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Longer Moments: Stones and Fish Falling from the Sky
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Essays by Joel Marks. Monday, September 04, 2006. Stones and Fish Falling from the Sky. SOME SALIENT FACTS AND SURMISES. Sky and Telescope ( http:/ skyandtelescope.com/. And Wikipedia ( http:/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main Page. See also Bill Arnett’s cornucopian labor of love, Nine (now Ten! Planets, et al. at http:/ bill.nineplanets.org/offerings.html. And the compendious Spaceguard Page of the Australian Planetary Society at http:/ www4.tpg.com.au/users/tps-seti/spacegd.html. There are various proposals ...
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All of the Above: The Lowdown on the High Up: December 2008
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All of the Above: The Lowdown on the High Up. Short essays on astronomy by Joel Marks. Wednesday, December 31, 2008. Look, up in the sky! No, it's a pluton! No, it's a . kenning! For example, a dwarf star is a kind of star; indeed, our own sun is one. Meanwhile there are independent reasons for wanting to retain the planetary status of Pluto. As I argue in a recent article in Think ( A Planet by any Other Name. This seems especially fitting, given that brown (lower-case "b") dwarfs have long held an ambi...
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Longer Moments: September 2006
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Essays by Joel Marks. Monday, September 04, 2006. Stones and Fish Falling from the Sky. SOME SALIENT FACTS AND SURMISES. Sky and Telescope ( http:/ skyandtelescope.com/. And Wikipedia ( http:/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main Page. See also Bill Arnett’s cornucopian labor of love, Nine (now Ten! Planets, et al. at http:/ bill.nineplanets.org/offerings.html. And the compendious Spaceguard Page of the Australian Planetary Society at http:/ www4.tpg.com.au/users/tps-seti/spacegd.html. There are various proposals ...
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All of the Above: The Lowdown on the High Up: June 2008
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All of the Above: The Lowdown on the High Up. Short essays on astronomy by Joel Marks. Monday, June 16, 2008. The designation "dark energy" for the. I've been promoting this idea for many years, as witness a letter to the editor in. Magazine, which you can see by clicking here. Posted by jm at 6/16/2008 11:14:00 AM. Links to this post. View my complete profile. INDEX of links to Essays by Topic. Links to Essays by TITLES. Other Places to Find Essays by Joel Marks. COMPLETE LIST OF PUBLICATIONS.
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All of the Above: The Lowdown on the High Up: November 2002
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All of the Above: The Lowdown on the High Up. Short essays on astronomy by Joel Marks. Friday, November 01, 2002. Published in Sky and Telescope. 104:5 (10), November 2002. I know one thing that would do it. I would like to see some enterprising geek invent goggles that would do for Andromeda what Galileo's spyglass did for the Milky Way - just point it up at the sky and look through it to see the glory of Creation! I have no doubt it would blow everybody's mind - permanently. One more thing: I would ins...
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All of the Above: The Lowdown on the High Up: May 1994
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All of the Above: The Lowdown on the High Up. Short essays on astronomy by Joel Marks. Wednesday, May 04, 1994. John Dobson: A Personal Reminiscence. Published as "Astronomer Spreads Pearls of Wisdom," New Haven Register. May 4, 1994. It is not what one expects in middle age: To meet a godlike man. Yet there he was, in our living room, this small, white haired, almost octogenarian, physically beautiful man, holding forth on the cosmos. John Dobson had come to visit. Posted by jm at 5/04/1994 01:46:00 PM.
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All of the Above: The Lowdown on the High Up: Three Websites
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All of the Above: The Lowdown on the High Up. Short essays on astronomy by Joel Marks. Monday, November 29, 2010. This is one of three websites containing short essays I have written about astronomy. The present site describes and explains various astronomical phenomena and events. The two others are:. Which takes a more theoretical look at the subject,. A compilation of stargazing columns that appeared monthly for a couple of years in the. And here is a list of all. Of my publications on astronomy.
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All of the Above: The Lowdown on the High Up: November 2010
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All of the Above: The Lowdown on the High Up. Short essays on astronomy by Joel Marks. Monday, November 29, 2010. This is one of three websites containing short essays I have written about astronomy. The present site describes and explains various astronomical phenomena and events. The two others are:. Which takes a more theoretical look at the subject,. A compilation of stargazing columns that appeared monthly for a couple of years in the. And here is a list of all. Of my publications on astronomy.