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My Love of Cars and Classic Cars
I have always been a car fan. From the time I was a small child my father always had a few cars sitting around he was working on, or as he woud say, “piddling with”. And if I had just a few of the cars I saw come and go …
"Interstellar Interloper"
David G. Schleicher of the Lowell Observatory in Arizona has been watching a comet called 96P/Machholz 1, and he thinks he's on to something. Its chemistry is odd. It has only about one percent as much of the compound cyanogen as the other 150 comets he's analyzed. It's also low in two varieties of carbon, called carbon2 and carbon3, "but 'only,'" he writes, "by factors of 8 and 19, respectively, from 'typical' composition." How could this be? Perhaps the comet formed in an extremely col
Space Mountain
Ha! Got your attention! Sorry, but this article isn’t about the Space Mountain at the Magic Kingdom (or any of the knockoff rides at other Disney parks) but about FriendFeed. Wait.. what? I’ll break it down. FriendFeed is a space mountain. To wit, interacting with FriendFeed is like interacting with a mountain in space, in that it takes an enormous amount of effort to get the mountain to do anything, but once you have it moving, it’s not stopping anytime soon. In metaphorical terms, tha
Odd Comet Possibly from Another Star System
Sun Nov 16, 7:26 PM ET Astronomers observe the night sky for Leonids meteor shower near the village of Avren, east of the Bulgarian capital Sofia, Monday, Nov. 17, 2008. The Leonids are a meteor stream where the Earth crosses through a dense clustering of particlesleft behind by Comet Tempel-Tuttle, hen the dust burns up in our atmosphere it forms sometimes Leonid meteor shower.(AP Photo/Petar Petrov) Odd Comet Possibly from Another Star S
Richard Grayson: Black Friday Shopping at the Malls of Brooklyn
A Black Friday (or "Brooklyn Friday) shopping trip to Brookyn Junction is a trip down memory lane for Richard Grayson. Here's an excerpt. As a pre-teen in the Kennedy administration, "going to the Junction" was a big treat for us, though it usually meant getting glazed donuts and comic books and window-shopping around what was the closest thing to a shopping area we could get to from Flatlands on the B41 bus. By the end of the 1960s, we were jaded by our every-weekday trips as a student at M
Comet Like Meteor, Conjunctions, The Sasktchewan Meteor And A Special Cameo Appearance Of The Runaway Tool Kit
Okay, I got a new favorite meteor image. You're probably thinking, Bob, it's a small one, you've taken better, well thank you, but this is my new favorite, just look at it, all comet like and cute and small and such, plus the way in how I captured it is very cool.I was taking an image of the Venus Jupiter gathering when out of the corner of my eye I noticed a bright object moving very fast, fine I thought it was a jet at first, but it wasn't leaving any contrails behind, there were quite a few
Maruti Suzuki A-star: The small car with big dreams
Maruti Suzuki A-star: The small car with big dreams Maruti Suzuki Ltd. (BOM:532500) is a leading automaker in India. The company specializes in producing compact cars. On November 19, 2008, a new chapter has been revealed in the company’s history with the launch of Maruti Suzuki A-star. Launched in less than 40 months, the Maruti Suzuki A-star is Maruti Suzuki’s eighth model and Suzuki’s fifth world strategic model which will be made in 200 variants and will be exported to around 150 count
See the International Space Station from your front porch
See the International Space Station from your front porch November 20, 2008 Why see a movie this weekend when you can watch the International Space Station? Just cast your gaze upward on a clear night within the next few days and you’ll see it. But wait, you say, the sky is a big place. How am I supposed to see an orbiting hunk of metal floating miles above my head? Allow me to point you toward NASA’s Satellite Sighting Information page, which will give you the skinny on where and when you c
Thursday: Mercury opposite Admetos
Dear Friend and Reader, Today Mercury is opposite Admetos in Taurus. It’s a very interesting relationship having to do with the mind (Mercury) and a Uranian Point called Admetos. Photo by Danielle Voirin. This aspect finds Mercury in Scorpio. Hickey describes this energy as being swift, sharp and aware of weakness, knowing precisely where to strike. My other sources concur that Mercury in Scorpio is on an inexhaustable search for the truth, and delves into the heart of the matter on this que
BaT Exclusive: 1966 Mercury Comet Cyclone GT
This 1966 Mercury Comet Cyclone GT is a genuine S-Code 390 V8 car with a documented three owner Texas history. It has never had any rust or accidents and the current seller had all the work performed and knows the car from front to back. It is available in Houston, Texas for $26k obo. Contact us at mail@bringatrailer.com if you are interested. We don’t see these Comets as often as their sister Fairlanes, so we like the rarity and cool hood scoops. The rear end is somewhat sedate, but the rak
People In The News - James Carville astrology chart
Scorpio. James Carville b. Oct. 25, 1944 Carville, LASun 3 Scorpio; Moon Aquarius; NN 23 Cancer Rx Carville’s Sun in Scorpio is strongly aspected because it is conjunct Mercury and Mars in Scorpio. That means that his communication style and action style express themselves through the deeper emotional forces of the universe. These are challenged by a square to Pluto in Leo (Scorpio’s ruler in the sign of the showman, a whole generation of these). ..” Read the rest - Out The Comet’s Ass
