First scientists thought we might have water on Mars because of the illusion of the green canals. Then thought when the spacecrafts took pictures there was no much hope.
This continued with the Viking Landers.
Then were tantilizing clues to gully like rivers, possible water underneath in caves and possible evidence or minerals and layering with the two Mars Rovers.
now the latest about Mars and the quest to find water on Mars and life
WATER MAY BE SPURTING ON MARS
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Mars Global Surveyor photographs have revealed bright new deposits seen in
two gullies on Mars that suggest water carried sediment through them
sometime during the past seven years. Liquid water, as opposed to the
water ice and water vapor known to exist at Mars, is considered necessary
for life. The new findings heighten intrigue about the potential for
microbial life on Mars.
http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0612/06mgs/
Wednesday, December 6, 2006
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
The monster with the great set of jaws and more meteorite stuff
The monster with the great set of jaws
Dunkleosteus terrelli
see
Snap!
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/05/science/05observ.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin
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also more about meteorites information further down on the page
Carbaneous chondrite meteorites haave carbon bearing materials. Carbon based materials are the building blocks of life on Earth. So it stands to reason, carbon based material may have caused curious possibilities in early earth bombardmends.
Organic meteorites
Similar globules were first noticed in a meteorite in 1961 and have since been seen in a few other carbonaceous chondrites. But until now there has been no way to adequately analyze them.
The NASA scientists used a mass spectrometer with a tiny probe and found that the globules contained carbon, nitrogen and hydrogen. Isotopic analysis of the nitrogen and hydrogen determined that the globules had probably formed at temperatures approaching absolute zero.
That finding, the researchers say, means that the globules probably were created in the outer reaches of the developing solar system or in the molecular cloud that became the Sun. The researchers suggest that if, as is thought, Earth was bombarded by these kinds of meteorites early in its history, such globules may have helped “seed” the planet with organic compounds that led to life.
Dunkleosteus terrelli
see
Snap!
<
also more about meteorites information further down on the page
Carbaneous chondrite meteorites haave carbon bearing materials. Carbon based materials are the building blocks of life on Earth. So it stands to reason, carbon based material may have caused curious possibilities in early earth bombardmends.
Organic meteorites
Similar globules were first noticed in a meteorite in 1961 and have since been seen in a few other carbonaceous chondrites. But until now there has been no way to adequately analyze them.
The NASA scientists used a mass spectrometer with a tiny probe and found that the globules contained carbon, nitrogen and hydrogen. Isotopic analysis of the nitrogen and hydrogen determined that the globules had probably formed at temperatures approaching absolute zero.
That finding, the researchers say, means that the globules probably were created in the outer reaches of the developing solar system or in the molecular cloud that became the Sun. The researchers suggest that if, as is thought, Earth was bombarded by these kinds of meteorites early in its history, such globules may have helped “seed” the planet with organic compounds that led to life.
Sunday, December 3, 2006
caving stuff
Argentina's Caves Threatened by Mining, Tourism, Experts Say
Kelly Hearn in Buenos Aires
for National Geographic News
December 1, 2006
Mining and tourism threaten Argentina's cave systems, say critics, who worry that the activities are destroying fragile underground ecosystems and archaeological sites.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/12/061201-caves-argentina.html
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• Photo in the News: Giant Crystal-Filled Cave Discovered in California (September 26, 2006)
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/09/060926-cave-california.html<
• Prehistoric Cave Discovered; 8 New Species Thrive Inside (June 2, 2006)
Mati Milstein in Ramle, Israel
for National Geographic News
June 2, 2006
Quarry workers digging recently in central Israel broke through bedrock and stumbled into an entirely new and unique ecosystem, scientists announced Wednesday. The cavern had been sealed off from the outside world for millions of years.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/06/060602-israel-cave.html<
•
National Geographic Magazine: "Inside Chiquibul: Central America's Longest Cave"
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/chiquibul/intro.html
Kelly Hearn in Buenos Aires
for National Geographic News
December 1, 2006
Mining and tourism threaten Argentina's cave systems, say critics, who worry that the activities are destroying fragile underground ecosystems and archaeological sites.
