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WIRE is still doing useful astronomy - LJK - 9/16/2005 2:51:04 PM

A Giant Surprise about Extrasolar Planets - LJK - 9/13/2005 1:24:00 PM
- High-Resolution Spectroscopy of the Planetary Host HD 13189: Highly-Evolved and Metal-Poor - LJK - 9/13/2005 3:07:53 PM
  - The Effect of Condensates on the Characterization of Transiting Planet Atmospheres with Transmission Spectroscopy - LJK - 9/13/2005 4:06:31 PM
    - Oxygen abundances in planet-harbouring stars. Comparison of different abundance indicators - LJK - 9/14/2005 3:45:30 PM
      - Can stellar wobble in triple systems mimic a planet? - LJK - 9/14/2005 3:53:10 PM
        
        Results from the Wide Angle Search for Planets Prototype (WASP0) II - LJK - 9/15/2005 4:03:21 PM
        
        NAHUAL: A cool spectrograph for planets of ultra-cool objects - LJK - 9/15/2005 4:07:57 PM
        
        Exploring the Potential of Integral Field Spectroscopy Observing Extrasolar Planet Transits: Ground Based Observations of the Atmospheric Na in HD209458b - LJK - 9/16/2005 1:54:14 PM
        
        A Bayesian analysis of extrasolar planet data for HD 208487 - LJK - 9/16/2005 1:56:33 PM
        
        Effects of mass loss for highly-irradiated giant planets - LJK - 9/16/2005 2:35:22 PM

100 Billion Brown Dwarfs in the Galaxy? - ljk - 8/31/2005 5:21:16 PM
- There could potentially be one or more closer than Alpha Centauri (n/t) - Buck Galaxy - 9/2/2005 1:11:23 AM
- Probably many, many more. (n/t) - David F Mayer - 9/1/2005 1:54:24 PM
  - Extrasolar planets and brown dwarfs around A-F type stars - LJK - 9/9/2005 7:07:57 PM
    - Radial velocity survey for planets and brown dwarf companions to very young brown dwarfs and very low-mass stars in ChaI with UVES at the VLT - LJK - 9/9/2005 7:10:12 PM
      - New brown dwarf companions to dM(e) stars - LJK - 9/12/2005 5:47:41 PM
        
        17 new very low-mass members in Taurus. The brown dwarf deficit revisited - LJK - 9/14/2005 3:39:29 PM
        
        Improved kinematics for brown dwarfs and very low-mass stars in ChaI and a discussion of brown dwarf formation - LJK - 9/16/2005 2:22:43 PM

Potential Science for the OASIS Integral Field Spectrograph with Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics - LJK - 9/16/2005 2:19:52 PM

Asteroid Itokawa was once a tiny point of light in a telescope...No more. - Jacob Samorodin - 9/10/2005 5:46:50 PM
- view from 30 km -- wow - JimO - 9/11/2005 1:42:08 PM
  - TRhere's a surprising lack of craters. What do the experts say? (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 9/12/2005 12:19:55 AM
    - re: TRhere's a surprising lack of craters. What do the experts say? - Doug Ellison - 9/12/2005 7:49:27 AM
      - re: TRhere's a surprising lack of craters. What do the experts say? - Chris Vancil - 9/12/2005 8:03:47 AM
        
        re: TRhere's a surprising lack of craters. What do the experts say? - Doug Ellison - 9/12/2005 1:04:45 PM
        
        I wonder if Braille looks a lot like Itokawa? - LJK - 9/15/2005 2:46:29 PM
- That should be 1.5 arc minutes. - Jacob Samorodin - 9/11/2005 1:34:10 AM
  - JAXA Report - Hayabusa arrives at Itokawa, starts hovering operations - LJK - 9/15/2005 1:28:32 PM
    - Thermal infrared observations of the Hayabusa spacecraft target asteroid 25143 Itokawa - LJK - 9/16/2005 2:08:54 PM

An unusual quasar - R.L. - 9/14/2005 9:27:19 PM
- ESO report on the "homeless" quasar and black hole - LJK - 9/15/2005 1:22:14 PM
  - Discovery of a bright quasar without a massive host galaxy - LJK - 9/16/2005 2:06:49 PM

