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Planetary Detection Efficiency of the Magnification 3000 Microlensing Event OGLE-2004-BLG-343 - ljk - 7/6/2005 1:12:37 PM
- Four new wide binaries among exoplanet host stars - ljk - 7/6/2005 1:23:21 PM

Exact Deep Impact Time? About 3 more hours I think... (n/t) - Buck Galaxy - 7/4/2005 3:32:15 AM
- NASA TV feed looking good (n/t) - Buck Galaxy - 7/4/2005 5:08:46 AM
  - re: NTV....cool images coming in (n/t) - Peter Bruener - 7/4/2005 5:38:51 AM
- re: 10:52 Pacific Standard Time. Good Luck to all involved with the mission! (n/t) - Vince - 7/4/2005 5:03:35 AM
- Any mirror links for Kitt Peak webcast? - Peter Bruener - 7/4/2005 4:24:43 AM
- Aaargh, no NASA TV here - dtb - 7/4/2005 4:14:40 AM
- re: Exact Deep Impact Time? About 3 more hours I think... - Peter Bruener - 7/4/2005 3:59:39 AM
- WE'RE ALL DOOMED!!! - Lee - 7/4/2005 3:44:57 AM
  - Ok, I have to ask... - R.L. - 7/5/2005 4:13:44 AM
    - No link but she did say it. - Lee - 7/6/2005 3:26:37 AM
      - Did you call the station to correct her? - ljk - 7/6/2005 12:34:04 PM

BOOM! Direct hit! (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 7/4/2005 5:59:11 AM
- View from sci.space.policy - p - 7/5/2005 6:13:47 PM
- Very cool animation - Buck Galaxy - 7/4/2005 8:02:19 PM
  - Any news on a change in course? - Lee - 7/5/2005 12:52:11 AM
    - A stationary BB would alter its orbit - R.L. - 7/5/2005 3:23:16 AM
      - re: A stationary BB would alter its orbit - ljk - 7/5/2005 1:47:49 PM
- re: Very exciting - BRFelix - 7/4/2005 4:33:11 PM
  - re: Very exciting - SteveS - 7/4/2005 6:28:27 PM
- Situational paradigm finally reversed! Now, comets will fear us! :) - phil - 7/4/2005 4:15:19 PM
- $333 million dollars just blown away - Astro - 7/4/2005 2:09:52 PM
  - That's like saying a heat shield is "wasted" after it performs its function (n/t) - McFly - 7/4/2005 7:16:24 PM
    - Or perhaps more accurately, *in* the performance of its function... (n/t) - McFly - 7/4/2005 7:46:40 PM
  - Completely incorrect - R.L. - 7/4/2005 6:05:56 PM
    - fourth - Buck Galaxy - 7/4/2005 6:26:06 PM
      - LMAO!!! (n/t) (n/t) - Adam - 7/4/2005 11:35:48 PM
  - ***Post Deleted*** - ModBob - 7/4/2005 5:26:49 PM
  - Invested, Astro - E.P. Grondine - 7/4/2005 3:50:42 PM
    - re: Invested, Astro - Delbert - 7/5/2005 6:14:06 AM
      - re: Invested, Astro - Buck Galaxy - 7/5/2005 7:14:14 AM
        
        re: Invested, Astro - E.P. Grondine - 7/6/2005 1:16:42 AM
- Kitt Peak - Tom Brosz - 7/4/2005 7:34:27 AM
- Still waiting for an online image. - Tom Brosz - 7/4/2005 6:20:13 AM
  - Here are some photos - SteveS - 7/4/2005 6:26:27 AM
    - wait for Hubble .. that'll be worth it (n/t) - Daniel - 7/4/2005 6:29:52 AM
      - well, maybe not .. - Daniel - 7/4/2005 11:20:16 AM
        
        re: well, maybe not .. - dtb - 7/4/2005 3:54:52 PM
        
        My grandfather remembered seeing the first car drive into town - R.L. - 7/5/2005 2:34:52 AM
        
        re: My grandfather remembered seeing the first car drive into town - dtb - 7/5/2005 4:35:47 AM
      - And Keck? (n/t) - Peter Bruener - 7/4/2005 8:13:00 AM
        
