Today I received a note in my inbox about the Ulysses Flyby of the Sun’s North Pole. I have followed the Ulysses mission for some time now - ever since I hired as a contractor a woman who had worked on the software for the spacecraft (not sure what instrument, but she did the work [...]
One of those “Degrees of Separation” things
January 14th, 2008 · No Comments
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Google Lunar X-Prize
September 14th, 2007 · 3 Comments
Glenn over at Anything Geospatial points out a new addition to the X-Prize foundation: the Google Lunar X-Prize.
And just when I had been bashing Google over on Slashdot about Google Earth. Oh well. As a student in Space Studies, this development is pretty exciting to me. Hopefully this will translate into even greater [...]
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Science by Press Release - Save the world, eat less meat
September 14th, 2007 · No Comments
Ok, whatever your position on Global Climate Change (known in the popular press as Global Warming), you have to admit that “science by press release” is a bad idea.
I just read an article about a series in the Lancet (a medical journal) telling us to eat less meat. Not unusual, since the food police are [...]
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The 2007 Aurigid Meteor Shower
August 22nd, 2007 · No Comments
On September 1 people in Western North America might be able to see the Aurigid meteor shower. I say might since no one really knows much about the comet that gives us this shower.
First, a quick review. As a comet travels around the sun it warms up and begins to outgas - that [...]
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Wally Schirra
May 4th, 2007 · No Comments
By now, many people have commented on the death of former astronaut Wally Schirra yesterday. There is, of course, a lot of information on his accomplishments, which were many.
I always felt a personal connection with Wally. My mom used to joke that I was named after him (sorry mom, not sure I buy [...]
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