My power went out at 1 am on Friday morning and finally was restored Monday night at about 9. The fireplace in my Liberty Park area bungalow has a gas log, but at one time the fireplace insert (you know, those old ornate cast iron/brass devices from when they probably burned coal) was removed, so the setup is far from efficient. Two down comfortors with a living hot water bottle (my cat) inserted in-between, directly above my torso, made sleeping comfortable, and the water heater was fortunately NOT electronically controlled, but let me tell you, getting out of the shower was no fun. Camping out inside gets old fast, really fast. Doc utah-astronomy-request@mailman.xmission.com wrote:

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1. Re: Lost Dog (Beagle 2) (Patrick Wiggins) 2. Mars News (David Dunn) 3. amateur astronomy, zen, & power outages (Chuck Hards) 4. RE: amateur astronomy, zen, & power outages (Kim Hyatt) 5. RE: amateur astronomy, zen, & power outages (Chuck Hards) 6. Re: C/2000 T7 LINEAR (UTAHDEB@aol.com) 7. Re: C/2000 T7 LINEAR (Patrick Wiggins) 8. Re: C/2000 T7 LINEAR (Chuck Hards) 9. Re: C/2000 T7 LINEAR (UTAHDEB@aol.com) 10. RE: amateur astronomy, zen, & power outages (Gary Liptrot) 11. RE: amateur astronomy, zen, & power outages (Chuck Hards)

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Message: 1 Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2003 21:30:38 -0700 From: Patrick Wiggins <paw@trilobyte.net> Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Re: Lost Dog (Beagle 2) To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Message-ID: <3FEFADED.295FDFAF@trilobyte.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

One ray of hope comes from the fact that Odyssey was not designed to detect signals from Beagle. The Mars Express orbiter (the part of the mission that continues to work fine and that the media continues to ignore) was designed for that purpose. So hopefully, once it is in position early next month we'll finally hear from Beagle.

Patrick

Chuck Hards wrote:

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Mars has a habit of eating space probes, there's no doubt about it. While there may still be slim hope for Beagle 2, it looks like the planetary equivalent of the "kite-eating tree" got the planetary scientists again. Taking Patrick's observations as a guide, I've tried to avoid getting my news from main-stream sources and stayed with those friendly to science. Less soap opera that way.

The past few unsuccessful landers have just made that little Sojourner rover all the more remarkable, don't you think?... And those Viking landers still cast a long shadow, don't they?

Keep your fingers crossed. There's an ID chip in this lost pup.

C.o

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Message: 2 Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2003 13:36:05 -0700 From: David Dunn <david.dunn@albertsons.com> Subject: [Utah-astronomy] Mars News To: "&Astro (utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com)" <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Message-ID: <99899D7E2E3BD411A9DB00508B665DF206ED6FE3@slcntdex01.albertsons.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

I happened across this article while browsing. This would be the kind of luck I would have.

http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/marsexpress/031229crater.html <http://www.spaceflightnow.com/mars/marsexpress/031229crater.html>

Thanks. David Dunn