Please save this message for reference. Discuss the Outer Solar System, from the Moons of Jupiter to the outer reaches of the Edgeworth-Kuiper Belt. It is...
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Aug 1, 2005 10:57 am
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The past year and a half have seen a series of spectacular successes for NASA. With all due respects to the Voyagers, I would maintain that the most ...
Dan Zeigler
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Aug 1, 2005 1:52 pm
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... On the other hand, what if some of the space station's mega-billions went into building outposts on the Moon and Mars and exploring near-Earth asteroids,...
Dear list, The silly topic of what is a planet has reared it's silly head again... There is very little evidence to suggest that the concept of a planet is a ...
... Of course, Pluto is only 1/2 the size and 1/3 the mass of Earth's moon. So... would we call the moon a planet if it was orbiting the sun? If you could...
something in the wire reports about spizter can not and has not imaged "planet LILA"http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/planetlila/index.html when ever I have...
'Just wanted to offer a sincere THANK YOU to Bruce Moomaw and to Ron Baalke for your outstanding coverage of the new planetary discoveries. I ran the initial...
yes I noticed DR Browns website hinted at it this afternoon and the minor planet center has it posted with no fanfare.space .com and others had the other KBO(...
... Lila is the name of the daughter of one of the members on Mike Brown's discovery team, and Brown has said it is not the proposed name of 2003 UB313. Ron...
Ron Baalke
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Aug 1, 2005 4:19 pm
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... Of course. The moon's approximate diameter of 3,500 km is comfortably larger than Pluto's of 2,300 km, and compares favorably with Mercury at 4,900 km....
... Actually -- the moon does orbit the sun. The earth-moon system is a true double planet. The sun exerts more force on the moon than does the earth. The...
I don't believe it is an illusion. I see the right-hand side as darker. We would all see the same thing in an illusion. What do others see? One of the moons of...
Volume is proportional to the radius cubed. If you compare the other Kuiper Belt objects to Pluto by comparing their volume (or mass) rather than comparing ...
arromdee@...
Aug 2, 2005 5:03 pm
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The only way to know for sure is to send a probe! -w...
... I suspect Arthur's confusing the barycentre with lagrange points. And also the Pluto-Charon double planet characterization with the Earth-moon double...
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/overview/piPerspective_current.html New Horizons - The PI's Perspective A Road Trip, from Earth to Pluto Alan Stern August 2005 As...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Aug 3, 2005 12:05 am
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http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/multimedia/images/raw/raw-images-details.cfm?feiImageID=46279 I don't think this is just an optical effect. It's too consistent,...
... The point is that people often say that if Pluto (and the new object) are called planets, logically a lot of other Kuiper Belt objects should be planets...
Ken Arromdee
arromdee@...
Aug 3, 2005 2:53 am
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In a message dated 8/3/05 4:09:14 AM Pacific Daylight Time, "Arthur Lortie" ... moon circle each other about a point approximately 2/3 their distance [I'd have...
Cassini Significant Events for 07/28/05 - 08/03/05 The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired Wednesday, August 3, from the Madrid tracking stations....
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Aug 5, 2005 6:55 pm
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Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Aug 5, 2005 6:58 pm
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... There are days I have a faulty memory and days I need more than my usual quota of coffee, but no, no -- even on days I can't find my car keys I know the...
... That's it! Thanks. ... Nope. "My" argument is that the sun exerts a stronger force on the moon than the earth, and therefore the moon is a planet. As far...
...and I wouldn't have known it if I hadn't belatedly picked up the Aug. 8 Aviation Week and seen the announcement in their "Washington Outlook" column! I...
http://skyandtelescope.com/news/article_1567_1.asp "10th Planet" Bigger than Thought? Sky & Telescope August 12, 2005 Due to a Spitzer Space Telescope pointing...
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