Phobos eclipse

A fine rendering of the big rock in the sky. The irregular shape points at
a captured asteroid.

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/mer2004/rove.../image-22.html

Mickelodean wrote:

A fine rendering of the big rock in the sky. The irregular shape points at
a captured asteroid.

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/mer2004/rove.../image-22.html

Trolling jerk. Phobos was mapped in detail years ago.


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Mickelodean wrote:

A fine rendering of the big rock in the sky. The irregular shape points at
a captured asteroid.

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/mer2004/rove.../image-22.html

JPL needs to do a bit of proof reading though ... "Martian Lunar
Eclipse" indeed!
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John Oliver
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Hi John,

John Steinberg wrote:
Greg Crinklaw wrote:


Trolling jerk.

While that's often the case, the provided URL points to a series of
images dated 11 March 2004 and shows Phobos transitting the Sun, taken
by the Opportunity Rover.

I am well aware of that. Heck, I'm the guy who posted the first URL to
the images of the Deimos eclipse last week, remember?

This same person, who I have not had any contact with before except
perhaps under another pseudonym, recently made a similar post about the
earth from mars image. Having been sort of reamed on my similar eclipse
posting here, I made a joke and then supported him. His response was
very unfriendly, and amounted to a sort of sucker punch. Suffice it to
say I am still very angry for being treated so poorly without apparent
reason. I feel like I was nice to someone and they punched me in the
face for it.

Fascinating shots on several levels.

Yes, quite. I guess that's part of what makes me so angry. I do
believe these images are wonderful stuff. But don't expect the poster
to agree with you. He seems to be just trolling and appears to have
nothing but derision for those who actually think these images are cool.

Note that this person makes these posts and then adds some mistaken
comment, such as "The irregular shape points at a captured asteroid"
that begs someone to point out, as I did, that the shape of Phobos has
been known for a very long time. Then he pounces. He just pulled the
same thing on another thread (Saturn's rings) on myself and David
Knisely. It's a troll that appears to be designed to attack anyone with
real knowledge of the subject matter.

Thanks for the link, Mick.

Good luck. I kill-filed him so I won't have to suffer any more of his
trolling and juvenile behavior.

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Cloudcroft, New Mexico, USA (33N, 106W, 2700m)

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I was impressed with how big of a chunk that eclipse took out of the sun. I
was surprised it was that significant.
I going to try to run a sim of it on Redshift 4
Orion

"Mickelodean" wrote in message
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A fine rendering of the big rock in the sky. The irregular shape points
at
a captured asteroid.


http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/mer2004/rove.../image-22.html




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I'm not implying that you don't have a right to your feelings, just
that in the long run, the price you pay for any emotional investment is
too high. Frankly, there's just too many loons (or insert the term of
your choice here) out there to let one or two ruin your day, or even a
moment thereof.


You just dealt with a loon and put in overtime doing it.

Greg Crinklaw wrote:


This same person, who I have not had any contact with before except
perhaps under another pseudonym, recently made a similar post about the
earth from mars image. Having been sort of reamed on my similar eclipse
posting here,

I think you make far too much of this. I simply observed that the photos
were very small
and you jumped my shyns! The observation had nothing to do with you
(literally!)
and certainly was not meant a a slight of you (had nothing to do with you!)
.... and
yet you were upset (about something)????? Im sorry if you were offended
from
something that nothing to do with you. Take care -
Jerry

"Orion" wrote in message
...
I was impressed with how big of a chunk that eclipse took out of the sun.
I
was surprised it was that significant.
I going to try to run a sim of it on Redshift 4
Orion


I sure hope you are impressed. This is historic. It should be on all the
front pages of every newspaper but
life isn't like that anymore. All we get is Bad news and US political BS and
hype that is nothing more than
Christmas in October. When is the last time you saw a front page story and
photo of something good happening
in space? Heh? Even when they do cover space on the front page of the
newspaper it's bad like Challenger and Discovery.

I haven't even YET seen a front page spread of a Rover image in the
newspaper. Something is really wrong with the mentality
of the media now. They leave all that up to the internet coverage now. I
remember the 60's and 70's when space did hit the
front pages!!!!!!!

Mickelodean wrote:

When is the last time you saw a front page story and
photo of something good happening
in space? Heh?

Last week when the new Hubble Ultra Deep Field image was released.

Even when they do cover space on the front page of the
newspaper it's bad like Challenger and Discovery.

Uh, nothing bad has happened to Discovery (other than the fact that it has
been grounded like the other two shuttles).

I haven't even YET seen a front page spread of a Rover image in the
newspaper.

Maybe you are reading the wrong newspaper (the one I read has had at least two
Rover images on the front page since the rovers landed).
--
David W. Knisely
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Hyde Memorial Observatory: http://www.hydeobservatory.info/

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