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The Planetary Society Weblog
Archive
Archived posts are listed in reverse chronological order.
Mar. 9, 2007 | 11:25 PST | 19:25 UTC
Pluto's a planet, at least when it's over New Mexico
I don't really know how serious the New Mexico legislature is about this, but they were serious enough to pass a "Joint Memorial" stating that they, at least, consider Pluto to be a planet. Here's what the esteemed governing body has to say:WHEREAS,... More»
Mar. 8, 2007 | 13:54 PST | 21:54 UTC
Cassini's global views of Saturn and its rings
Since late January Cassini has been acquiring several sets of images that show all of Saturn's globe and ring system at once from perspectives well above and below the ring plane. I enthused about this earlier and posted an amateur version of one... More»
Mar. 8, 2007 | 08:23 PST | 16:23 UTC
A plea for questions
It's that time again...I need to come up with new Q and A segments for Planetary Radio, and I'm out of questions. Is there anything you've been wondering about? Some detail about a mission or a planet or a moon or an asteroid? A "how's that work"... More»
Mar. 7, 2007 | 12:42 PST | 20:42 UTC
Winners of the 2007 Shoemaker NEO Grants
Every couple of years, The Planetary Society issues a call for proposals for amateur and underfunded professional astronomers to request small sums of money (usually in the few-thousand-dollar range) to enable them to contribute to the studies of... More»
Mar. 7, 2007 | 08:16 PST | 16:16 UTC
The Lunar and Planetary Science Conference is next week
The annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference takes place in Houston next week, from March 12-16, and for the first time in 8 years I won't be able to go, thanks to my cute but demanding 7-month-old ball and chain. This is a huge bummer to me,... More»
Mar. 6, 2007 | 11:19 PST | 19:19 UTC
BepiColombo under construction; Mars and Venus Express extended; Hubert Curien Memorial Station
I have several announcements from ESA saved from last week; there is a lot of good news coming out of the Europeans these days.
The first item is that BepiColombo has received the OK for construction to begin (or, in the words of the bureaucrats,... More»
Mar. 5, 2007 | 11:05 PST | 19:05 UTC
Lou Friedman on Space Security and Stephen Hawking's Zero-G Ride
This will be a week that I will try to spend catching up from all the non-Rosetta and New Horizons news from last week. Not that the New Horizons flyby of Jupiter is over yet. According to my timeline, New Horizons is still at work, with a few... More»
Mar. 2, 2007 | 11:49 PST | 19:49 UTC
Lunar eclipse March 3-4, and other fun sky events
There will be a total lunar eclipse tomorrow night visible, at least in part, to nearly the whole world, with totality lasting from 22:44:13 to 23:57:37 UT. Observers in Europe and Africa will get to watch the whole thing; Asians and Australians... More»
Mar. 1, 2007 | 17:42 PST | Mar. 2 01:42 UTC
John Spencer: Io!
by John Spencer
It's a good thing I wasn't in charge of any critical spacecraft operations yesterday (actually, it's a good thing I'm never in charge of any critical spacecraft operations, at least not directly, but that's another story). One... More»
Mar. 1, 2007 | 15:50 PST | 23:50 UTC
Eruptions on Io
The New Horizons team released today the amazing image of Io that Bruce wrote about yesterday, showing three obvious volcanic plumes (and possibly some less obvious ones):Click to enlarge >Multiple plumes on IoThis image of Io was taken by New... More»
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