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Scientists Confirm Earth-Like Planet Orbiting Nearby Star
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On General/Chat 04/01/2002 1:31:00 AM EST · 6 replies · 322+ views
Scifidimensions | 4-01 | John C. Snider
Scientists Confirm Earth-Like Planet Orbiting Nearby Star by John C. Snider Researchers at the University of Toronto announced that they have photographic evidence of an Earth-like planet orbiting Kapteyn's Star, a red dwarf only 12.8 light-years away. The images posted to the UTC website show two views of a deeply cratered, apparently airless world approximately 34,000 kilometers (21,000 miles) in diameter. (Earth is 7,926 miles in diameter.) Scientists have nicknamed the planet "Mickey," although its official designation for the time being is UTC-27745-3665."By 'Earth-like' what we mean is that it's a rocky planet - not a gas giant, which...
Home Alone In The Universe?
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On News/Activism 04/19/2002 9:07:56 AM EDT · 31 replies · 365+ views
First Things | March 2002 | Fred Heeren
Home Alone in the Universe? Fred Heeren As I first learned at a dinner table surrounded by new acquaintances, questioning people's belief in extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI) is like questioning their religious faith. Doubts are met with gasps. The fierce stares say not just, "We disagree," but "You have blasphemed."Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against curing cancer, heart disease, and AIDS, which advanced aliens could presumably do. I'd be fascinated to hear an alien's perspective on the meaning and purpose of life. I'm all for immediate solutions to our war/crime/ poverty problems, which a mature society is supposed to...
30 Billion Earths? New Estimate of Exoplanets in Our Galaxy
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On General/Chat 05/28/2002 8:33:19 PM EDT · 5 replies · 216+ views
Space.COM | 29 January 2002 | By Robert Roy Britt
By Robert Roy Britt Senior Science Writer posted: 07:00 am ET 29 January 2002 Chances are you haven't spent a whole lot of time wondering how many Jupiter-like planets exist in our galaxy. But Charley Lineweaver has, because it bears on a more important question: How many potentially habitable planets are there? New calculations by Lineweaver and Daniel Grether, both of the University of New South Wales in Australia, provide an encouraging answer to this question. The researchers expect a flood of Jupiters will be found, perhaps 50 percent more than currently expected. Each such discovery would be significant...
Solar system similar to ours discovered: US astronomers
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On News/Activism 06/13/2002 7:17:37 PM EDT · 118 replies · 666+ views
Yahoo! News via Drudge | June 13, 2002 | Yahoo! News staff
Friday June 14, 3:19 AMSolar system similar to ours discovered: US astronomers US astronomers announced the discovery of a solar system similar to our own, at a press conference at NASA's headquarters here.Astronomers said they had identified an extra-solar planet orbiting this star at about the same distance Jupiter orbits the sun. They discovered a total of 15 extra-solar planets.University of California at Berkley astronomy professor Geoffrey Marcy discovered the star, named 55 Cancri, 15 years ago, jointly with his colleague at Washington's Carnegie Institution Paul Butler.In 1996, Marcy and Butler announced the discovery of a first planet orbiting 55...
Astronomy Picture of the Day 6-14-02
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On General/Chat 06/14/2002 8:28:02 AM EDT · 10 replies · 162+ views
NASA | 6-14-02 | Robert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnell
Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2002 June 14 55 Cancri: Familiar Planet Discovered Illustration Credit & Copyright: Lynette Cook Explanation: Is our Solar System unique? The discovery of a Jupiter-like planet in a Jupiter-like orbit around nearby Sun-like star 55 Cancri, announced yesterday, gives a new indication that planetary systems similar to our Solar System likely exist elsewhere. The planet, discovered by G. Marcy (UC Berkeley) and collaborators, is one of two new...
Astronomy Picture of the Day
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On General/Chat 08/17/2002 12:17:07 AM EDT · 37 replies · 244+ views
NASA | 8/17/02 | K. Zwintz, H. Tirado and A. Gomez
Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2002 August 17 Asteroid 2002 NY40 Credit: K. Zwintz (Univ. Viena), H. Tirado and A. Gomez (CTIO, NOAO) Explanation: Asteroid 2002 NY40 will fly by planet Earth early in the morning August 18 Universal Time (late in the evening August 17 Eastern Daylight Time). Approaching to within about 530,000 kilometers or 1.3 times the Earth-Moon distance 2002 NY40 will definitely not be close enough to pose any danger...
Distant planet with iron raindrops found (clouds and fog made of molten iron)
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On News/Activism 01/08/2003 12:49:52 PM EST · 56 replies · 900+ views
SEATTLE (AP) -- Using a new technique that will be used to search for Earthlike planets, astronomers have found a distant extrasolar planet, a bizarre place of torrid heat, with clouds and raindrops made of iron.A team from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics found the planet orbiting a star 5,000 light years away by detecting the slight dimming of light caused as the planet moved between the star and telescopes on Earth. The sophisticated technique was compared to spotting the shadow cast by a mosquito flying in front of a searchlight two hundred miles away. Because it is so close...
Odds against Earth-like planets
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On News/Activism 01/28/2003 2:50:07 PM EST · 130 replies · 647+ views
news.bbc.co.uk | January 28, 2003 | Dr David Whitehouse
Earth-like worlds circling stars in orbital zones suitable for life may be few and far between in the cosmos, according to new research. In the first comprehensive study of extrasolar planetary systems, astronomers have shown that in most of them it would not be possible to keep an Earth-like world in orbit around a star so that it was neither too hot nor too cold for life. In general, other planetary systems fall into two types: those with Jupiter-like worlds circling close to their parent star, and those with more distant Jupiters in elliptical orbits. In both systems, maintaining an...
Deadly Dance: Giant Planet Found Orbiting Huge Star
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space DOT COM | 23 January 2003 | By Robert Roy Britt
Deadly Dance: Giant Planet Found Orbiting Huge Star By Robert Roy Britt Senior Science Writer posted: 07:00 am ET 23 January 2003 A large planet recently found orbiting a distant star serves as a preview for the likely frying fate that awaits our own planet. The star, called HD 47536, is more than 23 times the diameter of our Sun. It is the largest star ever found to harbor a planet. The discovery was announced Wednesday. The planet is five to 10 times heavier than Jupiter and orbits the star more than twice as far as Earth is from...
Having Pups Over Pluto And The Planetary Misfits Of The Kuipers
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On General/Chat 03/12/2003 8:27:54 PM EST · 5 replies · 86+ views
spacedaily.com | 12 Mar 03 | Robert Sanders
Having Pups Over Pluto And The Planetary Misfits Of The Kuipers Ask any kid how many planets are in our solar system, and you'll get a firm answer: nine. But knock on a few doors in Berkeley's astronomy department, and you'll hear, amid the hemming and hawing, a whole range of numbers. Professor Gibor Basri, who plans soon to propose a formal definition of a planet to the international body that names astronomical objects, argues that there are at least 14 planets, and perhaps as many as 20. To the well-known list of nine he adds several large asteroids and...
Too Close For Comfort: Hubble Discovers An Evaporating Planet
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On News/Activism 03/14/2003 9:03:50 AM EST · 4 replies · 196+ views
Science Daily | FR Post 3-15-03 | Editorial Staff
Source: Space Telescope Science Institute Date: 2003-03-14 Too Close For Comfort: Hubble Discovers An Evaporating PlanetFor the first time, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have observed the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet evaporating off into space. Much of the planet may eventually disappear, leaving only a dense core. The planet is a type of extrasolar planet known as a "hot Jupiter." These giant gaseous planets orbit their parent stars very closely, drawn to them like moths to a flame. The scorched planet, called HD 209458b, orbits only 4 million miles (7 million kilometers) from its yellow, Sun-like star....
Is there another Earth out there?
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On News/Activism 06/04/2003 4:05:01 PM EDT · 154 replies · 513+ views
USA Today | Staff Writer

Forget the next Star Wars movie. The real space sequel guaranteed to capture public attention, astronomers say, is the discovery of another planet like Earth in our own starry neighborhood -- and it is likely to happen within a decade.

Astronomers find 'home from home' - 90 light years away!
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On News/Activism 07/03/2003 1:22:13 PM EDT · 360 replies · 443+ views
spaceref.com | 3 Jul 03 | staff
Astronomers find 'home from home' - 90 light years away! Astronomers looking for planetary systems that resemble our own solar system have found the most similar formation so far. British astronomers, working with Australian and American colleagues, have discovered a planet like Jupiter in orbit round a nearby star that is very like our own Sun. Among the hundred found so far, this system is the one most similar to our Solar System. The planet's orbit is like that of Jupiter in our own Solar System, especially as it is nearly circular and there are no bigger planets closer in...
Astronomy Picture of the Day 7-09-03
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On General/Chat 07/09/2003 12:29:04 AM EDT · 12 replies · 180+ views
NASA | 7-09-03 | Robert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnell
Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2003 July 9 HD70642: A Star with Similar Planets Illustration Credit & Copyright: David A. Hardy, PPARC Explanation: Astronomers have discovered a planetary system more similar to our own Solar System than any known previously. The bright star HD70642, visible with binoculars toward the constellation of Puppis, was already known to be a star like our Sun. Now a planet with twice Jupiter's mass has been discovered in...
