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Jan. 12th, 2011
From the Planetary Society Blog:
Take Orcus and Vanth. Orcus, if you haven't heard of it before, is probably the seventh largest known trans-Neptunian object, and Vanth is its satellite. Here's the weird thing I just found out about Orcus and Vanth by reading a 2009 paper by Mike Brown, Darin Ragozzine, John Stansberry, and Wesley Fraser. Vanth could be a biggish moon containing 3% of the mass of the whole system. But it could also be a truly enormous moon containing a third of the mass of the Orcus-Vanth system.
From the Planetary Society Blog:
Take Orcus and Vanth. Orcus, if you haven't heard of it before, is probably the seventh largest known trans-Neptunian object, and Vanth is its satellite. Here's the weird thing I just found out about Orcus and Vanth by reading a 2009 paper by Mike Brown, Darin Ragozzine, John Stansberry, and Wesley Fraser. Vanth could be a biggish moon containing 3% of the mass of the whole system. But it could also be a truly enormous moon containing a third of the mass of the Orcus-Vanth system.
From the Planetary Society Blog:
Take Orcus and Vanth. Orcus, if you haven't heard of it before, is probably the seventh largest known trans-Neptunian object, and Vanth is its satellite. Here's the weird thing I just found out about Orcus and Vanth by reading a 2009 paper by Mike Brown, Darin Ragozzine, John Stansberry, and Wesley Fraser. Vanth could be a biggish moon containing 3% of the mass of the whole system. But it could also be a truly enormous moon containing a third of the mass of the Orcus-Vanth system.
Just out of curiosity
Jan. 12th, 2011 07:06 amWhat book that you read in 2010 exceeded your expectations most dramatically?
Is there a term for the fear that one day I will discover someone has done something like this to one of my more poorly thought-out and badly spelled rants?
Ah, who am I kidding? It'll be 3 minutes of someone shouting Helium-3! over and over again in a squeaky hamster voice.
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Ah, who am I kidding? It'll be 3 minutes of someone shouting Helium-3! over and over again in a squeaky hamster voice.
nicked from alicebentley
Is there a term for the fear that one day I will discover someone has done something like this to one of my more poorly thought-out and badly spelled rants?
Ah, who am I kidding? It'll be 3 minutes of someone shouting Helium-3! over and over again in a squeaky hamster voice.
nicked from alicebentley
Ah, who am I kidding? It'll be 3 minutes of someone shouting Helium-3! over and over again in a squeaky hamster voice.
nicked from alicebentley
Is there a term for the fear that one day I will discover someone has done something like this to one of my more poorly thought-out and badly spelled rants?
Ah, who am I kidding? It'll be 3 minutes of someone shouting Helium-3! over and over again in a squeaky hamster voice.
nicked from alicebentley
Ah, who am I kidding? It'll be 3 minutes of someone shouting Helium-3! over and over again in a squeaky hamster voice.
nicked from alicebentley
Right of reply
Jan. 12th, 2011 04:59 pmDeath Note politician invokes 'blood libel' in defensive communique issued from Osama Bin Laden-esque isolation.
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Right of reply
Jan. 12th, 2011 04:59 pmDeath Note politician invokes 'blood libel' in defensive communique issued from Osama Bin Laden-esque isolation.
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Warning: comments on CBC website are comments on CBC website.
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Warning: comments on CBC website are comments on CBC website.
Right of reply
Jan. 12th, 2011 04:59 pmDeath Note politician invokes 'blood libel' in defensive communique issued from Osama Bin Laden-esque isolation.
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Warning: comments on CBC website are comments on CBC website.
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Warning: comments on CBC website are comments on CBC website.
I will say
Jan. 12th, 2011 05:33 pmre the CBC comments referred to in my previous entry that I honestly don't recall the last time I saw "Fabian" tossed around as an epithet.
Apparently my reaction to the bit in last night's Pillars of the Earth where
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