Senate Approves $16.4 Billion Budget for NASA - Chris Vancil - 9/15/2005 11:22:02 PM

Robert Wise, Director of ST:TMP, TDTESS, and TAS - LJK - 9/15/2005 7:15:58 PM

ISS september 13th - Raoul - 9/14/2005 6:04:32 PM
- re: ISS september 13th - REB - 9/15/2005 1:46:38 PM
  - What did they have, an Eagle production line at Moonbase Alpha? - LJK - 9/15/2005 3:51:35 PM
    - re: What did they have, an Eagle production line at Moonbase Alpha? - REB - 9/15/2005 6:31:36 PM
  - re: re:The Moon is still there, even 6 years later! (n/t) - Raoul - 9/15/2005 3:49:00 PM
- re: ISS september 13th the crossed constellations - Raoul - 9/14/2005 7:44:40 PM

Columbia Hills layers Mars rover summary - aldo12xu - 9/13/2005 6:59:27 PM
- Good work, Aldo. - jms - 9/14/2005 2:28:59 AM
  - Basaltic tuffs - aldo12xu - 9/15/2005 5:35:24 PM

Where a photon has been - Commentary - REB - 9/15/2005 12:55:57 PM
- "What stories those photons could tell if they could talk." - Tom Brosz - 9/15/2005 4:37:14 PM
- I guess since we know where they've been... - alcaray - 9/15/2005 3:40:03 PM
- What can we decipher from a photon? - LJK - 9/15/2005 1:26:01 PM
  - re: What can we decipher from a photon? - REB - 9/15/2005 1:44:57 PM
    - Nonlinear Photon Bubbles Driven by Buoyancy - LJK - 9/15/2005 3:55:23 PM
      - No two photons are alike? - REB - 9/15/2005 4:55:30 PM

Galactic Open Clusters - LJK - 9/9/2005 3:36:25 PM
- re: Galactic Open Clusters - LJK - 9/9/2005 7:25:10 PM
  - All quiet in Globular Clusters - LJK - 9/15/2005 3:57:18 PM
    - Photometric study of the variable star population in the globular cluster NGC 6397 - LJK - 9/15/2005 4:05:32 PM

Ceres - Raoul - 9/7/2005 8:14:01 PM
- Nature paper online - LJK - 9/14/2005 4:47:17 PM
  - Cornell article on Ceres - LJK - 9/15/2005 3:35:33 PM

Article on Sir Fred Hoyle in Cambridge Alumni Magazine - LJK - 9/15/2005 3:31:08 PM

Explain to me the [so-called] logic of this decision of JPL. - Jacob Samorodin - 9/15/2005 2:15:23 AM
- What Doug said. Also note... - alcaray - 9/15/2005 2:54:42 PM
- re: Explain to me the [so-called] logic of this decision of JPL. - Doug Ellison - 9/15/2005 9:50:31 AM
  - Mariner 9 and the Moons of Mars - LJK - 9/15/2005 3:13:15 PM

Nanoscale optics---using nano scale antenae to manipulate photons - Sawyer - 9/15/2005 2:42:25 PM

Pluto's Not Only A Planet - It's The Dominant Class Of Planets - Mark Eby - 9/7/2005 12:04:44 AM
- planetary defs and voyager anomalies - Sawyer - 9/9/2005 8:54:18 AM
  - re: planetary defs and voyager anomalies - LJK - 9/9/2005 1:22:18 PM
- The news is cool, don't get me wrong - alcaray - 9/8/2005 1:04:38 AM
  - Alan Stern is probably... - Adam - 9/8/2005 10:30:58 AM
    - Thanks For Pointing Out What Alcaray Missed - Mark Eby - 9/9/2005 2:48:14 AM
      - What did I miss? - alcaray - 9/9/2005 4:09:57 PM
        
        That KBO's May Be Terrestrial Planets As Well As Ice Balls (n/t) - Mark Eby - 9/10/2005 11:17:23 PM
        
        I said that's what I expeced in advance of the discovery - alcaray - 9/11/2005 3:11:52 PM
        
        Actually You Didn't Say That At All. - Mark Eby - 9/11/2005 7:27:43 PM
        
        Just Old Fashioned Enough To Expect People To Mean What They Say - Mark Eby - 9/11/2005 7:21:24 PM
        