Not Enough Comets in the Cupboard
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On News/Activism 09/13/2003 8:17:25 PM EDT · 123 replies · 370+ views
Creation-Evolution Headlines | Creation-Evolution Headlines
Not Enough Comets in the Cupboard 09/03/2003 There's a shortage of comets. The Hubble Space Telescope peered into the Kuiper Belt cupboard, and found it nearly empty ñ only 4% of the predicted supply was found. Astronomers needed a bigger storehouse to explain the number of short-period comets now inhabiting the solar system. The Kuiper Belt, a region of small icy bodies beyond Neptune, has been the favored source of comets with orbital periods 200 years or less, but the new measurements, soon to be published in the Astrophysical Journal, are 'wildly inconsistent' with the observed number of...
Earth: no longer the lonely planet
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On News/Activism 09/27/2003 10:19:20 AM EDT · 125 replies · 300+ views
SpaceRef | 9/26/03
The question of whether we're alone in the universe just got a lot bigger. Two astronomers from the University of New South Wales, Australia - Dr Charles Lineweaver and Daniel Grether - have found that at least 25 per cent of Sun-like stars have planets. "This means there are at least 100 billion stars with planets in our Galaxy," says Dr Lineweaver, a Senior Research Fellow at the University's School of Physics. Until now, astronomers believed that only five to 15 per cent of Sun-like stars had orbiting planets, but Lineweaver and Grether's work shows that previous estimates under-reported the...
How Lonely is Our Planet?
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On News/Activism 11/12/2003 1:27:11 PM EST · 52 replies · 265+ views
Tech Central Station | 11/12/2003 | Kenneth Silber
How Lonely is Our Planet? By Kenneth Silber Where are they? Physicist Enrico Fermi famously posed this question when asked about intelligent extraterrestrials. If such beings exist, why have we (presumably) not been contacted or visited? Fermi's Paradox, as it is now known, is more profound than it may appear. Calculations suggest that if our galaxy has even one extraterrestrial civilization with the interest and ability to colonize new star systems, such a civilization could spread far and wide in a period far shorter than the age of the galaxy. There are many possible solutions to Fermi's Paradox. Perhaps extraterrestrials...
Oxygen at Extrasolar Planet, a First
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On News/Activism 02/02/2004 9:01:13 PM EST · 23 replies · 155+ views
space.com | 02/02/04 | Tariq Malik
Astronomers have detected the first presence of oxygen and carbon in the atmosphere of an extrasolar planet, a world already known to be venting massive amounts of gas into space. The find is evidence of an atmospheric "blow off" in action, where energetic hydrogen gas drags heavier elements along for a supersonic ride into space.
Newfound World Shatters Distance Record
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On News/Activism 04/15/2004 7:30:27 PM EDT · 5 replies · 110+ views
Space.com | 15 April 2004 | Robert Roy Britt
Separate teams today announced the discoveries of three planets outside our solar system, including one that is more than three times farther away than the previous record holder. Tricks used to find the giant worlds are expected to also allow detection of Earth-sized planets by the end of the decade. Previously the most distant known planet was 5,000 light-years away. One of the newly spotted worlds and its host star are 17,000 light-years distant. They inhabit a crowded region of space toward the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. The far-off planet is estimated to be about 1.5 times...
Astronomers may have image of extrasolar planet
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On News/Activism 05/10/2004 12:49:46 PM EDT · 22 replies · 104+ views
SPACE.com | May 10th 2004 | Robert Roy Britt
In a preliminary analysis of new data, astronomers say they may have imaged a planet outside our solar system for the first time by using a tricky new method to ferret out dim objects from the light of a star. The researchers are very cautious not to claim any discovery yet. The faint point of light, captured by the Hubble Space Telescope, might instead be a background star or a very distant galaxy and requires follow-up observations to be confirmed. Images HOW IT'S DONE: A raw infrared image of a white dwarf star from Hubble shows a lot of noise,...
Double Vision: Two Telescopes for Hunting Earth-like Planets
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On News/Activism 05/26/2004 9:37:25 PM EDT · 12 replies · 111+ views
space.com | 5/26/04 | Tariq Malik
After years of whittling away prospective designs for a NASA mission to search for earth-like planets around alien stars, the space agency had narrowed the choice down to two very different observatories. The first -- a coronagraph -- would blot out at a star's light in the hopes of seeing small orbiting planets, while the other -- an interferometer -- would use a fleet of infrared telescopes working in tandem to hunt for the same extrasolar quarry.
Earth-like planets may be more rare than thought
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On News/Activism 07/30/2004 2:12:50 PM EDT · 179 replies · 2,544+ views
Nature Magazine | 30 July 2004 | Philip Ball
We could be alone in the Universe after all. The discovery during the past decade of over a hundred planets around other stars has encouraged many scientists to think that habitable planets like ours might be common. But a recent study tells them to think again. Martin Beer of the University of Leicester, UK, and co-workers argue that our Solar System may be highly unusual, compared with the planetary systems of other stars. In a preprint published on Arxiv1 [footnote's link in original article], they point out that the alien planets we have seen so far could have been formed...
Major instrument aboard Hubble telescope may be dead
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On News/Activism 08/07/2004 8:39:39 PM EDT · 31 replies · 631+ views
Houston Chronicle | August 7, 2004
One of four science instruments on the Hubble Space Telescope has apparently failed and engineers are trying to determine whether it can be fixed. One of the telescope's spectographs - specifically the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) - provides spectra and images at ultraviolet and visible wavelengths. It was installed in 1997 during the second servicing mission by space shuttle astronauts. The STIS - which went into "suspended mode" Tuesday - was designed to operate for only five years and has met or exceeded all its scientific requirements, NASA officials said in a written statement. It had not been scheduled...
'Super Earth' Discovered at Nearby Star
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On News/Activism 08/25/2004 6:27:13 PM EDT · 65 replies · 1,288+ views
Space.com | 8/25/04 | Robert Roy Britt
In a discovery that has left one expert stunned, European astronomers have found one of the smallest planets known outside our solar system, a world about 14 times the mass of our own around a star much like the Sun. It could be a rocky planet with a thin atmosphere, a sort of "super Earth," the researchers said today. But this is no typical Earth. It completes its tight orbit in less than 10 days, compared to the 365 required for our year. Its daytime face would be scorched. The planet's surface conditions aren't known, said Portuguese researcher Nuno Santos,...
Astronomy Picture of the Day 08-25-04
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On General/Chat 08/25/2004 8:58:29 PM EDT · 8 replies · 1,112+ views
NASA | 08-25-04 | Robert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnell
Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2004 August 25 Zodiacal Light and the False Dawn Credit & Copyright: Stefan Seip Explanation: An unusual triangle of light will be particularly bright near the eastern horizon before sunrise during the next two months for observers in Earth's northern hemisphere. Once considered a false dawn, this triangle of light is actually Zodiacal Light, light reflected from interplanetary dust particles. The triangle is clearly visible in the left frame...
Astronomy Picture of the Day 08-31-04
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On General/Chat 08/31/2004 8:16:43 AM EDT · 9 replies · 1,278+ views
NASA | 08-31-04 | Robert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnell
Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2004 August 31 The Dotted Dunes of Mars Credit & Copyright: Malin Space Science Systems, MOC, MGS, JPL, NASA Explanation: What causes the black dots on dunes on Mars? As spring dawns on the Northern Hemisphere of Mars, dunes of sand near the poles begin to defrost. Thinner regions of ice typically thaw first revealing sand whose darkness soaks in sunlight and accelerates the thaw. By summer, the...
All of a Sudden, the Neighborhood Looks a Lot Friendlier
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On News/Activism 09/21/2004 6:38:18 PM EDT · 10 replies · 828+ views
NY Times | September 21, 2004 | DENNIS OVERBYE
Like most New Yorkers, I have real estate fever. Even though I hate moving, I can't travel anywhere without wondering what it would be like to live there. I can't walk down a street in Oaxaca or the East Village without window shopping for apartments and evaluating the restaurant scene and the availability of playgrounds. It doesn't stop there. Roll a sleeping bag out under the sky in a place like Mesa Verde, 7,000 feet up in the Colorado Rockies, on a summer evening and you will wake up at midnight with your nose in the Milky Way. There are...
Extrasolar Planets: A Matter of Metallicity
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On News/Activism 10/12/2004 3:52:50 PM EDT · 32 replies · 956+ views
Space Daily, SPX | Oct 12, 2004 | Henry Bortman
Extrasolar Planets: A Matter of Metallicity by Henry Bortman for Astrobiology Magazine Moffett Field (SPX) Oct 12, 2004 Astronomers have discovered more than 130 planets orbiting nearby stars in our galaxy. Although the solar systems they have found are very different from ours, by studying the planets that have been found - their masses, their orbits and their stars - they are uncovering intriguing hints that our galaxy may be brimming with solar systems like our own. According to Greg Laughlin, an assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics at UC Santa Cruz, planet hunters can expect, over time, to find...
Stellar encounters as the origin of distant Solar System objects in highly eccentric orbits
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On General/Chat 12/02/2004 7:51:41 PM EST · 38 replies · 783+ views
Nature Magazine | Dec 2/ 2004 | Scott J. Kenyon and Benjamin C. Bromley
If you can make sense of it, here's the article: Stellar encounters as the origin of distant Solar System objects in highly eccentric orbits SCOTT J. KENYON AND BENJAMIN C. BROMLEY The Kuiper belt extends from the orbit of Neptune at 30 AU to an abrupt outer edge about 50 AU from the Sun. Beyond the edge is a sparse population of objects with large orbital eccentricities. Neptune shapes the dynamics of most Kuiper belt objects, but the recently discovered planet 2003 VB12 (Sedna) has an eccentric orbit with a perihelion distance of 70 AU, far beyond Neptune's gravitational influence....
