - LJK - 8/15/2006 4:35:45 PM
- re: Thanks for the information/link - amazing images. n/t. (n/t) - Vince - 8/16/2006 4:10:43 AM
- The Influence of Atmospheric Dynamics on the Infrared Spectra and Light Curves of Hot Jupiters - LJK - 8/15/2006 10:15:53 PM
  - The M Dwarf GJ 436 and its Neptune-Mass Planet - LJK - 8/15/2006 10:27:10 PM
    - About the extrasolar multi-planet system around HD160691 - LJK - 8/15/2006 10:31:14 PM
      - Extrasolar Planets: A Galactic Perspective - ljk - 8/17/2006 3:51:55 AM
        
        Coronagraphic Search for Extra-Solar Planets around epsilon Eri and Vega - ljk - 8/20/2006 2:28:14 AM
        
        The HARPS search for southern extra-solar planets. IX. mu Ara, a system with four planets - ljk - 8/21/2006 2:27:33 AM
        
        Evolution of Giant Planets in Eccentric Disks - ljk - 8/21/2006 2:46:20 AM
        
        The Separation/Period Gap in the Distribution of Extrasolar Planets around Stars with Masses M greater than = 1.2 Msolar - ljk - 8/21/2006 2:51:26 AM

"The elephant in the room." - Robert Clark - 8/9/2006 1:39:08 PM
- The mouse in the corner - Fox - 8/10/2006 11:39:48 PM
- Interview on the Red Rain of Kerala from June 15 - LJK - 8/9/2006 2:37:04 PM
  - Ahhh... phooey! Lichen spores - Adam - 8/10/2006 9:16:48 PM
    - Who said they were lichen spores? - LJK - 8/11/2006 2:33:38 PM
      - A debunking - Adam - 8/11/2006 8:11:17 PM
  - Photometry of comet 9P/Tempel 1 during the 2004/2005 approach and the Deep Impact module impact - LJK - 8/9/2006 10:13:41 PM
    - Catch the Sky Falling: Peter Jenniskens, Meteor Storm Chaser - LJK - 8/11/2006 8:09:49 PM
      - Ionisation and dissociation of cometary gaseous organic molecules by solar wind particles I: Formic Acid - ljk - 8/21/2006 2:49:24 AM

The Automated Palomar 60-Inch Telescope - ljk - 8/20/2006 2:25:22 AM

Mysteries on Universe's Largest Observable Scales - ljk - 8/20/2006 1:57:11 AM

Solar system just got bigger - nick hoffman - 8/16/2006 8:49:36 AM
- No, it didn't... - Pugs - 8/19/2006 4:44:13 AM
- re: Solar system just got bigger - Marcia - 8/17/2006 9:33:05 PM
- Well That Means 3 Visits to Unexplored Planets and a Possible One Are Already Underway - Mark Eby - 8/17/2006 12:34:12 AM
- Cosmic police alert!... Cosmic police alert! - Jacob Samorodin - 8/16/2006 10:42:16 PM
- There goes the neighborhood!! (n/t) - Bowser - 8/16/2006 9:52:46 PM
- Puts an odd spin on the sometimes whacky theories... - alcaray - 8/16/2006 9:04:46 PM
- re: Time to send a probe to Ceres!:-) - Raoul - 8/16/2006 7:15:30 PM
- I think they're working too hard on this. - Tom Brosz - 8/16/2006 5:34:08 PM
- re: It's portrait - Raoul - 8/16/2006 5:20:32 PM
  - re: Pluton - Vince - 8/17/2006 3:06:18 AM
    - re: Pluton - Raoul - 8/17/2006 7:22:36 PM
    - re: Pluton - Fox - 8/17/2006 3:50:26 PM
      - re: Pluton - nick hoffman - 8/19/2006 5:33:10 AM
    - Disagree With This Part - Mark Eby - 8/17/2006 10:59:38 AM
      - re: Disagree With This Part - Vince - 8/18/2006 1:52:31 AM
      - In honor of the IAU decision, I have decided to call little children... - ljk - 8/17/2006 12:53:25 PM
        
        The Ferengi beat you to it (n/t) - Fox - 8/17/2006 3:51:22 PM
        
        re: The Ferengi beat you to it - ljk - 8/17/2006 6:01:52 PM
- Burn the IAU! Heritics! All of them. (n/t) - Abdul hadjii al Terroristanii - 8/16/2006 1:59:28 PM
- re: A discussion from BA - BRFelix - 8/16/2006 1:31:53 PM
- The Simple Definition - ID - 8/16/2006 12:46:01 PM
- re: Solar system just got bigger - BRFelix - 8/16/2006 12:41:05 PM
- Why is Charon going to be a planet? - REB - 8/16/2006 12:26:05 PM
  - Maybe Because It's A Double Planet - ID - 8/16/2006 12:39:32 PM
    - I don't by it. All planet-moon systems orbit the barycenter and not each other. - REB - 8/16/2006 1:21:58 PM
      - Barycenter Inside Planet Versus Outside - ID - 8/16/2006 1:55:34 PM
        
        re: Barycenter Inside Planet Versus Outside - REB - 8/16/2006 1:59:15 PM
        
        re: Barycenter Inside Planet Versus Outside - Robert Clark - 8/17/2006 3:38:11 PM
        
        re: Barycenter Inside Planet Versus Outside - REB - 8/17/2006 4:44:12 PM
        
        re: Barycenter Inside Planet Versus Outside - Robert Clark - 8/17/2006 9:53:37 PM
        
        space.com not spca.com (n/t) - ID - 8/16/2006 1:56:21 PM
- Official - "Planets are Round" - nick hoffman - 8/16/2006 8:51:21 AM
  - Do we have to "obey" the IAU? - LJK - 8/16/2006 1:35:45 PM
    - And the issue is? - Adam - 8/16/2006 9:24:21 PM
    - re: Yes! - Raoul - 8/16/2006 5:27:03 PM
      - When I was a kid... - ljk - 8/17/2006 1:30:47 AM
        
        re: And today things change on a dayly basis - Raoul - 8/17/2006 5:44:56 AM
        
        IAU planetologists not happy with planet naming decision - LJK - 8/18/2006 4:03:04 PM

Vintage NASA Video - Eric - 8/19/2006 3:06:44 AM

Discovery of a gene linked to the evolution of the human brain - Raoul - 8/18/2006 6:10:43 PM

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