<
• Photo in the News: Giant Crystal-Filled Cave Discovered in California (September 26, 2006)
• Prehistoric Cave Discovered; 8 New Species Thrive Inside (June 2, 2006)
Mati Milstein in Ramle, Israel
for National Geographic News
June 2, 2006
Quarry workers digging recently in central Israel broke through bedrock and stumbled into an entirely new and unique ecosystem, scientists announced Wednesday. The cavern had been sealed off from the outside world for millions of years.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/06/060602-israel-cave.html<
•
National Geographic Magazine: "Inside Chiquibul: Central America's Longest Cave"
Saturday, December 2, 2006
Amber , that pretty yellow mineral
Ancient Roman device was an ancient clock like device
Amazing read
Scientists Unravel Mystery of Ancient Machine
By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS, AP
12/2/2006
Known as the Antikythera Mechanism - from the island off which the Roman ship sank - the assemblage of cogs and wheels looks like the innards of a very badly maintained grandfather clock. But the first clockwork devices appeared more than a thousand years later in Western Europe.
"It was a calendar of the moon and sun, it predicted the possibility of eclipses, it showed the position of the sun and moon in the zodiac, the phase of the moon, and we believe also it may have shown the position of some of the planets, possibly just Venus and Mercury," he said.
http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/scientists-unravel-mystery-of-ancient/20061201182609990013?ncid=NWS00010000000001
Dr. Eric Flescher (kcstarguy@aol.com), Olathe, KS
Scientists Unravel Mystery of Ancient Machine
By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS, AP
12/2/2006
Known as the Antikythera Mechanism - from the island off which the Roman ship sank - the assemblage of cogs and wheels looks like the innards of a very badly maintained grandfather clock. But the first clockwork devices appeared more than a thousand years later in Western Europe.
"It was a calendar of the moon and sun, it predicted the possibility of eclipses, it showed the position of the sun and moon in the zodiac, the phase of the moon, and we believe also it may have shown the position of some of the planets, possibly just Venus and Mercury," he said.
Dr. Eric Flescher (kcstarguy@aol.com), Olathe, KS
Scientists Unravel Mystery of Ancient Machine
Scientists Unravel Mystery of Ancient Machine
By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS, AP
12/2/2006
Known as the Antikythera Mechanism - from the island off which the Roman ship sank - the assemblage of cogs and wheels looks like the innards of a very badly maintained grandfather clock. But the first clockwork devices appeared more than a thousand years later in Western Europe.
"It was a calendar of the moon and sun, it predicted the possibility of eclipses, it showed the position of the sun and moon in the zodiac, the phase of the moon, and we believe also it may have shown the position of some of the planets, possibly just Venus and Mercury," he said.
http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/scientists-unravel-mystery-of-ancient/20061201182609990013?ncid=NWS00010000000001
By NICHOLAS PAPHITIS, AP
12/2/2006
Known as the Antikythera Mechanism - from the island off which the Roman ship sank - the assemblage of cogs and wheels looks like the innards of a very badly maintained grandfather clock. But the first clockwork devices appeared more than a thousand years later in Western Europe.
"It was a calendar of the moon and sun, it predicted the possibility of eclipses, it showed the position of the sun and moon in the zodiac, the phase of the moon, and we believe also it may have shown the position of some of the planets, possibly just Venus and Mercury," he said.
rest of story A star fell on Sylacauga 1954
Reading about meteors and meteorites when I was younger, I knew about this story as it was one of the only ones if not the only one that at that time about a human being being struck by a meteorite. But I did not know the rest of the story.
Read below about the interesting rest of the story
Dr.Eric
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Picture of The late Dr. Moody Jacobs in 1994 with a copy of the Dec. 13, 1954, issue of Life magazine, which featured a story about the Sylacauga meteorite. In the black-and-white photo on the table, Jacobs points to the large bruise on Ann Hodges' left hip after it was struck by the rock.
