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Book Review: Fred Hoyle's Universe - LJK - 1/18/2006 2:50:27 PM

All articles in latest Astrobiology journal online free - LJK - 1/18/2006 2:43:26 PM

Rebuilding Stonehenge on National Geographic Channel tonight - LJK - 1/17/2006 7:01:08 PM

New Horizons is OK to go (so far... so good). - Marcia - 1/15/2006 9:50:32 PM
- Ya gotta be a little proud of a country which will do this!! (n/t) - Bowser - 1/17/2006 6:14:09 AM
- To Jupiter in One Year, Slingshot, and Nine More Years to Pluto - SDF - 1/16/2006 2:36:19 PM
  - re: To Jupiter in One Year, Slingshot, and Nine More Years to Pluto - Doug Ellison - 1/16/2006 3:00:00 PM
    - Someone's gotta monitor its progress on-route! - SDF - 1/17/2006 2:18:36 PM
    - re: To Jupiter in One Year, Slingshot, and Nine More Years to Pluto - lance - 1/16/2006 9:51:13 PM
      - And the wait for a Pluto orbiter... - Adam - 1/16/2006 11:16:24 PM
        
        An orbiter mission is a lot harder than a flyby - Larry J - 1/17/2006 12:23:51 AM
        
        I think a Saturn-Phoebe orbiter would make a lot of sense - pwokenyaw - 1/17/2006 12:44:27 AM
        
        After Cassini, it'll probably be a while before we send another orbiter to Saturn - Larry J - 1/17/2006 2:16:35 PM
        
        re: After Cassini, it'll probably be a while before we send another orbiter to Saturn - Doug Ellison - 1/17/2006 3:56:48 PM
    - Expendable Launch Vehicle Status Report - LJK - 1/16/2006 5:58:26 PM
      - Updated Coverage from Spaceflight Now - LJK - 1/17/2006 6:09:42 PM
        
        re: Updated Coverage from Spaceflight Now - Marcia - 1/17/2006 6:38:57 PM

So LIGO's up and running at full sensitivity... - alcaray - 1/11/2006 11:19:32 PM
- My bet is on merging binary black holes - ljk - 1/12/2006 12:18:54 AM
- Isn't there supposed to be a supernova in our galaxy every 50 years? - Jacob Samorodin - 1/11/2006 11:41:19 PM
  - Due to the nature of gravity waves... - R.L. - 1/12/2006 1:12:04 AM
    - Coupling of Radial and Axial non-Radial Oscillations of Compact Stars: Gravitational Waves from first-order Differential Rotation - LJK - 1/16/2006 6:35:03 PM
      - To probe into pulsar's interior through gravitational waves - LJK - 1/17/2006 6:08:30 PM

NASA's Spitzer finds possible comet dust around dead star. - Marcia - 1/12/2006 4:00:02 PM
- The Dust cloud around the White Dwarf G 29-38 - LJK - 1/16/2006 6:37:56 PM
- On the Formation of Gas Giant Planets on Wide Orbits - LJK - 1/16/2006 6:22:56 PM
  - Thermal Structure and Radius Evolution of Irradiated Gas Giant Planets - LJK - 1/17/2006 5:58:12 PM

Space propulsion breakthrough: new spacecraft ion engine tested - et - 1/15/2006 7:13:48 PM
- Advanced propulsion? I got yer advanced propulsion - Tom Brosz - 1/17/2006 7:13:04 AM
- Cool! Would adding more grid stages do anything? (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 1/16/2006 1:47:34 AM
  - Quotes from the article - LJK - 1/16/2006 5:52:59 PM
    - "With the right power supply...." (n/t) - et - 1/16/2006 6:57:42 PM
      - Oooohhh!! I assume you are talking about the dreaded N word. (n/t) - DWC - 1/16/2006 7:48:32 PM
        
        I'm pointing out that it's an open ended statement..... - et - 1/17/2006 2:31:42 AM

