I am busy and there’s too much to write about! So.
1) Go see Emily. She has cool stuff about 3D animations and very pretty pictures of the Moon from Kaguya!
2) Go see Fraser. He has cool images of Deimos and Phobos, the moons of Mars.
3) Go see Wired. They have a hilarious story about Futurama.
Tomorrow: new cool Hubble image. Stay tuned.
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November 28th, 2007 at 5:11 pm
And go and see this: http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMS9773R8F_index_1.html#subhead1
If you haven’t
November 28th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
Nibbler: “Everyone, out of the Universe – quick!”
November 28th, 2007 at 6:37 pm
I’m so glad to see Futurama coming back. Sometimes I mention this and people are unaware of its return. Then we get to do a happy dance together.
In the article on Phobos and Deimos, Fraser has a misprint:
>Phobos is only 21 km (13 miles) across, and orbits Mars once
>every 7 days, 39 minutes. Because the moon orbits Mars faster
>than it rotates, Phobos would appear to travel backwards across
>the sky from an observer on the ground. This is just an illusion,
>though.
It orbits in 7 =hours=, 39 minutes. This is about 3.2 orbits per Martian day.
These images that they’re getting from the moon are awe-inspiring. O.O
November 28th, 2007 at 7:21 pm
I just registered on the forum to ask if that time to orbit could be right. And now I see that it’s already been clarified here.
Impressive readership!
(For the record, it said that Deimos is the further away yet had the shorter ‘orbitation time’ – I couldn’t square that with my recall of Kepler. Glad to see I haven’t wholly lost it yet.)
November 29th, 2007 at 12:33 am
I sometimes meet people who have never heard of Futurama, I would never fit in socially in those circles.