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MRO STATUS? - carl - 3/9/2006 10:43:53 PM
- GO GO GO.....MRO!!!!! - carl - 3/11/2006 3:22:19 PM
  - re: Patch - Raoul - 3/11/2006 5:03:53 PM
- 4 minutes till it is re-aquired after burn. (n/t) - Delbert - 3/10/2006 10:13:10 PM
  - everybody looks happy at JPL so it must have made it fine (n/t) - Delbert - 3/10/2006 10:19:09 PM
  - Re-aquired!! will take a few minutes to determine if it's on course (n/t) - Delbert - 3/10/2006 10:16:34 PM
    - The fact that they reacquired the signal exactly on time is a very good sign - Larry J - 3/10/2006 10:21:40 PM
      - re: The fact that they reacquired the signal exactly on time is a very good sign - Delbert - 3/10/2006 10:35:26 PM
    - It lives! NASA TV rocks. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 3/10/2006 10:17:43 PM
      - I'm hearing "right on the money" from controllers. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 3/10/2006 10:18:17 PM
        
        Guess where its engines came from - Doug Ellison - 3/11/2006 10:27:20 AM
- Mars Orbital Insertion burn started on time - Larry J - 3/10/2006 9:26:14 PM
- re: MRO Engine problems....? - UhOh... - 3/10/2006 5:54:51 PM
  - Obviously, I heard wrong... - (blushing) - 3/10/2006 10:42:37 PM
  - nothing I've heard. - Doug Ellison - 3/10/2006 7:20:27 PM
    - burn started on time - Doug Ellison - 3/10/2006 9:32:51 PM
- About 200,000 kilometers from Mars - ljk - 3/10/2006 4:04:19 AM
  - Fingers crossed and hoping - carl - 3/10/2006 5:29:43 PM
    - MRO took a distant image of Deimos! - ljk - 3/10/2006 9:51:08 PM

msnbc- Mars orbiter faces NASAâ€™s â€˜Ghoulishâ€™ past - JimO - 3/9/2006 1:31:17 AM
- Did Mars Odyssey go through this? - ljk - 3/9/2006 2:49:32 PM
  - re: Did Mars Odyssey go through this? - Doug Ellison - 3/10/2006 12:26:32 PM
    - re: Did Mars Odyssey go through this? - ljk - 3/10/2006 1:53:01 PM
      - It is just the space guys being colorful, and... - alcaray - 3/10/2006 8:30:21 PM

Giant Planet Accretion and Migration: Surviving the Type I Regime - ljk - 3/8/2006 9:52:41 PM
- Dust flow in gas disks in the presence of embedded planets - ljk - 3/8/2006 10:11:19 PM
  - Turbulence driven diffusion in protoplanetary disks - chemical effects in the outer disk - ljk - 3/8/2006 10:20:41 PM
    - 24-micron Detections of Disks around Very Low-mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs in IC 348: Grain Growth/Settling and Inner Holes? - ljk - 3/8/2006 10:22:06 PM
      - Dust settling in local simulations of turbulent protoplanetary disks - ljk - 3/8/2006 10:25:26 PM
        
        Planets In The Vortex - ljk - 3/10/2006 4:13:13 AM
        
        Habitability of known exoplanetary systems based on measured stellar properties - ljk - 3/10/2006 3:35:55 PM
        
        Disk-Planet Interactions During Planet Formation - ljk - 3/10/2006 3:38:51 PM
        
        Gravitational Instabilities in Gaseous Protoplanetary Disks and Implications for Giant Planet Formation - ljk - 3/10/2006 3:41:54 PM
        
        Spectroscopic rotational velocities of brown dwarfs - ljk - 3/10/2006 3:45:29 PM
        
        HD 98618: A Star Closely Resembling our Sun - ljk - 3/10/2006 3:58:09 PM
        
        Diffusive Migration of Low-Mass Proto-planets in Turbulent Disks - ljk - 3/10/2006 8:03:14 PM

On the influence of the global cosmological expansion on the local dynamics in the Solar System - ljk - 3/8/2006 9:56:23 PM
- On the Orbits and Masses of the Satellites of the Pluto-Charon System - ljk - 3/10/2006 3:55:07 PM
  - Pluto redder than all of its moons, which are grayish - conclusion, common birth from impact - ljk - 3/10/2006 7:57:56 PM

Sky Events in the Northern Hemisphere for March, 2006 - ljk - 3/3/2006 1:49:31 AM
- re: A couple of March highlights - SteveS - 3/3/2006 2:46:57 AM
  - Correction; comet to the left of venus (n/t) - SteveS - 3/3/2006 1:45:51 PM
- And for the Southern Hemisphere... - ljk - 3/3/2006 1:51:56 AM
  - re: From Turkey, Comet Pojmanski - Raoul - 3/3/2006 6:34:44 AM
    - Speaking of sky events in Turkey this month... - ljk - 3/3/2006 4:47:19 PM
      - re: I'm going there (n/t) - Raoul - 3/3/2006 5:09:52 PM
        
        Mars Departs: Time to Take One Last Look - ljk - 3/3/2006 7:16:40 PM
        
        Shady Drama: Penumbral Lunar Eclipse March 14 - ljk - 3/10/2006 7:38:49 PM

Young Galaxies Were Hostile To Life - ljk - 3/8/2006 3:38:35 PM
- Destroying Astrobiology Would be a 'Disaster' - ljk - 3/10/2006 7:29:51 PM

