On Saturday I leave for the American Astronomical Society meeting in Seattle. This is always a good time, with lots of news, fun, and science-geekiness (go to my January 2006 archives on the right hand menu for my posts from the last big AAS meeting). There is promise of some major news releases, but no details as yet. I’ll be attending the press conferences, so I’ll try to have any astro-news on the blog as soon as it’s released.
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DISCOVERmagazine.com: Latest Articles on Space - DISCOVER Blogs: The Loom
January 6th, 2007 at 12:35 am
The link says to be published 8-1-07. Is that correct?
January 6th, 2007 at 1:03 am
skeptigirl
In Europe it is customary to list the date in the format Day/Month/Year instead of our sequence of M/D/Y. So for the European Space Agency 8-1-07 means the 8th day of the 1st month in 2007.
A quote from the link confirms that, “The next transmission of the ESA TV Service will be: 08-Jan-07″
Don’t feel bad. I was quite confused the first several times I visited bulletin boards hosted outside the U.S.
January 6th, 2007 at 5:00 am
We Brits occasionally wonder what happened on the 9th of November…
January 6th, 2007 at 5:59 am
Make sure your laptop and charger work ok, unlike last time :naughty:
January 6th, 2007 at 12:17 pm
Slacker Astronomers are also there (four of them!) (http://sa-blog.livejournal.com/) and so is the Nature (http://blogs.nature.com/news/blog/conference_reports/american_astronomical_society/).
Still, more is better!