Space Forum / Astronomy / September 2005

Southern California is vibrating
Wow.
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/recenteqsww/world_moll_frames.html
Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Hurricanes, Tsunamis, Tornadoes etc. etc. etc. The

Is there such a thing ?
Something like the Radio Amateurs exam,
the kind of thing one could study at home and then teach to students.
giving astronomy lessons sound cool :-)

I'd be grateful if anyone could tell me if I have identified the Little
Dipper correctly in this constellation page. My school currently has no
tutor for Astronomy and I simply and wondering if I have my starting
point correct - I have outlined Little Dipper in light green.

I have some questions which I hope the community at large can help me
answer:
1.  I see no mention made to the reference point used in the computation of
the orbits and positions of stellar objects. I am curious to what the "start

Any offers?..
Larger pics available by clicking on small images to the right of this
link.
http://www.spacetelescope.org/news/html/heic0511.html

The Enablers
http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/09/16/120.html
Well, merkans will just have to get used to it, they now live in a corporate
fascist state. They don't seem to mind it a bit... slaving away for the

Gamma ray burst detected 4th Sept, estimated distance about 13 billion
light years.
http://www.swift.ac.uk/distant.shtml

Not sure what to make of this at first, what is NASA upto one wonders.
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=18087

Probably... but then again, it has happened many times before ;-)
http://info.anu.edu.au/mac/Media/Media_Releases/_2005/_September/_070905francisc
omets.asp

"..................... Allo,
Mum, it's me,
Twittering ~ ?"
~ Twittering

This "Big Bang" theory is nonsense, nothing can only create nothing.
No, our universe was born after the death of the before-universe, which
collapsed into a mega-black-hole after the last mega-sun, million times
larger than our sun, exploded.When the mega black-hole had eaten ...

Are there any genuine astronomers or astrophysicists posting here or
are you all amateurs , idlers, loafers and crackpots ?

Vanitas Vanitatum
"All the flowers of the spring
Meet to perfume our burying;
These have but their growing prime,

Hi there all,
during last weekend's Kielder Sky Camp I was fighting against heavy
dew to keep my camera, lens and filter free from dew, whilst taking pictures
of the night sky.

I was looking at some Mars Meteorite pages. It seems pretty fantastic
that these rocks were blasted off Mars and made it here. I understand
that Moon Meteorites have also been found. To me, it seems that another
source for meteorites would be Earth. Wouldn't an Earth bit, blasted