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 Aug 27 2009, 08:31 PM
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I'm used to reading excellent articles by Emily, but this one I found to be of truly extraordinary interest:
http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00002070/ |
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ngunn WISE Aug 27 2009, 08:31 PM
Gsnorgathon Yes. And the funny thing is, my mind was being all... Aug 27 2009, 11:37 PM Mongo I wonder why they chose solid hydrogen instead of ... Aug 27 2009, 11:46 PM
elakdawalla QUOTE (Mongo @ Aug 27 2009, 03:46 PM) I w... Aug 28 2009, 04:11 PM stevesliva Is it harder to control the torques from Liquid He... Aug 27 2009, 11:48 PM ngunn A handy free article on solid hydrogen:
http://ww... Aug 28 2009, 10:35 AM scalbers QUOTE (ngunn @ Aug 28 2009, 10:35 AM) A h... Dec 13 2009, 06:52 PM Juramike "macroscopic crystals characterized by differ... Aug 28 2009, 02:36 PM nprev Huh. I'd always thought that hydrogen needed t... Aug 28 2009, 07:18 PM SteveM I know it's really premature to begin talking ... Sep 3 2009, 03:15 AM PhilCo126 Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer
WISE preparati... Oct 27 2009, 07:24 PM dtolman The latest Sky and Telescope has a nice article on... Nov 12 2009, 04:54 PM Greg Hullender QUOTE (dtolman @ Nov 12 2009, 08:54 AM) I... Nov 12 2009, 09:54 PM ngunn I'm somewhere between evens and 'almost a ... Nov 12 2009, 10:26 PM nprev I too wouldn't be surprised if there were one ... Nov 12 2009, 10:31 PM Greg Hullender I suppose I should say that, after LCROSS and the ... Nov 13 2009, 04:21 AM PhilCo126 Greg, the onboard frozen Hydrogen is expected to l... Nov 27 2009, 08:42 AM Greg Hullender I guess I'm counting on even that number havin... Nov 27 2009, 06:48 PM Reed QUOTE (Greg Hullender @ Nov 27 2009, 10:4... Nov 28 2009, 12:14 AM Vultur If there actually is a close brown dwarf, that wou... Dec 11 2009, 06:16 PM ngunn When is a brown dwarf a black dwarf? When it no lo... Nov 27 2009, 10:22 PM nprev I always thought that a black dwarf was a complete... Nov 27 2009, 10:39 PM ngunn Probably right. I just wanted to make the point th... Nov 27 2009, 10:56 PM PhilCo126 It isn't just two obsevations six months apart... Nov 28 2009, 10:34 AM nprev Thing is, what if we have a companion brown dwarf ... Nov 28 2009, 10:48 AM Greg Hullender Proxima Centauri is 0.21 ly from the Alpha A/B bar... Nov 28 2009, 06:52 PM DFinfrock QUOTE (Greg Hullender @ Nov 28 2009, 06:5... Nov 30 2009, 06:24 PM NGC3314 If the IR broadband signature for brown dwarfs rea... Nov 29 2009, 04:03 AM PhilCo126 Launch postponed: The WISE launch is currently sch... Dec 10 2009, 10:31 AM ElkGroveDan ...and even that doesn't look likely at this p... Dec 10 2009, 03:36 PM Holder of the Two Leashes We might want to lower our expectations just a bit... Dec 10 2009, 11:32 PM ElkGroveDan At least not until after it launches anyway. Whic... Dec 11 2009, 01:05 AM nprev Launch now set for 1409-1423 GMT on the 14th (0609... Dec 11 2009, 06:41 PM ElkGroveDan Yep Monday now. It looks like I might get a tour o... Dec 12 2009, 03:20 AM nprev Do tell, now! MOST cool; looking forward to... Dec 12 2009, 03:31 AM Greg Hullender These postponements worry me because they've a... Dec 13 2009, 02:52 AM nprev I was thinking that, too, but logically there has ... Dec 13 2009, 03:15 AM elakdawalla If I recall correctly from my conversation with th... Dec 13 2009, 04:33 AM centsworth_II QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Dec 12 2009, 11:33 P... Dec 13 2009, 07:19 PM NGC3314 QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Dec 12 2009, 10:33 P... Dec 13 2009, 07:59 PM nprev Thanks, Emily. Figured there had to be something; ... Dec 13 2009, 04:38 AM elakdawalla I think those kinds of details are funny. It... Dec 13 2009, 04:49 AM nprev Ooooh, yeah. Space systems engineering itself i... Dec 13 2009, 05:02 AM ugordan Not to mention it's requirements like that - l... Dec 13 2009, 12:15 PM ElkGroveDan It's been raining like crazy for the last coup... Dec 13 2009, 05:30 PM elakdawalla Weather in L.A. was spectacular this morning. Bri... Dec 13 2009, 06:01 PM climber Wise has been succesfully deployed in orbit Dec 14 2009, 03:08 PM ElkGroveDan Yes indeed. And I missed the launch
