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The Fate of the Accelerating Universe - LJK - 12/6/2005 6:53:54 PM
- if it accelerates infinitly, doesn't it obtain infinite mass? - Scott Evil (Physics idiot) - 12/7/2005 4:21:51 PM
  - re: What about the women and children! - Johannes - 12/7/2005 5:49:04 PM

Spirit captures interesting sky - REB - 12/6/2005 1:16:49 PM
- re: I hope these objects are identified - BR - 12/6/2005 3:36:56 PM
  - re: I hope these objects are identified - REB - 12/6/2005 4:23:16 PM
  - re: I hope these objects are identified - LJK - 12/6/2005 3:48:58 PM
    - re: I hope these objects are identified - REB - 12/6/2005 4:29:19 PM
      - re: Data needed - Raoul - 12/6/2005 5:47:41 PM
        
        re: Data needed - REB - 12/7/2005 2:39:09 PM

Another asteroid cutting it kind of close - Tom Brosz - 12/7/2005 6:15:11 AM
- This one's been in the new for some time - Buck Galaxy - 12/7/2005 8:05:47 AM
  - If Bruce Willis isn't blowing it up, they don't know squat - LJK - 12/7/2005 1:50:17 PM
- re: It's not "another" - Raoul - 12/7/2005 6:35:37 AM

Titan, Dione, Prometheus, Telesto - Raoul - 12/5/2005 6:44:16 AM
- re: Titan, Dione, Prometheus, Telesto - SteveS - 12/5/2005 8:54:20 PM
  - Saturn's Icy Moon Rhea: a Prediction for Bulk Chemical Composition and Physical Structure at the Time of the Cassini Spacecraft First Flyby - LJK - 12/6/2005 3:51:22 PM
    - Rhea's many craters - SteveS - 12/7/2005 1:20:17 PM
    - re: Saturn's Icy Moons - SteveS - 12/6/2005 9:34:28 PM
      - Better link - SteveS - 12/7/2005 1:37:46 PM

Rovers Find Evidence Mars Was Once Hostile - Donald - 12/6/2005 3:14:31 PM
- You mean it isn't hostile now? - Nick Hoffman - 12/7/2005 9:25:55 AM

Servicing the Hubble: Shuttle mission plans refined - Chris Vancil - 12/6/2005 11:14:01 PM

Europe increases funds for space research - Chris Vancil - 12/6/2005 10:49:15 PM

Clays and sulfates suggest standing bodies of water on early Mars. - Robert Clark - 12/2/2005 8:41:35 PM
- re: Clays and sulfates suggest standing bodies of water on early Mars. - bruced - 12/3/2005 2:11:56 AM
  - re: Clays and sulfates suggest standing bodies of water on early Mars. - Robert Clark - 12/3/2005 5:51:32 PM
  - re: Clays and sulfates suggest standing bodies of water on early Mars. - E.P., the heretic - 12/3/2005 3:09:51 PM
    - Evidence for liquid water on Mars from the 1960s? - LJK - 12/6/2005 8:55:44 PM

Must Hubble be saved? - Raoul - 11/27/2005 11:51:46 AM
- re: To control it's deorbit we would still need to visit Hubble. - Chris Vancil - 11/28/2005 10:30:49 AM
  - re: Choices - Raoul - 11/28/2005 7:18:53 PM
    - They can only control the orientation if the gyros hold out - Larry J - 11/28/2005 9:11:44 PM
      - re: Skylab also had gyro problems - Raoul - 11/28/2005 10:31:35 PM
      - re: They can only control the orientation if the gyros hold out - Chris Vancil - 11/28/2005 9:48:32 PM
        
        re: They can only control the orientation if the gyros hold out - Larry J - 11/28/2005 10:31:00 PM
        
        re: They can only control the orientation if the gyros hold out - Chris Vancil - 11/29/2005 7:30:56 AM
        
        get real... - Scott Evil (SEN News) - 11/28/2005 10:26:38 PM
        
        re: get real... - Chris Vancil - 11/28/2005 10:46:28 PM
        
        You have too much faith in government. - Scott Evil (SEN News) - 11/28/2005 11:05:49 PM
        
        re: And you have too little faith in people/government. - Chris Vancil - 11/29/2005 8:15:10 AM
        
        re: And you have too little faith in people/government. - Scott Evil - 11/30/2005 5:37:48 PM
        
