Good snap! It must have been very exciting. I remember one of the Leonids from '97 or '98 where we watched from Vangani and at that time too we had seen...
good catch Sameer. and nice to hear abt the 'old' team back together. keep it up.  Abhay Deshpande ATF, KEK, 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba-Shi Ibaraki-Ken, Japan 305 0801...
Hi All Sorry for broken image link... Here is updated URL of Image http://www.flickr.com/photos/thakursam/4116156019/ Have a Nice Day Sameer ... -- Sameer ...
Hi All, We (me, Nilesh Desai, Ganesh Kale, Girish Vaze & Swapnil Kore) went to Lonavala, for meteor shower observation & Photography. The Sky was cloudy by the...
Hi All, Is anybody planning to go to vangani for Leonid ? I guess it will be 17th Night - 18th Morning !!! Regards, Sameer Thakur ... -- Sameer [Non-text...
Looks like Leonids 2009 is going to be quite favorable for India http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/10nov_leonids2009.htm?list159271 [Non-text portions of...
as i pointed in other mail, the debate might exist for sake of debate. how ever the issue of iridium existence needs to be explained by Volcanic activity...
Dr Chatterjee, though of Indian Origin is at Uni of Texas and i think has good support for crater related work. The issue needs to be focussed upon, which i...
Hi, This is about accuracy of Dinasaur Extinction dating. Recently Paul Renne and his team from University of California, Berkeley has refined the dating...
I totally agree with Abhay. There is not much study of crater itself and because of size and location of crater it seems to be beyond reach of Indian ...
the Shiva crater was reported long time back. It is back into the news due to 'yet againg announcing the same result'. The new flavor is that of Shiva crater...
Hi, Recent analysis shows that wipe out of dinosaurs may have caused not really due to Chicxulub Impact but due to Shiva crater centered at Bombay High. Read...
Hello, Happy Diwali to all the members of khagol mandal. I request you to avoid bursting crackers (as far as possible). Crackers are disaster to the ecological...
Hi All The year 2009 marks the four hundredth anniversary of the first astronomical Observation through a telescope by the great Italian scientist Galileo...
I have just tested out the Ustream.tv webcast set up for the Public Lecture and the Workshop on Ep Aur. However, we do not yet have the fast internet...
At the Nehru Planetarium, New Delhi, the following might be of interest to many: we are trying to do a webcasting with a chat window open, so online...
Okey. I accept what Abhay said. I think I should have given bit more explanation on why such dates should be outrightly rejected. Here it is: When any person...
Hello Geeta and others, I understand the sentiments of group members about the earlier 'nasty' discussions. Yet i do believe Geeta's question is out of...
Geeta, I don't think Nilesh's comments were rude. They were not directed towards you. They were just the fact. The signal to noise ratio on this group is...
I am sorry to write this but the reply from Mr. Desai i feel is a bit harsh, the question that i had forwarded was not to start any stupid topic, i had some...
I feel that we may specify the scope and area of discussions on this group in our groups description clearly (on yahoo-groups). This may help us a little in...
dear Nilesh, it is a pleasure to hear restarting of AAA in Mumbai. I do wish the group a great start and may the new inning be as fruitful as the earlier...
Dear All, Our AAA (Bombay), born in '77 is revived again with enthusiasm and passion after a long slumber in the "International Year for Astronomy IYA-2009" to...
I am repeating my appeal. Kindly refrain from making unscientific postings here. There is not much science in the story. The 5000 year old dates are not at all...
Hey Guys, Saw this forward on one the yahoo groups.....it is indeed very interesting, the reason I am forwarding this here, is want your esteemed opinion about...