The current issue of S&T notes that Ceres and Vesta will be within half a degree of each other between 29 June and 12 July and closest at only 10 arc minutes on 5 July. By coincidence there will be a SPOC star party on the 5th and I'm looking forward to using the Bogdan and its just over half degree field to see two relatively bright minor planets in the same FOV. If I've got my figures right on that evening the two will be 39 degrees up at the start of nautical dark and 32 degrees at the start of astronomical dark. Now having said all that, I'll predict rain the night of the 5th... :) Also, unrelated to the above but related to an earlier thread here on terminal velocity, here's a fun video a few friends shot a while back. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnvcs6PNIxc I'm thinking that with the right amount of streamers we could do the same with a bowling ball. :) patrick
Weeee! Blam! New crater in the salt flats. On Saturday, April 26, 2014 11:17 PM, Wiggins Patrick <paw@getbeehive.net> wrote: The current issue of S&T notes that Ceres and Vesta will be within half a degree of each other between 29 June and 12 July and closest at only 10 arc minutes on 5 July. By coincidence there will be a SPOC star party on the 5th and I'm looking forward to using the Bogdan and its just over half degree field to see two relatively bright minor planets in the same FOV. If I've got my figures right on that evening the two will be 39 degrees up at the start of nautical dark and 32 degrees at the start of astronomical dark. Now having said all that, I'll predict rain the night of the 5th... :) Also, unrelated to the above but related to an earlier thread here on terminal velocity, here's a fun video a few friends shot a while back. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnvcs6PNIxc I'm thinking that with the right amount of streamers we could do the same with a bowling ball. :) patrick _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Send messages to the list to Utah-Astronomy@mailman.xmission.com The Utah-Astronomy mailing list is not affiliated with any astronomy club. To unsubscribe go to: http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy Then enter your email address in the space provided and click on "Unsubscribe or edit options".
How many of you remember the guy with the bowling ball canon? Now THAT was a blast!
The guy who had his own little military compound. On Apr 27, 2014 12:11 AM, "Wiggins Patrick" <paw@getbeehive.net> wrote:
The Tribune columnist or the guy in Tooele?
patrick
On 26 Apr 2014, at 23:51, Chuck Hards <chuck.hards@gmail.com> wrote:
How many of you remember the guy with the bowling ball canon? Now THAT
was
a blast!
Yeah, Robert Kirby -- easily one of the funniest people alive -- recently shot a bowling ball from a mortar and apparently spooked some cows. Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android
Once a year, at LDRS, one of the contests is to see how high you can get a bowling ball using a rocket. I suspect there may be other launches, but this one I am familiar with as Our club hosted this launch a number of years ago on the Salt Flats. 73 Sent from my iPad
On Apr 27, 2014, at 7:32 AM, Joe Bauman <josephmbauman@yahoo.com> wrote:
Yeah, Robert Kirby -- easily one of the funniest people alive -- recently shot a bowling ball from a mortar and apparently spooked some cows.
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