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Offline mitlen

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Re: Space. The Final Frontier.
« Reply #777: March 17, 2015, 10:24:12 PM »
Went up on the hill and didn't see anything that even looked like the Northern Lights.   

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« Reply #778: March 18, 2015, 07:59:31 AM »
Went up on the hill and didn't see anything that even looked like the Northern Lights.   

Probably obscured by Kohoutek.

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« Reply #779: March 18, 2015, 08:05:44 AM »
Probably obscured by Kohoutek.
I missed Kohoutek cause I was getting my swine flu shot at the time.

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« Reply #780: March 18, 2015, 08:13:00 AM »
Probably obscured by Kohoutek.

Wow.    I googled to see when it came around  ...   1973!

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« Reply #781: March 18, 2015, 08:15:43 AM »
I missed Kohoutek cause I was getting my swine flu shot at the time.

If you sneezed, you missed it.


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Re: Space. The Final Frontier.
« Reply #784: July 08, 2015, 11:59:13 AM »
July 19 is Star Wars Day at Nats Park. I plan on being there, event though I'm more of a Star Trek nerd.


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« Reply #785: July 08, 2015, 02:26:43 PM »
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This is an extremely cool pic, thanks for posting it. 


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Re: Space. The Final Frontier.
« Reply #787: July 14, 2015, 08:25:28 AM »
Pluto fly by today  ....

"It’s approaching Pluto after a more than nine-year, three-billion mile journey. At 7:49 AM EDT on Tuesday, July 14 the unmanned spacecraft will zip past Pluto at 30,800 miles per hour (49,600 kilometers per hour), with a suite of seven science instruments busily gathering data."

http://www.nasa.gov/feature/one-million-miles-to-go-pluto-is-more-intriguing-than-ever

http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/14/us/nasa-new-horizons-pluto-flyby/index.html

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Re: Space. The Final Frontier.
« Reply #788: July 14, 2015, 09:33:06 AM »
Pluto fly by today  ....

"It’s approaching Pluto after a more than nine-year, three-billion mile journey. At 7:49 AM EDT on Tuesday, July 14 the unmanned spacecraft will zip past Pluto at 30,800 miles per hour (49,600 kilometers per hour), with a suite of seven science instruments busily gathering data."

http://www.nasa.gov/feature/one-million-miles-to-go-pluto-is-more-intriguing-than-ever

http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/14/us/nasa-new-horizons-pluto-flyby/index.html
Too bad it's technically not a planet anymore.

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Re: Space. The Final Frontier.
« Reply #789: July 14, 2015, 09:41:50 AM »
Too bad it's technically not a planet anymore.

Have you been there?      Trust me, it's a planet.     ;)

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Re: Space. The Final Frontier.
« Reply #790: July 14, 2015, 09:42:08 AM »
Too bad it's technically not a planet anymore.

but it's growing

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Pluto has just been found to be ever so slightly bigger than we thought, having a diameter of 2,370km.
The measurement was made by the New Horizons probe which is just about to flyby the dwarf world.
The result means it is confirmed as the largest object yet detected in the outer zone of the Solar System known as the Kuiper Belt.

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-33513905

 

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Re: Space. The Final Frontier.
« Reply #791: July 14, 2015, 09:55:53 AM »
Too bad it's technically not a planet anymore.
Did someone tell the New Horizons craft?  Was it a planet when the craft took off?  I'd imagine it is disappointed.  You don't want to p-off a spacecraft.  I remember that probe from Star Trek IV, not to mention V-ger in Star Trek I.

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« Reply #793: July 14, 2015, 04:37:46 PM »
Too bad it's technically not a planet anymore.

It'll always be a planet to me.

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« Reply #794: July 14, 2015, 04:48:42 PM »
Have you been there?      Trust me, it's a planet.     ;)
I've been to all the planets. As well as other assorted entities.

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« Reply #795: July 14, 2015, 05:16:27 PM »
I've been to all the planets. As well as other assorted entities.


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Re: Space. The Final Frontier.
« Reply #796: July 14, 2015, 08:44:55 PM »
Expecting Horizon to phone home around 9 PM EDT.

http://www.nasa.gov/

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Offline GburgNatsFan

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Re: Space. The Final Frontier.
« Reply #798: July 15, 2015, 07:14:12 AM »
You've been to... Uranus?
I've been to all the planets. As well as other assorted entities.

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Re: Space. The Final Frontier.
« Reply #799: July 15, 2015, 08:32:00 AM »
You've been to... Uranus?
Just mine, not urs.