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West of Orion - Raoul - 3/18/2004 7:59:36 PM
- Sounds like a title for Sci-Fi story with a western feel. - REB - 3/18/2004 8:09:29 PM
  - re: Mercury - Raoul - 3/18/2004 8:29:04 PM
    - re: Mercury - Fox - 3/19/2004 4:06:44 PM
  - And east of Andromeda there's an area called Black Hole-in-the-Wall (n/t) - Bowser - 3/18/2004 8:13:04 PM
    - re: Siriusly on the walllpaper of a familiar room;) - Raoul - 3/18/2004 8:24:05 PM

Near Earth asteroid approach - Tom Brosz - 3/18/2004 6:11:06 AM
- re: Near Earth asteroid approach - Larry J - 3/18/2004 4:55:45 PM
  - re: Near Earth asteroid approach - phil - 3/18/2004 5:15:49 PM
    - One other thing.... - Larry J - 3/19/2004 2:56:16 PM
    - It has its moments - Larry J - 3/18/2004 5:56:28 PM
- Does it have any smaller 'friends' tagging along, playing catch up? (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 3/18/2004 2:51:46 PM

More from LPSC (not Earth-shattering) - Nick Hoffman - 3/18/2004 3:21:56 PM
- Interesting stuff Nick, If you swing by Seoul let me know (n/t) - Justin Kelly - 3/19/2004 2:32:48 AM
- Wonders will never cease - Tony - 3/18/2004 8:05:27 PM
- Interesting about the waves. - alcaray - 3/18/2004 4:21:04 PM
  - along those lines (kinda), Snowball Earth - jms - 3/19/2004 4:58:37 AM
  - I think you're hinting at impact-generated waves. (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 3/18/2004 6:45:18 PM
    - No. They were omitted. - alcaray - 3/18/2004 6:51:40 PM

polygons - jms - 3/17/2004 4:14:57 AM
- re: polygons - RobVG - 3/17/2004 6:04:29 PM
  - regular layers = annual deposits? - Nick Hoffman - 3/18/2004 3:27:01 PM
  - intervals on a topo map... - jms - 3/18/2004 3:10:27 AM
    - What if... - RobVG - 3/18/2004 8:02:20 PM
      - more on the layers...I mean "beds"... - jms - 3/19/2004 2:17:20 AM
        
        Thanks. - RobVG - 3/19/2004 3:30:21 AM
        
        re: Thanks. - jms - 3/19/2004 4:45:26 AM
- re: polygons - Tom Brosz - 3/17/2004 5:33:24 AM
  - reflection reflections - jms - 3/17/2004 6:11:28 PM
- I think they're calling the pointy rock "Shark's Tooth." (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 3/17/2004 5:31:35 AM
- Mormon Flat, for all the polygony? (n/t) - Bowser - 3/17/2004 5:06:56 AM
  - ...or named after lost parrots? (n/t) - jms - 3/17/2004 5:17:32 AM

Jeff Bell's pessimistic outlook for "Plan Bush" - Buck Galaxy - 3/17/2004 6:24:36 PM
- Interesting debate debunking Bell's views - Buck Galaxy - 3/18/2004 7:38:20 PM
  - re: I'm still bunked - dtb - 3/18/2004 10:52:40 PM
- Fact and fiction - Gary - 3/18/2004 5:50:39 AM
  - You post made me remember something I thought about a few months ago - REB - 3/18/2004 1:48:28 PM
    - re: Energy - Raoul - 3/18/2004 5:03:09 PM
      - re: Energy - REB - 3/18/2004 5:30:55 PM
        
        re: Energy - Larry J - 3/18/2004 6:08:27 PM
        
        re: Energy - REB - 3/18/2004 6:35:20 PM
        
        The incoming spacecraft would be going almost 50% faster... - Larry J - 3/18/2004 7:20:15 PM
        
        Where is a tractor beam when you need one? - REB - 3/18/2004 7:30:41 PM
        
        re: Where is a tractor beam when you need one? - Larry J - 3/18/2004 8:13:48 PM
        
        re: Where is a tractor beam when you need one? - REB - 3/18/2004 8:27:29 PM
        
        re: Where is a tractor beam when you need one? - Larry J - 3/18/2004 9:05:54 PM
        
        Rember how trains used to pick up mailbags? - REB - 3/18/2004 9:57:14 PM
        
        Buzz Aldrin's Cyclers - Larry J - 3/18/2004 11:09:49 PM
        
        Folks on the board. Check out the post above for great info on rocket science. - REB - 3/18/2004 9:30:17 PM
    - re: You post made me remember something I thought about a few months ago - Gary - 3/18/2004 4:30:34 PM
    - re: You post made me remember something I thought about a few months ago - Nick Hoffman - 3/18/2004 3:31:43 PM
      - re: You post made me remember something I thought about a few months ago - Larry J - 3/18/2004 6:25:35 PM
        