A star fell on Sylacauga
'54 meteorite struck home,
woman, changed lives
By M.J. Ellington
http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/061130/meteorite.shtml
Read below about the interesting rest of the story
Dr.Eric
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Picture of The late Dr. Moody Jacobs in 1994 with a copy of the Dec. 13, 1954, issue of Life magazine, which featured a story about the Sylacauga meteorite. In the black-and-white photo on the table, Jacobs points to the large bruise on Ann Hodges' left hip after it was struck by the rock.
A star fell on Sylacauga
'54 meteorite struck home,
woman, changed lives
By M.J. Ellington
Friday, December 1, 2006
If all goes well, research rocket invention will pierce tornado
Storm chaser Brian Waldrop
Wednesday, 11/29/06 Storm chaser aims for twister's heart
If all goes well, research rocket invention will pierce tornado
By MITCHELL KLINE
Staff Writer
http://www.fairviewobserver.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061129/NEWS01/611290422/1321/MTCN06
Wednesday, 11/29/06 Storm chaser aims for twister's heart
If all goes well, research rocket invention will pierce tornado
By MITCHELL KLINE
Staff Writer
Meteorite may hold clues to life
I was very intrigued when I learned about the French Meteorite Oreguil which landed in the 1800's and was said to have organic materials in it. This was in the 1960s and might meteorite and meteor interests soared.Since that I have observed countless meteor showers, fireballs, some bolides (fireballs with meteoric booms). Then lately I started collecting more meteorites but this Tagish one that I heard about in 2003 and now have a small piece is the exception in many ways.
The Tagish Meteorite exploded in Canada and reigned down very old caronaceous chondrites meteorites on the Canadian Yukon.It was most interesting that no one really hunted for the meteorites until later but finally they were found on the ice of the Tagish Lake and around the lake.
Lately there is now much more about these pristine meteorites
Meteorite may hold clues to life
“This may be the cleanest meteorite we have.
The meteor opens a window into the kind of material from which the solar system was formed.
The meteorite is unusually rich in carbon molecules that have formed into hollow bubbles so tiny that a trillion of them would weigh less than a grape.
That’s important for two reasons: all living things are built from carbon compounds and all living things need to arrange those compounds into membranes that protect what’s inside the organism from what’s outside."
“Astrobiologists consider forming a membrane to be one of the most important and difficult steps in forming the first cells,” said Messenger.
“These globules are premade membrane structures. They may have nothing to do with life per se, but they’re organic-rich, they’re about the right size and they’re hollow.”
(nice photo of one of the bigger meteorites in this article website below)
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1164970952693&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154&t=TS_Home">http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1164970952693&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154&t=TS_Home
SCIENCE NEWS
December 01, 2006
Ancient Meteorites from Outer Solar System May Have Provided Raw Materials for Life
Meteorite that fell in Canada's Tagish Lake contains organic compounds from a time before planets formed
Finally
"We're sure that these [globules] are not alive," Messenger remarks. "But they may have been important ingredients for the first life-forms.
Like the Tagish Lake meteorite globules, comet particles are rich in carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen. The NASA scientists are currently analyzing particle samples collected by the comet-chasing Stardust Mission to determine if organic globules were a common form of prebiotic organic matter present throughout the early solar system."
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=3B156AB3-E7F2-99DF-3954A06521CC6FBD>
also
http://evomech1.blogspot.com/2006/12/nasa-scientists-find-primordial.html
and
and
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/12/01/meteorite_spa.html?category=earth&guid=20061201150000
The Tagish Meteorite exploded in Canada and reigned down very old caronaceous chondrites meteorites on the Canadian Yukon.It was most interesting that no one really hunted for the meteorites until later but finally they were found on the ice of the Tagish Lake and around the lake.
Lately there is now much more about these pristine meteorites
Meteorite may hold clues to life
“This may be the cleanest meteorite we have.
The meteor opens a window into the kind of material from which the solar system was formed.
