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What Will Be the Top Space Story in 2010?, A Wish List for 2010 |
 Dec 23 2009, 07:26 PM
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Top Space Story in 2010?
I know a couple stories that would be tops in my book: "Spirit Free!" and "Opportunity Arrives at Endeavour's Rim" |
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Dec 23 2009, 08:38 PM
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An exoplanet with a ring system or a satellite
Binary Kuiper object with a 50/50 mass ratio Complaint from lunar ambassador regarding Cabeus impact  |
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Dec 23 2009, 08:40 PM
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 Member Group: Members Posts: 646 Joined: 23-December 05 From: Forest of Dean Member No.: 617 |
Those would be great! I'm afraid, though -- or do I mean glad? -- that the major space stories of 2010 will be out of bounds here. I know something about the biggest news here, though: it'll be unexpected!
 Hmmm, I wonder what the biggest news of 2009 was for unmannedspaceflight.com? Which topics / threads generated the most page views / comments? -------------------- --
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Dec 23 2009, 11:29 PM
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 Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8789 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
My WAG: Spirit's predicament. LCROSS might be second place.
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Dec 24 2009, 12:33 AM
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Founder Group: Chairman Posts: 14445 Joined: 8-February 04 Member No.: 1 |
UMSF Invision Board 2009 Stats.
Top Three Attachments : http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...st&p=139043 http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...st&p=142504 http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...st&p=142917 New Registrations - 435 New Threads - 581 New Posts - 18,554 Thread Views - 1,406,444 UMSF.com AWStats Unique Visitors 387,000 Visits : 911,297 Page Views : 6,886,486 Hits : 47,133,446 Bandwidth : 380.54 GB Plus a further 12,336,448 pages 12,704,607 hits and 195.94 GB by Search Engines etc. Views per sub-forum Spirit 332059 Opportunity 214477 LRO & LCROSS 122768 Titan 88558 Mars 77919 Chit Chat 68107 Cassini General 48286 Conferences, Publications and Broadcasts 45166 Telescopic Observations 44740 Icy Moons 34441 Jupiter 30810 MRO 2005 28305 Earth Observations 26932 Lunar Exploration 26427 Tech, General and Imagery 24701 MSL 2011 23358 Uranus and Neptune 16242 Image Processing Techniques 16168 Messenger 15136 Sun 14740 Phoenix 14665 Cometary and Asteroid Missions 11386 Past and Future 11341 Exploration Strategy 10088 Forum Management 10053 Admin and Mod 9721 Front Page Stories 8386 Private Missions 6133 Venus 5168 Saturn 4981 Voyager and Pioneer 4281 Mars Express & Beagle 2 3957 Pluto / KBO 3534 Mars Odyssey 1990 Mercury 1420 Total 1,406,444 |
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Dec 24 2009, 01:39 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 3108 Joined: 21-December 05 From: Canberra, Australia Member No.: 615 |
I'm amazed that one of my images would become the most downloaded attachment
That Saturn ring edge illumination shot certainly became a hot topic. Real vs imagined! About 5,500 downloads! While it might not have been real it certainly demonstrates UMSF'ers hunger for the amazing. Dan's entry with the "enhanced" Venus-Earth from Spirit's night obs was also a hit but again 'not real'. Fran's animation of the dust devil approaching Spirit's position is the best and only true 'real' image of the top three and so deserves the best attachment of 2009. |
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Dec 24 2009, 01:59 AM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8789 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Um...you're amazed why???
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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 Dec 24 2009, 11:11 AM
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Top 3 stories 2010:
Hubble Space Telescope new discoveries  Curious to see what Opportunity will find near Endeavour crater  Hopefully another operational high-precision spectrometer at the 4.2 m WHT in La Palma to perform follow-up of Kepler's discoveries
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Dec 24 2009, 03:50 PM
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 The Poet Dude Group: Moderator Posts: 5551 Joined: 15-March 04 From: Kendal, Cumbria, UK Member No.: 60 |
Well, let's see, in an ideal world it would have to be the appearance of a bright supernova in the sky, closely followed by the discovery of a comet that would fly very close to Earth, so close that it would be a blazing bright naked eye object at night, casting shadows, and even visible in the daytime sky... these two things would inspire a whole generation of new astronomers and have mankind looking at the sky in wonder again... then the subsequent discovery that the outbound comet would actually impact Mars would change things, and the world would watch fascinated and fearful as Spirit and Oppy sent back images showing the comet steadily growing bigger and brighter in the sky in the weeks and days before impact. Then on Impact Day, Mars would be hit, and images taken by Hubble would show the flash, the shock wave, and the great plume of dust rising up from the impact site, eventually smothering the entire planet in a blanket of dust. On the surface, both Spirit and Oppy survive, just, and when they start sending images back the world has a new understanding of just how dangerous such impacts are, and this leads to renewed interest in and support for space exploration, and space programs to protect and defend Earth from similar assaults...
... but in the real world I'm thinking: * Oppy reaches Endeavour and sees stunning scenes... * A SETI signal is detected ( Ok, maybe sticking my neck out a little with number 2 there, but I hope for that every year; I've got to be right eventually! )
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Dec 24 2009, 06:42 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8789 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
Top 3 in 2010 (in order of probable media buzz):
-WISE detects one or more brown dwarfs closer than Proxima Centauri -Exoplanet tally increases dramatically as size of detectable planets drops into Earth-sized & below range (first Kepler results) -Oppy reaches Endeavour -------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Dec 24 2009, 09:10 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Admin Posts: 4763 Joined: 15-March 05 From: Glendale, AZ Member No.: 197 |
1) Phoenix comes alive
2) Cassini abruptly fails for unknown reasons 3) Major Lunar impact is predicted and occurs, not visible from Earth but LRO captures images within a day -------------------- If Occam had heard my theory, things would be very different now.
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Dec 24 2009, 10:21 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Moderator Posts: 3242 Joined: 11-February 04 From: Tucson, AZ Member No.: 23 |
Ooo, crystal ball time:
1) Lightcurve survey of outer satellites of Jupiter and Saturn reveal 2-3 binary moons. 2) Like nprev, I'll go with a WISE discovery of a brown dwarf ~1 ly from Earth 3) Cassini observes impact on Saturn (after effects anyway) -------------------- &@^^!% Jim! I'm a geologist, not a physicist!
The Gish Bar Times - A Blog all about Jupiter's Moon Io |
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Dec 24 2009, 10:36 PM
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Merciless Robot Group: Admin Posts: 8789 Joined: 8-December 05 From: Los Angeles Member No.: 602 |
We keep forgetting a biggie: TPS' LightSail is launched successfully & performs as advertised!
(Dan, shame on you for your #2! )
-------------------- A few will take this knowledge and use this power of a dream realized as a force for change, an impetus for further discovery to make less ancient dreams real.
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Dec 25 2009, 02:11 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 3516 Joined: 4-November 05 From: North Wales Member No.: 542 |
QUOTE (nprev @ Dec 24 2009, 10:36 PM)  LightSail Yeah, I've already cast my vote for that one. |
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Jan 19 2010, 12:59 PM
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QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Dec 24 2009, 02:10 PM) 1) Phoenix comes alive Yeah! QUOTE 2) Cassini abruptly fails for unknown reasons  No!
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