        re: And Keck? - R.L. - 7/4/2005 5:56:55 PM
      - Spitzer too! - SteveS - 7/4/2005 7:21:40 AM
  - Online image! - Tom Brosz - 7/4/2005 6:21:25 AM
    - re: Another shot - Tom Brosz - 7/4/2005 6:25:42 AM
- What a great way to kick off the 4th of July! (n/t) - Lee - 7/4/2005 6:12:37 AM
- about 1 second off from planned impact time (n/t) - Daniel - 7/4/2005 6:04:46 AM
  - great feed from NASA TV - Danieli - 7/4/2005 6:08:08 AM
- Great impact photo on CNN (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 7/4/2005 6:02:13 AM
  - Any earth view reports yet? - dtb - 7/4/2005 6:05:43 AM
    - Images from the ESO VLT - PDQ! - ljk - 7/5/2005 1:41:47 PM
    - Some photos trickling in from amateurs - SteveS - 7/4/2005 7:14:32 AM
    - My Earth View - pex - 7/4/2005 6:51:22 AM
      - Thermal evolution and activity of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 and simulation of a deep impact - LJK - 7/4/2005 4:26:10 PM

Russian Astrologer Sues NASA Over Comet - Donald - 7/5/2005 12:52:02 PM
- Deformed Her Horoscope - ljk - 7/5/2005 1:36:55 PM
  - re:Cosmos 1 - Raoul - 7/5/2005 8:18:26 PM
    - re: re:Cosmos 1 - ljk - 7/5/2005 9:28:08 PM

Sunspots - Raoul - 7/5/2005 8:11:45 PM

Someone had fun making this acronym - ljk - 7/5/2005 1:53:30 PM
- I dunno... looks Forced to me (n/t) - Fox - 7/5/2005 6:26:26 PM

Braneworlds - ljk - 7/5/2005 2:10:18 PM
- probably do not exist - p - 7/5/2005 5:52:23 PM
  - No branes, no pains... (n/t) - Fox - 7/5/2005 6:25:10 PM

For those who did not make the Comet Bash (and some Cosmos I news) - alcaray - 7/5/2005 5:11:27 PM

Where Next for Deep Impact fly-by - Adam - 7/4/2005 11:55:07 PM
- re: Where Next for Deep Impact fly-by - LJK - 7/5/2005 12:14:21 AM
  - re: Where Next for Deep Impact fly-by - Doug Ellison - 7/5/2005 7:23:40 AM
    - That reminds me... - ljk - 7/5/2005 11:34:17 AM
      - re: That reminds me... - E.P. Grondine - 7/5/2005 2:50:04 PM
        
        re: That reminds me... - ljk - 7/5/2005 4:31:01 PM
      - re: That reminds me... - Doug Ellison - 7/5/2005 12:04:53 PM

So what is STS mission cost up to now? - Sawyer - 7/5/2005 12:35:12 PM
- re:STS technology v newer rockets - Raoul - 7/5/2005 4:17:36 PM

Energy Extraction from a Kerr Black Hole - An Ultimate Power Source in the Universe? - ljk - 7/5/2005 2:15:06 PM

Sungrazing comets as source of pickup ions at Earth orbit and Ulysses - ljk - 7/5/2005 2:04:31 PM

Impossible exoplanet? - Raoul - 6/30/2005 9:04:39 PM
- Fortunately, no one told the planet that such a thing was "impossible" - Larry J - 7/4/2005 7:01:42 PM
  - Another inventor of the impossible, or so we are told... - ljk - 7/5/2005 12:02:03 PM
- Maybe somewhere, Ptolemy was right... - LJK - 7/1/2005 2:21:51 AM
  - Upper size limit for "heavy planets" like this new one? - Buck Galaxy - 7/1/2005 6:15:32 AM
    - Dark Solar Systems - Robert Bradbury - 7/1/2005 5:05:05 PM
      - What about planets orbiting planets (no star) "solar" systems... - Scott Evil - 7/1/2005 9:37:10 PM
        
