Space Forum / Space Science / October 2005

-> How much brighter is the full Moon than the quarter Moon? If we
-> consider
-> the ratio of the illuminated area, "Double" seems to be a reasonable
-> answer. But in reality, the full Moon is more than four times bighter

Update from The REAL Galactic Federation
    October 18, 2005
Communicated thru Sheldan Nidle of The Planetary Activation Org.

MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR IMAGES
October 20-26, 2005
The following new images taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on
the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft are now available:

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WELL, ALMOST.  Before continuing, I will say that I've        
enjoyed more television programs on HBO than any other
network. Sopranos, Deadwood, Six Feet Under (the final        

http://pr.caltech.edu/media/Press_Releases/PR12755.html
NASA Grant Will Fund New Research on Mars with the Spirit and
Opportunity Rovers
Caltech News Release

I don't know if anybody has asked this earlier, but I'd appreciate it
if somebody could point me to the right direction.
I am trying to find the number of currently known small solar system
bodies (asteroids, comets, etc), whose orbits cross those of Earth and

-> Si + 4H2O --->H4SiO4 (silicic acid) +2H2
-> H4SiO4 + 2Fe --->Fe2SiO4 (olivine) + 2H2
It's highly unlikely that elemental silicon would exist on the ocean
floor. The first equation should probably be rewritten to use silicA

Caltech News Release
For Immediate Release
October 20, 2005
Cracks or Cryovolcanoes? Surface Geology Creates Clouds on Titan

Arrr me hearties!!

Dark matter has been postulated to explain certain observations; but
what if, instead, we were to guess at the existance of large
concentrations of antimatter, left over from the big bang period?
Can antimatter be said to condense in some manner?

What is a Von Neumann machine? It is a machine that will make itself.
It is an awesome prospect. It means that if we use the materials in
space- the Moon or asteroids. NASA has looked at the Moon although in
many ways asteroids are a better bet as they have little gravitational

It is suppose to be a "World Class Laboratory", so how come we never hear or
see the results of any of the many experiments they are doing up there. Yes,
I know they are short on help but surely something must be getting done.

Hello to all,
In the web there is  a lot of material about JIMO,
but I haven't found any detailed plan of the entire spacecraft,
I like the design, seems really similar to venerable Discovery

Take a look at the false-color image of Hyperion at
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/image-details.cfm?imageID=1762
Note the bright, obliquely-angled surfaces forming a tilted, elongated
'C' shape. Does this look like an artifact of the image processing? A

                            The HOLLOW Earth
              On January 6, 1967, the satellite ESSA-3, in very
         high polar orbit around the Earth, took a remarkable