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by tomkennedy
Mon Feb 28, 2011 1:41 am
Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
Topic: I find this site most curious...
Replies: 6
Views: 1635

Re: I find this site most curious...

I don't like to be too critical - as the (2nd?) last post said the picture does link to APOD, but as the last one pointed out there is no attribution. I think it's a clear copyright breach, as it stands. They really only need acknowledge their source and it would be fine. What is the APOD policy?
by tomkennedy
Sun Feb 27, 2011 12:52 pm
Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
Topic: I find this site most curious...
Replies: 6
Views: 1635

Re: I find this site most curious...

Yes owlice - it's definitely a copy-and-paste job! Even the links are the same. Perhaps we should let APOD know? :(
by tomkennedy
Sun Feb 27, 2011 12:45 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Saturns Hyperion: A Moon with Odd... (2011 Feb 27)
Replies: 32
Views: 4614

Re: APOD: Saturns Hyperion: A Moon with Odd... (2011 Feb 27)

Yes, owlice - very cooooooool indeed, freezing actually. Isn't it getting a bit big (410 x 260 x 220km) to be such an odd shape? You would think it would have rounded itself out by now. It's over a million km's from Saturn too - why the weird rotation? Lots of interesting stuff for NASA and JPL to c...