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Suborbital Space Tourism
Published on 25 May 2007 at 11:50 pm.
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One of the presentations this morning was from Alex Tai of Virgin Galactic. For those that don’t know, Virgin Galactic is part of Richard Branson’s Virgin group of companies, and it’s goal is to provide private suborbital trips into space for anyone who can pay. The two hour trip, which includes five minutes of weightlessness, will cost […]
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2007 International Space Development Conference
Published on 24 May 2007 at 1:56 pm.
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Tomorrow and the next few days, I’ll be at the 2007 International Space Development Conference. As I did with the American Astronomical Society Meeting in January, I’ll try to post some things that I see and hear while there, so stay tuned. Normally, I got to astronomical conferences, which are more closely related […]
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Magnetic Activity of Alpha Centauri
Published on 18 Jan 2007 at 1:45 pm.
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Over at Villanova University, Laurence DeWarf and Edward Guinan have been working on a program of studying stars like the Sun. They call this the “Sun in Time” project. The idea is to try to understand how stars like the Sun change as they age. Now, that is very important, because even […]
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Another semester starting.
Published on 16 Jan 2007 at 9:11 pm.
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Well, another semester is now underway. Today was the first day of class for the Spring semester here. Some of my friends, like Profgrrrrl, have apparently already gotten going. For some reason, though, here in Texas we are a bit later getting started. Well, that’s fine with me, because it gave me the chance to […]
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The Interstellar Medium along the Sun’s Trajectory
Published on 11 Jan 2007 at 12:55 pm.
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With things finally winding down, I get to post a bit more about some of the things that I saw at the AAS Meeting. I had been looking to do some of this quite some time ago, but this has been a pretty wild week.
Earlier in the week, I met a young man, Ryland Brooks, […]
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209th AAS Meeting winding down
Published on 11 Jan 2007 at 12:55 am.
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Well, the 209th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society has ended. And it ended on a very high note. The last talk was Mike Brown talking about dwarf planets in the outer Solar System. For those that don’t recall my posts at the end of the summer, Mike Brown was the one who found 2003 […]
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The conference glitch
Published on 10 Jan 2007 at 5:13 pm.
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Every conference has one. Something doesn’t work. It is sometimes a blown bulb in a projector. Once I was at a conference where the fire alarm went off. And, there was another time when we were told to move to another part of the building because a tornado had been spotted in the area. It […]
