Space Forum / Astronomy / June 2006

There must be places on the lunar surface where asteroids have impacted
"gently" enough to leave behind a noticeable deposit of non-lunar
material.  I'm thinking particularly of the sort of asteroids that
produce iron meteorites on Earth.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/01/03/pluto.temp/index.html
Astronomers: Pluto colder than expected
By Ker Than

Friday, June 30
Catch Mercury in the twilight while you still can!
It's fading daily.
Jupiter's Great Red Spot, followed closely by Red

Mission Impossible - Convection.
Plate Tectonics' story.   Think about it.
1.  A whirling mass of space dust, planetoids and planetisimals
gravitational coalesce in a cataclysm of impacts and heat generation.

So,  I said nothing and it generated over 50 odd replies.
http://groups.google.com.au/group/sci.geo.geology/browse_frm/thread/5dbde0704e91
7d5b/?hl=en#
Somebody warned me about getting off-topic in origins, but that's
ridiculous.

I just saw the quote of a message from one of the kooks on this newsgroup
about man not going to the moon.
Most times I bypass those brainless ones, but I'm in a fighting mood
tonight.

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How many stars could an astronaut floating in deep space see?  Assume
he's in our stellar neighborhood.
I guess you can figure this out if you know what fraction of visible
starlight energy is lost as it travels through the atmosphere, and then

How much of an impact has string theory had on cosmolgy? I don't really
know enough about string theory and really need to learn more about it.
Both astronomy and cosmolgy of the universe has always been a passion
and hobby of mine. I even have my own cosmology website I did aa few

Google thinking  If Jupiter was  larger it could become a star(I don't
like it) My theory (which I like)  Jupiter started out as a very large
rock planet that was 15 times bigger than Earth and made of rock and
ice. Having so much mass its gravity was 15 times stronger than Earth's

Hi Peeps,
Not sure if this has been posted before, but this is a live sat tracking
site:
http://www.n2yo.com/?s=28375

Could someone please point me to a good tutorial for working out R.A and
Dec? For example I saw in a magazine article that M4 can be found at R.A
16h24m  Dec -26. 32 How do I go outside and point my telescope at R.A 16h24m
Dec -26. 32 ?

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2115075
"BALTIMORE Jun 24, 2006 (AP)‹ The main camera on the Hubble Space
Telescope, which has revolutionized astronomy with its stunning
pictures of the universe, has stopped working, an instrument specialist

I've been able to find the conversion between 2mass photometry and
johnson/TCS colors on the IPAC 2mass website.
Can someone point me in the right direction?
Thanks,