Starship Asterisk*

If we're going to toss out Newton, why are we worried about Einstein? And while we're at it, if this is out in the middle of space, what are we using to gain traction to begin the spin in the first place? Ok, that said, and my chuckling subsided, I would have to agree with an earlier poster that, al...

Some thoughts that, in my mind, kill all of the "vibration" theories are these: In order for meteors to leave a trail bright enough to be captured in the manner in which this one was, it would have to be moving VERY quickly, which means that either: a.) it left a VERY bright trail, that fa...

I don't think it was 'camera shake'. A deviation on the order of arc-seconds would show up in the stars, especially in the inset. My first question would be: Which end is the tail? Did it enter the atmosphere and somehow acquire angular momentum, or was it already spinning and somehow lose angular ...

Upon close examination of the image, one will see that there are NOT two meteors, as some have mentioned, but that the "larger" one is an inset magnification of the "smaller". Now, to my thinking, the shape of the trail indicates that the meteor was traveling from left to right, ...

RJN, in an earlier post, was kind enough to provide the definition of a blog: A blog (a contraction of the term "web log")[1] is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. E...