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by harry
Wed Sep 21, 2011 8:28 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Shiver me timbers!
Replies: 3
Views: 1098

Re: Shiver me timbers!

Hello Neufer

How's it going?

Be back later
by harry
Tue Dec 07, 2010 12:04 pm
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Great Astronomers
Replies: 3
Views: 1136

Re: Great Astronomers

Hello

I sometimes use my Dad's link to read some of the info.

Thank you for the information, I can use it for school.

Great people and great thinkers
by harry
Fri Nov 05, 2010 9:59 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: The Necklace Nebula (2010 Nov 03)
Replies: 46
Views: 10719

Re: APOD: The Necklace Nebula (2010 Nov 03)

G'day It seems that science is restricted. The papers that I posted are mainstream and are not backyard papers. Chris Peterson said Neither of the papers Harry listed are particularly relevant to your questions. But I think your understanding is pretty good, as outlined above. The key concept is tha...
by harry
Fri Nov 05, 2010 10:17 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: The Necklace Nebula (2010 Nov 03)
Replies: 46
Views: 10719

Re: APOD: The Necklace Nebula (2010 Nov 03)

G'day Doug This link may add some understaning to your questiion. http://arxiv.org/abs/1009.4912 A Reconnecting Current Sheet Imaged in A Solar Flare Authors: Rui Liu, Jeongwoo Lee, Tongjiang Wang, Guillermo Stenborg, Chang Liu, Haimin Wang (Submitted on 24 Sep 2010) Abstract: Magnetic reconnection ...
by harry
Fri Nov 05, 2010 9:56 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: The Necklace Nebula (2010 Nov 03)
Replies: 46
Views: 10719

Re: APOD: The Necklace Nebula (2010 Nov 03)

G'day Supernova is where a star explodes completely and a Nova is where the solar envelope is ejected to some degree. Doug asked the questiion What possible mechanism causes polar jets in the case of the Necklace Nebula or a dying star ? These jets, according to the article, occurred 5000 years prio...
by harry
Wed Nov 03, 2010 10:40 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: The Necklace Nebula (2010 Nov 03)
Replies: 46
Views: 10719

Re: APOD: The Necklace Nebula (2010 Nov 03)

G'day What we are seeing is the front on image of an hour glass formation. Reagardless this paper may put some light to the discussion. The Necklace: equatorial and polar outflows from the binary central star of the new planetary nebula IPHASXJ194359.5+170901 Authors: R.L.M. Corradi, L. Sabin, B. Mi...
by harry
Wed Nov 03, 2010 10:26 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Spicules: Jets on the Sun (2010 Nov 02)
Replies: 25
Views: 6960

Re: APOD: Spicules: Jets on the Sun (2010 Nov 02)

G'day You may find this paper interesting in light of the above discussion http://arxiv.org/abs/1004.1692 A Statistical Analysis of the SOT-Hinode Observations of Solar Spicules and their Wave-like Behavior Authors: E. Tavabi, S. Koutchmy, A. Ajabshirizadeh (Submitted on 10 Apr 2010) Abstract: We co...
by harry
Wed Oct 27, 2010 7:17 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Charon's Opposition Surge "Gaze"
Replies: 11
Views: 4113

Re: Charon's Opposition Surge "Gaze"

Hello

Thank you for that info, I'll use it for school.

Harry's Son
by harry
Fri Oct 01, 2010 12:39 pm
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: A Star is Born?
Replies: 4
Views: 2861

Re: A Star is Born?

G'day

Nice images

But! are they the seeds, the origin?????
by harry
Tue Sep 14, 2010 8:46 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Oklo: Ancient African Nuclear Reactors (2010 Sep 12)
Replies: 23
Views: 7555

Re: APOD: Oklo: Ancient African Nuclear Reactors (2010 Sep 1

G'day Chris said Actually, this link demonstrates the sort of utter garbage that can be found on the Internet. In fact, "garbage" is too good a word for it. It is nothing but pseudoscientific nonsense. The site is instructive to people interested in where incompetent scientists sometimes e...
by harry
Mon Sep 13, 2010 7:47 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Oklo: Ancient African Nuclear Reactors (2010 Sep 12)
Replies: 23
Views: 7555

Re: APOD: Oklo: Ancient African Nuclear Reactors (2010 Sep 1

G'day Two processes are at work one is the cyclic events within the Earth the other is the cyclic events within the Sun. This link is quite interesting and to the point. Heat in the Earth's Core http://nov55.com/heat.html It appears that the process of creating planets, by gravity drawing particles ...
by harry
Sun Sep 05, 2010 2:49 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Vikings wiped out life
Replies: 6
Views: 1203

