Pinboard: bookmarks for maciej tagged 'astro'

2008 launch. Site notable for grating language about climate change being a matter for business leaders to decide. Also like the 'A-train' of earth science satellites

astro climate politics geo space nasa
august 2005 by maciej

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Dawn: A Journey to the Beginning of the Solar System

ion-thruster probe under development for 2006 launch to Ceres and Vesta

space physics astro
august 2005 by maciej

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Solar Probe - Mission

NASA reference design for a solar probe to fly a highly elliptical polar orbit to within four solar radii at perihelion. Hot!

space sun rocket astro cool nasa
august 2005 by maciej

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New Planetillo

lowdown on the newly discovered Kuiper belt object bigger than Pluto

astro space
august 2005 by maciej

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New Analyses Identify a Small Possibility that Asteroid 1999 AN10 will KILL ALL HUMANS

interesting plots of gravitational 'keyholes' that would put AN10 into a resonant orbit for a low-probability 2044 or 2046 impact

nasa space astro gravity
july 2005 by maciej

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Tumbling Stone 20 - resonant returns, keyholes and all that

discussion of gravitational 'keyholes' - special oblong regions that will fling back a passing asteroid to smush the Earth in a future orbit

gravity space astro tutorial
july 2005 by maciej

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Space Shuttle Observing

guide to observing space shuttle launch and re-entry

astro shuttle space
july 2005 by maciej

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Impact effects

fun Web form for estimating the damage caused by various astronomical projectiles

astro cool disaster geo phys sim
july 2005 by maciej

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Apocalyptic photo of annular solar eclipse taken over the ocean near sunset

see URLs with suffix a-f for others

astro img cool
july 2005 by maciej

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The James Webb Space Telescope

aka the "Next-Generation Space Telescope", currently $1 billion over budget

astro space
july 2005 by maciej

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Big Ear Radio Observatory - About The Wow! Signal

summary of a high-intensity radio signal observed in 1977, with speculation about its origin

astro space weird
july 2005 by maciej

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Before/After Hubble image of comet Tempel impact
astro nasa space img cool
july 2005 by maciej

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Getting Space Exploration Right

very good Zurbin critique of the Bush Moon/Mars 'vision'

mars space nasa shuttle astro rant
july 2005 by maciej

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Animation of tides in the Gulf of Maine system

java animation of tide heights and flows showing resonance

science ocean astro sim marine
july 2005 by maciej

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The High Resolution Fly's Eye Project - University of Adelaide

cosmic ray observatory for very high-energy events, covering 3000 square km of Utah desert

astro physics
may 2005 by maciej

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The Oh-My-God Particle

some stats on a very, very, very highly accelerated proton (51 Joules!) detected in 1991

physics cool astro
may 2005 by maciej

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Low Mach Number Simulations of Nuclear Flames
physics astro sim nukes
april 2005 by maciej

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[gr-qc/0104064] Study of the anomalous acceleration of Pioneer 10 and 11

exhaustive analysis of possible reasons Pioneer 10 and 11 are not where they should be

sci cosmo physics astro hmm
april 2005 by maciej

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Probes of Large Scale Structure

list of projects probing large scale distribution of matter in the universe and sky surveys

cosmology physics astro
march 2005 by maciej

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Dark Matter, Cosmology, and Large-Scale Structure of the Universe

short tutorial on dark matter

astro physics
march 2005 by maciej

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Why Does The Sun Shine?

Accessible and well-written popularization of stellar physics and the history of sunshine theories from Nobel Museum

sci phys astro hist
march 2005 by maciej

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