Comments on: NASA’s next launch dates http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/04/18/nasas-next-launch-dates/ I am an astronomer, writer, and skeptic. I likes reality the way it is, and I aims to keep it that way. My real name is Phil Plait, and I run the Bad Astronomy blog. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:33:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Astrolink [Global Edition] » GLAST launch moved to January 31, 2008 | Latest astronomy news in 11 languages http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/04/18/nasas-next-launch-dates/#comment-34755 Astrolink [Global Edition] » GLAST launch moved to January 31, 2008 | Latest astronomy news in 11 languages Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:45:55 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/04/18/nasas-next-launch-dates/#comment-34755 [...] has been moved back a bit, to January 31, 2008. Prior to this, the launch was scheduled for December 14. Delays like this are fairly typical given how hard it is to get spacecraft hardware put together. [...] […] has been moved back a bit, to January 31, 2008. Prior to this, the launch was scheduled for December 14. Delays like this are fairly typical given how hard it is to get spacecraft hardware put together. […]

]]> By: Troy http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/04/18/nasas-next-launch-dates/#comment-34754 Troy Sat, 21 Apr 2007 03:55:10 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/04/18/nasas-next-launch-dates/#comment-34754 Yay! DAWN finally making it. I wish Ceres was first. Interesting bit of trivia while Pluto was downgraded to dwarf planet status Ceres was upgraded to dwarf planet status and DAWN will actually get to Ceres before New Horizons gets to Pluto. I hadn't heard of Phoenix, I like the logo though. The poles are definently something we should check out especially with the loss of Mars Polar Lander (and two impactors) in 1999. Glast is new to me, sounds interesting. Orbiting observatories have been such a boon to astronomy. Yay! DAWN finally making it. I wish Ceres was first. Interesting bit of trivia while Pluto was downgraded to dwarf planet status Ceres was upgraded to dwarf planet status and DAWN will actually get to Ceres before New Horizons gets to Pluto.
I hadn’t heard of Phoenix, I like the logo though. The poles are definently something we should check out especially with the loss of Mars Polar Lander (and two impactors) in 1999.
Glast is new to me, sounds interesting. Orbiting observatories have been such a boon to astronomy.

]]> By: StevoR http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/04/18/nasas-next-launch-dates/#comment-34753 StevoR Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:17:56 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/04/18/nasas-next-launch-dates/#comment-34753 I presume that's 2007 for all these? Never mind "Minor planet /dwarf planet" though they're all planets to me! If they're round like a planet, orbiting the sun independently like planets & not burning nuclear fuel like stars, well thats planetary enough as far as I'm concerned! If that means the solar system consists of 50 planets rather than 8 well so much the merrier then! I presume that’s 2007 for all these?

Never mind “Minor planet /dwarf planet” though they’re all planets to me!

If they’re round like a planet, orbiting the sun independently like planets & not burning nuclear fuel like stars, well thats planetary enough as far as I’m concerned! If that means the solar system consists of 50 planets rather than 8 well so much the merrier then!

]]> By: Fizzygoo http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/04/18/nasas-next-launch-dates/#comment-34752 Fizzygoo Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:51:58 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/04/18/nasas-next-launch-dates/#comment-34752 Woohoo! GLAST! Less than a year now. Beats window shopping at Macy's though. Woohoo! GLAST! Less than a year now. Beats window shopping at Macy’s though.

]]> By: shoeshine boy http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/04/18/nasas-next-launch-dates/#comment-34751 shoeshine boy Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:37:26 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/04/18/nasas-next-launch-dates/#comment-34751 ...or maybe "dwarf planet." …or maybe “dwarf planet.”

]]> By: shoeshine boy http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/04/18/nasas-next-launch-dates/#comment-34750 shoeshine boy Thu, 19 Apr 2007 00:33:12 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/04/18/nasas-next-launch-dates/#comment-34750 That's "minor planet" Ceres to you. ;-) That’s “minor planet” Ceres to you. ;-)

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