Astronomers Confident: Planet Beyond Solar System Has Been Photographed
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On News/Activism 01/11/2005 8:25:11 PM EST · 28 replies · 1,190+ views
Science.com | 1/10/05 | Robert Roy Britt
SAN DIEGO -- Astronomers are highly confident that they've taken the first photograph of a planet outside our solar system. Make that two photographs. A new image from the Hubble Space Telescope confirms with a high degree of confidence a picture made previously by astronomers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and reported by SPACE.com in September. The planet -- still just a candidate, actually -- is an odd duck in many respects. It does not orbit a normal star, and it is much more massive than the largest planets in our solar system. Still, if confirmed, it represents a...
First direct sighting of an extrasolar planet
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On News/Activism 01/12/2005 10:07:27 AM EST · 55 replies · 1,573+ views
NewScientist.com news service | Tuesday, January 11, 2005 | Maggie McKee
Astronomers have directly observed an extrasolar planet for the first time, but are at a loss to explain what they see. More than 130 planets have been detected orbiting stars other than our own, the Sun. But because the stars far outshine the planets, all of the planets were detected indirectly - by how much they made their host stars wobble or dim, for example. Now, astronomers say they are almost certain they have snapped an actual image of an extrasolar planet. It was first seen at infrared wavelengths with the Very Large Telescope in Chile in April 2004, and...
Spitzer Sees the Aftermath of a Planetary Collision
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On General/Chat 01/13/2005 11:50:18 PM EST · 13 replies · 442+ views
Universe Today | Jan. 10, 2005 | Dolores Beasley and Gay Yee Hill
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope has found a dusty ring of material orbiting nearby Vega which was probably the result of a series of protoplanets smashing into each other. Vega is the fifth brightest star in the sky, located only 25 light-years away in the constellation of Lyra. This dust is constantly being blown out by Vega's intense radiation, so it's unlikely that the star has had this much dust for its entire lifetime. Instead, this ring must have been formed recently, perhaps when a Pluto-sized object was pulverized within the last million years or so.
Titan a 'Flammable' Moon Covered in Liquid Gas
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On News/Activism 01/21/2005 10:17:19 AM EST · 72 replies · 1,701+ views
Al-Rueters via Yapoo | 1/21/05 | Ben Berkowitz
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Saturn's moon Titan is covered by "dirty" ice ridges and seas of liquid natural gas, a team of scientists said on Friday after a week of research into data from the space probe Huygens. "We've got a flammable world," said Toby Owen, an atmospheric scientist, at a news conference from European Space Agency offices in Paris monitored on NASA (news - web sites) TV. After a seven-year piggyback trip from Earth on board the Saturn probe Cassini, the European-designed Huygens separated in December and fell toward Titan, entering the moon's atmosphere last Friday. The probe, part...
Massive Object Calls Planet Discoveries into Question
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On General/Chat 01/21/2005 12:19:56 PM EST · 8 replies · 452+ views
Space dot com (via Yahoo) | Thu, Jan 20, 2005 | Robert Roy Britt
Astronomers have found about 140 planets outside our solar system. Most are more massive than Jupiter, and some are much more massive. Astronomers have been scrambling to figure out where to draw the line between a giant gas planet and a brown dwarf. Complicating the matter, several objects that appear to be in the acceptable mass range for planets -- up to about 15 Jupiter masses -- were discovered about five years ago floating freely in space, not bound to any star... Brown dwarfs, especially when they are young, give off heat, which can be detected as infrared radiation. But...
Diamond Planets: Rich Possibilities for Other Worlds
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Science - Space.com | Tue Feb 8,11:21 AM ET | Robert Roy Britt
Diamond Planets: Rich Possibilities for Other Worlds The solid planets in our solar system are made mostly of silicates. Rock, basically. A new study shows that planets around some other stars might be made mostly of carbon instead. Deep inside such worlds, where pressures are intense, the carbon would make layers of diamonds that could be miles thick. The rich-sounding worlds are modeled after a certain type of space rock, known as the carbonaceous chondrite, which are thought to be broken bits of asteroids. Many of them have been collected on Earth. "These meteorites contain large quantities of carbon compounds...
Light Spotted From Beyond Solar System
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On News/Activism 03/22/2005 9:20:30 PM EST · 35 replies · 849+ views
Yahoo | 03/22/05 | JOSEPH B. VERRENGIA
A NASA (news - web sites) telescope peering far beyond our solar system has for the first time directly measured light from two Jupiter-sized gas planets closely orbiting distant stars, adding crucial features to astronomy's portrait of faraway worlds. Studies of the infrared light streaming from the two giant planets suggest they are made of hot, swirling gases that reach a broiling 1,340 degrees Fahrenheit or higher. "It's an awesome experience to realize we are seeing the glow of distant worlds," said astronomer David Charbonneau of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., whose team captured light from a...
EXCLUSIVE: First Confirmed Picture of a Planet Beyond the Solar System
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On News/Activism 04/01/2005 2:35:44 PM EST · 50 replies · 2,803+ views
Space.com | April 1, 2005 | Robert Roy Britt
After a few close calls, astronomers have finally obtained the first photograph of a planet beyond our solar system, SPACE.com has learned. And this time they're sure. The planet is thought to be one to two times as massive as Jupiter. It orbits a star similar to a young version of our Sun. The star, GQ Lupi, has been observed by a team of European astronomers since 1999. They have made three images using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) in Chile. The Hubble Space Telescope and the Japanese Subaru Telescope each contributed an image,...
Exploring the Universe
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On News/Activism 04/02/2005 5:45:44 AM EST · 51 replies · 969+ views
Physics Today Online | April 2, 2005 | Roger Blandford
In midñFebruary, I participated in a NASA Science Update press briefing that presented gammañray and radio observations of a flaring neutron star. A neutron star is a solarñmass worth of mundane and exotic nuclei and fundamental particles trapped by gravity at supranuclear densities, exhibiting superfluidity and superconductivity. The star is encased within a solid crust, a liquid ocean, a gaseous atmosphere, and a relativistic plasma magnetosphere capable of inducing zettavolt electromotive forces and radiating intense, coherent emission. Neutron stars are used to test general relativity and to search for gravitational radiation. The neutron star in question is also a 'magnetar,'...
Plenty of Earths await discovery
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On News/Activism 04/05/2005 12:36:50 PM EDT · 84 replies · 1,265+ views
BBC | 4/5/05 | Jonathan Amos
The Universe could host billions of EarthsBritish researchers are more confident than ever that there are "Earths" out there waiting to be discovered.The scientists say perhaps a half of all the known planetary systems today could be harbouring habitable worlds. It must be said most of these systems are strange places where supergiant planets orbit close in to their stars. But Barrie Jones and colleagues say their modelling work suggests that even with this oddness, there should be room for small rocky planets. The Open University team presented its ideas here at the UK National Astronomy Meeting on Tuesday. They...
Scientists Say Red Speck Is Indeed Huge New Planet
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On News/Activism 04/30/2005 1:22:03 AM EDT · 52 replies · 1,690+ views
NY Times | April 30, 2005 | DENNIS OVERBYE
A reddish speck photographed near a dim and distant star last year is indeed a planet, about five times the mass of Jupiter, an international team of astronomers is reporting today. They say the results bolster their claim, put forward last fall, that this image was the first of a planet orbiting a star outside the solar system. The planet, about 230 light-years from Earth in the constellation Hydra, orbits a kind of failed star known as a brown dwarf at a distance of at least five billion miles, twice as far as icy Neptune is from our own Sun....
10 Years of Planet Hunting: Amazing Variety Out There
Posted by KevinDavis
On News/Activism 05/09/2005 8:31:40 PM EDT · 8 replies · 375+ views
space.com | 05/09/05 | Michael Schirber
BALTIMORE ñ Astronomers met last week to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the first planet discovered around a normal star other than the Sun. Although more than 130 other such planets have been found since then, the field still feels like it is just getting started.
Possible Earth-like planet discovered
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On News/Activism 06/13/2005 3:42:00 PM EDT · 123 replies · 2,227+ views
Houston Comical (AP) | June 13, 2005, 2:14PM
WASHINGTON ó A planet that may be Earth-like ó but too hot for life as we know it ó has been discovered orbiting a nearby star.The discovery of the planet, with an estimated radius about twice that of Earth, was announced today at the National Science Foundation."This is the smallest extrasolar planet yet detected and the first of a new class of rocky terrestrial planets," Paul Butler of the Carnegie Institution in Washington said in a statement. "It's like Earth's bigger cousin."Geoffrey Marcy, professor of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley, added: "Over 2,000 years ago, the Greek philosophers...
Gonzalez Responds to Privileged Planet Attacks
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On News/Activism 07/01/2005 8:25:56 PM EDT · 11 replies · 565+ views
Discovery Institute News | June 29, 2005 | Guillermo Gonzalez
Discovery Institute News 1511 3rd Ave Suite 808 - Seattle, WA 98101 - (206) 292-0401 x126 An Open Letter to My Open-Minded Colleagues By: Guillermo Gonzalez Discovery Institute June 29, 2005 In March 2004 The Privileged Planet, which I co-authored with Jay Richards, was published, evoking both enthusiastic and negative reactions from a number of leading scientists. The argument covers everything from the fine-tuning of the constants of physics to the initial conditions of the Big Bang; from our host star and planetary neighbors to our atmosphere and moon. Our conclusion? The universe is designed not only for...