        That's one of the reasons why economics is called the dismal science - Larry J - 11/29/2005 3:02:52 PM
        
        re: This is now off topic. - Chris Vancil - 11/29/2005 8:52:34 PM
- Another idea - Buck Galaxy - 11/28/2005 9:22:18 AM
  - re: Another idea - Larry J - 11/28/2005 5:19:28 PM
- Here's an idea - Buck Galaxy - 11/28/2005 5:55:49 AM
  - Could it be used for NEO detection? (n/t) - Sam F. - 11/28/2005 9:13:09 AM
    - re: You need a much larger field of view - Raoul - 11/28/2005 6:05:39 PM
      - re: One-tenth the diameter of the Moon... - SteveS - 11/28/2005 6:26:43 PM
        
        re: MegaCam - Raoul - 11/28/2005 7:10:32 PM
  - re: Capacity - Raoul - 11/28/2005 6:42:26 AM
    - re: Capacity - Buck Galaxy - 11/28/2005 9:12:48 AM
- re: What a bizarre notion... - BRFelix - 11/28/2005 5:16:31 AM
  - re: Old telescopes, new ones and scientists who wonder where to work - Raoul - 11/28/2005 7:38:59 PM
  - If we had unlimited resources then by all means we should maintain the Hubble - Larry J - 11/28/2005 2:22:18 PM
    - re: If we had unlimited resources then by all means we should maintain the Hubble - Sawyer - 11/28/2005 2:57:24 PM
      - if you don't periodically scrap things... - Scott Evil - 11/28/2005 4:39:09 PM
        
        There's a reason why the Air Force no longer flies P-51s and F-86s - Larry J - 11/28/2005 4:57:52 PM
        
        re: Is it really "either/or?" - BRFelix - 11/29/2005 12:39:57 AM
- Hurts to say it... - R.L. - 11/28/2005 2:43:46 AM
- re: Yes! - Vince - 11/27/2005 4:41:28 PM
  - re: I understand, but... - Raoul - 11/27/2005 5:24:54 PM
- Wasn't Spitzer intended to replace the HST, in which case it is obsolete? - SDF - 11/27/2005 2:15:13 PM
  - Awefully gald they did not decomission the Hooker when the Hale was built. - alcaray - 11/28/2005 6:54:34 PM
    - What the heck does "Awefully gald" mean anyway? Is that Gaelic? (n/t) - alcaray - 11/28/2005 6:55:49 PM
  - No... - R.L. - 11/28/2005 3:05:35 AM
  - James Webb Telescope - SteveS - 11/27/2005 3:41:14 PM
    - re: The HST doesn't have a successor - Raoul - 11/27/2005 5:06:51 PM
      - Replacement was the question - SteveS - 11/28/2005 1:59:12 PM
        
        re: Herschel - Raoul - 11/28/2005 5:29:03 PM
      - I think ground based telescopes will be the HST successor... - R.L. - 11/28/2005 3:07:20 AM
        
        HST may be outdated in certain aspects, but... - LJK - 11/28/2005 4:05:54 PM
        
        It is a question of economy - R.L. - 11/29/2005 9:27:01 AM
        
        It is a question of economy - R.L. - 11/29/2005 9:26:10 AM
        
        But it does hurt - Larry J - 11/28/2005 6:47:42 PM
        
        Exactly correct. - Scott Evil (SEN News) - 11/28/2005 10:31:16 PM
        
        Hubble carries on, despite gripes of its being "old school" - LJK - 12/1/2005 2:28:27 PM
        
        Plans for a HST service mission in 2007 or 2008 - LJK - 12/6/2005 8:26:39 PM

CRS on Space Policy - LJK - 12/6/2005 7:23:24 PM

Objective Subclass Determination of Sloan Digital Sky Survey Unknown Spectral Objects - LJK - 12/6/2005 6:47:20 PM

