Space Forum / Space Science / March 2007

-> Herod the Great died in 4 BC so how could have Christ been born in 3
-> BC?
Logic is lost on Min.
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Since Min has claimed that the ancients knew all about Uranus, which
can *just* be seen with the naked eye, and was plotted on star-charts
by ancient Chinese astronomers who must have seen it but didn't
realize it was a planet, maybe we should wonder why ancient observers

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2007-032
Enceladus Geyers Mask the Length of Saturn's Day
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
March 22, 2007

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status.html
SPIRIT UPDATE: Spirit Loses, Re-Establishes Contact with Orbiter -
sol 1132-1140, March 20, 2007:
Spirit is healthy but had to sit out a Martian day waiting to send

-> Perhaps you could contact the Flat Earth Society to put on a
-> presentation.
If you mean the Flat Earth Society that was based in England, it ceased
to exist some years ago. Even those people finally recognized that the

Most of us have heard of the 43-arcsecond per century precession of the
major axis of the orbit of Mercury. It was unexplained until Einstein
developed Relativity, which predicted the precession very exactly. This
accuracy was one of the most persuasive pieces of evidence in ...

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/12mar_stereoeclipse.htm
Stereo Eclipse
NASA Science News
March 12, 2007

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Does anyone know whether it is thought that dark matter can fall into,
and become part of, a black hole? After all, there's a lot more dark
matter than regular matter, and dark matter is apparently affected by
gravity. All the calculations I've seen concerning black holes seem to ...

I found those gravitational-lens simulations, two of them. I'll append
them below. They're QBasic programs. Many people should be able to run
them.
The first one imagines a situation in which a star randomly emits photons,

http://legis.state.nm.us/Sessions/07%20Regular/memorials/house/HJM054.html
HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL 54
48th legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 2007
INTRODUCED BY

http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/SEMOI5O2UXE_0.html
The first hiking maps of Mars
Mars Express
European Space Agency

These are lenses that operate on a principle of "negative refractive
index". They are able to break the diffraction limit that was believed
to limit the resolution achievable in an optical system based on its
aperture and the wavelength observed:

http://www.esa.int/esaSC/SEMEYGN0LYE_index_0.html
SMART-1 views the edge of Luna Incognita: Mars on the Moon?
European Space Agency
1 March 2007

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