Starship Asterisk*

Superb picture.

That good spaceship 'Oumuamua is full of desperate illegal immigrant aliens & has come a long long way. The ship's sleek lines are now hidden by swathes of space barnacles hitching an honest lift. All aboard are giving major thanks that they've safely passed by this crazy planet, earth.

Thanks for clearing that up!

The definition of "minor planet" is pretty much anything that isn't a planet or a comet but is in orbit around the Sun, so yes, any asteroid, no matter the size, would be considered a minor planet. In fact, if you look up minor planet in the dictionary (at least in the one that comes up w...

A kilometre sized boulder is now a minor planet? That only makes sense to me if the asteroid belt is indeed the remnants of a 'minor planet' but isn't that too early to pass into settled science?

DanP wrote: ↑Sun Oct 07, 2018 11:05 am Fantastic job. Unfortunately the chosen Flash format makes it unavailable for those using Firefox or Chrome. I had to install Opera to see it.

Interesting! I'm still staggering on with a steam driven Vista platform but Chrome on mine works the Flash format just fine.

I quite like this offering apart from the very minor quibble about the suggested size of the electron but there again by its very nature it precludes accurate measurement. They could have maybe shown the possible range though. At some point it will be realized by all that there is only one electron ...

Am always curious as to how the solar panels are cleaned after such events.

"...the timing of the eruption was unexpected." How so? Do you have a timetable? What is your basis for predictions for both this and "...unexpected holes have opened in the Sun's corona,,,"?