Starship Asterisk*

Obviously this "star" (The original Greek text used the word “aster,” which could apply to any celestial object.) I.E. asterisk *, was low in our atmosphere, moving, and came to a stop over the destination. There is nothing about the "star" being low in our atmosphere, moving, o...

Shouldn't the diameter be twelve light years? The light will have traveled six light years in each direction from the star since six years ago. Unless the picture is three years old - it doesn't say - but it usually says the picture is old when that's the case. Actually diameter isn't even the &quo...

Neufer & al., would you correct me if I'm wrong, I understand the date of the mentionned conjunction to be "chronological" year 2 BC, -not allowing for a year zero- , alternatively, year -1, allowing for year 0. This is a bit confusing however (to me) : what is the usual convention in...

The Bible is not a science book but is a book of faith written by humans inspired by God - yet the writers are still processing data through their free-willed human minds. Little of what is mentioned in the Bible can be proven and there are more questions than answers regarding timelines of events ...

Star of Bethlehem? I'm not buying into the planetary alignment perceived as "a new star". When the writer wrote about "a new star", the schooled travelers saw something that wasn't there before, like a comet or a (super)nova. With planets, one can see them getting closer to each...

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080202.html . Star of Bethlehem? Near Occultation - Venus & Jupiter , June 17, 2 BC http://www.go.ednet.ns.ca/~larry/planets/2bcocclt.htm Tue -1 Jun 17 21:00 http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Solar . . Right Distance From 31°48'N 35°12'E: . Ascension Declination (AU) Al...

a little south of East I believe you're right. It seems to be aimed at azimuth 120°, i.e. the 4 o'clock position. http://bagn.obs-mip.fr/webcam/ -------------------------------------------- The distant snow free dry slot just below the left "airplane(?) light" is apparent in webcam pictur...

Imagine aligning an image with, say, 500 meters per pixel resolution with a similar image from years gone by and blinking back and forth to see if there have been changes. Astronomers do this all the time with deep space imagery, but I've not heard of it being done with images of the Moon. -Noel It...

How large would an asteroid striking the moon have to be to actually disturb its orbit? If TU24 had impacted the moon on either its leading or trailing end it could changed its orbital speed (of ~ 1 km/s) by enough to have changed its orbital major axis (of ~ 770,000 km) by about 1 centimeter. This...

<<Five monks from Canterbury reported to the abbey's chronicler, Gervase, that shortly after sunset on June 18, 1178, they saw two horns of light on the shaded part of the moon: " This year, on the evening of June 18, when the moon, a slim crescent, first became visible, a marvelous phenomenon...

good ol' asteroids.. I'm just waiting for something to hit the moon... wake up the entire world about how little we can do concerning these objects that are everywhere in the solar system. Anyone know the last time something actually struck the moon and was recorded Yep November 2005 http://www.ast...

(Tunguska sized) 15 (TNT) megaton There was a newspaper article today, 1/30/08, about new supercomputer models putting Tunguska at 3-5 megatons. Yes, well I was just trying to be in the ball park as far as Tunguska was concerned. The Tunguska event was probably equivalent to the 50 meter meteor tha...

(Tunguska sized) 15 (TNT) megaton March 1, 1954 Bikini "Bravo" test:


1500 (TNT) megaton TU24 asteroid if it had hit earth: ?????
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080130.html

First, the Hubble telescope. It was a success after its mirror was fixed, at an extra cost to the taxpayer of several hundred million dollars. Now, NASA is going to refurbish it, again at cost of several hundred million. Several hundred million dollars!! My god, that's almost as much as the news me...

craterchains wrote:How about if we ask that "little Big Foot" guy to wipe the dust off?

He'll have to apply for a little Green man Card first before he touches the Rover with a squiggy.

Guys, NASA isn't the only government-funded agency capable of doing the highest quality research that can produce equally valuable spin-offs, and much more cheaply at that. That's right! The internet, for instance, was an unintended spin-off of high energy particle physics - an even more esoteric w...

NASA desperately wants to send astronauts to Mars. It's obvious to anyone with the slightest common sense that there is nothing an astronaut can do on Mars that a robot can't do as well and much, much more cheaply. Similarly for Moon exploration. Mars is simply a dead desert. The only planet that n...

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080128.html --------------------------------------------------------- http://www.brogilbert.org/dante_canto21-25/2dante_canto22.HTM . <<The Goths had destroyed the town of Cassino and the people, due to a lack of priests, were lapsing into paganism. On top was a temple de...

Do not look directly at St. Benedict without proper eye protection: -------------------------------------------- Paradise Canto XXII <<ARGUMENT.— [Dante] beholds many other spirits of the devout and contemplative; and among these is addressed by St. Benedict, who, after disclosing his own name and t...

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap080128.html ---------------------------------------------------------- The eclipse the founder of the "Black Monks/Black Friars" (St. Benedict), himself, probably observed was the Monte Cassino, Italy, eclipse of June 20, 540 when Benedict was about 60 years old...

A narrow habitable zone should exist in Mercury's terminator region. Just where it would be would depend on cooling rates and heat retention in the Mercurian terrain (Merrain?). Moderate temps would ease stress on equipment and permit longer stay times for future explorers. Explorers would have to ...

(U)rbain (L)e (V)errier
Joh{N} {C}ouch {A}dams

(VUL) : {CAN} ?

But Johann Gottfried Galle (June 9, 1812 – July 10, 1910)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Gottfried_Galle

outlived both of them and had the last laugh:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap990315.html

Back in the 19th century Le Verrier forecast the existence of the planet Neptune based upon anomalies in the orbit of Uranus. Le Verrier also forecast the existence of "the planet Vulcan" based upon anomalies in the orbit of Mercury. These Mercury anomalies were later explained by Einstein...