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If Deseret Industries Had A Food Court
by baxman2＠q.com 05 Feb '16

05 Feb '16

The Deseret Industries at Welfare Square, for a number of years, actually did have a cafe in the store. Unfortunately, it was later shut down to make more room for products processing.

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Off-Topic: If Deseret Industries had a food court
by Chuck Hards 05 Feb '16

05 Feb '16

Probably only the locals will get this, but my wife and I were talking about the terrific food court at IKEA, and somehow we began to speculate about a possible food court at D.I. We both like to go there once in a while, both to drop-off donations, and I look for old telescopes and binoculars, she looks at clothes, to stretch her clothing dollars. We think they would probably serve "funeral potatoes", green-bean cassarole, and green Jello with carrots. Wash it down with kool-ade. This is the kind of conversation you get at home when you marry a Mormon, folks. ;-)

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RASC Calendars reduced
by Thomas Sevcik 04 Feb '16

04 Feb '16

Greetings fellow SLAS members, If you were interested in obtaining a 2016 Royal Astronomical Society of Canada's calendar, now is the time! We've reduced the price from $24.95 to $12.48 ($13.33 with tax) as of today. We have only five left on hand, so it's first-come-first serve! And we've gotten a bunch of new Orion 2" eyepieces! Come down and check out the remodeled planetarium while you're at it! Tom Sevcik

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C/2013 US10 Catalina
by Dave Gary 04 Feb '16

04 Feb '16

Comet C/2013 US10 Catalina as photographed from the Driveway Observatory last night. A small galaxy in the bottom right-hand corner is visible. I think it's NGC 2146. This galaxy is about 90 million light years distant (~28 million parsecs), while the comet is at a distance of 142.9 million kilometers or 7.94 light minutes. This photo was taken last night at about 22:30 from St. George. > https://www.flickr.com/photos/78046474@N06/24697298852/ <https://www.flickr.com/photos/78046474@N06/24697298852/> Dave

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Liver & Onions Subcommittee Luncheon
by Chuck Hards 31 Jan '16

31 Jan '16

I know Kay needs a few weeks notice, so how about Saturday January 30th? Kay, if you could make the 23rd, that's an option.

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Google AI algorithm masters Go
by chuckhards 28 Jan '16

28 Jan '16

So when will the machines be smart enough to mow my lawn? Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone -------- Original message -------- From: Dave Gary <davegary(a)me.com> Date: 01/27/2016 4:42 PM (GMT-07:00) To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy(a)mailman.xmission.com> Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Google AI algorithm masters Go

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Google AI algorithm masters Go
by Dave Gary 27 Jan '16

27 Jan '16

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Fw: [meteorite-list] Salt Lake City fireball images?
by Linton Rohr 22 Jan '16

22 Jan '16

Greetings to all, I just saw this inquiry on another mailing list and thought I'd repost it here, with the hope that someone up in the SLC area. Marc has been deeply involved in the locating of numerous meteorites, through the use of doppler radar. Any help locating the dust images would be greatly appreciated. Linton -----Original Message----- From: FRIES, MARC D. (JSC-XI211) via Meteorite-list Sent: Friday, January 22, 2016 2:41 PM To: meteorite-list(a)meteoritecentral.com Subject: [meteorite-list] Salt Lake City fireball images? Howdy all Back on 18 Nov 2009 there was a huge bolide over Salt Lake City, UT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJFejgd9bSE The following morning, locals reported seeing high-altitude dust lingering over the city. At the time I figured it was a coincidence, but in retrospect I think the dust very well may have been debris from the fireball. Does anyone have any pictures of the dust? I recall that one was passed around a bit, but I canÂ¹t find it now. IÂ¹d like to use the image in a science presentation, and will (of course) give credit for the image to the owner. Cheers, Marc Fries ______________________________________________ Visit our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/meteoritecentral and the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list(a)meteoritecentral.com https://pairlist3.pair.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2016.0.7357 / Virus Database: 4522/11461 - Release Date: 01/22/16

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Orion sale
by Larry Holmes 21 Jan '16

21 Jan '16

Orion has a pretty good number of mostly "2nds" this week. 73

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Re: [Utah-astronomy] Liver & Onions Subcommittee Luncheon
by Chuck Hards 20 Jan '16

20 Jan '16

I guess Kay isn't reading his emails, I still haven't heard from him. Should we go for this coming Saturday, the 23rd, then? Seems to be the date most people can make it. Please post if you plan to attend, so I can get a head count and reserve our table. We'll do another one soon, to make up for the long lapse.

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