http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=20725 : "Just after the August 24th [IAU] vote, serious technical and pedagogical flaws were pointed out in the...
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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Sep 1, 2006 5:03 pm
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Cassini Significant Events for 08/24/06 - 08/30/06 The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired Wednesday, August 30, from the Goldstone tracking...
Ron Baalke
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Sep 1, 2006 9:29 pm
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http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/news_center/news/090106.html For Immediate Release September 1, 2006 Pluto-Bound Camera Sees 'First Light' New Horizons Payload Fully...
Ron Baalke
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Sep 1, 2006 9:31 pm
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Even though this first Cassini photo is being reprinted from 2 years ago, I will NEVER cease to marvel at it -- and at the weirdness and beauty that can be...
In addition to the really fascinating-looking new information that will be released at the upcoming DPS meeting ( http://adams.dm.unipi.it/~dps06/ ) on Titan...
... Interesting. Patricia Tombaugh, Clyde Tombaugh's wife, has said she was disappointed by the new definition, but she also said that "they had to get that...
Ron Baalke
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Sep 5, 2006 8:10 pm
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http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/events/titan20060907/index.cfm Cassini to Fly by Titan After revealing a land of bountiful lakes on Cassini's last flyby of...
Ron Baalke
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Sep 6, 2006 5:43 pm
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http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/overview/piPerspectives/piPerspective_current.php The PI's Perspective Unabashedly Onward to the Ninth Planet Alan Stern September 6,...
Type in (D4340) in the following link: http://cfa-www.harvard.edu/iau/MPDes.html and you will get the first numbered minor planet from this month's MPC batch....
On 9/7/2006 at 12:00 PM Vinzenz Lübben wrote: *snip* Talking about adding more fuel to the fire! To then get effectively demoted to a common asteroid! Talk...
...some troublemaker is now trying to argue that an object only 12 times the mass of Jupiter is really a brown dwarf rather than a planet because it was --...
... Thanks for the info! Mike Brown gave a talk today at JPL about the discovery of his objects (ie: 2003 UB313) and the planet definition stuff. Just before...
Ron Baalke
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Sep 7, 2006 9:00 pm
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... Here we go again.... ... A good scientific definition- of ANY object or condition- must not have any arbitrary limits, but must meet certain conditions to...
... From: Dennis M. Falk To: jupiter_list@yahoogroups.com Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 3:25 PM Subject: Re: [jupiter_list] As if we didn't have enough...
Cassini Significant Events for 08/31/06 - 09/06/06 The most recent spacecraft telemetry was acquired Wednesday, September 6, from the Goldstone tracking...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Sep 8, 2006 9:58 pm
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http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=1166 Exploring Europa by Way of the Arctic Written by: Annie Carone Media contact: Carolina Martinez...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Sep 11, 2006 4:08 am
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Scientists Say Knicks Are No Longer a Basketball Team Prague Conference Demotes New York Team to Dwarf Status Just weeks after a conference of scientists...
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2007/ 38th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference March 12-16, 2007 League City, Texas ... First Announcement - August...
Ron Baalke
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Sep 12, 2006 4:44 pm
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http://www.bath.ac.uk/news/articles/releases/solarsystem120906.html New study of Solar System speculates on life on other planets University of Bath Press...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Sep 13, 2006 4:38 pm
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It is now, officially, "Eris" -- named after the Greek goddess of Discord. ( http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=3185 ) Its ...
... How VERY appropos, and mi9ght I say (to no-one's surprise, here) that I agree. :) But then, even if the names "Xena" and "Gabrielle" had stuck, it would...
Cassini's VIMS Detects Vast Polar Ethane Cloud on Titan Lori Stiles University of Arizona September 14, 2006 ... Science Contact: Caitlin Griffith 520-626-3806...
Ron Baalke
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Sep 14, 2006 6:18 pm
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It was "too perfect to resist": http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/060914_eris_named.html . Still, there's a long-time tradition of giving objects that far...
http://www.gps.caltech.edu/~mbrown/planetlila/index.html#eris 2003 UB313 is now officially Eris! Mike Brown Eris, the largest dwarf planet known, was...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Sep 14, 2006 8:28 pm
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Mike Brown will be giving two public talks about dwarf planet 136199 Eris (2003 UB313) in Pasadena, California on the evenings of September 14 and 15. The...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Sep 14, 2006 8:40 pm
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I've just seen Jeffrey Cuzzi's essay on the rings, "Our Local Astrophysical Laboratory", in the June 23 "Science" (in which he talks at length about the great...
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