Re: Vikings wiped out life

G'day

Is that a joke?
by harry
Sat Sep 04, 2010 8:25 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Earth vs earth
Replies: 14
Views: 3549

Re: Earth vs earth

G'day

And yet we are all down to Earth for better or worse in sickness and in health until we buy the ticket.
by harry
Sun Aug 15, 2010 4:56 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Why the LHC might have destroyed the Earth
Replies: 8
Views: 3823

Re: Why the LHC might have destroyed the Earth

G'day Neufer It was on the cards with a low very extreme probability that as so called black hole could form from a plasma pasta of Neutron, quarks to Axions and if they did it would have been for a nano second. Regardless, the research LHC on the matter particularly supersummetry is of most importa...
by harry
Fri Jul 30, 2010 11:37 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Lutetia: The Largest Asteroid Yet... (2010 Jul 26)
Replies: 15
Views: 3781

Re: APOD: Lutetia: The Largest Asteroid Yet... (2010 Jul 26)

G'day

My son says thank you for the info, great link.
by harry
Mon Jul 12, 2010 10:25 am
Forum: The Communications Center: Breaking Science News
Topic: AMNH: Rain of giant gas clouds create active galactic nuclei
Replies: 2
Views: 751

APOD: Galaxies on a String (2010 Jul 02)

G'day Focus on the science and not on the emotional This paper may be of interest The extraordinary radio galaxy MRC B1221-423: probing deeper at radio and optical wavelengths Jun-10 http://adsabs.harvard.edu/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.16950.x http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibco...
by harry
Fri Jul 09, 2010 10:14 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Galaxies on a String (2010 Jul 02)
Replies: 33
Views: 5830

Re: APOD: Galaxies on a String (2010 Jul 02)

G'day And you call yourselves scientists with that attitude. Look and research the formation of jets. Should I give the links or are you able to research it. If you know anything about Vector Theory you would understand. do a bit of research on arXiv or NASA ADS Supersymmetric Configurations Electri...
by harry
Thu Jul 08, 2010 8:31 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Galaxies on a String (2010 Jul 02)
Replies: 33
Views: 5830

Re: APOD: Galaxies on a String (2010 Jul 02)

G'day The bottom Galaxy had formed a dipole jet and one has connected with the above galaxy. The bottom jet has twisted because of the dual gravity pulled by the top galaxy and its own galaxy core. These type of jets are normal and observable Chandra Observes Cosmic Traffic Pile-Up In Energetic Quas...
by harry
Thu Jul 01, 2010 11:53 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Craters around Endeavour
Replies: 10
Views: 3731

Re: Craters around Endeavour

G'day

Nice image

It's amazing that most of the names are found off the coast of down under.
by harry
Tue Jun 08, 2010 8:40 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Jupiter another impact
Replies: 13
Views: 2566

Re: Jupiter another impact

G'day


My Kid says
Thank you for the link.
by harry
Tue Jun 01, 2010 8:39 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Black Holes in Merging Galaxies (2010 May 29)
Replies: 6
Views: 2409

Re: APOD: Black Holes in Merging Galaxies (2010 May 29)

G'day Black holes have a degree in activity This link has a bit more info Stephan's Quintet - A Mammoth Cosmic Collision http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/heic0007/ in a pdf http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/releases/pdf/heic0007.pdf and Galactic wreckage in Stephan's Quintet http://www...
by harry
Tue Jun 01, 2010 8:10 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Dark Matter Thoughts
Replies: 59
Views: 7572

Re: Dark Matter Thoughts

G'day Bystander You said harry wrote: G'day Bystander ... If you only read 1% of the papers that I go through maybe you may get some idea. G'day Harry Perhaps if you only read 1% of the papers that you go through, maybe you might get some idea. As a moderator I thought you would have a better respon...
by harry
Mon May 31, 2010 10:41 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Dark Matter Thoughts
Replies: 59
Views: 7572

Re: Dark Matter Thoughts

G'day

Did someone call?

I have being around in one form or another.

Keep Cool

Busy reading
by harry
Fri May 21, 2010 9:51 am
Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
Topic: Our Non Local Universe
Replies: 1
Views: 804

Re: Our Non Local Universe

G'day Mark swain

The guy is a real fruit cake.

My wife reads the same books, probably from Mars.