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Today's NASA Briefing
by Patrick Wiggins 03 Feb '05

03 Feb '05

Two things of note out of today's briefing. 1) The briefer noted they have received 132 reports of found debris in CA, 130 in AZ and 9 in NM but that none had been confirmed. He made no mention of Utah. 2) The picture mentioned in the Aviation Week article was shown. Some of the media has been playing it up as being "hi resolution". Don't know that I'd call it hi-res but it does show the shape of the orbiter and maybe there's "something" with the left wing but the image is so pixcelated it's hard to say for sure. No doubt the picture will be all over the TV tonight.

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New Saturn Picture
by Siegfried Jachmann 27 Oct '04

27 Oct '04

Joe, I see it the same way and wondered the same thing even before reading your post. The ring is not parallel with the belts. I'm also wondering where the top of the planet disappeared to. Siegfried Jachmann Family History Network Comptroller 801-553-8881

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] NGC5139
by UTAHDEB＠aol.com 01 May '03

01 May '03

Jim, We must be on the same wavelength. Last night, I was checking out Omega Centauri on the Sky and Telescope interactive chart. I was trying to figure out when it would be highest in the sky. I saw it last year down here just over the Arizona border. My scope was in a complete horizontal position but it was in the eyepiece (22 Panoptic). I guess I got lucky because I didn't know when the cluster was at its highest point in the sky. I just love this cluster. It is about the size of the full moon. M13 is about half of it's size. Keep in mind this NGC 5139 is at its highest when Spica is at its highest. If you haven't seen this cluster, I'd suggest coming down to St. George this spring. Also check out the Centaurus A galaxy. It is higher up in the sky than the Omega Centauri cluster. Debbie

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RE: [Utah-astronomy] OT Fencing
by Kim Hyatt 01 Apr '03

01 Apr '03

I believe that's the club in Foothill? (I live about four blocks from there.) -----Original Message----- From: Greg Taylor [mailto:astronomus_maximus@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 3:40 PM To: Astronomy in Utah Subject: [Utah-astronomy] OT Fencing What club? The salt lake femcing club seems to be rather expensive for a year. (maby if you have your own equipment it would cost lest) Also, they meet at really obtuse hours. (8 or 9 pm) Greg --- Kim Hyatt <khyatt(a)smithlayton.com> wrote: > Yeah, I fenced foil and epee, but it was years ago. > I've been tempted to > take it up again - there's even a fencing club near > my home. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Greg Taylor > [mailto:astronomus_maximus@yahoo.com] > Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 8:45 PM > To: Astronomy in Utah > Subject: RE: [Utah-astronomy] SLAS meeting? > > > > Kim, > > Do you do any fencing yourself? I dabbled in it a > bit > several years ago and I wouldn't mind taking it up > again. (I preferred the Epee) > > Greg > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, > live on your desktop! > http://platinum.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > Utah-Astronomy mailing list > Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy > > _______________________________________________ > Utah-Astronomy mailing list > Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com > http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list Utah-Astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Learning the sky
by UTAHDEB＠aol.com 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

Jim, I loved your report too. I found some optimal times to view Omega Centauri on the Sky and Telescope interactive chart. For April 1st it would be around 1:05 am and May 1st it woud be around 11:05 pm MST. I'll have to find out when we go back to daylight savings time so I can adjust the times in May. Debbie

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RE: [Utah-astronomy] Dropping a ball in the desert
by Kim Hyatt 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

I'm not even going to get into this... -----Original Message----- From: RStmarie(a)aol.com [mailto:RStmarie@aol.com] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 8:29 AM To: utah-astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Dropping a ball in the desert I saw the rubber band ball dropped on the cable tv show "Real TV" with Ahmad Rahshad. It was about a 5' ball of rubber. It went splat. It left about a 4' crater. I'm sure the show will be on reruns. I think they used private land out by Mahave airfield California City, CA. for a drop zone. That particular drop zone is famous for dropping guys in cars, motorcycles, boats, nearly anything you can think of.

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Dropping a ball in the desert
by RStmarie＠aol.com 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

I saw the rubber band ball dropped on the cable tv show "Real TV" with Ahmad Rahshad. It was about a 5' ball of rubber. It went splat. It left about a 4' crater. I'm sure the show will be on reruns. I think they used private land out by Mahave airfield California City, CA. for a drop zone. That particular drop zone is famous for dropping guys in cars, motorcycles, boats, nearly anything you can think of.

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RE: [Utah-astronomy] OT Fencing
by Kim Hyatt 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

The foil fencer must establish the right of way by displacing the opponent's weapon and pointing his/her weapon directly at the opponent's torso before attacking. Only by parrying the attack can the opponent retake the right-of-way. Unless the fencer has clearly obtained the right of way, a hit made without it halts the action but no points are scored. -----Original Message----- From: RStmarie(a)aol.com [mailto:RStmarie@aol.com] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 11:34 AM To: utah-astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] OT Fencing What is right of way?

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Messier Marathon
by Greg Taylor 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

Hi all, I went to SPOC last night and attempted the Messier Marthon. I was even later than I expected (it was around 11pm by the time I had gotten set up). By 4am (after 60 or 70 objects and a while after everyone else had gone) I was so hammered that I decided to look at Mars for a while (I was having a much harder time than I should have finding globulars in Ophiuchus). Then my confounded cheap k-mart folding chair gave way. I was so tired and ticked off that I just packed up and went home. I might have stuck it out if there had been someone else there to chat with (I always mutter to myself when I do any viewing, but it's not the same). Part of the reason that I was so tired is that I got lost in Virgo and had to back track quite a bit (I whish that I had brought Uranometria with me, I was just using Sky and Telescope's Messier card). Also, I knew that I was in trouble when I was having a hard time finding M81 and M82 (turns out that I was trying to star hop from the wrong star). All in all, I had a good time. Greg __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com

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Dropping a ball in the desert
by ELyrae＠aol.com 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

I just heard on Paul Harvey in the radio (570). He gave a story about a man that had gathered rubber bands and made a huge rubber ball. He wanted to know how high it could bounce. So he took it in an airplane a mile or so above the Mojave Desert and dropped it. It hit with a thud, didn't bounce at all, it only left a hole in the desert. Did he have BLM permission? Did he even ask? Maybe we should go there to try the bowling ball experiment?? Siegfried

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