"Ron" wrote in message ... HOW THE EARLY UNIVERSE GOT DUSTY REMAINS A MYSTERY ...

"Fox2" wrote in message ... I just compiled 2 new Iapetus images and the moon looks like it is a huge...

I was amusing myself by taking VRI photometry of M38 and making a CMD to prove to myself that the main sequence exists. It appears that it does. I was then...

I am an amateur astronomer and have managed to learn lots of great stuff, but recently my young nephew asked (1) why do planets have spin and (2) how come the...

hi there, I was reading a paper and I got a doubt. In such a paper, they report stellar abundances. For a certain star, ex: Na 0.52 Si 0.37 Ca ...

Approval of postings will probably be more intermittent than usual over the period 24 Dec -- 5 Jan, and may stop altogether between 30 Dec and 5 Jan, while the...

Your opinions of this short paper would be appreciated. Abstract: The Euler method when properly implemented is a 2nd order method and is time-reversible. Full...

An unrefereed paper astro-ph/0406437 appeared yesterday in which Ari Brynjolfsson interprets SNIa data using a "plasma redshift" approach which rejects time...

Is anyone aware of the type of propulsion used to move the Hubble? Know any specifics? http://www.stsci.edu/ would be a good starting point -- mjh]

hb Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 13:56:59 +0200 hb From: Hans Boehringer hb To: hb Subject:...

Hi all, I'm looking for a complete list of U Geminorum stars. (You can even shorten my research if you know if there is one of them in the...

Hi I have a little problem First of all I'm doing a little galaxy simulator. Of course I don't try to simulate all 200 * 1000 * mil stars, but it's a...

In talk.bizarre, "nikolai kingsley" wrote: reading this: http://www.celestiamotherlode.net/catalog/spacecraft.php Part of...

I am in discussion elsewhere with someone who has produced a theory which merges QM and GR in a natural way. Its unfortunately very theoretical and...

Using numerical integration, I model the orbit of a planet (of negligible mass) around a star with orbit eccentricity = 0.5. I start at apocenter, with initial...

The chandra observatory has discovered a black hole of a billion (yes, a billion!) solar masses at 12.8 billion light years from here, i.e. at just 900 million...

I am looking for an absorption spectra through cold low density neutral hydrogen around lyman-inf. I have looked extensively on the web, trying various...

For those who are interested in fractal phenomena that occur in nature, at the website www.amherst.edu/~rloldershaw the latest "New Development" (August 2004)...

For a long time I wanted to know what is a mechanism of energy conservation in a free fall. It seemed that the simplest way of finding an answer was to ask...

"Bye bye Big Bang" by William C Mitchell. I have just received it from amazon.com, and if anyone here has any opinions about it I would be interested in...