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  • Members: 2338
  • Category: Astronomy
  • Founded: Jan 12, 1999
  • Language: English
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As I said earlier, The Big Dipper can help you find other constellations. We already used it to find Ursa Minor by using Merak and Dubhe, the two stars at the...
1 Apr 10, 2002
6:06 am

jefftibb
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Today we will begin to turn our attention at long last to the Spring Constellations. The Great Bear or Ursa Major is now getting high in the North Eastern sky...
1 Apr 10, 2002
6:05 am

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The following is a copy of the note that Niko left on the 'All Astronomy Club': The chat sessions are pretty good folks, and this club is a member of the...
1 Apr 9, 2002
2:51 pm

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Hi tennisgirl, In answer to your question, How many years from 2002 will the orbital paths of Neptune and Pluto cross, it is 225 yrs. Every 248 years their...
2 Apr 9, 2002
5:26 am

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A member of the British Parliment has asked Prime Minister Blair to take time from his bust schedule in meetings with President Bush to discuss the need for...
1 Apr 8, 2002
7:30 pm

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I have created a folder in the FILES section whose name is 'Beginners Lessons'. I have added the lessons that I posted in the other club during the winter...
4 Apr 8, 2002
4:30 pm

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This week we are moving to a new location. NK International Astronomy Club (NKIAC) club will be our host. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NKIAC/ On Saturday...
1 Apr 5, 2002
3:06 pm

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I'll give ya some feed back Jeff By asking for feedback I'm assumming you are searching for more activity from this group. One suggestion is perhaps having one...
5 Apr 4, 2002
5:23 pm

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What would you like to see this group be? Where would you like to see our focus be placed? Should be concentrate on helping beginning amateur astronomers to ...
3 Apr 4, 2002
3:21 am

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The 2002 budget for Nasa is $14.5 billion, I though an interesting thread would be to see if you thought it was too much or too little and where it should be...
1 Apr 1, 2002
5:08 am

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Folks, I just got this e-mail from one of my 'All Astronomy' club members who runs an anti-spam club. Check your account info - we've all been reset to asking...
1 Mar 29, 2002
8:07 pm

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I hear the information so sporadically in the mainstream press, I lose track of it. I am referring to launches of space probes having to do with Mars, the...
2 Mar 29, 2002
2:43 pm

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Last night I was able to show my daughter four planets and the Moon in my scope all in about five minutes time. Right now Venus, Mars, Saturn, and Jupiter all...
2 Mar 29, 2002
12:52 am

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Here is a good link on finding the comet: http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/news/020227comet.shtml If you haven't seen it yet, try to get out to a dark place...
1 Mar 28, 2002
11:32 pm

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I found this to be an interesting link: http://spaceguard.ias.rm.cnr.it/ So I added it to a new folder in the bookmarks section under 'Solar System Links'. The...
1 Mar 28, 2002
7:04 am

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While we are having trouble posting messages back and forth I thought I would spend a little time cleaning up and organizing our links section. It had grown in...
1 Mar 26, 2002
4:47 pm

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A team of Australian and British astronomers believe that they have independant evidence of the acceleration of the universe based upon the clustering patterns...
1 Mar 22, 2002
4:55 am

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The man who complied the 'Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies' was born on this day 75 years ago. Dr. Arp has never shied away from controversy, and has claimed that ...
8 Mar 21, 2002
8:57 pm

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I just deleted two postings here. I hate to do that when the club is as quiet as it has been lately, but we are not a place to 1) advertise our wares, or 2)...
1 Mar 21, 2002
2:56 pm

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An Asteroid buzzed the Earth at less than 300,000 miles a couple weeks ago. Nobody knew about it until it was past by about 4 days. ...
1 Mar 20, 2002
12:36 am

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Take look at our web page astronomy http://www.acseal.freeserve.co.uk Regards, Anthony....
1 Mar 18, 2002
9:45 pm

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This Tuesday evening the asteroid Vesta will pass very close to Saturn. If you have never seen an asteroid before this should be a great chance to identify...
3 Mar 18, 2002
6:49 pm

jefftibb
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spaceweather.com says that there's a good chance for northern lights tonight (3/17/02) best about midnight. Mike...
1 Mar 17, 2002
11:07 pm

justmike3
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I recently bought a Newtonian Reflector, had a few questions and found the members extremely helpful in gettin g them answered. Is ther anyone else who owns an...
1 Mar 17, 2002
4:54 pm

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As you can tell reading the last few posts, there was NO CHAT SESSION this week! Sorry about the multiple posts, yahoo just stored them up and eventually...
1 Mar 17, 2002
4:18 pm

jefftibb
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We are a Group now! Welcome to the 'Brave New World' of Groups! I'll load up some files soon to take advantage of our new status. I have a few documents with...
1 Mar 17, 2002
2:12 pm

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Due to Yahoo converting all the astronomy clubs that are part of the multi-club chat session to groups this week, AND the fact that all those groups will be...
1 Mar 17, 2002
2:01 pm

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Chat has been cancelled for this weekend! Have a good weekend, we'll see you in a week.......
1 Mar 17, 2002
12:02 pm

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Sorry Folks! Due to Yahoo tranisitioning all of the last of the clubs that are in our multi-club chat session to groups this week coupled with Yahoo's ...
1 Mar 17, 2002
12:01 pm

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Welcome, This is the Yahoo! Message Board for Wanna be Astronomers community....
3540 Mar 13, 2002
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