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by ExNihilo
Tue Oct 18, 2011 8:47 pm
Forum: The Communications Center: Breaking Science News
Topic: Bonilla Comet - Anyone Believe This?
Replies: 3
Views: 808

Re: Bonilla Comet - Anyone Believe This?

Yup. Thought as much. Thanks.
by ExNihilo
Tue Oct 18, 2011 8:31 pm
Forum: The Communications Center: Breaking Science News
Topic: Bonilla Comet - Anyone Believe This?
Replies: 3
Views: 808

Bonilla Comet - Anyone Believe This?

I came across some "breaking" news about a massive comet which supposedly just missed the Earth in 1883, observed by Jose Bonilla: http://craterhunter.wordpress.com/ There are various other web links picking this up across cyberspace today. Anyone care to take this up in a debate. I for on...
by ExNihilo
Wed Aug 17, 2011 12:48 pm
Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
Topic: Is APOD a blog? (2011 edition)
Replies: 29
Views: 33400

Re: Is APOD a blog? (2011 edition)

In a broad definition it is a blog, but I still voted "no" because it is just doesn't have the look and feel of a blog. This look and feel notion is something the Wikipedia definition didn't really include.
by ExNihilo
Tue Aug 04, 2009 2:59 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: A Triple Sunrise Over Gdansk Bay (2009 Aug 04)
Replies: 338
Views: 49730

Re: Cause of Triple Sunrise (APOD 2009 August 4)

Much as I agree that the more common cause of such an effect would be the multiple window panes, I am firmly on the side of atmospheric refraction in this case. As pointed out by some previous writers, the clouds interrupt the second and third images in a pattern consistent with interposition betwe...
by ExNihilo
Tue Feb 08, 2005 9:11 pm
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Which satellite is this?
Replies: 193
Views: 195735

I have no doubt the object was in a high orbit and dumping fuel along a geosynchronous transfer orbit. The orbital inclination corresponds well with a Kennedy Space Center Launch, and the perspective from Hawaii corresponds with a viewing geometry along the transfer orbit, with the apparent "sl...