Archives for July 2009
A dark spot on Jupiter
Published on 29 Jul 2009 at 11:48 pm.
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Filed under Jupiter, astronomy, observing.
Amateur astronomer Anthony Wesley took an image of Jupiter on July 19 showing a dark spot on the planet. The spot looked remarkably like the sort of impact features left when Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 hit Jupiter in July 1994. In fact, a lot of people very quickly announced that this was another impact on […]
CoS 113
Published on 27 Jul 2009 at 8:22 am.
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Steinn has the 113th edition of the Carnival of Space over at his Cat Dynamics site, so go check it out. As expected, most of the collected posts deal with the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing. There’s, of course, a few posts about the impact scar on Jupiter (and that will likely be […]
40 years ago: a big step
Published on 20 Jul 2009 at 6:48 am.
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Filed under history, space exploration.
There’s not much to say that everyone else isn’t already saying all over the internet. Forty years ago, the first humans set foot on another world: the Moon. It may be the nearest other world, but it is nonetheless another world. That is an amazing feat.
In a way, it is hard to imagine that it […]
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Yes, men really did go to the Moon.
Published on 17 Jul 2009 at 4:31 pm.
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Filed under moon, space exploration.
Like so many other people around the world in 1969, I watched the Apollo 11 landing on the Moon unfold. I watched as the astronauts stepped forth onto the lunar surface. I followed the entire mission on television. So, it was a pretty big shock to me to find that some people didn’t believe that […]
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40 Years Ago
Published on 16 Jul 2009 at 9:38 am.
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Filed under NASA, history, space exploration.
40 years ago today a giant Saturn V rocket lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center on a trip of a lifetime. The astronauts were going to the Moon. The Saturn V rocket was an amazing piece of equipment. It was the largest rocket that was ever built (the Soviets had tried to build one […]
Red Moon
Published on 12 Jul 2009 at 2:50 pm.
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I’ve been very busy with extra projects at the college the last couple of weeks. However, I try to wind down at bed time by reading a chapter or two from a novel. The latest one has been Red Moon, by Michael Cassutt. Like the last book that I reviewed here, this one is a […]
Interesting book by Joven
Published on 5 Jul 2009 at 10:29 pm.
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A week or so ago, Byrd was at the library with her niece and brought home a book that was on the new rack. It was called The Book of God and Physics, by Enrique Joven. At first, I thought that it might be a book about reconciling science and religion. Instead, though, it is […]
