Space Forum / Astronomy / August 2007

Take the plunge baby.....you can do it!
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/1/f/1278/1F241636590EFF8615P1214R0M1.HTML
This should be the most interesting part of the entire mission.

I'm wanting to build an optical spectrometer. And I want it kind of
like this but compatible with all kinds of telescopes can you help.
Here is the website I have my preliminary idea from.
http://ii.uwb.edu.pl/astas/spektrometr/index-en.html

http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/news.asp?id=6955
Ahead of tomorrow's (Thursday 16 August) publication of A-level
results Martin Rees, President of the Royal Society, said: "Although
the number of students taking A-level biology is in reasonable shape

Several weeks ago I read or saw on tv that several astronomers had
discovered a huge missing area of space.  Would this tie in at all with
the missing matter?

FRAUD 1: The conclusion that reversible machines working between the
same two temperatures have the same efficiency IS A CONSEQUENCE of the
empirical fact that heat always flows spontaneously from hot to cold:
http://web.lemoyne.edu/~giunta/Clausius.html

Greetings all,
I actually have a computer-related job and not familiar with astronomy
at all and all my related knowledges are high-school level, I want to
write a program to calculate the exact time of solar terms (which have

Venus has been getting rid of roughly 20.5 w/m2, and otherwise from
our best available terrestrial science is suggesting that's roughly
256 fold greater than the core heat loss of Earth.  Therefore, Venus
is a relatively newish planet, whereas Mars is more than likely older

Everything spins and/or revolves- fundamentally a more stable state
than not rotating and revolving? Is the origin of rotation from moons
to galaxies from competing gravity fields resulting in matter making a
curved path? Does the universe rotate around its center of gravity as

The die-hard relativists came out en masse to ridicule Gunter Nimtz
and Alfons Stahlhofen's recent announcement of having achieved
apparent faster-than-c travel in a quantum tunneling experiment
involving photons. Nimtz et al claim that relativity is broken. Most

I understand that on June 22 there was a Lights Out London event in
England.  A U.S. city is considering a similar event.  I was wondering
if the London event resulted in any changes in its urban limiting
magnitude. - Canopus56

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL1745006520070817
"CHEBARKUL, Russia (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin said Russia sent 14
bomber aircraft on patrols far beyond its own territory on Friday,
marking the permanent return to a Soviet-era practice.

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Chloe Silverado bags, Chloe Edith Bag, Balenciaga, Goyard, miumiu,
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I am about to buy my first telescope and I'm leaning toward the
SkyQuest XT8 by Orion.
They have 3 models:
Classic with Bonus Accessory Pack for $370

*we will all kneel and bow our heads*
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