The meteorite is unusually rich in carbon molecules that have formed into hollow bubbles so tiny that a trillion of them would weigh less than a grape.
That’s important for two reasons: all living things are built from carbon compounds and all living things need to arrange those compounds into membranes that protect what’s inside the organism from what’s outside."
“Astrobiologists consider forming a membrane to be one of the most important and difficult steps in forming the first cells,” said Messenger.
“These globules are premade membrane structures. They may have nothing to do with life per se, but they’re organic-rich, they’re about the right size and they’re hollow.”
(nice photo of one of the bigger meteorites in this article website below)
SCIENCE NEWS
December 01, 2006
Ancient Meteorites from Outer Solar System May Have Provided Raw Materials for Life
Meteorite that fell in Canada's Tagish Lake contains organic compounds from a time before planets formed
Finally
"We're sure that these [globules] are not alive," Messenger remarks. "But they may have been important ingredients for the first life-forms.
Like the Tagish Lake meteorite globules, comet particles are rich in carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen and oxygen. The NASA scientists are currently analyzing particle samples collected by the comet-chasing Stardust Mission to determine if organic globules were a common form of prebiotic organic matter present throughout the early solar system."
also
and
and
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/12/01/meteorite_spa.html?category=earth&guid=20061201150000
Saturn's Moon Iapetus shows bulding Waistline
Saturn and the moons are always showing new finds
Saturn's Moon Iapetus shows bulding Waistline
http://ciclops.org/view.php?id=714&flash=1
Saturn's Moon Iapetus shows bulding Waistline
Meteorite's Organic Matter Older Than the Sun, Study Says
Meteorite's Organic Matter Older Than the Sun, Study Says
Brian Handwerk
for National Geographic News
November 30, 2006
But the microscopic organic globules that make up about one-tenth of one percent of the object appear to be far older.
In a study appearing in tomorrow's issue of the journal Science, Messenger and colleagues report that isotopic anomalies in the globules suggest that they formed in very cold conditions—near absolute zero.
"What's really striking about this is that these globules clearly could not possibly have formed where [the meteorite] itself formed," Messenger said.
"Under those extreme conditions the air that you'd breathe would be solid ice. You would never find those conditions in the asteroid belt or anywhere close to the sun."
"It's the lowest density meteorite that's ever been studied," said Peter Brown, a meteor expert and professor at the University of Western Ontario in Canada.
"We mean that the material in the meteorite has been processed the least since it was formed. The material we see today is arguably the most representative of the material that first went into making up the solar system."
The meteorite likely formed in the outer reaches of the asteroid belt, but the organic material it contains probably had a far more distant origin.
more
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/11/061130-meteorite.html
even more
Building Blocks of Life Found in Two Meteorites
Bijal P. Trivedi
National Geographic Today
December 19, 2001
The sugar and sugar-like molecules, collectively called polyols, were found in the Murchison meteorite that fell in Murchison, Australia, in 1969 and the Murray meteor that fell in Kentucky in 1950—two meteorites that are rich in carbon.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/12/1219_TVsugarmeteors.html
Brian Handwerk
for National Geographic News
November 30, 2006
But the microscopic organic globules that make up about one-tenth of one percent of the object appear to be far older.
In a study appearing in tomorrow's issue of the journal Science, Messenger and colleagues report that isotopic anomalies in the globules suggest that they formed in very cold conditions—near absolute zero.
"What's really striking about this is that these globules clearly could not possibly have formed where [the meteorite] itself formed," Messenger said.
"Under those extreme conditions the air that you'd breathe would be solid ice. You would never find those conditions in the asteroid belt or anywhere close to the sun."
"It's the lowest density meteorite that's ever been studied," said Peter Brown, a meteor expert and professor at the University of Western Ontario in Canada.
"We mean that the material in the meteorite has been processed the least since it was formed. The material we see today is arguably the most representative of the material that first went into making up the solar system."
