Comments on: Quick roundup of spacey things

By: Thomas Siefert

Thomas Siefert — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:33:12 +0000

Iâ€™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.

I sometimes meet people who have never heard of Futurama, I would never fit in socially in those circles.

By: Sili

Sili — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:21:02 +0000

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.)

By: MandyDax

MandyDax — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 01:37:11 +0000

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

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:45:03 +0000

Nibbler: “Everyone, out of the Universe – quick!”

By: Magnus W

Magnus W — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:11:05 +0000

And go and see this: http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMS9773R8F_index_1.html#subhead1

If you haven’t