Insightful Case for Nuclear Energy - phil - 3/10/2006 6:02:50 PM

ESA satellite reveals Yellowstoneâ€™s deep secret - ljk - 3/10/2006 11:57:00 AM
- re: ESA satellite reveals Yellowstoneâ€™s deep secret - REB - 3/10/2006 3:25:49 PM

Informative and entertaining Venus conference report - ljk - 3/10/2006 2:01:56 PM

Dust devils on Mars might have high-voltage electric fields - REB - 3/7/2006 5:23:38 PM
- Can we use the 'L" word? - Jacob Samorodin - 3/8/2006 12:05:31 AM
- Electrostatic Rover washes? - carl - 3/7/2006 6:06:35 PM
  - Another threat to Mars astronauts? - ljk - 3/7/2006 7:17:04 PM
    - re: Another threat to Mars astronauts? - REB - 3/8/2006 1:24:32 PM
      - re: Another threat to Mars astronauts? - Doug Ellison - 3/8/2006 2:04:47 PM
        
        Speaking of winds... - ljk - 3/8/2006 3:23:30 PM
        
        re: Speaking of winds... - Jacob Samorodin - 3/8/2006 11:45:59 PM
        
        re: Speaking of winds... - REB - 3/9/2006 3:01:42 PM
        
        re: Speaking of winds... - ljk - 3/10/2006 3:20:07 AM
        
        re: Speaking of winds... - REB - 3/10/2006 1:10:44 PM

Twentieth Anniversary of Giotto's Flyby of Comet Halley - ljk - 3/10/2006 12:21:31 PM

Titan, the rings and scattered sunlight - Raoul - 3/6/2006 9:13:15 PM
- Cassini Detects 'Backward' Electrons On Saturn - ljk - 3/10/2006 4:09:15 AM

Bots Gone Wild! - phil - 3/9/2006 5:28:51 PM
- Bots in Love - ljk - 3/10/2006 3:52:39 AM

Mental Controlled Computer - Adam - 3/9/2006 9:30:24 PM
- sounds like a flollow-up version of the 'mind switch' developed at UTS (n/t) - Daniel - 3/10/2006 1:34:50 AM

If someone finds a piece of Columbia, do they still have to turn it in to NASA? - REB - 3/9/2006 3:08:10 PM
- Judging from this news item... - ljk - 3/10/2006 1:07:29 AM

Sir Patrick Moore in Hospital for Pacemaker - ljk - 3/8/2006 3:21:18 PM
- Sir Patrick doing well after surgery - ljk - 3/9/2006 11:46:56 PM

Interesting article from CNN Money - Scott Evil - 3/9/2006 5:04:51 PM
- re: Interesting article from CNN Money - dtb - 3/9/2006 5:33:31 PM

A Sirius case - Raoul - 3/6/2006 7:40:23 PM
- An update - Adam - 3/7/2006 5:21:13 AM
  - re: Mass loss from Sirius B - Raoul - 3/7/2006 7:33:41 PM
    - Dogon dogsh*t - Adam - 3/8/2006 12:18:38 PM
      - re:Yes, Adam, you could be right (n/t) - Raoul - 3/8/2006 5:19:02 PM
      - The simplest explanation - ljk - 3/8/2006 2:00:56 PM
        
        re: Sirius does not appear low above the horizon everywhere on Earth - Raoul - 3/8/2006 5:17:17 PM
        
        Here's another one... - ljk - 3/8/2006 9:50:32 PM
        
        re: They certainly checked in China - Raoul - 3/9/2006 6:34:41 AM
        
        re: They certainly checked in China - ljk - 3/9/2006 3:08:27 PM
- Dog-nab-it - SteveS - 3/6/2006 10:34:14 PM
  - More info - ljk - 3/7/2006 3:25:48 PM

Not really a surprise- CON- Fusion yet again... - R.L. - 3/9/2006 8:10:31 AM

Contrails or ground astronomy but not both - Raoul - 3/2/2006 6:28:36 PM
- Sky surveys and deep fields of ground-based and space telescopes - ljk - 3/8/2006 10:32:36 PM

Cosmic Strings Revisited - ljk - 3/1/2006 7:49:37 PM
- Dark Energy: Mystery of the Millennium - ljk - 3/8/2006 10:18:20 PM

GRACE space mission finds significant Antarctic ice loss - SDF - 3/8/2006 10:02:57 PM

NASA's Space Settlement Design Contest - ljk - 3/8/2006 9:46:25 PM

Now that the Dawn missions to the asteroids are cancelled.... - Jacob Samorodin - 3/6/2006 11:25:02 PM
- re: Dawn not completely down - Raoul - 3/8/2006 8:18:47 PM
- Conceptually one of the most exciting science missions planned - Sawyer - 3/7/2006 5:15:51 PM
  - I wonder.... - Jacob Samorodin - 3/8/2006 12:09:04 AM
- The lesson program managers need to learn... - Larry J - 3/7/2006 4:48:38 PM
- not missions, mission. - Doug Ellison - 3/7/2006 9:49:03 AM
- Ion engines might not live up to expectations - pwokenyaw - 3/7/2006 1:11:54 AM

Dented ARM and Faulty Tank sensor 2 delay STS launch? - carl - 3/8/2006 5:02:09 PM

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