SkyandTelescope.com Weekly Bulletin for Friday, Nov. 30, 2012

[Sam Wormley]

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> Mercury's Polar Ice Defies the Odds
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> November 29, 2012 | Today scientists confirmed a suspicion raised some 20 years ago: despite all logic to the contrary, the hellish planet Mercury is hiding substantial deposits of water ice in its polar regions.
> Read More at: http://www.skyandtelescope.com/community/skyblog/newsblog/Mercurys-Polar-Ice-Defies-the-Odds-181444201.html
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> A Big Black Hole in a Small Galactic Pond
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> November 30, 2012 | A record-breaking black hole lurking at the center of a compact galaxy weighs about 17 billion Suns, a new study finds. Now astronomers are wondering: how did such a small galaxy come to harbor a leviathan?
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> A Planetary Nebula Reborn — For a While
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> November 20, 2012 | A stunning image from the Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory reveals a planetary nebula come back to life.
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> Making Mini-Oort Clouds
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> November 19, 2012 | A new set of simulations shows that systems with so-called "hot Jupiters" might also have mini-Oort clouds detectable by today's space telescopes, giving astronomers a new potential tool for finding exotic extrasolar systems.
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> Cosmic Web Weeds Dwarf Galaxies
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> November 13, 2012 | Astronomers have discovered an unexpected explanation for why they can only find a small fraction of the satellite galaxies the Milky Way is supposed to have.
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> Tour December's Sky by Eye and Ear!
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> November 30, 2012 | Mars lurks low in the west after sunset, just as Jupiter rises dramatically in the east. Meanwhile, a mythic tale unfolds among the stars and constellations overhead.
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> What to Know Before Buying a Telescope
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> May 22, 2012 | Christmas is just around the corner and a telescope can make the perfect gift. But they come in an overwhelming variety of sizes, shapes, and prices. Find out how to make sense of this embarrassment of riches.
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> Sky & Telescope January 2013
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> November 26, 2012 | Sky & Telescope's January 2013 issue is now available to digital subscribers. Some print subscribers may have already received it, and it's officially on-sale at newsstands starting December 4th.
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> This Week's Sky at a Glance
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> November 30, 2012 | The Moon is waning out of the evening sky. Jupiter is passing 5° north of Aldebaran. Low in the dawn, Mercury has emerged to align with Venus and Saturn in a diagonal row.
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[oriel36]

On Nov 30, 6:19 pm, Sam Wormley <sworml...@gmail.com> wrote:

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/community/skyblog/newsblog/Mercurys-Polar-Ice-Defies-the-Odds-181444201.html

You know ,Arctic sea ice and its annual fluctuation is dependent on a
singular cause as the polar latitudes are carried around in a circle
and away from the central Sun,in 3 weeks those polar coordinates will
be located at a maximum distance from the circle of illumination in
its annual journey or midwinter as it is known in the Western Isles of
Europe.

If students asked you what caused sea ice,your likely response is the
Earth 'tilts' towards and away from the Sun,orbital plane or some
variation on that theme thereby losing the sense of an ecliptic axis
around which the poles turn in acting like a orbital beacon.What is
most astonishing is that it is possible to see both the daily and
annual characteristics of a planet in isolation from Earth other due
to the spectacular features of that distant planet Uranus and it is as
though it meant nothing even though it basically defines a climate
spectrum.

Like all other human faculties,a person has to use their
interpretative skills or lose them and inserting contrived concepts
into basic astronomical and planetary facts is creating an unstable
situation where nothing matters,not history,not the technical
details,not the genuine links between astronomical cause and
terrestrial effect and especially the individual to the Universal.As
far as I am concerned the worst is over as contemporary imaging offers
so much hope that people will find astronomy so interesting once more
that there is no need to disprove the contrived late 17th century
ideas that tried to do too much with too little.

[Lord Androcles, Zeroth Earl of Medway]

"oriel36" wrote in message
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On Nov 30, 6:19 pm, Sam Wormley <sworml...@gmail.com> wrote:

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/community/skyblog/newsblog/Mercurys-Polar-Ice-Defies-the-Odds-181444201.html

You know ,Arctic sea ice and its annual fluctuation is dependent on a
singular cause as the polar latitudes are carried around in a circle

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Nah, its a square, there are FOUR seasons.
Some idiots don't know what an ellipse is.

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