One Martian Year? Aka Mer To December |
One Martian Year? Aka Mer To December |
Sep 2 2005, 08:47 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 813 Joined: 8-February 04 From: Arabia Terra Member No.: 12 |
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Sep 2 2005, 09:14 PM
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Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 5172 Joined: 4-August 05 From: Pasadena, CA, USA, Earth Member No.: 454 |
One Martian year is DEFINITELY an event to celebrate (much more appropriate than celebrating one Earth year, I think!). So -- does anybody have any great ideas for how it should be celebrated?
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Sep 2 2005, 09:22 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2492 Joined: 15-January 05 From: center Italy Member No.: 150 |
A convention/party for all people partecipating to the Forum?
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Sep 3 2005, 08:30 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3419 Joined: 9-February 04 From: Minneapolis, MN, USA Member No.: 15 |
A get-together would be marvelous -- but since we're scattered all across the planet, it's probably not very practical.
-the other Doug -------------------- “The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.” -Mark Twain
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Sep 10 2005, 10:04 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 548 Joined: 19-March 05 From: Princeton, NJ, USA Member No.: 212 |
One excellent way to celebrate and get together, is to come to Princeton NJ for a lecture I have arranged by the RAT designer, Dr Stephen Gorevan, on Sep 13, 2005 at 8 PM
For more info please check this topic : http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=1380 and this website: http://www.princetonastronomy.org/ his outstanding mission contributions are highlighted in Steve Squyres new book: "Roving Mars: Spirit, Opportunity and the Exploration of the Red Planet" All forum members and friends are welcome to this free lecture at Princeton University Ken Amateur Astronomers Association of Princeton (AAAP) |
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Sep 11 2005, 05:17 AM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2228 Joined: 1-December 04 From: Marble Falls, Texas, USA Member No.: 116 |
Can you imagine what would have been missed without the RAT? I'd love to attend that. The MER session at the December AGU meeting in SF sounds really awesome, too. I doubt I could make it to either one.
I hadn't seen it mentioned elsewhere, but Sol 600 has just come and gone for Spirit. I think there are decent odds it will see Sol 1K. -------------------- ...Tom
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Sep 11 2005, 09:10 AM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 221 Joined: 25-March 05 Member No.: 217 |
QUOTE (dvandorn @ Sep 3 2005, 09:30 AM) A get-together would be marvelous -- but since we're scattered all across the planet, it's probably not very practical. -the other Doug Yes, a get-together would be good. One way to compensate for our differing abilities to attend would be to plan it well in advance. I'm sure quite a few of us could book a 'holiday' a couple of months in advance, so that we could get to a chosen location. Our interest in unmanned spaceflight, or even these two rovers isn't going to wane over a period of a few months. If it's advertised here and has a speaker or two I'm game. Roy F |
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Sep 11 2005, 09:23 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14432 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
I think the thing to do would be to wait for MER mission end (a tragic thing to wait for, I know ) and then schedule something 1 yr in advance - so everyone can plan for it, save up for it etc etc. Get some good speakers in, try and tie it in to the w'end before a big conference so the people will be around.
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Sep 18 2005, 08:40 PM
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Member Group: Members Posts: 548 Joined: 19-March 05 From: Princeton, NJ, USA Member No.: 212 |
Its a great idea to have a wrap-up conference. But too tragic to even contemplate the end.
So in the meantime ...... Steve Gorevan gave an excellent presentation in Princeton (see this thread). http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=1385 And, he generously loaned me a full scale model of the RAT and RAT hole (see pictures posted by Airbag) which I'll show at my rover lecture/display at The Franklin Institute Science Museum on Sat Oct 1 as part of "World Space Day". please feel free to stop by: http://www.fi.edu/ and view panoramas, etc. from various forum members including jvandriel, nico, tman, ustrax and doug. excellent work all around ken |
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