For those interested in following the Dawn launch (literally), the nominal pre-launch trajectory is now available on Horizons (courtesy of the navigation...
July 3, 2007 Grey Hautaluoma/Tabatha Thompson Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0668/3895 RELEASE: 07-147 NASA GIVES TWO SUCCESSFUL SPACECRAFT NEW ASSIGNMENTS ...
Ron Baalke
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Jul 4, 2007 12:01 am
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I've been emailed a couple of questions by a reporter for a small local newspaper that I'm not sure how to answer. Maybe someone here could help out? 1) What...
... Inertia is as good an answer as any, but you might want to probe a little bit deeper. A lot of people (Aristotle among them, if memory serves) have the...
Bill Owen
wmo@...
Jul 4, 2007 1:49 am
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With regard to the first question, you could open it up with an historical note. People up to and including Copernicus believed that the planets orbited in ...
Dear All, unfortunatelly we've a very sad news: our dear friend and our "the teacher" Prof. Giuseppe Forti (Osservatorio di Arcetri, Florence, Italy) passed...
s.foglia@...
Jul 4, 2007 7:01 am
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Just to add to the bit about #2. In the solar system, you can accurately measure both the position and motion of an object. But when you go to atomic...
Many thanks to all of you who took the time to suggest answers (especially to that difficult second question). My favorite funny answer, BTW, came off list (so...
Since no one actually knows what inertia, time, gravity, and mass really ARE (other than descriptive terms, or combinations of terms in equations), the "funny...
Motion is an energy, the flip side of gravity, which is also an energy. Gravity is an energy of place and that energy will spontaneously turn to motion energy...
07.05.07 George Diller Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 MEDIA ADVISORY: 35-07 LAUNCH OF DAWN POSTPONED 24 HOURS TO SUNDAY, JULY 8 The launch of NASA's...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Jul 5, 2007 4:10 pm
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Our astro-club members' heart felt condolence to Prof. Giuseppe Forti 's family..May his soul rest in peace Thangarajan.P.K....
DC-3 Dreams is pleased to announce major releases of ACP Observatory Control Software and its free companion ACP Planner. Together, these two programs provide...
I've written a little presentation for our local astronomy club's summer meeting on this topic. I tried to take a historical approach, showing how "the most...
http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/mission/journal_7_05_07.asp Dawn Journal Dr. Marc Rayman July 5, 2007 Dear Countdawns, The countdown is underway for Dawn's liftoff on...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Jul 6, 2007 4:15 pm
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July 6, 2007 Tabatha Thompson Headquarters, Washington 202-358-3895 George Diller Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 MEDIA ADVISORY: M07-083 DAWN LAUNCH...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Jul 6, 2007 9:59 pm
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... Hmmm...The page calls for comments but provides no means of contact (no e-mail, nothing). "e" is the symbol of eccentricty, not the abbreviation. Try, if...
... Right -- thanks for the suggestion. I've made the numerical multipliers into subscripts when the appear in the text of the piece. I've left them as...
July 7, 2007 Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 RELEASE: 07-150 NASA MISSION TO ASTEROID BELT RESCHEDULED FOR SEPTEMBER LAUNCH WASHINGTON - The...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Jul 8, 2007 12:58 am
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Observatoire de Paris Paris, France Contact: Nicolas Biver, Observatoire de Paris, LESIA, and CNRS Tel: 33 1 45 07 78 09 Fax: 33 1 45 07 71 44 Dominique...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Jul 12, 2007 2:11 am
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http://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/launchingrockets/status/2007/elvstatus-20070713.html George H. Diller Kennedy Space Center, Fla. 321-867-2468 07.13.07 ...
Ron Baalke
baalke@...
Jul 13, 2007 3:38 pm
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Greetings all, This is a reminder that radar observations of 2007 DT103 are scheduled at Goldstone on July 26, 28, and August 1. A number of people have ...
Lance Benner
lance@...
Jul 13, 2007 5:43 pm
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Hi Lance.... If the skies will ever break long enough from our two month monsoon, 2007 DT103 is in a fairly favorable location for H45 and we will make every...
I've been monitoring this list for a while now. I am director at the Tzec Maun Observatory near Cloudcroft, NM. (Our web sites are www.tzecmaun.org for the...
Congratulations to Quan-zhi Ye and the group at Lulin Observatory for the discovery of 2007 NL1. I'm pleased to note that both Ye and Jean-Claude Pelle, the...
Dear all, Thanks for the congralations, and my private thankness to Jean-Claude at Tahiti to lock the object. And yes, Reiner has noted that YQ00uC (currently...
Dear observers we've just posted a pratical guide on how to observe NEOCP objects at the following URL: http://asteroidi.uai.it/neocp/neocpguide.htm we hope...
s.foglia@...
Jul 16, 2007 11:15 am
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What an excellent and very straight-forward explanation for this; we should be recommending this to every new-comer wanting to get into NEO exploration,...
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2007/11jul_greatperseids.htm Great Perseids NASA Science News July 11, 2007 July 11, 2007: Got a calendar? Circle this date:...