Astronomers detect 'Tatooine planet'
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On News/Activism 07/14/2005 4:07:16 PM EDT · 41 replies · 1,037+ views
Reuters | Thursday, July 14, 2005
Astronomers have detected a planet outside our solar system with not one, but three suns, a finding that challenges astronomers' theories of planetary formation. The planet, a gas giant slightly larger than Jupiter, orbits the main star of a triple-star system known as HD 188753 in the constellation Cygnus. The stellar trio and its planet are about 149 light-years from Earth and about as close to each other as our sun is to Saturn, U.S. scientists reported on Thursday in the current edition of the journal Nature. A light-year is about 6 trillion miles (10 trillion km), the distance light...
System of three stars harbors newfound world
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On News/Activism 07/15/2005 7:08:14 AM EDT · 14 replies · 460+ views
MSNBC.MSN.com | July 13, 2005 | By Michael Schirber
Newly discovered planet has 3 suns Scientists puzzled at how such a planet could form A newly discovered planet has bountiful sunshine, with not one, not two, but three suns glowing in its sky. It is the first extrasolar planet found in a system with three stars. How a planet was born amidst these competing gravitational forces will be a challenge for planet formation theories. "The environment in which this planet exists is quite spectacular," said Maciej Konacki from the California Institute of Technology. "With three suns, the sky view must be out of this world -- literally and figuratively."...
Rapid-born planets present 'baby picture' of our early solar system
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On General/Chat 09/10/2005 12:39:51 AM EDT · 14 replies · 379+ views
EurekAlert | September 9, 2005 | Staff
Using NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, a team of astronomers led by the University of Rochester has detected gaps ringing the dusty disks around two very young stars, which suggests that gas-giant planets have formed there. A year ago, these same researchers found evidence of the first "baby planet" around a young star, challenging most astrophysicists's models of giant-planet formation. The new findings in the Sept. 10 issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters not only reinforce the idea that giant planets like Jupiter form much faster than scientists have traditionally expected, but one of the gas-enshrouded stars, called GM Aurigae, is analogous...
Scientists discover moon orbiting so-called 10th planet (nicknamed 'Xena')
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On News/Activism 10/01/2005 8:10:46 PM EDT · 28 replies · 762+ views
ap on Monterey Herald | 10/1/05 | Alicia Chang - ap
LOS ANGELES - The astronomers who claim to have discovered the 10th planet in the solar system have made another intriguing announcement: it has a moon. While observing the new, so-called planet from Hawaii last month, a team of astronomers led by Michael Brown of the California Institute of Technology spotted a faint object trailing next to it. Because it was moving, astronomers ruled it was a moon and not a background star, which is stationary. The moon discovery is important because it can help scientists determine the new planet's mass. In July, Brown announced the discovery of an icy,...
NASA Takes Giant Step Toward Finding Earth-Like Planets
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On News/Activism 10/01/2005 8:42:25 PM EDT · 17 replies · 482+ views
nasa | 09/29/05
Are we alone in the universe? Are there planets like Earth around other "suns" that might harbor life? Thanks to a recent technology breakthrough on a key NASA planet-finding project, the dream of answering those questions is no longer light-years away. On a crystal clear, star-filled night at Hawaii's Keck Observatory in Mauna Kea, NASA engineers successfully suppressed the blinding light of three stars, including the well-known Vega, by 100 times. This breakthrough will enable scientists to detect the dim dust disks around stars, where planets might be forming. Normally the disks are obscured by the glare of the starlight....
New Planetoid Discovery Sets Off Feud
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On News/Activism 10/17/2005 2:07:35 AM EDT · 17 replies · 583+ views
Yahoo News | Sun Oct 16, 6:50 PM ET | AP
LOS ANGELES - The discovery of a new planetoid has set off a bitter feud between American and Spanish scientists while raising questions about the ethics of Internet research. The dispute began in July when Michael Brown, a professor at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, discovered a new planetoid in the solar system known as the Kuiper Belt. Days before announcing his discovery, however, a group of Spanish astronomers claimed the new planetoid. American researchers said they learned that the Spanish scientists had discovered where Brown was aiming a Chilean telescope by using an Internet search engine. "This...
Giant Kuiper Belt planetoid Sedna may have formed far beyond Pluto
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On General/Chat 10/22/2005 4:05:39 PM EDT · 18 replies · 404+ views
Physics Org (http://www.physorg.com/) | January 24, 2005 | Southwest Research Institute
In a report published in the January 2005 issue of The Astronomical Journal, planetary scientist Dr. Alan Stern of the Space Science and Engineering Division at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) shows Sedna could have formed far beyond the distance of Pluto... Stern's Sedna formation simulations assumed that Sedna's original orbit, while distant from the Sun, was circular. Astronomers agree that Sedna could not have formed in its present, eccentric orbit because such an orbit allows only violent collisions that prevent the growth of small bodies. Stern's simulations further assumed that the solar nebula -- the disk of material out of...
Astronomers discover possible miniature solar system
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On News/Activism 11/29/2005 9:20:23 PM EST · 31 replies · 724+ views
ap on San Diego Union Tribune | 11/29/05 | AP - Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES ñ Astronomers peering through ground- and space-based telescopes have discovered what they believe is the birth of the smallest known solar system. Scientists found a tiny brown dwarf ñ or failed star ñ less than one hundredth the mass of the sun surrounded by what appears to be a disk of dust and gas. The brown dwarf ñ located 500 light years away in the constellation Chamaeleon ñ appears to be undergoing a planet-forming process that could one day yield a miniature solar system, said Kevin Luhman of Penn State University, who led the discovery. It's long believed...
Scientists find possible birth of tiniest known solar system
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On General/Chat 11/30/2005 4:28:43 PM EST · 16 replies · 634+ views
spaceflightnow.com | 30 Nov 05 | Penn State
Scientists find possible birth of tiniest known solar system PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY NEWS RELEASE Posted: November 29, 2005 Scientists using a combination of ground-based and orbiting telescopes have discovered a failed star, less than one-hundredth the mass of the Sun, possibly in the process of forming a solar system. It is the smallest known star-like object to harbor what appears to be a planet-forming disk of rocky and gaseous debris, which one day could evolve into tiny planets and create a solar system in miniature. A team led by Kevin Luhman, assistant professor of astronomy and astrophysics at Penn...
Neptune-Size Planet Orbiting Common Star Hints at Many More
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On News/Activism 11/30/2005 10:21:39 PM EST · 41 replies · 684+ views
space.com | 11/30/05 | Robert Roy Britt
Astronomers have discovered a planet about as massive as Neptune orbiting one of the most common types of stars in the universe. The star is a red dwarf, a class of star about 50 times fainter than the Sun. Among the 100 stars closest to us, 80 are red dwarfs. But astronomers had so far found only two planets in searches of about 200 red dwarfs, while well more than a hundred planets have been found around other types of stars. "Our finding possibly means that planets are rather frequent around the smallest stars," says Xavier Delfosse, from the Laboratoire...
Optical Vortex Coronagraph Could Look Directly At Extrasolar Planets
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On News/Activism 12/01/2005 10:51:55 PM EST · 6 replies · 335+ views
spacedaily.com | 12/01/05
A new optical device might allow astronomers to view extrasolar planets directly without the annoying glare of the parent star. It would do this by "nulling" out the light of the parent star by exploiting its wave nature, leaving the reflected light from the nearby planet to be observed in space-based detectors. The device, called an optical vortex coronagraph, is described in the December 15, 2005 issue of Optics Letters. About ten years ago the presence of planets around stars other than our sun was first deduced by the very tiny wobble in the star's spectrum of light imposed by...
The Big Bangs for Astronomers in 2005
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On News/Activism 12/20/2005 9:08:41 AM EST · 256+ views
space.com | 12/20.2005 | By Robert Roy Britt
PHOENIX, Ariz. -- The past year in space science and astronomy was dominated by debate and some tantalizing near-findings. A hangover of heady Mars discoveries festered while astronomers on the ground obtained evermore intimate glimpses of the outer solar system and the solar neighborhood but stopped short of declaring agreement on what they'd found. To punctuate that ambiguity with some stark clarity elsewhere, NASA smacked a comet and found it to be all fluff. Among the highlights: The 10th Planet? You might think the discovery of an object larger than Pluto orbiting the Sun would automatically be hailed as the...
2012: the piano-sized "New Horizons" probe of NASA nears Pluto (will it find ET there?)
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On News/Activism 01/10/2006 11:29:19 AM EST · 28 replies · 560+ views
India Daily | Jan. 6, 2006
Something spectacular may happen in 2012. New Horizons, a NASA space craft with a probe will travel at 26,700mph over four billion miles to Pluto. It will be in close proximity of Pluto by 2012. New Horizons probe will travel faster than any previous spacecraft on its journey to the planet farthest from the Sun, its moon Charon and the mysterious, icy Kuiper Belt. Relatively little is known about the ninth planet Pluto. It is an unknown zone of the solar system. Many scientists have started believing that Pluto will surprise all in the earth by 2012. There are fair...
New cheaper tools join search for another Earth
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On News/Activism 01/11/2006 8:36:45 PM EST · 19 replies · 382+ views
Reuters Science | 01/11/06 | Deborah Zabarenko
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A telescope turbo-charger called ET has found its first planet outside the solar system, and something that looks like a suitcase in space is tracking possible faraway Earths, astronomers reported on Wednesday. These two small, relatively cheap instruments are part of a new wave of tools and techniques joining the accelerating race to find a world like ours that orbits a different star. Scientists have detected more than 160 so-called extrasolar planets over the last decade. Most have been found by watching for a tell-tale wobble in the stars they orbit. None so far has been a...
