I agree with Alain, "the ESO observatory sites did not suffer any damage, partly as they are engineered to withstand seismic activity and partly due to their...
I certainly hope that the use of the word "arrogant" is simply a problem in translation and not meant as implied. There was nothing whatsoever arrogant about...
JCM and list, ... It is a somewhat strange situation overall currently in the NEO game. WISE makes much less discoveries as initially expected but still ...
... We are having a "El Nino winter" in the US Southwest this year, as are many parts of the world.. The last snowfall ending yesterday brought our total up to...
Yes, it's true. I also observe from the Tucson, Arizona area and we've been scarcely getting two clear nights in a row. I've been catching up on instrument...
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Brian Skiff
bas@...
Mar 2, 2010 9:07 pm
For the weather-obsessed, I actually keep a nightly tally of the cloudiness for Flagstaff, which can be viewed starting here: ...
This bad weather is not a yearly monsoon for most of us....this is the worst stretch (12 month period since 2009) that we have had here in this area in 40...
A few years ago I was on the site selection committee for the LSST. The final two sites under consideration were San Pedro Martir in Mexico and Cerro Pachon...
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Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Mar 2, 2010 10:32 pm
http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMFKA6K56G_index_0.html Mars Express heading for closest flyby of Phobos European Space Agency 1 March 2010 ESA's Mars Express will...
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Brian Skiff
bas@...
Mar 2, 2010 10:58 pm
... Since reading a few years ago that San Pedro Martir didn't have the summer monsoon, I have been watching their webcam pretty regularly: ...
Hi Clay and all, also here in northern Italy the weather is the worst of the last 10 years. Not in terms of rain and snow, but in cloud cover. Only 11 nights...
Yes, this is what I am hearing from many folks; here in Arkansas (on the mountain) we typically enjoy about 65% clear skies per year, down to 15% during the...
So now we have heard the lamentation (yes, winter over here was worse than usual as well!) but what is the proposed medication, folks? :-) Problem --->...
My Kick off... A new kind of filter... the "cloud - filter" .... (valid for any kind of cloud, frog, moisture,...).... :-P Sory for the bad joke, but the last...
There's nothing better to do during cloudy weather. Possible solutions: (1) There's too much water vapor in the atmosphere. Need to somehow reduce the water...
Hi Reiner, I recall reading somewhere that Fritz Zwicky was once sufficiently annoyed by turbulence that he tried firing a gun out through the telescope slit....
Solution: remote observatories. It is cloudy most of the time in Indiana (except for mid August to mid November), so we built an observatory in Australia which...
Gee guys, don't know what you are talking about. http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=San+Pedro+ de+Atacama Weather is fine, don't...
... even better ... download a few dozen fits from SkyMorph/NEAT archives and do some precovery/mp hunt manually :D p.s. shortly, I'll be publishing some...
You ~may~ be able to partially blame the extended weak solar cycle. Low solar activity --> lower shielding from GCRs --> deeper penetration in earth's...
There is some suggestion that it is more than just solar activity. Observations may indicate that there is some synchronization between solar activity,...
Hi everyone, Sorry to hear about so much bad weather guys. Apparently all the good weather's migrated up to Duluth, Minn. where it's been mostly clear at night...
Hi - A while back I was asked for a map of impact structure. These maps from the Holocene Impact Working Group are probably the best currently available: ...
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Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Mar 4, 2010 10:54 pm
http://www.psi.edu/press/ SCIENCE TEAM SAYS GIANT METEORITE, NOT VOLCANOES, KILLED DINOSAURS Ed Stiles Public Information Office Planetary Science Institute ...
