Saturday, December 6, 2008

VENUS' GLOBAL CLOUD PATTERNS

It has sulphuric acid clouds and is very hot. The Venus Express spacecraft has found that  light on the atmospheric
conditions that are responsible for the characteristic ultraviolet features in the Venusian
cloud deck
http://sci.esa.int/jump.cfm?oid=43792

Students discover unique planet

Students discover unique planet
This extraordinary find is about 5 tim
also in the photo of the 3 students showing off their data, it looks they are showing it off on an Apple ibook
http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=7711

This week, Astronomy.com reported some intriguing comet research at Lowell Observatory in Arizona. A Lowell scientist, Dave Schleicher, studies the chemistry of comets. He and his colleagues recently found that Comet 96P/Machholz 1 has a weird chemistry. Machholz is extremely low in a chemical called cyanogen compared to other comets. The Lowell researchers think it may be a totally new class of comets, possibly cooked up billions of years ago in...
http://cs.astronomy.com/asycs/blogs/astronomy/2008/12/05/so-what-does-comet-96p-machholz-smell-like.aspx


Scientists find meteor debris in Canada
PHOTOS
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/28/AR2008112801930.html

University of Calgary graduate student Ellen Milley poses with a fragment of a meteorite in a small pond near Lloydminster, Sask., Canada Friday, Nov. 28, 2008. Scientists said Friday they had found remains of a meteor that illuminated the sky before falling to earth in western Canada earlier this month. University of Calgary scientist Alan Hildebrand and Milley found several meteor fragments near the Battle River along the rural Alberta-Saskatchewan border, near the city of Lloydminster late Thursday. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Geoff Howe)
University of Calgary graduate student Ellen Milley poses with a fragment of a meteorite in a small pond near Lloydminster, Sask., Canada Friday, Nov. 28, 2008. Scientists said Friday they had found remains of a meteor that illuminated the sky before falling to earth in western Canada earlier this month. University of Calgary scientist Alan Hildebrand and Milley found several meteor fragments near the Battle River along the rural Alberta-Saskatchewan border, near the city of Lloydminster late Thursday. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Geoff Howe) (Geoff Howe - AP)


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