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Old September 13th 07, 02:24 PM posted to uk.sci.astronomy
MichaelJP
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Some fascinating pictures coming back from the Cassini probe's recent flyby
of Saturn's moon Iapetus.

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm

Anyone know any groups where this sort of thing is discussed?
uk.sci.astronomy seems to be more for people interested in bodies observed
from the earth's surface.


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Old September 13th 07, 09:07 PM posted to uk.sci.astronomy
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"MichaelJP" wrote:
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm

Anyone know any groups where this sort of thing is discussed?


http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/



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Old September 14th 07, 12:35 AM posted to uk.sci.astronomy
Dr J R Stockton[_1_]
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In uk.sci.astronomy message
om, Thu, 13 Sep 2007 13:24:56, MichaelJP posted:
Some fascinating pictures coming back from the Cassini probe's recent flyby
of Saturn's moon Iapetus.

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm


There is a foolish bug behind that page (I've twice told JPL) which will
not be observable from the UK - or at least not from computers where
local time is GMT at the end of the year. But AA et al might observe it
- observe the countdown, between local and UTC New Year. Some Americans
should see it in daylight! And those in JP, AU, NZ, etc.

The picture on the right looks to me like a thin and battered sheet of
white, corroded or battered and therefore showing black perforations.


Anyone know any groups where this sort of thing is discussed?


sci.astro, sci.astro.amateur, sci.space.* ; dominated by the USA except
pictorially where (IIRC) AA reigns supreme if not entirely unchallenged.

uk.sci.astronomy seems to be more for people interested in bodies observed
from the earth's surface.


Dominantly but not exclusively. Anyway, Iapetus is a body observed from
the Earth's surface, and Cassini just provides a closer view.

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Old September 14th 07, 04:46 PM posted to uk.sci.astronomy
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"Mark Conroe" wrote in message
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"MichaelJP" wrote:
http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/home/index.cfm

Anyone know any groups where this sort of thing is discussed?


http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/


Many thanks

MP


 




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