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On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Nick Maclaren wrote: I think that I know the answer to this, but it may interest some other people. Let's consider the Schwarzschild...

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http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040827.html -- jt]] On APOD for August 27 2004, about Sedna, they write that it either was yanked out of a closer orbit, or...

This is an interesting article: A rash of recent news reports about the detection of a possible signal from alien life forms is "highly exagerrated," said the...

Hi, What determines the upper limit to the size of a terrestrial Earthlike planet (i.e., one with a solid surface and thin atmosphere)? There was a recent...

Hello I have a vague memory of a formula from an old College Astro course about given a planet's temp(in C or K) its Mass & radius you could determine what...

I was hoping to find out if we would encounter more comets and interstellar debris on a hypothetical journey going out from our solar system in the direction...

Has anyone compared the dispersion characteristics of a holographic grating as compared to a precision blazed replica transmission grating?

Hi, I've tried to measure the light curve of the crab pulsar, but unfortunately the experiment did not work. The light is detected by a photomultiplier in the...

14-SEP-2004 I'm looking for any pointers to statistics on rotational orientation of spiral galaxies, i.e., what percentage of observed sp. gals...

Has anyone ever seen light curves similar to presented in the pictu http://www.republika.pl/orkan75/curves.gif These are red giants with periods several...

O.K. there are probably some other sites that already cater for this, but if anyone wants a mathematical "low down" treatment of planetary positions from what...

Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 16:23:58 +0100 From: Paulo Garcia To: Thomas Henning , Erez Ribak...

Questions in galactic astronomy.... Regarding the current state of understanding of density waves, which are thought to generate the spirals in spiral...

To: George Miley From: Arjun Dey Subject: Leo Goldberg Fellowship Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2004 17:32:31 -0700 Dear...

From Mon Oct 4 12:48:46 2004 Return-Path: Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2004 12:48:00 +0200 From: Barbara Mory...

International Journal of Modern Physics D Vol. 13, No. 7 (August 2004) View table-of-contents and abstracts at http://www.worldscinet.com/ijmpd.html SPECIAL...

http://www.iinotia.com/iinotia/index.php?topic=space%20mining Space Mining to remake Mars into something useful.