Griffin Tells Astronomers To Lower Expectations
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On News/Activism 01/16/2006 12:53:39 PM EST · 165 replies · 1,697+ views
Aviation Week & Space Technology | 1/14/2006 | Frank Morring, Jr.
Aviation Week & Space Technology Griffin Tells Astronomers To Lower Expectations By Frank Morring, Jr. 01/14/2006 LOOKING TO THE STARS Astronomers in the U.S. can still look forward to a human servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope next year, and perhaps to big observatories on the far side of the Moon some day. But for the most part, the funding outlook at NASA for space science is tight as the agency shifts its focus to sending humans back to the Moon, meaning near-term priorities like searching for Earth-like planets around other stars will slip, and it will take longer...
New planet discovered in Milky Way
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On News/Activism 01/25/2006 8:56:47 PM EST · 23 replies · 900+ views
CNET | Wed Jan 25 | Stefanie Olsen
Scientists have discovered a planet more like Earth than any other found before, they said on Wednesday. It's 20,000 light-years away, just shy of the center of the Milky Way. The discovery, which the scientists called "groundbreaking," was made using a technique noted in 1912 by Albert Einstein through a network of telescopes positioned around the globe. The planet takes the nondescript name "OGLE-2005-BLG-390" after one such telescope, named OGLE, for Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment. OGLE, based in Poland's Warsaw University Observatory, was first used to spot the object on July 11, 2005. "This planet is actually the first and...
Found: one Earth-like planet - Astronomers use gravity lensing to spot homely planets.
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On News/Activism 01/25/2006 11:35:11 PM EST · 38 replies · 799+ views
email@example.com | 25 January 2006 | Mark Peplow
Close window Published online: 25 January 2006; | doi:10.1038/news060123-5 Found: one Earth-like planetAstronomers use gravity lensing to spot homely planets.Mark Peplow How to spot a planet: watch for wiggles in the light coming from a far distant star as it curves around another sun.© ESO Astronomers say they have found the most Earth-like planet yet outside our Solar System. At just 5.5 times the mass of Earth it is one of the smallest extrasolar planets ever found, and orbits its star at a distance comparable to that of habitable worlds. Similarly sized extrasolar planets have been found before. But...
Moving the Orbits of Planets
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On General/Chat 02/02/2006 12:44:25 PM EST · 39 replies · 338+ views
David Jewitt | Last updated Sep 2004 | David Jewitt
Meanwhile, the Doppler discovery of extrasolar planets orbiting very close to their parent stars has raised a different problem. Many of the planets are so close to their stars (<0.1 AU), and so hot, that they cannot be supposed to have formed where we now observe them. By inference, they could have formed at larger distances (several AU) and then migrated inwards. What would cause this inward migration? As with the solar system case, the root cause may be an exchange of angular momentum with material surrounding the planets at their formation. In particular, if the extrasolar planets formed in...
'Tenth Planet' found to be a whopper
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On News/Activism 02/03/2006 12:25:14 AM EST · 124 replies · 2,824+ views
firstname.lastname@example.com | 1 February 2006 | Mark Peplow
Close window Published online: 1 February 2006; | doi:10.1038/news060130-7 'Tenth Planet' found to be a whopperLarge size of 2003 UB313 fuels debate over what is and isn't a planet.Mark Peplow 2003 UB313 and its moon - currently nicknamed Xena and Gabrielle - take time off from their sword and sorcery shenanigans.© W. M. Keck Observatory The recently discovered 'tenth planet' of our Solar System is substantially larger than Pluto, astronomers have found. For many, the discovery that object 2003 UB313 is about 3,000 kilometres across will remove any doubt that it deserves to be called a planet. "Since UB313...
Hot Jupiters do not rule out alien Earths
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On News/Activism 03/31/2006 8:21:28 PM EST · 10 replies · 330+ views
New Scientist Space | 03/31/06 | Maggie McKee
Habitable, Earth-like planets can form even after giant planets have barrelled through their birthplace on epic migrations towards their host stars, new computer simulations suggest. The finding contradicts early ideas of how planets behave and suggests future space missions should search for terrestrial planets near known "hot Jupiters". Many of the 160 or so known extrasolar planets are hot Jupiters - massive planets that are closer to their stars than Mercury is to our Sun. But the planets probably did not form in these scorching regions because there would not have been enough gas and dust there to amass such...
Backyard Approach Finds Extrasolar Planet
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On General/Chat 05/24/2006 10:43:15 PM EDT · 8 replies · 148+ views
space.com | 05/23/06 | Bjorn Carey
Three years of scouring the skies with a "homemade" telescope fashioned from commercially available parts has finally paid off for astronomer Peter McCullough. First came the observation of the brief but telltale dimming of a sun-like star 600 light-years away, then the detection of the star's wobble indicative of an orbiting planet's presence. Finally, McCullough's international team of professional and amateur astronomers received the official word that they had discovered a Jupiter-sized planet. "Of the planets that pass in front of their stars, XO-1b is the most similar to Jupiter yet known, and the star XO-1 is the most similar...
Planets Around Planets?
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On General/Chat 06/05/2006 10:32:33 PM EDT · 4 replies · 64+ views
Sky and Telescope | 06/05/06 | Robert Naeye
June 5, 2006 | Evidence continues to mount that planets can form around very-low-mass objects. In fact, planets might even form around objects that are so low in mass that they themselves could be considered "planets." The latest results, reported at this week's American Astronomical Society meeting in Calgary, Alberta, come from groups led by Ray Jayawardhana (University of Toronto, Canada) and Subhanjoy Mohanty (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics).
"Planemos" May Give Rise to Planets, Moons
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On General/Chat 06/06/2006 2:08:11 AM EDT · 4 replies · 29+ views
Scientific American | June 06, 2006 | David Biello
Astronomer Ray Jayawardhana of the University of Toronto and his international team of colleagues surveyed the optical spectra of seven exoplanets in two studies. One focused on six planemos, or planetary mass objects, that float freely through space without a specific relationship to a star. The other study looked at the exoplanet locked in a binary system with a failed star that has just eight percent of the mass of our sun. The exoplanets in both studies bore the infrared emissions associated with dusty disks... Such disks are thought to be planetary nurseries, giving rise to satellites over time as...
Mysterious carbon excess found in infant solar system
PhysOrg.com | June 07, 2006 | Carnegie Institution
Posted on 06/09/2006 9:58:24 PM EDT by annie laurie
did I send you this before?
Interiors of extrasolar planets: A first stepA team of European astronomers, led by T. Guillot (CNRS, Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, France), will publish a new study of the physics of Pegasids (also known as hot Jupiters) in Astronomy & Astrophysics. They found that the amount of heavy elements in Pegasids is correlated to the metallicity of their parent stars. This is a first step in understanding the physical nature of the extrasolar planets.
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Up to now, astronomers have discovered 188 extrasolar planets, among which 10 are known as "transiting planets". These planets pass between their star and us at each orbit (Figure 1). Given the current technical limitations, the only transiting planets that can be detected are giant planets orbiting close to their parent star known as "hot Jupiters" or Pegasids. The ten transiting planets known thus far have masses between 110 and 430 Earth masses (for comparison, Jupiter, with 318 Earth masses, is the most massive planet in our Solar System).
The aging Sun-like star HD 69830 has three planets and an asteroid belt orbiting it less than 1 astronomical unit away. The three planets are at least as large as Neptune, with minimum masses of 10, 12, and 18 times Earth's. Credit: European Southern Observatory
Scientists Discover a Very Familiar-Looking Planetary SystemTwo years of close observations of the star HD 69830 have revealed that it is orbited by no less than three low-mass planets, with a minimum mass only 10-18 times that of Earth. Furthermore, scientists strongly suspect that HD 69830 is also host to an asteroid belt.
The Planetary Society
30 May 2006
The system around HD 69830, the authors explain, is unlike any of the other 17 planetary systems discovered so far. All other known systems are dominated by at least one giant Jupiter-sized planet, with a mass hundreds of times that of the Earth. In contrast, the newly discovered system is composed of planets of roughly equal size - all with masses similar to that of our neighbor Neptune. The innermost of the three planets orbits its star in just under 9 days, whereas the two outer ones complete each revolution in 32 days and 197 days respectively. Intriguingly, this places the outermost planet just inside the star's "habitable zone" the region in space in which liquid water is stable.
Dead Zones to the RescueThe new theory shows that on entering a dead zone, such a planet opens a very wide gap, and migrates very slowly because of the very slow drift of gas in the dead zone. For low mass planets like the Earth, or even Neptune, migration in normal disks can occur quickly (within a million years) and such planets do not typically open gaps (Type I migration). The new calculations show that if a light planet starts from outside the dead zone, then its migration will be reversed on encountering a steep gradient in gas density that marks the outer edge of the dead zone. On the other hand, if light planet is formed within the dead zone in the first place, that it can open a gap in the dead zone and switch into the much slower Type II migration. As an example, the computer simulations show that a 10 Earth mass planet opens a gap at about 4 AU and slows its migration dramatically.
based on a McMaster University release
Tuesday, June 06, 2006
The models show that newly formed Earth-like planets will not splash into their central stars and often end up in orbits around 0.1 AU. Another major consequence of this work is that the prediction that most massive planets in other solar systems circle their stars in orbits beyond 5 AU, and are still waiting to be discovered.
