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If so, it would seem that the solution to your puzzle, is a star that no-one wishes upon. 
Good try - but no coconut! (i.e. WRONG!Beyond wrote:The only thing astronomical that anyway resembles a teapot, that i can think of is:
)Give the lady a coconut!Moonlady wrote:Beyond, why are you hiding your replies?
Is it Sagittarius? http://www.space.com/8714-cosmic-teapot ... r-sky.html
I can NOT make a figure of a centaur and bow from the stars of Sagittarius, but the TEAPOT is beautifully clear.http://stars.astro.illinois.edu/sow/sgr-t.html The upside-down Little Milk Dipper of Sagittarius dominates the upper center of the photograph, its handle sticking into the Milky Way. Nunki is the upper right hand star of the bowl. Sagittarius' "bow" starts at the end of the Little Milk Dipper's handle and bends down and to the left (from top to bottom, Kaus Borealis, Kaus Media, and Kaus Australis). The arrow runs from the center of the bow down and to the right and points to the center of the Galaxy (GC) in the dark clouds of the Milky Way, seen running from upper right to lower center. X Sgr is the bright star just above the Galactic Center. The bow, arrow, and the Little Milk Dipper together make "the "Teapot." The cluster M 7 in Scorpius is seen just to the right of bottom center; Scorpius's two star "Stinger" is at the bottom edge. The Lagoon Nebula, M 8, lies just to the left of the Winter Solstice. Down and to the left of the Little Milk Dipper curls the semi-circle of Corona Australis, the Southern Crown. See the wide field of constellations around Sagittarius. At lower right is Theta Ophiuchi.
That's a good question, Moonlady. Maybe I'll figure it out some day.Moonlady wrote:Beyond, why are you hiding your replies?
Is it Sagittarius? http://www.space.com/8714-cosmic-teapot ... r-sky.html
Beyond wrote:Say... isn't Sagittarius the half horse half human with a bow?? I wonder how many other things could be seen by connecting the stars differently?
To me, it looks like a teapot!Wikipedia
The Babylonians identified Sagittarius as the god Nerigal or Nergal, a strange centaur-like creature firing an arrow from a bow.[17] It is generally depicted with wings, with two heads, one panther head and one human head, as well as a scorpion's stinger raised above its more conventional horse's tail. The Sumerian name Pabilsag is composed of two elements – Pabil, meaning 'elder paternal kinsman' and Sag, meaning 'chief, head'. The name may thus be translated as the 'Forefather' or 'Chief Ancestor'.[18] The figure is reminiscent of modern depictions of Sagittarius.
In Greek mythology, Sagittarius is identified as a centaur: half human, half horse. In some legends, the Centaur Chiron was the son of Philyra and Saturn, who was said to have changed himself into a horse to escape his jealous wife, Rhea. Chiron was eventually immortalised in the constellation of Centaurus or in some version, Sagittarius.[citation needed]
The arrow of this constellation points towards the star Antares, the "heart of the scorpion."
BeyondBeyond wrote:That's a good question, Moonlady. Maybe I'll figure it out some day.Moonlady wrote:Beyond, why are you hiding your replies?
Is it Sagittarius? http://www.space.com/8714-cosmic-teapot ... r-sky.html
What tradition Now you've got me confused. Well - that will teach you to Pay More Attention!Beyond wrote:I remember seeing that someplace, but not really paying attention to what it's about. Oh well.
I'm poor. I can't afford to 'pay' much attention.MargaritaMc wrote:Well - that will teach you to Pay More Attention!Beyond wrote:I remember seeing that someplace, but not really paying attention to what it's about. Oh well.
However, i think it may go to what Ann was 'rambling' about. A detector of some kind.AWW!! I thought you'd take a bit longer to get THIS one!Ann wrote,
I'm thinking of those large subterranean "pools" of water, whose aim is to capture neutrinos.
COR! (English expletive expressing surprise)stephen63 wrote:Super-Kamiokande or Super-K for short, a neutrino observatory in the city of Hida, Gifu Prefecture, Japan.
Doesn't stephen63 get a bunch of flowers Beyond wrote:Hey
I figured that if you were going to give them to Ann for coming up with where the detector is, that you would give them to anyone who came up with the right answer. After all... you never mentioned chocolate cake or fruit then. 