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High-Resolution Simulations of a Moon-Forming Impact and Post-Impact Evolution - LJK - 1/7/2006 4:03:07 AM

What's Up 2006 - 365 Days of Skywatching - LJK - 1/7/2006 3:45:40 AM

Skepticism greets claim of possible alien microbes - Eric - 1/7/2006 1:35:55 AM
- Posted in Off Topic - LJK - 1/7/2006 2:51:03 AM

Humanity's Future in the Universe - LJK - 1/5/2006 11:23:19 PM
- re: Lavoisier said: nothing is created, nothing is lost, everything is transformed - Raoul - 1/6/2006 6:51:56 PM
  - Most intelligent beings are curious about where they came from - LJK - 1/6/2006 7:23:20 PM
    - re: Technology oriented - Raoul - 1/6/2006 7:41:19 PM
      - re: Technology oriented - LJK - 1/6/2006 7:44:55 PM
        
        re: Yes, it is interesting (n/t) - Raoul - 1/6/2006 10:13:15 PM
        
        No Big Crunch - A Big Rip or a Big Evaporation, Maybe, but no Big Crunch - LJK - 1/7/2006 1:35:02 AM
- re: Humanity's Near Future (Estimates) - SDF - 1/6/2006 4:56:54 PM
- re: Humanity's Future in the Universe - Donald - 1/6/2006 2:36:19 PM
- Don't think there is one. - Bowser - 1/6/2006 4:41:17 AM
- Reacting to Disaster - LJK - 1/5/2006 11:45:04 PM
  - re: Reacting to Disaster - Mr Fibuli - 1/6/2006 3:47:26 AM

Triana a.k.a. Goresat - LJK - 1/6/2006 8:56:32 PM

ID in the CMB? - LJK - 1/6/2006 8:06:08 PM

Past moonwalks - Raoul - 1/5/2006 6:48:43 AM
- re: Past moonwalks - Chris Vancil - 1/5/2006 11:00:15 AM
  - re: Past moonwalks - Raoul - 1/5/2006 8:20:18 PM
    - Stepping Back to the Moon - LJK - 1/6/2006 7:53:41 PM

MESSENGER Sets Record for Space Laser Communication - LJK - 1/6/2006 7:28:14 PM

Need Sattellite Images of local area - carl - 1/4/2006 3:32:41 PM
- another thought: - podrock - 1/4/2006 10:31:48 PM
  - Uhh, Rutgers, Princeton, Penn State, etc - carl - 1/5/2006 10:40:28 PM
    - re: Uhh, Rutgers, Princeton, Penn State, etc - LJK - 1/6/2006 3:57:07 PM
- check with - podrock - 1/4/2006 3:57:42 PM
  - Thanks, Never thought of USGS - carl - 1/4/2006 4:07:37 PM
    - How they planned to deal with those annoying swamps in 1960 - LJK - 1/4/2006 4:45:22 PM
      - Makes GOOD COMEDY!!!! - carl - 1/4/2006 4:53:13 PM
    - re: Thanks, Never thought of USGS - jms - 1/4/2006 4:13:15 PM
      - oops, old habit... (n/t) - podrock - 1/4/2006 4:14:01 PM

**I deleted a thread** - ModBob - 1/5/2006 4:31:06 AM
- Dare I ask... why? (n/t) - Adam - 1/5/2006 7:47:40 AM
  - There's a discussion on the Community board. (n/t) - Robert - 1/6/2006 2:38:08 AM

New comet in the Southern Hemisphere - LJK - 1/5/2006 3:15:03 PM
- re: New comet in the Southern Hemisphere - Raoul - 1/5/2006 8:10:33 PM
  - A comet perihelion of 0.6 au?...Awesome! - Jacob Samorodin - 1/6/2006 12:30:09 AM

Nobody has posted THIS before !!!! DE-ORBITING THE ISS !!!!! - SDF - 1/5/2006 7:44:40 PM
- paraphrased - SDF - 1/5/2006 7:52:31 PM
  - re: Mir - Raoul - 1/5/2006 8:16:29 PM
    - Inside or out? - LJK - 1/5/2006 8:37:19 PM
      - re: Outside of Mir, on its shell - Raoul - 1/5/2006 9:29:39 PM