On the Detection of Artefacts in Spectro-astrometry - LJK - 12/6/2005 6:38:53 PM

Dammit... I missed it - Adam - 12/4/2005 10:02:00 PM
- Please tell me that when... - LJK - 12/5/2005 3:12:24 PM
  - HEH HEH... - Adam - 12/6/2005 12:42:52 PM
    - Darn you! Darn you all to heck! - LJK - 12/6/2005 2:02:41 PM
- pretty hard to catch from Brisbane I would have thought - Daniel - 12/5/2005 7:02:16 AM
  - as I said I was watching "Planet of the Apes" on 7 (n/t) - Adam - 12/5/2005 11:51:59 AM
    - how would it have helped if you'd been outside? - Daniel - 12/5/2005 1:26:33 PM
      - What I meant was I should've watched ABC News (n/t) - Adam - 12/5/2005 8:33:55 PM
        
        they probably wouldn't have much coverage anyway - Daniel - 12/6/2005 5:49:08 PM
- re: Outside - Raoul - 12/5/2005 6:47:37 AM

Why are so many TNOs binaries? - LJK - 12/6/2005 3:55:45 PM

Cosmos Episode 12: Encyclopedia Galactica - LJK - 12/6/2005 2:43:32 PM

kill off your trilobites - andrew - 12/6/2005 12:09:21 AM

A fireball in Australia - Raoul - 12/4/2005 7:34:15 PM
- another clip - Eric - 12/5/2005 8:54:06 PM
  - re: another clip - SteveS - 12/5/2005 9:04:56 PM
- Wow! Nice,...and determined not to be "spice junk" :) (n/t) - Peter Bruener - 12/4/2005 9:44:20 PM

E E Barnard, 100 years ago! - Raoul - 12/5/2005 7:41:55 PM

Spitzer Space Telescope article in December, 2005 issue of National Geographic Magazine - LJK - 12/5/2005 5:20:11 PM

Detecting a gravitational-wave background with next-generation space interferometers - LJK - 12/5/2005 4:36:25 PM

Biological Effects of Gamma-Ray Bursts: Critical distances for severe damage on the biota - LJK - 12/2/2005 3:20:08 PM
- Atmospheric Biomarkers and their Evolution over Geological Timescales - LJK - 12/5/2005 4:25:03 PM

Meteor Shower Reveals New NEO Comet - LJK - 12/5/2005 3:17:00 PM

NASA Astronaut to Help Build Martian Bedroom - Chris Vancil - 12/5/2005 5:13:15 AM

Oppy - Raoul - 12/3/2005 2:32:43 PM
- Credit where credit due. - Bowser - 12/3/2005 4:31:06 PM
  - re: Credit where credit due. - R.L. - 12/4/2005 6:17:07 PM
    - PR problem - nick hoffman - 12/5/2005 1:44:34 AM

Ruskies can get to the moon on $2B - Buck Galaxy - 12/2/2005 6:03:31 PM
- but Angara, Soyuz 3, and new sats are the highest priorities - E.P., the heretic - 12/2/2005 11:54:14 PM
  - re: ESA - Raoul - 12/3/2005 9:22:00 AM
    - re: ESA - E.P., the heretic - 12/3/2005 2:50:27 PM
      - re: well....;) - Raoul - 12/3/2005 3:55:56 PM
        
        eh bien... - E.P., the heretic - 12/3/2005 10:57:15 PM
        
        re: eh bien..you're doing fine.... (n/t) - Raoul - 12/4/2005 7:48:16 PM
        
        re: well....;) - E.P., le heretique - 12/3/2005 4:58:37 PM
        
        re: We'll see - Raoul - 12/4/2005 12:58:30 AM
- re: Ruskies can get to the moon on $2B - phil - 12/2/2005 7:51:17 PM
  - re: Ruskies can get to the moon on $2B - E.P., the heretic - 12/2/2005 11:46:32 PM

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