March 2010 - Utah-Astronomy - mailman.xmission.com

Ours isn't the only bad weather
by Patrick Wiggins 03 Mar '10

03 Mar '10

This was just posted to the Minor Planet Mailing List (reposted here with permission of the author). Looks like others have it even worse than us. patrick On 02 Mar 2010, at 14:13, P. Clay Sherrod wrote: > This bad weather is not a yearly monsoon for most of us....this is the worst stretch (12 > month period since 2009) that we have had here in this area in 40 years, in terms of sky > transparency and cloud cover; factor in nights with very turbulent air and moonlight and > we are shooting less than 15% of the nights in the past months. Inquiring with other > observers throughout northern hemispheres (both east and west) reveal similar trends > worldwide. > > Clay > _____ > Dr. P. Clay Sherrod > Arkansas Sky Observatories > MPC H45 - Petit Jean Mountain South > MPC H41 - Petit Jean Mountain > MPC H43 - Conway West > http://www.arksky.org/

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Mars Express heading for closest flyby of Phobos
by Patrick Wiggins 02 Mar '10

02 Mar '10

The flyby is happening before the next issue of News goes out so I figured I'd post the link here. http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/index.html patrick

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Air Force robo-mini-shuttle set to launch April 19
by Canopus56 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

Air Force X-37B spaceplane arrives in Florida for launch http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av012/100225x37arrival/ - Clear Skies, Kurt

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