Starship Asterisk*

RocketRon wrote: ↑Mon Mar 19, 2018 5:48 am Its perforated all around the edge.
What was it attached to, we wonder ?

claude grayson wrote: ↑Mon Mar 19, 2018 6:30 am what if it was from the high priests cassock or apron., does the double rings on the left signify sirius.?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procter_%26_Gamble wrote:

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<<Candlemaker William Procter, born in the United Kingdom, and soapmaker James Gamble, born in Ireland, emigrated from England and Ireland, respectively. They settled in Cincinnati initially and met when they married sisters Olivia and Elizabeth Norris. Alexander Norris, their father-in-law, persuaded his new sons-in-law to become business partners. On October 31, 1837, as a result of the suggestion, Procter & Gamble was created.

During the American Civil War, the company won contracts to supply the Union Army with soap and candles. In the 1880s, Procter & Gamble began to market an inexpensive soap that floats in water. The company called the soap Ivory. In 1911, began producing Crisco, a shortening made of vegetable oils rather than animal fats. As radio became more popular in the 1920s and 1930s, the company sponsored a number of radio programs. As a result, these shows often became commonly known as "soap operas".>>

claude grayson wrote: ↑Mon Mar 19, 2018 6:30 am what if it was from the high priests cassock or apron., does the double rings on the left signify sirius.?

neufer wrote: ↑Mon Mar 19, 2018 1:46 pm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procter_%26_Gamble wrote:In the 1880s, Procter & Gamble began to market an inexpensive soap that floats in water. The company called the soap Ivory.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Barritt wrote:
<<Leon Barritt (1852–1938) was an American illustrator, cartoonist, journalist, and amateur astronomer. He produced a famous cartoon satirizing Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst, co-invented with Garrett P. Serviss the Barritt–Serviss Star and Planet Finder, a popular star chart sold into the 1950s, and, after losing his artistic ability to paralysis, founded The Monthly Evening Sky Map magazine. Born in Saugerties, New York, he began as a news agent in his home town before moving to Boston to work as an engraver. After a year in Minnesota, he returned to New York in 1884, where he became cartoonist for the New York Press.>>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garrett_P._Serviss wrote:

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<<Garrett Putnam Serviss (March 24, 1851 – May 25, 1929) was an American astronomer, popularizer of astronomy, and early science fiction writer. Serviss was born in upstate New York and majored in science at Cornell University. He took a law degree at Columbia University but never worked as an attorney. Instead, in 1876 he joined the staff of The New York Sun newspaper, working as a journalist until 1892 under editor Charles Dana. In his private life, Serviss was an enthusiastic mountain climber. He described his reaching the summit of the Matterhorn at the age of 43 as part of an effort "to get as far away from terrestrial gravity as possible." His son was the Olympic high jumper Garrett Serviss.

Serviss showed a talent for explaining scientific details in a way that made them clear to the ordinary reader, leading Andrew Carnegie to invite him to deliver The Urania Lectures in 1894 on astronomy, cosmology, geology, and related matters. With Carnegie's financial backing, these lectures were illustrated with magic lantern slides and other effects to show eclipses, presumed lunar landscapes, and much else. Serviss toured the United States for over two years delivering these lectures, then settled down to become a popular speaker in the New York area. He also wrote a syndicated newspaper column devoted to astronomy and other sciences and wrote frequently for the leading magazines of the day.

Serviss was unquestionably was more widely read by the public on astronomy than anyone prior to his time. He worked with Max and Dave Fleischer on The Einstein Theory of Relativity (1923), a short silent film released in connection with one of Serviss' books. He also wrote six works of fiction in his lifetime, all of which would today be classified as science fiction. Five of these were novels, and one was a short story.>>

MarkBour wrote: ↑Mon Mar 19, 2018 7:43 pm I love how the APOD caption, in typical fashion, says "... spans about 30 cm". But at how many light years?

