Space Forum / Astronomy / August 2005

The big announcement defining the future of Nasa is
due soon I hear.
To the Moon and Mars!
Let's take this 'Grand Goal' out for a spin and

Today on the Web there was an item at space.com by Senior Science
Writer Robert Roy Britt, announcing the results of a study due to
appear in the July 22 issue of the journal Science, in which Caltech
graduate student David Shuster and Asst. Prof. Benjamin Weiss suggest

Any attempt, like Yilmaz's, to localize the classical vacuum energy of
the pure gravity field violates the local equivalence principle and is
in contradiction with Einstein's theory of General Relativity. One can
define a covariant local gravity stress-energy tensor in a ...

Part 2 Mystery 2
It is difficult to make a credible generalization
based on a single sample, especially if that sample
tends to contradict the generalization. But I will

Part 1 Mystery 1
  Most small asteroids have an angular momentum (at least
I am not aware of one that doesn't). The instantaneous
rotation axis goes through the center of gravity, but

When we think of rings around planets are mind (thoughts) jump to
Saturn. They are very reflective because they are made of lots of ice.
We must see them at a good angular view because they are very flat. They
do however measure 170,000 miles across,and that's over half the

Nice triple prom coming around east limb - pic a
http://home.freeuk.com/m.gavin/pstnew.htm  with couple of proms on wes
limb.
Disk activity moderate with half dozen short filaments in wester

Cost cuts likely to dim space telescope's vision
The James Webb telescope, one of NASA's biggest science projects and
Hubble's successor, is $1 billion over-budget - now many involved
want to reduce its observing power.

I have read of astronomers exicted at the prospect of discovering an
accretion disk associated with the supermassive black hole at the center of
the Milky Way galaxy. I contend that the galaxy itself is that accretion
disk. A direct correlation exists between the structure of an ...

Where in the uk can i purchase a Philips 840K webcam without the bcf
adapter?

Apologies for posting the second link twice, this was an afterthought.
The unprocessed image prior to digital enhancement.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/taylor_chris/Astropix/M31unproc.jpg
The processed image

I could hear Brad counting in his head. "f.ck," he said, finally. "Ten milli
on and ten percent."
"I just want you to know, I'm having a rough time of things at the moment,"
Joshua said, his voice barely above a whisper itself. "My dog nature is gett

If money were no object, what would it take to build a moon base fit for
human habitation? Nasa is looking into just that, using the Hubble Space
Telescope to hunt for suitable locations. And what if they build on one of
the millions of plots already "sold" by entrepreneurs?

Does any one know why so many astronomers (both amateurs &
professionals) are called Martin?!
Das

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