Space Forum / Space Science / February 2008

-> LOL, we must have some stock software we
-> could submit, what about that moon cratering
-> program, that no one can figure out?
-> Ken

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Remember when the U.S. Government murdered President JFK in that
Dallas, TX motorcade back in '63? I remember it vividly, hearing
the announcement on television (that really deep sinking feeling

-> In terms of potential exploratory goals, Ceres far outweighs Mars in
-> the most important categories.
Why so? Ceres is just an asteroid. Sure, it's the largest one (unless
you count KBOs as asteroids, which some people do), but there's no

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->        The 2008 International Conference on Modeling,
->            Simulation and Visualization Methods

-> If you mean did the made-for-tv "apollo-men-to-the-moon" astronaughts
-> pretend to go all the way to the Moon and back not once but six
-> times
More than that. Apollo 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17 all went

-> Who knows with these conferences,maybe they will remove Neptune as a
-> planet because it has not cleared its orbit of the ex-planet Pluto and
-> therefore does not qualify as a planet !!.
Jupiter is a better candidate for de-planetification. It has failed to

Now that Mercury's great basin has turned out to be even larger than
assumed, more attention must be paid to questions about the origin of
such features.
Are we to believe that some ancient impacts have left perfectly round

-> Crudely, Zeno's Paradox has an application here.
-> Given an infinite x-axis, and at each integer point
-> on x someone yells with amplitude "1" that has amplitude
-> 1/2, 1 unit away, and 1/4, 2 units away and so forth, the

-> HINT:  Before continuing, in order to understand this
-> very short and simple article, you do need to be able                  
-> to count from 1 to 10. I know, any kindergartner with
-> an I.Q. above room temperature can count from 1 to 10,

Nice picture, at
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Some funny looking craters.  Ther's one that has an outer ring about
twice the diameter of the inner ring, see it at upper left, at about the