The meteorite likely formed in the outer reaches of the asteroid belt, but the organic material it contains probably had a far more distant origin.
more
even more
Building Blocks of Life Found in Two Meteorites
Bijal P. Trivedi
National Geographic Today
December 19, 2001
The sugar and sugar-like molecules, collectively called polyols, were found in the Murchison meteorite that fell in Murchison, Australia, in 1969 and the Murray meteor that fell in Kentucky in 1950—two meteorites that are rich in carbon.
Thursday, November 30, 2006
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New evidence that meteorite killed the dinosaurs, MU researcher finds
By Eric Hand
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
11/30/2006
Geologists have long known that the fossil record suddenly dies off 65 million years ago between two geological periods: the Cretaceous and the Paleogene.
Evidence for a doomsday rock from outer space built when, around the globe, geologists found a layer of clay right at the boundary of those periods. The clay contained iridium, a rare substance on Earth but common in meteorites.
New evidence that meteorite killed the dinosaurs, MU researcher finds
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/sciencemedicine/story/309881DECE8825D78625723600175A80?OpenDocument
By Eric Hand
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
11/30/2006
Geologists have long known that the fossil record suddenly dies off 65 million years ago between two geological periods: the Cretaceous and the Paleogene.
Evidence for a doomsday rock from outer space built when, around the globe, geologists found a layer of clay right at the boundary of those periods. The clay contained iridium, a rare substance on Earth but common in meteorites.
New evidence that meteorite killed the dinosaurs, MU researcher finds
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
Space experiments and spinoffs on Earth
There are many who believe the space station and the space program are a waste of money. Well if it wasn't for the spinoffs from the space programs we would not have
(1) Medical equipment for newborn babies and much more
(2) space age plastics and material for cars, insulation etc
(3) inventions like microwave, computers and more
(4) satellites and equipment to watch bad weather
and much much more
just type in NASA spinoffs on google and read more as well as blow
Dr.Eric
Space Station Science Overdrive
By Tariq Malik
Staff Writer
posted: 28 November 2006
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/061128_space_science.html
(1) Medical equipment for newborn babies and much more
(2) space age plastics and material for cars, insulation etc
(3) inventions like microwave, computers and more
(4) satellites and equipment to watch bad weather
and much much more
just type in NASA spinoffs on google and read more as well as blow
Dr.Eric
Space Station Science Overdrive
By Tariq Malik
Staff Writer
posted: 28 November 2006
Saturn's very tiny moon
Saturn's tiny moon Daphnis makes waves as it orbits the Ringed Planet. Even though it's only 7 km (4.3 miles) across, the moon's gravity draws material along the edges of the Keeler gap, creating the serrated knife edge you see. Cassini took this photo on Ocrober 27, 2006 when it was approximately 325,000 kilometers (202,000 miles) from Daphnis.
Gamma rays and black holes
Scientists do not know what causes massive explosions that cause huge amount of gamma rays to be released. Scientists keep finding more evidence and ideas.
Astronomers have discovered a gamma ray source in the sky that acts like a natural clock. The object is called LS 5039, and consists of a massive blue star orbiting an unknown object - possibly a black hole. The two objects orbit each other closely, completing an orbit every four days. With each orbit, the black hole flies through the blue star's stellar wind, and accelerates particles to gamma ray levels. This is the first time a source of gamma rays has been discovered with such a regular schedule.
Read the full story..
http://www.universetoday.com/2006/11/28/set-your-clock-with-gamma-rays/
Astronomers have discovered a gamma ray source in the sky that acts like a natural clock. The object is called LS 5039, and consists of a massive blue star orbiting an unknown object - possibly a black hole. The two objects orbit each other closely, completing an orbit every four days. With each orbit, the black hole flies through the blue star's stellar wind, and accelerates particles to gamma ray levels. This is the first time a source of gamma rays has been discovered with such a regular schedule.
Read the full story..
