Archives for November 2008
Michael Crichton: 1942-2008
Published on 6 Nov 2008 at 1:03 am.
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The year was 1969. A lot was going on that year. It was the year that President Kennedy’s national goal of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth was realized. No one had ever sat foot on another world before, and no samples of the Moon had […]
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Watch for Taurid Meteors
Published on 5 Nov 2008 at 3:11 pm.
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This is the time of year for the Taurid meteor shower. There are actually two Taurids, the North Taurids and the South Taurids, which peak about a week apart. Both are associated with material shed by Comet 2P/Encke. Comet Encke is a bit different from may comets in that it was not […]
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Election Day
Published on 4 Nov 2008 at 5:58 am.
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Today is Election Day here in the United States. I live in Texas, and we have the opportunity to vote early during the two weeks before the week of the election day, so I voted early last week. That way, I won’t have to stand in line today to vote. For all of my readers […]
NGC 404
Published on 3 Nov 2008 at 5:54 pm.
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I started to learn the sky when I was in graduate school. I used to go out to the observatory on off nights and just have fun. I would pick out a star chart for a constellation and just try to find everything that I could in that constellation. On one of […]
CoS 77
Published on 2 Nov 2008 at 6:26 pm.
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The 77th edition of the Carnival of Space is hosted this week at Tomorrow is Here.
Go check it out. I have continued to be swamped, so my own blogging has been a bit lacking the last month or so. Eventually, I’ll get caught up on paperwork and be able to get back to a normal […]
