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Since we are looking at several more than 3 bodies in this situation, I don't really think that it can be considered as a 'trojan' system at all, let alone an 'ordinary' one. Given relative proximities and masses, the integrated sum of the gravitational effects of the 'local' components (Saturn, acc...

SOMETHING happened 13.7by/ago - but then, something is happening all the time. On the other hand, before Harry delivers his opinions , maybe he can familiarize himself with at least some of the arithmetic to back them up, if not the real mathematics (and I'm not talking here about multivariate analy...

The problem is not those who just don't want to (or are afraid to) consider anything that might challenge their beliefs on any level. As with any 'religion' (and there is no requirement for belief in any supreme being to establish a religion), the real problem is with those who choose to proselytize...

Only because the rest of the analemma isn't in the picture.

Interesting links, Harry - too bad there hasn't been one with information less than 4 years old.

The neutron star may give us more ideas of the ongoings of a blackhole since it is part of the stage of becoming a blackhole. A neutron star is not a 'stage' on the way to a black hole; any mass with the initial properties which would result in a black hole cannot form a neutron star at any time be...

If the light is reflected from a minute particle, it is reflected in multiple directions, including directly back where it came from, so it is going to be reflected again from the particles it missed the first time by.
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Actually, the radius of the event horizon for a given mass is smaller than the radius of a neutron star of equivalent mass. And a black hole is only giving up mass if we can grant that gravitons are not massless. Anything that we can detect being 'excreted' by a black hole was probably never within ...

How about a mastodon molar in a piece of jaw?

Hey, the whole credo for tenure has always been 'publish, publish, publish'. And if you don't have anything to contribute within the 'mainstream', and you can't write fiction effectively, you need an outlet for something you can shoot out in a short time with little effort.

Maybe that star imbedded in the right edge has a 'wind' or 'jets' that has tunnelled right through the cloud?

Newtonian physics is sufficient for most normal orbital calculations; even for Mercury, the total impact of General Relativity on the orbital precession is only 43 arc-seconds (43/3600 degrees) per century. Several things have to be taken into consideration in determining what the gravitational curv...

In all probability, the actual position of the sun would have been directly behind the thickest part of the cloud, and the images you saw were 'sun dogs' created in the thinner fringes. These bright spots are created at 22-1/2* from the sun's position (in any direction), usually in high ice clouds. ...

Those blue strands, identified as 'reflection nebulae', are streamers of carbon dust; the dust grains reflect light toward the blue end of the spectrum, while increasingly absorbing frequencies further toward the red end. The carbon has to have been formed in now-dead stars; the 'streamers' may be t...

What was it Albert said about Werner's ideas: "I can't believe that God plays at dicing." And somebody else responded, "Not only does she play at dicing, but she throws them under the table where nobody can see them".

A more technical treatment can be found at

http://cc.oulu.fi/~hsalo/salo2001_icarus153.pdf

There are numerous ephemeris sites available online, as well as some such as:

http://www.jgiesen.de/sunmoonpolar/index.html

(for moonrise/set), which allow coordinate input.

Finally some real math! Only 1 potential loophole here; the function they use to integrate pressure/density [13] assumes smooth integratability, based on the gas model. Plasma doesn't always allow that assumption, and the 'Iron Sun' postulate operates from an assumption that there can be discontinui...

Sort of depends on whether we're seeing them from the 'top' or the 'bottom', doesn't it? It also depends on whether the images they are showing us have been 'corrected' for presentation, or whether they are still the reversed images as recorded by the receivers.

That is the moon Enceladus

The problem is that everything we see around us and study is in the 4-dimensional world. If some of the current theories are correct, and there could be as many as 11 dimensions (not that I'm qualified at all to say if/how correct they are!), ..... Actually, there is at least one theory out there t...

We always used to be told "believe 10% of what you read"; unfortunately, with the advent of the 'net, that has to be reduced by at least 1 magnitude. Even more unfortunately, without some background of understanding of what you are reading about, people have no idea whatsoever how to pick ...

A classic question.
The detectors appear to work - even Joseph Weber's aluminum bar recorded 'events' back in the late '60s. The apparent problem was to be able to discriminate between 'gravitational events' and 'cosmic-ray events', either of which could (mathematically) produce the same result.

As I had to tell one of my science instructors at one time, there is an old saying that 'you can't have an Open Mind and an Open Mouth at the same time'.