Its not all that much different than our Moon or Mars. It was only probed once and that was 33 years ago. I think it is a captured comet.Like our Moon older...

nightbat wrote Perhaps Jupiter's large size may not protect Earth after all from incoming comets or other space...

Hey, Nightbat! I've been watching how you and others have been weathering. Gotta hand it to ya, because you're a survivor, eh? Sorry the WX sometimes gets too...

On Aug 26, 6:54 pm, Friendly Neighborhood Vote Wrangler wrote: USENET'S SUPREME COURT OF LAST RESORT is hereby summoned to give...

What if dark matter and energy is being created at an accelerating rate in the micro realm,and influencing what we observe looking out into the universe?. I...

Driving through coastal cities like Boston,NY,Washington,Jacksonville,and Daytona beach there was dense fog,and that tells me these cities will have a great...

On Aug 27, 1:12 am, Bob Officer wrote: Paranoia fits you well, Tom Potter. Old Tom suffers from a textbook case of IPCS: ...

nightbat wrote Dolphin's new tail coming to aid of humans. See: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20415964/ Advanced science marches on.

On Aug 26, 8:44 am, Double-A wrote: Speaking of stars, since you routinely post to alt.astronomy now, Tom, when are you going to post...

Hello, We built a new spectral camera which works in the mid-wave IR region (3 - 5 um) and need to get some data. I want to do a background subtraction and...

Astronomers have found an enormous hole in the Universe, nearly a billion light-years across, empty of both normal matter such as stars, galaxies and gas, as...

I am looking to persent graphic illustrations, preferably with motion, of the various solar system models of: * Plato and Eudoxus - set of spheres proposed...

OK, space cowboys, I have a question about the moon. As I understand it, the same hemisphere of the moon always faces the earth. That must mean that the...

http://story.malaysiasun.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/89d96798a39564bd/id/273834/cs/1/ Making the moon a safe point for the preservation of Earth stuff, including...

Dear all, We will publish eight theme articles on Algebraic Statistics and Computational Biology in the Oct. 2007 issue of Statistica Sinica. There will...

"The service allows them to zoom through more than 200m galaxies and take a detailed tour around 100m individual solar systems. "You can flip up and see the...

"NASA said Endeavour and its crew of seven would land at Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12:32 p.m. EDT (1632 GMT) if weather permits." "NASA had planned...

Solving the shuttle heat shield problem ... For the *next* shuttle design, have the dorsal surface of the shuttle face inboard to the liquid fuel tank.

On Aug 19, 10:12 am, Double-A wrote: The problem is that by measuring the speed of stars near the center of the galaxy with starts...

Double-ADark objects can't be seen in a black back gound. Astronomers look for "MACHOs" while particle physists look for "WHIMPs" Best astronomers can hope...