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- Mon Oct 03, 2016 3:59 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Explore Rosetta's Comet (2016 Oct 03)
- Replies: 46
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Re: APOD: Explore Rosetta's Comet (2016 Oct 03)
Kaarlo, In linked PDFs authored by you, you reference Richard B. Hoover's paper 'Fossils of Cyanobacteria in CI1 Carbonaceous Meteorites'. My initial curiosity over your surprising interpretation has been replaced with resignation. If either you or the engineer Mr. Hoover would like your ideas to be...
- Mon Feb 29, 2016 2:50 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Julius Caesar and Leap Days (2016 Feb 29)
- Replies: 48
- Views: 4922
Re: APOD: Julius Caesar and Leap Days (2016 Feb 29)
Chris, Our guest is referring to the sideways "W' above the lunar crescent. It looks like the constellation Cassiopeia.
- Wed Jun 10, 2015 2:41 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Fly Over Dwarf Planet Ceres (2015 Jun 10)
- Replies: 43
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Re: APOD: Fly Over Dwarf Planet Ceres (2015 Jun 10)
From an aesthetic point-of-view, the field-of-view chosen for the rendering camera is quite large. This setting causes the resulting imagery to look as if Ceres is a small paper-mache model, much like the old 'Mystery Science Theatre 3000' opening sequence. This sequence would benefit greatly from c...
- Tue Mar 29, 2011 6:32 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Kepler's Suns and Planets (2011 Mar 29)
- Replies: 40
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Re: APOD: Kepler's Suns and Planets (2011 Mar 29)
Perhaps somebody can help... The graphic portrays the smallest stars on the bottom-right to be smaller in diameter than the largest planet orbiting the largest star in the top-left. This seems to contradict the idea that any planet with a mass larger than Jupiter would not show an increase in size, ...