        That is cool! - REB - 3/18/2004 6:42:57 PM
      - Perhaps there is a safe and effective way of doing this. - REB - 3/18/2004 3:44:40 PM
- re: Eye opener - Raoul - 3/17/2004 9:13:31 PM
  - re: Eye opener - Chris Vancil - 3/17/2004 10:38:02 PM

Latest photowork on Wild - alcaray - 3/18/2004 11:01:11 PM

Gamma ray glows - Raoul - 3/18/2004 6:33:22 PM
- Fascinating article on Gamma Rays - Bowser - 3/18/2004 9:45:45 PM
- re: Gamma ray glows - Raoul - 3/18/2004 8:19:04 PM

Earth as a Morning Star - (anonymous) - 3/17/2004 9:28:55 PM
- re: Wow - BRFelix - 3/18/2004 2:31:38 PM
- Very nice! Here's the pic - Buck Galaxy - 3/18/2004 4:37:21 AM
- Your models are amazing! (n/t) - RobVG - 3/17/2004 10:42:57 PM
  - Link - RobVG - 3/18/2004 5:44:24 PM

Has Opportunity's bounce started to erode? - REB - 3/18/2004 1:02:06 PM
- P.S. I'm a Sagan fan myself - Tom Brosz - 3/18/2004 4:15:31 PM
  - re: P.S. I'm a Sagan fan myself - REB - 3/18/2004 4:43:39 PM
- Mine sure has. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 3/18/2004 4:13:17 PM
- Make that bounce marks (NT) - REB - 3/18/2004 1:49:55 PM

Countries do not have to develop ICBM technology to participate in an ARMXER Orbital Skyhook Infrastructure - Success_Machine - 3/18/2004 4:22:27 PM

Geologists? - Tom Brosz - 3/17/2004 6:30:49 AM
- soil scarp - jms - 3/18/2004 3:18:28 AM
  - re: soil scarp - BRFelix - 3/18/2004 3:03:47 PM
- re: Geologists? - Nick Hoffman - 3/17/2004 2:33:21 PM
- re: Geologists? - REB - 3/17/2004 12:46:08 PM
  - Correction - REB - 3/17/2004 12:50:41 PM

The discovery of Sedna brings the total number of planets to......8 - Raoul - 3/17/2004 8:16:04 PM
- Let's make it arbitrary: anything between 1,000km & 250,000km in diameter is a planet. - Jacob Samorodin - 3/18/2004 2:45:15 PM
- The "planet" problem - Buck Galaxy - 3/18/2004 4:22:29 AM
  - re: The "planet" problem - REB - 3/18/2004 1:28:40 PM
- re: It is a non-luminous body larger than a comet or asteroid that orbits the Sun - Success_Machine - 3/17/2004 10:04:26 PM

Spherules are hematite on surface. - Robert Clark - 3/18/2004 4:46:57 AM

India beat us to Mars - Buck Galalxy - 3/18/2004 2:45:30 AM
- Bush outsourced NASA? (n/t) - Bowser - 3/18/2004 3:51:43 AM
  - LOL (n/t) - Buck Galaxy - 3/18/2004 4:25:15 AM

Re: Blue subsurface on Adirondack rock? - Robert Clark - 3/18/2004 3:07:50 AM

Today on Mars - Nick Hoffman - 3/17/2004 12:05:35 AM
- re: Today on Mars - Robert Clark - 3/18/2004 1:39:15 AM
- Nick needs a press pass! - jms - 3/17/2004 6:15:06 PM
- Nick you are the man! A couple questions... - Buck Galaxy - 3/17/2004 6:47:26 AM
  - re: Nick you are the man! A couple questions... - Nick Hoffman - 3/17/2004 2:43:58 PM
- Calcium sulfates? At last, a Martian export -- Wallboard! - dtb - 3/17/2004 4:54:23 AM
  - ...and soak in epsom salts after dry-walling, too! (n/t) - jms - 3/17/2004 5:15:00 AM
- Thanks for the update from the front, as it were - ebnelson - 3/17/2004 4:30:10 AM
- Alot to chew on, Thanks for the on the road post Nick! - jms - 3/17/2004 4:03:28 AM
- Thanks again. We owe you, Nick. (Probably always will.) (n/t) - Bowser - 3/17/2004 2:54:50 AM

Blueberries on the menu again... at GUSEV??? - Doug Ellison - 3/18/2004 12:01:09 AM
- re: Blueberries on the menu again... at GUSEV??? - Robert Clark - 3/18/2004 1:28:37 AM

Pillinger's Folly - Donald - 3/17/2004 5:18:34 AM
- re: Pillinger's Folly - Robert Clark - 3/17/2004 4:24:47 PM
- re: Pillinger's Folly - Doug Ellison - 3/17/2004 8:48:19 AM
  - re: Pillinger's Folly - Donald - 3/17/2004 3:20:27 PM
    - re: Pillinger's Folly - Doug - 3/17/2004 7:05:45 PM
      - re: Mobility - DavidV - 3/18/2004 12:46:30 AM
      - i'm with you - alcaray - 3/17/2004 7:34:25 PM
        
