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- Mon Dec 14, 2009 6:52 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Saturns Hexagon Comes to Light (2009 Dec 14)
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Re: Saturns Hexagon Comes to Light (2009 Dec 14)
Back in the early '60s, I had a student job working with a meteorologist, Dr. Fred Bates, doing thunderstorm research. One of my jobs was to plot the 500mb line around the north pole and then determine a three-day moving average. The 500mb line was a good indicator of where the jetstream lay. Dr. Ba...