You can join a voyage bound to sail into the Hollow Earth. This is the chance of a lifetime - don’t miss it!
I can’t believe this theory is still around. See UFO Summer for an early account of this theory.
What a hoot! Check you these four delightful bundles of joy! Somebody’s got their hands full!
Have something to give away? Need something? Freecycle is a network designed to facilitate matching folks up with others who might be eager to help.
Looks like a great idea to me. I read about a guy who had an old, functioning washer and dryer collecting dust in his garage. Freecycle helped him find an elderly lady in need of a washer and dryer. Another had a fence blow down in a storm. He decided he liked the view and not wanting to put the fence back up gave the materials to someone who needed them, who hauled it all off for him. Here locally, there was actually a lady who wanted a cat! Unfortunately, I didn’t sign up in time to take advantage of that opportunity.
I’ve always used Deseret Industries for disposing of no longer needed items. I still will, but it is fun to match specific items with those who have specific needs. I think I’ll do that too.
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This comes from The Astonomy Newsletter - Astronomy.com
Reliable rock  With a few notable exceptions, asteroids lead much simpler lives than comets. The third largest in the asteroid belt, Vesta, spans 320 miles and is slightly out of round. It reflects about 35 percent of the light that falls on it, which makes it the brightest asteroid whenever it approaches Earth.
Now that Earth is pulling away from Vesta, the asteroid fades from magnitude 7.4 to 7.8 during March. This is well within reach of a small scope, an excellent instrument for finding the asteroid. Apart from four or five background stars near Epsilon Geminorum, Vesta is the brightest object in the field. Make a quick sketch on one night, then come back a couple of nights later to confirm that it moved. By month’s end, the asteroid lies near a trio of similarly bright stars. Tracking asteroids this month will give you practice for August, when three of these flying mountains hit their peaks in the same area of sky as the gas-giant planet Neptune. |
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Discovery of the Week
Jupiter’s New Red Spot
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By Jove, the biggest storm in the solar system–Jupiter’s Great Red Spot–has some competition! Scientists call the upstart storm Oval BA, but we’ll call it Red Jr. And we’ll call it our Discovery of the Week.
Seeing Spots
Scientists first spotted Red Jr. in the year 2000, more than 300 years after they spotted Big Red. But at that time, Red Jr. wasn’t red. It was white, like the three smaller storms that collided and merged to form it. Then, in December 2005, Red Jr. turned brown. By the time amateur astronomer Christopher Go photographed it on February 27, it was the same red as Jupiter’s famous Great Red Spot.
That’s not unprecedented. Unlike the proverbial leopard, Jupiter does change its spots. White ovals appear and disappear, and sometimes turn a reddish hue, though not often and not for long. The jury’s still out on Red Jr., which is half the size of Big Red. It could be red for centuries–like its big brother–or it could be a flash in the pan.
Massive Storms
Scientists still aren’t sure why some Jovian storms turn red. One theory is that some storms become so powerful that they churn up material from deep beneath Jupiter’s cloudtops and lift it way up, to where the sun’s ultraviolet radiation can affect it and turn it a brick-red color. Or perhaps Jupiter’s superpowerful lightning storms zap the material red.
Either way, scientists know that Jupiter’s Great Red Spot rises 5 miles (8 km) above the surrounding clouds. And they know that it rotates like a massive hurricane. Winds blow counterclockwise around the vortex at 270 miles per hour (435 km/h). The massive storm is the size of two Earths, a “hurricane” that could swallow our entire planet.
Of course, everything is big on Jupiter. More than 1,320 Earths could fit inside the giant planet–or, if you want to be less geocentric, Earth and every other planet in the solar system. Jupiter is so big that some scientists say our solar system is basically “the sun, Jupiter, and assorted debris.”
Michael Himick
March 6, 2006
(From one of my favorite websites Knowledge News!)
Currently, the best time to view Jupiter is in the pre-dawn southwestern sky. It sets after sunrise.
Not long ago I noted another book by the same author as being one of my all time favorites. It turns out that they are companion volumes of a sort and I love them both. Rachel Naomi Remen has such a wonderful quality of being able to learn from life in remarkable ways. I love the alegorical ways in which she finds meaning is mundane things like puzzle pieces and dice. I also love the powerful observations she draws from human suffering and personal affliction. Every page warms my heart and lifts me up.
Her writing is so personal and intimate that, though I’ve never met her, I consider Rachel to be a personal friend.
Gemini is beautiful in the March Sky. Also viewable are Saturn, Jupiter and Mars.
You can’t believe what this lady can do with sand and a piece of glass. That is unless you watch her do it! My favorite is the one which corresponds to this picture. Enjoy!