Fireball in Australia alarms people
Fireball in Australia alarms people
Some people come them comets, some meteorites but what they really are are METEORS or when are also bright and create sound BOLIDES
http://www.seedmagazine.com/news/2006/11/fiery_green_intruder_from_spac.php
Some people come them comets, some meteorites but what they really are are METEORS or when are also bright and create sound BOLIDES
Saturday, November 25, 2006
mars meteorite info
http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/snc/
also many links below for good reading
:)
Dr. Eric Flescher (kcstarguy@aol.com), Olathe, KS
also many links below for good reading
:)
Dr. Eric Flescher (kcstarguy@aol.com), Olathe, KS
new tagish canada meteorite info
new tagish meteorite info
I have a small samples from the famous recent find
MPORTANT NEWS - MAY 14TH 2006
Just this week there has been an important scientific announcement concerning Tagish lake and other carbonaceous chondrites.
They have discovered that - much like the samples recovered by the recent cometary sample expeditions, these meteorites contain interstellar grains. These are incredibly exciting particles as they were created at the VERY start of the Solar System.
This not only makes this sample far more important, scientifically - it may well shoot the commercial value through the roof!
Click this link for the full story
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4973696.stm
I have a small samples from the famous recent find
MPORTANT NEWS - MAY 14TH 2006
Just this week there has been an important scientific announcement concerning Tagish lake and other carbonaceous chondrites.
They have discovered that - much like the samples recovered by the recent cometary sample expeditions, these meteorites contain interstellar grains. These are incredibly exciting particles as they were created at the VERY start of the Solar System.
This not only makes this sample far more important, scientifically - it may well shoot the commercial value through the roof!
Click this link for the full story
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4973696.stm
Friday, November 24, 2006
meteor video, northern lights and strange cloud
Spaceweather.com
11/23 /2006 view the Nov. 2006 Aurora Gallery
NOT A ROCKET: Did a rocket just launch? That's what onlookers in the Dominican Republic were wondering last Friday when they saw this rainbow-colored plume in the sky: Photo credit: Tracy Jurgensen
Rocket plumes, filled with ice crystals and water droplets, sometimes do glow with the colors of a rainbow--but this is not rocket exhaust.
"This is an iridescent pileus cloud," explains atmospheric optics expert Les Cowley. "On sunny afternoons, cumulus clouds boil upwards. They push layers of moist air above them even higher where they cool and condense to form cloud caps, 'pileus,' over the cumulus. Clouds formed so quickly have their droplets all the same size--the perfect condition for iridescent colors."
LEONID FLURRY: On Nov. 19th, Earth ran into a cloud of comet dust--debris from Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle. The result was an outburst of Leonid meteors over Europe. In Spain, Dutch Meteor Society members Casper ter Kuile and Robert Haas caught the outburst on video: very nice 6 MB movie.
2006 Leonid Photo Gallery
11/23 /2006 view the Nov. 2006 Aurora Gallery
NOT A ROCKET: Did a rocket just launch? That's what onlookers in the Dominican Republic were wondering last Friday when they saw this rainbow-colored plume in the sky: Photo credit: Tracy Jurgensen
Rocket plumes, filled with ice crystals and water droplets, sometimes do glow with the colors of a rainbow--but this is not rocket exhaust.
"This is an iridescent pileus cloud," explains atmospheric optics expert Les Cowley. "On sunny afternoons, cumulus clouds boil upwards. They push layers of moist air above them even higher where they cool and condense to form cloud caps, 'pileus,' over the cumulus. Clouds formed so quickly have their droplets all the same size--the perfect condition for iridescent colors."
LEONID FLURRY: On Nov. 19th, Earth ran into a cloud of comet dust--debris from Comet 55P/Tempel-Tuttle. The result was an outburst of Leonid meteors over Europe. In Spain, Dutch Meteor Society members Casper ter Kuile and Robert Haas caught the outburst on video: very nice 6 MB movie.
2006 Leonid Photo Gallery
Thursday, November 23, 2006
astro news
* Nearby Star Erupts Dramatically
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/061106_star_flare.html
A flare-up on a relatively nearby star is perhaps the most powerful such event ever detected, astronomers said today.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/061120_mm_blackhole_spin.html
X-ray vision has brought astronomers closer than ever to completely characterizing a black hole, a place where strange things happen.
