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Re: Solar System
Posted: June 22nd, 2009, 4:18 pm
by RightorRong
x_SOninja_x wrote:It's the discovery of the first KBO!!! (Kuiper Belt Object)
The astronomer Dave Jewitt and his graduate student Jane Luu were looking for trans-Neptunian objects.
They were trying to find a faint asteroid among thousands of stars.
To accomplish this, they took many images of the same portion of the sky.
The stars stayed in the same location, but the asteroid slowly moved.
Voila! In 1992 they found the first KBO (now called 1992 QB1).
Now isn't that awesome?
Really? That's awesome!
Re: Solar System
Posted: June 22nd, 2009, 4:22 pm
by karatekid44
RightorRong wrote:x_SOninja_x wrote:It's the discovery of the first KBO!!! (Kuiper Belt Object)
The astronomer Dave Jewitt and his graduate student Jane Luu were looking for trans-Neptunian objects.
They were trying to find a faint asteroid among thousands of stars.
To accomplish this, they took many images of the same portion of the sky.
The stars stayed in the same location, but the asteroid slowly moved.
Voila! In 1992 they found the first KBO (now called 1992 QB1).
Now isn't that awesome?
Really? That's awesome!
That is totally awesome i have a link to that green comet that just recently occured
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/02/1 ... comet.html
Re: Solar System
Posted: June 22nd, 2009, 8:08 pm
by chill
i was just wondering about how much in depth will we have to know about the planets.. coz i mean... you can say a lot about each planet.. i was just wondering.. where to stop...
Re: Solar System
Posted: June 22nd, 2009, 8:19 pm
by Helix_Nebula_Freak
Stop???? What is this "Stop" which you speak?
Just Kidding!
I would say to keep going as long as you have time for. Never hurts to know more than you need to, and it's hard to tell how much that is before the rules come out...
Re: Solar System
Posted: June 23rd, 2009, 4:15 am
by karatekid44
He probably means where do we have to stop learning in the planets area with moons and stuff. Like when do we learn enough. But the answer is you never have learned enough.
Re: Solar System
Posted: June 23rd, 2009, 6:42 am
by kp9ssa
i think u should just learn as much as u can
Re: Solar System
Posted: June 23rd, 2009, 9:10 am
by chill
like i didn't mean to stop learning.... but anyway.. thanx guys...
Re: Solar System
Posted: June 23rd, 2009, 5:48 pm
by andrewwski
Posts deleted. Let's not get off-topic. Thanks.
Re: Solar System
Posted: June 24th, 2009, 6:15 am
by karatekid44
Alright then people what do you think of Solar System replacing RFTS and being an event?
Re: Solar System
Posted: June 24th, 2009, 9:18 am
by chill
i think it will be an interesting topic.... but then again......... i didnt do RFTS.....