Dean W. Armstrong

Scientific and other projects in astronomy, geoscience, physics, and electronics.

Monday, October 31, 2005

Two new satellites of Pluto/Charon!

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http://www.boulder.swri.edu/plutonews/ . Once again, Minor Planet Mailing List has the scoop. Two ~100km bodies orbiting in the same plane ...
Wednesday, October 26, 2005

Faulty logic

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Is lithium safe for the environment? Yes. Much of the concern with the environment centers on heavy metals. Lithium is the lightest metal kn...
Monday, October 24, 2005

Poof

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I see that it appears my blog has been wiped from the face of blogspot. Will it come back?
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Monday, October 17, 2005

LA Times on 2003 UB313

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" O rtiz's boss, astronomer Jose Carlos del Toro Iniesta, concedes that those rights will most likely be awarded to Brown. "I ...
Saturday, October 15, 2005

Linne statue in the near infrared

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I took this photo over the summer. The Linne statue is on the Midway on the University of Chicago campus and to the eye is covered in a lig...
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Thursday, October 13, 2005

ABC Primetime: Radioactive Road Trip

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What a piece of alarmist drivel. ABC Primetime "exposed" the security of university teaching and research reactors. "Oh my g...
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Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Chinese Space Launch this week

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The Chinese are planning on launching a manned space mission this week. Photo from Xinhua. Xinhua report. BBC report
Sunday, October 09, 2005

NYTimes Article: How the City Sank excerpt

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How the City Sank " T he pump operator's story reflects a spirit of civic responsibility that rallied in humble quarters like these...
Sunday, October 02, 2005

2003 UB313 has a satellite

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Oh boy! Brown using Keck and the adaptive optics there managed to detect an object moving in the same direction as 2003 UB313 and about a h...
Wednesday, September 28, 2005

Dumbbell Nebula Messier 27 from last night

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I took a quick set of shots of Messier 27, a planetary nebula, last night from Ryerson , after fixing a piece of equipment on the telescope....
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Wednesday, September 21, 2005

Cajon Pass

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Have you ever driven from Las Vegas to Los Angeles? Two thirds of the way there, you are driving along I-15 in the high, dry Mojave Desert ...
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Thursday, September 15, 2005

Ortiz response

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This was posted on the Minor Planet Mailing List by Ladislav Nemec. Michael Brown wrote up his page about the issue here . Reiner Stoss fo...
Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Trouble a brewin' on 2003 EL61

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/13/science/space/13plan.html
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Friday, September 09, 2005

potassium part 2

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Sure enough, as I suspected in my previous post , taking the potassium chloride out of the container brought the count rate up 50% to 120 mi...
Thursday, September 08, 2005

2003UB313

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Brown, Trujillo and Rabinowitz have submitted a paper to ApJ Letters for it: http://www.gps.caltech.edu/%7Embrown/papers/ps/xena.pdf
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Dean W. Armstrong has a B.A. from the University of Chicago in the geophysical sciences. My opinions are my own and do not reflect anyone or anything else's, unless they just happen to.
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