Can't... Dec 14 2009, 04:28 PM maschnitz Here's a general "mission/science expecta... Dec 14 2009, 07:54 PM centsworth_II For those who like observing things in orbit:
I... Dec 23 2009, 06:56 AM belleraphon1 NASA's WISE Space Telescope Jettisons its Cove... Dec 30 2009, 01:52 AM nprev Always a relief to hear that the last critical dep... Dec 30 2009, 02:03 AM alan First light
http://wise.ssl.berkeley.edu/gallery_... Jan 6 2010, 10:24 PM centsworth_II "More soon, including a comparison of this ne... Jan 7 2010, 03:57 AM belleraphon1 Emily has posted the WISE news regarding the team... Jan 23 2010, 09:52 PM Floyd Wow, there are lots of faint red dots in the image... Jan 24 2010, 04:06 PM ngunn The time lag due to the need for follow-up observa... Jan 24 2010, 04:22 PM Greg Hullender Makes sense. Takes time to settle into a new routi... Jan 24 2010, 04:43 PM elakdawalla There's interesting discussion of these issues... Jan 25 2010, 05:08 PM Greg Hullender Thanks, Emily. One post there, from Richard Kowals... Jan 25 2010, 06:28 PM lyford QUOTE (Greg Hullender @ Jan 25 2010, 10:2... Jan 25 2010, 07:41 PM elakdawalla Those are observatory codes; if you read the MPECs... Jan 25 2010, 08:42 PM avitek QUOTE (elakdawalla @ Jan 25 2010, 10:42 P... Feb 16 2010, 02:09 PM ElkGroveDan 291 is the 1.8-meter Telescope of the Lunar and Pl... Jan 25 2010, 08:49 PM Floyd These post and links answer my questions as well. ... Jan 25 2010, 08:59 PM Greg Hullender The best part, for me, anyway, is that they really... Jan 26 2010, 04:53 AM lyford QUOTE (Greg Hullender @ Jan 25 2010, 08:5... Jan 26 2010, 05:07 AM Vultur WISE has found its first new comet!
http://www... Feb 10 2010, 02:28 AM SteveM NASA has recently released a sample of the first W... Feb 18 2010, 03:18 PM Byran http://wise.ssl.berkeley.edu/sky_coverage.html
Mor... Mar 16 2010, 11:11 AM Byran I noticed that the north and south pole of its orb... Mar 20 2010, 06:32 PM briv1016 NASA's Youngest Space Telescope Shouldn't ... May 14 2010, 07:55 AM Greg Hullender Well, I'm not sure how useful "Warm Wise... May 14 2010, 04:36 PM Greg Hullender Just past 75% coverage now.
http://wise.ssl.berke... May 26 2010, 09:43 PM Ron Hobbs JPL posted a news item on Tuesday, WISE Makes Prog... May 26 2010, 10:55 PM ElkGroveDan QUOTE (Ron Hobbs @ May 26 2010, 02:55 PM)... May 26 2010, 11:06 PM nprev Yeah...what Dan said!!!
That's... May 27 2010, 03:38 AM ElkGroveDan Does anyone know what the statistically predicted ... May 27 2010, 04:55 AM Stu If we could see, with our own eyes, all the crap f... May 27 2010, 05:26 AM alan WISE satellite already spots two brown dwarfs
QUOT... May 30 2010, 12:54 AM centsworth_II "....Wright said, than the brown dwarfs recen... May 30 2010, 11:58 AM Greg Hullender I'm surprised they don't have estimated di... May 31 2010, 02:57 AM nprev Perhaps there hasn't been enough time yet to g... May 31 2010, 03:02 AM brellis then, why is the mission nearly complete? May 31 2010, 03:05 AM nprev Good point. We don't know when they were ident... May 31 2010, 03:29 AM stevesliva QUOTE (nprev @ May 30 2010, 11:29 PM) Goo... May 31 2010, 05:33 AM Greg Hullender QUOTE (nprev @ May 30 2010, 07:29 PM) The... May 31 2010, 04:32 PM Holder of the Two Leashes There have been some cases of follow up observatio... Jun 22 2010, 11:55 PM Greg Hullender I see WISE is past 95% coverage now, so definitely... Jul 2 2010, 04:57 PM Greg Hullender With no special announcement, it seems WISE has co... Jul 10 2010, 05:32 PM alan I recall reading that the aim is changed to avoid ... Jul 10 2010, 08:49 PM Greg Hullender They updated the text on the page that shows progr... Jul 17 2010, 01:47 AM Greg Hullender The WISE coverage map has become much more colorfu... Jul 29 2010, 01:18 AM djellison I would have thought so - notice the density incre... Jul 29 2010, 01:51 AM Gsnorgathon It's my understanding that folks looking for p... Jul 30 2010, 12:35 AM ugordan There should be a higher probability it will be a ... Jul 30 2010, 12:40 AM elakdawalla It's also a higher probability it's a NEO.... Jul 30 2010, 03:51 AM Bill I find these informations on the comet section of ... Aug 1 2010, 07:48 AM nprev A short-period retrograde asteroid?
Wow. That mi... Aug 1 2010, 08:11 AM Holder of the Two Leashes The July 23rd discovery was asteroid 2010 OR1, whi... Aug 1 2010, 09:51 PM  |
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