Squyres update - JimO - 1/14/2006 8:08:37 AM
- I'll bite. What's a "festoon" and why is it cool? - Tom Brosz - 1/14/2006 7:11:15 PM
  - I think the "festoons" are what make up the "etched terrain". - Jacob Samorodin - 1/14/2006 8:27:24 PM
    - re: I think the "festoons" are what make up the "etched terrain". - Doug Ellison - 1/15/2006 12:23:40 AM
    - Several weeks? - Buck Galaxy - 1/14/2006 10:48:27 PM
  - re: I'll bite. What's a "festoon" and why is it cool? - Doug Ellison - 1/14/2006 8:23:39 PM
    - Caution Will Robinson - nick hoffman - 1/15/2006 9:50:30 AM
    - re: I'll bite. What's a "festoon" and why is it cool? - Marcia - 1/14/2006 9:05:55 PM
      - Among many fascinating aspects... - BRFelix - 1/15/2006 2:12:16 PM
        
        Cool. "Fractal Mars!" (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 1/15/2006 6:51:58 PM
        
        re: Among many fascinating aspects... - Marcia - 1/15/2006 6:20:58 PM
        
        re: Among many fascinating aspects... - nick hoffman - 1/16/2006 9:00:32 AM
        
        re: Among many fascinating aspects... - Marcia - 1/16/2006 5:35:25 PM
        
        So does this kill the recent volcano/impact hypotheses for Meridiani? (n/t) - pwokenyaw - 1/16/2006 10:24:16 PM

From the Earth past the moon in 9 hours - Larry J - 1/14/2006 1:08:41 AM
- It's a good time to have NASA TV... :) (n/t) - et - 1/14/2006 11:31:12 PM
- Makes Stardust look pedestrian - Doug Ellison - 1/14/2006 8:28:01 PM
  - And those Apollo missions - snails, all of them - LJK - 1/16/2006 4:04:36 PM
    - The Pluto mission definitely isn't a Hoffman Minimum Energy transfer - Larry J - 1/16/2006 9:52:33 PM
  - Spacecraft coming and going - Buck Galaxy - 1/14/2006 10:50:51 PM
  - Yeah, and Stardust is going downhill! - Larry J - 1/14/2006 9:15:53 PM
    - re: Stardust enters Earth's atmosphere at 46,440 kilometers per hour (28,860 miles per hour)... - Chris Vancil - 1/14/2006 10:45:15 PM
- re: Thank you, Larry J. :) - Marcia - 1/14/2006 2:15:40 AM
  - re: Thank you, Larry J. :) - Marcia - 1/14/2006 3:23:26 AM
    - Risky fly-by - Adam - 1/16/2006 12:53:09 AM
      - re: Risky fly-by - Marcia - 1/16/2006 2:55:14 AM

The Earth-Moon system - Raoul - 1/16/2006 8:55:47 PM
- re: The Earth-Moon system - Great Point!!! - lance - 1/16/2006 9:49:43 PM

Local Media Irritates me - Jeff F - 1/15/2006 2:44:26 PM
- "I should've been an actor, but I wound up here." - Lee - 1/16/2006 1:52:57 AM
  - "Cue the meat puppet" - Robert - 1/16/2006 9:41:32 PM
- Breakfast news... - Adam - 1/16/2006 12:58:27 AM
- re: France - Raoul - 1/15/2006 7:17:40 PM
  - re: France - Jeff F - 1/15/2006 7:20:37 PM
- I go NASA channel when I can. - Tom Brosz - 1/15/2006 6:50:46 PM
  - Cronkite was/is a major windbag. - Lee - 1/16/2006 1:56:58 AM
    - I remember him as handling it quite well. - Tom Brosz - 1/16/2006 4:51:15 AM
- Don't just tell us, tell them - ljk - 1/15/2006 4:02:16 PM
  - Ditto! (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 1/15/2006 10:35:19 PM

MOON ROCKS stolen from Va Beach!!!! - carl - 1/16/2006 6:26:23 PM
- Some details and one image - LJK - 1/16/2006 9:11:33 PM
  - re: Some details and one image - LJK - 1/16/2006 9:13:47 PM

