Space Forum / Amateur Astronomy / January 2010

2009 temperatures by Jim Hansen
http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2010/01/2009-temperatures-by-jim-h
ansen/
If It’s That Warm, How Come It’s So Damned Cold?
"The magnitude of monthly temperature anomalies is typically 1.5 to 2

So this is the end of human spaceflight for America - bar the ISS.
Will we see the Chinese on the moon next?
'If Obama does cancel the Constellation program, it "leaves NASA and
the nation with no program, no plan and no commitment to any human

Climate of suspicion
  http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v463/n7279/full/463269a.html
"No matter how evident climate change becomes, however, other factors
will ultimately determine whether the public accepts the facts.

Dear group,
Today's full moon is the largest (perigee) moon for 2010 thanks to its
356,600 km or so approach to earth and thanks to its elliptial orbit.
There was some turbulence in the atmosphere this evening and which was

I fear the NASA I grew up with will be a thing of the past, just like
Mercury, Gemini and Apollo...But the Russians will give us a ride for
51 million a piece....

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    WASHINGTON, D.C.(Rueters) --
Candidates have been nominated
to serve as pallbearers for Ed Conrad's

Sounds good !

NEWS: Early Cometary Bombardment May Explain the Divergent Paths of
Jupiter's Biggest Moons
Ganymede and Callisto, the two largest Jovian satellites, appear to have
similar origins but have led very different lives

According to NASA's methods, the warmest year on record was 2005, and
2009 shares the second-warmest title with 1998, 2002, 2003, 2006, and
2007. No surprise, then, that the past decade was also the warmest
record, a finding that's far more indicative of climate change than any

Thanks to my friend in Technical Support at Highwire Press,
Stanford University, the program code for the article
"Global sea level linked to global temperature"
is now online. The article's original URL was invalid. The

NASA Science News for January 26, 2010
NASA announced today that Spirit cannot be freed from its Martian
sandtrap. Now the rover will begin a second career as a stationary
science platform.

There are dozens of companies hawking apos now. Most are rebranded Chinese
ED doublets. Why not take all their stuff and test it together?  Should
shake out the junk, if there is any.  I'm particularly interested in how
the Chinese ones now using FPL-53 fare against TeleVue, TMB, ...

The real holes in climate science
  http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100120/full/463284a.html
  http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100120/pdf/463284a.pdf
"The e-mails leaked from the University of East Anglia's Climatic

http://books.google.ca/books?id=d5k7FE3Z8pkC&dq=igy+global+warming&ei=97teS5KYC5
v2MZD2rdMC&cd=2
Book overview
For Most People, The Threat Of Global Warming Seems A Contemporary
One. For Christianson, It Is An Absorbing Historical And Scientific