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by drrocks
Mon Aug 26, 2013 4:39 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Bright Planetary Nebula NGC 7027... (2013 Aug 26)
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Re: APOD: Bright Planetary Nebula NGC 7027... (2013 Aug 26)

Casper nebula (as in the friendly ghost, or is that too old-school?)
by drrocks
Fri Jan 27, 2006 11:57 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Mars Rocks! (now APOD 26/01/2006)
Replies: 36
Views: 18504

Could certainly be fragments. The more and more I play with it, looks like the white stuff is ablating on the right side, if not accumulating at least not ablating so fast on the left side. Wind? Other indicators aren't that convincing. What do I do re the "inaccessible" thing? What's BBCo...
by drrocks
Fri Jan 27, 2006 3:26 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Mars Rocks! (now APOD 26/01/2006)
Replies: 36
Views: 18504

My question is now; are we going to find out if the light tone is basaltic or a precipitate? You mean the rock core or the coating? I don't think there's much doubt that core is rock, what kind is in doubt, but since it appears to be hexagonal, basalt would be almost certain were it not for the fac...
by drrocks
Fri Jan 27, 2006 2:12 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: Mars Rocks! (now APOD 26/01/2006)
Replies: 36
Views: 18504

My gawd.....it's the Flying Nun's hat!!!!!!!!! A little more seriously, if it's around Moab, Utah, where we all know these pics are taken, I'd say the response abt the mastadon tooth might not be too far off, except it would be a dinosaur tooth eroded from those apparenty-sedimentary outcrops on the...