Red Dwarfs and Super-EarthsA new explanation for forming super-Earths suggests that they are more likely to be found orbiting red dwarf stars -- the most abundant type of star -- than gas giant planets like Jupiter and Saturn. The theory, by Dr. Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, describes a mechanism whereby UV radiation from a nearby massive star strips off a planet's gaseous envelope, exposing a super-Earth. The work, published in the June 10, 2006, Astrophysical Journal (Letters), explains recent extrasolar planet discoveries by the microlensing method.
AstroBiology magazine
based on a Carnegie Institution release
Jun 13, 2006
Super-Earths have masses that range between those of Earth and Neptune but have unknown compositions. Of the 300 stars closest to the Sun, at least 230 are red dwarf stars, with masses less than half that of our Sun, Boss says. Because nearby stars are the easiest places to look for other Earth-like planets, it is important to try to predict what types of planetary systems they might have, and that means trying to figure out how their planets can form.
Some additions.
Here's the small version of the logo, which may be what I'd use for pings to other topics:
Astronomy Picture for Today
nasa | 05/30/2006 | dg
Posted on 05/30/2006 4:11:10 PM EDT by HOTTIEBOY
"The closest star system to the Sun is the Alpha Centauri system. Of the three stars in the system, the dimmest -- called Proxima Centauri -- is actually the nearest star. The bright stars Alpha Centauri A and B form a close binary as they are separated by only 23 times the Earth- Sun distance - slightly greater than the distance between Uranus and the Sun... Alpha Centauri A is the same type of star as our Sun, causing many to speculate that it might contain planets that harbor life."
Researchers explain gas planet satellite systemsJupiter's four Galilean satellites are each roughly similar in size, while Saturn has one large satellite together with numerous much smaller satellites. Even so, the total mass in both satellite systems is about a hundredth of one percent (0.0001) of the respective planet's mass. The Uranian satellite system structure is similar to that of Jupiter, and it also exhibits the same mass ratio. In contrast, the large satellites of solid planets contain much larger fractions of their planet's masses, with the Moon containing 1 percent (0.01) of the Earth's mass, and Pluto's satellite, Charon, containing more than 10 percent (0.1) of its mass.
Southwest Research Institute
June 14, 2006
At the time, it was dubbed the Millennium Planet
No light from nearby planetThe team at St Andrews University caused a sensation last year when they reported that they had detected light reflected off a planet outside our Solar System - a so-called exoplanet. But one of the scientists, Dr Andrew Collier-Cameron, has revealed that "by sheer bad luck" they had been misled by "random noise" in the data they had been studying. The story centred on the star Tau Boo, around which a Jupiter-class planet is known to orbit. Detecting light from such a planet would have been a breakthrough. Astronomers hoped to analyse the light, deduce the planet's properties, and possibly look for evidence of life...The largest exoplanets circling nearby stars might just be within the vision of the Hubble Space Telescope but their close proximity to bright parent suns makes detection virtually impossible - they are lost in the light.
Dr David Whitehouse
Wednesday, 16 August, 2000
just added this one:
Planets in all the wrong places
The Christian Science Monitor | 03/06/06 | Michelle Thaller
Posted on 03/06/2006 8:16:39 PM EST by KevinDavis
X-Planets is a catch-all, to include extrasolar planets (by far the most common), but also Planets X (previously unknown, hypothetical, or essentially fictional planets in orbit around our Sun) and exploding planets (such as the EPH of TVF).
Duck Dodgers in the 24 1/2th Century (1953): Daffy plays Duck Dodgers in this great science fiction spoof, with Porky as his eager (and much smarter) first mate. Daffy must set out to find Planet X and recover the coveted "shaving cream atom." According to Daffy, they will begin their journey by going "30,600 miles due 'up'." Porky suggests they simply follow the planets in alphabetical order. Marvin the Martian makes an appearance in this cartoon, as well, and there's plenty of great pseudo-scientific gadgets, such as Daffy's "Ultimatum Dispatcher " that fires a bullet that unfurls a sign reading, "Surrender, or be blown into 17,670,002 micro cells." Of course, this leaves Marvin no choice but to use his "Ultimatum Answerer" which fires a bullet that simply shoots Daffy in the face.
This is dated Thursday, but it appears to be the same old same old.
Plutos Planethood Will Be Decided Shortly
June 22nd, 2006
Pluto has been considered a planet since its discovery, but this position has come under threat with the discovery of 2003 UB313 (aka Xena), an object larger than Pluto orbiting out further in the Solar System. The International Astronomical Union will be meeting in August to decide on the fate of Pluto. By September, we could have 8 or 10 planets in the Solar System, but there wont be 9 any more.
At its conference this August, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) will make a decision that could see Pluto lose its status as a planet.
For the first time, the organisation will be officially defining the word planet, and it is causing much debate in the world of astronomy.
There is only one thing that everyone seems to agree on: there are no longer nine planets in the Solar System.
The debate has been brought to a head by the discovery of a potential 10th planet, temporarily named 2003 UB313 in January 2005. This new candidate planet is bigger than Pluto.
The question now facing the IAU is whether to make this new discovery a planet.
Pluto is an unusual planet as it is made predominantly of ice and is smaller even than the Earths Moon.
There is a group of astronomers that are arguing for an eight-planet Solar System, with neither Pluto or 2003 UB313 making the grade as a planet; but a number of astronomers are arguing for a more specific definition of a planet.
One of these; Kuiper Belt researcher Dr Marc Buie, of the Lowell Observatory in Arizona, has come up with a clear planetary definition he would like to see the IAU adopt.
I believe the definition of planet should be as simple as possible, so Ive come up with two criteria, he said.
One is that it cant be big enough to burn its own matter - thats what a star does. On the small end, I think the boundary between a planet and not a planet should be, is the gravity of the object stronger than the strength of the material of the object? Thats a fancy way of saying is it round?
This definition could lead to our Solar System having as many as 20 planets, including Pluto, 2003 UB313, and many objects that were previously classified as moons or asteroids.
One possible resolution to the debate is for new categories of planet to be introduced. Mercury, Venus, the Earth and Mars would be rocky planets. The gas-giants Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune would be a second category.
Whatever the outcome of this debate there is only one thing that we can be certain of; by September 2006 there will no longer be just nine planets in our Solar System.
Holy Mackerel, what a list! It's gonna take me a month of Sundays to get through all those articles. But I'm gonna jump right in ... after the WC is over.
Minor Planets Stick TogetherIn January 2006, astronomers focused the Hubble Space Telescope on an icy rock near the orbit of Uranus and found twins. The object, known as 2002 CR46, turned out to be a binary: a minor planet the size of Rhode Island orbiting another the size of Connecticut at a distance of 1,300 kilometers (800 miles)... Many main-belt asteroids and Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs) are binary, but 2002 CR46 is the first known binary Centaur... The sticking power of 2002 CR46 hints at the existence of binary comets. Most short-period comets begin as KBOs, transition to Centaurs, then are kicked into the inner solar system by giant planets. And if binary Centaurs can survive multiple close encounters with these behemoths, they might also survive the final leap to become binary comets... In an upcoming paper in Icarus, Nolls team will report on 2002 CR46 and a second binary Centaur 2003 FX128 bringing the total number of known double minor-planets to almost 100. No longer statistically unlikely anomalies, binaries now seem to be a natural outcome for all kinds of minor planets.
by Selby Cull
June 23, 2006
You really need to ping me for stuff like this. I love it as much as GGG stuff....


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I'm looking for an old portable (less than 12 inch screen) laptop that will be able to run backtrack off the hard drive with no problems. it doesnt have to have integrated wireless but does have to have a pcmcia card slot.
The specs don't really matter as long as it can run backtrack.
oh and for £200 or less
SONY VAIO C1VE (bit more expensive but ULTRA portable)
IBM THINKPAD 240X PIII 500Mhz
any suggestions?
I'm currently using a old compaq armada m300
Runs bt2.0 fine (xp is chuggy as expected - still can browse the web ect but dont expect to play vids with integrated video)
11gb HDD
pcmcia slot on the right hand side
usb at back & on connector bay (cd/floppy mount it disconnects from)
note: Just make sure the battery is decent and you'll be right.
12.1" Screen
0.9" Thickness
3.4 Pounds (No AC Adaptor)
- its pretty friggin tiny
http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/a...06/m300-02.jpg <- thats it connected to the bay (actually about 1/2 the thickness)
http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/a...06/m300-04.jpg <- the size on the screen is the actual size of it (1280x res )
im curenly on an compaq armada 6500 hah! 30gb hdd
al is good .. combo network modem
needs atention under back track *(incodentaly)
and my bat=dead dodo
other than that its a bute
and all for a 4pack of grolsh
good luck on finding simler bargins !!
A third party security audit is the IT equivalent of a colonoscopy. It's long, intrusive, very uncomfortable, and when it's done, you'll have seen things you really didn't want to see, and you'll never forget that you've had one.
I always thought the Sony picturebooks were cool. No clue on how well it would work. It's a Sony, so expect things to be almost as proprietary as a Mac. My current BT laptop is a Dell Latitude C610. Works great, and I added aquired a second hard drive module to go where the cd/dvd usually sits. It's a 15" model though, so wouldn't work for your current want list.
Of course, if you really wanted to have some fun, go to Wal-Mart late at night and ask the greeter if they could help you find trashbags, roll of carpet, rope, quicklime, clorox and a shovel. See if they give you any strange looks. --Streaker69
what is the best/recomended processor speed for BT2 ?

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Holiday in the Park
Turnstyle & Rock S.A.L.T.
Saturday, December 8, 2012 at 7:30 PM (PST)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
Feel the holiday spirit and share it with those in need!