        Shouldn't ESA / the U.K. offer competitive prizes so that if Pillinger's the best, he can prevail? - ~tax leech - 3/17/2004 8:04:09 PM
        
        If ESA and/or UK want to spend their money that way, it is fine with me - alcaray - 3/17/2004 9:54:19 PM
        
        re: If ESA and/or UK want to spend their money that way, it is fine with me - Doug - 3/17/2004 10:03:07 PM
        
        Well, all the best to you guys! - alcaray - 3/17/2004 10:12:23 PM
  - NASA didn't hype X-33 or ISS? How about the '99 Mars Polar Lander or Climate Orbiter? - ~tax leech - 3/17/2004 1:29:55 PM

Spirt's heat shield took a beating - REB - 3/15/2004 9:52:10 PM
- light version (detail) - Robert - 3/16/2004 2:02:43 AM
  - It's actually recognizable! - Gary - 3/16/2004 6:34:12 AM
    - Don't be surprised if a 'closer-look' is on JPL's agenda. - Jacob Samorodin - 3/16/2004 4:11:33 PM
      - re: Don't be surprised if a 'closer-look' is on JPL's agenda. - Doug Ellison - 3/16/2004 7:15:14 PM
        
        Opportunity heat shield - PB - 3/16/2004 11:41:22 PM
        
        Extended Ops - Nick Hoffman - 3/17/2004 2:55:27 PM
        
        re: Extended Ops - Doug - 3/17/2004 11:23:17 PM
      - re: Don't be surprised if a 'closer-look' is on JPL's agenda. - REB - 3/16/2004 4:59:41 PM
    - re: It's actually recognizable! - Doug Ellison - 3/16/2004 9:59:14 AM

Day the sun nearly shut down earth - Bowser - 3/17/2004 5:55:42 PM

William Pickering - Raoul - 3/17/2004 5:13:05 PM

Lunar telescopes used to be a good idea, but.... - Raoul - 3/13/2004 8:06:27 PM
- Thanks, but does not analyze Lidar systems (n/t) (n/t) - E.P. Grondine - 3/15/2004 10:58:33 PM
- The lunar farside is still ideal for radio-astronomy. (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 3/14/2004 7:03:03 PM
  - re: Very cold places - Raoul - 3/14/2004 8:06:59 PM
    - Bring heaters - Buck Galalxy - 3/14/2004 8:33:29 PM
      - re: Bring heaters - Raoul - 3/14/2004 8:48:23 PM
        
        Only use them during repairs and upgrades - Buck Galaxy - 3/15/2004 3:04:32 AM
        
        Maybe not - Larry J - 3/15/2004 5:10:28 PM
        
        It goes back to ease of repair - Buck Galaxy - 3/16/2004 6:41:28 PM
        
        Oh yeah... Umpteen tonnes of mass and bad gyroscopes - E.P. Grondine - 3/15/2004 11:05:30 PM
- Probably explains why EPG is MIA (thankfully) - phil - 3/13/2004 9:01:42 PM
  - Langley's analysis still stands - E.P. Grondine - 3/15/2004 11:08:34 PM
    - re: Nope not even slightly true, you're just still in denial (n/t) - Chris Vancil - 3/17/2004 4:56:01 PM

New Mars Pictures - REB - 3/17/2004 1:24:53 PM
- Dune digging - Tom Brosz - 3/17/2004 4:54:33 PM
- re: New Mars Pictures - Robert Clark - 3/17/2004 4:20:29 PM

Method of Mars colonization, question - Hans - 3/15/2004 8:59:10 AM
- re: Exploration - Raoul - 3/15/2004 7:05:41 PM
- re: Method of Mars colonization, question - gbaikie - 3/15/2004 10:16:17 AM
  - There are treaty restrictions concerning Antartica, try Greenland - Gary - 3/16/2004 7:33:59 AM
    - A few dozen people would be enough to start a colony. - Lee - 3/16/2004 9:34:09 AM
      - re: Wishful thinking - Success_Machine - 3/16/2004 11:48:52 AM
        
        The endangered species act isn't based on science. - Lee - 3/17/2004 6:10:40 AM
        
        re: True. It is an extrapolation. However, you can't colonize Mars with 3 people. (n/t) - Success_Machine - 3/17/2004 11:51:23 AM
  - re: Method of Mars colonization, question - Hans - 3/15/2004 8:20:00 PM
    - re: Method of Mars colonization, question - gbaikie - 3/16/2004 3:11:57 AM
  - re: You need upwards of 10,000 people to effectively colonize - Success_Machine - 3/15/2004 3:06:00 PM

Last friday, the Sun! (Soho) - Raoul - 3/16/2004 7:40:27 PM
- "C ME" says the sun! - et - 3/17/2004 5:18:57 AM
- Spectacular! The old guy just stays with it! (n/t) - Bowser - 3/17/2004 3:36:28 AM
- The Sun - SteveS - 3/17/2004 1:16:48 AM

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