Mercury, Crescent Moon and Swarming Taurids
Before there was the Moon Venus Sunset gatherings, there was the Moon Mercury Sunrise gathering. Mercury being so close to the Sun we don't get to see it that often, May was the last time I was able to image Mercury, that time it was during a Sunset, image below. Well just last week I was able to capture a beautiful 3% Crescent Moon and Mercury complete with jet contrails, image above.Lots of celestial stuff going on this month. Right now we have swarming Taurids till November 17th, that's righ
Watch for Taurid Meteors
This is the time of year for the Taurid meteor shower. There are actually two Taurids, the North Taurids and the South Taurids, which peak about a week apart. Both are associated with material shed by Comet 2P/Encke. Comet Encke is a bit different from may comets in that it was not named for the person who discovered it (Pierre Mechain, a colleague of Charles Messier), but rather after the person who computed its orbit (Johann Encke), thus being able to predict when it would return. Comet Enck
The Moment When It All Began…
As you head to the voting booth today and pull that lever for Barack Obama (power of suggestion), I thought it might be fun to remember the moment when so many of us discovered him… I sunk into the cushy, expensive couch (so much more comfortable than the street find slumped against one wall in my Brooklyn apartment) and soaked up the sights and sounds of chaotic, emotional family life. At 24, living with two roommates in Brooklyn, facing a fridge with only condiments and beer, I sometimes cra
SPECIAL COVERAGE: US Presidential Elections 2008 - Current Electoral Scoreboard
SPECIAL COVERAGE: US Presidential Elections 2008 - Current Electoral Scoreboard My electoral scoreboard, countdown to closing of polls and live results of the 2008 US Presidential Election. Interplanetary Spaceflight Current Events Follow the realtime simulations of these current events: 31 Oct 2008: Cassini: Very close flyby at Enceladus. 03 Nov 2008: Cassini: Flyby at Titan. The Space Outreach Library At last I have set up the Space Outreach Library for everything and a
The colors of Mercury
Data from the second MESSENGER flyby of Mercury is coming in; NASA held a telephone press conference today to release some new, interesting stuff. Although scientifically it’s just a tease, my favorite is this picture: MESSENGER’s colorized Mercury By eye, Mercury is a relatively uniform grey with splotches of variation in brightness. But MESSENGER’s sensitive cameras have filters on them which isolate different colors, and when put together and enhanced they show subtle color cha
Welcome to Scorpio, Welcome (soon) to Pluto in Capricorn
Editor’s Note: This is Eric’s intro to the monthly horoscopes, which were published to our subscribers today. This edition, November 2008, covers the ingress of Pluto into Capricorn for each of the signs, a monumental juncture in astrology and in our lifetimes. The horoscopes are included for all subscribers to Small World Stories and Planet Waves Astrology News. Subscription information is at left. Dear Friend and Reader: WELCOME TO SCORPIO and the time of Days of the Dead. We are in that s
1965 Mercury Comet Caliente [Down On The Street]
Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. Today we're going to head over to the former Naval Air Station Alameda, where the Enterprise, Coral Sea, and Carl Vinson have been replaced by companies that make movies and absinthe. While the ex-base (now known as Alameda Point) is miles wide, it doesn't have many streets intended for parking and hardly anyone lives there full-time. That means the DOTS p
MESSENGER Zooms In On Mercury Surface On Second Flyby
MESSENGER Zooms In On Mercury Surface On Second Flyby The team of scientists at the John University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) started monitoring the MESSENGER spacecraft as it began its second encounter with Mercury. With the help of the instruments onboard, scientists expect in addition to a new set of images to also receive never-before-seen details of the planets surface. Furthermore, the spacecraft will also executive repetitive scans of Mercurys comet-like anti-sunward tail, and
Robots roam Eden
In space essay on "lessons learned" in the past 50 years, Claude Lafleur reflects on the the space program and what it might take to really inspire the public about space programs. He asks that when talking about spaceflight, space partisans remember the startling successes of robotic exploration. Of course, what interests most of us is space exploration, mainly piloted flights and planetary exploration. But who is aware that one of those two is booming with plenty of activities while the othe
Dear Solar System
Recently my good friend Wendi wrote a touching letter to the World. But this got me thinking…what about the rest of the planets? I didn’t want them to feel left out. So here are some letters I wrote to the rest of the Solar System. ****************************************************************************************** Dear Mercury (Pffft!). What a wuss! (I’m sorry, I know I shouldn’t tease). But let’s be frank…you’re really not much of a planet, are you? I mean, COME ON….some of J
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