Carolina Martinez (818) 354-9382 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. News Release: 2004-146 June 12, 2004 Cassini...

Used a "multiple file open" technique on M42 as developed by Tony Hallas. It brought out a LOT of detials. Kinda surreal. I also tried to set a record for the...

"Picilli" wrote in message ... I remember from school (some 30 years ago) not all planets...

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status.html OPPORTUNITY UPDATE: Opportunity on the Edge - sol 130-133, June 10, 2004 On sol 130 Opportunity traversed...

Dear All, I've just posted the new "Image of the Week" at the Bellatrix Observatory's website: http://www.bellatrixobservatory.org/picture.html It is a...

Volker Hetzer wrote: VH I have been wondering for a while why nobody VH proposes a closed loop as space elevator. I am not sure what you mean, but...

Cassini Significant Events for 06/03/04 - 06/09/04 The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired from the Goldstone tracking station on Wednesday, June 9....

At: http://home.cwru.edu/~sjr16/advanced/stars_binvar.html we find the following nonsense: "The other way for a binary system to form is if a free star...

I just read in SFGate that the newly discovered planetoid, Sedna, is the first direct evidence of the Oort Cloud. There was also some blurb about Sedna likely...

i recently saw a video titled "the astronomers". one of the scientists in the video made the statement that the big bang didn't happen at a point in space,...

Some questions: To what extent are there other transits in the solar system? For instance, how often do these happen... A transit of Earth as seen from...

For once the sky in Northern New York was clear for a celestial event. It was so hazy at sun rise that I could not use a solar filter at first but could look...

The May 2004 issue of Scientific American has an article about gas depleted hot jupiters which are named Chthonians (page 13). How to pronunciate it ? Does...

http://www.swri.org/9what/releases/2004/SWAP.htm SWAP to determine where the sun and ice worlds meet Southwest Research Institute June 8, 2004 San Antonio --...

Laura wrote: "Andrew Usher" wrote in message ... This message is a...

Hello all, Total (yet interested) amateur here with a question. What exactly is wrong with the following method of getting to orbit? Build a decent plane...

If a spiral galaxy is made up of ninety percent dark matter that is evenly distributed in a surrounding torus then not only would gravitational lensing by such...

While it is not economically feasible to store hydrogen as an automobile fuel *now* I wouldn't rule it out even in the short-term. Solid metallic hydrogen is...

MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR IMAGES June 3-9, 2004 The following new images taken by the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) on the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft are now...

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/status.html SPIRIT UPDATE: Keep On Rovin' - sol 145-147, June 08, 2004 On sol 145, Spirit completed a 43-meter (141...