The Top Ten (or eleven)

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Ten Things I Wish We Really Knew In Planetary Science by Alan Stern
May. 21, 2009 | 15:27 PDT | 22:27 UTC

<<I don't think you work or follow planetary science very long without having some particular, really big picture questions that you really want to know the answer to. And since I have the pen for Emily's blog this week, I thought I'd share my own "top ten" list with you.

<<In no particular order, my list is this:

• - How many worlds harbor life in our solar system?
  
  - How common are Earth mass planets in stellar habitable zones?
  
  - How common are solar systems with architectures like ours, i.e., rocky planets on the inside, giant planets in the middle zone, and dwarf planets and comet reservoirs on the outside?
  
  - What causes Triton's surface to be so young, so long after that dwarf planet's internal engine should have run down?
  
  - How many planets are hiding in the deep outer solar system beyond my own fave planet, Pluto?
  
  - Are there Vulcanoid asteroids orbiting close to the Sun inside Mercury's orbit, or not?
  
  - Were Uranus and Neptune really born in the Jupiter-Saturn region as some smart theorists and modelers now believe?
  
  - Did Mars really ever have oceans -- rather than just lakes, rivers, and rains?
  
  - How many times did life originate on Earth?
  
  - Why are surfaces seemingly so heterogeneous within the cometary population, while compositions are so seemingly homogeneous within the cometary population?
  
  - How old are Saturn's rings?>>

[harry]

G'day from the land of ozzzzzzz


I just want to know the various mechanisms in jet formation.

and

Bring back Elvis

[aristarchusinexile]

G'day from the land of ozzzzzzz


I just want to know the various mechanisms in jet formation.

and

Bring back Elvis

Elvis left on a jet plane with Joni.

[harry]

G'day Aris

You got to smile

[astrolabe]

Hello aristarchusinexile,

Happy sailing!

Good weather, good health, safety, and a peaceful soul be with you! Oh yeah, and no holes in the boat.

Go mopedara.

[harry]

G'day from the land of ozzzzz

Aris
Oh! Yea

Break a sail for good luck.

That's show biz

[aristarchusinexile]

Help! I am barely afloat on a sea of insolvency. Please send either anti-gravity or money.

[harry]

G'day from the land of ozzzzzzzz

Mate than do something about it.

[aristarchusinexile]

G'day from the land of ozzzzzzzz

Mate than do something about it.

Begging is doing something.

[harry]

G'day Aris

Success is a choice.

Smile

We all Beg to differ.

Begging is like being in a hole and asking someone to help you dig deeper.

Yes! I understand that sometimes you are found in situations that do not allow for choice.

Its like the fly that keeps on trying to fly through a glass window and dies through trying.
Not knowing that an open window near was open to freedom and choices.

[aristarchusinexile]

G'day Aris

Success is a choice.

Smile

We all Beg to differ.

Begging is like being in a hole and asking someone to help you dig deeper.

Yes! I understand that sometimes you are found in situations that do not allow for choice.

Its like the fly that keeps on trying to fly through a glass window and dies through trying.
Not knowing that an open window near was open to freedom and choices.

Tell those things to the poor man laid sick at the rich man's gate .. the end being the poor man carried to heaven in the arms of angels, the rich man in hell begging for a drop of water. Regardless of hard work and talent (those things being honourable and deserving of recognition) success, regardless of definition of success, comes, I believe, through grace. Remember, Mucker, the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future.

[harry]

G'day from the land of ozzzz

Aris I fully agree with you.


This does not mean we do not give aid to fellow MAN who we sometimes find on the side of the road.

The best place to grow from is when you have lost all and your friends and relatives do not want to do business with you.

[aristarchusinexile]

G'day from the land of ozzzz

Aris I fully agree with you.


This does not mean we do not give aid to fellow MAN who we sometimes find on the side of the road.

The best place to grow from is when you have lost all and your friends and relatives do not want to do business with you.

I hope you have not had that experience .. but if so, friend, I can sell you a place of refuge on the moon. (That's the way of the world, eh .. from which we must depart.)

[harry]

G'day Aris

Smile, all is well.