Featuring festive vocal jazz by Turnstyle and rockin' holiday tunes by Rock S.A.L.T., this free concert will be a wonderful night to gather with friends and family and celebrate the holiday season.
All proceeds from donations and snacks will go to Covenant House Los Angeles, a great organization that helps homeless and abandoned youth.
About the Performers:
Turnstyle is a Los Angeles-based vocal jazz group that puts a unique and edgy spin on a cappella arrangements of favorite jazz, rock, and R&B hits. In addition to singing sans instruments, the voices of Turnstyle frequently come together with two guitars for a singer-songwriter sound that really rocks!
Rock S.A.L.T. is a band chock full of musicians from all walks of life. Based at St. Augustine's Catholic Church in Culver City, the band comes together every Sunday evening for the Life Teen Mass, bringing a contemporary sound drawn from rock, pop, and gospel styles. Rock S.A.L.T. has played at many community events in the Los Angeles region and loves pulling out all the stops to provide great music, fun, and inspiration to audiences everywhere.
When & Where
Stoner Community Center
1835 Stoner Ave
Los Angeles,
Saturday, December 8, 2012 at 7:30 PM (PST)
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The Chesapeake Bay region is home to an amazing diversity of animals. From birds to fish to mammals, all of these creatures are an important, meaningful part of the Bay's delicate ecosystem.
You probably know something about the Bay's most popular critters, like blue crabs, ospreys and blue herons. But there are thousands of other important, unique critters that live in the region.
Here are some interesting facts about 10 of the Chesapeake Bay region's critters.
Found near swamps, forests and farms throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed, these reddish, dog-like mammals can run up to 30 miles per hour and jump 6 feet in the air!
Admittedly, aquatic sponges may not seem very exciting, but that's not why this critter is called "boring." The boring sponge gets its name from its habit of boring holes into oyster shells, which weakens or damages the shells. If you've ever found an oyster shell covered with pock marks, that oyster was once infested by a boring sponge.
Female sea turtles each lay about 100 eggs on beaches from Virginia to the Caribbean during spring and summer. Once the eggs hatch, the young sea turtles have less than a 1 percent chance of surviving to adulthood. But if they make it, they could live to be more than 50 years old!
Contrary to popular belief, horseshoe crabs are not actually crabs. These hard-shelled arthropods are more closely related to terrestrial spiders and scorpions. Their external appearance has not changed in more than 350 million years, either. Talk about prehistoric!
These large, black birds can see both above and under the water. They fly low over the water and dive under to catch their pray.
Sturgeons are prehistoric fish that has been around since dinosaurs roamed the Earth! They can also live to be 60 years old.
This black and white bird nests in depressions in marshes. After the chicks hatch, the female leaves the nest. The male will continue tending them for another two weeks.
When they are born, summer flounders have one eye on each side of their head. However, as they grow older, the right eye gradually moves over the head to join the left eye on the other side of the body!
The only time male and female bobcats interact is when they are mating. After they are finished, they go their separate ways.
This beautiful bird's scientific name, Aix sponsa, means "waterfowl in a bridal dress."
As I strode to the front of Ms. Molly Moran's second grade class at Annapolis Elementary School one June morning, I was confident in my lesson plan, so elegantly simple that I didn't even need the 3X5 index card in my shirt pocket on which I had it drawn out.
My former boss at EPA's Wetlands Division, John Meagher, had invited me to talk about what I do in my work through the ReSET program he directs. ReSET is a D.C.-based non-profit volunteer organization that partners working and retired scientists, engineers and technicians with elementary school teachers to improve science motivation and literacy. ReSET's goal is to introduce children in the classroom to science, engineering and technology as being enjoyable and exciting (i.e., fun!).
John did his lesson first. I had scoped out his topic and identified a meaningful connection between his talk and mine. He was going to teach a hands-on, desk-top laboratory lesson about buoyancy, including a key vocabulary word: "gravity." (Did you know that a lacrosse ball sinks in fresh water but floats in salt water?)
I decided that was my link. The audience would be primed. I had decided on the audience participation approach, to put the pen into their little hands.
It was my turn. On the flip chart at the front of the class, I drew a hillside – a single black line – with wavy blue water at the bottom of the hill: the Bay, just like right outside the classroom window. A stick-figure person. A lolli-pop green tree. A cloud. A fish in the water. A swimmer. Rain.
I asked the class: "Where does the water go when it rains?"
The class: "Down to the Bay!"
One smart kid got it right: "Gravity!"
"How many of you have or know people who have dogs?" All the hands went up. Another volunteer drew a red dog on the hillside.
Then the clincher: "What do dogs do when you take them out to walk in the morning?"
The entire chorus: "THEY POOP!"
Ms. Moran interrupted: "Oh, Mr. Mike, you just got them to say their favorite word!" The audience, giggling, was wrapped. "Wait!" I said, fumbling around the front desk, "There's no brown marker!" Ms. Moran stopped the lesson until she could find one.
There was no shortage of volunteers to draw the little brown pile behind the dog. It was not exactly to scale.
"Where does that poop go when it rains?" "To the Bay" "Why?" "Gravity!"
"How do you think the fish and the swimmer feel about that?" "Yech!"
"What do you think you can do about that?" They knew that answer too.
And the lesson was over. I haven't had that much fun since the last time I caught a steelhead on a fly rod in a snowstorm.
Seriously, if you like kids half as much as I do and care about the future of the world, combine the two by volunteering with John for the ReSET program. John has the lesson plans; you and the kids have the fun.
The northern snakehead – an invasive fish native to Asia – has been discovered for the first time in several Maryland and Delaware rivers that flow to the Chesapeake Bay.
This month, a team with the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center found a mature, egg-bearing snakehead in the Rhode River, just south of Annapolis. It was the first snakehead ever found in the Rhode River.
After the discovery of the Rhode River snakehead, officials with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) confirmed that another snakehead had been found in the Northeast River in Cecil County this spring.
Also this month, a Delaware angler caught a snakehead in Marshyhope Creek, a tributary of the Nanticoke River. According to the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC), this was the second snakehead found in the Nanticoke region. Last fall, DNREC staff found a snakehead in Broad Creek, near Laurel.
The northern snakehead was first discovered in the Bay watershed in a pond in Crofton, Maryland, in 2002. Since then, it has become established in the Potomac River and several of its tributaries in Maryland and Virginia. Snakeheads have the potential to be invasive because they breed rapidly and prey on native fish.
Snakeheads are freshwater fish, so the Bay's brackish waters usually prevent them from leaving the Potomac River. But scientists believe it is possible that unusually low salinity in the Bay this summer allowed snakeheads to travel to new rivers.
It is illegal to move, possess or release snakeheads in Maryland and Delaware. It is also illegal to transport snakeheads across state lines without a federal permit. If you catch a northern snakehead in Maryland or Virginia, you are required to kill it. These laws are intended to help prevent this potentially invasive fish from spreading.
For more information about snakeheads, visit Maryland DNR's website.
Biologists with the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) are mapping phragmites along the York River as part of a strategy to control the invasive marsh plant.
The agency will use the phragmites location data to develop a web-based mapping tool. Landowners along the Mattaponi, Pamunkey and York rivers can use the map to see if phragmites is growing on their property. The map should be available on DCR's invasive species page by winter.
"DCR is developing an improved web-based phragmites mapping application that will allow landowners to assess phragmites invasions on their own land in order to make plans for its control," said DCR Project Manager Rick Myers.
Phragmites is a tall, perennial grass that grows in marshes. The non-native form of phragmites dominates other plants, forming monocultures that do not provide good habitat for wildlife. Although Virginia has treated thousands of acres with approved herbicides, phragmites is spreading fast because too few landowners are controlling it.
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Metallica's Kirk Hammett Promoting Zombie Toys At Comic-Con
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Metallica's Kirk Hammett is returning to San Diego's Comic-Con. Last year he was there with the rest of his bandmates to promote the film Metallica: Through the Never. But this time around, he'll be promoting his Kirk Von Hammett Toys.
Hammett will be offering fans one of his limited edition Famous Monsters Jr. figures. He'll also be on hand to sign the little green zombie version of himself on July 25th and 26th.
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Meanwhile, Hammett will be joined by Metallica bassist Rob Trujillo on July 25th for a question-and-answer session following a special screening of the animated film Tallica Parking Lot. More information about this year's Comic-Con International is available at Comic-Con.org.
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Rag & Bone Fall 2013
Perhaps, in between designing collections for women and men, kick-starting an ever-growing accessories division, and pursuing a global expansion that's going at a rapid clip, Rag & Bone's David Neville and Marcus Wainwright could write a quick how-to guide on successful brand building. But since they probably don't have the time for that, let me do it for them here instead. Their message would likely boil down to this: Know Who You Are, Know What You Can Do, Then Just Do It. Neville and Wainwright clearly already know all of this, because they did just do it, if their incredibly strong, persuasively focused, and brilliantly direct-in-its-appeal fall collection is anything to go by. It was dressed up but also casually downbeat. It had newness but also familiarity. It borrowed from the boys, but also sent it all back to them, because Neville and Wainwright realized they could come up with something better for the girls.
The "girl," their "girl," is, of course, important to them. It's who they talk about, who they design for, who they want to bring into sharper focus from the corner of their eyes. Oftentimes, designers will talk about their "girl," and you don't think she ever existed beyond the fancy of a design studio. But the Rag & Bone girl is everywhere you look, living downtown (even if in reality that's more of a state of mind for her than a reality), standing beside you on the subway, going on a juice detox, watching Girls, getting drunk after said cleanse. In short, a living, breathing, fun creature that they have learned to dress instinctively, and rightly.