Do one million stars confirm dark matter is the major mass of the Milky Way Galaxy? - LJK - 1/11/2006 10:15:03 PM
- Dark Matter???? - but I thought that last month we'd established that we don't need it to exist anymore n/t (n/t) - Marcus - 1/12/2006 1:17:22 PM
  - Structure formation in modified gravity models alternative to dark energy - LJK - 1/12/2006 10:00:26 PM
    - Alternative proposal to modified Newton dynamics (MOND) - LJK - 1/12/2006 10:27:06 PM
      - Dark Matter theory is probably correct - SDF - 1/13/2006 6:37:59 AM
        
        Dark Matter Galaxy? - ljk - 1/13/2006 2:39:47 PM
        
        Right, there you go. - SDF - 1/14/2006 12:55:19 PM
        
        Short GRB and binary black hole standard sirens as a probe of dark energy - LJK - 1/16/2006 4:14:31 PM
        
        Indirect Search for Dark Matter in M31 with the CELESTE Experiment - LJK - 1/16/2006 6:26:14 PM
        
        A Chandra View of Dark Matter in Early-Type Galaxies - LJK - 1/16/2006 6:28:25 PM
        
        Neutrino Condensation as Dark Energy - LJK - 1/16/2006 9:05:42 PM

First Man - The Last Man on the Moon - Raoul - 1/15/2006 8:08:13 PM
- re: First Man - The Last Man on the Moon - Delbert - 1/16/2006 7:44:22 PM
  - re: First Man - The Last Man on the Moon - Raoul - 1/16/2006 7:57:40 PM
- Oh Raoul, didn't you listen to your mother... - LJK - 1/16/2006 4:08:19 PM
  - re: An illumination - Raoul - 1/16/2006 5:08:58 PM
    - Wheh! - LJK - 1/16/2006 5:10:07 PM

On a macroscopic traversable spacewarp in practice - LJK - 1/16/2006 5:59:53 PM

MEPAG â€˜2005 Mars Program Plan Science Analysis Groupâ€™ - Update January 6, 2006 - LJK - 1/16/2006 5:03:35 PM

A CEV for 10 - Raoul - 1/13/2006 6:47:15 PM
- re: A CEV for 10 - AndyMc - 1/13/2006 9:22:06 PM
  - re: Thank you, Andy! (n/t) - Raoul - 1/13/2006 9:58:33 PM
    - Reasons to colonize the Moon - LJK - 1/16/2006 4:31:41 PM

Passport to Pluto on the Discovery Science Channel - Sunday, January 15 - ljk - 1/15/2006 12:38:50 AM
- Did anyone see this program? - LJK - 1/16/2006 4:16:20 PM

A possible origin for the jets of Encedalus. - Robert Clark - 1/14/2006 10:09:28 PM
- re: And one year ago, Huygens made history! (n/t) - Raoul - 1/14/2006 11:21:37 PM
  - re: And one year ago, Huygens made history! - LJK - 1/16/2006 3:59:30 PM

Don't forget the Stardust reentry! - Tom Brosz - 1/15/2006 7:40:27 AM
- In case anybody's impatient for images and science results from the Stardust return samples... - Jacob Samorodin - 1/15/2006 9:18:46 PM
  - The [mysteriously] deleted summary of what's to be presented at the LPSC. - Jacob Samorodin - 1/15/2006 9:29:03 PM
- re: Who left his name in one of the microchips? - Raoul - 1/15/2006 2:22:23 PM
  - I did (n/t) - Lee - 1/15/2006 7:16:17 PM
  - re: Who left his name in one of the microchips? - Delbert - 1/15/2006 7:03:15 PM
    - re: Who left his name in one of the microchips? - Delbert - 1/15/2006 8:36:24 PM
      - re: Signatures - Raoul - 1/15/2006 9:09:18 PM
    - re: I sort of thought you would have, Del:-)) ! - Raoul - 1/15/2006 7:14:55 PM
- re: Chute Open!!!!!! (n/t) - Raoul - 1/15/2006 10:06:52 AM
  - re: Touchdown!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (n/t) - Raoul - 1/15/2006 10:11:37 AM
    - Re: Congratulations NASA, Lockheed, Brownlee and the various teams! (n/t) - Chris Vancil - 1/15/2006 10:18:26 AM
      - re: Re: Parachute located! (n/t) - Raoul - 1/15/2006 10:49:12 AM
  - Dang, I saw nothing from here. - Tom Brosz - 1/15/2006 10:11:31 AM
    - Same here (also in SF Bay Area) (n/t) - pwokenyaw - 1/15/2006 10:18:38 AM
      - re: No sighting here as well in Seattle. (n/t) - Chris Vancil - 1/15/2006 10:32:05 AM
        
