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wolf creek?????
by karen vanderhule 28 Aug '03

28 Aug '03

Guys' I was thinking of joining some of you people at Wolf Creek this weekend. I don't recall anybody responding to the initial invitation tho. Could we have another head count of potential attendees? There will be four of us from the Layton area? Anyone else? Ron Vanderhule, OAS member

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Star Party at Bingham Creek Library
by Richard Brady 28 Aug '03

28 Aug '03

In the paper today, and last week on the radio, I saw/heard that there is also going to be a star party at the Bingham Creek Library in West Jordan. Is this a SLAS event or something else? The paper mentioned the Clark planetarium. Thanks for any info, Richard Brady

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Mars slot possible
by Thomas Sevcik 28 Aug '03

28 Aug '03

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Off-topic: Help our soldiers
by Chuck Hards 25 Aug '03

25 Aug '03

Today a friend of mine from my WW1 aviation circle dropped-by; he's been on active duty, away from home, for the past 7 months and miraculously got 3 days leave for a fast home visit. I gave him a paperback on Zeppelin history and a few archival photos of an old aeroplane found in a barn in Argentina- and you should have seen his face light up! "Something to read this week!" he practically bubbled- I could see how much this simple act meant to him; he was overjoyed. I have mailed him model kits in the past, but had no idea how much these little packages meant to him. Please, please, if you have a family member or friend on active duty, send them something to read or otherwise occupy their off-duty time; something appropriate to their individual interests. If they have an interest in astronomy, perhaps a book or two, a small telescope, binoculars, anything. This simple act can have a tremendous effect on their morale (and you get a warm fuzzy to boot!). Thanks, back to astronomy. C. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

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Fwd: Re: Pentax binos for sale
by Chuck Hards 25 Aug '03

25 Aug '03

Posted on behalf of Glen Warchol. Please contact him at the address below if interested. > Pentax 16x60 PCF V. > With box, caps, strap and instruction folder. > Used many times, but in excellent condition. > According to Pentax they are fully multicoated, BAK4 > prisms, etc., etc. > I can vouch that they are sharp across the field and > contrasty. > Long, long eye relief for glasses wearers. > Also included: a set of Chuck Hards custom-fitted > solar filters> > $95 o.b.o. Contact Glen Warchol at: glenwarchol(a)sltrib.com __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

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Yahoo woes
by Chuck Hards 25 Aug '03

25 Aug '03

Wait, there's more: You know the box you can check so the computer remembers your ID when you sign-in from the same computer? Doesn't work for me. About once a year, permanently deleted messages suddenly re-appear en masse, exceeding my 6.0 MB limit! I think the spam ID problem is related. C. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

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Mars Movie...
by David L Bennett 25 Aug '03

25 Aug '03

...nice Mars Movie from Space.com at: http://www.space.com/imageoftheday/image_of_day_030825.html

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Mars watch in Lindon Wednesday
by Richard Tenney 25 Aug '03

25 Aug '03

For anyone in Utah County that doesn't have a telescope and wants to see Mars I will have the 16-inch set up in my back yard Wednesday night and will welcome anyone that wants to come have a peek, starting at 11 pm. I live right next door to a church, so there's plenty of parking. I'm willing to keep it set up until 2 a.m. at the latest, unless interest dies down before then on a work/school night. I live at 54 N. Canal Drive in Lindon. Take Lindon Center street East of State Street (there's a Walkers Gas/Taco Bell and a car dealer on the corner where you turn) approx. 1 mile to Canal Drive (about 700 E.); turn left at the corner where the LDS church sits (Canal Drive). I'm the first house on the right (I share the fence with the church), gravel driveway, horses out back, etc.; Please park at the church. 801-785-4403. Anyone else that wants to bring a telescope is welcome. I'm going to try and mitigate the lighting at the church with aluminum foil, assuming my extension ladder is tall enough to reach... ;-) This is not an "official" UVAA party; if anyone else wants to do a public mars watch, feel free. Rich. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com

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RE: [Utah-astronomy] 2 free Flagstaff openings for the Mars watch
by Holly Phaneuf 24 Aug '03

24 Aug '03

Joe, can you give some details about the "tickets"? Is it just time on the telescope for Fri and Sat nights? My boyfriend Tim is getting back from a 2 week trip to South Africa Tuesday, and he ordinarity would love to go, but he might be all vacationed-out, too. It's hard for me to get in touch with him right now, but I'll ask him when he contacts me, he should this weekend sometime. Holly -----Original Message----- From: Joe Bauman [mailto:bau@desnews.com] Sent: Fri 8/22/2003 6:50 PM To: utah-astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com Cc: Utah Astronomy (E-mail) Subject: [Utah-astronomy] 2 free Flagstaff openings for the Mars watch Dear friends, I have been off work this week and last week because our son, Sky, was married here on Monday to his fine young lady, Shelley Wei. Cory and I had planned to travel to Flagstaff a week from today, Friday, for the Mars viewing through Lowell's own telescope. We have already paid for this. However, the wedding and all the excitement has left us drained and we can't make it. I am pleased to offer our positions -- two of them -- to the first one or t members of our discussion groups who call me. Two people if the first wants only one ticket, with the second of course being for just one. One person if the first caller wants both. I say ticket, but of course, they're not tickets, but arrangements with Siegfried. My number is 583-7935. Thank you, Joe _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy

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FW: 2003 Darwin Awards
by Kim Hyatt 24 Aug '03

24 Aug '03

Couldn't remember if I'd already shared this with all of you or not (sorry if it's a repeat)... Darwin Awards 2003. In case you have been waiting breathlessly for this year's Darwin Awards,here they are. The awards this year are, once again, truly classic.These awards are given each year to bestow upon (the remains of) that individual, who through single-minded self-sacrifice, has done the most to remove undesirable elements from the human gene pool. Just think... until these events, these same people were walking the streets like normal people. 5th RUNNER-UP: Goes to a San Anselmo, California man who died when he hit a lift tower at the Mammoth Mountain ski area while riding down the slope on a foam pad. Thirty-year old David Hubal was pronounced dead at Central Mammoth Hospital. The accident occurred about 3 a.m., the Mono County Sheriff's department. Hubal and his friends apparently had hiked up a ski run called Stump Alley and undid some yellow foam protectors from lift towers, said Lt. Mike of the Mammoth Lakes Police Department. The pads are used to protect skiers who might hit towers. The group apparently used the pads to slide down the ski slope and Hubal crashed into a tower. It has since been investigated and determined the tower he hit was the one with its pad removed. 4th RUNNER-UP: Goes to Robert Puelo, 32, was apparently being disorderly in a St. Louis market. When the clerk threatened to call the police, Puelo grabbed a hotdog, shoved it into his mouth and walked out without paying. Police found him unconscious in front of the store. Paramedics removed the six-inch wiener from his throat where it had choked him to death. 3rd RUNNER-UP: Goes to poacher Marino Malerba of Spain, who shot a stag standing above him on an overhanging rock and was killed instantly when it fell on him. 2nd RUNNER-UP: "Man loses face at party." A man at a West Virginia party (probably related to the winner last year, a man in Arkansas who used the .22 bullet to replace the fuse in his pickup truck) popped a blasting cap into his mouth and bit down, triggering an explosion that blew off his lips, teeth, and tongue. Jerry Stromyer, 24, of Kincaid, bit the blasting cap as a prank during the party late Tuesday night, said Cpl. M.D. Payne. "Another man had it in an aquarium hooked to a battery and was trying to explode it." "It wouldn't go off and this guy said I'll show you how to set it off." He put it into his mouth, bit down and it blew all his teeth out and his lips and tongue off, Payne said. Stromyer was listed in guarded condition Wednesday with extensive facial injuries, according to a spokesperson at Charleston Area Medical Division. "I just can't imagine anyone doing something like that," Payne said. 1st RUNNER-UP: Doctors at Portland University Hospital said an Oregon man shot through the skull by a hunting arrow is lucky to be alive and will be released soon from the hospital. Tony Roberts, 25, lost his right eye last weekend during an initiation into a men's rafting club, Mountain Men Anonymous (probably now known as Stupid Mountain Men Anonymous) in Grants Pass, Oregon. A friend tried to shoot a beer can off his head, but the arrow entered Robert's right eye. Doctors said that had the arrow gone 1 millimeter to the left, a major blood vessel would have been cut and Roberts would have died instantly.Neurosurgeon Doctor Johnny Delashaw at he University Hospital in Portland said the arrow went through 8 to 10 inches of brain with the tip protruding at the rear of his skull, yet somehow managed to miss all major blood vessels. Delashaw also said that had Roberts tried to pull the arrow out on his own he surely would have killed himself. Roberts admitted afterwards that he and his friends had been drinking that afternoon. Said Roberts, I feel so dumb about this" No charges have been filed, but the Josephine County district attorney's office said the initiation stunt is under investigation. Now, THIS YEAR'S WINNER: ( The late) John Pernicky and his friend, (the late) Sal Hawkins, of the great state of Washington, decided to attend a local Metallica concert at the George Washington amphitheater. Having no tickets (but having had 18 beers between them), they thought it would be easy to "hop" over the nine foot fence and sneak into the show. They pulled their pickup truck over to the fence and the plan was for Mr. Pernicky, who was 100 pounds heavier than Mr. Hawkins) to hop the fence and then assist his friend over. Unfortunately for (the late) Mr. Pernicky, there was a 30-foot drop on the other side of the fence. Having heaved himself over, he found himself crashing through a tree. His fall was abruptly halted (and broken, along with his arm) by a large branch that snagged him by his shorts. Dangling from the tree with a broken arm, he looked down and saw some bushes below him. Possibly figuring the bushes would break his fall, he removed his knife and proceeded to cut away his shorts to free himself from the tree. Finally free, Mr. Pernicky crashed into holly bushes. The sharp leaves scratched his entire body and now, without the protection of his shorts, a holly branch penetrated his rectum. To make matters worse, on landing his pocket knife penetrated his thigh. Hawkins, seeing his friend inconsiderable pain and agony, threw him a rope and tried to pull him to safety by tying the rope to the pickup truck and slowly driving away. However, in his drunken haste/state, he put the truck into reverse and crashed through the fence landing on his friend and killing him. Police arrived to find the crashed pickup with its driver thrown 100 feet from the truck and dead at the scene from massive internal injuries. Upon moving the truck, they found John under it half-naked, scratches on his body, a holly in his rectum, a knife in his thigh, and his shorts dangling from a tree branch 25 feet in the air. Congratulations gentlemen, you win...

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