Black "Sand" El Dorado - BRFelix - 12/31/2005 3:14:05 PM
- Mystery material redux. - Robert Clark - 1/2/2006 5:14:53 PM
  - re: Mystery material redux. - nick hoffman - 1/3/2006 2:45:35 AM
- re: Closeup... sand all right... well... - BRFelix - 1/1/2006 10:24:08 PM
  - I think you're right - Tom Brosz - 1/2/2006 6:52:09 PM
    - re: I think you're right - Doug Ellison - 1/2/2006 10:02:16 PM
      - Winds - Tom Brosz - 1/2/2006 11:01:38 PM
        
        So?..... - Jacob Samorodin - 1/2/2006 11:11:29 PM
        
        Winds could strip lighter dust away from darker and denser particals beneath. (n/t) - alcaray - 1/5/2006 6:46:04 PM
        
        re: So?.....Hmmm, hydrological depositioning. Interesting.. - Marcia - 1/5/2006 2:58:27 AM
        
        Keep in mind I'm no geologist or Mars expert. Just making guesses. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 1/3/2006 12:26:39 AM
        
        good guesses, though - podrock - 1/4/2006 4:15:50 PM
- So much for the Ultreya "Abyss" - Donald - 12/31/2005 4:56:18 PM
  - re: So much for the Ultreya "Abyss" - ustrax - 1/2/2006 9:03:47 PM
  - Silly, but even Steve Squyers gave a nod... - dtb - 1/2/2006 6:21:55 PM
    - re: Silly, but even Steve Squyers gave a nod... - Doug Ellison - 1/3/2006 3:44:43 PM
      - re: Silly, but even Steve Squyers gave a nod... - ustrax - 1/3/2006 5:11:54 PM
  - Seriously... - Tom Brosz - 1/1/2006 5:14:38 AM
  - re: So much for the Ultreya "Abyss" - Buck Galaxy - 12/31/2005 7:32:53 PM
  - It is a cave. It's just full of sand. So there. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 12/31/2005 7:22:14 PM
    - Prolly. - BRFelix - 1/1/2006 2:53:19 AM
      - re: Prolly. - Doug Ellison - 1/3/2006 3:50:46 PM
        
        True enough - BRFelix - 1/3/2006 9:29:46 PM
        
        re: True enough - Doug Ellison - 1/4/2006 8:02:51 AM

Birth and Evolution of Isolated Radio Pulsars - LJK - 12/26/2005 6:50:27 PM
- Physical Interpretations of Rotating Radio Transients - LJK - 1/5/2006 6:28:03 PM

Cassini's maps of several Saturn moons - Vince - 1/4/2006 1:16:16 AM
- NASA Considering Extending Cassini Mission Through 2010 - LJK - 1/5/2006 6:08:02 PM

On the Relation Between Hot Jupiters & the Roche Limit - LJK - 1/3/2006 4:50:19 PM
- Improving the Efficiency of Markov Chain Monte Carlo for Analyzing the Orbits of Extrasolar Planets - LJK - 1/3/2006 4:51:14 PM
  - What do Multiple Planet Systems Teach us about Planet Formation? - LJK - 1/3/2006 4:52:21 PM
    - Frequency of Hot Jupiters and Very Hot Jupiters from the OGLE-III Transit Surveys Toward the Galactic Bulge and Carina - LJK - 1/3/2006 9:31:34 PM
      - Dust Size Growth and Settling in a Protoplanetary Disk - LJK - 1/4/2006 3:53:53 PM
        
        High resolution spectroscopy of stars with transiting planets - LJK - 1/4/2006 5:31:13 PM
        
        Linear and Bayesian Planet Detection Algorithms for the Terrestrial Planet Finder - LJK - 1/4/2006 5:32:43 PM
        
        Massive Protoplanetary Disks in the Trapezium Region - LJK - 1/4/2006 7:07:26 PM
        
        Atmosphere, Interior, and Evolution of the Metal-Rich Transiting Planet HD 149026b - LJK - 1/4/2006 7:27:20 PM
        
        Suppressing Speckle Noise for Simultaneous Differential Extrasolar Planet Imaging (SDI) at the VLT and MMT - LJK - 1/5/2006 4:10:05 PM