        They aren't "Volatiles organized in bodies of varying sizes."??? - alcaray - 9/12/2005 2:49:39 PM
        
        Not Controversial, Just Not Accurate - Mark Eby - 9/12/2005 11:17:34 PM
        
        Would you buy: predominately volitiles? - alcaray - 9/13/2005 2:46:22 PM
        
        The Whole Topic Is Quibling - Mark Eby - 9/13/2005 10:56:42 PM
        
        Agreed on the topic of planetary status quibbling - alcaray - 9/14/2005 2:53:17 PM
        
        Just curious.... - R.L. - 9/12/2005 11:44:26 PM
        
        ??? I See The Sense Of Humor Runs In The Family As Well - Mark Eby - 9/13/2005 12:05:04 AM
        
        No antagonism... - R.L. - 9/13/2005 5:12:23 AM
        
        I'd Have Chuckled If I Took It Right - Mark Eby - 9/13/2005 10:50:02 PM
      - There's a point... - Adam - 9/9/2005 12:28:51 PM
  - Planets Not Comets - Mark Eby - 9/8/2005 1:44:33 AM
    - Volatiles organized in bodies of varying sizes. (n/t) - alcaray - 9/8/2005 3:28:52 PM
- Interesting implications - Robert - 9/7/2005 6:43:40 PM
  - Plaentoids with Satellites Web site - LJK - 9/14/2005 2:46:49 PM
    - Photometric Observations Constraining the Size, Shape, and Albedo of 2003 El61 - LJK - 9/15/2005 1:10:37 PM

Are we there yet? Has Opportunity at last entered 'Layered Terrain'? - Jacob Samorodin - 9/13/2005 11:14:51 PM
- "You know we're gonna ride on the Erebus Highway" - Buck Galaxy - 9/15/2005 12:38:26 AM
  - Amazing pic... thanks - R.L. - 9/15/2005 6:30:27 AM
  - I think we have reached the "[corrected word] etched terrain". (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 9/15/2005 2:19:48 AM

Formation of the First Stars - LJK - 9/14/2005 4:01:08 PM

An amateur astronomer on Mars! - Raoul - 9/11/2005 8:26:48 AM
- Cool! (n/t) - Nick Hoffman - 9/11/2005 10:25:02 AM
  - Phobos from Spirit and Mars Express - LJK - 9/14/2005 2:43:43 PM

Starship Designs Web Site - LJK - 9/14/2005 2:40:13 PM

Mike Brown Discusses Plutoid Planets - Mark Eby - 9/12/2005 11:24:47 PM
- Nothing ever goes smoothly with the human race, not even science - LJK - 9/13/2005 4:34:12 PM
  - Well... - R.L. - 9/14/2005 1:54:14 PM

The 7 Marvels of the Heavens - Raoul - 9/12/2005 8:53:44 PM
- re: The 7 Marvels of the Heavens - Fox - 9/14/2005 2:43:38 AM
  - re: The 7 Marvels of the Heavens - Raoul - 9/14/2005 5:36:17 AM
- How about 7 most marvy solar system surface features? - Sawyer - 9/13/2005 11:48:42 AM
  - My 7 Orbital wonders - Nick Hoffman - 9/14/2005 2:03:50 AM
  - My 7 Surface wonders of the Solar System - Nick Hoffman - 9/14/2005 1:52:05 AM
    - Excellent choices in both categories, Nick (n/t) - Fox - 9/14/2005 2:38:24 AM
- re: The 7 Marvels of the Heavens - Ken Murphy - 9/13/2005 2:56:08 AM
  - re: The 7 Marvels of the Heavens - Raoul - 9/13/2005 5:33:56 AM
    - I might guess - Fox - 9/14/2005 2:35:59 AM
      - re: I might guess - Raoul - 9/14/2005 5:40:37 AM

A 12 Billion year old explosion - Raoul - 9/13/2005 5:49:28 AM
- re: Fascinating - Johannes - 9/14/2005 2:31:00 AM

Magnificent Desolation - Raoul - 9/13/2005 3:56:35 PM
- I hesitated to click the link... - Tom Brosz - 9/13/2005 4:34:00 PM
  - re: LOL ;) (n/t) - Raoul - 9/13/2005 9:17:29 PM

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