Astronomers measured the spinning speed of three black holes, finding that one rotates at a breakneck 950 times per second, nearing its theoretical rotation limit of 1,150 spins a second. The black hole lies within the constellation Aquila (the Eagle) about 35,000 light-years from Earth.
Brilliant flare seen in II Pegasi
Scientists using NASA's Swift satellite have spotted a stellar flare on a nearby star so powerful that, had it been from our sun, it would have triggered a mass extinction on Earth. The flare was perhaps the most energetic magnetic stellar explosion ever detected ...
http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=4656
A Hubble and Spitzer masterpiece
A new image from NASA's Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes looks more like an abstract painting than a cosmic snapshot. The masterpiece shows the Orion Nebula in an explosion of infrared, ultraviolet and visible-light colors. It was "painted" by hundreds of baby stars on a canvas of gas and dust, with intense ultraviolet light and strong stellar winds as brushes ...
http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=4655
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/061106_star_flare.html
A flare-up on a relatively nearby star is perhaps the most powerful such event ever detected, astronomers said today.
http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/061120_mm_blackhole_spin.html
X-ray vision has brought astronomers closer than ever to completely characterizing a black hole, a place where strange things happen.
Astronomers measured the spinning speed of three black holes, finding that one rotates at a breakneck 950 times per second, nearing its theoretical rotation limit of 1,150 spins a second. The black hole lies within the constellation Aquila (the Eagle) about 35,000 light-years from Earth.
Brilliant flare seen in II Pegasi
Scientists using NASA's Swift satellite have spotted a stellar flare on a nearby star so powerful that, had it been from our sun, it would have triggered a mass extinction on Earth. The flare was perhaps the most energetic magnetic stellar explosion ever detected ...
http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=4656
A Hubble and Spitzer masterpiece
A new image from NASA's Spitzer and Hubble Space Telescopes looks more like an abstract painting than a cosmic snapshot. The masterpiece shows the Orion Nebula in an explosion of infrared, ultraviolet and visible-light colors. It was "painted" by hundreds of baby stars on a canvas of gas and dust, with intense ultraviolet light and strong stellar winds as brushes ...
http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=4655
the satyrical) Onion about chasing tornadoes
Ever see (the satyrical) Onion
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/53929
well I chase storms and tornadoes and this ditty on it was interesting.
Dr. Eric Flescher (kcstarguy@aol.com): Olathe, KS:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/53929
well I chase storms and tornadoes and this ditty on it was interesting.
Dr. Eric Flescher (kcstarguy@aol.com): Olathe, KS:
name a star what a bunch of ...
1b. Name a star
Posted by: AR
(please disregard as not eclipse related, and accept
my apology for wasting your bandwidth.)
I just got an email from the universal star council offering me a
deal to name a star for only $39.95.
I hate these people more than department stores selling rickety 60mm
refractors that reach 600 power.
Please get the word out to friends and associates about these crooks.
I always hate it when someone at a public star party wants me to show
them their star, and I don't really like having to tell them they
have been swindled instead of showing them the glory of the night sky.
Thanks
**
Nothing burns me more then when I hear the " name a star " on radio. I immediately turn the channel as I can't stand to listen to these shysters. But people still think they will get a "a good deal" by trying something different. We get notes from people all the times to our astro club whether this is a good idea or not. Leagally we can't say much as I have heard that the the NAS legal department will sue. So it is left up to the public to be a little smart and not waste their time. (How many times is this possible? I mean some people elected Bush twice !!!) . Think. Don't waste the money. Bamble gamble in the casinos at least you have a chance. These shysters will put your name on a piece of paper of a star. For $40 what a deal. Doesn't someone have a better way to spend their hard earned money??? For many guess not.
Dr. Eric Flescher (kcstarguy@aol.com), Olathe, KS:
Posted by: AR
my apology for wasting your bandwidth.)
I just got an email from the universal star council offering me a
deal to name a star for only $39.95.