        News from NASA JPL - ljk - 1/15/2006 4:05:34 PM
        
        re: It came from outer space - Raoul - 1/15/2006 8:27:28 PM
        
        Oh, No! Raoul!!!...You're not going to do an "Andromeda Strain" analogy on us, are you? - Jacob Samorodin - 1/15/2006 9:07:35 PM
        
        re: Andromeda Strain..:-) - Raoul - 1/15/2006 9:11:23 PM
        
        Let's hope fiction doesn't become reality. ;-) - Jacob Samorodin - 1/15/2006 9:23:05 PM

Stardust@Home - LJK - 1/7/2006 8:03:43 PM
- I'm confused - Delbert - 1/9/2006 4:46:40 PM
  - I found this and would assume it's correct. - Delbert - 1/9/2006 4:54:42 PM
    - Sounds right - SteveS - 1/10/2006 2:23:05 AM
- Fun! Thanks for the heads up! - alcaray - 1/8/2006 8:03:29 PM
  - Comet dust brought back to Earth - LJK - 1/12/2006 8:44:53 PM
    - Stardust re-entry information sites - ljk - 1/13/2006 2:32:02 PM
      - More Stardust Re-Entry Information - ljk - 1/15/2006 12:54:10 AM

It's friday the 13th...and it's FULL MOOOON !!! - Raoul - 1/13/2006 7:47:11 PM
- I saw the ISS a few nights ago. - Jacob Samorodin - 1/14/2006 8:41:32 PM
- re: FULL MOON with a filter and the right side - Raoul - 1/13/2006 8:55:29 PM

Mercury a Possible Hit-and-Run Planet - LJK - 1/12/2006 8:29:27 PM
- Where were the traffic cops when this happened? ;-) - Jacob Samorodin - 1/14/2006 8:31:37 PM
- re: Mercury in chaos - Raoul - 1/12/2006 8:40:44 PM

Methane dropped from CEV plans? - enyo - 1/10/2006 10:41:47 PM
- re: If this is the case then refueling at Moon and Mars is out the window! (n/t) - Chris Vancil - 1/11/2006 12:12:54 AM
  - re: The Shuttle decision redux? Or the "Shuttlefication" of the CEV - Chris Vancil - 1/13/2006 1:11:16 AM
    - re: CEV - Raoul - 1/13/2006 6:44:47 AM
      - re: Camels - Chris Vancil - 1/13/2006 7:52:43 AM
        
        This is a disappointment but not necessarily a show stopper - Larry J - 1/13/2006 2:10:06 PM
        
        Wouldn't this be a good trial balloon for a prize? - Lee - 1/13/2006 10:23:46 PM
        
        re: Non of the changed they will make are a show stoppers - Chris Vancil - 1/13/2006 10:00:16 PM
        
        Not necessarily - Larry J - 1/14/2006 1:02:08 AM

Active Assessment of Active SETI - LJK - 1/7/2006 8:28:57 PM
- We haven't been transmitting for a day, let alone a century - SDF - 1/8/2006 2:05:09 PM
  - Here is some data on the subject - LJK - 1/8/2006 5:07:42 PM
    - Transmitting to a Million Worlds and Worlds With Multiple Suns Abundant - LJK - 1/12/2006 8:25:29 PM
      - Tainted Suns - SDF - 1/13/2006 4:09:13 AM
        
        re: Tainted Suns - LJK - 1/13/2006 4:26:49 PM
      - Disputing some of their numbers - SDF - 1/13/2006 1:14:45 AM

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