Pluto and Satellites - Adam - 12/21/2005 12:01:37 PM
- The Discovery of Two New Satellites of Pluto - LJK - 1/4/2006 3:57:23 PM
  - Measuring the Size of a Small, Frost World - LJK - 1/5/2006 3:21:44 PM

"The Stick" - Tom Brosz - 1/5/2006 6:58:14 AM

Advanced Concepts Team - Raoul - 1/5/2006 6:33:39 AM

OSU asks amateur astronomers to look for SN neutrinos - LJK - 1/4/2006 8:21:37 PM
- re: Not a small telescope - Raoul - 1/4/2006 9:12:54 PM

Meteorite suspected of hitting river in northern Finland - Eric - 1/1/2006 3:47:58 PM
- Errr, yeah.... color me a sceptic on this one. - et - 1/2/2006 2:33:52 AM
  - Looks like a negative... this time. - LJK - 1/4/2006 7:33:37 PM
    - Duh. - SDF - 1/4/2006 8:47:11 PM

OSU asks amateur astronomers to look for SN neutrinos - LJK - 1/4/2006 8:21:34 PM

Watch Stardust come home - Tom Brosz - 12/27/2005 6:46:12 AM
- Genesis crash helps Stardust reentry - SteveS - 12/29/2005 11:31:05 PM
- uhhhhh, the 'chutes GONNA OPEN this TIME? - carl - 12/27/2005 8:59:55 PM
  - That's why the original Mars Sample Return design didn't use chutes - Larry J - 12/27/2005 10:50:26 PM
    - There are costs and risks with a system designed to survive impact, too. (n/t) - alcaray - 12/28/2005 4:18:25 PM
      - There are costs and risks associated with everything - Larry J - 12/29/2005 4:12:09 PM
        
        Answer to your question depends partially on how heavy your survivor capsule has to be. (n/t) - alcaray - 12/29/2005 4:40:44 PM
    - The Apollo capsules used chutes...... (n/t) - SDF - 12/28/2005 8:13:12 AM
      - Humans have G limitations that soil samples don't - Larry J - 12/28/2005 3:19:47 PM
- re: Watch Stardust come home - steve smyth - 12/27/2005 7:09:05 PM
  - And land smack in Peterborough, Ontario on you know whose house. ;-) (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 12/27/2005 11:13:51 PM
    - re: And land smack in Peterborough, Ontario on you know whose house. ;-) - steve smyth - 12/28/2005 12:19:50 AM
- I'm hoping to see a parachute this time.... (n/t) - et - 12/27/2005 7:03:54 PM
- Cool I'll be watching for it! - Buck Galaxy - 12/27/2005 9:12:06 AM
  - Along with listening for it... - SteveS - 12/27/2005 2:31:20 PM
    - Would airbags have helped for a more secure landing? - LJK - 12/28/2005 3:18:41 AM
      - The added weight involved would not allow it - SteveS - 12/28/2005 3:56:52 PM
        
        Penny wise but pound foolish - LJK - 12/28/2005 7:30:42 PM
        
        re: Penny wise but pound foolish - Doug Ellison - 12/29/2005 11:18:52 AM
        
        Snowball effect - Larry J - 12/29/2005 3:22:24 PM
        
        re: Snowball effect - LJK - 12/30/2005 3:05:29 AM
        
        NASA Aircraft Crew to Observe Stardust's Homecoming - LJK - 1/4/2006 7:39:12 PM
        
        Interview with Donald Brownlee - LJK - 1/4/2006 8:13:45 PM

Cosmological Evolution of Hessence Dark Energy and Avoidance of the Big Rip - LJK - 12/15/2005 4:44:55 PM
- Dark matter from encapsulated atoms - LJK - 12/20/2005 3:37:58 PM
  - An alternative to dark matter: do braneworld effects hold the key? - LJK - 12/21/2005 6:35:12 PM
    - New Developments in Extra-dimensional Dark Matter - LJK - 12/23/2005 4:05:32 PM
      - Constraints on the Physical Parameters of the Dark Energy Using a Model-Independent Approach - LJK - 12/23/2005 5:05:03 PM
        
        Light Bending as a Probe of the Nature of Dark Energy - LJK - 1/4/2006 7:22:06 PM

Jupiter's composition: sign of a (relatively) late formation in a chemically evolved protosolar disk - LJK - 1/4/2006 7:13:16 PM

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