APOD Robot wrote: ↑Mon Mar 19, 2018 4:06 am The Nebra Sky Disk

Explanation: Valued at about $11 million, some believe that the Nebra sky disk is only one of a pair, with the other disk still out there waiting to be discovered.

• A rustic outhouse in a yard near Nebraska City, Nebraska.
  • Photo by Dorothy Rieke

geckzilla wrote: ↑Mon Mar 19, 2018 8:41 pm

MarkBour wrote: ↑Mon Mar 19, 2018 7:43 pm I love how the APOD caption, in typical fashion, says "... spans about 30 cm". But at how many light years?

Google's handy search calculator indicates that 30 cm is about 3.171e-17 light years. I get annoyed when small wavelengths are measured in meters, but that's nothing compared to this.

neufer wrote: ↑Tue Mar 20, 2018 12:42 am

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APOD Robot wrote: ↑Mon Mar 19, 2018 4:06 am The Nebra Sky Disk

Explanation: Valued at about $11 million, some believe that the Nebra sky disk is only one of a pair, with the other disk still out there waiting to be discovered.

• A rustic outhouse in a yard near Nebraska City, Nebraska.
  • Photo by Dorothy Rieke

Oh, how did Wisconsin, boy
She stole a New-brass-key
Too bad that Arkansaw, boy
And so did Tennessee
-- Perry Como

MarkBour wrote: ↑Tue Mar 20, 2018 4:19 pm

geckzilla wrote: ↑Mon Mar 19, 2018 8:41 pm

MarkBour wrote: ↑Mon Mar 19, 2018 7:43 pm
I love how the APOD caption, in typical fashion, says "... spans about 30 cm". But at how many light years?

Google's handy search calculator indicates that 30 cm is about 3.171e-17 light years.
I get annoyed when small wavelengths are measured in meters, but that's nothing compared to this.

Well, I was referring to the formula that RJN often uses (e.g. "The image spans about 100 light-years in the constellation Monoceros, at the 3,000 light-year estimated distance of the Rosette Nebula.") So, I was really looking for the distance estimate that was missing in today's description. But thanks for your calculation! Since the distance estimate here is probably about the same as the span estimate, I think your calculation has helped me with both.

• Troilus and Cressida : Act II, scene II

• So great as our dread father in a scale
  Of common ounces? will you with counters sum
  The past proportion of his infinite?
  And buckle in a waist most fathomless
  With spans and inches so diminutive
  As fears and reasons? fie, for godly shame!

https://www.etymonline.com/word/span wrote:
span (n.1) "distance between two objects," from Old English span "distance between the thumb and little finger of an extended hand" (as a measure of length, roughly nine inches), probably related to Middle Dutch spannen "to join, fasten," from Proto-Germanic "spannan."

The Germanic word was borrowed into Medieval Latin as spannus, hence Italian spanna, Old French espan "hand's width, span as a unit of measure," French empan. As a measure of volume (early 14c.), "what can be held in two cupped hands." Meaning "length of time" first attested 1590s:

• Othello : Act II, scene III

• [Sings]
  
  And let me the canakin clink, clink;
  And let me the canakin clink
  A soldier's a man;
  A life's but a span;
  Why, then, let a soldier drink.
  Some wine, boys!

MarkBour wrote: ↑Tue Mar 20, 2018 4:19 pm

geckzilla wrote: ↑Mon Mar 19, 2018 8:41 pm

MarkBour wrote: ↑Mon Mar 19, 2018 7:43 pm I love how the APOD caption, in typical fashion, says "... spans about 30 cm". But at how many light years?

Google's handy search calculator indicates that 30 cm is about 3.171e-17 light years. I get annoyed when small wavelengths are measured in meters, but that's nothing compared to this.

Well, I was referring to the formula that RJN often uses (e.g. "The image spans about 100 light-years in the constellation Monoceros, at the 3,000 light-year estimated distance of the Rosette Nebula.") So, I was really looking for the distance estimate that was missing in today's description. But thanks for your calculation! Since the distance estimate here is probably about the same as the span estimate, I think your calculation has helped me with both.