Backstage, Wainwright and Neville talked about what had inspired fall. The notions of sixties minimal-chic air travel that then morphed into fighter planes, hence the mix of a short, graphic, texture-rich (quilt-effect stitching abounded) look fused with utilitarian detailing (drawstrings, leather ribbed banding). Skirts were super-abbreviated, collars on sweaters stood away from the neck or rolled over, an homage to Camelot-era Jackie, while the coats were superbly worked—in particular, a green trench whose sleeves were articulated the same way as an airforce jacket back in the forties, and which took ten go-rounds to get right. The color palette was lifted from the airplane world, too, fusing darkly somber, military service shades of black, gray, and olive, contrasted with a judicious use of deep purple, seafoam green, and a flash of an orange that originated from the lining of a MA1 flight jacket. And, because they're both English, their nationality came into play, too, with a disrupted Prince of Wales check that close-up looked like it had been rethought by Bridget Riley. With all this, they wisely kept the styling to a minimum—a slash of black at the eyes, dark thigh-highs, and one of their pilot bags, patched in leather and synthetics, firmly grasped in hand, and looking as coolly compelling as most everything else here.


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This time, Marauders win marathon
Rojas, Poytress contribute in 18-inning victory over Yankees
By Ashley Marshall / Special to MLB.com | May 6, 2012 4:43 PM ET
Three days after losing a 16-inning contest to the Charlotte Stone Crabs, the Marauders rebounded with a 7-6, 18-inning victory over the Tampa Yankees.
Center fielder Mel Rojas Jr. plated the go-ahead run in the 18th, two innings after after throwing out the potential winning run. And Josh Poytress hurled six innings of relief to maintain a 0.00 ERA as the Pirates' Class A Advanced affiliate won the longest game in team history.
"It was a battle. We all played really well and never gave up for the entire 18 innings," said Poytress. "We played a helluva game and it was a lot of fun. It was a huge confidence-booster and we didn't show any sign of give, even when they were in a position to win.
"It showed that we have a lot of fight and spirit. We all get along really well and the bond we have early in the season says a lot. When everybody is friends, you pull for each other. You're trying to get outs for everybody and you're giving 100 percent."
Bradenton scored four times in the seventh to snap a 2-2 tie, but the Yankees got one back in the bottom half on Hector Rabago's RBI double. Rob Segedin hit a two-run homer in the eighth and Kyle Roller tied it with a solo shot in the ninth.
The Marauders loaded the bases with one out in the 14th -- the first time either team got a runner to third base since the ninth -- but Dan Grovatt struck out and Benji Gonzalez was thrown out at the plate.
In the 16th, it was Bradenton's turn to sweat. Neil Medchill led off with a single against Poytress -- who was in his fifth inning -- and advanced to second on Kyle Higashioka's sacrifice. Rabago followed with a base hit up the middle, but Rojas nailed Medchill at the plate.
"We had two outs and there were runners on first and second and I wanted to get ahead," said Poytress, a 21-year-old right-hander. "I threw a low fastball and he got a really good piece of it. The ball almost hit me, I missed it by an inch or two. But Mel had the most perfect throw anybody could make. It was chest-high and [catcher Carlos] Paulino held on in the collision. And that was huge."
Rojas, a 2010 third-round pick, added, "Some people say I have a good arm. I was aware of that runner and I didn't want to let him score. When it came to me in center field, I just threw it as hard as I could."
Rabago (0-1), a second baseman, came on to pitch the 18th and recorded two quick outs. But Benji Gonzalez reached on an error by Garrison Lassiter -- Rabago's replacement -- and scored on Rojas' triple to break the deadlock.
"I told myself I couldn't let a position player get me out," Rojas said after his second straight three-hit performance. "I had to bring the runner home because I didn't want to keep playing. [Rabago] actually had a pretty good fastball, but I was looking for something slower and that's why it went to the left-center field gap.
The Marauders improved to a Florida State League-best 5-2 in extra-inning games and 6-5 in one-run decisions.
"We played hard and we battled. We never give up, that is probably why we've played all these extra-inning games," Rojas said. "We're going to be champions this year, we're really good. We're still getting to know each other, but we have the full package -- pitching, hitting and defense."
Poytress finally gave way to Jeff Inman, who worked around a leadoff walk in the bottom of the 18th to record his first save of the season. Since being promoted from Class A West Virginia last month, Poytress has pitched 16 2/3 scoreless innings. He allowed one run in three South Atlantic League relief appearances and boasts a 0.33 ERA for the season.
Gerrit Cole, MLB.com's No. 10 prospect, got the start for the Marauders and allowed two runs on three hits and three walks while striking out five over five innings.
Michael O'Brien, the first of nine Yankees pitchers, yielded two runs on six hits and a pair of walks over five frames. He struck out four.
Ashley Marshall is a contributor to MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.View More


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Although the skull appears to be one large bone, there are actually several major bones that are connected together. The major bones that compose the skull of a newborn include the following:
These bony plates cover the brain and are held together by fibrous material called sutures.
Some sutures extend to the forehead, while others extend to the sides and back of the skull. One suture in the middle of the skull extends from the front of the head to the back. The major sutures of the skull include the following:
Sutures allow the bones to move during the birth process. They act like an expansion joint, allowing the bone to enlarge evenly as the brain grows and the skull expands, resulting in a symmetrically shaped head. However, if any of the sutures close too early (fuse prematurely), there may be no growth in that area. This may force growth to occur in another area or direction, resulting in an abnormal head shape.
There are two fontanelles (the space between the bones of an infant's skull where the sutures intersect) that are covered by tough membranes. The fontanelles include:


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Arcade Fire's 'Reflektor' Makes Polaris Prize Shortlist
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Arcade Fire has a shot at taking home another Polaris Prize. The indie rockers' chart-topping album Reflektor made the cut on this year's shortlist for the annual award given to the best Canadian album.
Arcade Fire won the Polaris Prize in 2011 for The Suburbs, and scored a nomination in 2007 for Neon Bible. Meanwhile, this year's list of contenders also includes Drake's Nothing Was the Same, Mac Demarco's Salad Days, and Owen Pallett's In Conflict. The 2014 Polaris Prize winner will be announced September 22nd during a gala in Toronto.
Polaris Prize 2014 Shortlist:
Arcade Fire - "Reflektor"
Basia Bulat - "Tall Tall Shadow"
Drake - "Nothing Was The Same"
Jessy Lanza - "Pull My Hair Back"
Mac Demarco - "Salad Days"
Owen Pallett - "In Conflict"
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...or How Not To Witness To An Atheist/Agnostic - by CaluluAs I've said before I wasn't raised Quiverfull or even as a fundamentalist or believer. Through the years I kept being subjected to people trying to witness to me, giving that old altar call, tap dancing towards salvation, come to Jesus sonny boy father and the Holy Ghost sales pitch. … [Read more...]
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by Bruce Gerencser's guest IanOn the No Longer Quivering blog, I have been enthralled read to read the female view of Created To Be His Helpmeet (CTBHH), by Debi Pearl. For any that don't know what this book is, it is a manual for women to learn how to become totally dependent … [Read more...]
Quoting Quiverfull: Mom Has Her Jobs When Not Wacked Out On Psychoactive Drugs?
by Mary Pride of Homeschool World in "Patriarchy, Meet Matriarchy" Traditional Christian cultures understood this quite well. Mom had her jobs, and Dad had his. If Dad tried to meddle in Mom's work, she would shoo him away. … [Read more...]
Quoting Quiverfull: Addicted to Counseling?
by Bart Janz of Holly Ridge Baptist Church from the sermon "When Men Don't, Women Do" 2007 We are addicted to counseling in America today and we've got to get over it. Do you know why we're addicted to counseling, because you're not reading your Bibles, that's why. Comments open below … [Read more...]
Quoting Quiveringfull: Standing With God
by Dr. Bob Jones Sr or Bob Jones University So you want to know where a man stands with God? You ha e only to ask him one question: What do you think of this university {BJU} Comments open below … [Read more...]
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Engines are being downsized throughout the automotive industry, with some models dropping six-cylinders entirely. But Mercedes-Benz still offers a choice of fours and sixes in its C-Class. However, if you want 4Matic all-wheel drive in a four-door C-Class, you have one engine choice. The M-Class SUVs also get upgraded safety technology across the board for 2013.
For the C-Class line, the big news is a new engine for the C300 4Matic model. As is the case with most current Mercedes-Benz and BMW models, the decklid numerology has little direct correlation to engine displacement anymore. The engine on the 2013 C300 goes from a literal 3.0 liters for the 2012 model to a 3.5-liter V-6 that produces 248 hp and 251 lb-ft of torque. This represents an increase of 20 hp and 30 lb-ft of torque from last year's model. But as icing on the cake, the new engine is significantly more fuel-efficient than last year's smaller engine, allowing the 2013 C300 to achieve an EPA rating of 20 city and 28 highway, compared to last year's 17/24. All V-6 C-Class models get auto stop-start for 2013. Pricing goes up $960 for the C300 4Matic, from $38,895 to $39,855, including destination. Destination on all Mercedes-Benz models increases from $875 in 2012 to $905 for 2013.
All 2013 model M-Class models get Collision Prevention Assist, which uses radar sensors to detect the distance to the vehicle in front, and can prepare the brakes for emergency braking to provide maximum braking assist as soon as the driver applies the brakes. Pricing for the ML350 goes from $49,865 for the 2012 model to $50,675 for the 2013, a difference of $810.
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