I grew up in a small town in the Texas panhandle. I used to sit on my front porch and look at the Milky Way. Boy do I miss that!
I thought the horse didn't exist in North America until the Spanish brought them over. Why would there be fossils of ancestors of the horse in the badlands?
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- Tue Aug 18, 2009 1:50 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: The Milky Way Over The Badlands (2009 Aug 18)
- Replies: 34
- Views: 5597
- Mon Jan 19, 2009 1:56 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Methane Discovered in Mars Atmosphere (2009 Jan 19)
- Replies: 44
- Views: 7276
Microbes on Mars
If there are microbes on Mars, I think we should stay away. The thought of bringing home some new microbes is really scary.
- Fri Nov 21, 2008 1:36 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: How bright are Venus and Jupiter?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1698
Re: How bright are Venus and Jupiter?
Watch Jupiter and Venus get closer together and meet up with the crescent moon on December 1. Here's a link that was on Spaceweather.
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008 ... 1dec08.gif
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008 ... 1dec08.gif
- Thu Nov 20, 2008 3:47 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: How bright are Venus and Jupiter?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1698
Re: How bright are Venus and Jupiter?
Oops, I'm sorry if this post is inappropriate. I wasn't thinking. This forum is to discuss the APOD's! Apologies.
- Thu Nov 20, 2008 3:44 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: How bright are Venus and Jupiter?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1698
How bright are Venus and Jupiter?
Can you guys tell me the magnitude of Venus and Jupiter at this time? I'm attending a star party for a homeschool group, and I want to be able to tell them how bright those planets are as an example.
- Fri Jun 27, 2008 1:15 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Not a Comet (APOD 26 Jun 2008)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 7178
- Thu Jan 31, 2008 4:09 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Asteroid TU24 smoothed image. 1500 megaton (APOD 30 Jan2008)
- Replies: 29
- Views: 11713
Here are some articles from Science@NASA about them observing objects hitting the moon. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2006/13jun_lunarsporadic.htm http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast30nov_1.htm http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/22dec_lunartaurid.htm If you go to their main page ht...
- Sun Dec 02, 2007 2:02 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Gibbous Europa (APOD 02 Dec 2007)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 6086
That picture reminds me of a ball, the almost tennis-ball size that you might buy at the grocery store, you know, the pink ones. It looks like when the ball gets old, maybe it has been out in the yard for a couple of years, and the surface gets brittle and dry and cracks everywhere. That's what Euro...
- Fri Nov 16, 2007 3:52 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: The Great Globular Cluster in Hercules (APOD 15 Nov 2007)
- Replies: 15
- Views: 5319
- Tue Nov 06, 2007 2:52 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Noctilucent Clouds Over Sweden (2007 Oct 28)
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3481
- Wed Oct 31, 2007 2:23 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD for 30 Oct 2007 not astronomy related
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7189
- Fri Oct 05, 2007 3:38 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: 50th Anniversary of Sputnik (APOD 04 Oct 2007)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2623
- Thu Sep 20, 2007 2:58 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Tungurahua eruption.
- Replies: 11
- Views: 4529
- Tue Aug 14, 2007 2:11 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: A Spectacular Sky Over the Grand Tetons (APOD 14 Aug 2007)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2025
- Thu Aug 09, 2007 9:50 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Our Sun from somewhere else... M67 (APOD 09 Aug 2007)
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3388
- Tue Jul 17, 2007 8:25 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: False Color Illusion (APOD 17 July 2007)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6296
- Tue Jul 17, 2007 11:39 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: False Color Illusion (APOD 17 July 2007)
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6296
- Mon Jul 09, 2007 9:05 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Shuttle Ferry (APOD 08 July 2007)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7485
- Mon Jul 09, 2007 3:37 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Shuttle Ferry (APOD 08 July 2007)
- Replies: 19
- Views: 7485