Space Forum / Astronomy / October 2005

Can anybody tell me why heliacal rise set of planets are reported in
ephemeris?

Signs of the End Times
Natural disasters, which cannot be prevented even with technological means
or precautionary measures, show just how helpless mankind truly is.
From the 20th century, characterised as the "century of disasters," up to

Subject line says it all.
Seconds?

Speed is meters/second.
Constant speed means a body is moving say 10 meters in a second.
If the "meters" however are "expanding" what does speed mean?
If in a second 10 meters become 10.00000x meters, the speed

I want a  telescope for casual observing of the moon,it has to be
portable,relatively maintenance free, preferably coming with a
carry/transport case & I will spend around £200.
is there such a beast?

Hi, I am planning on observing the next total eclipse. I would like to buy
some number 14 welding glasses.  These are not available to this density in
Australia.
Can somebody please give me the details where they can  be purchased in the

All saucerheads failed to pre^H^H^Hregurgitate fall blizzard!
Huge rotating storm hundreds of mile wide from New Mexico to Wyoming!
Roads closed!
Power lines down!

George,
The last two emails I received from you were dated October 6.
I replied to the one about gyroscopes, mentioning "fine wire".
Did you receive that one or other emails after the 6th?

How to visualize curved space-time intrinsically free of local
coordinate transformations?
Intrinsic pictures of 4D metrics
How do we plot on a computer, the local frame invariant

http://www.universetoday.com/am/publish/spitzer_portrait_andromeda.html?14102005
High res images here..
http://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/Media/releases/ssc2005-20/ssc2005-20a.shtml

Remember the NASA Blue Marble composite image of earth from space, completely
cloud free? Today a whole new series was released showing earth scenes from
cloudless days across all 12 months of 2004. These beautiful images come in
many different resolutions and formats. NASA even ...

"The 'age demanded' chiefly a mould in plaster,
Made with no loss of time.
A prose kinema, not, not assuredly, alabaster
Of the 'sculpture' of rhyme."

Paleoanthropology Division
Smithsonian Institute
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Washington, DC 20078

Three-ways are always fun. ;-)  
The AMMJ Floons for Ministry of Circle Jerks (against the alt.astronomy
saucerheads and the soc.men). Seconds?

There have been reports of several fireballs seen over the UK during the
past 10 days or so. Does anyone have any details, please?