I hate these people more than department stores selling rickety 60mm
refractors that reach 600 power.
Please get the word out to friends and associates about these crooks.
I always hate it when someone at a public star party wants me to show
them their star, and I don't really like having to tell them they
have been swindled instead of showing them the glory of the night sky.
Thanks
**
Nothing burns me more then when I hear the " name a star " on radio. I immediately turn the channel as I can't stand to listen to these shysters. But people still think they will get a "a good deal" by trying something different. We get notes from people all the times to our astro club whether this is a good idea or not. Leagally we can't say much as I have heard that the the NAS legal department will sue. So it is left up to the public to be a little smart and not waste their time. (How many times is this possible? I mean some people elected Bush twice !!!) . Think. Don't waste the money. Bamble gamble in the casinos at least you have a chance. These shysters will put your name on a piece of paper of a star. For $40 what a deal. Doesn't someone have a better way to spend their hard earned money??? For many guess not.
Dr. Eric Flescher (kcstarguy@aol.com), Olathe, KS:
cute eclipse sighting sort of
real cute!! so when you line them up it is an eclipse of the Accord.
Dr. Eric Flescher (kcstarguy@aol.com), Olathe, KS
personalized license plates
Posted by: "1eclipse" 1eclipse@vtc.net
wrote
Date: Tue Nov 7, 2006 4:59 am (PST)
My largest vehicle (SUV) is 1 SUN
My smallest vehicle (MC) is 2 MOON
My intermediate Accord LE is 3 EARTH
:) So I can have an eclipse whenever I want :)
Dr. Eric Flescher (kcstarguy@aol.com), Olathe, KS
personalized license plates
Posted by: "1eclipse" 1eclipse@vtc.net
wrote
Date: Tue Nov 7, 2006 4:59 am (PST)
My largest vehicle (SUV) is 1 SUN
My smallest vehicle (MC) is 2 MOON
My intermediate Accord LE is 3 EARTH
:) So I can have an eclipse whenever I want :)
eclipse March 2006 from Libya on video
thanks for the heads up PBS eclipse video and more
Posted by: "KCStarguy@aol.com" KCStarguy@aol.com kcstarguy2001
Date: Fri Nov 3, 2006 10:07 pm (PST)
Appreciate the heads up about the Eclipse from Libya on PBS and Frontline.
I appreciate the url below as I could not find the info on pbs because it was
under the frontierworld part of the url.
> http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rough/2006/08/libya_out_of_th.html
> If you go to the website you can also see the feedback from people
I did not quite understand why the journalist was supposedly asking some
dangerous questions to the locals.
The viewing of the uncoming shadow and the eclipse and scenery was really
nice. The more that I see of this one and others that saw the 2006 eclipse
soothe my aching of not being able to go because the schools did not let me . I
still have my videos of 1998, 1999 and 2001 and that and SEML will keep me
going to see 2008, 2009,2010 (which are in the summer so no school stuff and
hindrance).
Thanks again.
Dr. Eric Flescher (kcstarguy@aol.com), Olathe, KS:
Posted by: "KCStarguy@aol.com" KCStarguy@aol.com kcstarguy2001
Date: Fri Nov 3, 2006 10:07 pm (PST)
Appreciate the heads up about the Eclipse from Libya on PBS and Frontline.
I appreciate the url below as I could not find the info on pbs because it was
under the frontierworld part of the url.
> http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rough/2006/08/libya_out_of_th.html
> If you go to the website you can also see the feedback from people
I did not quite understand why the journalist was supposedly asking some
dangerous questions to the locals.
The viewing of the uncoming shadow and the eclipse and scenery was really
nice. The more that I see of this one and others that saw the 2006 eclipse
soothe my aching of not being able to go because the schools did not let me . I
still have my videos of 1998, 1999 and 2001 and that and SEML will keep me
going to see 2008, 2009,2010 (which are in the summer so no school stuff and
hindrance).
Thanks again.
Dr. Eric Flescher (kcstarguy@aol.com), Olathe, KS:
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