        They're called "moons", you know... (n/t) - Nick Hoffman - 7/2/2005 5:06:48 AM
        
        Can I do the nerd joke? - ljk - 7/5/2005 12:08:30 PM
    - re: Upper size limit for "heavy planets" like this new one? - Robert Bradbury - 7/1/2005 4:52:32 PM
  - re: Maybe somewhere, Ptolemy was right... - gbaikie - 7/1/2005 4:31:46 AM
    - re: Maybe somewhere, Ptolemy was right... - Robert Bradbury - 7/1/2005 4:13:22 PM
      - Not quite under the skin - Adam - 7/5/2005 11:05:36 AM
      - Transiting Hot Saturn Around HD 149026 With a Large Dense Core - LJK - 7/4/2005 4:20:04 PM

Steve Fossett's latest adventure - Larry J - 7/4/2005 7:15:17 PM
- re: Steve Fossett's latest adventure - ljk - 7/5/2005 11:37:33 AM

Sub-surface liquid layers... - Adam - 7/3/2005 11:11:58 PM
- re: Sub-surface liquid layers... - Nick Hoffman - 7/4/2005 2:54:50 AM
  - Cold ammoniated slush... - Adam - 7/5/2005 11:25:35 AM
  - "some of the "oceans" will only be a thin slushy layer" - Buck Galaxy - 7/4/2005 3:30:25 AM

URL for Doug's MER image site? - Daniel - 7/4/2005 7:11:09 AM
- re: URL for Doug's MER image site? - Doug Ellison - 7/4/2005 9:38:42 AM
  - thats what I thought .. - Daniel - 7/4/2005 10:38:13 AM
    - re: thats what I thought .. - Doug Ellison - 7/4/2005 1:45:00 PM
      - ta - Daniel - 7/5/2005 8:23:52 AM
- http://unmannedspaceflight.com/ (n/t) - Buck Galaxy - 7/4/2005 7:14:54 AM
  - Their Deep Impact realtime thread - Tom Brosz - 7/4/2005 7:20:49 AM

ISS - Raoul - 7/3/2005 9:42:50 PM
- re: ISS - mrpex - 7/4/2005 6:59:57 AM
  - re: ISS - Raoul - 7/5/2005 5:32:44 AM

Space Review on CATS... - Adam - 7/3/2005 2:54:06 PM
- Where we went wrong: the Shuttle - E.P. Grondine - 7/3/2005 3:43:52 PM
  - No Wonder! - Adam - 7/3/2005 10:17:20 PM
    - Having said that... - Adam - 7/3/2005 10:20:28 PM
      - re: Having said that... - E.P. Grondine - 7/3/2005 11:32:03 PM
        
        Eerie Parallel - Adam - 7/4/2005 11:34:06 PM

Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems: Placing Our Solar System in Context with Spitzer - LJK - 7/4/2005 4:24:24 PM
- re: Formation and Evolution of Planetary Systems: Placing Our Solar System in Context with Spitzer - phil - 7/4/2005 9:35:35 PM

Thread moved to Flame - Robert Shepherd - 7/4/2005 3:55:17 PM
- I thought it was on off-topic... - R.L. - 7/4/2005 5:20:50 PM

Book review of Fred Hoyle biography - LJK - 7/4/2005 5:08:00 PM

Terrestrial Planet Formation in Disks with Varying Surface Density Profiles - LJK - 7/4/2005 4:18:28 PM

Webcast of Deep Impact - R.L. - 7/1/2005 3:58:59 AM
- just checking .. - Daniel - 7/2/2005 7:08:34 AM
  - I think thats right (n/t) - R.L. - 7/3/2005 12:37:23 PM
    - thanks .. here goes .. (n/t) - Daniel - 7/4/2005 4:48:41 AM

Make your own planet - phil - 7/3/2005 4:53:27 PM
- Thanks for that! (n/t) - Buck Galaxy - 7/4/2005 3:36:20 AM

SpaceX changing launch site - Tom Brosz - 7/3/2005 9:46:01 PM
- A few other interesting items from Space Frontier Foundation news site - Tom Brosz - 7/3/2005 9:47:48 PM

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