Carnival of Space #96

The CoS #96 — the Q&A edition — is now up at Astroengine. As always, there’s lots of cool astronomy stuff to distract you with shiny objects and pretty baubles.

April 1st, 2009 8:00 PM by Phil Plait in Astronomy, Space | 3 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

3 Responses to “Carnival of Space #96”

1. Alan Says:
April 2nd, 2009 at 3:24 am

http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/meteorite-strikes-cottesloe-beach-20090401-9jbw.html
2. Charles Boyer Says:
April 2nd, 2009 at 6:52 am

Anyone remember “2010″ the sequel to Arthur C. Clarke’s “2001: A Space Odyssey?”

Part of the plot is actually happening now:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/04/02/jupiter.red.spot.shrinking/index.html

Can Frank Bowman be far behind?

“ALL THESE WORLDS
ARE YOURS EXCEPT
EUROPA
ATTEMPT NO
LANDING THERE
USE THEM TOGETHER
USE THEM IN PEACE”"
3. Grand Lunar Says:
April 3rd, 2009 at 4:59 am

Actually, the name of the astronaut was Dave Bowman.
Frank was Frank Poole.

The last two lines were not orginally by Clarke, but added in by director Peter Hyams for the film.

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