Space Forum / Astronomy / July 2005

It seems there must be an upper limit on the size of galaxies.
What forces determine this upper limit?
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Jeff, Eric is really a waste of time.  Take his mention about IBM surviving.
Well I was there, I noticed that he did not mention the companies that did
not survive or are now shadows of themselves.
When was the last time you saw a Honeywell computer, RAND, ICL, RCA (yes they

George Darwin, son of Charles, had a theory on how the
Moon came to be and then evolved.  While science no
longer agrees with Darwin's Moon-origin theory, his
proposal about the Moon's evolution involving tidal action,

group http://groups-beta.google.com/group/SocialFamilyNudism/child
molesters,strange, but I haven't seen any yet.
I guess Bagpipsqueek can't get any posts on my Pubic group.>

Is there anywhere in the UK that I can buy a copy of said software? Or am I
stuck with having the gamble on sending to the company itself for a copy.
All I want to do is replace my copy of v6, I have no need of v9!
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Hello there fellow astronomers
I have been a member of this newsgroup for a few years now, but recently I
was away from it for about a year.
Anyhow, I know that pretty much every week someone needs some help with

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I'd like to understand the concept of big crunch wherein
the entire universe can contract into a point no larger
than a planck space (opposite of big bang).
Is there a space event wherein space was seen to contract

 I'm thinking its shape is a top. Like the big top that whistled as it
spun that I got as a present. Did any of you guys have one? it was made
of metal.  My top was 8 inches high. Lets think of the point at the
bottom of the top as the past. Its spinning point. Lets go up the top 2

We once had a "hurricane" in Oregon back in 1962, although they didn't
want to call it one because it didn't originate in the tropics.  I
heard at the time that it was part of storm called Typhoon Frieda, but
everyone forever after called it The Columbus Day Storm, or

Nova V1663 Aql is still blazing away in H alpha 30 days after discovery
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/astro2/spectra_18.htm
Also spectra for two famous stars P Cygni and Beta Lyrae
http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/astro2/spectra_19.htm

looking to start with my daughter. Hopefully turn into a bigger hobby down
the road. For starters, what would people recommend as a good scope that
will start us out and keep up interest. Thanks

Pls can someone help, when one of the old satelites was shot into space
(could be voyager)  there was a picture in it for anyone who captured it to
say where it came from and about the planer...can someone point me in the
direction of a website where i can look at the picture....... ...