APOD: All of Mercury (2013 Jun 12)

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Four cheese pizza (natural color)

Post by neufer » Thu Jun 13, 2013 3:44 pm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_Galilei#Sunspots wrote: <<Galileo was one of the first Europeans to observe sunspots, although Kepler had unwittingly observed one in 1607, but mistook it for a transit of Mercury. He also reinterpreted a sunspot observation from the time of Charlemagne, which formerly had been attributed (impossibly) to a transit of Mercury. The very existence of sunspots showed another difficulty with the unchanging perfection of the heavens posited by orthodox Aristotelian celestial physics, but their regular periodic transits also confirmed the dramatic novel prediction of Kepler's Aristotelian celestial dynamics in his 1609 Astronomia Nova that the sun rotates, which was the first successful novel prediction of post-spherist celestial physics. And the annual variations in sunspots' motions, discovered by Francesco Sizzi and others in 1612–1613, provided a powerful argument against both the Ptolemaic system and the geoheliocentric system of Tycho Brahe. A dispute over priority in the discovery of sunspots, and in their interpretation, led Galileo to a long and bitter feud with the Jesuit Christoph Scheiner; in fact, there is little doubt that both of them were beaten by David Fabricius and his son Johannes, looking for confirmation of Kepler's prediction of the sun's rotation. Scheiner quickly adopted Kepler's 1615 proposal of the modern telescope design, which gave larger magnification at the cost of inverted images; Galileo apparently never changed to Kepler's design.>>
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Re: APOD: All of Mercury (2013 Jun 12)

Post by Beyond » Thu Jun 13, 2013 4:11 pm

Being that close to the sun, i would have thought that a Mercury pizza would have a browner-crispier look to it. I'll have to break it down and analyze it. :chomp: YUM :!: Good information.
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