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M57 +73PSW-3
by daniel turner 27 Mar '13

27 Mar '13

Mark your calendar for early evening May 7. Their will be a close encounter between the Ring nebula and periodic comet 73P. The comet will be close to earth so its exact position in the sky will depend stongly on your location on the globe. Go to spaceweather.com and use the link at the bottom of the page for "Observable Comets". 73p is in the list and includes orbital elements and a link for daily ephemerides. DT __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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RE: [Utah-astronomy] Science Fair
by Michael Carnes 07 Jul '07

07 Jul '07

Don, you're cherry-picking your data. >I think there is still a controversy over how much economic development >contributes to global warming. While there is much yet to learn, the so-called controversy is largely clouding of the waters by those with an economic interest. Within the last month there's been renewed information of the rate of melting of the Greenland ice-sheet, in addition to melting in other zones, such as Mt. Kilimanjaro. Thousands of ice cores taken over the last century show that the ice goes back tens of thousands of years. If it had been as warm during the Roman era as your sources indicate, that ice would have melted then or would never have formed. Arctic permafrost that has been stable since the last ice age (as shown by the number of mammoths preserved in it) is rapidly turning to mush. Of course you can find a few scientists who disagree with this assessment, just like you can find a few scientists who don't like evolution. You can find a few scientists who believe in ghosts, in Sasquatch, in fairies, in alien abduction, and in all sorts of things. It is extremely rare in science that someone who goes against the grain is shown to be correct (Galileo, Kepler, etc). Most of them are just cranks.

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Fly your name to Mars on the Phoenix probe
by Canopus56 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

http://www.planetary.org/about/press/releases/2006/1030_Fly_Your_Name_on_NA… http://planetary.org/special/fromearth/phoenix A Planetary Society press release and signup site - Kurt ____________________________________________________________________________________ Access over 1 million songs - Yahoo! Music Unlimited (http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited)

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Halloween - Cross-quarter date
by Canopus56 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

For those of you who attended the Nal Morris's presentation on the Parowan Gap site << http://www.parowangap.org/ >> at a summer SLAS monthly meeting, today - Halloween - is one of the cross-quarter days that Nal mentioned. Cross-quarter days are the mid-point day count between an equinox and solstice. - Kurt ____________________________________________________________________________________ Cheap Talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates (http://voice.yahoo.com)

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Mercury Transit.
by David Dunn 31 Oct '06

31 Oct '06

I just heard B98 misreport the Mercury Transit as being on Wednesday. It sounded like they were implying tomorrow. I don't know who works on the SLAS press releases but they might want to have B98 correct the report. Thanks, David Dunn

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RE: [Utah-astronomy] My latest efforts
by Tyler Allred 30 Oct '06

30 Oct '06

Nice work Joe! That Sculptor looks great! Cheers, Tyler

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Normal time at last
by Patrick Wiggins 29 Oct '06

29 Oct '06

Finally, Daylight Silly Time is gone! Alas, it'll be with us even longer next year... pw

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Comet Swan
by Michael Carnes 29 Oct '06

29 Oct '06

Finally saw Comet Swan from the west side of the Big Island just after dark. Skies haven't been particularly good this trip, in contrast to other times out. So this was the first chance. It wasn't full dark and was also a bit cloudy, but in my 10x50's I got about 2 degrees of tail. It was really neat to see it in the same field as M13. Michael

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] My latest efforts
by Michael Carnes 29 Oct '06

29 Oct '06

Hi Joe, Nice shots! Don't think I've ever seen 253 before. How was the weather down there, anyway? Michael

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Not-So-Odd Object
by Wayne Sumner 28 Oct '06

28 Oct '06

I had a wonderful view of Comet Dawn last evening around 7:30. It was big and bright in the 25x100 binoculars I bought from Patrick a few weeks ago. The binoculars made it easy to sweep up the comet even just knowing the general location of the comet above Corona Borealis and right of Hercules. There was no sign of a tail in my light polluted skies, but the small, bright nucleus was surrounded by a large coma. A great view. Thanks for the heads up. Wayne Sumner __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Visit the Photo Gallery: http://www.utahastronomy.com

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